Every time i read the answers to philisophical questions, christians always answer with a bible scripture or someting pertaining to their faith. Bible scripture is not philosophy.
2006-10-26 13:31:33 · 20 answers · asked by jonesy 1 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
this is not the problem of Christians or bible.this is the problem of philosophy.
physic,mathematics and other class of knowledge have a professional language for their discussion .what about philosophy?
unfortunately,tools of discussion in field of philosophy,ordinary life and religious talks are the same.{even if meanings are different}.this situation make a big misunderstanding.
these days philosophy is personal!!!!!
2006-10-26 13:59:24 · answer #1 · answered by tyh_yu 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Miscommunications, to them the bible is a philosophy. Philosophy being a way of thinking, the science of thought so to speak. The miscommunication can be the question in the recievers mind, the answer in the questioners mind. Bible scripture is technically a philosophy, whether you agree with that philosophy or not, it is the same as posting up a philosophers words as a source. Just because you labeled something unphilisophical doesn't mean it is, widen your view on philosophy beyond where you think it stops, philosophy is a way of thinking, everyone thinks in there own way, whether it's labled or not.
2006-10-27 14:55:48 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think you paint with an overly broad brush. I doubt that every answer you've read from a Christian has been limited to mindless quotation from scripture. But generalizations aside, quoting from scripture or quoting from Kant or Spinoza or Wittgenstein doesn't seem too far apart for me. If people want to supply quotes from sources that let us know where they are getting their opinions from, well, that seems only fair to me. And, in fact, there is a great deal of a philosophical wisdom that can be gleaned from scripture. Read Ecclesiastes sometime. That Solomon, he could philosophize with the bets of them. Philosophy as a word comes from two Greek roots. Literally they mean Love and Wisdom. Philosophy is the love of wisdom. If one approaches scripture with that in mind, how can scripture not be included in the canon of philosophical work?
2006-10-26 13:38:56 · answer #3 · answered by Rico Toasterman JPA 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think it is important to draw a distinction between Bible-thumping Christians (i.e. those who swallow anything it says in the Bible and live by it's word alone) and more modernistic Christians who have a bit more of a secular view of things. It's the Bible-thumpers who always answer with Bible passages. More secular Christians may have a wider view of things. You may not realize how many of these Christians answer questions without parroting the Bible.
So to your question, why do Bible-thumpers always answer with Bible quotes? Hey, when all you've got is one book upon which to base your entire world view, it's hard to come up with any truly original thought. This is the main reason I am no longer a Christian. I went to Catholic schools all my life and took the religion seriously. When the teachers and priests encouraged me to ask questions, I asked and asked and asked. Somehow, the answer was always sorta the same, regardless of the question. I left the church around 11th grade and never looked back.
When I hit university, I learned what philosophy means. Apparently, it literally means "the love of knowledge". This, I think, is the key to why Bible-thumping Christians tend to answer philosophcial questions with Bible quotes: the only knowledge they love is Biblical knowledge, and the only thing they have in-depth knowledge of is, of course, the Bible!
2006-10-26 13:45:34 · answer #4 · answered by Dim 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
The answer is two fold. First, it is what they (we) are comfortable with. The Bible is our language. We speak of it to one another, then find ourselves speaking to others. Take computer people, when they talk to one another they throw around all kinds of computer jargon, whether they are speaking to computer savvy people or not. The rest of us just kind of stare at them, and wonder if they wouldn't mind putting that into English.
Second, true Christians have a belief that the Bible is God's unique revelation and that it has application for all ages at all times. Since philosophy has to do with the discovery of truth, that would make the Bible philosophy. If one quoted from Aristotle, Epictetus, Socrates, Hume, Kant, or Lenin, that would be acceptable, but to quote from Jesus Christ or one of the Biblical writers somehow isn't? Why is that? Could it be that someone has a prejudice that excludes the Bible but accepts Buddha, Confucius, or his/her own thoughts?
2006-10-26 15:32:23 · answer #5 · answered by C Gardner 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
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2016-10-03 00:12:58 · answer #6 · answered by Erika 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It can be a philosophy for that person, maybe not to you, but to them.
And I resent that! I'm a christian and I hardly ever awnser anyone with a scripture, unless of course that WOULD BE the awnser.
By the way, it couls also be that I'm just new to the whole religon thing in the first place, oh well
2006-10-26 13:51:57 · answer #7 · answered by Mindy 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well theologians might dis-agree with you and philosophers, for actually,all philosophy is has its arguments based in faith. Either debating its reality or developing a secular concept based on the principles and moral of the Bible or written history.
Many people call Isaiah, Jemimah, Samuel, all of the New testament a philosophical dissertation.
Perhaps what you object to is the tone of doctrine inserted.
2006-10-26 13:59:01 · answer #8 · answered by kickinupfunf 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I think most people confuse philosophy and beliefs. Philosophical questions can cover a lot of ground, and quite a lot of if not having much to do with religion. But I think a lot of people are conditioned to respond to any question relating to "what do you think about" with a statement of faith, or as an opportunity to help everyone else see the light.
To me it seems like extra stuff that doesn't often have anything to do with the question, and makes me wonder why they felt the need.
2006-10-26 13:34:11 · answer #9 · answered by bks33691 2 · 3⤊ 0⤋
In a sense religion is some body's philosophy. You do not have to be atheist or agnostic to be philosophical. Philosophy is a study where people question what is real and what is not....some come to the conclusion that God is real and some don't.
2006-10-26 14:18:24 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