I am a Boy at Christian School. I have to ask 5 question and figure out your worldview.

nPeace · May 13, 2019

porter phillips said:
1. How do you believe the earth was created?

The earth seem designed with a purpose.with living things in mind. So it seems to point to a careful and precise intelligent designer. The Bible says God - a supreme being - did it, by his unmatched power and energy.

porter phillips said:
2. Do you believe there is a God?

Of course, an almighty eternal, supreme being.

porter phillips said:
3. Why do bad things happen to good people?

For that answer, I look beyond man, who don't even understand why hr exists in the first place.
The Bible tends to provide reasonable answers. It says, 1. part of the blame for wickedness lies with humans who don't seem to know how to guide his own path. (Jeremiah 10:23) 2. Sometimes we tend to get caught in the crossfire - we are in the wrong place, at the wrong time (Ecclesiastes 9:11). 3. The world - that is, the system, is under the control of an unseen being, who is evil, and bent on doing bad things. (Revelation 12:9-12; 1 John 5:19)

porter phillips said:
4. What happens to humans after they die?

Again, this is a question I cannot look to man to answer - He simply would not know.
The Bible - the most ancient spiritual book, which is credited to the almighty God, gives the answer. It says that there will be a resurrection - that is, a restoring to life, or a raising up to life, for those who died and are remembered by the supreme.(Acts 34:15; John 5:28)
This make sense to me, since it seems life is a product of design, so it's quite obvious to me, that the original designer, is able and seems willing to restore life that was lost. ( Job 14:7-14; Jeremiah 29:11)

porter phillips said:
5. How do we know right from wrong?

There are certain things we learn from experience, and I believe it is through experience that we learn the hard way.
However, I believe there is an easier way to learn right from wrong without unnecessarily hurting ourselves. That is by having a reliable guide to train our consciousness to discern right from wrong. (Hebrews 5:14)
I believe the Bible has proved to be a reliable guide.
In fact it's the one thing that many who have found themselves imprisoned - by drugs, alcohol, spiritism and literally imprisoned for crimes, have used to bail them out,
The Bible has proved to me to be instructions from an all wise father.( Isaiah 48:17, 18)

May I ask, are you guys above a secondary level, say 16 and older?

Kenny · May 13, 2019

columbus said:
Why does God keep making humans stupid and fearful and driven by instinct, if He doesn't want them that way?

Wrong premise.

QuestioningMind · May 13, 2019

porter phillips said:
How do you believe the earth was created?

Do you believe there is a God?

Why do bad things happen to good people?

What happens to humans after they die?

How do we know right from wrong?

How do you believe the earth was created

The Earth formed via natural processes over a great deal of time.

Do you believe there is a God

I have yet to be presented with sufficient verifiable evidence to believe in any god or gods that anyone has ever proposed to me.

Why do bad things happen to good people?

Technically you'd first have to define what you mean by 'bad things' and by 'good people'. That said, I'd say that everyone is subject to some degree of random events beyond their control, regardless of how they behave.

What happens to humans after they die?

No one knows at this point in time. There's plenty of evidence to suggest that death is the end of existence, but there are far too many unknowns to say for certain. It's certainly possible that there is some sort of afterlife, but I don't know... and no one else does either.

How do we know right from wrong?

Most everyone develops of moral sense of right and wrong due to their ability to empathize. It's the ability to recognize that if you wouldn't want someone else to treat you in a certain way, then you shouldn't treat other people in that certain way. If you wouldn't want someone to physically strike you then you shouldn't physically strike others. If you wouldn't want someone to steal your property then you shouldn't steal the property of others. If you wouldn't want someone to own you as property then you shouldn't own other people as property. If you wouldn't want someone to rape you then you shouldn't rape anyone else. If you wouldn't want someone to murder you then you shouldn't murder other people.

It's a very effect method and when used people from all over the world tend to agree on what constitutes wrong behavior.

Terry Sampson · May 13, 2019

KenS said:
I wasn't trying to change Columbus answers. I was answering his comment.

Hmmm, ... let's see:

You wrote:
- KenS said:
  
  I believe God's spoken word was the first cause. Having read some material on the substance of materiality, the say that the very foundation of what we see are light/sound waves. (I would have to look again for support)
  [*]Sure do
  [*]In my view, sometimes because man has free will and God gave the world to mankind. So, sometimes, because of the free will, bad things happen to good people. Second, I also believe in a spiritual world and there are spirits that control people and sponsor evil.
  [*]There is a place that I call Heaven and then there is the future of planets that God formed.
  [*]That is complex, IMV. Some things are ingrained as wrong--like the taking of innocent life. Some things culture decides. Some things are personal decision--and may be right for one person but not right for another. Ultimately, IMO, God will decide what is right and what is wrong.
  
