Inteligent debate: Christianity

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I am not a Christian, but an expert on mythology and religion, so try to answer.

1) God gave us the opportunity to own the will of thinking, that we were not blind puppets in the hands of instincts - he created us in His image and likeness, so we are able to govern themselves. All evil and pain that goes on in the world, we create ourselves - at the instigation of the devil whether the consequences of ignorance or simply because of what we want to do is evil. God does not control our destinies, but only instructs us on the right path, so we walked away from this evil.

2) The principle that people are willing to believe in anything, and transmit it from generation to generation. Mythology of the Bible, particularly the Old Testament, partly taken from earlier religions, which are connected with polytheism (for example the story about the Great Flood is related to the Sumerian story of Utnapishtim, the Sumerian gods who also commanded to build an ark), but as in Judaism and Christianity is only one God then they took the fact of the multitude of gods and replaced it with one. And Christianity had many such examples.

Apparently it didn't work out. I think would have done better if we had that wisdom ;)