Religious questions, that have always made me..think.?
OKay, so you go to heaven or hell whenever you die right. Well what about whenever you die, but come back to life. Why don’t people say anything about going to heaven or hell? Is it because you have to be dead for a certain amount of time until you pass over, or does heaven and hell not exist?
Also, people say God knows the future, if he knows the future then how do we have free will?
People say that gay marriages are a sin because it says in the bible marriage is between one man and one woman. But in biblical time, men had more than one wife?
And, my last question. When someone survives something like a car crash but all the toher people in the other car die, and the person who survived says somthing like, "God was the one who saved me." something along those lines. Why would he save that person but then let all the other people die? If he could stop his/her death, then why couldn’t he save the people in the other car from dieing?
PLease dont take these question oensively, I jsut cant stop thinking about them. And I wanted to hear other people’s thoughts about them.
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These are questions that are easier to answer when they are separate, not all at once.
1. Most people don’t understand heaven and hell, religious or not. Most rely too much on what they heard from a church or steal from Greek and Roman mythology. Honestly, just read the whole Bible and come up with your own ideas. I think that’s the best idea. Anytime I mention what I’ve read in the Bible, people just thumbs down me.
2. God’s knowledge of the future isn’t anything magical. I can often predict future events based on the past and present. Everything in life is a pattern based on mathematics. God just happens to be a master at how you will end up based on what you currently do. We’re creatures of habit. We have a free will to change. If we don’t change for the better, we seal a sad fate.
3. Gay marriages probably don’t hurt anyone directly. But the Bible shows that it’s a result of society going astray, not the other way around. God recognizes one specific wife in these marriages that you talk about. He favored Abraham’s first wife. He favored Rebekah over Jacob’s other wife. Solomon had hundreds of wives. Yet he admitted that he only loved one. God doesn’t condone extra wives unless they are from a deceased brother (read the OT laws for more info). But that’s a different story and only meant for perserving the family.
4. First off, who’s to say that God really saved that person? I know a lot of people who claim that God has saved them or that God talks to them. I’m certain that 90% are crazy. I’m also certain it isn’t a question of "can" God save these people. I honestly don’t know why God lets some people live and lets other die. I try not to presume why God let someone die, lest I end up judging that person.
Obviously God kills as many people as he saves but he only gets credit for his successes, not his failures. This is common with children to their parents, or people who believe in psychics or "healers".
It’s typical superstitious thinking.
Take away the "God" part and then all of those questions make sense.
Think about it.
People have had near death experiences and seen both heaven and hell.
God is eternal and is not bound by time at all. We are not meant to understand this fully but basically God always existed and never had a beginning or an end.
Like when our universe began it had a starting point therefore it is not eternal or infinite, Meaning it must have came from something which is not made of matter and is eternal since matter cannot come from non matter.
We do have free will but God already knows what weve done and will do since he Always exists past present and future, with no beginning or end.
When you die your soul goes to heaven or hell, we dont come back and become anything else. its it were dead were dead nothing else, we never come back to life. god gives us free will by letting us choose the life we want to live. it is wrong for ppl to be gay its immoral because god made man for women and women for man. not men for men and not women for women. when you die its ur time and if you dont die then its not ur time and u ahve more to do on this earth
people have near death experiences about heaven and hell….you can google it if you want
although God knows the future he doesnt stop us from doing what we want, so we still have free will
having more than one wife was never ok…God tolerated it to help populate the earth….being gay is not a sin but having gay sex is…..plus marriage is suppose to be between a man and a woman
when it is some ones time to go then it is their time…
You need to read up on near death experiences ,for many have gone to hell and heaven and came back after dieing. (near death experiences ) look it up on the web.
Hello!
O.K., I will Answer one of your Questions:
If GOD Knows the Future, then How Do We Have a FreeWill?
See, even though you might be Able to "Look" into the Future to "See" what is Agonn’a Happen—That Does Not "Mean" that YOU made the "Future"—Happen That Way.
See?
Think Bout’ it!
Considering the bible was written by mere human beings it is full of flaws and contradictions. Just like the Watchtower bible or The Book of Mormon, it is written by conniving, lying, greedy, old men.
God will send you to hell for gay marriage and sex, yet he creates you gay and then expects you to have a sex-free life, I guess. Either that or he is fake.
F^CK U Godd
We don’t know the answers to these and other questions…That’s why they”re called mysteries and God is God and we are here. That’s what faith is …believing without seeing or knowing by our own knowledge…Take care and God bless.
"people say God knows the future, if he knows the future then how do we have free will?"
He does know the future. We do have our free will. He is just able to see what our decisions will do for us in the future.
"People say that gay marriages are a sin because it says in the bible marriage is between one man and one woman. But in biblical time, men had more than one wife?"
Men having more than one wife is not the same thing as loving the same gender. man and woman were created to be attracted to each other for a reason… to multiply and replenish the earth. We were created ON PURPOSE to be attracted to the opposite sex. Homosexuality goes against what we were created for.
"And, my last question. When someone survives something like a car crash but all the toher people in the other car die, and the person who survived says somthing like, "God was the one who saved me." something along those lines. Why would he save that person but then let all the other people die? If he could stop his/her death, then why couldn’t he save the people in the other car from dieing? "
Perhaps the others were more needed elsewhere, and the surviver was still needed on the earth.
I’ve known people who died and came back and they did have memories of what they saw!
One local man was an atheist doctor who had a heart attack while in the hospital. He was actually dead for five minutes, when they brought him back. He came out of it screaming, "I don’t want to burn! I don’t want to burn!"
Another man was a prison inmate who had been stabbed in the head with something. He died and came back screaming about the demons he saw. Both men became Christians and has far as I know never backslid.
I also know of a woman who died temporarily and went to heaven. she said even her childhood dog was there to greet her, but they all told her she was earily and still had some work to do before she could come home. Another man I met just once had an amazing testimony about dying at home and seeing heaven for a moment or so before he was sent back.
I know those who don’t want to believe will have one excuse after another to explain these things away. But, considering how well these people I mentioned are able to described what they saw and how they seem to fit with each others descriptions, I’ll say they went where they claim to have gone.
If you believe in God then you can’t believe in "free will" because that would change everything. and if we had free will and believed in God why does he punish us so severly when we "disobey" him? if we have free will why would he punish us for simply making choices? makes no sense.
There are a lot of people who have died and been brought back that do talk about heaven/hell experiences. It’s not that common to be brought back to life. And some people have no memory of it, but others do.
God exists outside of time. That means he can see all our choices, past and present and know what we did and will do. That’s still our choice, he has just already seen it.
In the bible when men had more than one wife that was also a sin. There are many incidents of sinning in the bible.
Now the last one is a much deeper issue, and a very thoughtful question. I’m not skilled enough to answer that one. Many people in tragedies ask the same thing, why me and not him? There are books written on that subject but I haven’t read them. I just know God sees the big picture and he knows why he should step in and save one person and not another. Certainly God could save everyone. But, perhaps there is a very important reason why he does not. The bible does say we will not have easy lives.
God may have a reason for allowing 1 person to live and others to
die, perhaps He has a greater purpose, the Bible says, His ways
are not our ways.
He can know the future, but because He gave us the gift of free will,
He will not stop us from our actions.
In the Old Testament, they had more than 1 wife, now the
New Testament says 1 man and 1 woman.
When God decides you are dead, then you will be for sure,
not before.
You have listed a handful of the questions that make most people (the ones who think about it anyway) realize that the story of God that they have been served is not good enough to eat.
Some people have claimed that during their "Near Death Experience" or whatever, that they saw heaven or hell… I saw hell in a dream once, but it was ONLY A DREAM.
An omnipotent God cannot logically coexist in a universe where his creations have freewill. It’s not hard to prove, but for religious types, it’s really hard to accept.
Gay marriage is an issue created by chruches to foster an "Us-Vs.-Them" mentality. A good way to create loyalty is to drive a wedge of mistrust between your group and any convenient opposing view.
The people who talk about miracles have never really thought about it. They just want to believe so bad – it makes them feel so good to believe, that they won’t even stop to question if it makes sense.
The most ironic thing is, all these people believe God gave them their brain, but yet they are afraid to use it to question thier beliefs.
In life a person can be saved from starvation by digging ditches or operating on brains. Heaven and Hell is a little more complicated than going one place or another. (mormon.org) He supplied prophets to answer difficult questions. without them "All we like sheep have gone astray. We have turned everyone to his own way".
1. For someone to go to heaven or hell, they have to be judged on judgment day, so until then, when someone dies their spirit rests with God until they rise again on the big day.
2. He knows the future, not He decides the future. You make decisions of your own but God knows which one you are going to make at all times.
3. If you know the bible well, during times of multiple wives, Jesus had not manifested. So when God sent Jesus things changed. Its not like it was allowed for man to marry many wives, but you know we are man and often do things our own way.
4.That is because that person chooses to believe that God saves. If you do not believe how can He save you then. Besides we all have different destinies to pursue and it does not mean that we all have to get old and die at 100 years!
5. Thank you for your curiosity, it leads to knowledge, hope I answered you!
I don’t really have any answers on near deaths.
We have a limited philosophical scope of God.
The world is essentially dependent on God, and this dependence implies that God is the Creator of the world — the producer of its whole substance; and that its continuance in being at every moment is due to His sustaining power.
It’s not so much as being gay is a sin, it’s the actions that are the sin.
God is omniscient or possesses the most perfect knowledge of all things, follows from His infinite perfection.
In the first place He knows and comprehends Himself fully and adequately, and in the next place He knows all created objects and comprehends their finite and contingent mode of being.
He knows them individually or singularly in their finite multiplicity, knows everything possible as well as actual; knows what is bad as well as what is good.
Everything, in a word, which to our finite minds signifies perfection and completeness of knowledge may be predicated of Divine omniscience, and it is further to be observed that it is on Himself alone that God depends for His knowledge.
To make Him in any way dependent on creatures for knowledge of created objects would destroy His infinite perfection and supremacy.
It is in His eternal, unchangeable, comprehensive knowledge of Himself or of His own infinite being that God knows creatures and their acts, whether there is question of what is actual or merely possible.