Society & Culture - 2 June 2007

for our Mother too? Do you think the other Apostles made fun of John and told him he was a fool for caring for her because she was nothing to Jesus but a regular woman? Why do you people do this to us? I can only think it is jealousy. The only other thing is when God told Satan that he would put emnity between him and the woman. Is this the emnity we are seeing?

2007-06-02 03:50:22 · 18 answers · asked by Midge 7 in Religion & Spirituality

I see them using the term "Anti-Christ" when referring to the Book of Revelation, but the term is never used in that book. It is in the Epistles, and it is an insulting reference to the Gnostics, a major competitor of the Church.

The book of Revelation was addressed to seven communities in the Roman Province of Asia Minor, which is now modern Turkey.

Read some history, and you'll find out that Turkey is founded on the remains of the Ottoman Empire and has been Muslim for a very long time.

I don't think we need to warn the Christians in Turkey about some coming Apocalyptic scenario.

They died or moved a long, long time ago.

2007-06-02 03:44:49 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

The job market has really changed for the worse as far as older workers are concerned. It has become much harder for them to keep the jobs they already have. For unemployed and barely employed older people (my spouse and myself included) it has become much more competitve and difficult. There's far too much ageism out there.

2007-06-02 03:38:56 · 3 answers · asked by ladysting 3 in Other - Society & Culture

2007-06-02 03:38:09 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous in Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender

learned? If others are not ready for it and do not want it?

2007-06-02 03:38:04 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

What do you think it was?

A litteral Mark the world can see with there eyes
or

A spiritual Mark

2007-06-02 03:35:10 · 3 answers · asked by Sandy S 2 in Religion & Spirituality

think that you have any business pointing out the specs of dust in Christians' eyes when you have planks in your own?

2007-06-02 03:30:10 · 19 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

So I wanted to celebrate finally reaching Level 7. I posted about it here because this is where I spent the most time and earned the most points. So I got reported, and ten points taken off, and right back to Level 6!

Whoever reported me, you are an absolute piece of jackass meat.

And everyone else, I still thank you. Guess I have to keep trying.

I'm glad my religion and spirituality don't call for me to wreck other peoples' fun.

2007-06-02 03:28:07 · 24 answers · asked by GreenEyedLilo 7 in Religion & Spirituality

http://bibleresources.bible.com/passagesearchresults.php?passage1=galatians+3&version1=9

This passage quite clearly calls this church out on trying to save themselves by their works. And tells very clearly that faith and not the law is what makes us children of God.

Other verses also clearly state that salvation is through faith: "by grace are you saved through faith, and that not of yourselves, it is a gift of God not of works lest any man should boast."

1 John 5:13: 13These things have I written unto you that believe on the name of the Son of God; that ye may know that ye have eternal life, and that ye may believe on the name of the Son of God.

Romans 10:9-10: 9 That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved.
10For with the heart man believeth unto righteousness; and with the mouth confess

2007-06-02 03:26:23 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

2007-06-02 03:26:14 · 10 answers · asked by Systematics 1 in Languages

Isnt that so totally awesome?

2007-06-02 03:24:28 · 27 answers · asked by :) 2 in Religion & Spirituality

2007-06-02 03:23:19 · 10 answers · asked by ? 2 in Religion & Spirituality

How often do they go outside of the religion?

2007-06-02 03:21:06 · 10 answers · asked by lottpitt 1 in Religion & Spirituality

Please suggest good Christian websites as many as possible. Also, please give some brief introduction and comments on the websites. Thanks.

2007-06-02 03:20:41 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

Chapter one is the story of the God EL creating everything.

Chapter two (approx.) is a rewrite which makes editorial changes to the order of events and substitutes the name of the God YHVH, to make it match the Hebrew mythology.

I think it's pretty sad that group claiming to have the 'Truth' is using a hand me down cosmology, and we have the crib notes showing exactly where the story was taken from and what changes were made to it.

Sort of blows a hole in your story, doesn't it?

2007-06-02 03:20:25 · 30 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

I am not asking for names or anything I just want to know if there are people in here that just "get to you?"
Or are you able to just let it slide off your back?

I can overlook most comments in here, but there are 3 particular people who I cringe when I see their avatar, because I KNOW what's coming and I KNOW it's going to irritate me. All the same, I sometimes look for them if I'm in a "mood".

Oh and one last thing....Do i rub any of you the "wrong" way?

