Religion Debate Topics for Students — page 14

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• there has to be a nature to be exceeded for there to be any supernature
• thats the thing im gettting at. you are not an atheist, there are no atheists as far as i know belief is theism, science is a belief system i can at best believe what others tell me there is no such thing as accepting you dont know and disbelieving.. they necessarily and…

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• (A) Clarifying My PositionI am writing this argument to a particular audience of Christian adherents who resort to the theological (mostly soteriological) position of Christian Universalism, and will be defending my own view of what's known as "Christian Exclusivism". In…

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• First I would like for you to go to this link, so you would have a better understanding about this. http://www.gotquestions.org... As you can see Jesus is the Sabbath.

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• Nicely sums up the POE, though flawed.
• Unfortunately my opponent has conceded the debate in the comments section. I might have responded in part, but I probably won't have time tommorow because of homework and need to finish up some things tonight that are now more important.

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• I agree with the definitions you proposed.So, let us start with Jesus' race.JESUS WAS BLACK(?): Now, according to the Bible and other sources, Jesus spent a good part of his childhood in Egypt. But in Egypt, it would appear that he did not stand out from the others, or I…
• Good morning, This is a debate regarding Jesus' skin color and religion. I shall be taking the position of Pro, and my opponent that of Con.

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• Ahh I thought so
• Your first point seems to be heading towards the Anthropic principle which suggests that the universe is perfectly fine tuned for us and if an electron was even 0.001 larger than a proton life on earth would be very different if existent at all. Well you saying there is plenty…

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• Capitalization for emphasis only. DROP, DROP, DROP Simply saying something "is not enough" is not a valid rebuttal. If it were, instead of this debate being Cons longest debate it could be his shortest. We both could simply say: " What you offered is not enough.", and be done.…
• Thank you Con for your timely response. Having said that, I do have a few concerns about some of them. As always, I capitalize only for emphasis. MORE DROPPED ARGUMENTS Last round, I offered scriptural and historical evidence to support the claim that the sacrament of the…

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• As you can tell my opponent has nothing to say, until she posts her argument I have nothing further to say. I felt like I made a valid point.
• I am a non denominational Christian. It's where we aren't tied down to one specific theory. We believe certain things that some other religions do as well. We are open-minded to different beliefs. My great uncle goes to a catholic church and wanted his daughter (my cousin) to…

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• Extremely sorry for not replying I'm on holiday and the wifi here isn't great but I'm here. Since we know that we don't have all the knowledge in the universe, suppose if we had 5% of that knowledge in the universe wouldn't if the 95% of the knowledge we don't know contradicts…
• I want to know from any athiest or agnostics about whether it is impossible for God to exist.

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• and what if they didnt find adam and eve
• your lack of arguments does make not for a debate

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• You're getting pretty deep on me here. Deeper than I intended. I will not debate against the valid points you made "But he is also portrayed as black and Asian, if you're going to church in Senegal or Korea. ". That's not the point of the debate. This was more so for Christians…
• First, I was kind of hoping for a racist reply as this is the behavior and thinking I want to shine a light on. It's inherintely against the ideals of Christianity and for those who see him as white and belittle other races, I was hoping to show a different point of view. I…

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• I follow your reasoning and thought. and I recieved my def. from dictionary.com accatually I lied, sorry I miss the point: 'Atheists don't need to PROVE that God does NOT exist. It's irrational and impossible.' what? for anything to be there must be a creator, every religion…
• Faith: belief that is not based on proof. key word Belief, atheist do not believe in any thing, and thus have no faith. also to believe not to believe is an oxymoron that is an IDEA not a BELIEF. religion is based upon A belief system more so than an idea. example Christianity…

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• I have to admit, the way you explained your tree is better than mine, let me rephrase my tree analogy. The Apostles gave a list of teachings, besides from the Bible. The Catholic Church is the only Christian denomination that holds on to ALL the traditions and teachings. And,…
• Catholicism did not create Christianity, Catholicism was Christianity. There was not any other Christian Religion except for the Catholic Church. Of course this is a relative statement because Catholicism was split into the east and west. Non-Catholic Churches never came about…

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• "My opponent has posted no opening arguments, but given his choice of word definitions and the number of times I have encountered this debate before, I feel I have a good chance at guessing the arguments he will likely be making. " I apologize. I should have clarified that the…
• I will take the pro position that the Christian god, who is all powerful, all knowing, and all caring cannot logically exist. Con will take the position that the Christian god can logically exist. Definitions: Omniscient: having complete or unlimited knowledge, awareness, or…

