Stuff Related To Religion And Existence

If 1 Corinthians 14:34,35 was only talking about a husband, he might be OK with her asking any question in service. Some male pastors might be OK with a woman asking a question in service and that could be publicly known. So it seems like there are no exceptions, at least when it comes to women asking questions. Here are verses instructing women to be quiet and to not teach (and a reason why: Eve being deceived ...): 1 Timothy 2:11-15. Before that New Testament teaching was revealed, the Jews would not allow a woman to read scripture in their synagogue. They would allow a boy to. So for some reason, the Jews already thought that it would be wrong for a woman to teach and/or read scripture in their religious building. According to St. Paul, women were not allowed to be public teachers in the church because teaching is an office of authority. Rabbi means 'my master'. A preacher has authority over a church service [when songs, prayer, the offering, announcements and any stories t

Three studies at Boston University revealed people (including atheists) had a so called "knee jerk" reaction to pictures of natural landscapes - the belief that the natural stuff was designed by something intelligent. If they were raised as a Christian, when they were younger, that could influence things. Boston is in the USA, where there were many Christians (7/10). They tested some people from Finland, but I don't know how many (and perhaps they were Christians when they were younger. There were quite a few Christians there).

The idea of penance has been around from the beginning of the Church. There was a mention of penance in the Old Testament, regarding animal sacrifices, but they were symbolic sacrifices. However, there was the cost of them and the time to go buy 1 and take it to the priest. A Catholic might say that Matthew 3:7-8 is proof that penance is required but what about Micah 6:6-8? That verse could be saying "what's enough?" (it mentioned thousands of rams and the firstborn which he'd only have 1 of). Some of the suffering Christians experience could be seen as God forcing penance on people. A person could never make up for their wrongs, considering how God feels about justice. But that’s a standard of justice. So God could still want you to make things up to him. If you are not a Catholic and you sin, I think you can have a feeling of wanting to quickly do something to make up for it, since you might die soon after. If you sin, you can naturally feel that you want to make i

An argument for the belief in Purgatory regarded: I Corinthians 3:10-15. The letter (1 Corinthians) was written (in 55 A.D. according to my Chronological Bible) to a young church in Corinth, Greece, during the time of the Roman Empire. How would people, new to Christianity, understand the verses? The Catholic church didn't completely formulate doctrine on Purgatory until much later/1274 when they put forward official Catholic church doctrine of Purgatory. Looking at the verses: Via preaching Christ, Paul laid a foundation (Jesus) and thus helped form Christianity. Part of verse 13 means this: the Day of judgment will reveal it. Their work will be revealed with fire. The fire will test it. The fire is likely God's judgment testing their work. This would also apply to good people not in Purgatory. This could weaken the possibility/likelihood that the fire talked about in verse 15, refers to Purgatory. Certain building materials, such as gold, silver, stone, wouldn't burn up/w

John 1:10 - Even though Jesus made the world, the people of the world didn’t recognize the creator/God. (who people would argue did acts of God) Why would that verse be said if Jesus was some angel, like Jehovah's Witnesses believe? Jesus grew in wisdom. That could’ve been because he had to suffer/be tested like a human. Revelation 1:1 - God gave Jesus that revelation. So Jesus maybe wasn’t omniscient at that time. God feels compelled to act one way. God holds the right to some information first, before Jesus? It may be possible that Jesus had received the knowledge of that revelation (and all the rest of the knowledge that Jesus lacked) from the Father, after his death. In Revelation 1:17,18 Jesus (it is clearly talking about Jesus due to the next verse) is called ‘the first and the last.’ In Isaiah 44:6 (from the original ancient Hebrew) God is called ‘the first and the last.’ These verses also mention 'first and last': Isaiah 41:4, Isaiah 48:12, Revelation 22:13, Revelat

Why does God want people to believe and why does he want to punish those that don't? It seems like the picture is being painted that it is “clear” that Jesus should be believed in. Romans 1:20 means that creation is obvious evidence of godly power. So God thinks we should ‘obviously’ believe in God and Jesus. 1 Corinthians 1:18-31 contains proof that God wants to defeat some human reasoning, and that he likes things to appear foolish to some. God doesn't want people to boast that they’re wise. Why? Sometimes people think they know more than they do, which God might not like. Some non-Christians believe Genesis portrays that the Earth isn't very old/that the creation days were literal days. (the book: Six Days or Millions of Years was convincing) Many tests done on things like fossils make people think that the world is much older. (which gives more time for Evolution) Some people didn’t think belief in god was necessary since evolution could account for our existence. Thing