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Originally posted by Patient_Leech
I love this guy. I just ordered a couple of his books. Some highlights from this video:~ If you're born in the wrong part of the world, then sorry, you just missed the correct revelation to get to heaven.
~ Christianity is a cult of human sacrifice and when put in different contexts makes it look like the beliefs of a lunatic.
~ Serial killers can go to heaven after a life of evil brutality just by saying a few words on death row.
~ God is praised with some activities, but does he get the blame for atrocities? No, it's said that he's "mysterious."
~ When Elves die in The Lord of the Rings they can be reborn in Middle Earth. lol
~ The God of the Bible is morally corrupt, but because it's declared that "He's God," it doesn't matter what he does or says, it's automatically good because he's God.
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I feel like this is less a critique of Christianity and more just Sam Harris' own fabricated interpretation of the Bible. If he wants to properly tear down Christianity he should make sure his knowledge of scripture is strong, as opposed to tearing down things that many Christians don't even believe, or are unsure about.
1. The Bible doesn't say that people born without access to knowledge of Jesus are incapable of heaven. Abraham was born long before Jesus was, and it's made clear he will be in heaven, he was commended for his faith. On top of this, the Bible (particularly the book of Revelations), makes it clear that heaven and hell are not the only afterlife options. There's heaven, hell, earth, the new heaven, the new earth and the second death. Sleep is also an implied option. Someone could end up in any of these places, depending on their faith and/or their works.
2. Is like saying that evolution is the belief that my uncle is an chimpanzee. You try and tell someone who is ignorant in a sentence what "evolution" is and their first response would be that you are crazy.
3. They can be forgiven for it, in theory, doesn't mean they'll make it to heaven though. That's not scriptural.
4. Ok. No surprise that an entity as big as God is mysterious to small humans.
5. Probably inspired by the Bible. Tolkien was a Christian after all.
6. I'm not even sure if it's biblical to say that everything God does is "good". But it
would be biblical to say that he doesn't do evil.
An accurate, scripture wide interpretation of Gods nature would be this: He is omnipresent, eternal, and possesses all of the power and knowledge in the universe. He doesn't owe us eternal life and so our time on earth is temporary. Only God knows the details of what will happen in the afterlife for any given individual, it's not black and white.
Being all powerful doesn't mean there aren't limits to what he can do, after all you can't be more powerful than all powerful, the upper limit to his own power is his inability to contradict himself. The limits are set by himself.