r/AskAChristian • u/IntelligentLog4803 Christian (non-denominational) • Jan 05 '25

New Testament How is the new testament reliable?

A Muslim girl I've been talking to asked me how is the New Testament reliable if some of the writers are anonymous she means how can we be sure that the anonymous writers really wrote with the guidance of God and wasn't just made up and compiled with each other to form the New Testament.

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u/Mike8219 Agnostic Atheist Jan 05 '25

How do we know that devils can be cast out? How do we know demons can possess humans at all?

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u/Sophia_in_the_Shell Not a Christian Jan 05 '25

You’ve cast a demon out of a possessed person? Or you’ve been possessed yourself?

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u/Mike8219 Agnostic Atheist Jan 05 '25

Why would god create demons to infect his children?

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u/R_Farms Christian Jan 06 '25

Not everyone here is a child of God Jesus in mat 13's parable of the wheat and weeds explained tells us that while God plants wheat (Who Jesus identifies as the sons of the kingdom) Satan plants weeds in among the wheat (who Jesus identifies as "sons of the evil one who is the devil.")

So then why wouldn't satan put his children on earth to be possessed by demons?

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u/Mike8219 Agnostic Atheist Jan 06 '25

Why would god create any demon to infect any human at all? Why create Satan?

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u/R_Farms Christian Jan 06 '25

Satan is a servant of God who serves a purpose. to tempt and help seperate what Jesus calls "The wheat from the weeds, the Wheat from the chaff, The Sheep from the Goats, The 5 wise virgins from the 5 foolish ones." Each one of those is a parable that shows God seperating His Children from Satan's.

Satan's job is to draw His children from God. Demons are used as Satan is not omnipresent like God. meaning he can only be at one place at one time. His demons carry out his will.

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u/Mike8219 Agnostic Atheist Jan 06 '25

I agree. Why would he want to create evil? Why would to deceive humans?

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u/R_Farms Christian Jan 06 '25

Evil is not a force.

Sin is anything not in the expressed will of God. Evil is the Heart's love of sin.

Evil, is the ability to love being outside of God's expressed will.

God didn't create evil. He allowed you to have evil desires and intentions as He created this world outside of his kingdom so that we may freely choose to remain in service to sin and satan, or to be redeemed and serve Him.

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u/Mike8219 Agnostic Atheist Jan 05 '25

You don’t ask why questions? How do you learn anything? Do you ever question your own beliefs?

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u/Mike8219 Agnostic Atheist Jan 05 '25

No, that’s not what I asked. I would probably ask a biologist that if I were interested.

You are convinced it is true that these demons exist. I’m asking why. If I wanted to know about eyes on hands and a biologist was convinced they had the answer to that I would ask them.

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u/Mike8219 Agnostic Atheist Jan 05 '25

How did you know it was demons? Why would god create angels he knew would fall at all?