Society & Culture - 7 August 2007

Hey, i wanted to know if anyone could explain to me the theory about how when God made the world, the seven days where not 24 hour periods, rather, hmm, how to put it, Gods time, i guess, for lack of a better term. My wife and her brother talked with me about it, though i still dont fully understand.

2007-08-07 01:46:00 · 12 answers · asked by shane w 3 in Religion & Spirituality

(Genesis 19)

(O.o)

The same god who drowned all the babies in the world back in Genesis 7?

(o.O)

The same god who, in Genesis 22 told Abraham to sacrifice his son, only to turn around at the last minute and say "Just Kidding :-D "?

(O.o)

The same god who doesn't bat an eyelash in Judges 11 when the daughter of Jephthah is sacrificed as a "burnt offering" to this god?

(o.O)

The same god who in II Kings 2 turned 2 she-bears loose on 42 kids for calling his prophet "baldy"?

(O.o)

The same god who invited Satan to plague Job, "a perfect and upright man" according to God, in the Book of Job?

(o.O)

The same God who calls for the stoning of all children who curse their parents in Leviticus 20?

(O.o)

The same God who turned the waters of Egypt to -blood- in Exodus 7?

(o.O)

The same God who slew the first-born of Egypt in Exodus 12 (infants and all)?

(O.o)

The same one who says "suffer the little children to come unto me"?

(O.O)

2007-08-07 01:45:47 · 27 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

The Christians have the Bible, what do the atheists have?.
Do they follow their own rules? as I am sure there are many,
please explain...

2007-08-07 01:45:02 · 22 answers · asked by Dragon'sFire 6 in Religion & Spirituality

I put this question to the attention of Muslims, Jews, and Christians b/ we all believe in the same just God (i'm not looking for a debate on this. if you don't believe we worship the same God, then there are plenty of other questions...)

I've always been hit. Abuse has been a part of my life since i was a child. A friend of mine who studied psychology when i was younger told me that abused women will most likely be abused for their entire lives.... that they will likely always attract abusers. I didn't believe that. I believed that if you change who you are and improve yourself... that you will attract different people.

However, I converted to Islam three years ago and my life is completely different than before. I have different goals, i'm in the honors society at my college, i'm more modesty, confident, and happy...... but nothings changed. there's still a person in my life that uses me as a punching bag.

2007-08-07 01:42:53 · 24 answers · asked by Submission 3 in Religion & Spirituality

How could sodom an gomorrah have two virgin's

2007-08-07 01:41:23 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

2007-08-07 01:39:28 · 2 answers · asked by Anonymous in Other - Society & Culture

Many seem to be claiming Jesus as 'personal savior'.
Bible says "there is no respect of persons with God".
Bible says wisdom from above has no partiality at all.
So where do these Jesus-ians get the partiality from?

Bible says Jesus only Saviour of Israel, of Jacob-->Israel.
Bible says Christ is Saviour of the world: Jn4:42; 1Jn4:18.
Bible says that God was in "Christ" reconciling "the world".
So a 'personal savior' concept is not biblical, and alienating;
But globe-all salvation is biblical, and unifying, not alienating.

Personal savior ppl seem to be the "Christ Jesus" sort.
Bible says eternal salvation is "through Jesus-->Christ".
CJ is the reverse of JC (is the only foundation laid: Mt 1:1).
CJ does not occur at all in any of the four gospel accounts.
CJ is only from Acts - Peter; JC is from Mt 1:1 - Rev 22:21.

Personal savior ppl focus on 2nd law of Rom 8:2.
But every way you look at another law you lose.
Saviour of the world ppl focus on grace void of law

2007-08-07 01:39:09 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

Does the asker's own answer result in a limited option to use your own opinion?

2007-08-07 01:38:25 · 7 answers · asked by PrivacyNowPlease! 7 in Religion & Spirituality

2007-08-07 01:38:13 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

A) That all atheists have a detailed scientific explanation for every event in our daily lives, and throughout human history,

OR

B) That all believers have a detailed biblical explanation for every event in our daily lives, and throughout human history.

