Religious People, please answer my queries.?

Question

Ok, I have a few questions regarding religion and God.

The first is what is god. And how is it a man.
Do you honestly believe that women were formed from a RIB? That the evolution theory is defunct, despite all the evidence supporting it and lack thereof on your behalf.
also, how can you believe in the afterlife? Is it more of a comfort thing, thinking that when you die, there is something and not just uncomprehending nothingness?


Not being a religious person, I cannot get into this mindset.
I know that a person is just the neurons firing in the brain in a certain pattern, not a soul.
And when you die, there will be nothing, not black like sleep; because you wouldn’t be able to comprehend it, because you will be nothing, cease to exist

In addition, since many religious people on this site tend to take anything said against their religion as a personal insult anyway, consider this a challenge against your religion, a friendly one, but a challenge none the less.

Answer 1

God is not like man. God is spirit.

Man is made in God's image both male and female. God's attributes are both feminine and masculine. He possesses the best qualities of both genders. God transcends the human understanding of gender as we know it.

Have you ever noticed the extreme orderliness of the natural world?

Take for example the human body! How can we examine our own nature and not marvel at the intricacy of it's design? Yes, I said design. And what about your apt. or house by comparison, it always obeys the 2nd law of Thermodynamics regarding entropy! the universe and everything in it should, by all rights be moving to it's most disordered state!

However HERE WE ARE! There IS order in the universe and not even the most brilliant physicist that has ever lived can tell us why atoms don't fly apart! AND YOU THINK THAT JUST HAPPENED?????

And let's hit the issue of the theory of evolution quickly! There are major aspects of the theory which have no substantiation in fact. and have been refuted scientifically by creationist scientists. Archaeological evidence is continuing to be uncovered which refutes the idea that the world is millions of years old.

Spirituality is not intellectually discerned or known. Spirituality is a construct of our spirits. I recommend the book "Mere Christianity" by C.S. Lewis. I also think that the video "What the Bleep" gives a secular and scientific argument for spirituality, even though their premises are not Christian per se.

I'd be honoured to correspond more with you regarding your q's.

Answer 2

A) What is God? That than which there is nothing greater. B) How can He (NOT "it") be a man? An article of faith for Christians. The Second Person of the Blessed Trinity, in obedience to God the Father, became man in order to open heaven to all of mankind who wished to reside there forever with God. C) Woman from a rib? No way, Jose! In fact the genetic evidence suggests rather strongly that the first true human was a female (see mitochondrial DNA). D) Theory of evolution defunct? Not yet and probably not ever. Evolution is as much a creative process as God saying the divine equivalent of "ZAP". E) The afterlife? Again a matter of faith. Christians and many other religious faiths accept this as a primary tenet of their respective faiths. F) And just which archangel came down from on High and told you that we are nothing more than neurons firing off in the brain? Even biologists and physicians know there's something else going on there. The non-believers among them may not like it, but there it is anyway, will they nil they. G) I do not take insult from your query. I decided to take it seriously as coming from one who really wants to know what I believe and why I believe as I do. H) Jesus said, "Ask. And ye shall receive." You asked. I answered. You have now received. Good luck.

Answer 3

I read somewhere that women have one less rib than a man--how do we explain that--everyone also has the one element of DNA that binds us together--clay.(don't know the scientific term). They have been doing research on all different types of DNA and have found that they all have one thing in common-clay. The Bible says that God took the clay(dirt) from the ground and blew life into Adam. Explain that one. How do we explain that when someone has a near death experience they see a light or a form of a man--then come back to the living? The Word says that God is many things: the Alpha, Omega, the beginning, the end, the great I Am, our Redeemer and Savior--Faith that God is who He says He is and that He knew you before you were in your mother's womb and created you with a purpose and a plan for your life---that's all you need to come to Him--and you will find Him if you seek Him with all your heart. I don't put too much faith in a religion, only in my relationship with Christ--who is the true Son of God (God in human form) and my only salvation.

Answer 4

I'm not religious. I did however feel the need to point out that what you have said about people on this site taking things offensive etc has just been proven to be true in the answers so far. They have beautifully illustrated your point by not answering you with any intelligence or... answers. Instead they take it as a personal attack & offer no help, nothing to think about or not even an argument. I once came to this site section for some serious answers to my queries. I didn't believe but was willing to try if someone could help me. Instead, I received the same bollocks that you've got here. Self righteous, judgemental people taking offence instead of educating. WTF?

