At a christian church on sunday the priest/pastor/… says “the catholic church has contacted all us and told us that Jesus has told the pope that he will answer 1 question. Now we can either ignore this as papal lunacy or we can participate. If the pope is just crazy and having bad dreams then it cant hurt right? and of course we dont know if he would tell us the answer if he did get one. so if you want then email me this week with your question and I will send it to http://www.pope.com.”
so of course you would get your joke questions and lotto questions. but if you believed that Jesus might actually do this then you would start thinking of a question. It would have to be a question that would be useful somehow to you. A question about catholic dogma might be interesting but hardly useful.
Hence my question about the suffering in the world.
Now this is not the same as a Jesus appearing to the entire world and allowing everyone to ask a question and then, by answering it, converting the world. that would be a different thread (and interesting at that). So this is for the believers even those who have the slightess glimmer of faith but hunger for the light.
Hmmm…Jesus has volunteered to answer a question. Well, then he must surely be who he claimed, because, if the stories are to be believed, he died and now he’s answering questions. He, evidently, has come back from the dead and that, at least at face value, lends some credence to the whole original claim.
I’d go for the big question: Why do we park in the driveway and drive on the parkway?
My question would be “Would you please explain the bible?”
Presumably, if the answer is going to be understood by all, any contradictions would be resolved, and the nature of the “all-merciful-and-loving-yet-vengeful-and-scary” God would be explained.
Plnnr,
That is not proof because the non believers would just say that the pope is making this up.
Blacknight,
who but believers are going to give a damn about what the pope says?
Beez…
What if he said " the bible is the creation of a group of historical figures attempting to deal with the same issues facing you today. The Old testament is the fables of the Jewish nomads. The new testament is the documentation of the scripture as they remembered it. since it was around 100 years after the fact"? would that change your life? or would you want a point by point explanation of each book/chapter/verse?
Well, we’re presuming Jesus himself is answering these questions, which presumes the existence of Jesus and the fact that he is the Son of God. Those revelations in and of themselves would change my life, being that I consider myself atheist.
Ultimately, I’d like each chapter and verse to be explained so that there was no room for “interperetations” such as Westbro Baptist Church, etc. Unless, of course, God supported that sort of thing.
Toadspittle,
maybe “NO” would be the answer you needed. If you understood what he was saying. If you think that his answer is a refusal to answer the question and you ask yourself why and realize his meaning then there would be a value to what he is telling you.
what is the difference between the gods of all the religions?
OR
what is difference between the religions?
Please restrict your answer to the major religions of the world for brevity.
(But I might also ask something about why the world behaves like a septic tank - where the biggest pieces of sh*t float to the top… I cant make up my mind.)
Since original sin is still clearly not atoned for, I would ask him the following in my email:
Yoseph-bar-Joshua, what up? IMHO you are one supremely influential person! I was reading some of the tales of your exploits the other day and found the story of you stealing that ass outside of Jerusalem!!! Remember that??? I was so ROTFLMAO!!! Anyyyway, here’s my question:
Why didn’t YOU reproduce and sacrifice YOUR son for us?
The problem is that “changing one’s world” requires far more depth and introspection than can be contained in one question-and-answer, which makes the OP moot.
Even George Burns had to answer several dozen questions to prove his divinity.
I dunno, but what does that have to do with anything? The OP specifically said that the answer came from Jesus, so I am answering with that in mind. The OP also said that the answer was for everyone.
