Society & Culture - 13 September 2007

2007-09-13 15:38:26 · 7 answers · asked by komar 1 in Religion & Spirituality

"true Christians" and "those other guys"

2007-09-13 15:35:14 · 25 answers · asked by lindsey p 5 in Religion & Spirituality

Our country of Australia has bushfires, droughts, floods & storms. Our worst disasters are by far the big bushfires we have in summer.
The worst one I can remember was in 1983, when a firestorm ripped through our state & Victoria killing 75 people. It cause millions of dollars worth of damage.
Some of our bush fires develop into firestorms and they are so bad.
What is the worst kind of natural disaster than your country has?

2007-09-13 15:34:49 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous in Etiquette

I am spiritual believing a higher power or powers but reject the idea of an all-powerful interceding entity as depicted by organized religion. Labels get thrown around this section a lot and i'd like to know what you think this makes me.

2007-09-13 15:34:09 · 25 answers · asked by Yahoo Sucks 5 in Religion & Spirituality

2007-09-13 15:33:32 · 17 answers · asked by First Name Whittney 3 in Religion & Spirituality

Contrary to popular beliefs, I was able to determine from reading a question on here that fire is in fact capable of weakening steel to the point where it can cause a collapse, as in the World Trade Center. This caused me to remember an episode of The View in which Rosie O'Donnell stubbornly insisted that there was absolutely no way that the fire alone could have caused the towers to collapse, although Elizabeth Hasselback tried to tell her otherwise. I found a clip of their argument on youtube, and I suddenly realized the sheer ignorance and stupidity of over half the things Rosie was saying. It was like all of a sudden none of the things she was saying made any sense. I suppose I was only listening to her before because I did not know how wrong she was, and because it seems that she has a way of getting anyone to listen to her just by the way she talks. But when you actually know how wrong she is then you realize how stupid she is making herself look by continuing to go on.

2007-09-13 15:32:05 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Other - Society & Culture

Recently I have looked at my encyclopidia & was interested as of what was the Christian & Jewish point of view of the prophets I was shocked to find out the result.The prophets were viewed upon as great sinners. This is some of the things I found:
Lut: His daughters had put alchohol in his food, making him drunk, & made sex with their own father.

Aaron: When Moses went away Aaron made a golden calf for people to worship, & that is shirk (Associating Allah with something else) so how can a prophet make the greatest sin?

Noah: After the flood he had discovered Wine & became a hopeless drunk.

David: They claim that David is a bastard. A prophet has to be clean even from the parents.

2007-09-13 15:31:57 · 15 answers · asked by z4ever_lady87 1 in Religion & Spirituality

2007-09-13 15:29:56 · 23 answers · asked by Shellanswerman 3 in Religion & Spirituality

***PLEASE READ ALL DETAILS***
Ok let me start by clearly defining what Gender Identity Disorder is:
"Gender identity disorder (GID) or transsexualism is defined by strong, persistent feelings of identification with the opposite gender and discomfort with one's own assigned sex"
Symptoms
Children:
- Express the desire to be the opposite sex
- Have disgust with their own genitals
- Believe that they will grow up to become the opposite sex
- Are rejected by their peer group and feel isolated
- Have depression
- Have anxiety
Source: http://psychologytoday.com/conditions/genderid.html
MORE DETAILS TO COME:

2007-09-13 15:29:51 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

2007-09-13 15:27:02 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous in Royalty

I just got a message from "Troll guy"

Message: JUST WANTED TO LET YOU KNOW YOU AND ALL YOUR CONTACTS WILL BE SUSPENDED VERY SOON WE HAVE ACCOMPLISHED DELETING SOME ALREADY AND ON OUR WAY FOR MORE.
ENJOY YOUR ACCOUNT WHILE YOU CAN. TROLL GUY

2007-09-13 15:24:58 · 20 answers · asked by Icy Gazpacho 6 in Religion & Spirituality

Has anyone put a fish or Christian emblem on there vehicle and it was vandalized or take off by someone? Also if you do have a fish/Christian emblem on your vehicle, do you experience people driving by and pretend to spit as they drive by your vehicle?

2007-09-13 15:24:06 · 30 answers · asked by Marly Mar 1 in Religion & Spirituality

2007-09-13 15:23:51 · 21 answers · asked by vixiechix03 1 in Religion & Spirituality

Weeks ago, I had a visiter who answered a question given by someone who was being in my words hateful. They used my name. I dont want to bring up the question or the answer. Mostly because I am ashamed of it all. I am a christian man. And I have my own convictions as you have yours. But the answer that was given was discusting and disrespectful. The only way that I can right this wrong is to say that I love you all. And that God loves us all. And that I have taken steps to insure that this will never happen again. Do you not have thoughts? When you are cut, do you not bleed? When you are hurt, do you not cry? God saves all of your tears. Even the tears that I am crying now. The signifigance of a single soul is presious.

2007-09-13 15:22:17 · 15 answers · asked by guitarrman45 7 in Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender

Catholics and Protestants agree that to be saved, you have to be born again. Jesus said so: "Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God" (John 3:3).

When a Catholic says that he has been "born again," he refers to the transformation that God’s grace accomplished in him during baptism. Evangelical Protestants typically mean something quite different when they talk about being "born again."

For an Evangelical, becoming "born again" often happens like this: He goes to a crusade or a revival where a minister delivers a sermon telling him of his need to be "born again."

"If you believe in the Lord Jesus Christ and believe he died for your sins, you’ll be born again!" says the preacher. So the gentleman makes "a decision for Christ" and at the altar call goes forward to be led in "the sinner’s prayer" by the minister. Then the minister tells all who prayed the sinner’s prayer that they have been saved—"born again."

