"I have examined all of the known superstitions of the world and I do not find in our superstitions of Christianity one redeeming feature. They are all founded on fables and mythology. Christianity has made one half the world fools and the other half hypocrites." - Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826)

GOD
The Biblical picture of God can hardly be reconciled with Christian teaching that "God is love", e.g.,
All forms of life destroyed because of one imperfect species - Genesis 6:5,7, 7:23.
Human sacrifice commanded by God - Leviticus 27:28,29.
God agrees that Jephthah sacrifices his daughter as a thanksgiving - Judges 11:29-40.
God sends ten plagues on Egypt because Pharaoh will not release the Hebrews, but he deliberately hardens Pharaoh's heart so he refuses to release the Hebrews making the plagues necessary in the first place - God admits that this is so he can perform 'his wonders' (Exodus 11:9), i.e., wholesale mass slaughter of life in Egypt - Exodus 7:3-4,13-14, 10:1,20.
God sanctions slavery and a man selling his daughter - Exodus 21:2- 6,7.
Death demanded for heresy - Deuteronomy 13:1,2,5,14,15.
God says that if a man strikes 'his slave', male or female, and they do not die immediately, the man shall not be punished because 'the slave is his money (i.e., property)' - Exodus 21:20-21.
God orders people to slaughter their own relatives because they rejected Moses' religion; 3000 killed. Moses tells the killers that God would bless them for doing this by making them ordained for his service - Exodus 32:27-29.
A person to kill their own family for a difference of religion - Deuteronomy 13:6-10.
God demands death for anyone not circumcised - Genesis 17:9-14.
God demands the sick are to be driven out of the community - Numbers 5:1-4.
God burns people to death for complaining - Numbers 11:1.
God kills 24,000 people by a plague because one of them brought a Midianite woman to his tent - Numbers 25:6-9.
The curses of God upon the Hebrews (e.g. eating their own children) - Leviticus 26:14-39, Deuteronomy 28:15-68.
God arranges the Midianite slaughter - Judges 7:2,9,22. (Note: Numbers 31:1-18 states that God instructed the mass slaughter of Midianites, and the Lord "slew every male", alongwith their rulers (31:7), and the Midianite women and children and animals were captured; Moses then demanded all the males, including babies and the women were to be slaughtered, but the young girls could be "kept alive for yourselves" (31:18). This story records the extermination of the Midianites, but later on, God again instructs the slaugher of the Midianites (Judges 6:16), It is the same with the Amalekites - they are "ALL destroyed" in 1 Samuel 15:8, but they are destroyed yet again in 1 Samuel 27:8-9 and everyone - men and women - are killed; however, they are killed (- for the 3rd time) in 1 Samuel 30:1,16-17 except for 400 young men. At long last, they are are finally killed off in 1 Chronicles 4:43 when the 'remnant' were destroyed.
The Spirit of God comes upon Samson and he murders over a thousand people - Judges 14:19, 15:14-15.
The Psalmist praises God for his 'steadfast love' but then details his slaughtering in the past - Psalm 136:10-21.
God deliberately deludes people so they will not be saved - 2 Thess 2:11-12.
A girl not found to be a virgin was to be killed - Deuteronomy 22:13- 21 (Note the same did not apply to men).
God kills a baby for its father's wrongdoing, ignoring the father's pleas - 2 Samuel 12:15-20.
God kills 70,000 men - 2 Samuel 24:15.
God meets his arch enemy Satan - whom he does not even recognise (Job 1:6-7), and they have a wager (Job 1:8-12) over how much suffering it would take before righteous Job will reject God. Job then has his whole family killed and livelihood ruined (1:13-19) and then is afflicted by a loathsome plague (2:7-8).

The Bible presents an interesting picture of God, i.e., a god who never changes (Malachi 3:6) but actually does frequently change his mind and even regrets what he's done ("repents") - Genesis 6:6,7, Exodus 32:14, 1 Samuel 15:35, 2 Samuel 24:16, 1 Chronicles 21:l5, Jeremiah l8:8,10, 26:3,l3,l9, 42:l0, Ezekiel 24:14, Joel 2:13, Amos 7:3. Although it is to be noted that Numbers 23:19 and 1 Samuel 15:2 say that God never repents.
It states God is "spirit", i.e., non-physical (John 4:24) and yet he is always called 'him' or 'he' as if he had a male body, and then it states that although spirit, he has feet (Psalm 18:9), arms (Jeremiah 27:5), wings (Psalm 36:7), hands (Job 27:11), eyes (Deuteronomy 8:3), a mouth (Isaiah 1:20), ears (2 Chronicles 6:40), nostrils (Exodus 15:8) and legs (Genesis 3:8). He also uses a razor - Isaiah 7:20. He also occasionally roars (Joel 3:16) and sometimes he even whistles (Isaiah 5:26). Although he has never been seen (John 1:18), he has actually been seen (Isa 6:1), and he even revealed his rear to Moses (Exodus 33:21-22).......

