Society & Culture - 17 July 2007

I have just watched a very interesting clip on Youtube, which shows and explains images from the Hubble Space Telescope. It clearly shows many hundreds of thousands of galaxies, each with 100's of 1000's of stars and planets in them.

Logic and probability tells the sane of mind that at least a handful of these galaxies far far away have planets with life on them.

Does our God also cover these planets? Or do they have their own God?

2007-07-17 01:29:00 · 26 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

This question comes from someone who was born and raised Protestant but always questioned the teaching of salvation through faith alone. This has never really made much sense to me because what does it really prove about a man if he does believe that Jesus is divine? Many Christians accept this teaching through faith alone and don't really bother to think about it much for the rest of their lives. Somehow, they are saved due to what may be their own intelectual laziness and now I may be damned because I am now questioning this.
My question for the religious is how can I find out who Jesus really is when you can find scholars who give copious evidence to prove that He is both Divine and the opposite. I don't believe in "following my heart" because I am an emotional being and I can easily be misled by my heart. I can pray and I do, but how do I really know when I know???

2007-07-17 01:27:37 · 13 answers · asked by Jonny 2 in Religion & Spirituality

I made one comment regarding "self loathing" and I got reported for abuse. Have you seen some of the comments they make about others. Now that is disrespect! Am I right?

2007-07-17 01:27:05 · 29 answers · asked by Marla ™ 5 in Religion & Spirituality

2007-07-17 01:23:40 · 27 answers · asked by blooming flower 1 in Religion & Spirituality

that just a cure for warts? Any ideas?

2007-07-17 01:22:38 · 15 answers · asked by Judas. S. Burroughs. 3 in Religion & Spirituality

2007-07-17 01:20:26 · 2 answers · asked by EnLilleNisseRejste 1 in Other - Society & Culture

the verse is Ephisians 6:11-17
11Put on the full armour of God so as to be able to resist the devil's tactics.

12For it is not against human enemies that we have to struggle, but against the principalities and the ruling forces who are masters of the darkness in this world, the spirits of evil in the heavens.

13That is why you must take up all God's armour, or you will not be able to put up any resistance on the evil day, or stand your ground even though you exert yourselves to the full.

14So stand your ground, with truth a belt round your waist, and uprightness a breastplate,

15wearing for shoes on your feet the eagerness to spread the gospel of peace

16and always carrying the shield of faith so that you can use it to quench the burning arrows of the Evil One.

17And then you must take salvation as your helmet and the sword of the Spirit, that is, the word of God.

2007-07-17 01:19:43 · 11 answers · asked by cjude87 2 in Religion & Spirituality

"May the bones of the hands and the bones of the fingers decay and decompose, of him who turns the pages of the book of Daniel, to find out the time of Daniel 9:24-27, and may his memory rot from off the face of the earth forever (Talmudic Law, p. 978, Section 2, Line 28)."

Quoted from: WILL ISRAEL SAVE THE WORLD at www.revelado.org/70weeks.htm

2007-07-17 01:19:41 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

???

2007-07-17 01:18:44 · 22 answers · asked by London qirl . 5 in Religion & Spirituality

While in church the other day, my pastor said that there is a point where you would rather sin than have a relationship with God. Is this true?

2007-07-17 01:16:41 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

I'm quoting from a webpage I found:
"One of the most popular false gods of the world is Santa Claus. Children around the world worship Santa Claus. Do you know what the word "worship" means? It simply means: "The reverent love and devotion accorded a deity, an idol, or a sacred object." Hence, many parents are indeed teaching their children to worship Santa. Children's minds are consumed with this fictitious fat slob dressed in red. Children should not be led to believe in a fictitious character who can read people's minds, is omniscient, omnipresent, and omnipotent. To deliver presents to every child in one night is something ONLY an omnipotent God could do. Don't you see what the Devil is doing to little children? As the child grows older and realizes that there is NO Santa, he is already CONDITIONED to become an atheist as well. "

http://www.jesus-is-savior.com/Basics/above_all_gods.htm

2007-07-17 01:13:29 · 21 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

2007-07-17 01:12:42 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Other - Society & Culture

turn up when their supposed to?

2007-07-17 01:12:13 · 16 answers · asked by Judas. S. Burroughs. 3 in Religion & Spirituality

I'm one of those people who think the reformation was caused by the printing press, not by Martin Luther. Before him there were many other dissenters also, but they were generally quenched very easily. When Luther went to the Diet of Worms many people along the way had already read his work, and people cheered and booed him all along the way. He was the one of the first stars of the printing press age. And at the same time his ideas spread many other ideas spread as well, like never before. If every pamphlet the reformers wrote would have had to be copied by hand, they would never have been able to spread faster than they were persecuted.

