Will anyone who is religious please answer these questions? (i am doing this for my World Religions class)?

Question

(im not discrimating against anyone, cause my assignment specifically needs someone's religious answers)
1. Why do you think we're here? Do we have a purpose?
2. Do you believe there's something out there of a higher power?
3. What do you think happens after death? Does life just stop and we disappear, or is there some sort of after life?
4. How do you think the universe came to be?
(a) The big bang theory
(b) We appeared out of no where
(c) We were created by someone of higher power
(d) Other: ______
5. How do you know what is right and wrong?
6. Do you believe in ghosts or spirits? Why or why not?
7. Do you believe in fate or free will? Howcome?
8. Why do animals have an instinct and where did it come from?
9. Do you believe that humans can gain or are born with supernatural powers?
10. Do you believe in reincarnation? Why or why not?
11. What is love? How would you define it; what characteristics do you think it requires?

Answer 1

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Answer 2

1) I think we are here to live life and do something meaningful with the time we have on earth.
2) Yes
3) I think that there is an afterlife, but I do not believe in reincarnation.
4) c
5) I judge it against my value system and morals.
6) I do believe in spirits because I believe we live on after this life, although I do not know what form we take in the afterlife.
7) While I do not believe that our lives have already been written out for us, I do believe that everything happens for a reason. That said, I still think that we have control over our lives and thus believe in free will. I just can't believe that my life was pre-ordained before I was born and that I have no say in how my life will be lived.
8) I believe that every living creature has an instinct, but I have absolutely no clue where it came from.
9) No
10) Again, no. If it did, every person would simply be paying for the evils they didn't know they committed in a previous life, and the vicious cycle would continue forever.
11) Love is a powerful force that binds us to one another and cleaves us apart. It gives us hope and dashes it away in the same instant. It is a force of nature that every person should be lucky enough to experience at least once in their lifetime. I think it requires passion and understanding, faithfulness and spontaneity, tenderness and toughness, and work... lots of work. :) Whatever else love is, if it's true love, it's worth it.

Answer 3

These are very interesting questions. I'll go for it.
1. I think we're here to live, to love, and to learn. Our main purpose is to come to know, love and serve God in my opinion.
2. I am a Christian, so yes, I believe in God.
3. I believe that we will all have to account for our actions when we die, and we will be judged accordingly.
4. Mostly a and c. I think it's entirely possible that it was a "bang" that brought life into being, but I also think it was the hand of God that guided it.
5. Mostly the Bible and common sense.
6. I believe that it's entirely possible that some people who die suddenly and tragically can be earthbound. I've seen too many things that can't be explained. For example, my friend Tyler was killed in a car accident at the age of eighteen. A few weeks after his death, I was awakened by the sound of someone I couldn't see in my apartment. I waited until they were gone, and then I smoked a cigarette. When I awoke in the morning, there were three cigarette butts in the ashtray: One was the one I smoked before I went to sleep, the second was the one I smoked after I was awakened in the middle of the night, and the other was a Marlboro light, which was the brand Tyler smoked. I don't know anyone that can explain that.
7. I believe in a little bit of both. I make my own decisions, but some things (like where and to whom I was born) were NOT my decision.
8. I believe God made them that way.
9. Yes, I believe in some supernatural powers. I myself occasionally have precognition, prophetic dreams, and occasionally I catch other peoples' thoughts. The latter occurs the most infrequently.
10. No, I don't believe in reincarnation. I believe that sometimes memories are imprinted on us through our ancestors, but that's it. We only have one life to get things right. After that, we die and then are judged according to what we did.
11. I think love is too abstract to be described. It has so many different forms that it would take years to describe them all fully. Perhaps if it wasn't 3 am I could actually define it, but it is 3 am and I can't.

Answer 4

Some misguided people consider atheism a religion, so here are my personal answers:
1. We have no purpose; we are the result of evolution over billions of years beginning with organic materials early in Earth's history.
2. There is no higher power.
3. If you consider the life of maggots feasting on your rotting flesh "life after death".
4. a
5. There is no 'right' and 'wrong' per say, but rather what is beneficial and acceptable in society.
6. No; the 'soul' is an illusion of the mind.
7. If "fate" is the fact that, if you were to go back in time and attempt to change the present, you would fail, then yes. Free will is just the very large complexities of the brain.
8. Instinct is preset connections in the brain due to evolution.
9. No supernatural powers. Things we may not understand or are unable to explain, but not supernatural.
10. No reincarnation since there is no "soul" or "life-force"
11. "Love" is technically non-existent. People recognize compatibility in others and the subconscious need to reproduce urges us to act.

Answer 5

1. we were created for a purpose. God saw that life was needed in order for his Son Jesus to be born and for all our purposes to come about.
1. our pupose, to grow up to become more like Jesus so that one day we will be with him.
2. God is the higher power, there is no other God and never will be.
3. when we die we will go to heaven or hell. we are put here to make that choice for ourselves. he will not force his will on us.
4. Gen.1:1 In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. (c).
5. we have a consciense to tell us right from wrong.
6. yes i believe in them i have been seeing them since i was a child.
7. i believe in freewill, because the Lord told us he will not force his will on us, therefore we can make our own choices.
8.God created them too, and put in them the will to survive, therefore instincts.
9. yes God does allow some people to have what are considered supernatural powers. it is to show us just how powerful he really is by using something as weak as humans to use these powers.
10. no i do not believe in reincarnation. the Lord gave each of us one life and one life only to make the right choices and follow him.
11. love is God sending his only son to come and die for a world who would turn their backs on him and mock him and forget him, and yet he still loves us and wants us to come home. that is ultimate love!

Answer 6

1. We have a purpose and it is to glorfy and serve God.
2. Yes, the God of Abraham.
3. We go to a holding place until judgment day.
4. C. God created it.
5. God has given us the ability to know right and wrong naturally by virtue of our creation.
6. Yes spirits exist. They have been proven by science and the Bible affirms their existence. Spirits are either people who have died and are wandering not in a holding place or they are angels or demons.
7. Yes I believe that we have a fate that is self-determined by our choices via freewill.
8. God created them to have instincts and to live and survive by them.
9. Yes humans can gain supernatural powers from either God or Satan.
10. No, reincarnation is part of eastern philosophy and it has no place in theism. It also suggests that the universe and life is eternal which are both self-refuting and refuted by science.
11. Love is the feeling and action we have toward others and God inspired by God. It is the key ingredient to a good relationship with your family, God, and anybody really.

Answer 7

1.There is no ultimate purpose, you have to give meaning to your own life.Life's meaning is not pre-determined and planned out. You must find your own destiny and meaning; you must create it. You have something -- life, the here-now, the present -- and must make the best out of it. You must answer why you are here.

2. Yes, I believe in many Gods and Goddesses. I'm an Asatruar.

3. Many different things could happen: various afterlives, oblivion, reincarnation, etc..

4. The Big Bang!

5. Common sense and logic.

6. Ghosts no, spirits yes I’m an animist.

7. No, do not believe in any sort of predestination. The only one who controls your future is you. You create it by your actions in the here and now.

8. Evolution.

9. Nope. Everything is natural.

10. In some cases yes, I don’t believe everyone is reborn though. Why? Because that explains déjà vu and past life memories.

11. Technically, love is a biochemical reaction in the brain resulting from intense emotional attachment. It's a deep and ardent affection for one's kith or kin.

Answer 8

1) We're here to worship Jesus Christ
2) Yes, it is Jesus
3) After death, believers in Jesus Christ go to heaven for eternity. Unbelievers go to hell for eternity. There is no second chance and there is NO SUCH THING as pergutory. "Pergutory" is a lie of ungodly men.
4) c) Jesus created all
5) The Bible is the final authority on right and wrong
6) No, only demons that imitate these things
7) God gives us a choice to be saved or damned
8) Animals are not humans, they are infinitely below us. God made them to be servants of man.
9) Humans only have powers if God or Satan gives them. There is no other source
10) Reincarnation is false because everyone will live once, and die once, and then their judgement
11) Jesus is love, look at Jesus and you have the ONLY TRUE definition of love.

Answer 9

Tibetan Buddhist Gelug lineage:

1. We're reborn into this human life according to past karma we've accrued.
2. No higher power in an omnipotent being sense
3. We take "rebirth" in one of the realms (formless, animal, hell, deva, human) according to the state of our mind at death and karma
4. Everything in the universe arises according to causes and conditions, and in whatever order they need to to arise, so if the big bang was it, then that's what brought it into being... according to Buddhist teaching, the wherefores aren't as important as understanding that all things (matter and emotions or thoughts) arise due to causes and conditions, all things change and are impermanent.
5. We have a system of ethics based on not causing others suffering or harm (the Eightfold Path)
6. Yes. We believe in a concept called the "formless realm" where you "appear" (i.e. take a form of rebirth) your mind doesn't have a body... it floats formless and depending on the mind, it can be harmful or just confused.
7. We believe in the concept of karma, cause and effect. People are responsible for all of their own actions and results.
8. Karma and the nature of animals (causes and conditions)
9. Humans can be born with abilities that others might not be able to do... I don't refer to them as supernatural, however, because many people think something is beyond nature because they can't normally perceive it in day-to-day life, but it's there.
10.Yes, rebirth according to karma and the state of mind at death.
11.Love is a mental construct that is as varied as the perceptions of the person perceiving the word. Altruism (selflessness) is far better.

Hope this helps you out.

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Answer 10

1. To become more like God and his son Jesus who are perfect. We are here to learn to love him and each other under the harshest conditions to become stronger. God is love itself and love is the most powerful thing in existence.
2. I believe in God who is 3 persons yet one God: The Father Jehovah, Jesus the Son and The Holy Spirit
3. I think once we are created we can never be destroyed and our spirits on the inside are eternal. I believe we go to the most pleasant place called Heaven where God lives or to the total opposite in hell depending on how you lived and whether you accept Jesus as Lord. There is absolutely an after life. I think eventually Jesus will save those in hell after they have paid in full for their sins.
4. I think the universe was spoken into existence by God who has the power and wisdom of creating from nothing. If there was a big bang it was done by God. We were created by God in his image meaning we are like him in many ways.
5. Part from parents, teachers, family and from the Bible. Part from just my inner conscience since I was little.
6. I believe in spirits good and evil because I saw the face of one in my room just recently.
7. I believe there is some fate along with our free will. I think God has plans for us and works around our free will to make them happen. I think free will is a gift from God to be able to make our own choices good or bad but we must suffer consequences for either one.
8.Animals have spirits or souls too created by God for his pleasure.
9. I think our spirits after we die have many abilities that we don't have in the physical but we have to wait till then. I think some have spiritual powers now though like seeing auras or spirits.
10. I don't believe in reincarnation as in coming back to earth over and over but there is an afterlife.
11. There are different kinds of love but the romantic one is the most complicated. God is pure Love itself personified.

Answer 11

1) To fellowship with God.

2) Yes

3) Purgation...then the Judgment.

4) (c) God created it.

5) Scripture, Tradition and Reason

6) Yes. Seen them.

7) Free will. Scripture.

8) Yes. God.

9) Yes.

10) No. Scripture.

11) God is Love. Characteristics: See 1 Cor. 13