When you're talking about religion what does it mean to be agonistic?
2006-12-05 07:25:06 · 11 answers · asked by rry_dvd 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
basically means you know u cant prove or disprove the existance of god.
ag·nos·tic /ægˈnɒstɪk/ Pronunciation Key - Show Spelled Pronunciation[ag-nos-tik] Pronunciation Key - Show IPA Pronunciation
–noun 1. a person who holds that the existence of the ultimate cause, as God, and the essential nature of things are unknown and unknowable, or that human knowledge is limited to experience.
2. a person who denies or doubts the possibility of ultimate knowledge in some area of study.
–adjective 3. of or pertaining to agnostics or agnosticism.
4. asserting the uncertainty of all claims to knowledge.
2006-12-05 07:27:19 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Basically it means that "I do not know."
Some may call me an atheist. However, I believe there are still things we do not fully understand. So I cannot say that without a doubt that there is nothing else.
The one thing I can say however, if there is a God or afterlife of some kind, it is nothing like any human doctrine has described it.
This is why I choose the term agnostic over atheist. There are some people who call themselves atheists that in my "opinion" are actually agnostic. I guess it depends on how you define agnosticism.
2006-12-05 15:32:21 · answer #2 · answered by Bow down to me 3 · 0⤊ 2⤋
The term is used to describe those who are unconvinced or noncommittal about the existence of deities as well as about other matters of religion. Early Christian church leaders used the Greek word gnosis (knowledge) to describe "spiritual knowledge". "Agnostic" came from the union of it to the Greek / Latin prefix a, and was originally coined by Thomas Henry Huxley in 1869 to describe his philosophy. Agnosticism is not to be confused with religious views opposing the doctrine of gnosis and Gnosticism— these are religious concepts that are not generally related to agnosticism.
2006-12-05 15:28:53 · answer #3 · answered by bonsai bobby 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Here is the definition: an agnostic is a person who thinks it is impossible to know wether there is a God or a future life, or anything beyond material phenomena.
2006-12-05 15:36:17 · answer #4 · answered by robin rmsclvr25 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
A = Not/No
Gnost = Know/Known
ic = State of being
It meant unknown. They do not know if there is a god. Probably don't really care. Huxley didn't give it much though and was tired of being called an atheist so he invented the term.
2006-12-05 15:28:41 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Rather than making a full decision to believe or not believe, being agnostic is when you hold uncertain whether things exist or not beyond the material world.
2006-12-05 15:31:25 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
The greek word - agnosis from whence we get agnostic literally means without knowing.
2006-12-05 15:27:22 · answer #7 · answered by epaphras_faith 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋
One who thinks the nature of the universe makes it impossible to tell if there is a god or not.
2006-12-05 15:32:41 · answer #8 · answered by Alex 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
originally it meant you practiced religion alone.
now its a close cousin to atheism- you don't know if god is real or not
I fit the original statement
2006-12-05 16:08:49 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
>agonistic
An Agnostic?
An Atheist says there is NO God.
An Agnostic says he/she does not know if there is a god OR says that such is unknowable.
2006-12-05 15:29:46 · answer #10 · answered by kent chatham 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