2007-10-06 08:01:07 · 17 answers · asked by Ťango 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
punch, they can think whatever they like, but imposing it on others is a different story.
2007-10-06 08:04:57 · update #1
punch, they can think whatever they like, but imposing it on others is a different story.
2007-10-06 08:05:08 · update #2
Jihad Jill, as much as I like.
2007-10-06 08:06:05 · update #3
They have yet to understand the difference between the two concepts.
2007-10-06 08:04:56 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋
The only people I impose anything on are the mormons, catholics and anyone who claims to believe in the very same god as me.
After that it's just a conversation. Sometimes I am asked why I believe anything I do. Then I have this conversation with them. I tell them and they hear it but what can they understand? My beliefs are not simple. I ask them why there is no God, No answer. Just stuff like "because it's crap. barf crap pgtmhihxnjcrap" (thats a friend of mine). I'd say the only people in the world who have any thing going for them in the form of argument would be the hindus. Not because they are right but because they have nothing based in anything other than speculation. It's a wonder that they are not attacked more than Christians(those who so many think are just talking out their butt). I don't really like talking to people of religion unless they are looking for a conversation and not a killing spree right after I talk to them.
What is considdered to be the oppinion part?
There is no opinion of God's word. There is too much continuity for there to be any discrepancies about what God is actually saying. The people who add their "opinion" to the Bible usually get everything wrong. Just know that. Even you may have an opinion.
2007-10-06 08:23:25 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
Truth is completely subjective in most cases. The problem arises when "truth" is confused with "fact." Believers insist their book is filled with "historical facts" when little empirical evidence exists that anything explained by the bible actually happened. Their scientists (a loose term, at best) are working hard to prove Creation and the Great Flood, but almost none of the "evidence" they've discovered can be supported by modern science; it appears they think if they yell loudly enough about their evidence, the rest of us will believe it, too. They do make nice little specials for the History Channel and Discovery, though.
Believers have a lot of faith, but faith is not fact.
2007-10-06 08:13:10 · answer #3 · answered by link955 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
What do you mean by imposing? In America you have the freedom to close your door, change the channel, turn off your computer and so on.
There is a logic to believing God's word is the truth:
http://www.kingdom-gospel.com/interpret.html
If God be the originator of language and if the chief purpose of originating it was to convey His message to humanity, then it must follow that He, being all-wise and all-loving, originated sufficient language to convey all that was in His heart to tell mankind. Furthermore, it must also follow that He would use language and expect people to understand it in its literal, normal, and plain sense. The Scriptures, then, cannot be regarded as an illustration of some special use of language so that in the interpretation of these Scriptures some deeper meaning of the words must be sought. [Charles C. Ryrie, Dispensationalism (Chicago: Moody Press, 1995), 81.]
2007-10-06 08:45:37 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
If you mean fundamentalist in a nasty way, you might consider the reason they are called that; they stick to the fundamentals (essential beliefs) of what Scripture teaches. Many Christians no longer like to use that term because of the negative association with fundamentalist Muslims and such, but any Christian that gets "their OPINION" from God's word are going to be closer to the truth than other people who think their personal opinions are somehow equal to God's Word. In other words, are they fundamentalists just because they are opinionated hardheads, or becasue the Bible clearly teaches some things that they are trying to be faithful to, but which other people don't want to hear?
2007-10-06 08:10:59 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
Because they would rather rely on a book that is old was written years after the events by men that hate women (clearly) than use their own brain.
I mean really if I were a god and these people would interpret my words like that and kill in my name etc I would be most insulted and would have turned my back on them years ago
2007-10-06 08:20:19 · answer #6 · answered by MissE 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'm studying to be a fundamentalist, and I resent the insinuation. When I graduate from Fundamentalist College, I hope I never have to put up with such questions.
2007-10-06 08:08:12 · answer #7 · answered by 2.71828182845904 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Indoctrination.
2007-10-06 08:17:55 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Preference.
2007-10-06 08:06:37 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Jesus is the Way, the Truth, and the Life. And, that is the truth.
No man gets to heaven except throught Him.
2007-10-06 08:05:50 · answer #10 · answered by Faye 4 · 1⤊ 2⤋