Society & Culture - 4 September 2007

With the proposed discovery of the burial site of Jesus what effect will this have on people's beliefs if it can be proven scientifically?

2007-09-04 13:36:58 · 12 answers · asked by arrogate 1 in Religion & Spirituality

Yesterday, I was reading across the omniscient word of God, when I stumbled across:

“If a man finds a girl who is a virgin, who is not engaged, and seizes her and lies with her and they are discovered, then the man who lay with her shall give to the girl's father fifty shekels of silver, and she shall become his wife because he has violated her; he cannot divorce her all his days.”

I was so relieved when I read this verse. For a while there, I was doubting God truly was a loving God! But now that he's provided me with the means of acquiring a wife, I feel the love of Jesus all over me!

P.S. I also have to thank the Spanish for the cheap price. There's no better way to extract silver from squalid mines than on the backs of countless Indians. =D Good thing it was all justified with the INERRANT BIBLE.

My question is, do you think the local priest will need actual silver, or will silver-backed u.s. treasury bonds do?

2007-09-04 13:36:38 · 19 answers · asked by robert 6 in Religion & Spirituality

It's being held at www.deism.com:

http://www.deism.com/deistchallengetochristians.html

It's based on Mark 16:17:
"And these signs will accompany those who believe...they will lay their hands on the sick, and they will recover."

Deism.com is offering to provide a terminally ill person for a true Christian believer to heal, and they will happily post the results. If the Bible's true, and you're a true believer, you should be able to heal the sick. The Bible itself says so.

2007-09-04 13:36:03 · 12 answers · asked by The Doctor 7 in Religion & Spirituality

2007-09-04 13:36:01 · 6 answers · asked by Danutz 1 in Other - Society & Culture

When Isaiah the prophet talks about a person coming from a Virgin and when it talks about King David , when talks about the Lord said to my Lord???

2007-09-04 13:34:06 · 5 answers · asked by Gilbert 1 in Religion & Spirituality

Do you see this as proof we do not have an eternal soul?

Ecc 9:5 "For the living know that they shall die: but the dead know not any thing, neither have they any more a reward; for the memory of them is forgotten."

John 11:24 "Martha saith unto him, I know that he shall rise again in the resurrection at the last day."

The verse in ecclesiates says the dead know nothing at all. And in John, Martha talks about a resurrection in the last day. So they must be dead up to this point to be resurrected.

2007-09-04 13:33:52 · 8 answers · asked by Steve 2 in Religion & Spirituality

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Any kind of addiction, not just drugs and booze.
It's the mind set that needs to be set free!

2007-09-04 13:32:31 · 11 answers · asked by ? 4 in Religion & Spirituality

I put them up there with Peta, I mean everytime they hear anything about an African American, they immediatly say it's racism! It's pretty annoying, I'm not racist or anything, you can do a background check on me.

2007-09-04 13:32:04 · 23 answers · asked by West Jefferson Alum 3 in Other - Cultures & Groups

2007-09-04 13:30:43 · 46 answers · asked by K. Marx iii 5 in Religion & Spirituality

Or is the need to be right as a culture stronger than the desire to get along with other cultures? You can't all be TOTALLY right, you know.

2007-09-04 13:27:22 · 28 answers · asked by Jean Low 2 in Religion & Spirituality

2007-09-04 13:26:44 · 15 answers · asked by Stew 4 in Religion & Spirituality

why do some Christians subject Jesus' teachings and neglect the rest of the Bible (notably the NT)?
I just read the Q on "gay Christians," using "Jesus never mentioned 'homosexuality,'" but neglect the rest of the Bible teachings on this and fornication, which falls in this category. Can anyone claim Paul was not well versed and knowledgeable in Scripture, since he visited the third heaven and received straight revelation from the throne of grace.
Why do we use what was not written and "taught" by Jesus in the gospels, but yet written in the rest of the NT?
The Bible says that not everything Jesus did could be written...

2007-09-04 13:26:42 · 17 answers · asked by n9wff 6 in Religion & Spirituality

Why is it that some of you "Christian" ladys out there find it necessary to post Pic's or avatars that are a bit suggestive? or shoud I say provocative?

Am I sayin this right? I mean am I being PC about this? Do you really believe that men need to see "sexy air brush artist renditions" of your girls out there?

So many of us men are doing our best to not objectify you all and yet you seem to objectify yourselves.

Can I Get A Witness?????

can some of you "blessed women" out there give a brother a break? or am I asking too much?

Any thought?

PS: I can assure you I don't need any help in the fantasy department most of us guys struggle with that all the time. (consider the longerie catalogues and the adds on TV victoria secret, even weight loss comercials, the male enhancement ads [how stupid since the only male enhancement we need is The Lord Jesus Christ] mmmm did I miss any?) Hence the need for my question.

thanks B

2007-09-04 13:26:29 · 14 answers · asked by ImJstBob 4 in Other - Society & Culture

I've tried to reach out to family but they're no help. All my mom does is reiterate my problems as well as my brother. Neither one of them believes in me and it's so discouraging. My aunt she just doesn't care. I don't have any friends so they can't help since they aren't there. You see I failed my first year of college and right now I don't see this year being anymore promising. A lot of my classes require reading which I hate to do. My attention span sucks! Then I'm always late for class and everything else. My life is so out of order. I come in from class and get right on my laptop and goof off and I'm too lazy to do my real work. I 'm trying to rreach out for some type of help cuz right now I feel my life is going nowhere fast : (

2007-09-04 13:25:38 · 32 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

If someone in your family reported you to the "Internal Revenue Service" for not claiming your "Saturday Night" poker winnings?

