Tuesday, 8 April 2014
How sin kills Christianity
God devised a plan to forgive human sin and save us from the eternal torment he had prepared for sinners. His plan was to impregnate a virgin with his son, Jesus, and to have Jesus executed. This perfect human sacrifice would enable God to forgive sin and save the eternal lives of those who accept Jesus as their lord and saviour.
If we had not inherited a sinful nature, there would be no need for Jesus to forgive our sins.
This theology, at the very heart of Christianity, is its most vulnerable point. If the Adam and Eve story is not true then nor is Christianity. No Adam and Eve, no sinful nature, no need to be saved, no need for Jesus and no Christianity.
Many Christians believe Adam and Eve were the first two human beings who were created by God between 6 and 10 thousand years ago. This cannot be true if we can show that human beings pre-dated Adam and Eve.
What does the evidence show?
Fragments of pottery have been found in a cave in China's Hunan province dating from at least 15,400 years ago.
Rope has been found in Lascaux cave which was made approximately 17,000 years ago.
A flute-like musical instrument was found in the Geißenklösterle cave dated at 30,000 years ago.
The earliest known cave paintings were found in Spain at a cave known as El Castillo. These are more than 40,800 years old.
Archaeological evidence from New Guinea shows that boats were being made 60,000 years ago.
The earliest known anatomically modern humans (Homo sapiens) were found at the Omo river in Ethiopia dating from 200,000 years ago. All the discoveries prior to this relate to creatures that were very similar, but not identical, to modern humans.
Pigments and paint grinding equipment has been found in a cave at Twin Rivers, near Lusaka, Zambia dating from more than 350,000 years ago.
There is widespread evidence that fires were used to cook food by 1 million years ago.
Knives made from sharpened stones were in common use by 1.4 million years ago and some date back to 2.5 million years ago.
This small sample of evidence shows that human beings were thriving and living around the globe thousands of years before Adam and Eve were said to have been created. This shows the Adam and Eve story cannot be true.
Which means that Christianity cannot be true.
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The flaw here is that because some (not most, or even many when you look at the numbers) Christians believe in young earth, ask Christianity is false. All this argument really proves is that young-earth creationism is false, not that all of Christianity is false.
ReplyDeleteIt's not really a flaw Tristan. It's true that Christianity has morphed into a Lernaean Hydra. Now all we can do is despatch one head at a time.
DeleteIn fact, hundreds of millions of Christians believe in the young Earth-original sin version I describe here. You'll find it almost ubiquitous across sub-Saharan Africa and surprisingly popular in North America.
This data not only shows that young-earth creationism is false but also shows that the form of Christianity that derives from young-earth creationism cannot be true.
Now, we move on to the next head...
Lol! We already know that humanity is not descended from Dr Doolittle and his Mrs. It is a stupid story that would be even worse if it was true. No parent in their right minds would punish all their children because two of them ate a fruit. It is insane.
ReplyDeleteChristianity promotes the concept of an all knowing all seeing God and the infallibility of scripture; this article debunks all of that, and so the basic premise of Christianity is false.
ReplyDeleteThere is some truth in most nonsense/fairytales, however it is whether the overall concept of a work is true or not that determines if a work is fiction or non-fiction.
If Christians could prove the basic premise of the scientific method false then everything would be random occurrence, and the basic premise of Christianity would still be false.
And what if I say that all this evidence is made up and part of a big conspiracy to hurt Christianity?
ReplyDeleteRik talks about made-up evidence, LOL! It reminds me of how Christians, over the years, have claimed that dinosaurs fossils were buried by the devil to discredit the Christian teaching! One can only laugh, because in the age of ignorance in which we now live, ignorance is a choice.
DeleteRik, if you say that all this evidence is made up and part of a big conspiracy to hurt Christianity, then you must give us your evidence for that claim. Where is your evidence?
DeleteAnd you might like to ponder how it is that a number of scientists who work in this field are themselves Christians.