Society & Culture - 13 November 2007

According to the bible, he was around at the time this was written.

John
4:3 And every spirit that confesseth not that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is not of God: and this is that spirit of antichrist, whereof ye have heard that it should come; and even now already is it in the world.

2007-11-13 07:18:47 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

i've only played it once, we played it in daylight with about 8 other people there, and one girl asked it a simple question like "what is my name?" and the table started shaking. it was a huge dining room oak table and EVERYONE stepped away from the table but it kept shaking. creepy. and it was definitly noticable and no one was near the table.

then my mom told me a story that when she was playing ouija with her friends in their basement, they saw a shadow of a man in the corner of the room, and they were home alone! she never played it again.

what about you? do you have any stories?

2007-11-13 07:18:05 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Mythology & Folklore

I mean we over eat alot during the holidays. or would it be a bad reminder of what we did?

2007-11-13 07:17:12 · 2 answers · asked by Evey 6 in Christmas

Seems to me the bible is taken too literal, Instead of being created in 6 days i think its more like 6 billion years, I think dinosaurs were long gone before the flood and i dont think the ark could have held two of every kind of animal, I dont believe Adam and Eve were the first humans but more like the first in Christs Lineage, And what about the Wooly Mammoth found in Siberia, Is it possible for the japanese to clone the DNA from a 13,000 year old Elephant? And UFO'S? I dont believe in life on other planets, I mean, If there were i think we would have sent them foreign aid by now!

2007-11-13 07:14:20 · 8 answers · asked by ~StormWolf~ 1 in Religion & Spirituality

I'm a straight 15year old guy but I hate being thought of as one of the boys and I prefer being thought of as one of the girls and I have aload of great friends who do that including my exgirlfriend. I know I'm a girl on the inside and I love to be one as my exgirlfriend and the rest of my friends do and I hate having a masculine looking body and I would probably consider transition if my Mum would take me seriously but she won't so I'm stuck with this masculine body and I want to know how I can make it look more feminine without my Mum noticing, in otherwords nothing suggesting make-up and shaving my legs.

2007-11-13 07:13:54 · 24 answers · asked by Lily R 1 in Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender

Just recently I got a house phone, only had it for a month or two but almost every day I get calls from telemarketers. I think like the 2nd or 3rd day we had the number in service the calls started. Is there a list of newly activated phone numbers that they get or something? I know sometimes companys will sell or give your number to other companies, but anyway is the Do Not Call List effective at all? If it is I'm gonna try and sign up. But until then I'm gonna freak on the next a$$hole that calls me while I'm at home trying to eat my dinner in peace

2007-11-13 07:13:34 · 6 answers · asked by Not a Good Role Model 3 in Other - Society & Culture

I have always wondered that. I mean like if dinosaurs got created and other life got created. I'm sure people will say God created us. But what could be the real truth. I believe god could have created earth and us. Could anybody that might know theories of how we got created? Why didnt' we got created in dinosaur era or other era why this era?

2007-11-13 07:13:29 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

Just wondering if any creationists could think of a way to prove creationism? Even if evolution is disproved then that wouldn't prove it. The only thing I can think of is if God came along and made an animal out of some mud, but I would probably think it was just a good illusionist.

By the way nobody say the beauty of the world or something, beauty is subjective and not evidence.

2007-11-13 07:12:45 · 18 answers · asked by Neil G 5 in Religion & Spirituality

2007-11-13 07:11:35 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

Any ideas...I think he is trying to convert me into eating his catfood in exchange for my lunch.

2007-11-13 07:11:26 · 19 answers · asked by queen of snarky-yack again 4 in Religion & Spirituality

A Maryland court recently decided against Westboro Baptist Church, and I wanted to get a good idea of the reaction to that from others, believers and unbelievers alike?

I personally think it is wonderful, (and I myself am a Baptist Minister) but I do believe that hate is not appropriate. We should never abide sin in ourselves or others, but blatantly showing hate and contempt for people is not at all what the Scriptures teach. While love is not unconditional, Scripture is very clear that God loves us through the sacrifice of His Son, God does love us enough to help us to put away the old self, and punish us when we are refusing to do that. God's Love and God's Judgment are just opposite sides of the same coin, you cannot separate the two from each other.

So I ask again, what do you think about the Westboro decision?

2007-11-13 07:10:22 · 23 answers · asked by J.R. 3 in Religion & Spirituality

I worked in the insurance business for 12 years and people who called were very mean and difficult

Also what really got me mad and got my back up was the callers that would call the reception desk, some callers would come back to my board 10-15 times harrasing me, belittling me, cursing at me and I was even threatened a couple of times also. These people that called really had a lot of balls or a lot of nerve.

I did my job the best I could and I was not allowed to get away with ANYTHING. But my question is why do people treat the receptionist like the hired help and treat the receptionist like she is stupid? I have NEVER EVER talked to ANYONE in that fashion.

Why are people like this? I can only imagine how they treat thier family and friends.

One caller threatened to bomb my office if he did not get his check and he said there will be no more receptionist left that was the straw that broke the camels back and I went to another postion.

What is your take on this?

2007-11-13 07:09:58 · 17 answers · asked by encourager4God 5 in Etiquette

christians who accept the Bible as the only rule of faith and religion, go back to the observance of the Sabbath. The fact that they do not, but on the contrary observe the Sunday, are you not under the laws of the catholic church. Isaiah 56: 2-5 you see the blessing we are to receive.

