Religion & Spirituality - 4 July 2006

Why do you suppose one of the most intelligent men in American history would remove all references to miracles from the New Testament?

Why would he remove references to the resurrection?

Thomas Jefferson is usually given credit for writing the Constitution. So, why would a man who help found this "Christian nation" re-write the bible to remove all references to the "Trinity"?



Excerpted from Wikipedia article:

"Miracles and references to the Trinity and the divinity of Jesus are notably absent from the Jefferson Bible. The Bible begins with an account of Jesus's birth without references to angels, genealogy, or prophecy. The work ends with the words: "Now, in the place where he was crucified, there was a garden; and in the garden a new sepulchre, wherein was never man yet laid. There laid they Jesus. And rolled a great stone to the door of the sepulchre, and departed." There is no mention of the resurrection."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jefferson_Bible

2006-07-04 10:48:47 · 18 answers · asked by Left the building 7

can i get a PRAISE JESUS!!!

2006-07-04 10:47:46 · 22 answers · asked by tobykeogh 3

Is there anyone out there who knows of (and believes) the prophecies of St Malachy? Curious as to whether you believe the current pope is meant to be Petrus Romanus, or will that be his successor?

2006-07-04 10:47:13 · 1 answers · asked by Anonymous

why or, why not?

2006-07-04 10:46:59 · 17 answers · asked by Biomimetik 4

It is unfolding as I am writing this, are we ready for a nuclear war?? North Korea is provoking a nuclear war and they have the bombs to back it up. We are just gearing up for the last days in the Bible and the Great Tribulation.. ARE YOU READY FOR THIS????
# North Korea test fires at least two missiles, possibly three AFP, 9 minutes ago
n Monday, Pyongyang warned it would launch an "annihilating" nuclear strike if its atomic facilities were pre-emptively attacked by the United States.

2006-07-04 10:45:27 · 17 answers · asked by † PRAY † 7

2006-07-04 10:45:04 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous

2006-07-04 10:43:37 · 8 answers · asked by answerman2006 2

2006-07-04 10:43:30 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous

Christians are not people that just go to Church and pray,read the bible, and do boring stuff. They are not people who have just been christened, or baptised. They aren't people that do good works.
Yes they do some of these things but that doesn't make them a Christian.
A Christian is someone who realises they are a sinner and that they are not good enough for God. They know Jesus died on the cros for their sin, and that He came back to life to give them new life.
They have confesed their sin and asked Jesus into their life and He has made them new people.
They aren't perfect and don't claim to be. They love to worship the Almighty. They thank Jesus for his death and resurrection. They love to tell others that they too are sinners and that they can't go to heaven with sin. But if they turn to Jesus they can know forgiveness and everlasting life in heaven.
Now you might not believe in God but thanks for reading this because at least you can't say you don't anything about Jesus.

2006-07-04 10:41:33 · 29 answers · asked by Smart_Guy 4

----question---if you remove the word god and all reference to him from the old testament how accurate do you find it as a historical reference?-------------please think a little before responding-keep the peace old hippie here

2006-07-04 10:34:42 · 17 answers · asked by bergice 6

So i dont like christians, so what? Why are you so obsessed with me anyway? I can tell by the amount of responses i get on my three questions 37, 42, 40, that my opinion is so valuable to you. Why dont you try getting over being so pathetic and naive instead of being so obsessed with me

2006-07-04 10:33:42 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous

I know of someone who is christian and waited til they were married to have sex with her husband. now that she is divorced, does she have to wait again til marriage or can she do it whenever with whoever? i was just wondering if you had to wait til marriage to take ur virginity or wait til marriage to have sex with anyone

2006-07-04 10:31:26 · 21 answers · asked by ~luv my pups!.~ 2

please don't just say "yes". i'd like for you to explain to me, why you think YOU would've been able to "rise above" islam. ------ and IF christianity is a choice that we're all capable of making, then why is it that 90% of the middle east is muslim and the majority of americans are christian?? is this just a coincidence???

if you say that it has to do with upbringing, then you can no longer say that believing in jesus is a choice that we're all equally as capable of making.

and if you admit then that a person born in the u.s. is in fact MORE LIKELY to believe in jesus than a person born in the middle east is, then that must mean that god is giving certain people advantages over other people. and if that's the case, then you can't say that god loves all of his children equally, now can you?

