Religion & Spirituality - 13 June 2006

as in a muslim dating a christian or a jewish person dating a pagan etc. if so doesnt that fall into racisim?

2006-06-13 05:45:49 · 34 answers · asked by Anonymous

lets say u went up to some1 and asked them wat religion they are and the 1st response u get is IM CATHOLIC:s:s y not im cristian?

2006-06-13 05:45:12 · 15 answers · asked by roudii m 1

What will happen to my grandchildren in 6/6/2066?

2006-06-13 05:40:00 · 21 answers · asked by Anonymous

The Al-quaran could also be corrupted, to suit the needs of people that live in arab. For example do god permitted man to marry 4 wife. Islam may denied Jesus christ is son of god because he is born among the jews and not among them.

2006-06-13 05:38:47 · 19 answers · asked by Anonymous

2006-06-13 05:38:37 · 28 answers · asked by treehouse1636 1

Wouldn't that be like admitting that letters exist, but that they cannot make words?

2006-06-13 05:38:32 · 6 answers · asked by bc_munkee 5

against religion and have it roll off of people? It's scary. It was scary to think America would re-elect GW Bush. It makes me feel very lonely. Kind of like America is half Killer Clowns from Outer Space.

2006-06-13 05:38:30 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous

Why are people so quick to judge and condemn young teenagers or young adults who have no sexual experience whatsoever, but find that they are attracted to members of their own gender, and may or may not be attracted to members of the opposite gender? Why are Christians who are supposed to be reflecting God's love telling them they are going to hell even though they have not yet commited the sin and acting as if their own sins are so much less offensive to God? Don't you think that's going to make the tormented soul say, "Well, why bother, I may as well do it since I'm going to hell anyway?"

2006-06-13 05:35:51 · 24 answers · asked by finderoftruth 2

I do. Really! what do YOU believe if God hadn't created us?
we evoulved from mokeys????
if you believe that excuse then you are a disgrace to the human race!! YOU may want to be a mokey but I do not
I would much rather be a smart being with the ability to think and make choices for myself created in the image of God.
seriously who wants to think their great[times 1500] grandfather was a mokey instead of Adam?
You insult the human race and your intellegence to say we came from monkeys
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you should find God right away if you believe in evolution! find out the truth! NOT that phoney Darwin theory!

2006-06-13 05:32:25 · 26 answers · asked by Wild Mangie 4

Is that why people live lives of delusion? I think it might be. We can't really function if we REALIZE all the crazy crap going on in the world, and that we have to die. Is it an innate fear that puts a curtain between us and reality?

2006-06-13 05:30:33 · 17 answers · asked by Anonymous

2006-06-13 05:28:40 · 17 answers · asked by Lil Lady 1

Some people say that Catholics are not Christians, but others say say that they are. Who's right? -Steve

2006-06-13 05:26:52 · 23 answers · asked by ? 2

If you'd like to participate, please read everything below first, then let me know how you feel afterward:

Close your eyes. Notice how your breath feels...is it shallow or deep? Where does it go in your body?

Now actively breath deeper, your inhaled breath starting in your lower belly, filling up your chest, and reaching your throat. Your exhaled breath is released slowly back down through your body, like air slowly escaping from a balloon. Try another 3-5 breaths like this.

Open your eyes.

Now please answer...how do you feel? :)

2006-06-13 05:24:40 · 19 answers · asked by Anonymous

This is based on Judeo-Christian beliefs.

2006-06-13 05:19:56 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous

crying. I know that's "bad" but at least I don't feel guilty or scared I'm going to be punished. I'm already being punished by theism.

Whine, whine, moan. oh well. Where is the question in that?

2006-06-13 05:18:12 · 22 answers · asked by Anonymous

For example Muslim says that the Holy bible exaggerated that Jesus Christ is son of god. Beside that they do not believe that Issaz the son of Abraham and Sarah was being sacrifice to god to test they obedience and many more

2006-06-13 05:16:12 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous

Then what was their dna genetic make-up?
What does this mean then ?
Does it mean that life is according to the dna of them ?