2007-11-13 07:07:09 · 19 answers · asked by mairszee 3 in Religion & Spirituality

...and the Universe was created roughly 1,000 years after the Sumerians invented beer, could it be possible that the beer itself was responsible for the world's creation? Might it make more sense to found a new religion, based upon the worship of beer?

2007-11-13 07:06:49 · 33 answers · asked by The Reverend Soleil 5 in Religion & Spirituality

then why isn't s/he ever on here answering any of these questions ... ???

Or is there someone at YA behind this charade .... ???

Coincidence ..... ???? I think not!

2007-11-13 07:06:46 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

Is it in the preperation or is it a blessing? Can something be processed and be Halal? Is halal food healther for you?

2007-11-13 07:06:30 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

I was wondering what was up with the horn blowing?? They had these old horns(that looked like a real bull or goats horn) and they were blowing them during the preaching.. What does this signify?
Thanks for any thoughts on this!!

2007-11-13 07:06:05 · 10 answers · asked by Xylophia 3 in Religion & Spirituality

When the bible reads like this:

1 Timothy 2:11-15
Let the woman learn in silence with all subjection. But I suffer not a woman to teach, nor to usurp authority over the man, but to be in silence. For Adam was first formed, then Eve. And Adam was not deceived, but the woman being deceived was in the transgression. Notwithstanding she shall be saved in childbearing.

Ephesians 5:22-24
Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord. For the husband is the head of the wife, even as Christ is the head of the church: and he is the saviour of the body. Therefore as the church is subject unto Christ, so let the wives be to their own husbands in every thing.

2007-11-13 07:02:32 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

2007-11-13 07:01:55 · 8 answers · asked by kamelåså 7 in Languages

that wasnt true?

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=Ah8HZFQORBRtUn.oc.6sBdrsy6IX;_ylv=3?qid=20071113114917AAJK7Bh

2007-11-13 07:00:01 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

Just wanted to see who's the early front-runner for class president.

2007-11-13 06:58:43 · 17 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

Im Catholic and am considering having it done.(like most of my Catholic neighbors). I was told in school that each time you use condom is a sin. Im hoping a vasectomy is just one thus keeping my sin total to a minimum.

2007-11-13 06:58:20 · 12 answers · asked by endo 5 in Religion & Spirituality

Is it because your holy book says that your messiah died for your sins? Is it because it says that your god is the only real living god? Is it because you feel very deeply with steadfast conviction that your book is correct? Is it because you're absolutely sure that your god listens to you & intervenes in your life? Is it because you've been guaranteed everlasting peace in the afterlife if you believe?

If I ALSO have a holy book which tells me that my messiah died for me, that my god is the only real & living god, & if I also feel deeply with steadfast conviction that my book is correct, that my god listens & intervenes, & that I'll attain peace in the afterlife if I follow the wisdom of my god....

...then what makes you right & me wrong? Is it that your faith, i.e. your feelings & convictions, somehow trump mine? Is it that what you KNOW to be true is somehow definitely more true than what I KNOW to be true because you feel very very strongly that you know the truth?

2007-11-13 06:58:17 · 23 answers · asked by ZER0 C00L ••AM••VT•• 7 in Religion & Spirituality

I am a Christian and diligintly seek out the truth. I love the Lord, but I truly have a hard time believing that simply because a person rejects the truth means that they are to suffer an eternity of being burned and tormented FOREVER. That is not the identity of a loving God, which Jehovah IS a loving God. Check out these verses and tell me what you think...

Matthew 10:28 "And do not fear those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul. But rather fear Him who is able to DESTROY both body and soul in hell."
(since when did destroy mean eternal torture??)

2Peter 2:6..."and turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah into ashes, condemned them to DESTRUCTION making them an example to those who afterward would live ungodly."

If something is turned to ashes and DESTROYED how can it be subject to eternal torment?

Come on fellow Christians, lets really research what we believe and why we believe it before we get on soap boxes. We worship a God of love.

2007-11-13 06:57:44 · 18 answers · asked by mommyoffour 4 in Religion & Spirituality

If christians control 75% of the voting population, a good christian elected body would be able to get enough votes to overturn the "church and state" seperation, RIGHT?

A good christian elected body would be able to get the 10 commandments put on the Federal law books, RIGHT?

A good christian elected body would be able to get christianity named the official religion of the USA RIGHT?

Kinda funny that this hasn't happened, huh?

As a good christian nation, isn't it our duty to keep as many people in line and going to heaven as possible?


Personally, I think it's because of the 75% self reporting christians, most of them believe in FREEDOM more than they believe in God, and give such an imaginary being "lip service" just to fit in...Maybe you aren't as powerful a group as you thought...

Personally, I'm relieved. I love freedom. And I never cared much for fitting in.

Feel free to answer any or all of my questions listed above...

2007-11-13 06:57:37 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

Don't tell it, "it's not in the bible".... cats aren't mentioned in the bible and they exist, computers aren't mentioned in the bible, and you are using one to read this question. So why cannot other things that aren't mentioned in the bible exist?

2007-11-13 06:57:26 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

describe your world to me
1. there are no christians

beyond that, it remains as it is now, TV, Internet, Air travel and so forth, Now tell me what you think your world would be like.....

2007-11-13 06:56:01 · 15 answers · asked by magnetic_azimuth 6 in Religion & Spirituality

2007-11-13 06:55:51 · 7 answers · asked by Survivor 2 in Languages

2007-11-13 06:55:42 · 10 answers · asked by plastik punk -Bottom Contributor 6 in Religion & Spirituality

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2007-11-13 06:55:15 · 18 answers · asked by sage seeker 7 in Senior Citizens