Week 3 Questions–2nd Hour
Question 1
OK, this week’s question gets a little real. You may not answer this question with a couple sentences of what you think I want to hear. Remember, you don’t even know what that is. I am purposely not giving you a lot of what I think so that you can think for yourselves. You will not be marked down for any opinion that disagrees with whatever I believe. What I want is your thoughts—not mine given back to me. I already know what I think. And believe me, it is pretty spectacularJ
Think about this…
If God exists and a man (woman) does not believe that He exists or does not feel they have enough information to believe He exists, or have never heard of Him; does God still exist?
On to another notion…
If there is a problem with world pollution and misuse of technology, but a man (woman) never hears about this, doesn’t want to believe it or doesn’t have enough facts to believe it is true, is it still true?
Can these statements be both true and false? Or is it one or the other?
What is the role of the person that knows that the answer is “yes” to these questions? Or that the answer is “no” to these questions? What are they to do? Keep it to themselves?
If they should not keep it to themselves, what should they be doing? If the answer for you is that you believe the answer to either of these questions is “Yes” or “No”, what are you doing?
Can we apply Acts 1:8 to each of these first two statements? How?
Question 2:
Look at last week’s question #2 for this one.
16 comments Mr. Holt | Honors Chemistry (4th and 5th)
I think that there is a time in every Christian’ns life when the question the presence of “God.” Growing up, with a Deist mom, I’ve never actually cared about whether God wanted things in a certain order or not. But somehow, I’ve always had a small curiosity for Christianity, and I later became baptized. Now, I’d like to believe that the impulse I had to follow Jesus was the Holy Spirit (Acts 1:8), but I guess we never will truly know exactly until Judgement Day. I think that it depends on a person’s faith that God exists, but because we live in a society where all evidence has to be tangible; there is a chance that God may not exist. Wouldn’t it be strange to find out that the day we die, we don’t see Jesus– instead we see Allah, and he’ll be like “Why didn’t you pray five times a day?” In the end, the answer to whether God exists or not depends on your faith.
Personally, I beileve in Global Warming. However, I do not believe that we are the cause of it. It seems to me that every generation thinks that their time is the “Last Days.” It is a fact that the Earth is getting hotter, but it’s happened before in history and we turned out fine. I also know for a fact that people would tell you anything to make you adopt their beilefs. For instance, In an Inconvenient Truth Al Gore told us a story about his son almost dying to make us cry, so we could somehow love the planet better. Anyone can have thier opinion on something, but that does not mean that it is fact. Just like Vegetarianism for instance, there may be a place out in the world where everyone thinks that killing animals is a huge problem, but we Americans thank God for McDonalds.So I guess until everyone accepts that it is a problem, it is not an official problem.
The only person that knows the answer to these questions is God. God would always keep the answers to himself because if he told us, it affects our gift of freewill.
There is a comic book by Marvel that is about this group of supernatural beings. The beings watched every planet and noticed that they were so primitive because they didnt know anything about technology. So one day the beings gave them technology and the people ended up creating nuclear weapons and killing themselves. The story ends with the beings vowing to never get involved with the planets again.
In a way, I think that’s how god is. I guess that’s a little of my Deist side talking, but it seems to make sense.
I dont think that any person in this world could answer either of these questions right or wrong, because we’re all equal as people–and Christians shouldnt judge other Christians.
(From Spy Kids 2)
Dr. Romero:
“Do you think God lives in Heaven because He too lives in fear of what He created? “
This is a very deep question. And it’s kinda hard for me to wrap my head around. There is a lot there, so I’ll just give you my thoughts, the best I can.
First of all, I firmly believe that God exists. He may not always seem present to me, but I somehow know He’s there. And touching on what Ashlee said, suppose what she said is really a possibility? Though I firmly believe in God’s existance, it could be just as valid to say that we could die, and there may really just be nothingness. I’m pretty much 100% sure that’s not the case, but there’s also a possibility that what we believe as Christians is false. I mean, what if what we’re doing to worship God isn’t right at all?
