Society & Culture - 30 October 2007

C-A-T-H-O-L-I-C meant. I say it meant at the time "pretaining to the holy Augustus Caesar. All the symbols are there... And they did believe he was holy. And his cult did become Christiamnity and the church Roman cathoilc. And he did live in Rome. And he was considered to be holy. And the popes do dress in ancient costume.
If you do not understand the symbolism of Caesars you are in total darkness.

2007-10-30 04:59:00 · 2 answers · asked by Tom C 1 in Religion & Spirituality

Were these tithing amounts given to certain groups to help certain groups? Is it in the Old or New Testament? Do our present day taxes cover this? Did they tithe money or wheat and chickens? Should we be giving lots of $$ to homeless people, widows, orphans, and the elderly instead? Are our churches supposed to be rich? Dear friend's regional minister has a limo methinks.

2007-10-30 04:57:45 · 16 answers · asked by goddessinglasses 2 in Religion & Spirituality

how can I start something like this, what should i do, or how do i start, please help me

2007-10-30 04:57:08 · 18 answers · asked by chris c 1 in Religion & Spirituality

2007-10-30 04:56:41 · 8 answers · asked by Jesse T 2 in Religion & Spirituality

I know my grandma is in heaven.

I was very close to me grandma. She helped raise me. Her and my mom had always lived together until my grandma had to go to a nursing home earlier this year because my mom couldn't take care of her anymore.

I was out of town when she died. I had major surgery on 10/19 and she died on 10/22. I was still in the hospital recovering. She was buried on the 24th and I didn't come home until the 26th. I missed it all, but I know she would have wanted me to
take care of myself.

I think it all hit me on Sunday. I cried all day and I can't seem to stop. My mom and husband have gone back to work and my kids have gone back to school and I'm stuck at home alone recovering.

All I do is think about my grandma and the fact that my mom more than anyone has lost such a huge part of her life. I feel so bad for my mom and I don't know how to make it better for her, myself or anyone else. I feel like the one thing that has always held us together is gone

2007-10-30 04:56:02 · 12 answers · asked by T W 3 in Religion & Spirituality

If GOD does not exist to you, why do you spend so much time trying to disprove him?

2007-10-30 04:54:49 · 37 answers · asked by ? 6 in Religion & Spirituality

See Acts 11:26

2007-10-30 04:54:20 · 20 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

2007-10-30 04:54:07 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

Like this fellow named jonjon said, I'm never included in the virtual cliques. So how does one get included?

(yes, I know, I'll probably get called a retarded punk again, but I'm in a good mood today.)

2007-10-30 04:53:45 · 24 answers · asked by Kiwi 5 in Religion & Spirituality

DISCLAIMER: I am asking my fellow atheists. I don't need to know what the Christians think we would do or whatever...

I have an 8 year old son. He knows I don't believe in God (though it's okay for him to if he so choses) and he knows that there is no such thing as Santa. I like to put up a Christmas tree anyways because it's fun to pick one out, set it up and decorate it. Am I wierd for this? A total hypocrite? I think it looks pretty with all the presents under it. I put up stockings too. There are no angels anywhere in my decorations or Jesus in the stable scenes or anything like that.

Anyone else? Just wondering.

2007-10-30 04:53:28 · 27 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

I'm not talking about 20-30 pounds overweight people either. I'm talking about people 100 pounds overweight.

Where they evil people in a previous life?

2007-10-30 04:52:35 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Other - Society & Culture

and does Christians study the history of Christianity?


(Many thanks for answering, I´m using the answers for a book I write)

2007-10-30 04:52:24 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

2007-10-30 04:51:11 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

2007-10-30 04:50:16 · 17 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

2007-10-30 04:49:58 · 13 answers · asked by mlcros 5 in Religion & Spirituality

te amor con toro mi corazone

into English

2007-10-30 04:49:58 · 3 answers · asked by jiggyjillian 1 in Languages

That is, how did they come up with the pronunciation Yahweh when the original vowels were changed deliberatly to render it unpronounceable? And how certain can we be that this is the correct pronunciation?

