Society & Culture - 14 November 2007

2007-11-14 04:27:16 · 15 answers · asked by Eleventy 6 in Religion & Spirituality

If God created man & animal to live in harmony with one another, does that mean dogs go to heaven when they die?

I just recently lost my dog & I miss him terribly. I hope he's in heaven running & playing...

2007-11-14 04:26:34 · 21 answers · asked by California Girl 3 in Religion & Spirituality

O.K I got the earth part down, but why is heavens plural? Are there more then one? Are there different levels? or is this a bible translation thing?

2007-11-14 04:26:25 · 8 answers · asked by jaimebergstrom 1 in Religion & Spirituality

Seriously, the bible (I know you are rolling your eyes) say that animals were created after their kind. A little criptic, but OK for someone that wants to believe in natural selection and God.
Mutations happen randomly as I understand. They are kept or discarded based on natural selection. Kind of like the way russians used to do elections:) anyway, can someone strip this idea out of a christians clutches?

2007-11-14 04:24:15 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

this is a quote from Philip Johnson, Law Professor and Author

As I read all of the evolutionary literature written for the general public, I saw that some of the proponents of Darwinian evolution were hard-core atheists like Richard Dawkins, and others were not. Some of them took a view that religion or belief in God is alright if you want that sort of a thing, but they assumed that it was an imaginary thing. I could see that this is why there was so much insistence upon the Darwinian story.

Believing in Darwinian evolution doesn't prove that there's no God. What it proves is that there's no need for God's participation to get all the creating done. Now, is that true? I was fascinated with that question of what's fundamentally true.

(remainder of quote added, below)

2007-11-14 04:23:25 · 15 answers · asked by magnetic_azimuth 6 in Religion & Spirituality

If A man were all powerful he'd feel no need to be worshiped. So does this mean God's motives are beyond human comprehension? That even the bible must fail to explain the mind of God?

2007-11-14 04:20:57 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

Is it prodestent?

2007-11-14 04:20:43 · 15 answers · asked by Rachel Netherwood 1 in Religion & Spirituality

As long as you haven't commited a mortal sin?

2007-11-14 04:19:47 · 20 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

Does this make the majority of the undereducated bible belt... "geniouses"?

(only a fool says there's no god)

2007-11-14 04:17:14 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

How does your personal copy of the Bible translate Christ's last words from the Cross?

"It is finished"?
"It is consummated"?
"It is fulfilled"?

Is there any subterfuge, do you think, to English translation as "it is fulfilled" as opposed to the other two? Some have the notion that since the New Jerusalem Bible translates it thus, it is somehow an attempt by the Roman Catholic Church to undermine Christ's completed work on the Cross. (They also assert that the NJB is the only Bible that Catholics are "allowed" to read, but that's another issue.)

Honestly, I'm not seeing it.

You'd think that if this was the purpose, all "Catholic" Bibles would translate this the same way; yet the NAB (the official translation for liturgical readings in the US) and RSV, right along with the KJV (which itself was translated from the Latin Vulgate, where the words are "consummatum est") show this as "it is finished".

Just curious as to where this comes from.

2007-11-14 04:16:10 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

I have alot of respect for them because they go out into this crazy sometimes dangerous world to share their beliefs! If you dont agree with their beliefs, you have to admire their drive and courage and determination.

2007-11-14 04:16:05 · 21 answers · asked by sandra b 5 in Religion & Spirituality

I watch a lot of HGTV and people are always worried about how things will be for entertaining, like the backyard, the dining room, the layout of the living room. I don't enjoy having people in my personal space. How often do you "entertain"?

2007-11-14 04:15:22 · 19 answers · asked by cashmaker81 6 in Etiquette

God commanded us to love then how is it love if we may not feel it? Is it faith? or feelings?(Deuteronomy 6:5, 10:19, 11:1, 30:20; Joshua 22:5, 23:11; Mathew 5:44: Luke 6:27; John 13:34; and Romans 13:9).

2007-11-14 04:15:08 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

are nothing more than arguments from personal incredulity.

can we agree on this?

2007-11-14 04:14:41 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

Anyone know anything about this book? Is it worth the money?

2007-11-14 04:14:27 · 1 answers · asked by Heathen Mage 3 in Mythology & Folklore

My second cousin was on a camping trip recently and told me that her and her boyfriend were both attacked by a killer donkey. At first I was like wow, my cousin is crazy but when I actually went to visit her in he hospital, she was all cut up and bruised! So my question is, how can you protect ourself against killer donkies while on a camping trip?

2007-11-14 04:13:42 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Etiquette

I am catholic. I understand apostolic succession and all that and I believe it, but I just wonder why Jesus didn't allow us to confess right to God? Why go through another human being?