THE PRESENCE OF EVIL

Christians assert that it is through Adam's sin that evil exists and furthermore it is because of his transgression that all humans must die; this is taught by Paul in Rom 5:12,17,18 and is the central theology of Christianity. However, this wholly contradicts 2 Kings 14:6, Ezekiel 18:20, Jeremiah 31:30 that state a person will not suffer for an ancestor's wrongdoing.
If the God of the Bible is truly God, then there is a dilemma; for God to be God, he has to be omnipotent, responsible for the creation of everything, and this includes evil; if he did not create evil, then he was not wholly creative, and therefore cannot be God. In fact the Bible does say that God commits and/or is responsible for evil, e.g., Exodus 32:l4, 2 Sam 24:l6, 1 Chron 21:l5, Jer l8:8, 26:3,13,19, Jonah 3:l0. Furthermore, he sends lying spirits (1 Kings 22:23, 2 Chronicles 18:22) and deliberately deceives people (2 Thessalonians 2:11). And not only this, he admits to being responsible for the creation of evil and misery (Isaiah 45:7), and that he has deliberately made people so he can destroy them (Proverbs 16:4).
He condemns killing (Exodus 20:13) but orders it (Exodus 32:27); he encourages wisdom (Proverbs 4:7) but condemns it (1 Corinthians 1:19); he protects the righteous (Proverbs 12:21) but does not (Hebrews 11:36-37); he cuts off the wicked (Proverbs 10:27) but does not (Job 21:7-9); he commands respect for parents (Exodus 20:12) but encourages hatred for them (Luke 16:9); he blesses peace (Matt 5:9) but brings war (Matt 10:34, Revelation 19:11).
God will keep the earth (Ecclesiastes 1:4), but destroy it (2 Peter 3:10); is invisible and unseen (John 1:18, 1 Timothy 6:15-16) but has been seen (Amos 9:1, Deuteronomy 5:24); he lives in dazzling light (1 Timothy 6:15-16), but lives in darkness (l Kings 8:12)......

NOAH
A conservative estimate of the lifeforms that Noah would have had to collect is:
Insects: 1,000,000
Mammals: 4,008
Birds: 8,600
Reptiles: 6,252
Amphibians: 2,000
TOTAL SPECIES - 1,020,860
TOTAL IF IN PAIRS - 2,041,720

According to the Bible, Noah's sons existed before he began collecting the species. One of his sons, Shem, was born 1,558 years after creation and the flood took place 1,656 years after creation. Therefore, Noah had about 98 years to collect all two million life forms. In order for Noah to do this he would have to collect 20,832 species a year, or 57 species a day. Taking into account the travel time required to gather all the life forms on earth Noah's task would have been even more difficult.
Additionally, Noah would have had to feed and care for all these animals during the time that he collected them all, and during the flood itself; therefore he would also have to collect many times more species simply for feed stock. There is also the fact that in addition to doing all this, there would have been several tons of animal excrement to remove every day.
Additionally, there is the fact that many species on this planet cannot exist outside their ecosystems (For example, how did Noah keep the polar bear alive in the middle east climate?).
This is omitting the fact that there is no indisputable evidence of a global flood and other problems such as how the animals survived after they got back on dry land, and also how they were able to migrate to other land masses surrounded by oceans.

BIBLICAL SCIENCE
(a) the bat is a bird (Lev. 11:19, Deut. 14:11, 18);
(b) Some fowls are four-footed (Lev. 11:20-21);
(c) Some creeping insects have four legs. (Lev. 11:22-23);
(d) Hares chew the cud (Lev. 11:6);
(e) Conies chew the cud (Lev. 11:5);
(f) Camels don't divide the hoof (Lev. 11:4);
(g) The earth was formed out of and by means of water (2 Peter 3:5 RSV);
(h) The earth rest on pillars (1 Sam. 2:8);
(i) The earth won't be moved (1Chron. 16:30);
(j) A hare does not divide the hoof (Deut. 14:7);
(k) The rainbow is not as old as rain and sunshine (Gen. 9:13);
(l) A mustard seed is the smallest of all seeds and grows into the greatest of all shrubs (Matt. 13:31-32 RSV);
(m) Turtles have voices (Song of Sol. 2:12);
(n) The earth has ends or edges (Job 37:3);
(o) The earth has four corners (Isa. 11:12, Rev. 7:1);
(p) Some 4-legged animals fly (Lev. 11:21);
(q) The world's language didn't evolve but appeared suddenly (Gen. 11:6-9; and
(r) A fetus can understand speech (Luke 1:44).
Some statements are so vague that apologists can often evade

