Specific Issues
58 entries.
| Row | Objection | |
|---|---|---|
| 2locator: low confidence | Christianity's doctrine of vicarious atonement is inherently immoral scapegoating: humans are born guilty of 'original sin' through no fault… | Argument page → |
| 3 | needs review 'Why isn't God around?' — with a citation of Lev 20:3 and no further argument given. | Argument page → |
| 4 | 'Most of Christian analysis is strained Eisegesis' — illustrated by asking whether Deuteronomy 32:4 ('The Rock, his work is perfect... a fai… | Argument page → |
| 5locator: low confidence | Jesus was an apocalyptic preacher who predicted the end of the age / his own glorious coming within his hearers' generation (Mark 9:1/Matt 1… | Argument page → |
| 7locator: medium confidence | Deuteronomy 22:13-21 prescribes stoning a bride to death if she cannot produce evidence of virginity ('did not bleed') on her wedding night. | Argument page → |
| 8locator: low confidence | The Bible commands women to be silent and submissive (1 Tim 2:11-14: women must learn in silence, may not teach or have authority over a man… | Argument page → |
| 9 | Leviticus 12:5 requires double the purification period after the birth of a girl versus a boy, implying that giving birth to a female child… | Argument page → |
| 10locator: low confidence | Proverbs 12:4 ('A good wife is the crown of her husband') treats a woman as her husband's accessory or possession. | Argument page → |
| 3locator: low confidence | Ezekiel 44:15-17 depicts God as needing priests to bring him 'fat and blood' at 'my table' — a primitive picture of a deity who literally ea… | Argument page → |
| 13locator: low confidence | Numbers 15:32-36: a man is executed by stoning for the 'crime' of gathering sticks on the Sabbath. | Argument page → |
| 14locator: medium confidence | Leviticus 19:18 ('love your neighbor as yourself') defines 'neighbor' narrowly as a fellow Israelite, exposing the command as ethnocentric t… | Argument page → |
| 15locator: medium confidence | Psalm 19 declares 'the law of the LORD is perfect,' which stands in tension with the objectionable civil and ritual laws catalogued elsewher… | Argument page → |
| 16locator: medium confidence | Proverbs 12:21 ('no harm happens to the righteous, but the wicked are filled with trouble') implies a retributive theology in which sufferin… | Argument page → |
| 17locator: low confidence | Deuteronomy 28:63 says the LORD will 'take delight' in bringing Israel to ruin and destruction, just as he delighted in prospering them — im… | Argument page → |
| 45locator: low confidence | The Bible depicts God as literally changing his mind or regretting past decisions (Gen 6:6, regretting making humanity; 1 Sam 15:11,35, regr… | Argument page → |
| 19locator: medium confidence | Leviticus 26:29 threatens that continued disobedience will result in Israelites being forced to eat the flesh of their own children. | Argument page → |
| 20locator: low confidence | In 2 Kings 2:23-25, children mock the prophet Elisha for being bald, and God sends two bears to maul 42 of them to death — a grotesque overr… | Argument page → |
| 21locator: medium confidence | Deuteronomy 22:23-29 requires a man who rapes an unbetrothed virgin to pay her father 50 shekels of silver and marry her, with no right of d… | Argument page → |
| 70locator: low confidence | Deuteronomy 22:23-24 commands that a betrothed virgin who is raped/lies with a man in town, and the man, both be stoned to death, because 's… | Argument page → |
| 23locator: low confidence | Numbers 31:17-18 has Moses order the killing of all Midianites except virgin girls, who are kept; Deuteronomy 20:10-18 commands total destru… | Argument page → |
| 24locator: medium confidence | Exodus 22:29, 13:2, and Leviticus 27:28-29 appear to require dedicating/devoting the firstborn; Jephthah literally sacrifices his daughter (… | Argument page → |
| 25locator: medium confidence | Leviticus 20:13 and 18:22 call male same-sex intercourse 'an abomination' worthy of death; Romans 1:26-27, 1 Corinthians 6:9-11, and 1 Timot… | Argument page → |
| 26locator: low confidence | Judges 19-21 narrates the gang rape and murder of the Levite's concubine, her dismemberment, the resulting civil war against Benjamin, and t… | Argument page → |
| 27 | Leviticus 25:44-46 permits Israelites to own foreign slaves as permanent, inheritable property; Ephesians 6:5 and 1 Peter 2:18-19 command sl… | Argument page → |
| 28locator: medium confidence | Leviticus 10:1-2 has God kill Aaron's sons Nadab and Abihu with fire for offering 'unauthorized fire'/incense in his presence. | Argument page → |
| 29 | Exodus 22:20 prescribes death ('utterly destroyed') for anyone who sacrifices to a god other than the LORD. | Argument page → |
| 51locator: low confidence | Deuteronomy 13:1-3 says God permits true-predicting false prophets to arise 'to know whether you indeed love the LORD your God' — implying G… | Argument page → |
| 31locator: low confidence | Psalm 137:9 declares 'happy is the one who seizes your infants and dashes them against the rocks' — an apparent celebration of infanticide a… | Argument page → |
| 32locator: low confidence | Matthew 10:35-37 has Jesus say he came to set family members against each other and that anyone who loves father, mother, son, or daughter m… | Argument page → |