2007-06-02 03:18:48 · 19 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

I actually met a married priest at my husband's grandpa's funeral, if you don't believe there are any.

http://www.marriedpriests.org/Resources.htm

2007-06-02 03:16:30 · 16 answers · asked by Graciela, RIRS 6 in Religion & Spirituality

Christians have a whole lot of sub groups they can fall into, and can identify their beliefs quite quickly with a title.

But when buddhists and the like start saying "Hey we're atheists too!", what is left for the rest of us atheists to identify ourselves?

Why can't buddhists just call themselves buddhists?

Is there a specific term for "Atheist who dosn't believe in souls, or an afterlife, or reincarnation"?

2007-06-02 03:12:04 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

I am almost 17 I am a kinda shy girl many people around my school call me beautiful and smart...I have never had a boyfriend but somehow I started talking to this guy he got my number on the last day of school he called we talked and then he started asking me questions like why do I go to church so much and I was like I am a christian...I thought he was great but then he said I am too much of a church girl and I am not for him so I told him bye and have a nice summer...but I feel bad but I will never betray God and pretend that I don't know him for some guy although he was the guy that I had a crush on for the longest...am I the only person that feel this way...SMILE and I am still happy because God is still real just curious on the answers..has this ever happen to you

2007-06-02 03:09:33 · 20 answers · asked by Ablebaby 6 in Religion & Spirituality

It provides solution to every problem of mankind.
It is flexible.
It is the oldest one hence time-tested.
No confusion in anyway.

2007-06-02 03:07:15 · 23 answers · asked by aasit pathak 1 in Religion & Spirituality

i ask this,

why would a god/allah need to create human beings? for what? what is the purpose?

it makes no sense to me at all as to why a god would need to create anything let alone human beings

comments?

2007-06-02 03:05:51 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

2007-06-02 03:05:50 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender

You're welcomed to also introduce which country you're from :)

2007-06-02 03:05:02 · 15 answers · asked by Good Friend 1 in Other - Society & Culture

Along with "Culpa"?and what does it mean?

2007-06-02 03:04:53 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Languages

Is it all based in the system of being subservient to men and to the emperor? But i doubt it the emperor is that popular now adays. Because in america if we are religious we base our morals on what the bible says and also respect to parents and what they teach us......

Now that there is not much emperical influence or samurai ...etc...i could see how just making the male system society work is why they have morals in the first place but
it's hard to tel....

2007-06-02 03:03:45 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

is it because evolution makes a supreme being redundant?

if there is no god/allah then the entire structure of religion falls apart like a deck of cards right?

but how can these religious people prevent young people from gaining knowledge?

2007-06-02 02:57:11 · 19 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

As Catholics, we're used to seeing misinformation about our faith popping up here regularly, but I find it disconcerting to see how many believe Catholics a) don't read the Bible, or b) aren't allowed/encouraged to read the Bible. It seems to be second only to the "Mary issue" in terms of frequency.

When I answer such questions, in addition to clearing up the fallacy I usually also point out that many parishes have begun to schedule regular Bible study groups, because that's the case in my local parishes and some I know of elsewhere. Just out of curiosity, how widespread is this -- particularly in the US, where the fact that we aren't seen walking into church on Sundays carrying Bibles seems to be the only evidence some have to back up their assertion?

2007-06-02 02:55:20 · 8 answers · asked by Clare † 5 in Religion & Spirituality

I asked one at my door and they said he is man, son of God, and Michael the arch angel.

I looked in his NWT and showed him who i thought Jesus was. Check out this verse in your NWT and tell me what you think. In answer Thomas said to him: "My Lord and my God!"

2007-06-02 02:53:59 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

the full moon june first was at 1 am gmt

2007-06-02 02:51:48 · 9 answers · asked by road_goes_forever 1 in Mythology & Folklore

I've studied languages and i'm good at making distinctions ini accents and pronunciation.

Well i've studied and spoken Japanese enough to know how it sounds in various of its dialects.

Then recently i said i wanna learn korean...and started listening to some korean people speaking korean in some website for learning korean or even some tV recorded korean shows that i have.

And what i think is "It DOESN"T SOUND AT ALL LIKE JApanese"...In fact, if you want to go there..i would rather equate some african languages i've heard to Japanese...but not japanese to korean.

Spanish is more similar to Japanese in sounds.

2007-06-02 02:48:42 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Languages