Personally, I believe in a combination....evolution controled and planned by a higher power. Whether it's God/Allah/the Universe or just fate is a debate unto itself.
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If you could ask God/Allah/The Universe (etc) one question, what would it be?
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I find that really interesting (and thank you for not being offended by my comment as i was not attacking). Alot of Christians i've met, and also included in my family, cannot fathom the idea of evolution and say it's evil, or stupid, or unthinkable, and some won't even want to discuss it! I just find it intriguing that there ARE christians who are not threatened by being a little open minded so other possibilities while still keeping with their faith.
Can you give me some of your powers?
Honey, I wasn't offended at all, I was more afraid that I offended you! I grew up in a very strict Catholic family, and even my mom (Italian Catholic) didn't believe that the world was honestly created in 6 days. Maybe 6 days in God's world (which could be millions of years). Who knows how long this took, but I do think something or someone was and is controling it and directing us to be the way we are.
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And "Can you please pay a little more attention from now on? Because surely you wouldn't allow a lot of the bad things that happen if you knew about them."
And "Are our loved ones waiting for us on the other side?" please please please
I think I'd just have to ask "Where have you been?"
If there were a higher power and I came face to face with him I would ask him why he took my grandma away
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Why such suffering in the world?
(I question whether there really is a higher power - as who could create such suffering? Just IMO)
(I question whether there really is a higher power - as who could create such suffering? Just IMO)
I would ask how to prevent all forms of cancer in all animals/humans
GOOD ONE!!Originally Posted by WellingtonCats
I would ask how to prevent all forms of cancer in all animals/humans
Hey I can answer that! So you don't choke on itOriginally Posted by laureen227
why is the pit in the avocado so big?.
Have you seen the movie Dogma? Apparently SHE has been assuming her human form to play computer arcade games.Originally Posted by Skippymjp
I think I'd just have to ask "Where have you been?"
I think most of these questions are good ones... But I wonder, especially with questions like "Why is there suffering?" and "Why do bad things happen to good people?" would we really want to know the answers, or would we understand them? What if the answer was that the world really wasn't fair? Or there was some big system based on numbers and checks and balances and some people would just have to have bad things happen to them because a certain number of bad things had to happen and their recipients were randomly determined?
Or what if the reason was so complex that we just couldn't understand?
I think people are looking for validation, not to just find out WHY we are here and WHY these things happen, but for those reasons to be comforting instead of terrifying.
I worry that they would be terrifying. I don't know if that makes sense, but I feel that if there is a supreme being (whatever it is) controlling the universe, the reasons for the way the universe works must be so vast and awe inspiring and terrifying that I'm not sure I want to know them, and I know I'm probably not meant to.
That said, I think I'd ask God "Do you like ice cream? If you do, what's your favorite flavor?"
Or what if the reason was so complex that we just couldn't understand?
I think people are looking for validation, not to just find out WHY we are here and WHY these things happen, but for those reasons to be comforting instead of terrifying.
I worry that they would be terrifying. I don't know if that makes sense, but I feel that if there is a supreme being (whatever it is) controlling the universe, the reasons for the way the universe works must be so vast and awe inspiring and terrifying that I'm not sure I want to know them, and I know I'm probably not meant to.
That said, I think I'd ask God "Do you like ice cream? If you do, what's your favorite flavor?"
