2006-08-29 19:07:12 · 47 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Your pastor is committing a grave sin by telling you lies. Laughter is the best medicine. Even Jesus laughed.
2006-08-29 19:14:11 · answer #1 · answered by David A 4 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Christ laughed and often, and if you look at the world around you it is clear that God has a great sense of humor, so how on earth, (or in Heaven) can laughter be a sin? I'd consider finding a new faith or reporting your pastor to the main part of your church. Laughter brings joy to our heart and soul, how can that be sinful? Because it isn't.
2006-08-29 19:15:43 · answer #2 · answered by Daydream Believer 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Your pastor needs mental help if he actually said that.
The first thing that someone should be considering is whether the idea of sin is actually real.
If God is supposed to be perfect how could She have made anything or anyone that wasn't.
Think about it. The idea of sin assumes certain things about God that seem highly unlikely.
All this talk about sin sounds like a bunch of nonsense to me.
First it assumes a God who is too incompetent to organize a simple educational field excursion and figure out a way to get all of the students home safely.
How likely is this that God would not be smart enough to come up with a plan for our salvation that is going to work?
It also assumes that God must have created us imperfect if we are sinners.
One might assume that God would be able to create someone perfect each and every time if he chose to. Assuming God is capable of this, then it follows logically that we must be perfect creations if we are actually creations of this perfect God.
Unless of course you are saying that God chose to create us imperfect.
If God created us imperfect then anything that may go wrong is Gods fault, not ours. This seems a bit illogical at best so I think that we need to assume that What God creates would have to be perfect.
If this is the case and Gods creations are perfect, then nothing that we can do could change what God created perfect and make it imperfect unless we think that we are more powerful than God is.
How likely is it that we the creation could be more powerful than the creator. I personally find this idea somewhat amusing, and a bit absurd.
Religion tells us that God is perfect. If this is true then it could hardly be logically for Gods creations to be considered to be anything less than perfect.
If this is the case then Nothing that we can ever do could possibly change this perfection that God willed, unless we were so powerful that our choices could override and change the will of God.
How likely is that????
Think about it.
The idea of sin is simple nonsense; a lie made up about God by religion.
Love and blessings
don
2006-09-02 00:47:41 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
LOL no.... where would he get that idea?
Job 8:21 He will yet fill your mouth with laughter and your lips with shouts of joy.
Psalm 126:2 Our mouths were filled with laughter, our tongues with songs of joy. Then it was said among the nations, "The LORD has done great things for them"
Tell you're pastor to open the Book and read it.
2006-08-29 19:16:10 · answer #4 · answered by impossble_dream 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
What...all sorts of laughter is a sin? That cannot be...since many people throughout history have laughed to their heart's content...so that pastor of yours is technically saying that all people are condemned then?
If you laugh at people to hurt them, then yes thats bad. But all laughter...thats just plain stupid.
What kind of pastor do you have? Is he really a man of God? I would also be concerned with how much money in donations and tithes he is making...
2006-08-29 19:17:13 · answer #5 · answered by betterdeadthansorry 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
" A Grave Sin" ? to experience Laughter IS a gift from God--does your pastor need antidepressants?
2006-08-29 19:15:55 · answer #6 · answered by dawnee_babe 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
My brother is a pastor also, and he claims laughter is a gift of life from God...something good, as opposed to sinful. I guess it depends on what you are laughing at, if you are doing it with happiness or hurtfulness in your heart.
2006-08-29 19:13:53 · answer #7 · answered by Modest intellect 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Your pastor is a fundamentalist, repressed fruitcake. Laughter is as deep a part of a human as crying. What's the ole boy say about crying - we can't do that either?
They let just anyone preach - pity.
2006-08-29 19:12:58 · answer #8 · answered by MaqAtak 4 · 4⤊ 0⤋
You're lying. No way is there someone so stupid as to say something like that. And you already know it's not a sin to laugh, unless of course it's laughing at something sinful in the first place. You have to already know this, because that would make you the world's most stupid person not to know it.
2006-08-29 19:18:48 · answer #9 · answered by raininmyshoe 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Depends on what you are laughing at.
Was someone hurt, did it embarass someone?
It is an almost universal response to something that is pleasant and unexpected. All around the world. If it hurts no one how can it be a sin.
You might go to your pastor and ask him/her to elaborate on why and when he/she thinks it is a sin
2006-08-29 19:12:09 · answer #10 · answered by dayakaur 4 · 3⤊ 0⤋