Questions for Christians

[King Shining Heaven]

God has always existed - so what was he doing before he made Heaven and Earth?
Calls for speculation

Earth is billions of years old, so why did God only start making people a few thousand years ago? (According to the bible)
The Bible doesn't say that

Who created God?
No one

If Jesus Christ was God and human, then doesn't that make him a demigod?
No; a demi-god is a half-human, half-deity; Jesus was both God and man at once

Isn't Jesus just a ripoff of Horus, Mithra, and other pagan gods?
No

Why did God only have one kid?
Because he only needed one?

Didn't the Jews make up God - known as Yahweh? Christians technically worship a Jewish god.
Many early Christians were converted Jews; Jesus himself was Jewish. We believe a new covenant was established with Jesus that replaced the old covenant established by Jews.

What if Jesus didn't rise from the dead? In Ahmaddiya Islam, Jesus survived the crucifixion, was taken down alive and unconscious, and was treated in the tomb.
Which has nothing to do with Christianity

If Jesus was God, then did God sacrifice Himself?
In a way, yes

But how could God/Jesus die if God is immortal?
He came back, didn't he?

If Jesus died and then rose, then his death wasn't a sacrifice.
Whether the death was permanent or not is irrelevant; He still suffered and then died and still takes on humanity's sins as His own.

[Cosmic Injustice]

Fullmetal Gurren Titan

God has always existed - so what was he doing before he made Heaven and Earth?

The Bible is quiet on this, and I do not speak to God, so I do not know.

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Earth is billions of years old, so why did God only start making people a few thousand years ago? (According to the bible)

Where is that in the Bible?

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Who created God?

Nobody?

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If Jesus Christ was God and human, then doesn't that make him a demigod?

I suppose?

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Isn't Jesus just a ripoff of Horus, Mithra, and other pagan gods?

No.

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Why did God only have one kid?

I don't think kid is the proper word for it.

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Didn't the Jews make up God - known as Yahweh? Christians technically worship a Jewish god.

Yes, and? The whole point of Christianity is that Jesus is the fulfilment of Jewish prophecy of a Messiah. Of course Christians worship a Jewish God.

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What if Jesus didn't rise from the dead? In Ahmaddiya Islam, Jesus survived the crucifixion, was taken down alive and unconscious, and was treated in the tomb.

Then Christianity is false, I suppose.

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If Jesus was God, then did God sacrifice Himself?

Yes.

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But how could God/Jesus die if God is immortal?

Jesus is not immortal.

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If Jesus died and then rose, then his death wasn't a sacrifice.

That's not a question.

[Voxbury]

God has always existed - so what was he doing before he made Heaven and Earth?
God cannot logically have always existed. Beyond the fact that before the Universe, time doesn't exist, you fall into an infinite regress of existence which means we never get to the present.

Earth is billions of years old, so why did God only start making people a few thousand years ago? (According to the bible)
It's a moot point. The Universe is 3 times older than Earth is, so why wait so long to make Earth? We know human beings came from a common ancestor with all other biological beings on the planet, but evolution is a slow mechanism, and accounts perfectly for why we're here now.

Who created God?
Who knows? And who created God's creator? Who created the creator of God? Infinite regress all over again.

If Jesus Christ was God and human, then doesn't that make him a demigod?
More of an avatar. An image of god in human form, like Krishna for the Hindus, who also claimed to be a god.

Isn't Jesus just a ripoff of Horus, Mithra, and other pagan gods?
The argument can be made, but it doesn't require that to show there isn't great reason to believe the Bible is true.

Why did God only have one kid?
Why did God even need one? If he wants to forgive people, and is all-powerful, one would think he could do so without sending down his son to be tortured and killed over the course of a few days to impress himself so much he allows himself to forgive everyone. Seems like a convoluted mess to me.

Didn't the Jews make up God - known as Yahweh? Christians technically worship a Jewish god.
Except that the Jews didn't make up this god. It's a composite of the Canaanite god of war mixed with their father god from the pantheon of that people.

What if Jesus didn't rise from the dead? In Ahmaddiya Islam, Jesus survived the crucifixion, was taken down alive and unconscious, and was treated in the tomb.
It neither makes Islam true, because they can't show it to be the case, and it doesn't prevent Christian writers from writing the story that gives rise to Christian religion.

If Jesus was God, then did God sacrifice Himself?
If that's how you see it, yes. But if Jesus is God, who is he praying to in Gethsemane? Himself? Seems a little odd. And why does he always refer to this God as a separate entity?

But how could God/Jesus die if God is immortal?
Easy, Christian doctrine is either wrong about his being God, as God is immortal and immortals can't die by definition, or their god can die, and isn't immortal at all.

If Jesus died and then rose, then his death wasn't a sacrifice.
Correct. Jesus had a bad weekend for your sins. I guess God figured that was enough.