Just wondering

2006-06-13 05:15:35 · 20 answers · asked by MJA 2

(I'm just curious)

2006-06-13 05:14:29 · 19 answers · asked by maya 5

just wondering

2006-06-13 05:12:47 · 19 answers · asked by Anonymous

2006-06-13 05:12:20 · 22 answers · asked by Lithobid 2

what do you understnd from this statment?

2006-06-13 05:07:05 · 12 answers · asked by encounters_princess 1

What tools and what preparation things do I need to have to become a youth minister or preacher? I also need suggstions on things to read and so on.

2006-06-13 05:06:46 · 18 answers · asked by christlikewannabe7 1

Posted: June 21, 2003
1:00 a.m. Eastern



By Joe Kovacs



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© 2003 WorldNetDaily.com

"And Moses stretched out his hand over the sea; and the LORD caused the sea to go back by a strong east wind all that night, and made the sea dry land, and the waters were divided." (Exodus 14:21)

One of the most famous stories of the Bible is God's parting of the Red Sea to save the Israelites from the Egyptian army and the subsequent drowning of soldiers and horses in hot pursuit.

But is there evidence that such an event did in fact happen – and if so, precisely where did it take place?

The issue is surfacing some 3,500 years after the event is said to have taken place with reports of Egyptian chariot wheels found in the Red Sea, photographs to document it and new books by scientists that could lead to a whole remapping of the Exodus route and a fresh look at ancient biblical accounts.

Wheel of fortune


Is this a chariot wheel that chased Moses?

"I am 99.9 percent sure I picked up a chariot wheel," Peter Elmer tells WorldNetDaily after two diving trips to the Gulf of Aqaba branch of the sea. "It was covered in coral."

The 38-year-old forklift mechanic from Keynsham, England, traveled to the region with his brother, Mark, after being inspired by videos of explorers Ron Wyatt and Jonathan Gray, who have documented artifacts that in at least one case authorities have confirmed to be a chariot wheel dating to the time of the Exodus.

"I believe I actually sat in an ancient chariot cab," Elmer said, referring to his time exploring a submerged item in what he describes as an underwater scrapyard. "Without question, it is most definitely the remains of the Egyptian army."

But despite all of Elmer's excitement, others who have been to the same location are not so sure what is being viewed underwater are the remnants of the great chase and urge extreme caution regarding the unsubstantiated claims.

"All kinds of people are finding coral and calling it chariot parts," says Richard Rives, president of Wyatt Archaeological Research in Tennessee. "It's most likely coral covered with coral. ... Opportunists are combining false things with the true things that are found. These people are making it up as they go to be TV stars."

Rives was a longtime partner of Ron Wyatt, an anesthetist and amateur archaeologist who died of cancer in 1999. Before passing away, Wyatt devoted years searching for and documenting physical evidence for events mentioned in the Bible. In addition to chariot wheels, Wyatt claimed to have found Noah's Ark on the mountain next to Ararat in Turkey, the "true" Mount Sinai in Saudi Arabia and the Ark of the Covenant with the Ten Commandments near the site of Jesus Christ's crucifixion.


Submerged 'land bridge' (wyattmuseum.com)

Among those who accompanied Wyatt on many of his excursions is his wife, Mary Nell. She's concerned about over-exuberance regarding new claims, but the Spring Hill, Tenn., woman tells WorldNetDaily she's "convinced" there are chariot parts located on a subsurface "land bridge" connecting Egypt to Saudi Arabia through the Gulf of Aqaba.

She cites Ron's discovery of a wheel hub that he brought to the surface in the late 1970s as proof.

The hub had the remains of eight spokes radiating outward and was examined by Nassif Mohammed Hassan, director of Antiquities in Cairo. Hassan declared it to be from the 18th Dynasty of ancient Egypt, explaining the eight-spoked wheel was used only during that dynasty around 1400 B.C.

Curiously, no one can account for the precise whereabouts of that eight-spoked wheel today, though Hassan is on videotape stating his conclusion regarding authenticity.

When Mary Nell went diving with Ron, she says it was very easy to assume (wrongly) that every item on the flat bottom had historical significance.

