Society & Culture - 29 October 2007

Exodus 20:1-5 God spake saying: "You shall have no other gods before Me." That seems fairly straightforward, how can anyone misunderstand that? But as a consequence people suffer a near plague. If anyone deserts the one true God they are bound to find they create big problems for themselves.

2007-10-29 12:21:53 · 19 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

I go to a Catholic Christian school and we are now learning about the nature of God. We've learned that the future does not exist. Only the past and the present. The future has not occured and is therefore non-existant. Because God is and always is never was or will be, He only knows everything at once that is. After an hour of argument from many students, I finally asked if God knows what will happen in the future. But because of the fact that the future is non-existant, my teacher answered no. God is omnipotent, all knowing. Though the future does may not exist to us, how does God not know? I find it ridiculous. The teacher also said that God knows all that we know at the time including the information of the past. If God only knows what ALL of us know, then, in theory, if we were to combine the knowledge of all human creation together, wouldn't we know as much as God? Now please explain this to me only if you are familiar with this concept. No joke answers and give your standpoint.

2007-10-29 12:20:58 · 18 answers · asked by AmyRose 3 in Religion & Spirituality

2007-10-29 12:20:46 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

In order to have free will, you must have more than one option, each of which is avoidable. This means that before you make a choice, there must be a state of uncertainty during a period of potential: you cannot know the future. Even if you think you can predict your decision, if you claim to have free will, you must admit the potential (if not the desire) to change your mind before the decision is final.

A being who knows everything can have no "state of uncertainty." It knows its choices in advance. This means that it has no potential to avoid its choices, and therefore lacks free will. Since a being that lacks free will is not a personal being, a personal being who knows everything cannot exist.

Therefore, the Christian God does not exist.

2007-10-29 12:19:35 · 18 answers · asked by Future 5 in Religion & Spirituality

2007-10-29 12:19:07 · 18 answers · asked by strpenta 7 in Religion & Spirituality

If a baby dies and goes to heaven is it a baby there? What if it dies before it learns to talk (when it becomes human)?

2007-10-29 12:18:57 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

Mine was "Groving". If I went home for lunch and heard it on the radio when I headed back to work.............Well, first job and I was 18!

2007-10-29 12:17:00 · 26 answers · asked by Livelife 5 in Senior Citizens

it seems all the others are spoken in southern Europe. How can it be that French is the only romance language spoken in a northern European country?

2007-10-29 12:16:43 · 6 answers · asked by Europan 3 in Languages

2007-10-29 12:16:23 · 4 answers · asked by michael p 7 in Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender

2007-10-29 12:16:13 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

I love Daisuke-san and I want to make a poster for the parade tomorrow, but I'm not sure what to put on the poster that would show how much I love him as a player but would be appropriate and respectful at the same time...of course I'd like to say it in Japanese (romanji)

Can anyone help me with ideas?

Also, don't bother posting if you're going to insult the Red Sox or Daisuke or anything along those lines. I was respectful in asking my question, I didn't insult any other team or player, so please be respectful to me by just not sharing if you have something demeaning to say. Thank you!

2007-10-29 12:14:37 · 4 answers · asked by Sara H 2 in Languages

2007-10-29 12:14:00 · 31 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

In case you don't know much about those laws, they make it to where if you do so much as read out loud a passage of the Bible where homosexuality is mentioned in a negative aspect you can be arrested for commiting a crime of hate. This means that preachers can't preach the message that homosexuality is wrong. People can't voice their opinion if it happens to be that. Nothing can be published that states or suggests this.

I think that these laws are unconstitutional because they breach our amended rights (freedom of speech, freedom of the press, freedom of religion). I also think that they are riduculous; just because a person doesn't agree with homosexuality doesn't mean that they hate gays and lesbians, and it tosses my beliefs into a category of actual hate and crimes against gay people.

I don't agree with the lifestyle, but I believe that we are all human beings who each deserve the same amount of respect, love and compassion no matter our differences.

So? Care to share?

2007-10-29 12:12:28 · 45 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

What are all the names of Santa'sReindeer??????

2007-10-29 12:11:06 · 12 answers · asked by :) Miss Hockey Lover :) 4 in Christmas

did conservatives take the term peacemaker to mean intercontinental nuclear missile?

All joking aside, what did Jesus mean when he said love your enemies, fight evil with good, turn the other cheek, and those who fight by the sword die by the sword?

What do you think Jesus was talking about?

I don't know about you (and I'm not really a pacifist) but I like the MLK Jr interpretation. It means you can kill the haters but you cannot kill hate. Only love can do that.

"Returning violence for violence multiplies violence, adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars... Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that. "
- MLK Jr

"Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it. Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it. Hatred darkens life; love illuminates it. "
- MLK Jr

2007-10-29 12:08:21 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

or were they the same culture at one time?

2007-10-29 12:08:12 · 17 answers · asked by FromHELL 1 in Religion & Spirituality

What does this mean?

2007-10-29 12:07:05 · 1 answers · asked by Hey! 1 in Languages

2007-10-29 12:06:30 · 13 answers · asked by Nina, BaC 7 in Religion & Spirituality

2007-10-29 12:05:52 · 17 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

prayer? going to church every sunday? what makes a catholic?

2007-10-29 12:05:09 · 14 answers · asked by drjess122 1 in Religion & Spirituality

2007-10-29 12:04:24 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

we're reading it in my spanish class. i could even use a (really detailed) summary if anyone has it. please & thank you

2007-10-29 12:04:10 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous in Languages

2007-10-29 12:03:50 · 24 answers · asked by Blue 2 in Religion & Spirituality

2007-10-29 12:03:27 · 23 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

2007-10-29 12:03:21 · 12 answers · asked by Claudia A 2 in Religion & Spirituality

why was it not slavery but freedom and the nation that "all men are created equal" that created a moral contradiction in colonial american, and how did race help resolve that contradiction?

2007-10-29 12:03:13 · 3 answers · asked by homeless_boy2000 1 in Other - Cultures & Groups

Please go to this site and read the entire thing. Do not support this movie, it's the most disgusting thing I have ever heard of.

http://snopes.com/politics/religion/compass.asp

2007-10-29 12:02:05 · 31 answers · asked by tnf0920 2 in Religion & Spirituality

And what he meant by that statement was that some people alive in 1914 would still be alive when Armageddon came and the world was resotred to a paradise state.

( The question is not if he was a judge, because he was not a real judge, but took this tittle as an attorney, he substituted at least once for an absent judge )

2007-10-29 12:01:51 · 3 answers · asked by Nina, BaC 7 in Religion & Spirituality

2007-10-29 12:01:37 · 17 answers · asked by bubble290580 1 in Religion & Spirituality

What are some ways that race has been used to rationalized inequality?
and how has race been used to shift attention(and responsibility away from opressors and towards the target of opression)?

2007-10-29 12:00:26 · 1 answers · asked by homeless_boy2000 1 in Other - Cultures & Groups