I have heard different things about it and would like to know exactly what it means... does it just mean that you don't know if there is a god or not. That you aren't accepting or denying it, you just aren't sure?
2007-11-19 11:41:02 · 18 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Agnostic means someone is open to God, and may, or may not be searching for Him.
Its Greek root is the same that brings us "ignorant." But before anyone gets their underwear in a knot, the true meaning is
"unlearned" or "untaught."
As such, an Agnostic merely lacks the knowledge that will either convince him, or have him deny that God exists. An Agnostic is open to possibilities, but is not yet convinced either way.
2007-11-19 11:44:58 · answer #1 · answered by Bobby Jim 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It comes from the Greek and it means one who is ignorant. We are all ignorant about different things but the meaning of the word as it is commonly used today means that a person does not know if God exists or not.
2007-11-19 11:46:19 · answer #2 · answered by Martin S 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Being an agnostic means you don't claim to know whether there is or isn't a god or anything after death. I am an agnostic. I don't say there is a god, and I don't say there isn't a god.
I DO say that I don't know. Not only do I say that I don't know, I personally think that NOBODY really knows, and that we won't know until after we die.
All the best,
Lady Morgana )0(
2007-11-19 11:46:12 · answer #3 · answered by Lady Morgana 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A person who holds the view that any ultimate reality (as God) is unknown and probably unknowable; broadly : one who is not committed to believing in either the existence or the nonexistence of God or a god. A person unwilling to commit to an opinion about something.
2007-11-19 11:46:02 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Agnostic (noun) - 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.
2007-11-19 11:44:43 · answer #5 · answered by Ode to the Damned® ÆA NR 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It has different meanings.
When Huxley described himself as having become agnostic, it meant not believing in a personal god that makes its presence known by revelation. (Darwin shifted to this position late in life.)
It has come to refer to any philosophical position regarding the unknowability of the supernatural, and is not, technically, exclusive of belief and nonbelief.
2007-11-19 12:14:42 · answer #6 · answered by novangelis 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
"Agnostic" is the position that it is impossible to *know* if a god exists. It isn't so much being unsure, as the position that actual knowledge isn't possible.
2007-11-19 11:52:32 · answer #7 · answered by N 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It can mean different things for different people. Like:
I don't know and I don't care.
I don't know and you don't know either. No one ever will.
Basically, we just agree that everything when it comes to God and religion is impossible to know for sure and/or impossible for man to comprehend.
2007-11-19 11:45:49 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
There might be a god or a goddess or multiple gods or goddesses. There just might not be. I don't know. I will find out when I die.
2007-11-19 11:46:24 · answer #9 · answered by Hatchet Man 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
That's pretty much right. They also feel there is not sufficient evidence, nor could there ever be sufficient evidence to tell either way.
2007-11-19 11:44:12 · answer #10 · answered by lifeilluminate 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