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Yes. I love Kahlil Gibran, he's influenced my feelings on religion and the way a man should act about as much as any other person. And for the answer... I guess I'd have to say D, but honestly, I don't really know.

So what is this, majority rules? All I ask for is a lack of generalization. And I don't disagree that it is all God's plan. But perhaps part of that plan is that God is not entirely in control. We have free will for a reason, we are not angels. So you're saying that a benevolent personal God...

Right. All of those things are things that had been purported by human beings well before the creation of the Bible, and go on today all over the world in non-Abrahamic religious areas, as well as plenty in the United States with no biblical input whatsoever. All of those things come from man...

Christianity, to me, is a personal religion. It dictates how one acts, and how one treats others. But my views on the natural world are my own. Note: When I call myself a Christian, I mean I strive to be Christlike in deed and word, like what the Gospels say about Jesus of Nazareth. I do not...

Well, the way I see it, Jesus says that he is the only way to know God and to achieve heaven. But does he mean himself physically? He called himself "son of man," meant to be a humbling term. I do not think Jesus meant that his physical presence or even involvement is necessary to know God and...

"Beauty is not in the face. Beauty is a light in the heart." -Kahlil Gibran

But let's keep in mind, that could be (and probably is) allegorical. Jesus said that heaven is in the heart of man. So why wouldn't hell also be there? Heaven and Hell are states we enter into when we are close to or far from the love and light of God, respectively. That's what I believe...

But my belief as a Christian and a Theist has come about from what I've seen of the world. I was not told this when I was young. It is through much study and observation that I've come to believe what I do about the world. If I'm always paying attention, trying to learn about the world, if doing...

I don't think it has anything to do with it. What matters is what we actually do, regardless of what we believe or say.

In my case... I've studied Islam enough to know its tenents and beliefs, and see absolutely nothing wrong with it. I imagine if I lived in the Middle East I would be a Muslim. I do not think they are wrong, but I do not think they are right either. I feel this way about many religions. In fact...

Hey everyone. I haven't been here in a long time. I haven't been "here" in a long time. Let me explain. I used to use this nickname a while ago on this website. I guess it was a year or two... not that long, but still, more time than I can remember. I was a very devoted Christian, was...

I agree with most of what has thus far been said. Alas, will we ever truly know? I do question, though... human nature to hide our shame, I believe someone said? What would be shaming in Adam and Eve's being naked? God created us, sculpted us in His image... what shame is there in the human...

Thank you, that helped explain a lot. But what I don't understand is... it may be a play on words, but doesn't a play have to retain purposeful meaning in all cases? And if that is the case, then why was it wrong for them to be naked?

I wholeheartedly agree. No matter your belief about doctine, God is the source of all love. I do not believe in non "true" love, wherein this might be so I am certain that it is, in fact, simply not love. God is love, and anyone who has felt love in their heart, from the kind that makes...

Perhaps. But how would nudity be symbolic of sin? Especially between the father and mother of mankind. They wouldn't know what "naked" was; who would model the covering of those parts? And how would they know them sinfully if no sexual sin had yet ever been committed?

Just a hypothesis. All Scripture references taken from the King James Bible. Romans 13:8 says: Owe no man any thing, but to love one another: for he that loveth another hath fulfilled the law. Romans 13:10 says: Love worketh no ill to his neighbour: therefore love is the fulfilling of the...

I'm going to paraphrase for now. When Eve bit the apple, as she was thus tempted, apparently she gained "knowledge;" coaxing Adam to do the same, they both gained knowledge. Then, they realized they were naked and covered up. What I don't get is, why does their being naked matter...

It's funny... because "abort" is also a military term for a "mission" that has to be left "incomplete;" i.e., a failure.

What if humans couldn't care for themselves until they were 15 years old? Would it be okay to consider them not "yet" lifeforms, even though they had hair and fully formed faces and technically were "grown?" Would it be okay to abort them? A fetus is a potential person. So is a zygote...

I think considering it dirty work is what makes it less appealing to future generations. I like little kids and babies, they're not that hard to take care of, albeit full-time is a different story. I understand a girl not wanting her life to change, but aren't mothers supposed to get...