1. How would you feel?
2. What would you say?

2007-09-04 13:24:03 · 20 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

This question is for Christians only.

I'm not judging, God is the judge. He's already called it an abomination. Not just bad, but an ABOMINATION.

Leviticus 18:22
22Thou shalt not lie with mankind, as with womankind: it is abomination.

I think it's pretty clear that Christians (and Jews) should reject the behavior of homosexuals.

What do you think?

Again, this question is for CHRISTIANS only. You hear that Atheists? Do you know what Christians are? Christians ONLY!

2007-09-04 13:23:55 · 22 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

How did you cope? I've lost people that were close to me before, but never a parent before this. I can't stop thinking about my dad. I know I have to go through the grieving process, but nothing seems to alleviate this pain. I'm so overcome with it I ended up hospitalized last night due to having a migraine so severe I was vomiting and Imitrex, a special migraine medication, would not work. This is affecting my health. My husband is being such an angel and comforting me, doing more than his part, and caring for the kids when he does not have to. For those of my religion, I am not screaming out or anything, I am going through the motions like a robot, but what other duas and prayers can I say to get past this? And what does Islam say about the death of a parent who is not a Muslim, as my father was a Christian? I also can't seem to relax and feel a desperate need to keep doing things. My house is now spotless, including the attic, and organized completely. Nothing is left.

2007-09-04 13:23:21 · 26 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

There are many many misconceptions about Muslims and Islam on the web. I have heard some christians say that Jesus called Muhammad a liar or false prophet. when there is NO Documentations of such saying from Jessus. As a matter of fact Muslims consider Jesus a True Messiah who will return back to this world and establish the rule of Justice all over this planet.

Do you agree that Jesus will return to the Earth and that he is the True messiah who will once and for all establish the word of God upon mankind?

2007-09-04 13:21:34 · 25 answers · asked by Call of Truth 2 in Religion & Spirituality

http://abcnews.go.com/WN/story?id=3558134&page=1
Explain your answer, please.

2007-09-04 13:19:59 · 26 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

When I read the Bible, I sometimes truly wish I were a female, who would be a divorced Atheist lesbian feminist, who has had an unfortunate abortion, some premarital sex, who was about to marry her girlfriend...who also devotes all her time in working as a volunteer in an orphanage, simply to show that strange God how silly his morals are.

I'd wear a T-shirt that would say "Deuteronomy 22:28-29 are morals with a wrong twist, of course I won't marry my rapist!"

Anybody else have that feeling?

2007-09-04 13:17:32 · 22 answers · asked by ? 6 in Religion & Spirituality

2007-09-04 13:17:22 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous in Senior Citizens

i belive joueurs means players while jouer means to play. if not wat does it mean and how to pronounce em. but other than that i need to know the difference for pronouncing em!

2007-09-04 13:16:57 · 4 answers · asked by !!! 1 in Languages

Would you consider it a religion or a cult? Is it christian or occult? How would one show someone the errors, if it is erroneous or dangerous. Any need for de-programming? Is it idolatry?

2007-09-04 13:16:36 · 5 answers · asked by Azure Ciel 2 in Religion & Spirituality

I've seen some people unfairly targeted on this site by vigilantes who seem to think that the Yahoo officials cannot do an adequate job of policing this forum and feel it is their moral duty to do some self-policing.

It's one thing to go after those who are truly pornographic or truly trying to say something offensive. But it seems like many of my friends on this site have been penalized unfairly. I've seen many of the questions and answers they get violation notices for, and it would take a long stretch of the imagination to claim these questions were worthy of a violation notice.

So, I'd like to find out what types of questions I need to avoid answering or asking so that I can survive in this forum? In particular, I've know many accounts that have been deleted simply because they answered a troll's question.

So, Troll patrol, tell me, what questions may I have your permission to ask or answer that won't get cited?

I take it that you feel that you need to set the standards?

2007-09-04 13:16:06 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

Do u know if i will b happy- sussessful n single or married n happy ... ?

2007-09-04 13:15:51 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous in Mythology & Folklore

2007-09-04 13:14:51 · 19 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

over thousands of years are deluding themselves? So the Atheist view is that humanity (except for the enlightened few) has a great capacity for self-delusion?

2007-09-04 13:14:12 · 15 answers · asked by keri gee 6 in Religion & Spirituality

...on their underwear are sacred? Their first "prophet" Joe Smith was actually thrown from the Masons because he used their symbols in his new religion.

They also think they'll be gods of their own planet and THEIR god lives on the planet Kolob with his many goddess wives who are eternally pregnant.

Their Jesus is counterfeit and is the brother of Lucifer, not the Biblical Jesus who CREATED Lucifer.

2007-09-04 13:13:11 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

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2007-09-04 13:09:36 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

Let's face it, the Noachian myth is ridiculous on every level. The physics, the math, even the weather!!! Scientists know that such an incredible amount of water covering the globe would make the humidity levels in the atmosphere too high for air breathing creatures to breathe. Not to mention the salinization of all the arable land, making it impossible for most vegetation to grow for quite some time.

So the typical Christian response will be, "god makes anything possible."

Okay, fine. If that's the case, if this incredible, magical being can make anything happen, why choose such a ridiculous, long winded method of destroying the world? Why not simply ignite the atmosphere for 30 minutes, and make Noah and his menagerie fireproof?

Maybe, just maybe, the authors of the bible felt god "wiping sin from the earth" would be most convincing through an absurdly long, but still plausible "diluvian" event, thus instilling the necessary awe and fear into the often rebellious masses?

2007-09-04 13:08:46 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality