Society & Culture - 12 November 2007

Im not a christian but would like to know do u have to confess all your sins or is there like some sorta rule, like maybe only the big ones, because from what i here alot of things are sins and if i were to become christian now id have alot of confessing to do...Thx i hope some one can fill me in on how this works

2007-11-12 15:03:49 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

Ages ago people were much nicer than they are today. Why are there so many rude and hateful people today, in your opinion? I think it has a lot to do with parenting. I always dreamed of living in a place were people were less petty and vindictive and heartless. Am I the only one?

2007-11-12 15:03:03 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous in Etiquette

2007-11-12 15:02:45 · 21 answers · asked by Skyye 4 in Religion & Spirituality

In most questions or answers in this forum, or in comments in response to news stories, or in almost anything where people can enter text online, you can expect to find serious mistakes. These include gross misspellings, poor punctuation, absence of proper capitalization (capitalisation if you are British), question marks terminating statements and periods (full stops for Brits) terminating questions, a complete inability to correctly use or avoid apostrophes, and every other writing error known to man. Yahoo Answers thoughtfully provides Preview and Modify functions; am I the only person who uses them? What is there about the computer that causes the IQ to drop into the single digits, at least as regards writing?

2007-11-12 15:01:42 · 5 answers · asked by engineer01 5 in Other - Society & Culture

We've read the accounts of Jesus' encounters with women such as the woman at the well, the woman with the issue of blood, the woman caught in the act of adultery, and after His resurrection. How have these as well as other interactions between women and the Son of God spoken to you about your relationship with Him?

2007-11-12 15:01:42 · 16 answers · asked by Virginia B (John 16:33) 7 in Religion & Spirituality

can billions of people across the world attest to their faith in different deities, even to the extent where they're willing to die for their beliefs? If Jesus is really the only path to true spiritual fulfillment, then how can so many others on this Earth claim to be spiritually fulfilled? Shouldn't their religions simply not work because they're not true? But this seemingly isn't the case.

2007-11-12 15:01:36 · 19 answers · asked by robert 6 in Religion & Spirituality

This guys father had a cardiac arrest and he took him to the hospital. When the hospital staff took his father in and he was outside worried, a christian priest sitting nearby came to him and told him to accept Jesus for his father to be "saved"! So this guy punched him in the face!
Instead of showing genuine human concern or just leaving the person alone, the christian was "witnessing" to him at a vulnerable time!
These are the kind of incidents that christians highlight around the world as "unprovoked"attacks on christians without revealing the full details of the incident!

2007-11-12 15:01:04 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

I have some Christian acquaintances who will hurt someone by spreading rumors, insulting them, or embarrassing them in public. They will then ask God for forgiveness, without so much as apologizing to the person that they hurt. When I asked them about this, they seemed to be of the opinion that gaining the forgiveness of God was more important than gaining the forgiveness of the people that they hurt. Is this a standard Christian belief, or do most Christians believe differently?

2007-11-12 15:00:18 · 18 answers · asked by Shinkirou Hasukage 6 in Religion & Spirituality

or french
or japanise
or any language>??
spanish?
latin?

2007-11-12 14:59:04 · 12 answers · asked by boris 3 in Languages

your thoughts?

2007-11-12 14:56:24 · 19 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

just curious... not trying to offend anyone

2007-11-12 14:54:49 · 23 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

To be to be considered Senior citizens here? I see some avatars that look really young-

2007-11-12 14:54:46 · 26 answers · asked by Anonymous in Senior Citizens

I have been touched by Jesus and I have let Him into my heart. I have personally witnessed the difference He can make and how He can change a person.

I know that we should respect people's decisions, but it still bothers me sometimes that people refuse to accept the Truth.

The Holy Spirit wants to fill them, but they do not let it. I believe the only way to be saved from Hell is to be a Christian. Without accepting Jesus and His sacrifice, it was in vain.

No unclean thing can enter the Kingdom of Heaven. We all deserve Hell, but God so loved the world that if we open our hearts and accept Jesus, our sin will be wiped clean.

I want everyone to go through this experience. I know they will not though. This makes me sad because I do not want others to go to Hell. If I meet someone who is not a Christian, I try to set a good example and I do not force my religion on them, but it is hard some times.

Do you ever feel this way?

God bless.

2007-11-12 14:54:00 · 26 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

2007-11-12 14:53:40 · 14 answers · asked by conundrum 7 in Religion & Spirituality

2007-11-12 14:53:29 · 29 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

What's so bad about the tree of knowledge?
Is this where they got the old saying "ignorance is bliss"?

2007-11-12 14:53:01 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

What would get an atheist to believe in God? Seeing Him at your doorstep... Walking through a wall... An extremely improbable event... Hearing Jesus in your sleep... Inexplicable rushes of joy or happiness?

2007-11-12 14:52:58 · 36 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

2007-11-12 14:52:02 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

does it just make it easy demonize someone when they don't share your beliefs?
just like muslems believe all infidels don't have the right to live

2007-11-12 14:48:43 · 52 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

2007-11-12 14:48:26 · 20 answers · asked by Ari R 3 in Religion & Spirituality

2007-11-12 14:47:49 · 14 answers · asked by Wrong number 5 in Senior Citizens

Only Chuck Norris can save you from his all mighty roundhouse kick.

Repent and be saved!

2007-11-12 14:46:43 · 11 answers · asked by Gamla Joe 7 in Religion & Spirituality

I am having an awful time in life.Someone said to me " Just hold on.Your life can change drasticaly at any moment." Well...that scared me...cause that could be good or bad! All of my luck has been bad.I'm dreading the future.I'm 28 years old.I have almost given up on my life

2007-11-12 14:46:34 · 24 answers · asked by Butterfly 2 in Religion & Spirituality

In 1 Corinthians Paul talks about eating food sacrificed to idols and making a brother sin. He basically says that it does not matter one way or the other but if eating it would be a stumbling block to a brother then he would not do it.

This lead to a question. Catholics have many statues of saints and do some things that look like idolatry, even though it is not. However as this could easily make a weaker brother fall and end up in idolatry does that make it wrong? Is it possible the Catholic church should remove the statues rather than possibly cause a weaker brother to sin?

This is meant as a serious question and not an attack. Just something that came to me from someone' answer and I was curious to see the replies.

2007-11-12 14:46:31 · 15 answers · asked by Bible warrior 5 in Religion & Spirituality

Even though this should go in a different section, I love asking the people of the R&S questions :)

It's kind of like the Infinite Monkey Theorem.

"The infinite monkey theorem states that a monkey hitting keys at random on a typewriter keyboard for an infinite amount of time will almost surely type a particular chosen text, such as the complete works of William Shakespeare."

You could apply that to the planet Earth. If there are an infinite amount of planets (or atleast a very large number) in the universe, there is always a chance at least ONE will get it right.

2007-11-12 14:45:46 · 15 answers · asked by :) 4 in Religion & Spirituality

2007-11-12 14:45:11 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

2007-11-12 14:44:40 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

Should the christians be punished?

2007-11-12 14:44:10 · 26 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

I'm "engaged" to my girlfriend of 5 years. She was my first, I met her when I was 16, I'm now 21. I met someone around the same time as her, and immediatly developed a HUGE crush on her. It so crazy, I don't even know if she likes women. I haven't had much contact with her lately, but not a day goes by that I don't think about her, just a little. I do love my girlfriend, but sometimes I think I stay with her because of how much she loves me, and I fear that someone will never love me like that again. But this other women, I always had a feeling from her there was more than friendship. She always would look into my eyes when we spoke, and find reasons to touch my hand when she said something to me, play with my hair, maybe I read too much into it... I never made a move, I was too shy, part of me regrets it. Any advice would be appreciated...

Sorry if the grammer is shitty, I wrote it fast.

2007-11-12 14:43:59 · 14 answers · asked by Me 3 in Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender

We all know (or should), that faith is subjective. Religious belief is not something that can be proved in this life, therefore, what we have is a belief that we are correct.

Given this, how can people justify their intolerance, hatred and discrimination against others?

We have people who think witches should still be killed, based on a misrepresentation of their own scripture. They also claim that homosexuals are evil, and some rejoice when one dies.

Some, in the name of religion in the past were responsible for killing untold thousands of people of differing faiths. It is not unlikely that if it were legally permissible that they would do so today.

With no objective proof possible, and with contradictory religious viewpoints around, and no objective way to determine which is true, how can anyone justify evil toward another based on religious viewpoints?

2007-11-12 14:41:59 · 14 answers · asked by Deirdre H 7 in Religion & Spirituality