If u could ask GOD 1 question......

[bdawson72 5,000+ posts]

Why am i so broke?

 

[faulkton 5,000+ posts]

The tale is told by Ivan with brief interruptive questions by Alyosha. In the tale, Christ comes back to earth in Seville at the time of the Inquisition. Jesus performs a number of miracles (echoing miracles from the Gospels). The people recognize Him and adore Him, but He is arrested by Inquisition leaders and sentenced to be burned to death the next day. The Grand Inquisitor visits Him in His cell to tell Him that the Church no longer needs Him. The main portion of the text is the Inquisitor explaining to Jesus why His return would interfere with the mission of the church.

The Inquisitor frames his denunciation of Jesus around the three questions Satan asked Jesus during the temptation of Christ in the desert. These three are the temptation to turn stones into bread, the temptation to cast Himself from the Temple and be saved by the angels, and the temptation to rule over all the kingdoms of the world. The Inquisitor states that Jesus rejected these three temptations in favor of freedom. The Inquisitor thinks that Jesus has misjudged human nature, though. He does not believe that the vast majority of humanity can handle the freedom which Jesus has given them. Thus, he implies that Jesus, in giving humans freedom to choose, has excluded the majority of humanity from redemption and doomed humanity to suffer.

Ivan indicates that the Inquisitor is an atheist. After a lifetime of pursuing God, he has given up in frustration. He is nevertheless left with his love of humanity and desire to see humanity not suffer. Despite declaring the Inquisitor to be an atheist, Ivan also implies that the Inquisitor and the Church follow "the wise spirit, the dread spirit of death and destruction," i.e. the Devil, Satan, for he, through compulsion, provided the tools to end all human suffering and unite under the banner of the Church. The mulitude then is guided through the Church by the few who are strong enough to take on the burden of freedom. The Inquisitor says that under him, all mankind will live and die happily in ignorance. Though he leads them only to "death and destruction," they will be happy along the way. The Inquisitor will be a self-martyr, spending his life to keep choice from humanity. He states that "Anyone who can appease a man's conscience can take his freedom away from him."

Cliff notes ^^^^^

actual text

http://www.mtholyoke.edu/acad/intrel/pol116/grand.htm

 

[lilmaniac2 5,000+ posts]

I'd ask him if Fi had a website....

 

[Bumpn Focus 10+ year member]

I'd ask him if Fi had a website....

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[sentra95 10+ year member]

Why are we here?

X2

 

[Tblazed587]

i would ask him why he gave me diabetes!!! //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/crying.gif.ec0ebefe590df0251476573bc49e46d8.gif

 

[joetama 5,000+ posts]

You know whatever you ask him he will say "because I said so" back.....

 

[Tiger Bass 5,000+ posts]

I would imagine his response to be even shorter, yet all that much more indecisive and rude...something like...

It happens

or

LOL

-Gd

 

[joetama 5,000+ posts]

I would imagine his response to be even shorter, yet all that much more indecisive and rude...something like...
It happens

or

LOL

-Gd

He will probably just give you the middle finger and wink...

 

[ampresearch 10+ year member]

i would ask for permission to ask more then one question. ithe way i see it is he/she/it is real and had the nerver to leave us here on earth with TONS of unanswered question and we STILL belived then he/she/it can atleast give me a few freebees.

its that or

i would ask what the next power ball numbers are. I figrue if i'm going to ask someing so selfish that it will land me in hell that alteast i could live the rest of my life out in style.

 

[qtipextra 5,000+ posts]

I don't like asking myself questions.

 

[fakename 10+ year member]

id ask him who ill be married to. as long as i stay with my current gf, i could care less about anything else.

 

[joetama 5,000+ posts]

id ask him who ill be married to. as long as i stay with my current gf, i could care less about anything else.

Emo? //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/laugh.gif.48439b2acf2cfca21620f01e7f77d1e4.gif

 

[fakename 10+ year member]

Emo? //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/laugh.gif.48439b2acf2cfca21620f01e7f77d1e4.gif

lol, no, but i do honk my horn at them when i see them walking on the side of the road.

 

[BoomBoomBoy 10+ year member]

I'd ask him if I was going to make it to heaven.