i hear that recarnation is when you die, you can back as something or someone else. For people who believe in this, how does this work? and how do you know if this is your "second" life? are u a cat? (sorry..lol)
2007-09-22 18:46:58 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality
Do you just give them the candy, try to scare them, or interrogate them about "What are you supposed to be?" or guess what they are and dote on their costumes like "What a cute little goblin"?
2007-09-22 18:45:34 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous in Halloween
If you believe so,can you explain the following verses,from context,starting from verse 13 of Matthew ch:16?
'And I say also unto thee,thou art Peter(Petros,pebble)and upon this rock(Petra-foundation stone,i.e.Peter's testimony that Jesus is Lord)will I build my church and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it.'Matt:ch:16:17-18.
2007-09-22 18:45:22 · 15 answers · asked by Wonderwall 4 in Religion & Spirituality
Is Superman a god? What's the deal with Marvel, killing off Captain America and Superman?
2007-09-22 18:44:39 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality
Didn't Christians just tack on a few stories on to the end of some other religion's bible? Come on. That's cheating.
All religions seem to have this, do what I say or suffer the consequence, thing going on. Can't they be more original than that?
I think people should make up whole new religions, from scratch, completely different from each other. Then we would have more religions to choose from. Personally, I have not been able to find one that works for me yet.
2007-09-22 18:44:32 · 9 answers · asked by kj 3 in Religion & Spirituality
Where is the logic in all that?
2007-09-22 18:44:14 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality
does it bother you when you hear Mary get praised? i know it shouldnt but it makes me mad. im thankful for her giving birth to our savior but i just cant give her any more then that. i guess maybe i wanted to get it off my chest bout her. i dont know why i even allow it to bother me but it does.
2007-09-22 18:43:48 · 4 answers · asked by warrior*in*the*making 5 in Religion & Spirituality
If so can you please cite the source. Thanks
2007-09-22 18:43:06 · 3 answers · asked by Edward J 6 in Religion & Spirituality
Which sin is this?
2007-09-22 18:42:57 · 22 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality
MY SISTER HAS A HALLOWEEN PARTY EVERY YEAR, AND NOW THAT THE KIDS ARE GETTING OLDER, WE ARE HAVING TROUBLE WITH TRICKS/GAMES FOR THEM. LAST YEAR WE DID THE CARAMEL COVERED ONIONS AND OF COURSE TOLD THEM THAT THEY WERE APPLES, AND WHOEVER ATE THE MOST GOT THE MONEY. THIS YEAR WE WANT SOMETHING SIMILAR, KIND OF GROSS BUT NOT TOO HARSH, AND I WAS WONDERING IF ANYONE HERE KNOWS ANY OR HAS HEARD OF ANY TO DO WITH ADOLESCENTS. ANY SUGGESTIONS/IDEAS WELCOME...THANKS
2007-09-22 18:42:34 · 3 answers · asked by bluealexivan 2 in Halloween
On TV and in movies, I noticed they censor nudity and get all offended about it (nipplegate, etc.) but when violence is shown, we accept it. Nudity is natural in my opinion and it is a beautiful thing while violence is the ugly in our society, so why are we offended by what's natural? What do you see as more offending and why?
2007-09-22 18:42:12 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous in Other - Society & Culture
Before ya hate me again.. NO im not a mormon basher.. You say you are Christians and the Bible says you are not. You say you believe what the Bible says, the Bible says you dont.. Please explane to me where I am incorrect. In any of my questions about mormonism...
While Christians view the Bible as the final authority on doctrinal matters, the LDS Church holds that their other books of scripture and their prophets are more reliable than the Bible.
