Bible Questions?

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Make way for the stormtroopers...

What can we do with our amazing brains? I know! Let's find out another way to control and kill people. BRILLIANT!

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Why is Jesus Christ portrayed as a Caucasian in prominent religious iconography?

Did Christ proclaim he would return again within the lifetimes of people who were supposedly witness to his original resurrection?

Can you disprove David Koresh was latest incarnation of the biblical son of God?

 

Jesus' return would spell out world peace. There was no world peace during the time Koresh was alive.

 

I thought his return would spell out the apocalypse?

 

I really don’t know, anyone that has read the Bible for themselves knows that Jesus was Jewish and thus probably had dark skin, brown eyes and black hair. If I had to guess, maybe “Christians” wrongly blamed the “Jews” for Jesus death and thus tried to make Jesus not Jewish.

No, Jesus indicated that his 1st century disciples had plenty to do and should not be looking for his immediate return.

Well for one thing he didn’t fulfill any prophecy about Jesus’ return that I know of. And second the Bible indicates that here would be no fleshly return of Jesus.

 

Has the god of the holy bible ever commanded someone to murder?

Is murder in the name of a god moral?

 

You may consider this just semantics but although the God of the Bible has commanded people to kill, he has never commanded anyone to murder.

Murder is never moral.

 

Radiocarbon dating, or carbon dating, is a radiometric dating method that uses the naturally occurring radioisotope carbon-14 (14C) to determine the age of carbonaceous materials up to about 60,000 years.[1] Raw, i.e. uncalibrated, radiocarbon ages are usually reported in radiocarbon years "Before Present" (BP), "Present" being defined as AD 1950. Such raw ages can be calibrated to give calendar dates.

This is tested and proven science has shown many fossils to be well over 5000 years old

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kennewick_Man

According to the bible were these fossils "planted" on Earth as a test of faith?

 

According to the bible nothing was "planted" on Earth as a test of faith.
And by the way radiocarbon dating is notoriously unreliable.

 

(Off topic, Modern geologists and geophysicists consider the age of the Earth to be around 4.54 billion years This age has been determined by radiometric age dating of meteorite material and is consistent with the ages of the oldest-known terrestrial and lunar samples.
The only websites that dispute this are mainly christian in origin.)

Does God accept Human Sacrifice?

"Thou shalt not do so unto the Lord thy God: for every abomination to the Lord, which he hateth, have they done unto their gods; for even their sons and their daughters they have burnt in the fire to their gods."
Deuteronomy, 12:31

"And he said, Take now thy son, thine only son Isaac, whom thou lovest, and get thee into the land of Moriah; and offer him there for a burnt offering upon one of the mountains which I will tell thee of."
Genesis, 22:2

"And Jephthah vowed a vow unto the Lord, and said, If thou shalt without fail deliver the children of Ammon into mine hand, Then it shall be, that whatsoever cometh forth of the doors of my house to meet me, when I return in peace from the children of Ammon, shall surely be the Lord's, and I will offer it up for a burnt offering. So Jephthah passed over unto the children of Ammon..."
Judges, 11:30-39

"For thou shalt not delay to offer the first of thy ripe fruits, and of thy liquors; the firstborn of thy sons shalt thou give unto me."
Exodus, 22:29

 

I will say again, the estimate of the Earth only being about 10,000 years old is the result of a misreading of the Bible. The Bible wording allows for an age of both the Earth and the Universe of billions of years.

In a way yes, Jesus was a human sacrifice that God accepted.

 

I was under the impression that the bible had said the universe and earth were created wholly as they are in the same week?

 

The first verse of the Bible, it says; in the beginning God created the Heavens and the Earth. It doesn't say how long ago that was or how long it took. The Bible then describes the preparation of that already created Earth for man's habitation and that preparation took the seven "days" everyone talks about.

 

Is it true that the birth and the eventual crucifixion of Christ is conveniently mirrored in the Zodiac?

Does it explain what it exactly is the christian god wants of mankind and for what reason he wanted an avoidable sacrifice made of his son?

 

I don't understand your first question, but I'll try to answer your second and third.

What God wants is for us to avoid sin for our own benefit.

To answer your last question, it is very difficult to go into without using the context of the Bible. Viktor Frankl once said that through trials are we redeemed because it has the ability of humbling ourselves *https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CTNpx8mFKas* Once we are humbled we can know God. But to answer your last question, I really recommend watching this video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mAscNpOo7fg (all three parts) It starts off with the Book of Daniel but it goes into your question in detail and shows the importance of the sacrifice.

 

What is sin and what is it's origin?

 

Sin is when we go against God's healthful and helpful teachings.

It's origin is when Eve ate of the fruit when God asked her not to as a healthful and helpful warning. She freely choose to go against God's advice and so did Adam. They both allowed themselves, freely, to give into temptation.

 

Why did god want to tempt them in the first place?

 

He didn't. He said it as a warning, probably because he knew Satan was out there. They knew of God's will and choose to ignore it.

They may have felt tempted by this warning, but the warning was still necessary and they still choose to give into the temptation. Resisting a temptation, any that goes against God's will, is pretty much the basis of Christianity.

 

But God created the temptation, he created the evil, and he created the oppourtunity to disobey him leading to a life of hell and suffering.....which he also created.

It all seems meaninglessly drawn out and complicated, all for the sake of making human life full of misery.