2007-11-14 04:13:31 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

The bible says it is easier for a camel to get through the eye of a needle than it is for a rich man to go to Heaven, and the precious metals in your computer, in Jesus' day, would have been sufficient wealth to buy a small third world nation, to say nothing of the gemstone flecks in your junk jewelry, the metals in your sandwich coins--What's in your wardrobe? Silk?Satin? Lace? Leather? How many different outfits? Most people in Jesus time had at the most two T-tunics and they were hand woven, the consistency of burlap, and hand stitched together with hand spun thread--by God's standards we ALL live at a level of excess that mandates waste while children are starving in New York--Is that needle's eye looking a little tight yet? perhaps it's your new jeans that you had to buy because you put on ten pounds BEFORE thanksgiving....Just a thought...

2007-11-14 04:13:19 · 30 answers · asked by Sister Cordelia VT-PMS 2 in Religion & Spirituality

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=Aibpq.mAPFAXC2OyxXytBYDd7BR.;_ylv=3?qid=20071114090001AAcr8eW

Anyone with a brain also care to help answer this question? I was actually making a point FOR creationists (Or it could be interpreted that way) and all I get is insults? Bravo.

2007-11-14 04:12:21 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

If the information I saw was correct, then it is someone's birthday today... one of my contacts... ahem...

If it isn't right then oh well.

2007-11-14 04:12:13 · 5 answers · asked by Emperor Insania Says Bye! 5 in Religion & Spirituality

I would think that considering the number of different varieties of Christianity, you would be concerned about teachers providing conflicting beliefs to your own. Doesn't it worry you? Or have protestants become so seperated from their roots that they will accept any other protestant teaching so long as they are a "good Christian"?
I am at a loss to understand how Christians do not also feel their rights are threatened by the lack of seperation between church and state.

2007-11-14 04:11:12 · 38 answers · asked by <Sweet-Innocence> 4 in Religion & Spirituality

2007-11-14 04:10:05 · 19 answers · asked by Anonymous in Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender

All animals Black or White love each other, live in peace and mate with each other regardless of color or from where one has come. They create beautiful off springs by mixing different colors. But fair color humans think themselves superior than darker skin humans, they hate darker race though they know they are children of one Man and one Woman and their colors are different because of different environments they lived in for long times. Why Humans act like worst than animals?

2007-11-14 04:10:03 · 2 answers · asked by majeed3245 7 in Religion & Spirituality

2007-11-14 04:10:02 · 4 answers · asked by faron_jns 1 in Religion & Spirituality

i usually do at least acouple times a night, but if it weren't for the fact that he took all the paper towels away so that i have to use his towels, i would prefer to do it myself. and some of these clubs are grimy and really shouldn't have bathroom attendants anyway. as if i'm gonna suddenly going to think i'm at the ritz, and forget about the one-toothed stripper that was hitting on me three minutes ago.

2007-11-14 04:10:01 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Etiquette

Binary fission or external mixing of sperm and egg? It would have prevented all this lusting and sinning and heavy emphasis of religion on private sexualtiy.

2007-11-14 04:08:42 · 38 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

Piter, who was traveling with Jesus for several years, Sow his cute miracles, Learned from God personally - manages to deny him 3 times. Tough Gospel’s don’t exactly agree how many times (twice X3 or just 3) the question rises “who was Piter afraid more? God or Roman soldiers?”
Interestingly enough many early Christians blame Jews for selling Jesus to Romans but at the same time they overlook that their own lovely Piter was a Jewish, was practicing Jewish law and preaching Jewish scriptures.
In case of Piter Jesus manages to forgive him , but what is striking in here that while most people had no idea who Jesus was, Piter knew exactly who he is, which makes Piter worst than anyone else.
That can actually be applied to all disciples since they all flee away at his arrest and after his crucifixion.

2007-11-14 04:06:59 · 9 answers · asked by PicassoInAction 2 in Religion & Spirituality

2007-11-14 04:06:26 · 11 answers · asked by Yahoo 4 in Mythology & Folklore

People define faith in many ways in their conversation. Can all these definitions be correct in certain instances? What definition do you find yourself using, one of those below or another?

Main Entry: 1faith
Pronunciation: \ˈfāth\
Function: noun
Inflected Form(s): plural faiths \ˈfāths, sometimes ˈfāthz\
Etymology: Middle English feith, from Anglo-French feid, fei, from Latin fides; akin to Latin fidere to trust — more at bide
Date: 13th century
1 a: allegiance to duty or a person : loyalty b (1): fidelity to one's promises (2): sincerity of intentions
2 a (1): belief and trust in and loyalty to God (2): belief in the traditional doctrines of a religion b (1): firm belief in something for which there is no proof (2): complete trust
3: something that is believed especially with strong conviction; especially : a system of religious beliefs
synonyms see belief
— on faith : without question
the theological v

2007-11-14 04:06:22 · 7 answers · asked by sojourning.sarah 2 in Religion & Spirituality

i'm not talking friends, but just random strangers

2007-11-14 04:06:20 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous in Etiquette