"[At first] I thought everything was a chariot wheel!" Mrs. Wyatt exclaimed, noting how difficult it is for the untrained eye to distinguish an artifact from a piece of coral. "I'm just trying to be cautious about over-identifying too much. ... It is God's truth, and we can't hype it up. We can't add to it."

However, she notes a big problem for explorers and scientists is that the Egyptian government no longer allows items to be removed from the protected region. Thus, someone claiming to find an artifact will have a hard – if not impossible – time verifying its authenticity, a classic catch-22.

The watery grave

"And the waters returned, and covered the chariots, and the horsemen, and all the host of Pharaoh that came into the sea after them; there remained not so much as one of them." (Exodus 14:28)

The Bible account makes it clear that once the Israelites had marched through the parted sea on dry ground, that the waters rushed back to completely engulf the doomed army of ancient Egypt.

With that in mind, many of the items being seen in the Gulf of Aqaba have been photographed by divers for comparison to the Exodus story.

Many other photographs show formations in a circular pattern with projections that could be spokes, but those items remain at the bottom and have not been authenticated.

Another issue is the route of the Exodus, and which body of water the Israelites crossed. Many travel maps and Bibles indicate a crossing point in the Gulf of Suez, the western branch of the Red Sea. But those may have to be updated if the Aqaba location is confirmed as the true location for the miraculous event.

"The truth is, no one really knows where the crossing of the Red Sea took place," says Carl Rasmussen, a biblical geographer and professor of Old Testament at Bethel College in St. Paul, Minn.

Rasmussen compiled the "Zondervan NIV Atlas of the Bible" and personally thinks the crossing took place somewhere along what is now the Suez Canal.


Yellow highlights possible spot of Mount Sinai in Saudi Arabia. Gulf of Aqaba branch of Red Sea is at center, with main Red Sea at bottom-right of photo (wyattmuseum.com)


Some scientists from Europe say the current maps are wrong, and the Wyatts are right – that the crossing began at the Nuweiba beachhead, went through the Gulf of Aqaba, and then into what is now Saudi Arabia where they claim the "true" Mount Sinai is located.

For years, scholars have speculated as to the location of the actual Mount Sinai where Moses received the Ten Commandments from God. At least 13 sites have actually been claimed on the Sinai peninsula as being the correct spot.

But Ron Wyatt believed it was in Arabia, even referenced as "mount Sinai in Arabia" by the Apostle Paul in Galatians 4:25.

So he and his sons made their way to "Jebel a Lawz," the mountain of the Law, which is known by the locals as "Jebel Musa" – Moses' mountain.

Unfortunately for the Wyatts, they were arrested and held in prison. His wife says someone had phoned embassy authorities for the Muslim country, claiming that Ron was spying for Israel. They were released after spending 78 days behind bars.

Rasmussen doesn't agree with the Arabian Mount Sinai theory.

"I believe the strongest candidate is Jebel Sin Bisher," he told WorldNetDaily. "The sites in Saudi Arabia have very, very weak scriptural backing, in spite of the hype."

Now, a new book by Cambridge University physicist Colin Humphreys titled "The Miracles of Exodus" supports not only the claim for an Aqaba crossing, but also the location of Mount Sinai in Arabia.

"If my book is correct, and I believe the evidence is very strong," says Humphreys, "then world maps will need to be redrawn to relocate Mount Sinai. History books, travel guides and biblical commentaries will need to be rewritten."

Throughout his work, Humphreys provides scientific explanations to corroborate the accounts of the Old Testament.

"'The waters piled up, the surging waters stood firm like a wall,' is a remarkable description of what the mathematics reveals to be the case for water pushed back by a very strong wind," he writes.

"What I have found is that the events of the Exodus are even more dramatic than is generally believed," Humphreys said. "The Exodus of the ancient Israelites from Egypt really is one of the greatest true stories ever told."

A Swedish scientist who believes the Red Sea was split says while Humphreys is correct about the Aqaba crossing, there are no natural, scientific explanations for the parting miracle described in Scripture.


