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

[porter phillips]

1. How do you believe the earth was created?
   
   
2. Do you believe there is a God?
   
   
3. Why do bad things happen to good people?
   
   
4. What happens to humans after they die?
   
   
5. How do we know right from wrong?

 

[Audie]

"their"

 

[sealchan]

1. How do you believe the earth was created?
   
   
2. Do you believe there is a God?
   
   
3. Why do bad things happen to good people?
   
   
4. What happens to humans after they die?
   
   
5. How do we know right from wrong?

1. Physical evolution
2. Yes
3. Reality is amoral, humans are to be moral
4. Their bodies decompose, there is no consciousness
5. Our evolutionarily evolved brain and body produces thoughts and feelings that tell us

I gave you succinct answers as this might make it more interesting for you to determine my world view without spelling it out.

 

[sooda]

1. How do you believe the earth was created?
   
   
2. Do you believe there is a God?
   
   
3. Why do bad things happen to good people?
   
   
4. What happens to humans after they die?
   
   
5. How do we know right from wrong?

How old is your school and what denomination are they?

 

[Daemon Sophic]

Welcome to the forum @porter phillips

So, you are trying to determine our own world view/philosophy /religion based upon answers to your questions?

Of course in many of our cases, it is made too easy for you, since, like myself, our outlook is posted under our name, or in our signature.
But I’ll play along.....


"porter phillips, post: 6103391, member: 66553"]

1. How do you believe the earth was created? Gravity.
   
   
2. Do you believe there is a God? Not necessarily.
   
   
3. Why do bad things happen to good people? Bad people, bad timing, and/or bad “luck”. Plus lack of planning on the part of most people.
   
   
4. What happens to humans after they die? I’m assuming here that you are asking about their consciousness/spirit/mind/etc..., and not the rotting corpse. Answer: Dunno. Nobody does.
5. How do we know right from wrong? Good parenting, and an inborn sense of fairness.

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[Samana Johann]

Who is "their", or should be, young man Porter? It's possible good if asking that an answer whould contain information about it. Much success with young man's task and may he make it with own interest as well.

 

[joe1776]

1. How do you believe the earth was created?
   
   
2. Do you believe there is a God?
   
   
3. Why do bad things happen to good people?
   
   
4. What happens to humans after they die?
   
   
5. How do we know right from wrong?

1. I don't know. It's a mystery.

2. Maybe there's a Creator. If so, the founders of traditional Western religion didn't know anything more about it than I do.

3. Mostly, bad things happen to people because people are both good and bad. They do bad things to each other. In other cases, bad things happen to them because of accidents and their own stupidity.

4. We might have a spirit that survives death. That's another mystery.

5. We're born with a conscience, intuition that enables us to discern right from wrong which we are free to disregard if we want to harm others. We do not learn to discern right from wrong after we're born. It isn't taught to us. That's a common myth.

 

[porter phillips]

"their"

Thanks Audie

 

[Brickjectivity]

1. Brick. Hi I attended a Christian school, too. We used PACES and then Abeka. Christian schooling is unnecessary, and you can't choose for your kids once they get to 5th or 6th grade. By then its up to them. You also can't protect your kids from ideas once they get that old. One thing Christian school did for me was taught me to recite the books of the Bible in order plus some scripture verses, but beyond that it was not an advantage.
2. Liberal Christianity which believes the spirit goes where it wills, just like the wind. Because of that I recognize that other Christians are Christians even if undereducated, snake handling, dancing naked around podiums etc. So, I include as Christians a broad variety of cults and even students from Christian schools, too. Knowledge puffs up, but love builds up etc. I loathe endless sermons day after day and week after week, but I think reading the Bible once through and listening to some instruction is quite good so long as we learn it. At the same time people shouldn't be paying ministers to pump us up. They are like steroids, giving us big boobs. I think we should be unified but not by a podium.
3. The creation of the physical planet is irrelevant to faith. Creation has to do with the creation of ministries and of people. Hence the light is created before the Sun and so forth.
4. Yes but I recognize God to be conceptual, not derived, omnipresent, no respector of persons and non-physical, just like I believe a Christian should believe God to be.
5. Good people also happen to bad things, so its fair.
6. Physically we remain stuck in the past, however that which we have invested in Christ lives on in Christ. Those who are in sin are dead even though they live.
7. Our ability to choose right and wrong is what sets us apart from the animals. Its an intelligent power, but its not pure logic which would destroy us all probably. Therefore it can't be described within a few lines.

 

[Thief]

What happens to humans after they die?

you end up alongside others that think and feel just like you do

how else to be happy?
how else to be fair?

but if you happen to believe there is no after life.....
then you follow your body into the box and then into the ground

eternal darkness is physically real
no form of light follows anyone into the grave

you say you are school boy?.....and age of twenty?
but your question implies a precocious frame of mind

I hope you are as mature as your questions indicate

 

[Left Coast]

1. How do you believe the earth was created?
   
   
2. Do you believe there is a God?
   
   
3. Why do bad things happen to good people?
   
   
4. What happens to humans after they die?
   
   
5. How do we know right from wrong?

How many of you are in this class? 3 or 4 of your classmates have already posted here, was this website recommended by the teacher as a place to ask these questions?

 

[Audie]

Thanks Audie

any time.

 

[columbus]

How do you believe the earth was created?

A bit of matter left over from the accretion of the sun condensed into a sustainable orbit around the sun.

Do you believe there is a God?

Yes.

Why do bad things happen to good people?

Because people aren't very well suited to life on this planet.

What happens to humans after they die?

Their meatself rots and rejoins the cycle of physical life. Their soul rejoins the Ground of Being. Or "Original Source". Or, however you want to describe god.

How do we know right from wrong?

We generally don't. We just learn techniques for improvement to our personal experience.
Some people learn better than others. But even the best aren't all that good at it.

Tom
PS ~ Are you going to share your conclusions with us?~

 

[Aupmanyav]

You have the replies here. Taylor Raines was here before you. Now you have to write something other than what Taylor might have written.
Questions for someone of a different religion

 

[Twilight Hue]

You have the replies here. Taylor Raines was here before you. Now you have to write something other than what Taylor might have written.
Questions for someone of a different religion

This is what? Three threads so far with the same questions?

 

[Terry Sampson]

This is what? Three threads so far with the same questions?

Gee, ... could the questioners all be from the same school, in the same class, and have been given the same assignment, by the same teacher? Wow, ... how remarkably odd. More likely, it's probably the same student pretending to be a different person three times so far, if your count is correct.

Them darn Christians! ... they're always doing goofy things. There ought to be a law against them doing that!

 

[Terry Sampson]

How many of you are in this class? 3 or 4 of your classmates have already posted here, was this website recommended by the teacher as a place to ask these questions?

Don't look now, but the teacher might be one of us members of RF. Who do you think it might be and what's that bugger up to?

 

[Twilight Hue]

Gee, ... could the questioners all be from the same school, in the same class, and have been given the same assignment, by the same teacher? Wow, ... how remarkably odd. More likely, it's probably the same student pretending to be a different person three times so far, if your count is correct.

Them darn Christians! ... they're always doing goofy things. There ought to be a law against them doing that!

I like that bit of ribbing there. ;O)

 

[Terry Sampson]

You have the replies here. Taylor Raines was here before you. Now you have to write something other than what Taylor might have written.
Questions for someone of a different religion

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

 

[Kenny]

How do you believe the earth was created?

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)

• Do you believe there is a God?

Sure do

Why do bad things happen to good people?

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

What happens to humans after they die?

There is a place that I call Heaven and then there is the future of planets that God formed.

How do we know right from wrong?

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.