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• I am arguing that religion is given more respect than it deserves. It is considered rude to inquire their reasoning when it comes to their religion, however, it is not rude when inquiring about someone's political views. Both of these topics are based on belief and opinion, yet…
• My opponent's points:Religion taken as a whole & What is religion? I agree with these points. Religion is a very broad term that includes Secular Buddhism to Extremist Islam. Buddhism being considered more of a "philosophy" than a "religion" and Extremist Islam killing others…

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• I understand. I extend my arguments then.
• RULES: NO SOURCES! I want this to completely come from you based on your own philosophical views There will be profanity There were be no trolling No attacking eachother Enjoy the debate and Thank eachother for the debate in the last round Religion Is a Tragic Misstep in Human…

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• fact is also math, knowledge.. i dont know that the earth has a molten core, i didnt do the math god is factually impossible without facts different debate, but matter is eternal, no beginning and no end, only now
• so you have personal memory of a god

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• Let's get started. 1. Islam's endorsement of inappropriate behaviour. My opponent says that Sha'aria is what governs Iran. It is true that there is a religious government in power in Iran and that this government engages in acts that many of us find objectionable. It is also…
• He has forfeited his round because I missed mine (due to out-of-town work commitments). He did not have to do that. Now, to the issues. 1. "Hasty generalisation" is simply the name of a logical fallacy that basis itself on drawing a full conclusion based on a small sample of…

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• Religion is Harmful to SocietyIt promotes irrational thought. Things like Catastrophizing, Minimization, Grandiosity, Personalization, Magical thinking, Leaps in logic, "All or nothing" thinking, Paranoia and Delusional thinking are all promoted by…
• "i really don't know if i am right in the point i made at round 1 cos i didn't do enough research."So you're lazy and don't want to debate. You want me to do all the work for you, eh?Sorry, if you want to debate, you need to do some research.Thanks anyway.

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• Oh absolutely not. The entire bible is about god and his frail fragile ego. So that right there SCREAMS to the proof that the number one thing preached in the bible is faith. If god were genuine in any way, he couldn't care less about his ego and love would be the number one…
• "Imagine a world where everyone knew that the God of the Bible existed." Who would want to? After all this god character in which there's absolutely no proof whatsoever that he even exists is based solely on evil, anger, wrath, vengeance, rage, fury, evil, jealousy in all of…

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• They are following my rules for this debate. I must first say that my opponent must have misunderstood something within my last post. I have made no assertion that a man named Jesus, who represents the framework for Christianity never existed. I am only concerned with the…
• I will first cite the contrast between Jesus and the Egyptian God Horus. There were many interpretations of Horus, most of which were conceived up to 3,000 years before Jesus was alleged to be born. I will have to omit certain details of the interpretation I will be focusing…

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• Thanks! Good luck to you as well! Instead of posting three long, lengthy arguments, I'll just post three small ones that I feel are fairly solid evidence for God's non-existence. 1.No reliable evidence supporting God. Simple enough, the only real evidence supporting God is the…
• I'm going to try this one more time...hopefully I won't have any trolls or forfeiters. By Pro, I am arguing that God probably doesn't exist. For the purposes of this debate, God shall refer to the Judeo-Christian deity. God - (in Christianity and other monotheistic religions)…

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• First of all, the Bible is most likely fiction. You are correct that I can't prove 100% for sure that it's fiction, but evidence suggests it is. It has many stories, such as turning water to wine, and other stories like that which are scientifically impossible. There are also…
• First of all I would like to apologize to Con for my slow reply, as I have been busy as of late. As stated previously, I believe that humans cannot prove the existence of a God or deity. I fail to see how Con has in fact given evidence to prove that a God or deity can be…

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• con engages in jibber jabber that is hard to take seriously. hopefully the voters recognize this.
• it's hard to understand con's points. they metaphically go to hell, or they dont do metaphor so they are in hell? regardless, the point is that the catholic church doesn't teach any of this metaphorically, and you without question go to hell if you aren't baptized.

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• Making a show of myself? I think not. I'm not here asking for proof of Jesus's evidence. If you think you're an intelligent being created by the universe, or you just evolved from a tiny fish. I'll just let you think like that, afterall, it's all up to Judgement.
• Apparently, no. But can prove he's real simply by grabbing a knife and slitting your neck, that's how you prove it.

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• Well then. Um I guess vote for whoever.
• Unfortunately I need to forfeit. I don't have a reliable internet connection at the moment and don't want to give sub-par responses. While I definitely have a response to my opponent's arguments I don't have the means to respond at the present time.

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• In Christianity, There are ten commandments. The first one, which is undeniably one of the most important, says that, You shall have no Gods before me. It sounds simple, since my religion (Islam) also believes in the following of one god. As it is mentioned in many other Islam…

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• We all have rights to are beliefs and I don't judge beliefs it's better not to be like soe, Christians who tell us things for not belong in God .
• Reading that made me so happy man I was going to use the same reason that u just said and to see others who understand how I feel as an atheist at my age of 14 I'm. Happy to see I'm not alone

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• I would like to answer my opponents questions before I get started. When I say the Catholic Church I mean to entail the priests, nuns, ideology, and everything that makes the Catholic Church the Catholic Church. TO better clarify the premise, I could restate it as, "The…
• I will be arguing for why the Catholic Church is a source of great evil and horror (a bad thing).

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• "It's your interpretation of his supposed word, therefore you are talking for this supposed god - stop back talking your god, sir! It's a very inadequate way of proving your holy endeavor! Do you want to treat your god like a cloud, sir? Do you want your cloud to be a puffy…
• you failed to respond to these verses, nevertheless i will refute your claims: "For people that believe in this so called god, you don't seem to care how much you butcher his supposed writing with your premature interpretation that you purposely butcher to support your own…

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• "Apparently I disagree with such a statement. I feel that belief in the Christian god is rather illogical at best. I ask that my opponent present points on why they feel it is logical. I would also ask that voters vote not on the position they agree with but who did the better…
• It seems I have overestimated my opponent. I did not respond directly to each and every single one of my opponent's points because it was unnecessary. Each and every single one of my opponent's points assumed that I was arguing that the conclusion for the existence of the…

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• islam is a very good religion you know why because it teaches us respect.think about your religion example:christian they belive in jesus us we believe that jesus is a prophet of god and only there is only one god . its say in the quran: "ALLAH is HE besides Whom there is none…

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• In your opinion, do the Christian scriptures teach that Jesus is physically alive? (1 Corinthians 15 is a good place to start).
• Thanks for taking up the challenge! Are you a Muslim? I don't know many Muslims. There aren't very many in regional Australia. Well yes, Jesus has no continued physical existence on the earth. However, to infer that the throne room of God has no physical aspects is ...…

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• #1&2 we ca ignore. 3: //If logic is a convention of man, then it is not absolute// The problem with what my opponent just said is that if there is even ONE man made logical construct that is absolute, his claim falls entirely. //for these notions directly oppose each other…
• I also would like to say that this argument is new to me yet I enjoy the challenge of it. I will take each point one by one and then draw conclusions regarding them. //1:This is a logical argument. // Well you haven't made the argument yet sooooooooooo. But what ever. //2:Pro…

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• con makes an issue out of me not stating a type of christianity. i don't need to as we are examining the formulas people give for their own worth. i argue what i see, you argue what you see. i also point out, con hasn't shown why believing he is the Son of God, or that he died…
• so here we have if folks? the official list of things that must be believed, through milleniums of fighting and wars by christians..... it has been officially listed on debate.org during the month of June, 2014? notice the sarcasm. so you are asserting that someone would not be…

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• 99% Species Extinction/VestigialityFirst, intelligent design does not necessarily mean perfect design. Maybe the design was perfect at the start, but the creature evolved over time (I do support the validity of natural selection, I only oppose evolution when it comes to genetic…
• Alright, based on the comments, it looks like I have an uphill battle here.First of all, I would like to point out that what I am arguing for in this debate is intelligent design - no specific religion.I also would like to say that I do not disagree with evolution being stated…

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• You have explained the the biblical world view make the preconditions able to be taken for granted, but you merely shifted the burden to taking God for granted, and evolution still provides another explaniation as to WHY we take the preconditions for granted regardless of if we…
• What reason to you have to take the bible or God for granted? Con:"perhaps the evolutionist would say, "We know that the laws of logic exist because we use them." Well if they know that the laws of logic exist, they would have a reason to take them for granted. Which they do…

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• Life is its own purpose, there is no need for any other reason for life. It"s like asking why the sky exists, or what is the purpose of electromagnetism. Assuming there is a God, how does that give life purpose if He will not explain what His purpose is? As to the question "who…
• With regard to the finding of Noah"s Ark, it is not true: http://www.snopes.com... Accepting that "God" had to come first because the Bible says so simply leads to a circular argument: How do you know the Bible is true " because it is the inspired word of God " How do you know…