Christian View of the Bible LDS Church View of the Bible
Accurate—
"All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness: That the man of God may be perfect, thoroughly furnished unto all good works." (2 Tim. 3:17)
Corrupted—
"We believe the Bible to be the word of God as far as it is translated correctly; we also believe the Book of Mormon to be the word of God." (8th article of faith)
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Sufficient—
"These things have I written unto you that believe on the name of the Son of God; that ye may know that ye have eternal life, and that ye may believe on the name of the Son of God." (1 John 5:13)
Insufficient—
Joseph Smith taught that "many important points touching the salvation of men, had been taken from the Bible, or lost before it was compiled " (History of the Church, v. 1, p. 245)
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Complete—
"But though we, or an angel from heaven, preach any other gospel unto you than that which we have preached unto you, let him be accursed." (Gal. 1:8-9)
Need additional revelation—
"We believe all that God has revealed, all that he does now reveal, and we believe that he will yet reveal many great and important things pertaining to the kingdom of God" (9th article of faith)
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Authoritative—
"If any man think himself to be a prophet, or spiritual, let him acknowledge that the things that I write unto you are the commandments of the Lord." (1 Cor. 14:37)
Subordinate to new revelation—
"In addition to these four books of scripture, the inspired words of our living prophets become scripture to us. Their words come to us through conferences, Church publications, and instructions to local priesthood leaders." (Gospel Principles, p. 51-52)
2007-09-22 18:41:48 · 19 answers · asked by Joe D 2 in Religion & Spirituality
What if I sew up the left leghole in all my boyfriend's tightywhiteys--would that be a sin?
2007-09-22 18:41:11 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality
2007-09-22 18:40:12 · 14 answers · asked by WIl 2 in Religion & Spirituality
2007-09-22 18:39:07 · 2 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality
I understand it's okay to drink the blood and eat the flesh of Christ, because he's holy, but what about your neighbour? What if your neighbour is a Christian, can we eat his flesh since he has the holy spirit in him? Or should we save room for Christ alone? If your Catholic, what about the pope? Is he holy enough to eat? Is it wrong to eat the flesh of and drink the blood of heathens?
On a related note, is swallowing semen a form of cannibalism? If a woman swallows her husband's ejaculate, is it a sin??
2007-09-22 18:37:36 · 6 answers · asked by skunk pie 5 in Religion & Spirituality
is it in french or italian?
2007-09-22 18:36:15 · 13 answers · asked by ALESANA 7 in Languages
2007-09-22 18:36:03 · 7 answers · asked by kramaster 5 in Religion & Spirituality
The end results are the same, aren't they?
2007-09-22 18:35:55 · 12 answers · asked by tremonster 4 in Religion & Spirituality
2007-09-22 18:29:19 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality
2007-09-22 18:26:03 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality
I pray the Hail Mary everyday; I'm looking for a prayer that will help a sad Mother regain strength and courage to continue fighting for the safe return of her baby boy.
2007-09-22 18:24:55 · 9 answers · asked by melomego 3 in Religion & Spirituality
Why can't they just answer the question directly? I saw a question asking why would Jesus damn you to hell if he loves you so much and all I saw were silly, brainwashed-type answers. What's up? Can't anyone just say, "I don't know"?
2007-09-22 18:18:26 · 35 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality
She's a teenager and she believes in god and all that.
I tell her that fairytales are fairytales and she should get over it.
I think I'm right? Do you?
2007-09-22 18:17:24 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality
All nontrinitarians take the position that the doctrine of the earliest form of Christianity was not Trinitarian. Typically, nontrinitarians explain that Christianity was altered as a direct and indirect consequence of the edicts of Constantine the Great, which resulted in the eventual adoption of Trinitarian Christianity as the official religion of the Roman Empire. Because it was at this time of a dramatic shift in Christianity's status that the doctrine of the Trinity attained its definitive development, nontrinitarians typically find the doctrine questionable. It is in this light that the Nicene Creed is seen by nontrinitarians as an essentially political document, resulting from the subordination of true doctrine to State interests by the leaders of Catholic Church, so that the church became, in their view, an extension of the Roman Empire.
Although Nontrinitarian beliefs continued to multiply, and among some people (such as the Lombards in the West) it was dominant for hundreds of years afterward, the Trinitarians gained the immense power of the Roman Empire. Nontrinitarians typically argue that the primitive beliefs of the Christianity were systematically suppressed (often to the point of death), and that the historical record, perhaps also including the Scriptures of the New Testament, was altered as a consequence.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nontrinitarianism
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2007-09-22 18:17:23 · 18 answers · asked by wwhy 3 in Religion & Spirituality
*Instant Holy* the second they become Christians?
We are, after all, Natural humans with natural desires, feelings and thoughts.
We are TRYING to be Christ-like. We do fail quite often, WHY. Because we are NOT Christ.. We are not perfect and never will be. But we keep TRYING.. God knows there are no perfect people..
Peace & God bless from Texas. <><
2007-09-22 18:15:20 · 16 answers · asked by jaantoo1 6 in Religion & Spirituality
2007-09-22 18:12:57 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality
LDS View of God Contradicts the Bible
LDS Prophet Joseph Smith taught that God was once a mortal man:
"God himself was once as we are now, and is an exalted man, and sits enthroned in yonder heavens! That is the great secret. ...I am going to tell you how God came to be God. We have imagined and supposed that God was God from all eternity. I will refute that idea, and take away the veil,...
It is the first principle of the gospel to know for a certainty the character of God, ...and that He was once a man like us; yea, that God himself, the Father of us all, dwelt on an earth, the same as Jesus Christ Himself did; ...you have got to learn how to be gods yourselves, and to be kings and priests to God, the same as all gods have done before you, namely, by going from one small degree to another,... from exaltation to exaltation, until you attain to the resurrection of the dead, and are able to dwell in everlasting burnings. and to sit in glory, as do those who sit enthroned in everlasting power" (History of the Church, Vol.6, Ch.14, p.305-6).
LDS President Brigham Young declared that God was once a finite being:
"It appears ridiculous to the world, under their darkened and erroneous traditions, that God has once been a finite being" (Deseret News, Nov.16, 1859, p.290).
LDS President Joseph Fielding Smith said that God had a father, a grandfather, etc.:
"Our father in heaven, according to the Prophet, had a father, and since there has been a condition of this kind through all eternity, each Father had a Father" (Doctrines of Salvation, 2:47).
LDS President Joseph F. Smith taught that God was born as a mortal on some other earth:
"I know that God is a being with body, parts and passions...Man was born of woman; Christ, the Savior, was born of woman; and God, the Father was born of woman" (Deseret News, Church News, Sept.19, 1936, p.2).
LDS Apostle Bruce R. McConkie taught:
"The Father is a glorified, perfected, resurrected, exalted man who worked out his salvation by obedience to the same laws he has given to us so that we may do the same" (A New Witness for the Articles of Faith, p.64)
LDS Apostle Melvin Ballard explained that God has a wife:
"For as we have a Father in heaven, so also we have a Mother there, a glorified, exalted, ennobled Mother" (As quoted in Achieving a Celestial Marriage, LDS Church manual, 1976, p.129).
LDS Doctrine and Covenants promises the faithful LDS couple that they can achieve godhood in the same manner as God the Father:
"...if a man marry a wife, and make a covenant with her for time and for all eternity,... they shall [have]...a continuation of the seeds [children] forever and ever. Then shall they be gods, because they have no end; therefore shall they be from everlasting to everlasting,... Then shall they be gods, because they have all power,... and continuation of the lives,... [endless procreation of spirit children]" (Doctrine and Covenants Section 132:18-22)
LDS President Brigham Young taught that faithful Mormons can achieve godhood:
"Intelligent beings are organized to become Gods, even the Sons of God, to dwell in the presence of the Gods, and become associated with the highest intelligences that dwell in eternity. We are now in the school, and must practice upon what we receive" (Discourses of Brigham Young, p.245).
LDS President Joseph F. Smith said:
"We are precisely in the same condition and under the same circumstances that God our heavenly Father was when he was passing through this, or a similar ordeal" (Gospel Doctrine, p.54).