2007-08-07 01:38:11 · 14 answers · asked by Deke 5 in Religion & Spirituality

I know thier are alot of things floating around with reasons why people may be gay striaght ect but one thing i always asked myself is the fact i grew up a single child raised only by my mother with no father figure around might have something to do with the fact im gay and the fact i like older men..Could not having a father around or male figure in my life cause me to be attracted to older men and might be the case of me being gay ?

2007-08-07 01:37:32 · 17 answers · asked by Anonymous in Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender

2007-08-07 01:35:11 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

Like our favorite pet dying, our parents dying, family , spouses, etc?

2007-08-07 01:29:28 · 9 answers · asked by baby_rost 3 in Other - Society & Culture

The religious folk don't like it when radicals come here and happily state what the religious folk are too chicken to say but are all thinking.

2007-08-07 01:29:15 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

I love buttered toast

2007-08-07 01:29:08 · 19 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

What has happened to all the old fashioned values? Why do so many people feel the need to sleep around and go on binges around town? Where are manners? Alot of people don't hold doors open or say please and thank you any more.

Of course, not everyone is like this, but why are there so many that seem to have lost good values and manners?

2007-08-07 01:26:29 · 34 answers · asked by LoveBeingAMum 5 in Etiquette

2007-08-07 01:25:25 · 18 answers · asked by lone wolfe 3 in Religion & Spirituality

when we see the comet from earth its just a tiny speck with a tiny tail. scientists say that this comet is about 20 million light years away from our earth

so why are religions trying to make our universe look so tiny and present everything as a neatly packaged gift to believers?

xmuslim

2007-08-07 01:24:58 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

What's up with that?

2007-08-07 01:24:17 · 3 answers · asked by Prof Fruitcake 6 in Religion & Spirituality

2007-08-07 01:22:29 · 5 answers · asked by f. ahmad2007 a 2 in Royalty

When I was 3 my primary carer, she was my nan, died from a heart attack. My mother came home and found me with her body but has always refused to talk of that day (i'm 42 now). I would have been told along the lines of Roman Catholic beliefs that the angels had taken her to heaven. I was enrolled in Catholic school after that. Developmentally i have grown up with an insatiable need for reasons and, as i grow older a fundamental need to belief. I found this out the other day, talking to my partner.
I reject religion but will die for what I believe in. The whys of it are entrenched in the experience of what happened on that day.
I believe humans are no more than vessels for Spirit. Spirit has no shape or form. Only a continuity. If all the traumatic experiences were equally shared between all ... there might be less wars ...

2007-08-07 01:19:56 · 8 answers · asked by Part Time Cynic 7 in Religion & Spirituality

"free trip to heaven. details inside"

i thought it was really cute when i saw it this weekend. it makes me think about church in a more positive, less boring way. what about you?

2007-08-07 01:17:24 · 30 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

Blood offerings....needing the blood of christ to make it all okay....the incest to populate the world.....just a very sick cult god.....no?

2007-08-07 01:16:08 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

2007-08-07 01:16:06 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous in Other - Society & Culture

A creator of existence cannot, as a rule, exist. Were existence in need of a creator, that creator would first have been in need of existence. I'd also like to explain what a biophysical polydeist is: We believe that there existed several conscious entities that created everything physical and biological. Then science took over from there. The entities then became us. Like it? It's a mix between science and spiritualism (not religion). Theists may not avoid the original question by critisizing my beliefs.

2007-08-07 01:12:43 · 38 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

2007-08-07 01:11:42 · 22 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

Dont' get me wrong, I'm an open-minded person and would want to know if my religion has some evil in it. So, please, share your knowledge about how Christianity is evil.

2007-08-07 01:10:20 · 33 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

At least 100 reply is needed. Thanks.

2007-08-07 01:07:43 · 10 answers · asked by Samaty 1 in Religion & Spirituality

Im just wondering how the church explains things such as lucy, dinosaur fossils, and the world being billion of years old.

2007-08-07 01:06:26 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

"Thou shalt have no other gods before me"

That doesn't say I'm the ONLY God....and God doesn't say He's the only God just that he is the only living God(or something)...

So...could there have been other gods with God?

2007-08-07 01:04:43 · 27 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality