Comments on: My 100 Questions – Part 1 http://rationalthoughts.org/2009/11/04/my-100-questions-part-1/ Think Rational, Think Free Wed, 01 Feb 2012 14:54:40 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: edurazee http://rationalthoughts.org/2009/11/04/my-100-questions-part-1/comment-page-1/#comment-106 edurazee Mon, 20 Dec 2010 14:13:00 +0000 http://rationalthoughts.org/?p=20#comment-106 I am trying to answer some of your questions here. I am a Muslim and I don't know everything about other religions. So I am trying to answer your questions from the context of my own religion. By the way, I found some of your questions very immature, that is, those questions demonstrate your lack of knowledge. I am in beginner level in my religion, but I would not ask such light questions. 1. We select everything by checking them good or bad. But why did we select Religion without a check? Answer: Islam promotes the idea of checking and selecting a religion. In fact Quran says the same. But the problem is it is very hard to satisfy somebody who does not want to come to an agreement. It may take a lifetime for them to reach a conclusion that God actually exists. In case of some people, it may be impossible to reach a conclusion at all. 2. Is God having a necessity for the creation? Answer: This is not known to humankind. There may or may not be a reason. We have no right to ask that question to God. Suppose you are an accomplished robotics expert and you create a robot that can think and take decisions to a certain extent for the shake of your own experiment. One day it comes to you and asks why you created it. You may have some valid reasons but those reasons may not be acceptable to that robot. Then, what can the robot do? 3. Why should we pray to God? Answer: If there is no God, both Theists and Atheists are saved, but what would you do if God really exists? Then Theists are saved but Atheists would have nothing to do. What if, you understand and agree that God really exists and you have only couple of hours left in your life to live? 4. God didn’t help Jesus or Arjuna in trouble, then how can He help us? Answer: Jesus or Arjuna was not helped only because God wanted the things should proceed that way. We can only expect help from the God but can not be 100% certain. God may help us only if he wants to help us. That is his will. 5. How Nishkama karma possible as mentioned in Gita? Can there be an action without a wish? Answer: I don’t know anythings about this Hindu term. 6. What is meant by liberation? And who needs it, the Body, Mind or the Soul? Answer: I don’t know what Vedanta said in what context. 7. Why did Jesus, Allah, Vishnu or any Gods could not invent a Computer, Mobile phone, Train or an atom Bomb? Answer: What is your question about? Do you question the God’s ability or you are disturbed by the inconvenience of not having those things? If fact, God created more sophisticated thing, the human race. This is because these things are useless from the God’s perspective of creation. Moreover, these things promote imbalance in the nature. For example: if you have milk you can make curd or cheese but you can not make milk if you have curd or cheese at your disposal. 8. How the sacrifice can please God? Is He a sadist? Answer: This question can not be answered generally. God sent us some directions through scriptures and those scriptures tell us how sacrifices should be performed. First of all, you have to find out if the method of sacrifice is approved by the scriptures or not. If the method is approved, then I can answer the question: sacrifices are told to be performed for our own wellbeing. For example: fasting keeps away certain diseases. I am not a doctor or scientist so I can not explain you the scientific background of the fasting. 9. Which Religion can convert an Atheist into a believer? Answer: See answers of the questions 1 and 3. 10. Why the Omnipotent God needs a prophet, son or incarnation to save people? Answer: Again your perspective is wrong. God does not need prophets to save people. God could create human beings in a way that they are not being able to disobey him. In fact human beings are the only creatures that disobey God. We need prophets so that we can be warned time to time that God really exists and being an Atheist (or whatever) is one of the things that God doesn’t like. I am trying to answer some of your questions here. I am a Muslim and I don’t know everything about other religions. So I am trying to answer your questions from the context of my own religion. By the way, I found some of your questions very immature, that is, those questions demonstrate your lack of knowledge. I am in beginner level in my religion, but I would not ask such light questions.

1. We select everything by checking them good or bad. But why did we select Religion without a check?
Answer: Islam promotes the idea of checking and selecting a religion. In fact Quran says the same. But the problem is it is very hard to satisfy somebody who does not want to come to an agreement. It may take a lifetime for them to reach a conclusion that God actually exists. In case of some people, it may be impossible to reach a conclusion at all.

2. Is God having a necessity for the creation?
Answer: This is not known to humankind. There may or may not be a reason. We have no right to ask that question to God. Suppose you are an accomplished robotics expert and you create a robot that can think and take decisions to a certain extent for the shake of your own experiment. One day it comes to you and asks why you created it. You may have some valid reasons but those reasons may not be acceptable to that robot. Then, what can the robot do?

3. Why should we pray to God?
Answer: If there is no God, both Theists and Atheists are saved, but what would you do if God really exists? Then Theists are saved but Atheists would have nothing to do. What if, you understand and agree that God really exists and you have only couple of hours left in your life to live?

4. God didn’t help Jesus or Arjuna in trouble, then how can He help us?
Answer: Jesus or Arjuna was not helped only because God wanted the things should proceed that way. We can only expect help from the God but can not be 100% certain. God may help us only if he wants to help us. That is his will.

5. How Nishkama karma possible as mentioned in Gita? Can there be an action without a wish?
Answer: I don’t know anythings about this Hindu term.

6. What is meant by liberation? And who needs it, the Body, Mind or the Soul?
Answer: I don’t know what Vedanta said in what context.

7. Why did Jesus, Allah, Vishnu or any Gods could not invent a Computer, Mobile phone, Train or an atom Bomb?
Answer: What is your question about? Do you question the God’s ability or you are disturbed by the inconvenience of not having those things? If fact, God created more sophisticated thing, the human race. This is because these things are useless from the God’s perspective of creation. Moreover, these things promote imbalance in the nature. For example: if you have milk you can make curd or cheese but you can not make milk if you have curd or cheese at your disposal.

8. How the sacrifice can please God? Is He a sadist?
Answer: This question can not be answered generally. God sent us some directions through scriptures and those scriptures tell us how sacrifices should be performed. First of all, you have to find out if the method of sacrifice is approved by the scriptures or not. If the method is approved, then I can answer the question: sacrifices are told to be performed for our own wellbeing. For example: fasting keeps away certain diseases. I am not a doctor or scientist so I can not explain you the scientific background of the fasting.

9. Which Religion can convert an Atheist into a believer?
Answer: See answers of the questions 1 and 3.

10. Why the Omnipotent God needs a prophet, son or incarnation to save people?
Answer: Again your perspective is wrong. God does not need prophets to save people. God could create human beings in a way that they are not being able to disobey him. In fact human beings are the only creatures that disobey God. We need prophets so that we can be warned time to time that God really exists and being an Atheist (or whatever) is one of the things that God doesn’t like.

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