From what i've seen so far the answer is a resounding NO! Here's an example of a question asked earlier that illustrates this:
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20060919235713AAHNwgE
I too have asked questions that require one to step outside of what they believe to be true to make a point... So far, most of the Christian answers i get make it evident that they don't understand what a hyphothetical situation is.
Your thoughts? Why do you think this is?
2006-09-20 08:46:06 · 14 answers · asked by ChooseRealityPLEASE 6 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
They are quick to make assumptions too. I'm not trying to rag on or insult christians, i'm making an observation... You guys are so ready to be "persecuted" you do most of the persecution to yourselves.
2006-09-20 10:34:16 · update #1
They do, but the godbots are hypochristians.
When a hypothetical is asked of them, they say, "la la la, I can't hear you".
But if a godbot asks others to answer a hypothetical, they pull an "El Salvador" and claim they've "won" because you answered from their POV, even if you destroy their argument through rational thinking.
Note: "to pull an El Salvador" = to hoist a flag, claim victory, then run away before anyone can challenge you. It's a standard right wing "tactic", so many of whom are chickenhawks and moral cowards.
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2006-09-20 08:52:37 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
Well, brother, a possible answer to a hypothetical question is, "That would never happen." It is not a Christian's inability to grasp or answer a hypothetical. If God will not ask people to do what that person was hypothesizing, there is no other way to answer the question except by saying, "God would never ask that."
If you know God, you know God will not ask it. So how precisely to answer the second half of the hypothetical question if the answer to the first half is, "Impossible"?
Whatever point a person is trying to make by their misunderstanding of God is an irrelevant, useless point. Can you grasp the idea of logic and rhetorical analysis? "If A, then what about B?" "A is impossible; therefore, B is irrelevant." That sort of thing.
2006-09-20 16:00:45 · answer #2 · answered by Gestalt 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Can the people like you on this board grasp the idea that this is all make believe? Taking this whole Yahoo board too seriously. There are no earth shattering decisions being made here.Why not find something more interesting to talk about. I think the religion bashing questions have been beaten to death. C'mon it's getting boring now.How old are you people anyway?
2006-09-20 17:55:07 · answer #3 · answered by ♥Angel♥ 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
perhaps u wud want to grasp the idea behind their not being able to understand ur hypothetical point of view.. just a food for thought.. and that question really needn't be targeted to a specific religion. And yes, what if that hypothetical situation contradicts with their basic premise of Godliness.. then that hypothetical situation wud be void enough to warrant any thought.
2006-09-20 16:04:02 · answer #4 · answered by masku darling 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
First of all, that goes against everything God teaches and it would mean the Bible is contradicting itself, which it isn't nor will it ever.
1 Thessalonians 4:3-6:
"It is God's will that you should be sanctified: that you should avoid sexual immorality; that each of you should learn to control his body in a way that is holy and honorable, not in passionate lust like the heathen, who do not know God; and that in this matter no one should wrong his brother or take advantage of him. The LORD will punish men for all such sins, as we have already told told you and warned you." (NIV)
2006-09-20 17:09:30 · answer #5 · answered by Sofa P 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because in certain matters hypotheticals have no purpose. If it is a situation based in reality, yes we (contrary to popular belief) can use our imaginations and insert ourselves into a hypothetical situation.
But the hypotheticals you ask us to participate in are for the purpose of dispelling our faith and really have no sound purpose except to entertain one person--you.
2006-09-20 15:51:41 · answer #6 · answered by chris 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
How do you know they are Christians? Looks like some pretty good answers in there especially from dws2711.
2006-09-20 15:51:29 · answer #7 · answered by Usagi 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I think some can..although it sounds like you put God down in the hypothetical situation. It makes it sound like you just want to upset them and get an argument of of them.
2006-09-20 15:51:02 · answer #8 · answered by Laurel 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Questions about Jesus, or Questions designed to convert or recruit people to Jesus (or even away from Jesus for that matter)are simply a waste of time. Ditto for being "saved" or trying to clarify minute points of scripture when there are so many different interpretations and editions of text. People have already decided for the most part if they believe in the fiction written in the bible. People who feel God talks to them have psychological problems because hearing voices is a psychological illness. All the major world religions have issues like this.
2006-09-20 15:48:13 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 4⤋
It takes all kinds to make a world.
Learn to live with it. Don't try to bend others to your will.
Maybe the premise was so nonsensical as to make the question unanswerable.
2006-09-20 15:48:46 · answer #10 · answered by American citizen and taxpayer 7 · 2⤊ 1⤋