Unrelated questions?

Question

I realize the hypocracy of this question....but why do people put their questions in "Religion and Spirituality" when their question has nothing to do with that? One said something like "Am i to young to know i'm gay" Thats not religion or spirituality, thats sexual orientation! i duno i just think its a waste b/c their questions are in the wrong place and may not get answered the way they want. (like i saw people lecturing the kid about how he was goin to hell for being gay-thats prob not the answer he wanted). Can we just keep our questions relevant? haha again i realize the hypocricy here but thought i would say it anyway b/c it concerns you who answer religion quest.

Answer 1

coz most of the participant are in this section. so no matter what question comes up in thsi category, it is garaunteed to be answered. and those ppl who need an answer or adivce desperatley, they put their questions under "religion and spirituality".

Answer 2

The gay one might not be the best example. That could have easily have been someone trying to bate Christians with something that he knew many would react to.

I guess what I mean to say is that there are two reasons for that. Inability to navigate this site and get where you want, and having some sort of agenda by asking a seemingly unrelated question.

Answer 3

Because things like "homosexuality," is a moral and spiritual issue--it's understandable that they would seek advice in the R&S category. They are crying for help--truly wanting help--and going to the Homosexual category would be the absolute worst thing they could do. These seekers are wanting Truth--not encouragement to pursue that type of dangerous and detrimental lifestyle.

Answer 4

Being gay has a religious stigma, and they may have been afraid they were gay because of the religious consequences, but a lot of the questions posted here are just to piss the religious folks off.

Answer 5

FAQ: How can Swedenborg say there is marriage in heaven?


"Orthodoxy" teaches that there is no marriage in heaven because of the following verse in Matthew 22:30:


The Sadducees, who believed in no resurrection and who spoke of seven brethren that had one particular woman as wife, asked Jesus whose wife would she be in the resurrection? Jesus replied: "in the resurrection they neither marry, nor are given in marriage, but are as the angels of God in heaven."


A deceptively simple explanation is that angels must be neuter and there is no marriage in heaven.


However, when you read another place in the Bible (Luke 17:27 and Matthew 24:38), we see that "marrying and giving in marriage" is a phrase used by Christ as an extremely negative activity and just plain wrong!


"For in the days that were before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and given in marriage, until the day that No'-e entered into the ark." (Matt. 24:38) "They did eat, they drank, they married wives, they were given in marriage, until the day the No'-e entered into the ark, and the flood came, and destroyed them all." (Luke 17:27)


If you know Swedenborg's theoloical system, you have heard of "the marriage of good and truth" as a good marriage. However, every symbol has a good sense and a bad sense. The opposite of "the marriage of good and truth" is the "marriage of evil and falseness." Every person has a "will" to receive good from the Lord and an "understanding" to receive truth from the Lord. This is the platter and cup that comprise your soul. If a person leans toward evil and lives a life of evil, that person enters into the opposite marriage - the marriage of evil and falseness.


Reference the Arcana Coelestia n. 4334[4]: "Eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage; signifies their state as to the appropriation of evil and falsity, and the consequent conjuntion with these. That "to eat" denotes the appropriation of good, and "to drink" the appropriation of truth, see n. 3168, 3513e, 3596; thus in the opposite sense the appropriation of evil and falsity. That "to marry" denotes conjunction with evil, and "to give in marriage," conjunction with falsity . . . [because], in the internal sense this is conjunction of good and truth, but here in the opposite sense the conjunction of evil and falsity."


In these passages in the Bible, when Christ talks of "eating and drinking" and "marrying and giving in marriage" in a negative way, He is talking either of people who are appropriating or of people who have appropriated evil and falsities to themselves.

Answer 6

Because school is out. They have learned this from they're parents.

Go figure.

Answer 7

totally

Answer 8

YES or is it NO!

Unrelated questions?

Is this REALLY a Question-- or a lecture??

Answer 9

I want to know that to as well

Answer 10

okay