Who created God?
No-one. He is uncaused and has no beginning or end. The scientific principle/law of cause and effect applies only to our world and universe, which is God’s creation. The universe had a beginning (i.e. was caused), cannot contain God and the Father also created time, as science confirms. He is outside our universe in another dimension of existence and is not subject to our scientific laws.

I can’t see God, so He can’t exist
Can you see love? No, but you can reason its existence by feeling it and witnessing its effects. Your eyes and senses are physical, whereas God is a matter of the spirit that can be reasoned in the same way.

Doesn’t evolution disprove God and the creation story?
No, it confirms it, and science is the study of how the Father put it all together. Abiogenesis and natural selection are the mechanism/engine of creation. Genesis is the only religious scripture that correctly orders evolution as science understands it today. The “days” in Genesis are metaphorical for ages, or “long days” that span billions of years. Evolution was God’s mechanism (the “how”) and Genesis describes why. The original human gene pool as researched by Darwinists is estimated to have consisted of 1000 humans (breeding pairs), also described in the Bible. The one question science has never been able to solve is why we are so separate from our genetic ascendants despite sharing 97% of our DNA with them.

If God is loving and good, why isn’t there world peace?
Because God doesn’t want world peace. He wants people to make choices, and those choices bring division. The concept of allowing free will inevitably means a proportion of the earth will reject the Father’s law.

What about Heisenberg’s uncertainty principle?
Heisenberg’s uncertainty principle applies only to humans, since we a restricted to only one dimension of time. God, existing in two or more dimensions of time can know all properties of all particles, since He can exist at any point on our line of time any numbers of times. Therefore, God can measure both the position of a particle, remain at the same point on our line of time, then measure the speed of the same particle.

Humans invented God
When did they do that? What was the date and year? We have always found it easier to understand our own existence in terms of there being a God above us who created everything, but that does not mean we invented God. Anthropology demonstrates that humans have been spiritual since their descent from apes (e.g. burying our dead). If we did invent Him, then He wouldn’t be anything like the one we have today, and would be make our lives a lot more convenient. History shows that created gods almost always tend to be permissive (i.e. give us permission to do whatever we like), whereas the God of the Bible is strikingly different, restrictive, judgemental and a lot more demanding, with widespread rebellion to Him everywhere.

We have always had Gods, so which one is the right one? They’re all the same?
We can divide the world’s religions into 4 main groups:  Abrahamic (Judaism, Christianity, Islam), Dharmic (Hinduism, Buddhism, Sikhism), Eastern (Taoism, Confucianism) and Neo-pagan/mystical (Wicca, relativists etc). The God of the Koran and Hindu Vedas are Gods restricted to the time and space dimensions of this universe and, therefore, are logically impossible. All the so-called holy books base their claim of authority on the basis of fulfilled prophecy. Most of these prophecies are either vague or conditional, making them essentially untestable. The highest percentage of prophecy fulfilment, other than the Bible is 50%, with many other prophecies proven to be false. In contrast, the Bible names people, places and dates in remarkable detail, with 2,000 of the nearly 2,500 prophecies already fulfilled, and none provably false.

Doesn’t God’s omniscience restrict His free will? How can He be almighty and allow free will?
The Christian God exists in at least two time dimensions, therefore His free-will is not hindered by our dimension of time. He stands both above and within our time line, since our line of time runs through His plane of time. God knows what each person will do and can put him anywhere in our time line to accomplish His purposes. Complete free-will and complete predestination is possible in two dimensions of time.

Won’t people of other religions and those who didn’t know about God/Christ be condemned?
The Bible says God will judge all people righteously. Paul tells us that those who have never heard of the law are not imputed sin under the law and that those who follow the law (e.g., practicing Jews) will be judged by the law. The people who have never heard of the law are judged by the law of God which He has placed into their hearts. Those who have heard the gospel of Jesus Christ and have refused to believe have rejected Him, and, as such, will fall under the condemnation of God, because they have rejected His provision for our disobedience. Those who perpetrate evil, even without the knowledge of the gospel, will likewise be condemned, since they have violated their God-given conscience. In the same way, those who play the “religion game” of going to church on Sunday, but living apart from a relationship with God, will be condemned.

