Society & Culture - 29 July 2007

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2007-07-29 23:53:49 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

A. THE FORMATION OF THE NEW TESTAMENT CANON (A.D. 100-220)
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/03274a.htm
The idea of a complete and clear-cut canon of the New Testament existing from the beginning, that is from Apostolic times, has no foundation in history. The Canon of the New Testament, like that of the Old, is the result of a development, of a process at once stimulated by disputes with doubters, both within and without the Church, and retarded by certain obscurities and natural hesitations, and which did not reach its final term until the dogmatic definition of the Tridentine Council. ("Canon of the New Testament")
There is a lot of confusion about the earliest existing texts of the Bible. The oldest extant manuscript of the Bible is believed to be the Codex Vaticanus, (preserved in the Vatican Library), which is slightly older than the Codex Sinaiticus (preserved in the British Library), both of which were transcribed in the fourth century.

2007-07-29 23:52:24 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

2007-07-29 23:51:30 · 2 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

It's a curse word phrase. I'm guessing "diab" is something devil related. And that "moodee" is actually spelled different. I'm just taking a stab at spelling it phonetically. Any ideas would be appreciated.

2007-07-29 23:51:29 · 5 answers · asked by ChuckBoutwell 2 in Languages

2007-07-29 23:48:09 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous in Languages

should we accept them in this world? and why? please be elaborate in explaining. :)

2007-07-29 23:46:17 · 24 answers · asked by Anonymous in Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender

2007-07-29 23:38:48 · 26 answers · asked by Anonymous in Other - Society & Culture

are they generally friendlier? polite?

2007-07-29 23:38:44 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Other - Society & Culture

2007-07-29 23:37:49 · 3 answers · asked by kick it 5 in Community Service

i'm chinese, i have a nickname in chinese language, it will be "little 2nd" or "little 2" if transfer it to english, because i'm the 2nd son of my parents.
so i want choose "little 2nd" as my english nickname, do you think it's ok? i'm afraid if there is any bad of funny meaning of this nickname? because i don't know english language and culture very well. thank you.

2007-07-29 23:33:02 · 5 answers · asked by coner_in 1 in Languages

In Al Kafi Book by the great Kelliny; part 3 - Hadith 652 "My companions are like stars, whomsoever of them you choose to guide you, will guide you"... By Muhammad Peace and Blessings be upon him, Narrated Ali Ibn Abi Talib - كرم الله وجهه.

Is it proper for Muslims to hate any companion of the peophet after this Hadith? Is it proper for a Muslim to ahte another Muslim whom he never met? And if the problem between you and your brothers of the Sunna is your hatred to Omar, Abubakr, and other comapnions, can't we forget all that and show respect to each others beloved companions in order to be better Muslims?

2007-07-29 23:23:43 · 8 answers · asked by Lawrence of Arabia 6 in Religion & Spirituality

Has anyone ever been in such realistic contact with God that even a non-believer would then believe?

2007-07-29 23:22:53 · 12 answers · asked by vEngful.Gibb0n 3 in Religion & Spirituality

In French as a greeting can you say Ca va as How are you?Cos the translation is that this - don't get it.

Thanks

2007-07-29 23:21:56 · 6 answers · asked by Charlene 6 in Languages

What do you mean for how soon in english?

2007-07-29 23:18:38 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Languages

Too tame, why not Public Hanging, before the National Lottery on Saturday Night, or for unsucessful suicide bombers whose explosives failed strap semtex round them and blow em up, make their mates think twice before copying them, what do you think.

2007-07-29 23:17:34 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Other - Society & Culture

I know there are parts of the bible here and there that actually happened, but most didn't (the flood, giants and the such). So, how much of the bible is actually true?

2007-07-29 23:17:13 · 24 answers · asked by Coma White 5 in Religion & Spirituality

I ask you about the usage of what and how.

What ask aim,object.
How ask some process

Are these correct?

2007-07-29 23:16:13 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous in Languages

why was sheding blood , and such a BARBARIC ACT, like the one of having Jesus tortured and cruxified necessary for forgiving our sins? God could have prevented all of this by :
Number one , if he did not put a tree in the garden so that Eve could not have eaten from it, number two if he did not create a snake to tempt Eve, number three THE SIMPLEST PART, WHY DID HE NOT FORGIVE THEM IN THE FIRST PLACE,INSTEAD OF SENDING A JESUS LATER ON TO BE KILLED AND TORTURED SO THAT OUR SIN COULD BE FORGIVEN? WHAT IS UP WITH HIS LUST FOR ANIMAL AND HUMAN SACRIFICES?
If he is God and all forgiving why did he not forgive Adam and Eve in the first place?