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Columbus wrote:
- columbus said:
  
  This is clearly not ingrained, or there wouldn't be so much murder, abortion, and war.
  Tom
  
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You wrote:
- KenS said:
  
  I think it is... but one learns to violate ones conscious until it become seared.
  
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Columbus wrote:
- columbus said:
  
  Of course you do. If you didn't believe in this, your omnimax God image would collapse like a house of cards. But it still doesn't make any more sense.Tom
  
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You're absolutely correct and I apologize profusely. Columbus started the ball rolling by messing around with your answers. If you don't believe in free will, you had no choice but to respond the way you did. On the hand, if you do believe in free will, [which you say you do] you rolled the ball farther. Congratulations! Now both of you are rolling the ball around in public during Porter's final exam. How do you expect him to finish it before it's due? Besides, ... the heathen are watching, remember?

A Vestigial Mote · May 13, 2019

porter phillips said:
How do you believe the earth was created?

Do you believe there is a God?

Why do bad things happen to good people?

What happens to humans after they die?

How do we know right from wrong?

1. The Earth is the product of the fundamental processes of the universe acting on the material of the universe
2. No.
3. "Bad" is an entirely relative term. A more proper representation is that THINGS happen, and they happen without regard to whether or not a being is "good" (another entirely relative term)
4. Loss of electrical generation and impulses throughout the body, leading to immune system shut down and making way for decomposition.
5. Development as a social species provides us basic instincts that inform what we call our "conscience," and on top of this our developed ability to process abstract thought allows us to take our understanding of others and our effects on others to even further levels of empathy.

sooda · May 13, 2019

porter phillips said:
How do you believe the earth was created?

Do you believe there is a God?

Why do bad things happen to good people?

What happens to humans after they die?

How do we know right from wrong?

Is your school accredited?

Terry Sampson · May 13, 2019

sooda said:
Is your school accredited?

LOL! Why don't you just tell the kid you're not going to answer his questions until the FBI clears the school and the kid?

Kenny · May 13, 2019

Terry Sampson said:
Hmmm, ... let's see:

You wrote:

Columbus wrote:

You wrote:

Columbus wrote:

You're absolutely correct and I apologize profusely. Columbus started the ball rolling by messing around with your answers. If you don't believe in free will, you had no choice but to respond the way you did. On the hand, if you do believe in free will, [which you say you do] you rolled the ball farther. Congratulations! Now both of you are rolling the ball around in public during Porter's final exam. How do you expect him to finish it before it's due? Besides, ... the heathen are watching, remember?

I would answer you, but this is a test and don't want to be pulled into another rabbit trail.

columbus · May 13, 2019

KenS said:
Wrong premise.

I agree.
The premise that there is a god who designs anything is obviously wrong.
Tom

Kenny · May 13, 2019

columbus said:
I agree.
The premise that there is a god who designs anything is obviously wrong.
Tom

opinion

columbus · May 13, 2019

KenS said:
opinion

One that is supported by evidence.

As opposed to your opinions.
Tom

sooda · May 13, 2019

Terry Sampson said:
LOL! Why don't you just tell the kid you're not going to answer his questions until the FBI clears the school and the kid?

Lots of small Christian schools popped up in the early 1970s. They aren't much.

blü 2 · May 13, 2019

porter phillips said:
How do you believe the earth was created?

The short answer is that in all such questions I'm guided by the best opinion of science for the time being. Core accretion theory is never far from the discussion, but it has unresolved problems.

porter phillips said:
Do you believe there is a God?

I know imaginary gods exist. I have no idea what a real god, one with objective existence, might be.

porter phillips said:
Why do bad things happen to good people?

Because the world behaves exactly as if God existed only in the imagination of individual humans. (Check it out.)

porter phillips said:
What happens to humans after they die?

They're dead. Their sense of self, personality, memories &c have irretrievably ceased to exist.

porter phillips said:
How do we know right from wrong?

We know from surveys of societies around the world, and from experiments with children, even pre-verbal children, that we've evolved to have certain moral tendencies (which, you'll notice, are appropriate for us as gregarious primates): child nurture and protection, dislike of the one who harms, like of fairness and reciprocity, respect for authority, loyalty to the group, and a sense of self-worth or virtue through self-denial. The rest of our morality is acquired in the course of our upbringing, culture, education and experience.

We also have a conscience, which works by making us think certain moral or judgmental opinions we may hold have universal application. And we get our empathy from our mirror neurons, which allow us to imagine ourselves in someone else's shoes.