God can’t exist if He exists outside space and time
The unstated assumption that God cannot live both within and outside space and time simultaneously is false. Since science tells us for God to exist and to have created the universe, He must exist in at least 11 dimensions of space and time (the four within the dimensions of our universe and at least 7 outside of those dimensions). Therefore He is extradimensional, and probably not composed of ordinary matter , but this does not make Him non-existent. The Bible is also clear that God exists both within our universe and outside of it.

Don’t Jews, Christians and Jews worship the same god?
Yes, although they each give him a different name – Jews call him Elohim/HaShem/Yahweh, and muslims call him Allah. Although they share Abraham as a sacred figure, they differ in their interpretation of the roles of Prophets. Jews believe Christ was a teacher (not the Son of God) and the promised messiah will militarily lead the Jewish people to the promised land, Christians recognise him as the promised spiritual messiah and son of God (forming the Trinity), and Muslims claim He was a holy prophet called Isa who was superseded by God’s last messenger, Mohammed.

If God exists, why hasn’t He talked to me?
You couldn’t see or hear God directly and live as He is extradimensional, so the experience of Him is through your spirit. The purpose of creation is that you have to free will to choose to know the Father or not. He will not force himself on you or announce Himself to you in any way. It is for you to seek Him out, and then He will speak to you when you have made your choice. But you are not whistling for your dog and God is not foolish to respond to your little tests – you must seek Him in all your heart. Only then do you really care and have right motives. Only then will He respond because he knows you are genuine.

Isn’t religion just a way to control people?
The institutions that “manage” religions (e.g. the Catholic church) are formed of fallible, sinful men that have infamously used religion to control others, but that does not mean the religious faith or spirituality is designed to control. Christianity developed in opposition to governments and social systems, and was persecuted relentlessly, so in itself cannot be a source of control. It also commands people to stand against institutions that control others and oppose God. How could a religion based on free will spend its time trying to control people?

Why would God create a world so full of evil and suffering?
You misunderstand the purpose of creation. Scripture states that there are 2 worlds – this one where we make a choice in our free will as to whether we want to obey and live with God, and the next one, which is formed perfectly and we give up our free will. God will not force anyone to spend eternity with him. Temporary, bounded evil (as well as natural disaster) is allowed in creation, and pain/suffering are crucial to our existence and development, as well as being useful for God’s purposes. 90% of evil in this world is perpetrated by other human beings who are abusing their freedom to choose between good and evil.

Why doesn’t God show himself, as he’s done a crap job of getting believers?
Almost half the world’s population (3BN) call themselves Christian. Christianity started as a small persecuted sect in Judea (and yes, history shows it was persecuted) and came to conquer the Roman empire. The world’s superpower (US) is fundamentally based on Christianity. As confirmed by modern anthropology, religious belief has been almost universal since the beginning. The God of the bible will not program human robots or force them to acknowledge and/or agree with him, shows himself every day, and will ultimately show himself again. This is one of the poorest arguments against Christian belief in existence.

Religion is to blame for all the fighting and war in the world
No, humans are. Wrong way round. Humans use religion as a scapegoat or excuse for wars where the true objective is something else (land, power, empire-building etc). The church has no army, but Christians have indeed committed atrocities like all other religious groups.  If we look at the history and official statistics of democide (which includes genocide, politicide, and mass murder, but not war-dead from the last 205 wars) prior to the 20th century, less than 3% of killings were due to religious conflict. The top 2 killers were atheist states (USSR and China). The key factor in these statistics appears to be absolute power – a very human weakness.

Could God create a weight too heavy for Him to lift?
This is supposed to be a smart “trap” question, but is hideously flawed because the idea of “omnipotence” is twisted and the argument is silly and illogical. God is omnipotent, and omnipotence does not include the ability to things that are, by definition, impossible to do. Neither does omnipotence include the ability to fail. By defining omnipotence as requiring one to have the ability to fail, the argument defines omnipotence as being impossible. Of course, an omnipotent God would never fail.

Why are there so many natural disasters (disease, famine, tsunamis, earthquakes etc)?
Each of the “disasters” is a feature of creation/mother nature that is essential to sustain life on this planet. Without the movement of tectonic plates and volcanic eruption, we would have no land and the planet would be covered by ocean. Disease is a natural population control mechanism and a filtering principle of natural selection. Other “disasters” such as famine are arguably human-provoked.