LDS Apostle James E. Talmage taught that God progressed from a mortal to a god:
"We believe in a God who is Himself progressive, whose majesty is intelligence; whose perfection consists in eternal advancement -- a Being who has attained His exalted state by a path which now His children are permitted to follow, whose glory it is their heritage to share. In spite of the opposition of the sects, in the face of direct charges of blasphemy, the Church proclaims the eternal truth: 'As man is, God once was; as God is, man may be'" (Articles of Faith, Ch.24, p.430 - p.431).
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What the Bible Says About God
1. ALWAYS GOD - in the past as well as in the future.
"Art thou not from ever-lasting, O Lord my God, mine Holy One?" Hab. 1:12
"For I am the Lord, I change not." Mal. 3:6
"...from everlasting to everlasting, thou art God." Psa. 90:2
"God is not a man, that he should lie; neither the son of man, that he should repent." Num. 23:19
"Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools, and changed the glory of the uncorruptible God into an image made like to corruptible man,...who changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshipped and served the creature more than the Creator, who is blessed for ever." Rom. 1:22-25
The LDS god started as a finite man and progressed to godhood.
2. ALWAYS HOLY - Both in the past and future.
"...a God of truth and without iniquity, just and right is he." Deut. 32:4
"I am God, and not man; the Holy One in the midst of thee." Hos. 11:9
"The Lord is righteous in all his ways and holy in all his works." Psa. 145:17
"God is light, and in him is no darkness at all." 1 John 1:5
"Thy righteousness is an everlasting righteousness." Psa. 119:142
The LDS god achieved holiness.
3. ALL KNOWING - Both in the past and in the future.
"Who hath directed the Spirit of the Lord, or being his counsellor hath taught him? With whom took he counsel, and who instructed him, and taught him knowledge, and shewed to him the way of understanding? ... There is no searching of his understanding." Isa. 40:13,14,28
"Great is our Lord, and of great power: his understanding is infinite." Psa. 147:5
The LDS god had to learn everything.
4. ALL POWERFUL
"The Lord God omnipotent reigneth." Rev. 19:6
"...his eternal power and Godhead." Rom. 1:20
The LDS god attained his power.
5. OMNIPRESENT
"The heaven is my throne, and the earth is my footstool; where is the house that ye build unto me: and where is the place of my rest?" Isa. 66:1
"Am I a God at hand, saith the Lord, and not a God afar off? Can any hide himself in secret places that I shall not see him? saith the Lord. Do not I fill heaven and earth? saith the Lord." Jer. 23:23-24
The LDS god can be in only one place at a time.
6. ACTED ALONE IN CREATION
"I am the Lord that maketh all things; that stretcheth forth the heavens alone, that spreadeth abroad the earth by myself." Isa. 44:24
"By the word of the Lord were the heavens made; and all the host of them by the breath of his mouth." Psa. 33:6
"Thou hast made heaven, the heaven of heavens, with all their host, the earth, and all things that are therein, the seas, and all that is therein, and thou preservest them all." Neh. 9:6
The LDS god cooperated with the Council of Gods to create.
7. NO OTHER GODS
"I am he; before me there was no God formed neither shall there be after me. I, even I, am the Lord; and beside me there is no saviour." Isa. 43:10-11
"I am the first, and I am the last; and beside me there is no God....is there a God beside me; yea, there is no God; I know not any." Isa. 44:6&8
"To whom will ye liken me, and make me equal, and compare me, that we may be like?...for I am God, and there is none else; I am God, and there is none like me." Isa. 46:5&9
"I am the Lord; that is my name; and my glory will I not give to another." Isa. 42:8
The LDS God has a father and mother, grandparents, brothers and sisters, etc.
2007-09-22 18:09:31 · 28 answers · asked by Joe D 2 in Religion & Spirituality
In the Judeo-Christian religions, we have the 10 commandments. One of the commandments is : Thou shall not kill (often phrased in a variety of ways). Does the Qur’an, or any other Islamic writings, also have a similar commandment from God? If so, where is it written and how is it phrased?
Thank you for your serious answers.
2007-09-22 18:07:21 · 21 answers · asked by mgctouch 7 in Religion & Spirituality
What were their names?
2007-09-22 18:06:56 · 22 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality
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