| 33locator: medium confidence | Psalm 139:16 says all the psalmist's days 'were written in your book before one of them came to be,' cross-referenced with Qur'an Surah 53:3… | Argument page → |
| 34locator: low confidence | Luke 12:56-57 has Jesus rebuke the crowds: 'You hypocrites!... why do you not judge for yourselves what is right?' | Argument page → |
| 35locator: low confidence | Matthew 5:33-36 has Jesus command 'do not swear at all,' whether by heaven, earth, Jerusalem, or one's own head, reasoning that one cannot m… | Argument page → |
| 36locator: very low confidence | Acts 4:32-34 describes the earliest Jerusalem church holding all possessions in common, with no one claiming private ownership. | Argument page → |
| 38locator: medium confidence | Deuteronomy 23:2 bars 'those born of an illicit union' (traditionally rendered 'bastards') from the assembly of the LORD, to the tenth gener… | Argument page → |
| 39locator: medium confidence | Exodus 4:24-26 depicts the LORD meeting Moses (or his son) and seeking to kill him, averted only when Zipporah circumcises their son and tou… | Argument page → |
| 40locator: low confidence | 1 Samuel 18:20-28 has Saul set a bride-price of 100 Philistine foreskins for his daughter Michal's marriage to David; David delivers 200. | Argument page → |
| 12locator: very low confidence | Deuteronomy 23:1 excludes a man 'whose testicles are crushed or whose penis is cut off' from the assembly of the LORD. | Argument page → |
| 42locator: low confidence | Exodus 33:23 has God tell Moses he will see God's 'back' (achor) but not his 'face' (panim). | Argument page → |
| 43 | God has Moses feel his own breast/hand and it turns leprous, then is restored, as a sign to convince Israel Moses was sent by God (Exodus 4:… | Argument page → |
| 45 | Numbers 23:19 states God does not lie or repent/change his mind, yet many other texts (Genesis 6:6, Exodus 32:14, 1 Samuel 15:11,35, Jonah 3… | Argument page → |
| 46 | Isaiah 45:7 has God say 'I form the light and create darkness, I make peace and create evil, I the LORD do all these things' — apparently ma… | Argument page → |
| 47 | Jesus says he came to bring division, not peace (Luke 12:49-53), apparently contradicting the 'Prince of Peace' and 'peace on earth' portray… | Argument page → |
| 48locator: low confidence | Proverbs 12:21 ('there shall no evil happen to the just') implies a strict retribution principle whereby all suffering reflects the sufferer… | Argument page → |
| 49locator: low confidence | Two linked objections: (a) Proverbs 12:2 ('a good man obtaineth favour of the LORD') seems to contradict Romans 9:16 ('not of him that wille… | Argument page → |
| 50locator: low confidence | Romans 9:16-21 teaches God unilaterally hardens whomever he wills (using Pharaoh as the example) and then punishes people for the hardness h… | Argument page → |
| 51 | Genesis 6:5-8 says God regretted/repented having made man and was grieved at his heart — but an omniscient being who by definition foresaw e… | Argument page → |
| 52 | Early biblical texts reflect polytheism — Elohim is grammatically plural, Genesis 1:26 has God say 'let us make man in our image,' and compa… | Argument page → |
| 53locator: medium confidence | Zechariah 14:12-19 describes cosmic/apocalyptic events (a plague consuming the flesh, eyes, and tongues of Jerusalem's attackers while they… | Argument page → |
| 54locator: low confidence | Genesis 20: Abraham and Sarah deceive Abimelech, claiming Sarah is only Abraham's sister; God closes the wombs of Abimelech's entire househo… | Argument page → |
| 29locator: low confidence | 'Zombie Apocalypse' — Isaiah 26:19 ('Thy dead men shall live, together with my dead body shall they arise... the earth shall cast out the de… | Argument page → |
| 58locator: low confidence | 'More Zombies!' — Matthew 27:51-53 reports that at Jesus's death the temple veil tore, an earthquake split rocks, and 'the bodies of many ho… | Argument page → |
| 59–63 | The KJV references mythical creatures as though real: 'satyrs' (Isaiah 34:14), 'unicorns' (Isaiah 34:7 and elsewhere), 'wizards' (Leviticus… | Argument page → |
| 64–65 | Three rows citing 'weird creature' texts as evidence the Bible is mythological/credulous: 'Demons' (James 2:19 — demons believe and shudder)… | Argument page → |
| 67 | 'Flat Earth': Matthew 4:8 has the devil take Jesus to 'a very high mountain' and show him 'all the kingdoms of the world and their splendor'… | Argument page → |
| 69–70 | 'Additions to New Testament': Mark 16:9-20 (the 'longer ending,' including the basis for Pentecostal snake-handling, poison-drinking, and to… | Argument page → |
| 72locator: low confidence | needs review 'Biblical God as partially Evil': the spreadsheet defines dystheism — 'the belief that a god is not wholly good and can even be considered e… | Argument page → |
| 74 | needs review 'Texas Secession': a bare link to the Texas State Library's page hosting the text of the February 2, 1861 Texas declaration of causes for se… | Argument page → |
| 48locator: very low confidence | needs review 'CK' — a bare BibleGateway link to Proverbs 12:21 and Deuteronomy 28:63 (NRSVUE), with no stated argument. Appears to be a stray personal no… | Argument page → |