I have an interesting topic I want to discuss. Here is the scenario:
Five people are in spiritual chaos. All five have the same question. A sixth person that is not in chaos tells them pray, seek God and the answers will come. This sixth person is sure of the answer and sure that if the five people pray, that they too will come to the same answer, conclusion as he has. So, all five go into prayer. After prayer and meditation, each comes back with a different answer. Thus, there are 6 different answers.
Do the five peoples answers make them wrong because the sixth person does not agree? Can there be 6 answers to one question? Just because the one centered spiritual person claims to know the right answer, does that make all the five peoples answers wrong?
Steve
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Lamentation 3:24 The Lord is all I have, and so in him I put my hope.
Answers may be different for each person due to their place in life or where they are at in their walk with God. It is possible that the answers God gives each one of us for any given problem or situation, however similar they may be, will be different. Different maybe in the sense that we hear them differently. So, all the answers could be right. It also strikes me that the spiritual person may be boasting a little and maybe judging?
This one's too deep for me - at least when I'm feeling poorly like I am now. But my short answer, in my opinion, yes, there can be 6 different right answers to the same question. As much as we would like the world to be black & white, it ain't!!
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Grace is the acceptance of that which is rejected. ~Paul Tillich
I don't think there can really be more than one answer to something...but we could be wrong with that answer. For example, we all thought without a doubt that we lived in a geocentric universe (the sun revolves around the earth)...but it was proven wrong. That shows we could be wrong on a lot of things. Also, if you are thinking of God...a good person to look into is René Descartes. He had some good points over God...and actually went through painstaking thought to come to the conclusion that we exist and that God exist. I hope I helped...
Think for a moment about denominations within our own religion.....mostly all agree that you have to accept Jesus as your saviour, but then not all will agree from there. They will have different styles of worship and the importance therof. Does that make one more right than the other, or for that matter one more wrong? I say that religion and worship have to be personal and fit the individuals needs. I'm not sure what denomination has it right, or if any actually do. Remember that most denominations were spawned by groups of people that had a different interpretation of the scriptures. Can you imagine the debate between a Southern Baptist preacher and a MCC preacher? Both are passionate about their beliefs, but will certainly fall short of agreement on the isuues. So, is one right and one wrong?...or are both right.
This is interesting. I conducted a poll. And I expanded my poll to include 5 churches. I mailed them this exact senario. Only two responded. The other 3 decided it must have been to hard a question to answer.
As for the two that did answer, well the answered rather confusingly. Like when you ask a politician a yes or no answer they go off in this long detailed answer without answering yes or no and leave you even more confused than before. Their answers were somewhat like that.
But most of the people I did ask this senario mostly said that yes, there can be different answers to one question. Only one said that there is only one answer to the question and until the 5 come to the same answer that they are wrong.
Oh well.
Steve
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Lamentation 3:24 The Lord is all I have, and so in him I put my hope.
I didn't see this article until just now but I believe that there can be five right answers leading to one right answer. For example: The Lord told Peter to feed his lambs and sheep. This signifies that we grow from babes in Christ unto mature Christians. Paul spake of the meat of the word and Peter spake of the sincere milk of the word. The meat is in reference to the deeper spiritual things and the milk is the carnal things of babes. It can be right answer for a babe to come in faith as a child and answer accordingly. It can be right for someone a little more mature in Christ to believe that we come as a babe in faith and grow in the Lord. It can be right for someone a little more mature to believe we have to repent and be baptised and answer accordingly. The fourth may be a little more mature and go a little farther believing in the baptism of the Holy Ghost for his answer and the fifth may be mature enough to give a deeper spiritual answer the babes do not understand. All five would have given the right answer within the measure of faith given them and the measure of their growth in the Lord. Therefore, I believe that all five could give a right answer to the sixth. All six could be correct. All six would have right answers leading to one final right answer. I hope that made sense. Tiff
