Society & Culture - 18 November 2006

I subscribe to beliefnet daily bible readings and daily prayers. Yesterday for some reason I got a Jewish verse of the day Genesis 25:1-25:11 from the Torah, and that verse spoke about Abraham marrying another woman and having many concubines and having other wives besides sarah. It goes on to speak about when he died, He left everything to Issac and left provisions for his other wives and concubines as well as for their children. Then it said that Isaac and Ishmial buried Abraham Together!!!. I was really confused by this, because It is so contrary to our own bible. It made me start wondering. How do we balance faith with knowledge, Belief with Logic, or are the two parings always going to be at odds with one another? Will it effect my faith to read the Torah? What about the differences in the same scriptures, stories and characters of our Bible? I mean it isnt like this is another God, same God, different version of the truth. I mean Jesus was a Jew after all. what about that

2006-11-18 14:43:11 · 17 answers · asked by Christchild2006 2 in Religion & Spirituality

I was in a large store looking at cards. I felt someone staring at me so I turned and looked. These two women with horrible identical faces were staring at me and grinning. I was severely frightened and immediately thought they were "witches", even though I know witches (wiccans) and they are very nice people. I was so frightened I dropped my cards on the floor and left the store. Can anyone tell me what they were?

2006-11-18 14:41:13 · 14 answers · asked by allie 2 in Mythology & Folklore

2006-11-18 14:41:11 · 21 answers · asked by Dude, you're goin to helI! 1 in Religion & Spirituality

Three times this has happened to me, I have said to someone that I do not believe in god and the person I told (who did believe in god) said "really? Why don't you just kill yourself now then? What do you have to live for?"

This, to me, was the most perplexing and unexpected response I could have ever gotten. Then I got the same response again, and later yet again.

Why do people who believe in god feel that way (and feel that it would not be wrong for someone to kill themself)?

I honestly do not understand how these people reached this conclusion and this has baffled me for years.

2006-11-18 14:40:44 · 18 answers · asked by FSJD 3 in Religion & Spirituality

cuz i need to

2006-11-18 14:40:07 · 18 answers · asked by ryan h 1 in Mythology & Folklore

2006-11-18 14:39:02 · 10 answers · asked by daisy322_98 5 in Religion & Spirituality

and everything would you still love and stand by God

2006-11-18 14:38:43 · 19 answers · asked by ? 5 in Religion & Spirituality

S*x is without a doubt a human instinct, a natural pull towards fulfillment, so why do we as creatures with these natural urges, try to bind ourselves to just one sexual love at a time?

2006-11-18 14:38:29 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender

The gardener......Carl was a quiet
man. He didn't talk much. He would always greet you with a big smile and a firm handshake.Even after living in our neighborhood for over 50 years, no one could really say they knew him very well. Before his retirement, he took the bus to work each morning. The lone sight of him walking down the street often worried us. He had a slight limp from a bullet wound received in
W.W.II. Watching him, we worried that although he had survived W.W.II, he may not make it through our changing uptown neighborhood with its ever-increasing random violence, gangs, and drug activity. when he saw the flier at our local church asking for volunteers for caring for the
gardens behind the minister's residence, he responded in his
characteristically unassuming manner. Without fanfare, he just signed up. He was well into his 87th year when the very thing we had always feared finally happened. He was just finishing his watering for the day when three gang

2006-11-18 14:37:35 · 7 answers · asked by lookn2cjc 6 in Religion & Spirituality

2006-11-18 14:37:09 · 14 answers · asked by Suave 1 in Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender

2006-11-18 14:37:01 · 27 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

Do you feel kinship, anger, confusion, what? lemme know

2006-11-18 14:36:36 · 25 answers · asked by Angelina27 3 in Religion & Spirituality

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2006-11-18 14:35:54 · 15 answers · asked by Christ Follower 3 in Religion & Spirituality

On a special island and then blow it up.

2006-11-18 14:35:12 · 9 answers · asked by David R 2 in Community Service

Because technically they say colored lights are of a Religious nature? I think thats retarded. How about you?

2006-11-18 14:34:59 · 6 answers · asked by Midge 7 in Religion & Spirituality

you may think its all cool-but I never smoked weed but I have watched others get wacked out and destroy their life on it and not be able to have fun off the drug that is cursed from when God cursed the earth and poison ivy came too.

I use to drink and live a loose life with my x g/f but we didnt have sex cause I still respected it was for marriage

but as a Jew I rejected letting Jesus into my heart to be my Messiah savior and best friend

Isaiah predicted it very clearly 9:6 "He will be exalted. First he will be marred more than any man. He will lay down his life as a lamb and be despised and rejected. He will make atonement for our sins."

