2007-10-18 23:50:52 · 2 answers · asked by stewart t 5 in Religion & Spirituality
How could the bible be true if the pagans worshipped a god who was ressurected in three days, cured a blind man and turned water into wine? He was called Mythria and this was 2,000 years B.C. Isntn't Christianity a big rip off of this?
2007-10-18 23:49:37 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality
By your standards, the horrors of the Holocaust are like a stroll in the park compared to an eternity of suffering in Hell.
Why not try and convert more people to Jesus Christ (or other prophet)? I don't see much evidence of it here. Many good people (Atheists) are going to hell and you just sit there observing the atrocity. If there was some small thing I could do to prevent just one person from suffering in the Holocaust, then I would have tried my upmost - really strived to help that one person out however unlikely the odds. Atheists may be stubborn, but do you not feel you must try?
If you are a Theist that believes many people here are going to hell, but do not actively try and stop people going -
Why is this?
Why just observe this terrible humanitarian crisis?
2007-10-18 23:48:16 · 14 answers · asked by Golgi Apparatus 6 in Religion & Spirituality
2007-10-18 23:46:08 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous in Other - Cultures & Groups
May the ghosts that haunt us and the ghouls that taunt us
And all creatures that go bump in the night,
Slink back to their graves with mournful waves
As they fade in the morning light.
May we look to tomorrow with joy and not sorrow,
And to a future free from fear,
May we enjoy good health (and a wee bit of wealth)
As the monsters disappear.
Elaine P.
2007-10-18 23:45:31 · 4 answers · asked by Elaine P...is for Poetry 7 in Halloween
If the answer is Yes, don`t you find these characteristics to be contradictory?
Just - Receive an equal reward or punishment for an action. I.E. You don`t send guy to prison for life for stealing a pack of cigaretts.
Mercy - Rendering less a punishment for an action. The offense outweighs the punishment. I.E. Judge gives a defendant a slap on the wrist with the warning that if you do it again the punishment will be more strict.
How can God be all-merciful and all-just. This does not make any sense.
2007-10-18 23:44:35 · 27 answers · asked by Future 5 in Religion & Spirituality
I quit smoking in January, and though I have had times when I'd like to have one, I was quite proud of myself for not giving in.
Yesterday was a bad day, and I found myself not once, but twice, reaching in my pocketbook as I was driving. I wondered why I was doing that, and realized I was fishing around for a pack of cigarettes!
Had one been there, it would have been a completely unconscious act to light up.
2007-10-18 23:41:02 · 16 answers · asked by felines 5 in Senior Citizens
that scriptures do not apply now?views on women in particular have changed since those times so are these now null and void?If so why not all the scriptures?
2007-10-18 23:40:36 · 24 answers · asked by Cotton Wool Ninja 6 in Religion & Spirituality
Because He was fully God from Heaven and fully a sinless man at the same time.
For such an high priest [Jesus Christ] became us, who is holy, harmless, undefiled, separate from sinners, and made higher than the heavens. (Hebrews 7:26)
Neither is there salvation in any other: for there is none other name under Heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved. (Acts 4:12)
For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus. (1 Timothy 2:5)
2007-10-18 23:39:01 · 25 answers · asked by JESUS means: JAHWEH is Salvation 2 in Religion & Spirituality
2007-10-18 23:36:12 · 27 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality
God has placed the basic knowledge of His existence and power within man as man views this world.
Because that which may be known of God is manifest in them; for God hath showed it unto them. For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even his eternal power and Godhead; so that they are without excuse. (Romans 1:19-20)
2007-10-18 23:35:18 · 15 answers · asked by JESUS means: JAHWEH is Salvation 2 in Religion & Spirituality
what will the next era be called if and when Prince Charles gets on the throne. I mean we have had the Victorian age for Queen Victoria and presently we are Elizabethans for Queen Elizabeth.
So, what next?
I dread to think what it will be when Wills gets to be king
2007-10-18 23:32:29 · 15 answers · asked by mistymiss 6 in Royalty
2007-10-18 23:32:07 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality
Although God is love and has mercy, God is also just and righteous.
Thou [God] art of purer eyes than to behold evil, and canst not look on iniquity… (Habakkuk 1:13)
[concerning God] …and by no means clearing the guilty… (Numbers 14:18)
2007-10-18 23:28:54 · 17 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality
2007-10-18 23:28:32 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality
God’s Word, the Bible, discusses God’s judgment and eternal Hell from beginning to end. In fact, the Bible tells us that most people who have ever lived will be there.
The wicked shall be turned into Hell, and all the nations that forget God. (Psalm 9:17)
And Jesus went about all Galilee teaching…(Matthew 4:23)… Enter ye in at the strait gate: for wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leadeth to destruction, and many there be which go in thereat: Because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it. (Matthew 7:13-14)
Jesus Christ (God in the flesh) taught more about Hell than any other person quoted in the Bible.