PARADOX
if Jesus and the Holy Ghost are God, if the Trinity is valid, then Jesus' relationship to Mary is utterly paradoxical:

(1) If he was born of Mary, she was his mother;
(2) She "being with child by the Holy Ghost," and Father, Son and Holy Ghost being one, she was his wife;
(3) God, being the Father of all mankind, and God and Christ being one, she was his daughter;
(4) She, being the daughter of God, and Jesus being the Son of God, she was his sister.

TRINITY
Christ, according to the faith, is the second person in the Trinity, the Father being the first and the Holy Ghost third. Each of these persons is God. Christ is his own father and his own son. The Holy Ghost is neither father nor son, but both. The son was begotten by the father, but existed before he was begotten--just the same before as after. Christ is just as old as his father, and the father is just as young as his son. The Holy Ghost proceeded from the Father and Son, but was equal to the Father and Son before he proceeded, that is to say, before he existed, but he is of the same age as the other two. So it is declared that the Father is God, and the Son and the Holy Ghost God, and these three Gods make one God. According to the celestial multiplication table, once one is three, and three time one is one, and according to heavenly subtraction if we take two from three, three are left. The addition is equally peculiar: if we add two to one we have but one. Each one equal to himself and to the other two.

Jesus backpeddles
(a) "I and the Father are one" (John 10:30);
(b) "...he that hath seen me hath seen the Father" (John 17:22);
(c) "In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the word was God" (John 1"1). (See also: John 10:38, 14:9-11, 17:11, 21-23, Col. 2:9)
(a) "Why callest me good? There is none good but one, that is God" Matt. 19:17);
(b) "for my Father is greater than I" (John 14:28);
(c) "My doctrine is not mine, but his that sent me" (John 7:16);
(d) "My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?" (Matt. 27:46);
(e) "Who has gone into heaven, and is on the right hand of God" (1 Peter 3:22); (See also: Mark 13:32, 1 cor. 11:3, John 5:19, 20:17, Matt. 26:39 and many others).