2007-09-13 15:21:41 · 17 answers · asked by tebone0315 7 in Religion & Spirituality

2007-09-13 15:20:05 · 3 answers · asked by livin*it*to*the*X-TREME 1 in Community Service

DETAILS I'm writing a part on why people don't believe!!!

2007-09-13 15:19:07 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

I wish I had never seen it.
Stephen Kings novels are to much for this little lady.

2007-09-13 15:17:36 · 19 answers · asked by Anonymous in Senior Citizens

The approach to authority is very different in the ancient Church than in the modernist Protestant church. The Catholic Church follows the “Word of God alone” while the Protestant ecclesiastical groups follow Sola Scriptura which states that only God’s written word is authoritative. The latter is a sixteenth century man made doctrine designed to destroy the unity of the Church and fragments the entire body of Christ by exponentially increasing schisms caused by accepting only part of God’s word by the Protestants. Sola Scriptura is not a doctrine for a better understanding of the Logos but instead is designed to circumvent the legitimate authority of the Church given by Christ.
It is the belief of the ancient Church that is the Magisterium of the Church that has the authority given by Christ to expound on, recognize and guard the Word of God. The Word of God is not only the written Scriptures but all that is handed to the Church by the Holy Spirit. In so doing and carrying out her responsibility the Church is the true servant of the Word.
God’s people have never been Sola Scriptura advocates. In Jesus’ day the orthodox Jews were not, nor were Jesus or the apostles. The continuation Sola Verbum Dei is a theological continuation of God’s Word from the Old Covenant to the New. The only ones who believed in anything resembling Sola Scriptura were the Sadducees who were the theological liberals of their day. We know that the first century Christians did not believe in Sola Scriptura by the teaching of St. Paul in Holy writ:
(2Th 2:15 DRB) (2:14) Therefore, brethren, stand fast: and hold the traditions, which you have learned, whether by word or by our epistle.

The Church teaches that the Word of God is the Logos:

(Joh 1:1 DRB) In the beginning was the Word: and the Word was with God: and the Word was God.

(Joh 1:2 DRB) The same was in the beginning with God.

(Joh 1:3 DRB) All things were made by him: and without him was made nothing that was made.

(Joh 1:4 DRB) In him was life: and the life was the light of men.

So the question among Christians should not be what is the Word but instead how is the Word revealed to man. To the Protestant the Word is only revealed in written form called Sola Scriptura. To the Catholic Christian the word has a much broader meaning and is revealed to man in more than a written form where men were inspired to reveal God’s Word. Catholics believe that inspiration is not only personal as with the biblical writers but is also revealed to and through the Church such as in the Ecumenical Councils and through the authority exercised through the Church to recognize, guard, interpret and teach the Word. The Church throughout history has faithfully exercised her authority to guard the word of God against the attacks of heresies, such as Sola Scriptura.

In Christ
Fr. Joseph

2007-09-13 15:15:54 · 19 answers · asked by cristoiglesia 7 in Religion & Spirituality

How do you feel when you see other christians calling atheists or non-christians
"morons," "satan-worshippers," and "miserable people"
who are going to hell because they rejected god?

(and these are the nice insults that I've read in the past hour! I'm sure you see the rest if you read most of the questions...)

How about the ones who flat out say they hate jews, muslims, atheists, or homosexuals?

2007-09-13 15:15:51 · 21 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

Ask a question, and then get made when someone tells you what they think the answer may be?

2007-09-13 15:12:54 · 7 answers · asked by Shannon 3 in Etiquette

Never lies.
Never cusses or blasphemes.
Never lusts.
Never steals.
Never murders.
Never commits adultery.
Is still a virgin.

Would you expect someone who is all of these to be more likely an atheist or a Christian?

2007-09-13 15:12:35 · 59 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

2007-09-13 15:12:30 · 20 answers · asked by shiningStar 2 in Religion & Spirituality

a) Communism

b) Computers

c) Baseball

d) Licorice

10 pts to first person to answer correctly!

2007-09-13 15:12:13 · 10 answers · asked by swoosh 5 in Religion & Spirituality

2007-09-13 15:11:30 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

hi i seriously need some help here.
i am in school and i have been hanging around with this guy for a while , we became great friends doing things together ,going out taking holidays calling each other every night . i have been doing many things for him too , eg driving him , helping him in his studies . Thats because i like him . But he is however straight.

i told him a week ago and he started freaking out and everything , i know its hard for straight people when another guy says he likes you . but i really really enjoyed the time i had with him , and i can't get over him . in my heart i still want to keep helping him .but now i dunno whether he truely appericates my help or he is using me . Everday i wait for him to at least talk to online but its not helping anymore .

Can someone tell me how i should fight this feeling

2007-09-13 15:10:36 · 20 answers · asked by mushu_rulez 2 in Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender

I've just been targeted by "patrol guy"
whoever that is... we all know of course

so the bullies are out in full force people.
*sigh* are there words for such childish behavour?

2007-09-13 15:08:10 · 23 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

I don't get it. What does it mean? Clarity on this would be appreciated.

2007-09-13 15:07:51 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

I need to buy a Halloween cake in AZ. It needs to be big and not super expensive like $50 is good.....thanks. I would like them to be creative
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2007-09-13 15:07:11 · 2 answers · asked by iluvvball213 2 in Halloween

why do people frown upon mega churches and the pastors of the mega- church? Where does it say that your ministry can only be but so big?

2007-09-13 15:06:27 · 13 answers · asked by yvicks 4 in Religion & Spirituality