What about dinosaurs?
We simply don’t know as they don’t fit into evolution either, although there are “monsters” described in the Bible that do seem to bear resemblance to them. The purpose of the creation account is to provide an explanation of how God provided for mankind and created him as the one spiritual animal on earth. The account is purposely brief and centered upon mankind - the only creature God created on earth to enter into a personal relationship with Him.

How can you have free will if everything is predestined?
The Bible teaches that both are in operation as the Father is powerful enough to do them simultaneously having created time itself (which is the way we measure “fate”). God directs history, but he does not micro-manage it. In order to fulfil His prophecies, God must predestine history to a certain degree and “elects” people to do His will. This includes putting His followers, in addition to those who oppose Him, at strategic points in history. We can choose through our free will to be part of His plan, and we choose not to, He will find someone else to do the same.

I prayed and nothing happened
You misunderstand what prayer is and how it works.  It is not a shopping list or a magic trick. It is a conversation between you and the Father, and the mechanism by which that relationship is nurtured and encouraged. Prayer is more about listening to what God wants than asking for what you want, and you cannot “magic up” what you want or get a lightning strike in return. Prayer requires perseverance because it demonstrates faith, and if your motives are wrong or you pray for the wrong thing, your prayer will probably just a firm “no” or a different answer to teach you to change the way you approach the Father. Knowing when it has been answered requires you to be wise and spot the signs. Prayers are required to be highly, highly specific unlike other religions and beliefs – the answers are also laser-specific and grow you spiritually. If it were false, that requirement and authenticity test would not be there.

The Bible says masturbation, pornography and sexual thought are sinful?
No it doesn’t. There is the “Sin of Onan”, but this is about the need to have many children to sustain the Jewish people rather than any specific point about losing ejaculate. There are no references in the Bible to masturbation in either gender. Masturbation is a natural act of discovering physical sensation found in hundreds of species in nature, and a natural instrument of sexual maturation.  The only sexual thoughts condemned in the Bible are the kind that become all-consuming, involve disrespect to those you love, provoke the spread of disease or unwanted pregnancy, or are based around distinct harm to others.

Religion is just a way for people to feel better about their lives
Tell that to any of the Christian martyrs who were burnt alive or nailed to trees for their beliefs or those in Saudi Arabia who are hunted and flogged in public. Religion places limits and restraints on behaviour, and most are very, very hard to keep to despite being ultimately beneficial. Life gets much harder when living through faith. Religion does offer comfort and retreat for many, but that does not mean it is false. Ask any Christian how their lives changed, and 99% of the time you will be told that it got a hell of a lot harder.

There is too much pain and suffering for there to be a loving God
Most of which is caused by other human beings abusing their free will to do evil and hurt others. But suffering and pain are part of creation deliberately. Physical pain is essential to our survival as it is a signal that damage is occurring to us and we need to react. Suffering draws us away from worldly concerns and pulls us to God, as well as teaching us perseverance and producing wisdom.  Character is built through well-rounded life experience and the pain we have suffered allows us to empathise with others, which motivates us to help them, do good , and prevent evil.

The Bible is just a work of fiction
Unfortunately not, as everything written in it has been confirmed by historians and archaeologists. The documents that make up the Bible itself have been scientifically verified by scholars to be authentic, comparatively unchanged and reflect the history of the time they were written in. There is a massive wealth of easily available information to demonstrate it. There are approximately 400 contest errors in the whole work over 2000 years, which makes it the most accurate scriptural and historical document set to ever have existed.

The church is corrupt and full of hypocrites and paedophiles
The Roman Catholic church really is full of child molesters, but that presumably has something to with their ridiculous unbiblical dogma on same-sex priests not being able to marry (even though their original pope, Peter, was married with kids), and their active repression of sex as an unclean act of procreation. All institutions have a certain percentage of bad apples, and those with authoritarian structures tend to attract people who find authority appealing and end up abusing it. Christ spent most of His time damning hypocrites of His time in public, and the Bile states clearly that hypocrisy will be judged as evil and not tolerated.

Why would a loving God send people to Hell?
Because they’ve chosen it for themselves after being given the option and chance to live with God, and sin (and nasty human nature traits) cannot exist in the same place as God. Hell is eternal separation from the Father and being removed from His sight, which is a spiritual pain so unimaginably awful that it can only be described by the imagery of fire and torture. Being “loving” doesn’t mean letting someone do whatever they want, as any parent will testify. Hell is firstly an act of punishment and justice where the truly evil are punished for what the evil have done.