2007-07-29 23:16:04 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

Before there was religions,strangers would ask each other upon meeting,"what "god" do you worship?".If they both worshipped the same God than they considered each other a friend. Since Christians worship Jesus who is the God Yahweh in the flesh, and the Jews worship the God Yahweh and the Muslems worship the God Yahweh, than why don't we consider each other friends? Also aren't we all Abraham's children?

2007-07-29 23:14:55 · 19 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

how tall is the current queen?

2007-07-29 23:13:40 · 11 answers · asked by happy. 3 in Royalty

2007-07-29 23:12:25 · 15 answers · asked by nikotin 1 in Etiquette

Does ing afterpart of the verb have meaning of starting any act?

2007-07-29 23:08:54 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous in Languages

Why is it that some people lie and cant be honest about themselves. Do you thinks its because they feel they are not worthy of telling the truth, that if they do people will think bad of them and wont like them for who they are, or do you thinkl its just their nature to lie about everything. Give me your views.

2007-07-29 23:04:13 · 13 answers · asked by **** 7 in Other - Society & Culture

if god didn't want anyone to eat the apple then y did he created it?

2007-07-29 23:04:01 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

God believes;
- in blood offerings;
-has talking animals;ie.snake, donkey,
-thought the best way to populate a world was with incest;
-believes in burning and torturing his off spring forever;
-thinks woman are second class,
-has no problem with murdering thousands at a time;

Christians...good god..yes or no....

And you wonder why we don't want you in our goverment and schools and courts!

2007-07-29 23:02:07 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

- Al Imam Abou Hanifa Al Numan.. the founder of the Hanafi school of Islamic jurisprudence, and The Imam of the Sunna Imams...

- Abu Hanifa was also one of the Tabi'een, the generation after the Sahaba, because he saw the Sahabi Anas ibn Malik, and transmitted hadiths from him and other Sahaba.

This great Imam was a very close student and Friend to
Ja'far Al-Sadiq ibn Muhammad ibn Ali ibn Husayn, who was the sixth infallible Imam and one of Ahl al-Bayt of the Shi'a Muslims.

Abu Hanifa Al Numan said about the two years he spent as a student to Jafar: "Without the two years, Al Numan wuld have been wasted".

Do you think this is the way Sunna and Shia have to be together? brothers and sisters with no malice or hate?

your thoughts please!

2007-07-29 23:00:56 · 6 answers · asked by Lawrence of Arabia 6 in Religion & Spirituality

I have seen a few and I want to get them one of them was people going up in the air as thier snekers were left on the ground and Jesus was up in the air and it said "Capture the Rapture" I like that one, another one is a picture of a sun and in the middle of the sun was a picture of Jesus and it read "If you do not have the Son you will probablly burn" That's cool too, another one was a car Jack in the middle of the t-shirt and it said "If you don't have Jesus you don't know Jack" Cool too. Another one was "Don't beleive in hell? It's still there and your still going" Thats a funny one but I think I would get a few stares with that one. Another one was How do you prefere your place in eternity "Smoking or non smoking, with the lake of fire under neath where it says smoking. That was cool too. My mother said that was being pridful. So I won't get that one. I like the sticker in a christians book shop I was going to give to my sister that said 'He is coming back for me, how about you?"

2007-07-29 22:57:34 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

Due to the ever growing cities and changes in our society, many cultures are slowly changing. Its unfortunate because, eventually there won't be much of it left to be passed on to the next generation. Our individual and unique cultures are part of who we are. I'm doing a research on ways on how to help this specific culture. And it would help me greatly if anyone can suggest/give some ideas related to this.

2007-07-29 22:55:40 · 4 answers · asked by raven4soju 1 in Other - Society & Culture

I made up my mind that I will be nice and say hi to a person from my past. They actually did the breaking up. You'd think that their face would break if they smiled and said hi. This person also lives behind me now with their family. This is a weird situation because their parents moved next door to me. Is this one of the plagues from the Bible strickly for me! How do I get through life when I'm surrounded by my past? God keeps telling me to live at peace with everyone if possible. I'm trying to let my light shine and except my neighboors and my situation that God seems to have put me in. Why would this old boy friend not forgive and forget when he is suppose to be a christian now and I am a christian now? He is not even friendly to my husband.

2007-07-29 22:55:37 · 8 answers · asked by anjoek5859 3 in Religion & Spirituality

How do you write Gorgeous in french? or Beautifull

2007-07-29 22:55:35 · 5 answers · asked by halomaster@sbcglobal.net 1 in Languages