Flaws in Christianity

Christianity is a religion in which events are claimed to have occured

but which can never be proved. Those who practice it live by different

morals than are preached by the most holy texts. It is an institution in

which the most holy scripture is contradictory, and wherein the supreme

being, by the very definition, cannot exist. Christianity is, therefore,

a fundamentally flawed religion.

According to the Bible, events have occured which are even more

miraculous than the resurection of Jesus Christ. Events such as the

stopping of the sun by Joshua (Joshua 10:12-14), the reversal of the sun's

course by Isaiah (Isaiah 38:7-8) , the resurrection of the saints, and

their subsequent appearance to many (Matthew 27:52-53) were witnessed by

thousands of people. The stopping and reversal of the sun would have been

visible worldwide. The idea that people could have witnessed these events

without having been amazed by them is, quite simply, ludicrous. Other

cultures having witnessed this would certainly have offered their own

explanations in keeping with their own cultural and religious beliefs.

Surely a society existing at the time would have documented this

miraculous event. Yet nowhere have such works been found. In the

instance of the resurrection of the saints, Matthew is the only person to

mention this occurence in the Bible. Surely other first-century

Christians would have used this as further proof of Jesus' divinty. It

would fall to reason that Paul and the gospels would have mentioned it.

This is not, however, the case. Nowhere else in the Bible is this

mentioned or even hinted at. These events are then, at best, highly

unlikely to have occured. The fact that Matthew is alone in writing o...

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...pell evil and thus is not

omnipotent. The second possible conclusion is this: that god is

omnipotent but evil exists, and god is therefore not perfectly good. The

last possible, and most feasible, conclusion is that god does not exist.

It can easily be seen that Christianity is a religion based on falsehoods

and has many intrinsic flaws. They are seen by the fact that the

followers of this religion do not conduct themselves in the manner

proscribed by their most holy texts. These errors reside in the facts

that these same texts are contradictory, and that their very god cannot

possibly exist. These errors and omissions are then covered by a vague

concept: faith.

Work Cited

The New Oxford Annotated Bible: With the Apocryphal/Deuterocanonical Books, New

Revised Standard Version. Michael D. Coogan, editor. New York: Oxford UP, 2012.

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