Then shall he say also unto them on the left hand, Depart from me, ye cursed, into everlasting fire… (Matthew 25:41)
And fear not them which kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul: but rather fear him which is able to destroy both soul and body in Hell. (Matthew 10:28)
2007-10-18 23:25:58 · 18 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality
Is swearing against the bible?
2007-10-18 23:24:28 · 2 answers · asked by Samurai de WOT 2 in Religion & Spirituality
if god is so powerful, why can't he heal amputees?
Apparantly, he has performed miracles before.
Not real miracles, just what people assume is a miracle.
Not once has he ever healed an amputee.
Why?
Can't he do it?
If all the churches and xtians all prayed that he would heal an amputee, what do you HONESTLY think is the chances of him doing it?
2007-10-18 23:17:28 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality
What does an Angel actually do?
2007-10-18 23:17:13 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality
2007-10-18 23:12:10 · 5 answers · asked by That Guy Drew 6 in Religion & Spirituality
Many churches teach this, but the Bible says that no man can “accept” Christ because all men are spiritually dead:
We read in Ephesians 2:1 And you hath He quickened, who were dead in trespasses and sins.
The problem is that the Bible declares that man is spiritually dead in sin and totally incapable of mustering up faith in himself to salvation:
And there is none that calleth upon Thy Name, that stirreth up himself to take hold of Thee:… (Isaiah 64:7)
There is none that understandeth, there is none that seeketh after God. (Romans 3:11)
No man can come to Me, except the Father which hath sent Me draw him:… (John 6:44)
2007-10-18 23:10:45 · 14 answers · asked by JESUS means: JAHWEH is Salvation 2 in Religion & Spirituality
so which part of it was actually written by god then
2007-10-18 23:10:04 · 28 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality
Surely you should be:
3Now I want you to realize that the head of every man is Christ, and the head of the woman is man, and the head of Christ is God. 4Every man who prays or prophesies with his head covered dishonors his head. 5And every woman who prays or prophesies with her head uncovered dishonors her head—it is just as though her head were shaved. 6If a woman does not cover her head, she should have her hair cut off; and if it is a disgrace for a woman to have her hair cut or shaved off, she should cover her head. 7A man ought not to cover his head,[b] since he is the image and glory of God; but the woman is the glory of man. 8For man did not come from woman, but woman from man; 9neither was man created for woman, but woman for man. 10For this reason, and because of the angels, the woman ought to have a sign of authority on her head.
2007-10-18 23:07:10 · 11 answers · asked by Cotton Wool Ninja 6 in Religion & Spirituality
2007-10-18 23:05:49 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous in Other - Society & Culture
Is 2011 AD the most probable year for the return of Jesus Christ and the end of the world, ie., Judgement Day?
The worldwide flood that destroyed all life on earth except for Noah, his family, and the animals in the ark occurred in 4990 B.C. In 2 Peter 3 God refers back to this flood and then transitions to the destruction of the universe by fire. In verse 8 God says, "But, beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing, that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day." This is interesting because God told Noah to get into the ark 7 days before He brought the worldwide flood (Genesis 7:4).
Multiplying 7 X 1000 = 7000 years (1 day=1000 years). Then 7000 years + 4990 BC = 2011 AD (year "0" must count for 1 year). Is this the year Christ will return as the "Lion of the tribe of Judah" to rapture the saints, destroy the universe bringing judgment on the ungodly, and create a new Heaven and Earth?
Before you answer, remember God told Abraham and Lot before He destroyed Sodom + Gomorrah.
**PLEASE NOTE: I AM NOT STATING A DAY NOR HOUR; JUST The YEAR.
2007-10-18 23:05:04 · 29 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality
What was the first language after God created let me write Adam and Eve?
2007-10-18 23:03:19 · 10 answers · asked by Kibasha 2 in Religion & Spirituality
do you ever wonder if the REAL reason God made eve was because he wasn't satisfied with adam and wanted to make a superior creature?
I mean do you think he made eve because he messed up the first time with adam?
think about it!
2007-10-18 22:56:38 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality
I run a small company the develops software for the blind. Some time ago we were contacted by someone who was teaching a student with some very specific mobility problems. Well, we decided to fashion a solution for the student and did not charge for it. We did not hear from the teacher again - no thank you or anything - until recently when she contacted us again to request more changes. As we are more concerned about the students needs than the teacher's lack of appreciation, we did the changes again and sent the software out. Again, free of charge. The teacher has not contacted us to thank or give any appreciation.
We did this for the student, who we do not know and will never meet. But isn't it a bit rubbish that the teacher doesn't have the consideration to thank us for the efforts?
2007-10-18 22:51:42 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in People with Disabilities
2007-10-18 22:49:01 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality
I hear both being mentioned a great deal but they are a contradiction.Plan implies chosen outcome,free will implies none.how can you believe two opposites at the same time?
2007-10-18 22:48:59 · 22 answers · asked by Cotton Wool Ninja 6 in Religion & Spirituality
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