2006-08-21 08:05:25 · 16 answers · asked by I Found Jesus in the Dumpster! 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
See, that would have been too easy. Religion doesn't add up.
2006-08-21 08:12:23 · answer #1 · answered by riddelinpro 1 · 2⤊ 0⤋
It might be worth noting that all life on earth is drawn, in a material sense, from the same crucible. The same narrow range of base elements are the foundation for the construction of all living tissues no matter what form it takes - bird, beast or plant or things smaller than your eyes can see. Only the proportions of these basic building blocks of life vary in relation to each other, as does the architecture of the molecules they form as biochemical processes within each organism becomes more complex.
With this in mind, look back at the principles of contiguous "magic" and its own variations that underpinned those religions which predated recognisable Christianity. Even from the earliest times the crudest of religions understood the relationship between living things and the world in which they live. The arrival of the Holy Roman Church in Britain saw the malleus malificarum - the dread hammer of the witches - come down heavily on the old ways and decimate an entire way of life. Yet it survived. My own father spoke the old language right up until the day he died, and he understood with peculiar clarity the bond between earth and living things.
It is quite conceivable that Christianity embraced this idea too, and that in the stories of creation we see, ironically, the survival of the old ways in "modern" religion.
2006-08-21 15:32:25 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Man is supposed to return to dust after he expires.
2006-08-21 15:12:33 · answer #3 · answered by crowbird_52 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think it had something to do with being made from earth. Because that is what we go back to. You know, ashes to ashes, dust to dust.
2006-08-21 15:14:07 · answer #4 · answered by sassy_91 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
he made the dust, so mabey he was just practicing drawing stick figures in the sand before he acctually made the real thing.
2006-08-21 15:12:49 · answer #5 · answered by creamycenter2003 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
god has fingers? I thought god was a spirit without fingers!
2006-08-21 15:12:13 · answer #6 · answered by ? 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
(Yeah, but this way He came up with a good name for man.) He likes to work within nature if possible.
2006-08-21 16:33:03 · answer #7 · answered by ysk 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Something can't come from nothing.
Don't ask for a bigger explanation. I don't understand Christian doctrines, either. u_u()
- 16 yo Pagan
2006-08-21 15:12:20 · answer #8 · answered by Lady Myrkr 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
God is just someone with more money then everyone else..shut up.
2006-08-21 15:12:45 · answer #9 · answered by Tony Montana 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Just another of the many, many, many, many things about religion that make no sense.
2006-08-21 15:13:47 · answer #10 · answered by Kathryn™ 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