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• I'm going to list a few reasons why a rational person ought to believe in God. 1) The Cosmological Argument I. Everything with a beginning has a cause II. The universe has a beginning III. Therefore, The universe has a cause. 2) The Teleological Argument Had the conditions of…

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• So the uneducated W0LV3NBANE can't use the Internet. You need to remove the capital letters and spaces from my link because debate. Org is a broken pile of trash. Oh, And Matt Dillahunty butt kicks any droppings from the laughable Christian sites you spew out. Yah. Still…
• If you cannot defend your arse of a god (or gods) in 500 characters then tough. You have no hope of winning just like every idiot who has come before you. I outwitted you as you walked into my cunning trap of cunning. Ha. I also win on sources - https://www. Youtube. Com/watch?…

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• YOU SAY: "Christianity claims that putting your faith into Jesus to simply mediate salvation on your behalf after dying on the cross so that it may be so, is all that you need to have Salvation. No added book would ever change that in any circumstance, unless it refutes the…
• When I am talking about Sola Scriptura I am talking about the belief that the Bible alone contains all of the truths of Christianity and there is nothing additional to it that we need to know in terms of faith or salvation. God's revelation is entirely in the Bible. Basically,…

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• Your right there were many intelligent people from our past that contributed to our accumulated knowledge, Many if not all (going back far enough) were religious. However an intelligent person of that time would know of the consequences of disagreeing with the existing state of…
• Research has shown that people with higher intelligence are less likely to be religious. Conversely religion appeals more to the less intelligent. Why the negative correlation between religiosity and intelligence? This debate will be only 3 rounds, As the religious tend to…

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• As I did not include one about Islam, here you go. Islam is a very strict religion and you can tell, by having women wear certain clothing, forbidding certain activities, and making them perform certain daily tasks a day. This is making people essentially cattle, having them do…
• I believe that several religions restrict people from being able to think their own thoughts. Specifically Christianity and Islam's laws are very restrictive and do not allow people to express themselves. A basic law is in the ten commandments, it restricts people from looking…

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• I belive that a higher power exists. But I'm not sure that it was "God" who created the earth. I believe that we evolved from apes. Unless someone can show actual proof other that "we found this and it seems like this from the Bible." Because I don't believe in the Bible or…
• I believe that a higher power exists. I belive that we evolved from apes. (I belive in science and the theory of evolution.) I think that more proof has to be given to make the theory of "God" true. We need hard facts. Hard proof that something exists and that we didn't just…

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• I believe that America should go back to Christianity. Students are learning about evolution, the big bang, and other lies. Rarely do you ever learn about Christianity in Public School. The democrats are trying to change the Pledge of Allegiance, because of the "one nation…

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• Your points did nothing to prove the story. Your not even Proving you god exists so that doesn't make your point any better. Near death experiences are a reaction of the brain not a supernatural event. The United States Air Force triggered near death experiences with a…
• Your point with Noah's ark doesn't improve credibility of the bible. You need to prove your god exists in order for that claim to work but god isn't somthing you can prove it's an unfalsifiable hypothesis that and no evidence for the Christian god and the link you provided…

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• When weighing the arguments pro and contra, I must conclude that contra has failed to refute my arguments, whereas he has not brought up any arguments against the thesis that Jesus is risen from the dead.
• If that's all you have to say, I can conclude my arguments are convincing.

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• Father of Joseph: My opponent does not refute my point. As BibleTruth.org says, "On comparing the two genealogies, it will be found that Matthew, writing more immediately for Jews, deemed it enough to show that the Saviour was sprung from Abraham and David; whereas Luke,…
• Father of Joseph: As AnswersinGenesis says: "Luke is being very precise. Jesus was thought to be the son of Joseph, who was of Heli. Notice that Luke never said that Joseph was the son of Heli in the Greek. This reduces the alleged contradiction to nothing and shows that Luke"s…

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• I accept your challenge.
• I apologize to my opponent; I had misunderstood the rules from round 1. I had thought I was able to rebut all arguments they had posted. Because of this misunderstanding, I will forfeit this round.Before I conclude, I do want to make some clarifications against what my opponent…

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• I assert that intelligent design does not support Christianity. The intelligent designer is definitely not the God of the Bible by any means. Intelligent Design instead supports deism and pantheism only (and other variations of these). Why Intelligent Design does not support…
• ========= Age of Earth & Genesis ========= My opponent asserts that the earth is not 6,000 years old under a Biblical perspective because genealogical age calculations may have been inaccurate. He says that names or entire lineages were left out. That may be true, but it still…