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Because of XKCD, I will love you for the next two minutes.

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I knew it. -_-

2486395 No, God did know of the possibilities of Adam and Eve betraying him but if he did not leave that option their for them to rebel then they would be slaves in paradise and slavery is not something God is for.

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If the mere act of mild skepticism then why did he keep sending people to talk to us about him? Why did he specifically have the Jews keep such extensive records and why did he have the NT authors gather so many witnesses for Christs revival? It was to give evidence. In fact multiple bible passages tell us to gather knowledge and to learn as much as we can.

Yeah, people tend to be rather skeptical about millennia-old texts. Besides, how many religions don't have such claims?

Also Modern Judiasm doesnt believe in christ because of the talmud which is not inspired by God but by fallible Rabbis. Medieval Judaism started as a reaction to Christ because they dont want him to be the messiah.

Is honest disbelief not on the table?

IM GREATER THAN JESUS

Does Islam not revere Christ?

Because apparently Christ did not die on the cross even though they had a bunch of witnesses saying he did and all the Quran has is claims that cannot be proven.

To be honest, the difference between those two things is pretty small.

It opens itself up to being wrong by making scientific claims and historical claims. If you can prove those wrong than that can prove the Bible in its WHOLE wrong.

Four-legged insects.

The bible never asks you to have faith without offering evidence that can be proven wrong. It gives evidence that can be tested and researched to see if its true or not.

Evidence is almost always sketchy when all we have are texts, stories, and artifacts.

2491958 http://www.str.org/articles/is-the-new-testament-text-reliable#.UsJJVrS0aTc
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Bible_and_history
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Insects have four legs

There are several verses that are translated in our English Bibles to imply that insects have four legs. In reality, the Hebrew word sherets, translated as "insect" is not nearly as specific as the term "insect" would imply. The word really refers to crawling or swimming creatures that tend to swarm together. For example, in Genesis, sherets refers to swarming sea creatures,27 in the flood account (Genesis 7) sherets refers to rodents,28 and in Leviticus, sherets refers to crustaceans,29 insects,30 rodents,31 and reptiles.32 The term sherets was never intended as a biological classification system, so to say that it specifically refers to "insects" is deceptive.

What is common among all the creatures mentioned is that they have short legs and often travel together in groups. In fact, the Bible defines sherets as "crawling on its belly" and "whatever walks on all fours."33 What is common in this group of crustaceans, insects, rodents, and reptiles is that they all crawl on "all four" legs. Some from this group actually have more than four legs. However, the Hebrew idiom "on all fours" refers to any creature that crawls low to the ground on at least four legs. Were the writers of the Bible unaware that insects have six legs? This statement would seem rather silly, but atheists actually make this claim. However, one of the verses clearly indicates that these "four-legged" insects have six legs:

'Yet these you may eat among all the winged insects [sherets] which walk on all fours: those which have above their feet jointed legs with which to jump on the earth. (Leviticus 11:21)

The key part of the verse is the phrase "above their feet jointed legs." The Hebrew uses two different words to describe the "feet" (regel) and "legs" (kera). What the verse says is that these insects walk on four "feet" (their anterior four short legs), with an additional two "legs" that are used for jumping. Therefore, all six appendages are described.

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Hell is a place completely without God. Simple as that. Doesn't sound so bad, except pretty much all goodness radiates from God, or the God above God if there is such a being, which some have speculated. A place devoid of anything good and almost devoid of anything even remotely familiar is actually quite terrifying!

But there is more; you don't go to Hell until the day of judgement, and many will be resurrected before that day; what that means is that God will give many a second chance before actually condemning people to Hell forever.