given the answers i recieved in my previous post
http://uk.answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=AoqqkdNA1KFCD9CLrekesryKBgx.?qid=20060909133954AAknD78
are we really so different ?
i am a spiritualist and described how i see God ... i was sitting smiling as the answers came in from people of all faiths .. stating this was their God
are we really so different ?
2006-09-09 09:55:51 · 23 answers · asked by Peace 7 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
oh its not important what people think about me ... i would just love people to see how alike we all are when it comes down to it
2006-09-09 10:00:09 · update #1
Do you want everyone to be the same?
No offense but what a boring planet, sure I don't want war, but war has nothing to do with God that's people.
2006-09-09 09:58:46 · answer #1 · answered by hints_dont_work 3 · 0⤊ 2⤋
No we are not at all different. The problems of this world aren't "religious" at all. They are political, Religion has always been co opted by people who would have power over others. If you follow Christian history. The Popes utilized their power to attack people who weren't "christian" enough to suit them. The same goes today with the Extremist like OBL and the Mullahs of Iran.
After they are done Slaughtering Jews and Christians and Buddhists and all of the others. They will turn on anyone else that doesn't agree. If the World doesn't wake up, We will enter a Dark Age that last a 1000 years.
Freedom will die and the Concepts will have to be told to us by Archaeologist who have "discovered" the ruins of Western Civilization. After that time people will discover "Paris Hilton's Video Tape collection" and the People of the future will believe that we were all vapid, no lunch eating, Sex Addicts. Fairy tales will be told about the lost country of New York, Where 8.5 million people lived. And People will scoff at that, considering that there won't be that many people on the planet. nor could there have ever been that many people. Ever.
Politics, It will Suck the Life out of you. 10,000,000 Rads at a time.
2006-09-09 10:16:37 · answer #2 · answered by Democestes 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
even as God created the earth, it replaced into proper. Adam and Eve were proper. yet Adam and Eve didn't wish God telling them what to do and the thanks to stay. Like a pair of young children. They further up a really severe be counted. Did God have the right to rule mankind and tell them the thanks to stay? God may have killed the pair and been executed with it. yet this example had to be replied. God took his threat-free practices remote from Adam and Eve so as that they did not imagine that their ruling themselves worked basically wonderful. Adam and Eve exceeded in this imperfection to their little ones. each body who has lived in view that has suffered affliction, discomfort and demise. exhibiting that mankind can no longer provide eternal existence and happiness to at least one yet another. quickly God will take back rule of the earth from mankind and could restoration the earth to the paradise he created contained in the first position. Then there'll be no more desirable affliction, discomfort or demise. Mankind may have proved previous a doubt that they can't rule with out God and experience free. Then God will more desirable than make it as a lot as mankind for all the discomfort and suffering they have had in this device. they're going to be resurrected and fully wholesome to stay continually on the paradise earth the way Adam and Eve must have executed contained in the first position.
2016-11-25 22:28:59 · answer #3 · answered by biesecker 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
We are ALL different because people let there minds be controlled by faith which is wrong. I believe we all have the power to be our own gods but society dictates to us to much so there is little or no free thinking. Basically the idea or feeling that there is higher being comes directly from the higher being within our own minds which most people never use!
2006-09-09 10:09:13 · answer #4 · answered by LMo 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If we can see the way God sees things we will not be so different at all. But because of our finite way looking at things either we end up confused or accept that my God is different from yours. First and foremost God is LOVE. It's one that move Him to create us. But because of the way we see limitedly and understanding only few of his limitless qualities we end up fighting and die for the only God who is love. Isn't that ironic? I am glad that as spiritualist you have comprehension far better than most and opted for peace, regardless of faiths, right down to it there's no point fighting each other to win God's love and attention.
God bless you.
2006-09-09 10:35:52 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
I am an Atheist
I wonder what you base your description of god upon?
Judging from an assortment of 'Holy' testaments, such as the Bible, the Qurran, the Book of Mormon, and others that I have read, and also based on the behaviour of many theists, I would say
Psychotic
Inconsistent
Sadistic
Stupid
Mad
Nasty
Incoherent
inefficient
ineffective
lazy
Evil
Were more appropriate. And no, you are not really different at all. Same delusions, different names, is all.
2006-09-09 10:03:53 · answer #6 · answered by Avondrow 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It is a very important point, there is one God just like there is one Sun, the sun is not Christian, Hindu, Muslim or Jewish, nor is God.
Sometimes God himself descends to the material world and sometimes he sends his ambassador, the bona-fide representative to deliver the same message, depending upon time and circumstance.
The representative of God, whether he is depicted as the son of God or the prophet of God or the Acarya of God consciousness, the message is the same, God says "Love me" and the representative says "Love my Father".
It is unfortunate that those who are affected by the material mode of passion, attempt to make a competitive stance, rather then those in the mode of goodness, who make reference to and highlight the similarities that attract each of us back to our real home, the world of light, far away from the material realm of repeated birth and death.
To discuss further:-Sriman Sankarshan Das Adhikari (sda@backtohome.com)
2006-09-09 10:10:46 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
My mind is my god. I dont have the need to believe in some heavenly creator.. And for those who do I am happy for them if they are comforted by believeing in God. Thats all that really matters is if a person is happy in what they choose to believe in and no one should say they should have to change or if they are right or wrong.
2006-09-09 10:08:05 · answer #8 · answered by hersheynrey 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If there is only one God then why is religion responsible for so many wars?
Why do people kill in the name of God?
Sorry to answer with questions but come on!
Christianity vs Muslim vs Catholicism vs Judaism etc etc
2006-09-09 10:01:39 · answer #9 · answered by Chris M 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It just goes to show that God is universal and that so many faiths have many of the same things to say about God.
No, we are not so different.
We are all God's children, after all.
Whether or not we all choose to listen to God is another matter entirely.
As is whether or not we choose to acknowledge that we are all brothers and sisters and stop trying to say "Dad likes me better than you".
Which is what we end up saying when we try to say "My religion is right and yours is wrong".
That and when people try to justify killing in the name of their "God", read that the devil who is the one who really controls those who hate.
Peace,
A Charasmatic Catholic
2006-09-09 10:13:16 · answer #10 · answered by sworddove 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Buddhism is extremely different, we follow no god. We try to end suffering through living a life of compassion.
"Hatred does not cease by hatred, but only by love, this is the eternal rule"
- Buddha -
2006-09-09 10:05:04 · answer #11 · answered by Shinkirou Hasukage 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