So now everyone with an opinion can just create a youtube channel and speak to a worldwide audience directly. And if you say something that really speaks to people that message will not go around the world in years or months, but in days or hours. Can we expect a second reformation? Will opinions divide even more? Or will we be able to see the

2007-07-17 01:10:36 · 13 answers · asked by Ray Patterson - The dude abides 6 in Religion & Spirituality

Am I the only one who is really annoyed by people who ask questions as if they might really want to hear opinions, but actually just want someone to agree with them so they can cheerlead that answer and put down anyone else who didn't agree?

I think it might even be more annoying than seeing "two points" all of the time.

Feedback please!

2007-07-17 01:10:04 · 7 answers · asked by redsquirrelpooka 4 in Other - Society & Culture

Isn't it when they start to feel the reins of power being pulled from their fingers that they are the most dangerous?

2007-07-17 01:09:22 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

10 points for the most

2007-07-17 01:09:15 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous in Other - Society & Culture

2007-07-17 01:08:43 · 6 answers · asked by ASKER1213054295 2 in Religion & Spirituality

Do you give 1 pound or 2 pound?
I dont always like to tip my hairdresser because Ive had to scrape the money together to get my hair done anyway! But I feel rude if I dont give something.
What about you?

2007-07-17 01:08:27 · 65 answers · asked by buff1ne 5 in Etiquette

to let the meteor hit the earth and make them go extinct? I hope he would protect us.. what do you think?

2007-07-17 01:07:26 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

Is the potential in the seed?

If you plant honesty, you will reap trust

If you plant goodness, you will reap friends.

If you plant humility, you will reap greatness.

If you plant perseverance, you will reap contentment

If you plant consideration, you will reap perspective.

If you plant hard work, you will reap success.

If you plant forgiveness, you will reap reconciliation.

If you plant faith in Christ, you will reap a harvest.

So, be careful what you plant now; it will determine what you will reap later.

Tell me what are you sowing?

2007-07-17 01:06:52 · 17 answers · asked by INCOGNITO 3 in Religion & Spirituality

(Ge•hen'na) [Gr. form of the Heb. Geh Hin•nom', “Valley of Hinnom”].
This name appears 12 times in the Christian Greek Scriptures, and whereas many translators take the liberty to render it by the word “hell,” a number of modern translations transliterate the word from the Greek ge'en•na.—Mt 5:22, Ro, Mo, ED, NW, BC (Spanish), NC (Spanish), also the footnotes of Da and RS.


Matthew 5:22 "εγω δε λεγω υμιν οτι πας ο οργιζομενος τω αδελφω αυτου ενοχος εσται τη κρισει ος δ αν ειπη τω αδελφω αυτου ρακα ενοχος εσται τω συνεδριω ος δ αν ειπη μωρε ενοχος εσται εις την "γεενναν" του πυρος

γεενναν (Geena)

2007-07-17 01:04:13 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

There's a whole big world out there, baby!!!! Go check it out sometime!!!

WHOO!!!!

2007-07-17 01:02:19 · 14 answers · asked by gone by tomorrow 1 in Religion & Spirituality

because every new person who comes here asks that same drinking question. are they actually taught that as a valid argument to believe in god?

maybe they just like to see the non believers get drunk first thing in the morning.

2007-07-17 01:00:53 · 17 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

2007-07-17 00:58:29 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

I thought He was like "Do unto others, what you would want them to do to you!"

So..I'm pretty sure He wouldn't like it if people would mess up His stuff.

2007-07-17 00:56:19 · 25 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

2007-07-17 00:55:54 · 21 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

2007-07-17 00:55:48 · 6 answers · asked by dragoneye_2005 1 in Languages

I am a big fan of Sven hassel but I have found in some of his books things that are(were) not quite real.
For example in the book "The bloody road to death" ( I think), he said that , when on a mission to capture an ex-german( now soviet) comisar his group encountered 4 tanks, or so he says.2 of them were BA-64 and one a Humber MK 2.
He said they are tanks when in fact all these 3 were by no means tanks, but armored cars.
Also he said in some of his books that the Sd.Kfz. 234/2 "Puma" was a tank when, in fact was one of the most powerful armored cars in WW2.
He says his regiment was a penal regiment, yet there was a 27th regiment in the German Army, but it was not penal.
He also says they were equiped with Tigers, when these heavy tanks were scarce and were organized in special batalions, directly under Corps command and is impossible to think that they were given to any penal formation.
Now I have read all his books, and I know many of his books are more fiction that reallity.

2007-07-17 00:55:21 · 6 answers · asked by tigerhawkro 2 in Religion & Spirituality

Better hurry, I like to resolve questions quickly...

2007-07-17 00:54:48 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Other - Society & Culture