What about UFOs and aliens?
It is possible from the size of our rather inhospitable universe that are other forms of life God may have created (using the Drake equation we can estimate 150 planets in our galaxy), but the chances of them visiting us, scientifically speaking, are virtually zero (i.e. as possible as us visiting them). The most optimistic estimate for the presence of extraterrestrial civilizations would put them 2000 light years apart. If these civilizations exist, they will not detect our radio signals today for another 1900 years. Time travel and interstellar speed are so far off as to be irrelevant. The alien/UFO phenomenon is comparatively recent (last 40 years) and there is not one single scrap of affirmative physical evidence (i.e. not circumstantial or conjectured) for any of it.

God hates sex and the church says it is immoral
God designed and created sex and made it pleasurable, so He clearly doesn’t hate it. The Father states that it is incredibly powerful, can be immensely damaging if abused or treated lightly and also involves the chance of an unplanned baby being conceived without a secure family for it to be born into and nurtured by, so should ideally be kept loyally within marriage as that is designed the safest type of relationship. Before the invention of modern contraception, sexual promiscuity (i.e. sex outside of marriage) meant unwanted pregnancies and the spread of disease. Imagine the one you love having sex with someone else – it hurts. Roman Catholics believe sex is only for procreation and forbids contraception, which is unbiblical nonsense. A good question to ask the pop would be “how many abortions would there be if we banned contraception?”

Did Jesus even exist at all?
Jesus Christ is accepted by almost all scholars studying both gospel and independent material in academia to have been a genuine historical figure – a Jewish peasant spiritual teacher named “Yeshua” born in Nazareth around 6-4BC who spoke Aramaic, preached for 3 passovers and was executed by crucifixion (used for political insurrection) by order of the Roman prefect of the province of Judea in AD 33 (14th of Nisan). He was fatally beaten and eventually died from asphyxiation, exhaustion and organ failure at approximately 3pm.

The Bible is full of contradictions
The very first part is answering this issue is to ask exactly which parts of scripture are seen to be “contradictory” – which contradictions might they be? The vast majority of these quotations are removed from their larger context and involve the different wider meanings of Hebrew words that have been translated into tighter English. These have all been covered in enormous detail and yet, after 2,000 years of analysis, none have withstood their explanation.

The Da Vinci code says Jesus lived in France and had children
It also says the Bible was assembled by Constantine (it was a long time before), there were 80 gospels (there were less than 8), Opus Dei members have monks (they don’t), the deity of Christ was created at Nicea (archaeology proves otherwise), YHWH is derived from male/female (it means “to be”) and the Dead Sea Scrolls were the earliest Christian writings (they were written before Christianity existed). There is absolutely no independent historical or scientific evidence whatsoever that Christ was married or Magdalene was slandered. The entire concept was lifted from vague and unreliable Gnostic texts a d the book “Holy Blood, Holy Grail” (whether the court says so or not). Christ would have stuck out like a sore thumb in France as a Middle Eastern Jew.

Didn’t the disciples just make it all up?
Although the Bible contains many stories of miracles, it also includes doctrines that the average male would not have included, if they were making up a religion. For example, in other religions, heaven consists of males engaging in eternal sex with multiple virgins. However, in the Bible there are no sexual relationships, but believers are “married” to Jesus and the members of the Church are described as being female. Realistically, no males you know of would ever make up the Christian concept of heaven. Another doctrine that would be considered offensive in first century Jewish culture is the virgin birth of Jesus. In addition, first century Jewish culture considered women to be unreliable witnesses, making the discovery of the empty tomb by women to be unlikely to be fabricated. The leaders in the Bible are presented realistically, with all their faults and shortcomings. When presenting themselves, most people tend to tell about their positive traits, eliminating negative traits, such as drunkenness, adultery, and murder. The inclusion of the good and the bad of God’s leaders indicate that the biblical accounts are not just fabricated stories. And no, they were simple fishermen peasants so it’s unlikely it was a clever double-bluff.

God is a cruel genocidal maniac who breaks His own commandment to kill people
The word “kill” in the 10 commandments is a Hebrew term that means to kill unjustly, as killing can be unavoidable and justified, e.g. in self-defence. When we see the judgemental acts of God in the Old Testament, we think of them in human terms, like the Nazi holocaust and Hiroshima, as humans are intrinsically inclined toward evil (yes, we are). God is loving, but requires justice and has the right as creator to destroy life as well as create it. We do not. His acts are always just and always fair, and never evil (as ours are), so He does not break His own commandment because the killing is an act of justice. In each story of His wrath, He warns the people multiple times and says he will not nuke if even 10 of them are good and kind. These peoples were not remotely innocent (in one example, burning their own children) and all who obeyed God were rescued in advance.  Being annihilated was a last resort of punishment for deeply evil people and their appalling atrocities.

God hates gay people
No. The Bible clearly states not to judge or attack others, and to be sexually responsible. There is no biblical basis for banning gay priests as is there are no words against female priests. The word “abomination” is taken from Hebrew that means “not ritual”, i.e. doesn’t happen in the temple or is not practised as a holy act. Homosexuality is a recognised feature of nature/creation that occurs in over 1200 species (so it is not “unnatural”), and is believed to be an evolutionary trait caused by multiple factors such as overcrowding and feminisation of the foetus.

Isn’t the story of Jesus a rip-off of paganism, Horus, Adonis, Simon, Mithra etc?
No.  It is the view of historians and scholars that it is difficult to make a case for “material, significant, and pervasive” borrowing between Jesus and the plenitude of other religious deities of the world.
More: http://www.christian-thinktank.com/copycatwho1.html

The Bible condones slavery and tells women to obey their husbands?
No, it doesn’t. The Old Testament bluntly states that anyone caught selling another into slavery is to be put to death, although voluntary slavery was practised culturally that was clearly different to that of the later centuries, for which the Bible proscribes laws to protect slaves. There is no passage in the bible that explicitly commands wives to “obey” their husbands, and Paul’s writings actually order a rebellion against male-centred institutions. Husbands and wives are told to voluntarily submit themselves to each other.

What about all the other gospels and scrolls that have been found?
There are several sets of documents that are claimed to be hidden scripture or secret knowledge – for example, the Samarian tablets, Nag Hammadi Gnostic library, the Apocrypha, the gospels of Thomas and Judas. To be included in the Bible, scriptural documents had to fulfil 3 criteria/tests: apostolic authority (written by, or witnessed by the apostles), the rule of faith (consistent with tradition and values) and to have enjoyed continuous acceptance and usage. There is no conspiracy over these documents as they are all freely available to be read and studied today by anyone, but none fulfilled the criteria to be included.

Isn’t the bible irrelevant nowadays?
Only if history and morality are irrelevant. The Bible was written over 3000 years in the context of the Jewish populations of Judea, so must always be taken in its historical and cultural context. But human nature has never changed, and the wisdom it contains is eternal. Is “do not murder” irrelevant?

Didn’t Jesus’ disciples just steal his body and create the resurrection myth to enhance their cult?
The “stolen body hypothesis” (which acknowledges an empty tomb) is generally accepted to be unsubstantiated as it does not account for the historically-documented transformation of the apostles, their willingness to die for a made-up story or run consistent that they would have any reason to fabricate a story. The tomb itself was guarded by a group of soldiers, dead bodies were unclean in Jewish culture and graverobbing and falling asleep on the job as a soldier was punishable by death. All of the theories that suggest a conspiracy forget that the apostles were illiterate peasant fishermen with little capability for it. Matthew gospel even documents that the soldiers were bribed by the Jewish authorities to circulate the theft story.

Am i going to hell?
If you commit evil or choose to freely and completely reject God, yes, as he hates the evil and will respect your wishes of not wanting to have anything to with him. You are to be held accountable for what you have done. The Bible states that the only way out is to hire Christ as your lawyer and get-out-jail-free card.

God hates me, judges me and punishes me
Not in this life, and this is a gross misunderstanding of the character of God. If you complain that He doesn’t intervene to stop things happening, why would He intervene to judge or punish you instead? If the Father put us here to make choices, then He understands the process of which those choices come about, and is patient with us. It is explicitly stated in almost every book of the Bible that any sense in your spirit that is accusing, condemning, judging, punishing or spiteful is NOT God at all, and must be discerned.

At some point, you have to make a choice. If you can’t deny the existence of God, then you need to work out which God He is. Once that becomes clear, you need to work out what He’s like. Then you have to make first contact. That’s when the fun starts.