Walls of water as depicted in 'The Ten Commandments' (Paramount Pictures)

"The wind did not separate the water," says Lennart Moller of the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm. "No person could be in that wind and survive. ... If God has created all the Earth, it's no problem for Him to separate the water for a while."

Speaking to WorldNetDaily from the isle of Gotland in the Baltic Sea, Moller, the author of "The Exodus Case," says the key in finding the correct route of the Israelites is to understand that the Hebrew reference to "yum suph" does not mean "sea of reeds" as many scholars have claimed.

Moller says it refers specifically to the Gulf of Aqaba, and while he's not formally affiliated with the Wyatts, he agrees with them that a host of other evidence can be found on the Arabian side of the water, including remains of the golden calf, pillars, altars and the even the rock the Bible says Moses split to bring forth water for the Israelites.

Regarding the items found beneath the waters, Moller believes there are remnants not only of chariots and wheels, but also human and animal skeletons.

"There was a disaster [there] a long time ago," he said. "Whatever that is, it's open to interpretation."

He also notes that the downward and upward slope of the Aqaba crossing path actually falls within current U.S. standards for handicapped ramps.

And while Mary Nell Wyatt warns overstating the claims by divers and authors could do more harm than good, she does believe there's a reason why her husband was led to discover what Ron called "God's attention-getters."

"God preserved all these evidences," she said, "[otherwise] there would have been nothing left. ... God has been lost today. Even Christians still can't believe this all happened. ... We need to pray for the Lord to help us get people to see it."

Back in England, Peter Elmer says people have mockingly asked "Why should a forklift mechanic from Keynsham be able to go to the same place Moses was?"

He takes the criticism in stride, pointing out "Jesus used fishermen, tax collectors and publicans. Why not a forklift mechanic?"

2006-06-13 05:06:03 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous

How do you bring a friend closer to God?

2006-06-13 05:05:58 · 42 answers · asked by xmrksduspt 2

2006-06-13 05:05:28 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous

The belief in a god and/or religion is passed through generations. In most cases it is never questioned, nor the roots of religion ever investigated. We blindly follow religion because we have always done so. If we stop to contemplate what use religion has for us, there are many rationalizations. Many of us are not strong enough to realize the truth nor will accept it as denying our base beliefs, no matter how absurd they really are. The defense for religion is that it provides a basis for a moral life, for people to have values that are good and just. But why do we need religion for that, can we not teach right and wrong without religion, do we need a god to love or know the difference between right and wrong. Love, kindness and caring are human traits after all. Think of all the war and killing that has happened in the name of religion. If we all embraced each other as humans, we will realize it is up to us to make real change. It is up to us to take responsibility.

2006-06-13 05:02:49 · 12 answers · asked by JOHN C C 1

I'm not understanding, I need insight. Last night, I was let down yet again. I am cursed beyond belief. I know I should be grateful, but it's very very hard. I'm unhappy. My sister wants to be a pro athlete, now I know it's tough and seemingly unattaintable. Aren't you supposed to have goals? She has the talent, drive, determination, dedication, she works so hard. She's worked hard for a long time. I've dreamed of being liked by people(friends) and having a bf( and love) yet the bf and the friends seem to be unattainable. Yet I did for some1. We are 20-26. She is 26. We've struggled for 10 years or better. There's a glimmer of hope sometimes. We get close and then big disapppointment rolls around. Call me crazy, but I'm cursed. Quite possibly those chain letters. Though I've had a bad life before that. I lost my grandma, my cousin lost her father to a 16 y/o who didn't use the signal and he wasn't wearing his seatbelt, my other grandparents I worry about, they drive me nuts. I worry ab

2006-06-13 05:00:49 · 29 answers · asked by samantha wilson 5

It has been proven. Is it easier to accept a supernatural explanation than years of scientific evidence.

2006-06-13 04:58:52 · 18 answers · asked by bc_munkee 5

I nearly died when i was born because i was drowned in my moms womb. My heart stop beating, doctor need to peform CPR on me.So do i have a purpose to live in this world, why did god save me.

2006-06-13 04:56:59 · 32 answers · asked by Anonymous

the ultimate question...

2006-06-13 04:52:34 · 49 answers · asked by hydromysticx2 1