re: Mark Wahlberg says faith is ‘not popular in my industry,’ but he won’t deny his

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For a Hollywood actor, he seems like a pretty good guy.

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Him and his brother both

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blinding that Vietnamese man

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That man already rebutted this - his vision was already damaged before the attack and was not worsened by the attack.

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the bible says a lot of things, including some to back that up.

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The central concept of Christianity is that Man was originally given everything God has to offer (essentially Heaven on Earth in the Garden of Eden) but lost it through sin. Jesus then came along later to preach and stand in place of Man and endure a punishment He didn’t deserve in order to restore Man’s relationship with God to its previous state.

If a child is born with a terrible birth defect, the Christian answer is that we live in a fallen world. It’s not God’s fault. It’s ultimately Adam’s fault for sinning. But if death, birth defects, ice ages, hurricanes, etc., were all in existence before we got here to make our lives difficult regardless of how righteous we might have been, then that’s simply not true.

Without Original Sin, the foundation of Christianity makes no sense. There’s nothing about Genesis that reads like the geological history of Earth as we know it today. We may not be able to expose what Jesus (or Muhammad or John Smith or Abraham or other religious figures) did or didn’t do hundreds to thousands of years ago - but where the Bible meets science, it’s wrong.

Life did not start in a garden 10,000 years ago with T-Rex as a vegan. All the world’s land animals did not congregate in the Middle East 4,000 years ago to board a wooden boat built by a man several hundred years old to save them from a flood that covered Mt. Everest.

That’s insane.

Some people will say these stories were parables or allegorically true. Well, they weren’t considered that until science began to mature and our understanding of the world grew exponentially. And if the miraculous stories of Adam and Noah (pretty major biblical figures) aren’t meant to be literally true, maybe the divinity of Jesus isn’t either.