Society & Culture - 24 December 2007

alright it's about the concept of free will. I here many Christians say we have it, but where is it in the Bible. If it claims we have free will i have a problem because....

Christians claim that God gave us free will and that he cannot control our actions. However, they also claim that he is omniscient and knows of everything that we are going to do before we do it. If he knows everything we are going to do, than our actions are predetermined. If our actions are predetermined, and our actions are what determine whether we are saved or not, than whether we go to hell or heaven is actually determined before we are born. If long before we even existed, our fate of whether we are saved or damned is decided, than there is not much we can do about it. Thus, there is no such thing as free will. People can decide to believe one or the other, but not both. They contradict each other.
so enlighten me if you will....
So if we have no free will whats the point in living

2007-12-24 14:59:13 · 23 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

Please just add one thing on here that you got for Christmas. I got a Lava Lamp, My favorite. Thanks



*Merry Christmas & A Happy New Year*

2007-12-24 14:58:45 · 32 answers · asked by Anonymous in Christmas

2007-12-24 14:58:32 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

2007-12-24 14:58:22 · 9 answers · asked by SuperCobra 1 in Religion & Spirituality

Are you preparing almost right up to the Holiday or are you already prepared and done?

2007-12-24 14:58:16 · 4 answers · asked by ? 6 in Christmas

2007-12-24 14:55:51 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Community Service

So many of us live in the state with the children of other parents on here. and they seem to live in the state with our children. Could we just swap for holidays and form one huge family?!

2007-12-24 14:55:33 · 25 answers · asked by for the times 7 in Senior Citizens

My girl friend is a Pastor and i found this chapter about woman not been permited to be a pastor.

http://www.jwfiles.com

2007-12-24 14:52:53 · 12 answers · asked by Antonio G 1 in Religion & Spirituality

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=AiVvH1b9GwRDDXD6S6mezBHWxQt.;_ylv=3?qid=20071224194609AAHWdDo

2007-12-24 14:52:49 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

2007-12-24 14:52:28 · 8 answers · asked by ASLAM Q 1 in Languages

2007-12-24 14:51:52 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

2007-12-24 14:51:31 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous in Christmas

2007-12-24 14:49:27 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Etiquette

Mine is O Come Emmanuel

2007-12-24 14:48:04 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Christmas

1) Would you consider yourself a woman or a lady?

2) What is your personal definition of a woman? What is your personal definition of a lady?

3) Is there a difference between a woman and a lady?

2007-12-24 14:47:21 · 14 answers · asked by Brandon 1 in Etiquette

Things that are always sins, not just the Lev. laws?

2007-12-24 14:45:59 · 18 answers · asked by Defunct 5 in Religion & Spirituality

I'm a gay teenager, and there's a guy I would like to ask on a date. I'm pretty sure he's gay; however, if he isn't, I don't want to offend him by asking him out. How do I find out if he's gay without pissing him off?

2007-12-24 14:44:09 · 12 answers · asked by Adelphia Scene 2 in Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender

Fertility rites, magic mushrooms, some sun worshipping, nekked probably of course, that's where all this stuff came from, sounds like it used to be pretty cool. Funny that's the people the church itself has went after, why xtians, why?

2007-12-24 14:43:32 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

I don't know who wrote it but it's good:

God rest ye Unitarians, let nothing you dismay
Remember there's no evidence there was a Christmas day.
When Christ was born just is not known, no matter what they say,
Glad tidings of reason and fact, reason and fact,
glad tidings of reason and fact.

There was no star of Bethlehem, there was no angel song,
There could have been no wise men, for the journey was too long,
The stories in the Bible are historically wrong,
Glad tidings of reason and fact . . .

Much of our christmas custom comes from Persia and from Greece,
From solstice celebrations of the ancient Middle East,
Our so-called Christmas holiday is but a pagan feast,
Glad tiding of reason and fact

2007-12-24 14:43:09 · 12 answers · asked by bete noire Carpe Noctum 5 in Religion & Spirituality

2007-12-24 14:42:48 · 26 answers · asked by anil m 6 in Religion & Spirituality

2007-12-24 14:42:30 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

ok i know santa isnt real thats just balone, but uhhhh i cant go to sleep on christmas eve!!!!! ive tried everything plz help

2007-12-24 14:42:22 · 15 answers · asked by ♥mandii♥paigey&&addy♥ 1 in Christmas

Did you ever feel like the world was heading somewhere but after a while you felt like it never got there?

After 9/11 I started feeling like everything was heading somewhere; like something big was coming. That's when I started to get really interested in religion and politics. Now I've got that feeling that we never got there.

2007-12-24 14:41:37 · 15 answers · asked by Defunct 5 in Religion & Spirituality

2007-12-24 14:40:57 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

Working in retail it has been my experience that some people have an ere about them that makes them feel as though they are better than me. They refuse to look me in my face, throw money at me, or talk to me as if I don't know english. This happens more often than not. I don't want to think that it is because I am an African American female. I want to think that it is a class or gender difference but I'm running out of excuses. I am beginning to believe that other cultures falsely believe that black people will forever be inferior to them. I cannot generalize about everyone because what is true for one is never true for all, but I guess my real question is are there some people of different classes that believe in the back of their mind,whether they will say it or not, that people of African descent are really inferior to them?

2007-12-24 14:40:33 · 14 answers · asked by Jennifer G 1 in Other - Cultures & Groups

Looking for the Christmas cartoon where the children were in an orphanage and had toys that were mismatched and messed up, and I remember them making toys with different household items. Does anyone know what it is called?

2007-12-24 14:38:11 · 1 answers · asked by spaew 2 in Christmas

How many gods do you believe?

The reinder god
The santa god
The christmas tree god
The Sun god



So why should christians celebrate it?

2007-12-24 14:36:25 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous in Christmas

a real, arguable point, i mean. not, "well they don't believe that jesus is god." there is no evidence that he was.

or "muslims are suicide bombers" because that's about as accurate as saying all christians hate fags because of the westboro baptist church.

i'm looking for an academic answer with supporting evidence that is convincing that Islam is not divinely inspired. i don't know alot about islam and i need a legitimate reason not to join.

please no generalizations or scripture. that ignorance does not change my ignorance on the subject.

2007-12-24 14:35:57 · 35 answers · asked by eelai000 5 in Religion & Spirituality

My name is John.

2007-12-24 14:35:01 · 9 answers · asked by john b 1 in Thanksgiving

whither you accept it or not Christmas is a christen holiday and it celebrates Jesus's birth. The world has tried to make it into secular holiday by diverting its meaning through figures like Santa clause. I see nothing about god any more. And i just want to know who thinks about him and thanks him before they open the presents on Christmas day.

2007-12-24 14:33:39 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous in Christmas