2006-07-04 10:30:28 · 11 answers · asked by tobykeogh 3

THE MESSAGE OF ISLAM

Since the total submission of one's will to Allah represents the essence of worship, the basic message of Allah's divine religion, Islam is the worship of Allah alone and the avoidance of worship directed to any person, place or thing other than Allah.Since everything other than Allah, the Creator of all things, is Allah's creation; it may be said that Islam, in essence calls man away from the worship of creation and invites him to worship only its Creator. He is the only one deserving man's worship as it is only by His will that prayers are answered. If man prays to a tree and his prayers are answered, it was not the tree which answered his prayers but Allah who allowed the circumstances prayed for to take place. One might say, "That is obvious," however, to tree-worshippers it might not be. Similarly, prayers to Jesus, Buddha, or Krishna, to Saint Christopher, or Saint Jude or even to Muhammad, are not answered by them but are answered by Allah. Jesus did nottell his followers to worship him but to worship Allah. As the Qur'aan states:


"And behold Allah will say: "O Jesus the son of Mary Did you say to men, Worship me and my mother as gods besides Allah He will say-"Glory to you I could never say what I had no right (to say')" (Soorah Al-Maa'idah- 5:116)

Nor did he worship himself when he worshipped but rather he worshipped Allah. This basic principle is enshrined in the opening chapter of the Qur'aan, known as Soorah Al-Faatihah, verse 4:


"You alone do we worship and from you alone do we seek help".
Elsewhere, in the final book of revelation, the Qur'aan, Allah also said:


"And your Lord says:"Call on Me and I will answer your(prayer)."(Soorsh Mu'min 40:60)

it is worth noting that the basic message of Islam is that Allah and His creation are distinctly different entities. Neither is Allah His creation or a part of it, nor is His creation Him or a part of Him.

This might seem obvious, but, man's worship of creation instead of the Creator is to a large degree based on ignorance of this concept. It is the belief that the essence of Allah is everywhere in His creation or that His divine being is or was present in some aspects of His creation, which has provided justification for the worship of creation though such worship maybecalled the worship of Allah through his creation. How ever, the message of Islam as brought by the prophets of Allah is to worship only Allah and to avoid the worship of his creation either directly or indirectly. In the Our'aan Allah clearlystates:


"For We assuredly sent amongst every people a prophet,(with the command) worship meand avoid false gods " (Soorsh Al-Nahl 16:36)

When the idol worshipper is questioned as to why he or she bows down to idols created by men, the invariable reply is that they are not actually worshipping the stone image, but Allah who is present within it. They claim that the stone idol is only a focal point for Allah's essence and is not in itself Allah! One who has accepted the concept of the presence of God's being within His creation in any way will be obliged to accept this argument of idolatry. Whereas, one who understands the basic message of Islam and its implications would never concede to idolatry no matter how it is rationalized. Those who have claimed divinity for themselves down through the ages have often based their claims on the mistaken belief that Allah is present in man. They merely had to assert that although Allah according to their false beliefs, is in all of us, He is more present in them than in the rest of us. Hence, they claim, we should submit our will to them and worship them as they are either God in person or God concentrated within the person.

Similarly, those who have asserted the godhood of others after their passing have found fertile ground among those who accept the false belief of God's presence in man. One who has grasped the basic message of Islam and its implications could never agree to worship another human being under any circumstances. God's religion in essence is a clear call to the worship of the Creator and the rejection of creation-worship in any form. This is the meaning of the motto of Islam:

"Laa Elaaha lllallaah" (There is no god but Allah)

Its repetition automatically brings one within the fold of Islam and sincere belief in it guarantees one Paradise.

Thus, the final Prophet of Islam is reported to have said, "Any one who says: There is no god but Allah and dies holding that (belief) will enter paradise".(Reported by Abu Dharr and collected by Al-Bukhaaree and Muslim).

It consists in the submission to Allah as one God, yielding to Him by obeying His commandments, and the denial of polytheism and polytheists.

2006-07-04 10:29:35 · 9 answers · asked by Noha 1

2006-07-04 10:26:43 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous

2006-07-04 10:24:59 · 28 answers · asked by Anonymous

Rape victim was 15 year old child

Details emerge in alleged atrocity by U.S. troops

By Ellen Knickmeyer

07/03/06 "Washington Post" -- -- BAGHDAD, Iraq — Fifteen-year-old Abeer Qasim Hamza was afraid, her mother confided in a neighbor.

As pretty as she was young, the girl had attracted the unwelcome attention of U.S. soldiers manning a checkpoint that the girl had to pass through almost daily in their village in the south-central city of Mahmoudiya, her mother told the neighbor.

Abeer told her mother often in her last days that the soldiers had made advances toward her, a neighbor, Omar Janabi, said this weekend, recounting a conversation he said he had with the girl's mother, Fakhriyah, on March 10.

Fakhriyah feared the Americans might come for her daughter at night, at their home. She asked her neighbor if Abeer might sleep at his house, with the women there.

Janabi said he agreed. Then, "I tried to reassure her, remove some of her fear," Janabi said.

2006-07-04 10:24:44 · 11 answers · asked by Biomimetik 4

Did you know that the Jews descended from Isaac; hence Israel,
And the other middle easterners descended from Ishmael?

2006-07-04 10:20:47 · 16 answers · asked by Debra M. Wishing Peace To All 7

I thank God for this great Nation He has given us!!!! He's awesome!