This has been something on my mind a LONG time, I've tried researching it, but I've never found enough definitive info to satisfy me, or a straightforward explaination of the whole thing.

Thanks for any info, and God bless!

2007-10-30 04:48:58 · 18 answers · asked by The Link 4 in Religion & Spirituality

The smallest mistakes are stored in the memory.

2007-10-30 04:48:38 · 51 answers · asked by ? 5 in Senior Citizens

...you ever figure out what C_A_T_H_O_L_I_C means?
Show me where anyone has done anything but guess that it means universal.orces are insufficient.

2007-10-30 04:48:30 · 2 answers · asked by Tom C 1 in Religion & Spirituality

A Person takes a fundamentalist Muslim and submits them to torture. Person does what is necessary to break the Muslim's will. They then convince them that Jesus and Christianity is the truth. The former Muslim now truly, really truly, believes in Jesus. There is no doubt in anyone's mind about that.

So a soul is saved, albeit in an unconventional way. Let's say you repeat the process hundreds of times. Now perhaps God may have a problem with that person's actions, but the net result is a saving of let's say 1000 souls at the expense of one.

Would that be acceptable? Why or why not? Shouldn't 1000 souls saved make up for the one lost?

2007-10-30 04:47:44 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

I'm at high school right now........ I'm so tired..... and sooooo bored.....

2007-10-30 04:47:35 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous in Other - Society & Culture

I was reading in the Bible where it says if a girl goes into the city (a girl who is already engaged to be married), and she is molested there, or a guy has sex with her; then she must be executed, as well as the guy, "because she cried not."

Question: Was this rule decreed by God, or just by Moses?

Question: Was this rule actually enforced?

Replies from Bible scholars and others appreciated.

2007-10-30 04:47:28 · 11 answers · asked by Saint Nearly 5 in Religion & Spirituality

For me I would say....

best - I really see the good in every person. We all have it, and have some much untapped potential.

worst - I tend to over analyze things and end up making matters worse.

2007-10-30 04:46:29 · 16 answers · asked by plastik punk -Bottom Contributor 6 in Religion & Spirituality

Going to do a trick or treat?

2007-10-30 04:46:27 · 26 answers · asked by Gone 7 in Halloween

Jacob Boehme, the 15th century Christian Mystic said," A Christian is he who lives in Christ, and in whom Christ's power is active. He must feel the divine fire of love burn in his heart. This fire is the Spirit of Christ, who continually crushes the head of the serpent, meaning the desires of the flesh. The flesh is governed by the will of the world; but the Spiritual fire in man is kindled by the Spirit. He who wants to become a Christian must not boast and say : I am a Christian! but he should desire to become one, and prepare all the conditions necessary that the Christ may live in him. Such a Christian will perhaps be hated and persecuted by the nominal Christians of his time ; but he must bear his cross, and thereby he will become strong."

2007-10-30 04:46:18 · 5 answers · asked by Premaholic 7 in Religion & Spirituality

before your dead

2007-10-30 04:45:32 · 6 answers · asked by slopoke6968 7 in Religion & Spirituality

I have a vision of him starting with the head, and then the hands, the genitals are kind of weird. Did he have them on the workbench, fitting them together to see if they worked, did he do a drawing or was it just magic?

2007-10-30 04:45:17 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

Say you've been together for 6 months or more and it's you first christmas together.

2007-10-30 04:44:49 · 11 answers · asked by kellsbhot 1 in Christmas

According to Jesus, what is the only way to the Father (heaven)?

2007-10-30 04:43:55 · 12 answers · asked by realchurchhistorian 4 in Religion & Spirituality

I wouldn't. I just wanted to see what other parents/aunts/uncles would say.

2007-10-30 04:43:30 · 13 answers · asked by [♥]ÿºú-kñºw-whº[♥] 6 in Halloween