Answer 5

For there to be a power greater than us is possible. To be able to do things greater than us is possible. For us to not have the ability to comprehend this power and its ways is possible. My question is why did many of the great thinkers of history believe in a greater power even if they did not know who or what? They were able to see in the things that are that something was greater than anything they could see or understand and that it was in some way determining the events of man. Some called it fate, some referred to a god or gods. But many at least admitted that it was obvious something was out there. So were Plato, Seneca, and great thinkers like this just ignorant?

Answer 6

I accept your challenge.

In the creation of woman, God did not make her separate and distinct from man by forming her from the dust of the ground, as he had done in the creation of Adam. He took a rib from Adam’s side, and from it He built for Adam a perfect counterpart, the woman Eve. (Ge 2:21, 22) Adam, nevertheless, remained a perfect man, now united as ‘bone of bone and flesh of flesh’ with his wife. (Ge 2:23; De 32:4) Moreover, this did not disturb the reproductive cells of Adam so as to affect his children, boys or girls, in their rib structure. The human male and female both have 24 ribs.
It is of interest to note that a rib that has been removed will grow again, replacing itself, as long as the periosteum (the membrane of connective tissue that covers the bone) is allowed to remain. Whether Jehovah God followed this procedure or not the record does not state; however, as man’s Creator, God was certainly aware of this unusual quality of the rib bones.
No I do not believe in the after life. Although I do believe we will live again. The Bible book of Eccliesiastes 9:5-6 states:
"For the living are conscious that they will die; but as for the dead, they are conscious of nothing at all, neither do they anymore have wages, because the remembrance of them has been forgotten. 6 Also, their love and their hate and their jealousy have already perished, and they have no portion anymore to time indefinite in anything that has to be done under the sun."
But, just as God was able to ressurect his son and Jesus too resurected some who had died, God has promised to cleanse the earth and after our ressurection, return us to our rightful paradise.
But as for the offspring of the wicked ones, they will indeed be cut off. Psalm 37: 28-29 says:  
"The righteous themselves will possess the earth,
And they will reside forever upon it."

Answer 7

What evidence supports evolution?

The fossil record certainly doesn't.

Don't you think that if evolution were true, it would have been proven by now?

It's been over 150 years. Don't you think that somebody would have come up with a proof so that we could call it the LAW of evolution?

Why, 150 years later, are we still calling it a theory?

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Answer 8

By definition I would say you are religious. see 1&6
re·li·gion [ri-lij-uhn] Pronunciation Key - Show IPA Pronunciation
–noun
1.a set of beliefs concerning the cause, nature, and purpose of the universe, esp. when considered as the creation of a superhuman agency or agencies, usually involving devotional and ritual observances, and often containing a moral code governing the conduct of human affairs.
2.a specific fundamental set of beliefs and practices generally agreed upon by a number of persons or sects: the Christian religion; the Buddhist religion.
3.the body of persons adhering to a particular set of beliefs and practices: a world council of religions.
4.the life or state of a monk, nun, etc.: to enter religion.
5.the practice of religious beliefs; ritual observance of faith.
6.something one believes in and follows devotedly; a point or matter of ethics or conscience: to make a religion of fighting prejudice.
7.religions, Archaic. religious rites.

Answer 9

The Bible's answer to death.............Gen. 3:19: “In the sweat of your face you will eat bread until you return to the ground, for out of it you were taken. For dust you are and to dust you will return.”

Eccl. 9:10: “All that your hand finds to do, do with your very power, for there is no work nor devising nor knowledge nor wisdom in Sheol [“the grave,” KJ, Kx; “the world of the dead,” TEV], the place to which you are going.”

God proceeded to build the rib that he had taken from the man into a woman and to bring her to the man.
Since the sheep named Dolly, scientists have cloned dozens of individual animals—all from adult cells. Can the same technology be used to clone adult humans?
Lets say God created man, do you think he could have cloned Eve from a rib of Adam?

Answer 10

Most of the human race needs something to keep it going through the day to day existence we have developed. Man also needs some sort of law to co-exist, and to be at peace with ourselves.