Religion & Spirituality - 28 June 2006

They are either provoking or insulting questions- and almost all to them to do with Chrisitanity! I even came across one that said something like "why do christians always attack yahoo answerers?" And some of them (including the answers) are very abusive.

2006-06-28 03:57:34 · 24 answers · asked by Warrior Princess 2

2006-06-28 03:57:06 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous

Please only serious answers, this is a serious question.
My husbands cousin killed himself last week and we went to the funeral and people thought since he went to church and was a Christian that he was in Heaven now.
I have always believed that taking your own life was a major sin and that you would go to Hell because you took your own life away from God and obviously could not ask forgivness after you did it.
Do you agree with me, or do you think that he would be in Heaven anyway?
It has really been bothering me and I plan on asking my pastor. I just thought even though you are saved, you still have to ask forgivness every time you sinned, not just once when you got saved and then you would be forgiven for everything you ever did.
What are your thoughts on this?
I have been a Christian my whole life and know a lot about the Bible and religion, and always thought that I was right on this matter, but now I am wondering.

2006-06-28 03:57:04 · 18 answers · asked by Anonymous

2006-06-28 03:56:24 · 3 answers · asked by srgogurl@sbcglobal.net 1

2006-06-28 03:56:19 · 17 answers · asked by Anonymous

but what about the catholic believer?

2006-06-28 03:55:33 · 14 answers · asked by Mizz Pattie 2

he's my friend.he even sends me his letters but my mom said that i shouldn't reply him bc he's muslim.she thinks that they're old and have bad traditions.

2006-06-28 03:54:27 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous

I was just wondering if historically there were other means of dealing with a "demonically possessed" person before the times of the Christian church (or even Jesus). Was there even exorcisms performed before Christianity was founded? By what means and by whom? Did the "theory" of possession exist before the Christian church? Are there still religions (pagan or otherwise) that perform these rituals today?

* This is simply a religious historical question. I am not claming to be possessed nor am I speaking out against Christianity when asking this.*

2006-06-28 03:53:59 · 2 answers · asked by Anonymous

I do!! Just wondering!! My five year old kid does. Its hilarious! " oh my god mommy!!"

2006-06-28 03:53:26 · 15 answers · asked by ♥ Ava ♥ 3

Other themes we are using are:
tolerance
peer pressure
competition
body image
anger management
tolerance/diversity
commitment
temptation

If you have any song or game ideas for any of these, that would be great.

2006-06-28 03:53:26 · 5 answers · asked by texasgirl5454312 6

I am struggling with the thought that believing the Bible is 100% true and cannot in some circumstances be taken as conceptual and that the writers of the Bible sometimes put their own biases into what they wrote? What do you think? There are many passages in the OT and the NT that are heavily misgynistic. However, God does say he loved us all equally yet passages in the Bible (especially those of Paul) say that women are lesser, etc.

Also, many people use passages from the OT to denounce homosexuality yet they eat pork, wear fabric blends, have sex on their period, etc. This is very frustrating and confusing to me.
Also

2006-06-28 03:53:13 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous

2006-06-28 03:51:48 · 10 answers · asked by aquaturtlelove 1

And can I marry Atheist Candy's avatar while I'm asking silly questions? Yesterday I was dyspeptic. Today I'm peptic. Yay me!

2006-06-28 03:51:15 · 3 answers · asked by Rev. Still Monkeys 6

when shes being truly loved ?

now the hurt is turning into pain!

2006-06-28 03:50:53 · 6 answers · asked by Alfred Newman 1

Have you ever come across a person who seemed or was an enlightened being...so close to epitomizing Buddha or Jesus in their waves of love that it was awe inspiring? That you wished or desired to be like this person in their expression of Truth, Joy and Love and wondered how?
This is not a joke.
This is actually a serious question so I'll encourage serious answers ---but on the flip side of that, I'm aware that people will still give smartass or "you're an idiot!" remarks.
But remember, you are entitled to your belief structure just as much as I am. So please respect it and don't tell me to read the bible as not everyone follows or is into the Chrisitan or Catholic faith/religion. And no, it would not be already answered if I was. Thank you.

2006-06-28 03:48:01 · 11 answers · asked by Victoria R 3

we were given free will but it seems we were not given freedom...why are there people suffering in this world its not their free will to suffer...children born without arms and legs, sexually abused children, rape victims etc. its not their free will to choose what happened to them....so again may i repost the question of my friend who asked a while ago with modifications...Why is there good and Evil?I God Loves us why does he allow suffering in this world? why does he allow the suffering of the innocent...?why not eliminate evil and suffering to make this a better world?

2006-06-28 03:47:04 · 14 answers · asked by Ineed 1

That Satan himself doesn't really masquerade as God? His greatest deception was the bible. He would have been able to make near impossible to refrain from sin.

2006-06-28 03:46:55 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous

what should I do?

2006-06-28 03:46:33 · 18 answers · asked by Anonymous

doodle? give me scientific explaination pls.

