(March 19, 2018 at 5:30 am)breakerbreakeronenine Wrote: Hello everyone,
First of all, if this is not appropriate for this message board, please let me know or delete this thread. Causing controversy or breaking any rules is not my intention. I am a Roman Catholic seminarian who will be ordained to the priesthood in May. I am working on a project for one of my seminary classes and am in need of two volunteers to answer some questions for me.
If you could begin by telling me about yourself (age, gender, occupation, married/single/divorced, etc.) and then answer the following questions:
1. How would you define God?
2. Can a person know God? (How?)
3. Who was/is Jesus Christ?
4. What is the biggest problem, in your opinion, facing humankind today?
5. What is (how do you define) sin?
6. How do you feel about the church (and/or Christianity) and why do you feel this way?
7. How would you define the concept of salvation?
8. Do you think that there is only one way to reach God? (Elaborate)
9. What happens after we die?
10. How would you define a Christian?
11. Which is more important to you, knowing God or loving God? Can they be separated?
12. How does a person get to heaven?
13. What is your philosophy of life?
14. What do you think is common to world religions? How do they differ?
Thank you for your help in this regard. Have a great day!
26 year old male, sales rep/investments, single.
1. Non-existent
2. No more than one can "know" Harry Potter. They are both fictional characters.
3. Possibly a real person, although not the son of God. Stories of him were probably exaggerated and made up of the stories of other cultures.
4. Greed
5. Doesn't exist. I'm a moral nihilist.
6. I'm pretty indifferent. Don't really hate Catholic or Christians. You guys did some pretty fucked up shit in the past though. Still occasionally do some fucked up shit now. I dig your new pope though, if the entire church acted like him I think you guys could probably have a truly positive impact on humanity here on Earth, not just lip service about what you'll do for me when I'm dead.
7. Don't believe in it.
8. I think there are zero ways to reach God.
9. We for and the world will eventually forget us.
10. Someone who believes in Jesus as the son of God
11. Neither
12. They don't, rot in the ground like everyone else.
13. Nihilist through and through. I try and be as nice as possible to people, but I do believe that ultimately my desires are more important. I will always put my needs first.
14. Superstition