"Did not Moses give you the law, and yet none of you keepeth the law (John 7:19)" and "For the law was given by Moses,...(John 1:17)." Moses could not have been the author, however, because of the large number of verses demonstrating the contrary. The following are prime examples:
(a) "And Abram passed through the land unto the place of Sichem,...and the Canaanite was then in the land (Gen. 12:6)," "...and the Canaanite and the Ferizzite dwelled then in the land (Gen. 3:17)." Both verses state that the Canaanites were then in the land. The work of expelling the Canaanites did not begin until the days of Joshua, after Moses, and did not end until the days of David. Since Gen. 12:6 and 13:7 could not have been written until after they had left the land, which was 450 years after Moses, Moses could not have been the author;
(b) "And these are the kings that reigned in the land of Edom, before there reigned any king over the children of Israel (Gen. 36:31)." This passage could only have been written after the first king, Saul (See: 1 Sam. 10:24-25) began to reign over the Israelites. It had to have been written after Saul began to rule, and thus could not have been written by Moses;
(c) "The sceptre shall not depart from Judah nor a lawgiver from between his feet, until Shiloh come (Gen. 49:10)." These words could not have been written before Judah received the sceptre, which was not until David ascended the throne nearly 400 years after the death of Moses;
(d) "Moreover the man Moses was very great in the land of Egypt....(Ex. 11:3)." People are usually spoken of as great only after their death, and Moses would hardly have made such a statement about himself;
(e) "And the children of Israel did eat manna forty years, until they came...unto the borders of the land of Canaan (Ex.16:35)." Moses died in the wilderness before they crossed over into the land of Canaan. How could he have known what would happen after they crossed over? How could he have known when they would stop eating manna? Moreover, according to Joshua 5:12, they were still eating manna after they crossed the Jordan River and were encamped in Gilgal;
(f) "The first of the firstfruits of thy land thou shalt bring into the house of the Lord thy God ( Ex. 23:19)." This could not have been written before the time of Solomon, for God had no house prior to the erection of the temple 447 years after Moses. When David proposed to build God a house, God forbade it and said that he had never lived in a house since they left Egypt ("Whereas I have not dwelt in any house since the time that I brought up the children of Israel out of Egypt, even to this day, but have walked in a tent and in a tabernacle"--2 Sam. 7:6);
(g) "That the land spue not you out also, when ye defile it, as it spued out the nations that were before you (Lev. 18:28)." How could Moses have written this, since he never saw the promised land and the other nations were not driven out until David's time?
(h) "And while the children of Israel were in the wilderness, they found a man that gathered sticks upon the sabbath day (Num. 15:32)." How could Moses have written this, since it presupposes the Israelites were no longer in the wilderness? This verse says they were in the wilderness. The author of this wrote after they had left the wilderness and, thus, could not have been Moses, who died in the wilderness;
(i) "And while the children of Israel were in the wilderness, they found a man that gathered sticks upon the sabbath day. And they that found him gathering sticks brought him unto Moses and Aaron, and unto all the congregation. And they put him in ward, because it was not declared what shall be done with him (Num. 15:32-34)." This says they did not know what to do with a man who gathered sticks on the sabbath because it had not been declared what to do. Yet, in truth, Ex. 31:15 ("whosoever doeth any work in the Sabbath day, he shall surely be put to death") declared what should be done, and Moses, himself, received this law. Thus, Moses could not have written Numbers 15;
(j) The following verses appear to have been written by someone other than Moses:
"And if ye have erred, and not observed all these commandments, which the Lord hath spoken unto Moses, Even all that the Lord hath commanded you by the hand of Moses, from the day that the Lord commanded Moses,....(Num. 15:22-23),"
"...as the Lord commanded Moses (Ex. 39:57, 40:19, 27, 29, 32);"
(k) Moses is often referred to in the third person, which shows the Pentateuch is a biography, not an autobiography. "And the Lord spoke unto Moses....(Num. 2:1, 5:1, 31:1)," "and this is the blessing, wherewith Moses, the man of God, blessed the children of Israel before his death (Deut. 33:1),"
(l) "To drive out nations from before thee greater and mightier than thou art, to bring thee in, to give thee their land for an inheritance, as it is this day (Deut. 4:38)." This verse must have been written after Moses died, since they did not possess the land as an inheritance until after his demise;
(m) "Thou shalt eat it within thy gates....(Deut. 15:22)." The phrase "within thy gates" occurs in the Pentateuch about 25 times. It refers to the gates of the cities of the Israelites, which they did not inhabit until after the death of Moses;
(n) "And the Lord shall bring thee into Egypt again with ships, by the way whereof I spoke unto thee....(Deut. 28:68)." How could Moses have written this when he said earlier in Deut. 17:16 that "You shall never return that way (toward Egypt--Ed.) again?" If Moses wrote all of Deuteronomy, then he contradicted himself;
(o) "And this the blessing, wherewith Moses the man of God blessed the children of Israel before his death (Deut. 33:1)." In this verse Moses is not only spoken of in the third person, but in laudatory terms. Moreover, his death is referred to as an event already accomplished;
(p) "This they shall give,...half a shekel after the shekel of the sanctuary....(Ex. 30:13, 24)." Ingersoll noted that Moses could not have written these verses, since there was no such thing as a "shekel of the sanctuary" until long after Moses lived.

GOD AS HUMAN
The Bible advises us of a deity who never changes (Malachi 3:6) but actually does frequently change his mind and even regrets what he's done ("repents") - Genesis 6:6,7, Exodus 32:14, 1 Samuel 15:35, 2 Samuel 24:16, 1 Chronicles 21:l5, Jeremiah 18:8,10, 26:3,13,19, 42:10, Ezekiel 24:14, Joel 2:13, Amos 7:3. Although it is to be noted that Numbers 23:19 and 1 Samuel 15:2 say that God never repents.
It states that God is "spirit", i.e., non-physical (John 4:24) and yet he is always called 'him' or 'he' as if he had a male body, and then it states that although spirit, he has feet (Psalm 18:9), arms (Jeremiah 27:5), wings (Psalm 36:7), hands (Job 27:11), eyes ( Deuteronomy 8:3), a mouth (Isaiah 1:20), ears (2 Chronicles 6:40), nostrils (Exodus 15:8) and legs (Genesis 3:8). He also uses a razor - Isaiah 7:20. He also occasionally roars (Joel 3:16) and sometimes he even whistles (Isaiah 5:26). Although he has never been seen (John 1:18), he has actually been seen (Isa 6:1), and he even revealed his rear to Moses (Exodus 33:21-22)...

"We must question the story logic of having an all-knowing all-powerful God, who creates faulty Humans, and then blames them for his own mistakes." - Gene Roddenberry