About global warming…
I really don’t have much of an opinion on that. I mean, I guess I agree that it’s a problem, but what can we really do to reverse it? And again touching on what Ashlee said, she’s right. Anyone can express their opinion for something, but just because they believe something, that doesn’t make it fact. Global warming is real, and if someone believes it’s not, that doesn’t change the fact that it exists.
In my opinion i believe that God exists no matter what god tells me. But of course i grew up with the whole christian family. Now to some people God may not exist, and i am not shooting down that idea, i just believe in my heart that God exists and that he is watching over us all.
Now in the case of Global warming in my general opinion i believe it does exist. In my opinion i believe we are the cause of it. Now Ashley has a very solid point about people telling us stories to get us to believe their points. But if you look today you see many people causing many problems such as not driving with pairs if they live close to you. Now i have a plan that may cause some people to back fire on my me that may help the environment. My plan would include shutting down everything for three months, which would give our ozone layer a better chance.
Now i have to agree and disagree with Ashley, the fact that i am agreeing with is the fact that God can only answer these questions. But on the part where eating meat is bad i have to disagree, just as Carlos Mencia said “I am helping the environment by eating the cows, vegetarians are destroying it by eating the vegetation that helps our ozone layer.” Now that was a bit to much but that is what i believe and you may have a different opinion and i will respect that but that is what i believe
Question #1
I believe that God still exists. I say that because just because one person decides on believing in God does not affect the ways that others view God. I believe that many people can have a different view, some may believe in him with a full heart while others only believe in him with half a heart.
Yes it is true. I say that it is true because everybody does not know what is going on or what is taken place at a certain point in time. Some people are a couple of days behind or maybe a couple of months behind others with the technology or other subjects that deals with the world.
I do not believe that it can be true and false. I believe it is true. The role of the person that knows the answer is “yes” is one of a person that believes in everything and also one that keeps up to date with items. The role of a person who thinks the answer is “no” is one of disbelief, also someone who is behind in time. They are not to keep it to themselves; many people try to convince people to switch ways on how they think and how they act.
I do not believe we can apply Acts 1:8 to the first two statements. I say no because it deals with God, not with Global warming and technology. So if it had to apply to one of them, it would most likely be the first one.
Question 1.
To the first question, yes I do believe that if something exists or not, it still exists. If a tree falls in the forest and no one is around to hear it doesn’t it still make noise? To the pollution part, sure there can still be a problem weather you believe it or not, but when it comes down to fact, if there isn’t enough evidence to make it fact then that is where it becomes questionable. So in turn yes, I belive it can be both, true and false.
In the event that a person know it it true and it can be proven fact, then make a stand on it, tell the world, make a differance. On the other hand if they only belive it and can’t prove it, maybe it should be kept to themselves. If someone can’t prove it just yet, then maybe they should do some more research and when they have enough evidence to prove it, then come out with it and make it fact.
First of all wow what great questions. For the first one I believe that if someone believes in God that there is no one that someone who doesn’t believe in it should be able to change the persons mind. For they have the own ability to believe in what they want to believe. For some people who don’t believe it could because they have never heard of him before or if it’s a global warming thing that they are just not paying attention enough to care.
Yes I believe it is true. For that some people do not believe it because they just don’t know what is happening because they don’t care or just no one tells them about it.
To me I believe that it can not be true and false since the people have an ability to choose what they want to believe and what they don’t want to believe. For example if someone believes that global warming is happening then let them believe it but if someone doesn’t they just le\t them not believe it.