2006-07-04 10:15:16 · 19 answers · asked by SS 3

THE RELIGION OF ISLAM
The first thing that one should know and clearly understand about Islam is what the word "Islam" itself means. The religion of Islam is not named after a person as in the case of Christianity which was named after Jesus Christ, Buddhism after Gotama Buddha, Confucianism after Confucius, and Marxism after Karl Marx. Nor was it named after a tribe like Judaism after the tribe of Judah and Hinduism after the Hindus. Islam is the true religion of "Allah" and as such, its name represents the central principle of Allah's "God's" religion; the total submission to the will of Allah "God". The Arabic word "Islam" means the submission or surrender of one's will to the only true god worthy of worship "Allah" and anyone who does so is termed a "Muslim", The word also implies "peace" which is the natural consequence of total submission to the will of Allah. Hence, it was not a new religion brought by Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) I in Arabia in the seventh century, but only the true religion of Allah re-expressed in its final form.

Islam is the religion which was given to Adam, the first man and the first prophet of Allah, and it was the religion of all the prophets sent by Allah to mankind. The name of God's religion lslam was not decided upon by later generations of man. It was chosen by Allah Himself and clearly mentioned in His final revelation to man. In the final book of divine revelation, the Qur'aan, Allah states the following:


"This day have I perfected your religion for you, completed My favour upon you, and have chosen for you Islam as your religion". (Soorah Al-Maa'idah 5:3)


"If anyone desires a religion other than Islam (submission to Allah (God) never will It be accepted of Him" (Soorah Aal'imraan 3:85)


"Abraham was not a Jew nor Christian; but an upright Muslim." (Soorah Aal'imraan 3:67)

Nowhere in the Bible will you find Allah saying to Prophet Moses' people or their descendants that their religion is Judaism, nor to the followers of Christ that their religion is Christianity. In fact, Christ was not even his name, nor was it Jesus! The name "Christ" comes from the Greek word Christos which means the annointed. That is, Christ is a Greek translation of the Hebrew title "Messiah". The name "Jesus" on the other hand, is a latinized version of the Hebrew name Esau.

For simplicity's sake, I will however continue to refer to Prophet Esau (PBUH) as Jesus. As for his religion, it was what he called his followers to. Like the prophets before him, he called the people to surrender their will to the will of Allah; (which is Islam) and he warned them to stay away from the false gods of human imagination.

According to the New Testament, he taught his followers to pray as follows: "Yours will be done on earth as it is in Heaven".

2006-07-04 10:14:57 · 10 answers · asked by Noha 1

"They warred against Midian, as YAHWEH commanded Moses, and killed every male. They killed the kings of Midian ... And the people of Israel took captive the women of Midian and their little ones; and they took as booty all their cattle, their flocks, and all their goods. All their cities in the places where they dwelt, and all their encampments, they burned with fire." (Numbers 31:7)

"Moses was enraged with the officers of the army ... ‘So you spared the women! ... Kill every male among the little ones, and kill every woman who has had sexual intercourse with a man, but keep the virgins for yourselves ... divide them up evenly.'" (Numbers 31:15)

"And Joshua mowed down Amalek and his people with the edge of the sword. And YAHWEH said to Moses, 'Write this as a memorial in a book and recite it in the ears of Joshua, that I will utterly blot out the remembrance of Amalek from under heaven. A hand upon the banner of YAHWEH! YAHWEH will be at war with Amalek for all generations.'"

2006-07-04 10:14:08 · 11 answers · asked by Biomimetik 4

2006-07-04 10:12:51 · 7 answers · asked by ? 2

I read this on an answer that was given by a religious person.

Is this possible.
When I'm wankin'...I'm lustin'.

2006-07-04 10:12:30 · 18 answers · asked by Spencer 4

2006-07-04 10:12:09 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous

2006-07-04 10:11:33 · 6 answers · asked by irka 1

dear christians
iam not here to convert u
iam sure u r good beleivers

but can u give me one reason to find the word (MUSLIM) in ur bible ??
http://www.answering-christianity.org/luke6_40.htm

u said we have a false religion

why jesus (pbuh) mentioned it ????

plz think b4 typing
take ur time

i will answer ur questions

2006-07-04 10:10:03 · 16 answers · asked by aimooon87 3

Even if you don't believe in a creater God do you agree with the concept that there are beings more advanced and older in the universe? And do they interact with us?

2006-07-04 10:08:19 · 14 answers · asked by elreybrown 2

or are the lizards runing the planet

2006-07-04 10:07:07 · 17 answers · asked by Anonymous

Would human build nuclear reaktor

2006-07-04 10:05:12 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous

In America (I don't know about other countries) there are churches with different races sometimes blended but not often. This troubles me because this is not a good representation of Christianity. No one seems to notice this issue because people don't care. This is not right! How can we have blended schools but not churches? Is this the kind of message we Christians should send?

2006-07-04 10:04:19 · 20 answers · asked by Jolisa 2