2006-06-28 03:45:46 · 12 answers · asked by alfrepheus 1

In Joshua 10, the Bible tells the story of the day when the sun--and time--stopped. The Israelites were fighting the Amorites in Canaan. During the battle, Joshua prayed for the sun and moon to stop, so he would have extra daylight to finish the task. Scripture records that this prayer was answered: The sun "delayed going down about a full day" (v. 13).

Why don't Joshua prayed for Earth to stop its rotating instead of sun and moon to stop?

Hope my questions will not provoke somebody and I am also a Christian who loves Jesus Christ and his thoughts, but I am confused with some of the Old Testaments Scriptures.

2006-06-28 03:45:01 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous

Rather than being just a talking serpent as in Aesop's fables
Or being a type of Jesus?

2006-06-28 03:44:55 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous

Report the little ones that are trying to preach to me and belittle me at the same time - all while not answering the question put before them?

They ARE going against the community guidelines. Who's sinning more?

Me for reporting the children of god.... or them for breaking the rules of the site AND the rules of their own religion?

Hmm... turn the other cheek, forgive us as we forgive those who...

Would Jesus throw cheap insults at me such as, "You're really a scared little boy."

Funny... all the Christians I know in real life have a sense of humor... should I assume that I am wrong about that, and that these are the things they are REALLY thinking, but are too scared to say until they get online?

Scary thought, that.

2006-06-28 03:43:36 · 19 answers · asked by Anonymous

Is there anyone other than the Mayans who say this. Is it spoken about in any other religions?

2006-06-28 03:43:02 · 6 answers · asked by tom tom 2

10 dangers of theistic evolution
by Werner Gitt

The atheistic formula for evolution is:

Evolution = matter + evolutionary factors (chance and necessity + mutation + selection + isolation + death) + very long time periods.

In the theistic evolutionary view, God is added:

Theistic evolution = matter + evolutionary factors (chance and necessity + mutation + selection + isolation + death) + very long time periods + God.

In this system God is not the omnipotent Lord of all things, whose Word has to be taken seriously by all men, but He is integrated into the evolutionary philosophy. This leads to 10 dangers for Christians.1

Danger no. 1: Misrepresentation of the Nature of God
The Bible reveals God to us as our Father in Heaven, who is absolutely perfect (Matthew 5:48), holy (Isaiah 6:3), and omnipotent (Jeremiah 32:17). The Apostle John tells us that ‘God is love’, ‘light’, and ‘life’ (1 John 4:16; 1:5; 1:1-2). When this God creates something, His work is described as ‘very good’ (Genesis 1:31) and ‘perfect’ (Deuteronomy 32:4).

Theistic evolution gives a false representation of the nature of God because death and ghastliness are ascribed to the Creator as principles of creation. (Progressive creationism, likewise, allows for millions of years of death and horror before sin.)

Danger no. 2: God becomes a God of the Gaps
The Bible states that God is the Prime Cause of all things. ‘But to us there is but one God, the Father, of whom are all things … and one Lord Jesus Christ, by whom are all things, and we by Him’ (1 Corinthians 8:6).

However, in theistic evolution the only workspace allotted to God is that part of nature which evolution cannot ‘explain’ with the means presently at its disposal. In this way He is reduced to being a ‘god of the gaps’ for those phenomena about which there are doubts. This leads to the view that ‘God is therefore not absolute, but He Himself has evolved—He is evolution’.2

Danger no. 3: Denial of Central Biblical Teachings
The entire Bible bears witness that we are dealing with a source of truth authored by God (2 Timothy 3:16), with the Old Testament as the indispensable ‘ramp’ leading to the New Testament, like an access road leads to a motor freeway (John 5:39). The biblical creation account should not be regarded as a myth, a parable, or an allegory, but as a historical report, because:

Biological, astronomical and anthropological facts are given in didactic [teaching] form.
In the Ten Commandments God bases the six working days and one day of rest on the same time-span as that described in the creation account (Exodus 20:8-11).
In the New Testament Jesus referred to facts of the creation (e.g. Matthew 19:4-5).
Nowhere in the Bible are there any indications that the creation account should be understood in any other way than as a factual report.
The doctrine of theistic evolution undermines this basic way of reading the Bible, as vouched for by Jesus, the prophets and the Apostles. Events reported in the Bible are reduced to mythical imagery, and an understanding of the message of the Bible as being true in word and meaning is lost.

Danger no. 4: Loss of the Way for Finding God
The Bible describes man as being completely ensnared by sin after Adam’s fall (Romans 7:18-19). Only those persons who realize that they are sinful and lost will seek the Saviour who ‘came to save that which was lost’ (Luke 19:10).

However, evolution knows no sin in the biblical sense of missing one’s purpose (in relation to God). Sin is made meaningless, and that is exactly the opposite of what the Holy Spirit does—He declares sin to be sinful. If sin is seen as a harmless evolutionary factor, then one has lost the key for finding God, which is not resolved by adding ‘God’ to the evolutionary scenario.

Danger no. 5: The Doctrine of God’s Incarnation is Undermined
The incarnation of God through His Son Jesus Christ is one of the basic teachings of the Bible. The Bible states that ‘The Word was made flesh and dwelt among us’ (John 1:14), ‘Christ Jesus … was made in the likeness of men (Philippians 2:5-7).