Aupmanyav · May 13, 2019

Terry Sampson said:
Nice going, Aup. Maybe the School Board will fire the teacher and hire you. Are you ready to move to the U.S.???

No, Terry. It is late for me. And you have Trump there.

Aupmanyav · May 13, 2019

PureX said:
I don't think the how, matters. I think the real question is 'why'.

True. The answer is, and science has still to decide about it, that existence and non-existence are just phases, like in case of virtual particles. 'Ex-Nihilo'. RigVeda said 3,000 years ago:

"Sato bandhumasati niravindan hṛidi pratīṣyākavayo manīṣā ll"
Sages who searched with their heart's thought discovered the existent's kinship in the non-existent.
Rig Veda: Rig-Veda, Book 10: HYMN CXXIX. Creation.

QuestioningMind said:
It's certainly possible that there is some sort of afterlife, but I don't know...

Oh sure, the billions upon billion atoms (7 x 10 raised to power 27 - i.e., 7 followed by 27 zeros) that make a human body don't just cease to exist. They go on to form parts of billions of other things.

David T · May 14, 2019

porter phillips said:
How do you believe the earth was created?
Rephrasing your question "how was reality created?" I would say there are issues with your reality outside reality creating reality. That's virtual reality in secular terms.

Do you believe there is a God?. .
No . .Belief in god is the second most immature idea normal people have. The most immature? Non belief in god. Atheists and believers deserve each other. Normals ....

Why do bad things happen to good people.?
I thought you were at a Christian school? "The rain falls on the just and unjust". How hard is that?

What happens to humans after they die?

What happened to them before they were born to ask such a dumb question in the first place.? How come the pheonix isn't the symbol of Christianity? We are 14 billion years old read john 1:1-2 for petesake .

How do we know right from wrong?

A long long series of mistakes across multiple generations till we eventually come to the correct conclusion in spite of ourselves .You don't know church history now do you. Now on an individual level some people just do it's deeper than simply following a book. Love is a very curious topic.

My degree? Theology from a moderate Evangelical University . I don't believe in God. I don't not believe in God nor am I remotely agnostic as well. All three are a confused trio. Who and what am I?

Aupmanyav · May 14, 2019

David T said: Who and what am I?
David, 'that, you are' (Tat twam asi), Brahman in Hindu parlance, the entity with which we started at the time of Big Bang, the entity which constitutes all things in the universe.

TransmutingSoul · May 14, 2019

porter phillips said:
How do you believe the earth was created?

A projection of the Holy Spirit

porter phillips said:
Do you believe there is a God?

Yes, there is only One God

porter phillips said:
Why do bad things happen to good people?

We do not know if they are bad, they may be good.

porter phillips said:
What happens to humans after they die?

They become aware that they are really a spiritual being.

porter phillips said:
How do we know right from wrong?

Free will choice if we listen to Gods Message or not.

Regards Tony

Sanzbir · May 14, 2019

porter phillips said:
How do you believe the earth was created?

Who knows??

porter phillips said:
Do you believe there is a God?

Yes.

porter phillips said:
Why do bad things happen to good people?

The belief that "bad" things happen is a delusion. Can't answer your question, because bad things don't happen.

porter phillips said:
What happens to humans after they die?

Probably something interesting.

porter phillips said:
How do we know right from wrong?

First through emotion. Then through reason. Then through uniting right and wrong.

URAVIP2ME · May 14, 2019

porter phillips said:
How do you believe the earth was created?

Do you believe there is a God?

Why do bad things happen to good people?

What happens to humans after they die?

How do we know right from wrong?

1. I find according to Isaiah 40:26 God created the Earth out of His ' power and strength '.
Thus, God supplied the abundantly needed dynamic energy to create the visible material realm - Psalms 104:30
2. Just as Jesus believes there is a God so do I - Revelation 3:12
3. Satan challenges all of us (Job 2:4-5) 'touch' our 'flesh' ( loose physical health and we would Not serve God )
Since we all have free-will choices if we choose to Not keep the Golden Rule, we could do bad things.
4. Jesus taught after we die we are in a sleep-like state as per John 11:11-14
Jesus was well educated in the old Hebrew Scriptures which also teach unconscious sleep in death.
For Example: Psalms 6:5; Psalms 13:3; Psalms 115:17; Psalms 146:4; Isaiah 38:18; Ecclesiastes 9:5
5. As Jesus knew right from wrong by believing that Scripture teaches religious truth - John 17:17.
Just as the human judges of Psalms 82 were to use Scripture to measure out God's judgements so does Jesus.

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