God Intentionally Caused Humans Doubt According To Christianity

Why does God want people to believe and why does he want to punish those that don't? It seems like the picture is being painted that it is “clear” that Jesus should be believed in. Romans 1:20 means that creation is obvious evidence of godly power. So God thinks we should ‘obviously’ believe in God and Jesus.

1 Corinthians 1:18-31 contains proof that God wants to defeat some human reasoning, and that he likes things to appear foolish to some. God doesn't want people to boast that they’re wise. Why? Sometimes people think they know more than they do, which God might not like.

Some non-Christians believe Genesis portrays that the Earth isn't very old/that the creation days were literal days. (the book: Six Days or Millions of Years was convincing) Many tests done on things like fossils make people think that the world is much older. (which gives more time for Evolution) Some people didn’t think belief in god was necessary since evolution could account for our existence.

Things that made it look like the Big Bang occurred can lead to someone not believing in God. (the outward expansion of galaxies and cosmic background radiation) In Genesis, the Earth was created before the stars. A Big Bang would create some stars before the Earth.

Fossils of dinosaurs caused a young person doubt.

God punished the entire snake species for the act of 1 snake.

Some things make it look like a global flood never occurred. A global flood would cause every type of fossil in the same area.

In Genesis 18:21, God said that he would go down there to see if something was true. That caused people doubt. God wouldn't need to go down there to learn that if God was omniscient, or omnipresent.

In 2 Samuel 21:19, a Goliath is mentioned. It appeared to contradict the account in 1 Samuel 17. There is the thought that it was Goliath's brother. Modern versions add the word ‘brother’.

1 Chronicles 21:25 mentioned that David gave someone 600 shekels for the site. 2 Samuel 24:24 shows that David bought the threshing floor and the oxen for 50 shekels of silver. Because those 2 accounts are different, it caused someone to think that there was a contradiction.

Someone thought there was a contradiction in Matthew 1:17, due to the way that it is presented. The verse mentions the number of generations. (14 between) So 14 x 3 = 42. When that person counted the names in the genealogy in Matthew 1, he got 14 + 14 + 13 = 41.

There is a genealogy given in Luke 3:23-38 from Mary's side, I read. It looks to some people like it is talking about the ancestors of Joseph. Someone thought it was contradicting with the genealogy in Matthew 1.

The Luke 3 genealogy has the name Cainan in verse 36. It is not found in the Genesis 10 (verse 24) or 11 genealogy (verse 12) or 1 Chronicles 1:18, 24. The original Hebrew manuscripts did not contain that Cainan. The insertion of ‘Cainan’ is found in newer versions of the Septuagint (LXX) manuscripts. The name is absent from other ancient versions of the Old Testament. (Samaritan, the Vulgate, the oldest versions of the Septuagint, etc) Cainan is in most of today’s translations of Luke 3:36. Perhaps updated versions will change it.

People thought Luke was wrong about history and that there is a contradiction in his account when compared to the Matthew account. There has been confusion about the year Jesus was born and when the census mentioned in Luke 2 took place.

Suffering caused doubt.

If you ask God whether you should do something, your subconscious could tell you the moral thing to do, or the thing you don't want to do. (perhaps it's more that way for people with Obsessive Compulsive Disorder. It's like the idea of trying not to think of a pink elephant, yet that's what you think of) So how could you know it's God communicating with you? You couldn't, unless God was going to prove Its existence, which is against God's usual way.