So I knew sinning was bad and it hurt my life I was lookin ato porn and drinkin on weekends and inside I knew it was wrong but i was too caught up in sin to give it up-at times I tried but failed.

then I saw what Jesus said and prayed to let him in my heart-Revelation3vs19&20 "I love you and knock on your heart to come in and save you."

2006-11-18 14:34:13 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

Is anyone else bored with our national anthem? Ours sounds so dull - wouldn't something like Land of Hope and Glory be better? That is much more rousing!

2006-11-18 14:33:59 · 16 answers · asked by Helen B 4 in Royalty

Only 'I' know that 'I' exist. You only exist in the existence of my thought. 'I' only exist in the thought of existence. Only thought exists. Therefore, "i think therefore i am"(to use the thought of Descartes) (and from where his thought was attributed). this can be broken down to: 'I think', as existence only exists in thought. This can then be broken down to 'I' or 'think'. Or, are 'I' and 'think' inseperable?

"if a tree falls and noone is there to hear it fall, does it make a noise" please dont answer this directly as it was never intended as a question, but do consider it. please dont answer it directly!

2006-11-18 14:32:18 · 12 answers · asked by plop 3 in Mythology & Folklore

My boyfriend and I come from religious bakgrounds except my family is a lot more religious and controling than his. My family would not stand for it. "Shacking" as it is termed is believed to be a sin. I don't think it's the act of living together, but what happens when lovers live in the same house and sleeping in the same bed. We have a baby together, but to my family there's a difference between committing a sin and living in sin daily. We have never spent the night together because of the respect (or fear) I have for my family. We plan to be married within the next 2 years, but he thinks it's a good idea to live together first to really know what we are getting ourselves into.
FYI: We're in our mid 20's and we both have great careers, if that makes a diff.

2006-11-18 14:30:57 · 28 answers · asked by Mama Jack the Navy Wife 3 in Religion & Spirituality

Has God taken sides in the Iraq war? If so, who's side is He on, and why?

2006-11-18 14:30:44 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

I asked this question yesterday, but I feel I have not constructed my argument in a logical way.
Isn't God suppose to love all people, including gays? So, why would God want to punish people for the thing that they have no control of. By that, I mean gays are born gay. This is evident from the fact that there are gay animals (yes, scientists have observed sexual activity between same sex in animals). Besides, genetic influences sexuality too. Homosexuality may lead to a decline in population, isn't it the same for infertile individuals? And there maybe some negative stereotypes against gays, but they are just the same as straight except they are attracted to same sex. In terms of "treatments", as the Chruch stated, there is no effective "treatments" for gays to turn straight. Those "treatments", in fact, will lead to psychological harm because gays suppress their desire and force themselves to love something they don't. If we have no control of our sexuality, why is being gay wrong?

2006-11-18 14:30:09 · 34 answers · asked by Travis 4 in Religion & Spirituality

do kids build tree forts,and stick up Playboy pages as we did,most of us now in our fiftys,or have the hammer and nail given way to computer games .i enjoyed it,did you?

2006-11-18 14:30:02 · 12 answers · asked by gscott43206 2 in Other - Cultures & Groups

2006-11-18 14:29:53 · 10 answers · asked by smt_carey 1 in Etiquette

2006-11-18 14:29:07 · 23 answers · asked by JK 2 in Religion & Spirituality

How come people won't just solve their differnces? It won't kill any-body to come to a compromise.

2006-11-18 14:28:26 · 9 answers · asked by tracksuprstar 1 in Other - Society & Culture

Regardless of what you believe. Whether Jew, Muslim, Mormon, Catholic, Protestant, Nondenominational, Atheist, etc. Do you question / test your beliefs. Do you study the universe and world around you to see if your beliefs are cohesive and not contradictory. If you believe in the spiritual do you test the spirits (1 John 4:1 NIV). Do you seek truth? And if you found the "truth" was different from what you believed would you, could you change?

2006-11-18 14:27:41 · 20 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

Please describe it. I want some interesting/funny answers! lol.

2006-11-18 14:26:59 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous in Other - Society & Culture

you know books like Enoch, Jubilees, Susanna, and Sirach

before someone starts harping on the religious crediblity of these books or lack there of. I dont care. I want to read these books to have a better understanding of the religious/cultural midset of the people of the people of that era.

so any suggestions?

2006-11-18 14:26:55 · 7 answers · asked by Gamla Joe 7 in Religion & Spirituality

or sensing their presecence around you that they are they saying hi , i alway feel my families precence areound me a hole lot and it is such a peacful breautiful thing ever

2006-11-18 14:26:19 · 7 answers · asked by daisy322_98 5 in Religion & Spirituality

I've been bi as far back as i can remember, i've had relationships with men and women. But i noticed something with some college friends of my best friend... the girls seem to saying their bi to the guys to get them interested But never have had and say they never will be inlove with another girl.

2006-11-18 14:25:35 · 10 answers · asked by TJ815 4 in Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender