There are two words viz. Theist- used for person who beliveves in the existence of God and Atheist- One dosn't. In between two extreme there is also one word for the person who are in dilemma, to believe there could be or not be the God.
2007-04-02 18:24:12 · 18 answers · asked by sanjayasks 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Agnostic - read the writings of an early roman emperor called Marcus Aurelius. His "Meditation" is a list of thoughts and ideas on how his universe worked for him. He is credited with being the father of Stoicism and the founding of Gnosticism.
To understand, one must know the field where the facts lie. Is it on a field where heaven exists? Then the objective concepts of the world do not come into play. Faith reigns supreme. As a result, only one answer is pre-ordained.
A Gnostic belief of the world of Socrates, dictates faith has no hold on our objective minds and everything falls logically into place.
Some religions, like Christian Science, try to meet in a different field. A field where Science is true because God decreed them to be true.
So, your belief that the world was divided into a white, gray, and black choice just changed to a spectrum within the rainbow, having both tint and hue.
Pick a side? Why? I choose to remain ambiguous.
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2007-04-02 18:46:45 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Skeptic
Agnostic (the most familiar term)
non-theist (also coincides with agnostic at times)
Weak/strong Atheism
Pan theism (belief in nature like a deity)
Secular humanist
It's hard to define us sometimes. :-)
Note to Shibbole: You have a long way to go before you can prove the existence of god, much less an afterlife. Thus your argument is not convincing. But I present you with the converse: What is the cost of wasting your life on a belief that cannot be proven and is probably false as presented by ancient religious texts?
Going on faith makes all possibilities equally likely. It's equally plausible that Zeus will take you to the Elysian fields after you die. It's equally likely that Elvis will resurrect everyone from the grave after death with an invisible pelvis grind. It's equally likely (or unlikely) that there is a god and afterlife for skeptics and atheists as opposed to conservative Christians- not that I fantasize. If you can't prove your assertion, then I do not think it has a strong founding. In fact, I do not think it has any support.
2007-04-02 18:37:51 · answer #2 · answered by Dalarus 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Agnostic
2007-04-02 18:29:44 · answer #3 · answered by Prima donna 1 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Agnostic
2007-04-02 18:28:17 · answer #4 · answered by j.wisdom 6 · 3⤊ 0⤋
There is a third actualy and that realy more a statement and that is "I have not such a concept" What I am saying is for Buddhists ,Taost,Shintoist, and others they do not have such a concept. The idea or rather concept of their being an omnipotent god is a alien idea. They (Including me) do not dismiss the concept nor the existence of god we simply cannot concieve theyre being one. We are not agnostics or Athiests it is just that the idea is totaly foriegn to us.
2007-04-02 18:48:12 · answer #5 · answered by chinavagabond94122 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
One word for that is agnostic.Agnostic means that a person who believe that the human mind can not know whether there is a God or an ultimate cause or anything beyond material phenomena
2007-04-02 18:46:01 · answer #6 · answered by ? 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Agnostic.
2007-04-02 18:28:41 · answer #7 · answered by Petrushka's Ghost 6 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Agnostic.
2007-04-02 18:28:36 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
Agnostic - Sitting over the fence
2007-04-02 18:44:17 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Agnostics believe in the possibility of a supreme being, but not in any particular one
2007-04-02 18:30:10 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