Yes we can apply acts 1:8 to the first to statements. for it says: But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes on you; and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth.” by being a witness to something it is your duty to speared the word of what happen so if you say yes to something and believe you saw it, it means to spread the word
im not sure how to answer this but here it goes, i have grown up catholic and have been told that god is true since the day i was born, but there has been nothing that has make me say, “ya god is real, i have no doubt about it.”
there is no doubt about it, just because some one isnt informed about somethign dosent mean that it isnt true. a perfect example is when some one dies, but there body dosen’t decompose. scientest cant figure out how it happens, dosent mean that it dosnet happen.
the people who know about a subject that other people dont know much about, their job it to help them to understand about that subject
No matter what i think that God exists. i was raised into a Catholic family and that is what i believe. i dont really care what anyone else thinks about my opinion on this because it is what i believe and i know that he is there.
No matter what i think that God exists. I was raised into a Catholic family and that is what i believe. I dont really care what anyone else thinks about my opinion on this because it is what i believe and i know that he is there.
I believe that there is global warming. I have heard this in school, from my parents, ECT. If someone disagreed with me i would not challenge them because thats their opinion and honestly, i do not know much about this topic.
These statements can be true or false in ones mind. It is all about what people believe in and you shouldnt try to force your opinion on others.
I think that they should keep it to themselves because everyone should have their own opinion.
I dont have an answer to that question because i feel that, that topic should be kept to yourself. about the last question i cant find a reason that that ACTS 1:8 relates to any of this.
alright. getting into talks about God’s existence usually results in me getting angry. but, i think i can handle myself. i most certainly believe in God. just because someone else doesn’t, that does not mean He is non-existant. this is not congress. we don’t use voting to decide whether God is real or not. there may not be proof like there would be in one of your AWESOME experiments, but, if there isn’t proof, that doesn’t mean it isn’t there. He is present in our lives every moment of every day. He is in caley and mr. tober and so many other people. God is someone that you don’t need proof for. you just simply believe that he is there. there is no logical answer. just believe. and even if i didn’t believe, it doesn’t mean that He is not there. He is always and forever.
soooooo, global warming. this is pretty much the same answer as the last one. let’s pretend ashley doesn’t believe in global warming and i do. if global warming was real and ashley didn’t believe it, it wouldn’t just disappear. and if global warming wasn’t real and i believed it was, it wouldn’t just kind of pop out of no where.
Becklin, I see where you are comming from here, but why couldn’t it also be false? Sure you may believe in something but where is the fact in believing. If you can’t prove something, and only believe in it then it would be false.
God exists in every way in life. God created this world for us. Many people in the world beleive in different gods. They believe in there own ways. There is only one God who created this world. God created trees, lakes, oceans, and animals, etc.
It is true that the world is fallen apart slowly. It has been fallen apart everywhere. There may be people who do not completly understand what’s going on. That is no excuse for not knowing what’s going on in the world. The people who do not understand can get more facts about it. Also there are people who really do understand what’s going on, but they just ignore it. They are just lazy people.
These facts are all true, but it takes time to notice and understand the situation.
The role is to be the best teacher as possible.Help them out in anyway. Give out the right advice as possible. Answer the question and listen to them. Never keep it to yourself. That will never solve the problem.
Yes we can apply Acts 1:8 because we are supposed to be God’s witnesses. We need to share the good news. Share our faith. That will be the best way to be a christian. As a christian we need to share our faith to everyone.
I agree with Kevin because people do have a heart. They have a heart towards God, but they use it in different ways.
i would have to agree with Jodee. I can relate to where she is coming from with how we believe in God and it does not matter what other people think. I can understand what she is talking about with the proof of God and not having proof of God.
i would have to agree with Cody Boukamp. I agree with him for two reasons. First, I agree becasue believing in God is in your own opinion and not anyone elses. Secondly, for the true and false part. It is also just ones opinion and there is no right or wrong answer.
like I said in week 4 (which is wierd because I feel like I’m going back in time, HAHA)Just because you believe in God does NOT mean He’s real. same with pollution. If it’s not real we can’t do anything to change that around. If it’s not real then it’s not real!