Danger no. 6: The Biblical Basis of Jesus’ Work of Redemption Is Mythologized
The Bible teaches that the first man’s fall into sin was a real event and that this was the direct cause of sin in the world. ‘Wherefore, as by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin; and so death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned’ (Romans 5:12).

Theistic evolution does not acknowledge Adam as the first man, nor that he was created directly from ‘the dust of the ground’ by God (Genesis 2:17). Most theistic evolutionists regard the creation account as being merely a mythical tale, albeit with some spiritual significance. However, the sinner Adam and the Saviour Jesus are linked together in the Bible—Romans 5:16-18. Thus any theological view which mythologizes Adam undermines the biblical basis of Jesus’ work of redemption.

Danger no. 7: Loss of Biblical Chronology
The Bible provides us with a time-scale for history and this underlies a proper understanding of the Bible. This time-scale includes:

The time-scale cannot be extended indefinitely into the past, nor into the future. There is a well-defined beginning in Genesis 1:1, as well as a moment when physical time will end (Matthew 24:14).
The total duration of creation was six days (Exodus 20:11).
The age of the universe may be estimated in terms of the genealogies recorded in the Bible (but note that it cannot be calculated exactly). It is of the order of several thousand years, not billions.
Galatians 4:4 points out the most outstanding event in the world’s history: ‘But when the fulness of the time was come, God sent forth His Son.’ This happened nearly 2,000 years ago.
The return of Christ in power and glory is the greatest expected future event.
Supporters of theistic evolution (and progressive creation) disregard the biblically given measures of time in favour of evolutionist time-scales involving billions of years both past and future (for which there are no convincing physical grounds). This can lead to two errors:

Not all statements of the Bible are to be taken seriously.
Vigilance concerning the second coming of Jesus may be lost.
Danger no. 8: Loss of Creation Concepts
Certain essential creation concepts are taught in the Bible. These include:

God created matter without using any available material.
God created the earth first, and on the fourth day He added the moon, the solar system, our local galaxy, and all other star systems. This sequence conflicts with all ideas of ‘cosmic evolution’, such as the ‘big bang’ cosmology.
Theistic evolution ignores all such biblical creation principles and replaces them with evolutionary notions, thereby contradicting and opposing God’s omnipotent acts of creation.

Danger no. 9: Misrepresentation of Reality
The Bible carries the seal of truth, and all its pronouncements are authoritative—whether they deal with questions of faith and salvation, daily living, or matters of scientific importance.

Evolutionists brush all this aside, e.g. Richard Dawkins says, ‘Nearly all peoples have developed their own creation myth, and the Genesis story is just the one that happened to have been adopted by one particular tribe of Middle Eastern herders. It has no more special status than the belief of a particular West African tribe that the world was created from the excrement of ants’.4

If evolution is false, then numerous sciences have embraced false testimony. Whenever these sciences conform to evolutionary views, they misrepresent reality. How much more then a theology which departs from what the Bible says and embraces evolution!

Danger no. 10: Missing the Purpose
In no other historical book do we find so many and such valuable statements of purpose for man, as in the Bible. For example:

Man is God’s purpose in creation (Genesis 1:27-28).
Man is the purpose of God’s plan of redemption (Isaiah 53:5).
Man is the purpose of the mission of God’s Son (1 John 4:9).
We are the purpose of God’s inheritance (Titus 3:7).
Heaven is our destination (1 Peter 1:4).
However, the very thought of purposefulness is anathema to evolutionists. ‘Evolutionary adaptations never follow a purposeful program, they thus cannot be regarded as teleonomical.’5 Thus a belief system such as theistic evolution that marries purposefulness with non-purposefulness is a contradiction in terms.

Conclusion
The doctrines of creation and evolution are so strongly divergent that reconciliation is totally impossible. Theistic evolutionists attempt to integrate the two doctrines, however such syncretism reduces the message of the Bible to insignificance. The conclusion is inevitable: There is no support for theistic evolution in the Bible.

2006-06-28 03:42:56 · 18 answers · asked by Anonymous

2006-06-28 03:38:48 · 35 answers · asked by Anonymous

2006-06-28 03:37:50 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous

2006-06-28 03:37:37 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous

If they would do their research, they'll find that the story of Noah is thought by many scholars to be adapted from an earlier story of Utnapishtim (from the Mesopotamian Epic of Gilgamesh) and is mentioned in other holy books other than the Bible.

What prompted this question was a news piece I saw last night on a Texas man who found petrified wood imbedded with sea fossils on a mountain in Iran (modern day Mesopotamia) and thinks if this is proven as the Ark it will validate the Bible (his words).

2006-06-28 03:37:33 · 8 answers · asked by Lauren J 1

Do Christians, like Muslims seek to build a utopian state based on their religious principles? If so, how does that make them different from any other fundamenalist/political group ie. communists, facists, muslim fundamentalists etc...?

2006-06-28 03:37:26 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous

2006-06-28 03:36:54 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous