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The Limping Lady
The Limping Lady

May-11-2006 15:34

I'm a senior in high school and so close to graduating... but I still have a homework assignment to do that I need your help with. I have to make a survey of people and what they believe. Is there anyone willing to aswer about ten questions for me? actually, if a could get three people, that would be better. I appreciate any and all help. Thanks!

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BadAss
BadAss
Charioteer

May-11-2006 16:23

Do you have to be American to participate in this? I don't really know much about the modern American church besides lawsuits that involve pedophile priests...

The Limping Lady
The Limping Lady

May-11-2006 16:29

No, you certainly don't have to be an American, it can be about any church with which you are the most familiar. And thanks so much for responding guys! I really value your contributions!

The Limping Lady
The Limping Lady

May-11-2006 16:44

Well, J.H. It certianly seems like you've done a good deal of thinking about all of these issues. If you use one word to describe your worldview, what would it be?

BadAss
BadAss
Charioteer

May-11-2006 16:47

1. I believe in "God" though I must say the concept of it is poorly defined due to our lack of comprehension to this matter, which induces several belief systems to adopt a rather childlike vision of a super creature.

2. Look around you and try to explain the origin of things. Science provided us with lots of explanations but failed so far to give us an answer to the most vital question of all.... which is "why?"

3. I hereby refer to answer no 1. It's beyond our understanding.

4. For Christians, Jesus is the ultimate shaman but I don't believe in the immaculate conception. So the answer is "no".

5. Like I said, I'm willing to accept the existance of a supernatural force but I'm not sure what to expect from that.

6. Personally the idea of reincarnation appeals the most to me. A well-worked out system of balance, force and counter-force. A life in which you're poor or rich, male or female, smart or dumb, beautiful or ugly etc.

7. Not all religions adopt the same idea of heaven or share the same beliefs as how to get there. I just belief there's higher realms of spirituality, where mind is less obstructed by matter than is the case over here.

8. By mere gathering of information, opinions and reflections of all this data in combination with experiences in the personal realm.

9. A nice bundling of stories that has trumendous historical value but at the same time should be dealt with great caution. The Old and New testamant substantially differ from eachother, particularly in the relationship with men to God. Also most of the manuscripts in the Bible are written ages after Christ's death. Which makes it inevitable in my humble opinion that a lot of these stories are changed and modified while passed on from generation to generation.

10. I hereby refer to my former post.

11. The Church as an institution is old glory. Yet completely abolishing it doesn't seem the right idea to me as we lack noteworthy substitutes for that.

The Limping Lady
The Limping Lady

May-11-2006 17:00

The same question goes for you BA. What word would you use to describe your worldview? And thanks for your reply.

The Limping Lady
The Limping Lady

May-11-2006 17:06

And JoJo, what church were you raised in?

BadAss
BadAss
Charioteer

May-11-2006 17:14

Compressing a worldview in one word seems like a simplification to me. But as to answer your question I'd say "flexible". We just have to :)

Paranoid_Android
Paranoid_Android
Story Teller

May-11-2006 17:18

Here's mine :)

1. Do you believe in God? Yes
2. Why or why not?
Many reasons: Faith by it’s very nature is the belief in the unbelievable. Besides regardless of whether you see God in the Judeo-Christian sense, or as Allah, or Buddha, Gaia or an infinite ‘creator spirit’, the belief that something as complicated as the human being / the world was created by an accident of science is, well I think, very sad. As Albert Einstein said, "What really interests me is whether God had any choice in the creation of the world."
3. Who do you think God is/ what is He like?
Certainly not the guy hanging with Homer on a fluffy white cloud. I don’t think any of us will truly know or understand what God is until we come into his/her/it’s presence at our end.
4. Is Jesus the Son of God? If not, who is he?
Well personally, OK, yes I confess JC as my Saviour. But lol I have a fairly open mind to lots of things. I find comfort in the story that God so loved us all that he sent his only son to redeem us all by dying on the Cross. If nothing else the Gospel messages give us a basic rule of thumb to live by, which is so sadly needed today. eg Love thy neighbour…
5. If not God, who/what do you put your faith in?
I also put faith in my friends. Myself occasionally. Buffy?
6. Do you believe in an afterlife? What is it like?
Yes, and see 3. S’like a holiday, if you get too wound up about what’s it’s going to be like, then you’ll just be disappointed when you get there. Besides we should be focused on living our lives to the fullest, not dwelling on our death.
7. How does one get to heaven?
In general see 3.
8. How did you come to believe all of this?
Years of Church, reading, thinking and then just accepting. Accepting: that’s the hardest bit. We all say we have open minds, but opening our hearts to someone or something like God is much harder.


Paranoid_Android
Paranoid_Android
Story Teller

May-11-2006 17:18

9. What do you think about the Bible?
It’s a great story. “God said to Noah there’s gonna be a floody-floody”
Not many main-stream Christian scholars believe in the literal translation though. Funnily enough though most main-stream scientists believe in God ;)
The Old Testament is at it’s best man trying to make sense of his world and his relationship with God through story. If you consider the Creation story for example, well hey it’s only off by a few billion years, but as an overall allegory of the order in which the world was created, it’s not bad for a humble shepherd sitting on a hill-top gazing up at the stars, trying to make sense of his world in prose.
The New Testament is God’s revelation of his love for us through his Son Jesus Christ. Generally speaking (misogynistic old Paul aside) it can speak to you if you let it. If the only thing you get out of the NT is that ‘God is Love’, and that we should love our neighbours as we would be loved ourselves, well is that really such a bad message to take on board, and to pass on?
10. What do you think about the modern American church?
Don’t know, it’s probably as crappy a the Australian one. Beside, which Church?
11. What would you change about church?
LOL the generic make it more all-encompassing. Teach it’s ministers to better express the Word of God to a generally agnostic population.


Jojo
Jojo
Old Shoe

May-11-2006 17:30

Catholicism, although heavily exposed to Protestant religions as well.

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