Religion & Spirituality - 23 January 2007

Another interesting paradox, given that god is all-knowing and all-loving, and he knows the future and the past -- he is the alpha and omega.

We're supposed to believe that an all-knowing, all-loving god, WHO KNEW THE FUTURE AND PAST, got surprised and upset at how things were turning out, so he mass-murdered all his children with a flood??

Interesting idea -- except for the fact that god knows the future and how things turn out, so how did it surprise and anger him? A COMPLETE PARADOX, and a fatal flaw in the bible.

Even with the notion of FREE WILL. It doesn't matter. An all-knowing god, who knows the future, already knows how people will act on their free will. HE ALREADY KNOWS THE FUTURE. So why get angry and kill everyone? Why even set it all into motion, when YOU KNOW THE FUTURE and YOU KNOW YOU WILL FLOOD THE EARTH AND MASS MURDER ALL YOUR CHILDREN?

Way too many fatal flaws in the most critical, pivotal stories in the bible, for it to be the real word of a god.

2007-01-23 11:17:53 · 22 answers · asked by jen1981everett 4

2007-01-23 11:17:36 · 14 answers · asked by Socratic Pig 3

My school friends used to go to church, but now they say it was only because everyone else was going... They grew up in a family basically run by their mother; their dad often ended up in jail, and their uncle, basically their "father figure," whom they highly look up to is atheist (at least to my knowledge) and often supports bad ethics and lack of morality. One of my two friends has gone to such lengths as calling his mother a b*tch in public and the other could care less what she wants. They seem to have been raised without a home to retreat to because the only one they have ever had is often in disarray. I think that Christianity is a great way to help them along in life but they seem to take the idea pessimistically every time I talk to them about it. They seem to talk to God expecting an audible, verbal answer from the man Himself but obviously it hasn't worked so far. If you have serious strong faith and a simple, yet strong reason to back it up, PLEASE HELP before its too late!

2007-01-23 11:17:29 · 7 answers · asked by Eli 1

2007-01-23 11:17:10 · 11 answers · asked by Beavis Christ AM 6

islam gives a very vivid pornographic description of heaven unlike any other religion ,is this how heaven looks like or does it look something else

2007-01-23 11:16:38 · 12 answers · asked by aku 1

Locke said, “...from the consideration of ourselves, and what we infallibly find in our constitution, our reason leads us to the knowledge of this certain and evident truth -- That there is an eternal, most powerful, and most knowing being.”


GOD'S EXISTENCE: All- powerful or omnipotent (physical); All-knowing or omniscient (mental); and ever-present or omnipresent (spiritual).

MAN'S EXISTENCE: Living (physical), human (mental), being (spiritual).

GOD'S ESSENCE: Father, Son, Holy Spirit.
MAN'S ESSENCE: Mind (mental), Body (living), Soul (spiritual).

2007-01-23 11:15:21 · 9 answers · asked by Search4truth 4

2007-01-23 11:14:57 · 10 answers · asked by WWTSD? 5

2007-01-23 11:14:36 · 6 answers · asked by thepaxilman 2

2007-01-23 11:12:27 · 16 answers · asked by farhan 2

or evil in itself?

2007-01-23 11:12:18 · 15 answers · asked by beek 7

To all atheists...I'm a Christian of 21 years. I don't think myself stupid, but neither do I automatically think that an atheist is an idiot. I find your decision not to believe hard to understand...but granted, there are some pretty intellectual atheists. However, when I pose you guys a question, I seem to always get insults or over-used accusations about my intelligence. This is an honest, nice guy looking for an honest answer. I'm used to it not being nice, but really...why are you guys so hateful? Is it that you really believe in God, but you hate Him so you insult Him and everyone who follows Him? Or is it that you're just sick of everyone getting on to you about atheism, so you lash out (and usually in a very wrong way) at others? This isn't accusation time, I really want to know. Someone give me some real answers.

2007-01-23 11:11:13 · 34 answers · asked by Robert P 2

When the Sanhedrin were contemplating what to do with the apostles Gamaliel gave sound advice:

If what they have planned and done is of human origin, it will disappear, but if it comes from God, you cannot possibly defeat them. You could find yourselves fighting against God. (ACTS 5:38-39)

TODAY CHRISTIANITY IS THE LARGEST RELIGION IN THE WORLD. IS THIS BECAUSE OF DIVINE PROVIDENCE?

WHAT DO YOU THINK?

2007-01-23 11:10:34 · 29 answers · asked by Search4truth 4

I think apes are wonderful and intelligent!

2007-01-23 11:10:02 · 10 answers · asked by a sock 3

Do they believe that there was some separation of matter that made everything how it was? What made that matter... was it the scientists who Created it, before science could even exist?

2007-01-23 11:08:26 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous

This question may surprise some of you as much as the notion surprises me, but there are a few people here complaining that the use of the word "evolution-IST" somehow undervalues the validity of the facts underpinning evolutionary theory. The -ist part doesn't confer the status of unsupported belief onto one's acceptance of a concept and it doesn't make it derogatory (it's the tone of the people using a word that does that). You wouldn't object to people describing themselves as a realist, a feminist or a pianist, would you?

So my question, directed specifically at that minority who seem to think that the -ist in evolutionist somehow undermines it, is - what are you on about?

2007-01-23 11:07:57 · 19 answers · asked by Bad Liberal 7

2007-01-23 11:07:31 · 14 answers · asked by iamME 3

God loves us, correct? He made us, he is our parent. We have so many Atheists and Non-believers nowadays. Theoretically they are going to Hell for Not believing. So if god Loves us so much wants us all to worship him, why doesn't he guide us or appear to all of us in such a way that it makes EVERYONE believe?

Clearly his methods are not working. He is our parent, shouldn't he guide everyone in a more Obvious matter?

2007-01-23 11:06:36 · 27 answers · asked by Mark_Magnetic 1

1. A mental block to prevent people from questioning their beliefs

2. An intellect supressor

3. A word with no meaning that's used when God believers dont know what else to say

4.. To believe in God and mentally abandon any common sense

2007-01-23 11:04:06 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous

Do they believe that all the land on Earth was once connected millions of years ago?

2007-01-23 11:03:26 · 20 answers · asked by Eleventy 6

somehow result in god no longer existing? how does keeping the government out of the religion business prevent you from worshiping god?

2007-01-23 11:03:25 · 27 answers · asked by Nick F 6

2007-01-23 11:03:19 · 5 answers · asked by Jason Bourne 5

Are incorporial beings even possible?

2007-01-23 11:01:40 · 9 answers · asked by Link 5

Did/does it effect your current beliefs ?

2007-01-23 11:01:22 · 30 answers · asked by Myaloo 5

And the devil hardly kills anyone? Just asking.

2007-01-23 11:01:04 · 11 answers · asked by Militant Agnostic 6

...trying to do a futile thing over and over again, is this not the epitome of stupidity?

2007-01-23 11:00:37 · 27 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-01-23 11:00:22 · 9 answers · asked by a sock 3

2007-01-23 10:59:59 · 6 answers · asked by jaisil007 1

Who is Ahab?? I am referring to the Ahab in the bible.

2007-01-23 10:59:50 · 3 answers · asked by j2huff 1

2007-01-23 10:58:57 · 13 answers · asked by Vader 2

"Secular schools can never be tolerated because such a school has no religious instruction and a general moral instruction without a religious foundation is built on air; consequently, all character training and religion must be derived from faith . . . We need believing people."

2007-01-23 10:57:19 · 14 answers · asked by NHBaritone 7