Religion & Spirituality - 29 June 2006

2006-06-29 06:37:38 · 17 answers · asked by humdrum 3

here is the thing. What race do you think Adam and Eve were? And who do you explain the different races. If you don't beleive in evolution then how do you reconcile this?

2006-06-29 06:37:30 · 25 answers · asked by Anonymous

Why are the colors different and what is the meaning of the colors

2006-06-29 06:36:05 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous

Patrick Henry, patriot and founding father of our country, said: "It cannot be emphasized too stongly or too often that this great nation was founded not by religionists but by Christians, not by religions but on the Gospel of Jesus Christ."

2006-06-29 06:35:36 · 31 answers · asked by Wayne S 3

about why people are so angry about the abortion issue? instead of arguing and debating, maybe we need to realize that they are often the victems of the abortion industry. pray for them and be compassionate above all else.

2006-06-29 06:34:11 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous

2006-06-29 06:31:16 · 22 answers · asked by Assad 3

I, myself gave up my religion because of modern science and analytical techniques. Does this pose the greatest threat to the survival of religion?

2006-06-29 06:30:42 · 22 answers · asked by bc_munkee 5

i would like to say a very big thankyou to all that have replied to my question on wether my friend should publish her book, GOD BLESS YOU AND SHINE HIS BIG BEAUTIFUL LIGHT ON YOU BROTHERS AND SISTERS- although the book is not yet published the title of the book is called FROM PERGUTORY TO PARADISE she is not sure when it will be for sale because she cannot afford to self publish so it is really in the hands of god, and a publisher that has got the light of jesus in him/her..
thank you all once again. AND A BIG WARM HUG FROM JESUS XXXXXXX

2006-06-29 06:27:04 · 10 answers · asked by sharon j 1

Mine are:
Spyro a hero's tale
Ty the tasmanian tiger
Baldurs gate dark alliance

2006-06-29 06:25:11 · 17 answers · asked by brianna_the_angel777 4

Please, tell me.What does live means for you?What do u live for?

2006-06-29 06:23:42 · 11 answers · asked by Flippy 3

They would lie to the guy and say they like him mainly because of his personality but wouldn't say anything about the REAL reason they're dating him. If a bum has a great personality, they could care less. Complimenting his personality just throws him off from knowing the truth about why she likes him. Some women would try to justify their prostitution behavior by saying his money is a sign he has a good personality. They would think of anything. How many rich rappers that call women bitches every other word can have sex 100 times more then the broke guy with the nicest personality in the world

2006-06-29 06:23:39 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous

2006-06-29 06:23:04 · 26 answers · asked by kimber g 4

Assuming one day there exists a way for a teleportation device to map every molecule and rebuild it at a remote location.

Would you be ok with dying on one side to have the other side rebuild you exactly the same, would you exist at that point?

What if the device malfunctioned and now there are two of you, which is the subjective you? Are you both just delusions? Would you die so the other one can continue to live, and would that in result end your existence?

2006-06-29 06:22:52 · 20 answers · asked by plastik 2

Should those advocating absteinance be banned from complaining about pornography, strippers, exotic dancers, sex toys like didos and vibrators etc. As surely thats why you tell someone to abstain as you want them intro that and not sexaul relationships with real people instead.

If nobody had to abstain from early teeange onwards and had a good sex life then there would be little need for the above.

You can't expect to repress people and expect them to have no release for the frustration...

What do you think the abstaining would do? play tiddlyinks?

2006-06-29 06:21:22 · 18 answers · asked by Joey 4

Why do religious fanatics feel they must protect the “Sanctity of Marriage” from homosexuals?

1. In LasVegas, NV on any given day, a heterosexual couple, (usually drunk off their butt or high on drugs) can marry on the same day they meet. Is that Sanctity of Marriage?

2. A heterosexual can marry and divorce an unlimited number of times. Is that Sanctity of Marriage?

3. What do people wanting to marrying animals have to do with gays having the right to marriage equality?

Marriage protectionists are hypocritical since heterosexuals thenselves do not respect the Sanctity of Marriage.

What have marriage protectionists done to preserve the Sanctity of Marriage besides deny it to others?

PS: Ever read the 14th amendment?

2006-06-29 06:20:56 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous

I want to find someone to help me spiritually, not someone from an "organized" religion, someone that is more open to everything. I do not want a new age "fraud" either...someone that is legitimately there to help your soul open up.

2006-06-29 06:19:19 · 11 answers · asked by crystalg66 1

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.

2006-06-29 06:17:09 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous

If "Mary" was a vigin (bible lady) was married, then why was she still a virgin? Did her marrage just have some really big problems in it, or was she like that lady on Jerry Springer, who had been married for 5 years, yet she had never had sex with the man she married?

2006-06-29 06:16:25 · 22 answers · asked by D 4

If anyone hasn't heard, there is a Church and it goes to all the military funerals and will stand there and protest. I wrote a poem and I would like to find some scriptures that prove my veiw. Is it just me or are these people a little off in the letf feild?? They say that the reason the men die is because of judgement for the gays in the US. My poems is at www.jade-poems.blogspot.com.

2006-06-29 06:11:46 · 7 answers · asked by bible geek 1

When the pledge of allience is recited in schools, should kids be allowed to replace God ("one nation under god") with another religions word for got such as allah or buddah, or replace it with anything they want if they are athiest?

2006-06-29 06:11:34 · 20 answers · asked by Anonymous

Start my own religion. My believe in evolution is incompatible with Christianity but I'm not an atheist.

I just wanna believe in a "higher power" and leave it at that and not have no darn book or rules or any of that stuff.

I think this is what jim_darwinism could become.

I don't know.

2006-06-29 06:10:26 · 24 answers · asked by Anonymous

mohammid had a 4 yr old wife and couldnt conumate his marrige untill she was 9.
Bastard! thats just sick!!

2006-06-29 06:10:24 · 15 answers · asked by Aleasha 1

if you are close minded then don't go to this site it may make you think! ( http://video.google.com/videoplay? and type in the search/ pharmacratic inquisition).it is very long and detailed.so just watch and make YOUR OWN OPINION!!!

2006-06-29 06:08:51 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous

Is there a God out there some where???
i want to know. i want to belive but not in vain...

2006-06-29 06:05:40 · 34 answers · asked by Aleasha 1

2006-06-29 06:05:33 · 24 answers · asked by grannypamrox 3

im muslim and i think that all of we have to be muslims

2006-06-29 06:04:49 · 22 answers · asked by Anonymous

Also graphics,backgrounds etc.Thank you all for the help
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2006-06-29 06:03:35 · 3 answers · asked by Coo Bird 4

My last questioned bombed cause of too much sarcasm. I just got in the mail last week a free Bible and a free Qu'ran. So this is clearly not what I'm talking about.

But I go to bookstores and see lots of people getting rich off selling books about Jesus's death. Not educational, but "self-help" stuff.

I just think theres a difference between knowledge and clear televanglism for profit or books on Jesus cause theres a market for it.

Do you think its right for people to call themselves Christian and try and make money off the cruifixition of their lord and savior.

I do.

The word of God should be free.

2006-06-29 06:00:43 · 24 answers · asked by Anonymous

Why do you feel that way?

2006-06-29 06:00:16 · 9 answers · asked by novalee 5

2006-06-29 06:00:02 · 12 answers · asked by grannypamrox 3