Religion & Spirituality - 5 July 2006

If not of himself?

2006-07-05 01:44:50 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous

Thou shalt not suffer a witch (& wizard) to live. (Exodus 22:18 & Lev. 20:27)
...the ox shall be stoned, and his owner shall be put to death. (Ex. 21:29)
The stranger that cometh nigh (to the altar) shall be put to death. Numbers18:7

2006-07-05 01:43:50 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous

I mean I understand what Dan Brown pictured her >>>> what I want to know what is megdelian Mary realy is before this non-sense story????

2006-07-05 01:43:33 · 12 answers · asked by Dr.Shaher 1

Funny, he doesn't seem like the angry and violent type. But I know appearances can deceive. Do you think that they are plotting another attack like 911?

2006-07-05 01:41:42 · 26 answers · asked by idspudnik 4

2006-07-05 01:38:29 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous

Yesterday after church, my neighbor was showing me his new powerboat. I thought to myself, "Wow, ghees, I wish I had that boat." And I've been thinking about it since and wanting to get a boat like his.

I study the Bible and I know that to covet is a sin. Now I am wondering if I am guilty. Should I give up my dream of getting a boat?

2006-07-05 01:38:21 · 21 answers · asked by idspudnik 4

As I've gotten older I've questioned it's validity more and more. When I was in Catholic school one of the nuns laid it out for us; there was no way the Earth could be made in 7 days, Adam and Eve was a good story, etc. We were told that it was written the way it was to get across complex ideas to the "simple people" and that the story form was the best way to do it. However, the writers were being directed by god to do so (eye roll).
The Greeks and Romans could've had the same m.o., but for some reason since they had polytheism it was all wrong. Could not the Bible be wrong? Good stories, but how real is it? Do you ever question its validity? Why or why not? Sorry for rambling!

2006-07-05 01:38:04 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous

I've heard about meditation, but do not know the methods exactly. Rather I want to ask whether without being mechanical, I can do it with my intelligence, my own mental processes, etc.
If anybody is in practice pl. contact me through my e-mail id anwesha08@yahoo.co.in

2006-07-05 01:34:35 · 8 answers · asked by anwesha08 2

Who sits around and makes this up. OK lets get real>> if only one god why all the different , whos right and whos not???????
Growing up I was told I needed to eat fish on fri.? and it was VERY IMPORTANT we did as told.
Then we were told it was ok???

2006-07-05 01:31:39 · 15 answers · asked by ncalspank 1

2006-07-05 01:28:44 · 37 answers · asked by liss 2

2006-07-05 01:28:04 · 20 answers · asked by Anonymous

This will happen one day. Are you ready to answer this question?

2006-07-05 01:27:08 · 23 answers · asked by South Georgia Boy 1

I sometimes think that there are atheists and secularists who are just as fundamentalist as those extremists..of different religons...

For example in French..children are banned from wearing all manisfestaions of their religion in schools...
And I have heard atheist belittle the beleives of people who beleive in God..Some even saying they want all religion banned or wiped of this Earth...


If I as a Muslim said that about Christians or Atheists ..you would rightly label me a fanatic!!

So should the same be true of Atheists who say intolerant things????

(BTW..I'm not talking about all ateists just a minority...and I think it is true that all religons have a minority of fundamentalist..it is just human nature)


What do you think????

2006-07-05 01:23:51 · 13 answers · asked by Kraljica Katica 7

Undoubtedly, those are infidels who say, 'Allah is third of the three Gods, and there is no God but the one God. And if they desist not from what they say, then a painful torment shall surely befall to those who will die as infidels.

2006-07-05 01:23:33 · 10 answers · asked by hak 1

created or stories from other galaxies he has supposed to have made? The question i'm tring to get across is why does the Bible only talk about events on earth and appears in my view to give the impression that Earth is the center of the universe? If so many believe he created everything, why has he not told his followers about all the other things that he created within the universe?

2006-07-05 01:21:24 · 24 answers · asked by El 2

2006-07-05 01:20:46 · 40 answers · asked by Alan L 1

Preachers like to claim the US was founded as a "Christian nation" inspired by God.

Thomas Jefferson is usually given credit for being the author of the US Constitution. Thomas Jefferson did not believe that Jesus was God, he was a Unitarian, or Deist. He was opposed to Trinitarianism and the teachings of Paul. He claimed Paul was the "anti-Christ."

So, how can anyone claim Jefferson was inspired by God if they reject his opinions concerning the Trinity (Jesus is God) ?


Link to an earlier question I posted that summarizes Jefferson's bible from a Wikipedia article:

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=Au65E3Yt17aIWvrp31d65wDsy6IX?qid=20060704144847AAPDHrq

2006-07-05 01:17:48 · 14 answers · asked by Left the building 7

christianity and islam has supressed the world spiritually, emotionally, and mentally. It has eradicated math, science, philosophy, and art. It supresses magic and tells people they are wrong for being themselves.

Oh btw i was christian for a long time. dismissing me as a false christian does not change that fact that i was sincere. I hear that crap daily.

2006-07-05 01:17:18 · 16 answers · asked by brianna_the_angel777 4

2006-07-05 01:14:45 · 20 answers · asked by The Devil 1

2006-07-05 01:13:35 · 9 answers · asked by XYZ 7

The world is far far too complicated for the human mind to understand. We are naturally curious and have to know the answer to everything. When we can't understand or explain something rationally we simply think it is the work of God and we just use him to justify in out minds why something we can't explain happened? Is this not so? I am interested to know other peoples views?

2006-07-05 01:13:03 · 32 answers · asked by Robert W 2

Although it is fiction, many people believed it. Do you?

2006-07-05 01:12:32 · 28 answers · asked by Mattia 2

Science has recently discovered that TIME is relative.
Quran mentions this 1400 years ago.

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God revealed in 7th century to His Prophet, Muhammad (a.salaam), that Time is relative. And Only God is absolute. The Qur’an (the word of God) says in two verses, (22:47 and 32:5), that the measure of one day in the sight of Allah is equal to 1,000 years of our reckoning. These verses generally mean that the time of Allah (swt) is incomparable to the earthly time. Also in another place, Quran says that on day of judgement people will think that they have spent a day or part of day in their whole life. Hence clearly mentioning the relative nature of time.

Chapter 23 verse 112 onward

112. He will say: "What number of years did ye stay on earth?"

113. They will say: "We stayed a day or part of a day: but ask those who keep account."

114. He will say: "Ye stayed not but a little,- if ye had only known!

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2006-07-05 01:10:35 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous

While Islam envisions the day when Christians and Jews will convert to Islam en masse, there is a distinction within Islam’s end time narrative between the final destiny of Christians and that of the Jews. In Islam’s version of the last-days, we see that all Christians will either accept Islam or be killed. Certainly, when we look at this final picture, it is impossible to say that Islam has any real affinity for Christians or Christianity. But when analyzing Islamic teaching and traditions about the Jews, one gets a very cold feeling that the only destiny that Islam has marked out for the Jews is that of an absolute and total slaughter. We see in the Islamic traditions a dark and very persistent hatred for the Jews nearly identical to the ideology expressed through Naziism. This ideology of hatred is fully supported and nurtured throughout the Quran and the Islamic traditions. For instance, speaking of Jews, the Quran says:



Amongst them we (Allah) have placed enmity and hatred till the Day of Judgment. Every time they kindle the fire of war, Allah doth extinguish it; but they (ever) strive to do mischief on earth. And Allah loveth not those who do mischief. -Surah 5:64 (Yusuf Ali

2006-07-05 01:07:13 · 8 answers · asked by Debra M. Wishing Peace To All 7

How can certain European countries such as Denmark, France, Germany, and Turkey claim to be free, democratic, tolerant, mulitcultural countries when they discriminate against women who choose to wear a piece of cloth over their head???


France bans hijab wearing girls from going to school...
Demark allows women to be sacked because they wear the hijab,
Turkey bans hijab wearing women from university or having a government job,
Germany many states do not allow teachers to wear hijab..(they have no problem with nun's covering up!)

These countries claim to be free and pluralistic..but how can this be true are not allowed the fundamental right to pratice your own religion

(if it harms nobody else...and wearing hijab doesn't hurt anyone!!!! If you are offended by my hijab..that is because you are a racist and ignorant - I'm sorry if you found my last statement offensive..but I had to say it because it is true!)

2006-07-05 01:03:04 · 12 answers · asked by Kraljica Katica 7

The Bible:

"Wives, be subject to your own husbands, as to the Lord. For the husband is the head of the wife, as christ also is the head of the church, he himself being the savior of the body. But as the church is subject to christ, so also the wives ought to be to their husbands in everything." (Ephesians 5:22-24)

"Let the woman learn in silence with all subjection. But I suffer not a woman to teach, nor to usurp authority over the man, but to be in silence. For Adam was first formed, then Eve. And Adam was not deceived, but the woman being deceived was in the transgression." (1 Timothy 2:11-14)

"Let your women keep silence in the churches: for it is not permitted unto them to speak; but they are commanded to be under obedience as also saith the law. And if they will learn any thing, let them ask their husbands at home: for it is a shame for women to speak in the church." (1 Corinthians 14:34)

2006-07-05 01:01:28 · 20 answers · asked by Biomimetik 4

2006-07-05 00:59:41 · 28 answers · asked by gift 2

2006-07-05 00:51:13 · 8 answers · asked by kinny 2

Quran 2:256

Let there be no compulsion in religion: Truth stands out clear from Error: whoever rejects Evil and believes in Allah hath grasped the most trustworthy hand-hold, that never breaks. And Allah heareth and knoweth all things.

The BIBLE:

(2 Thessalonians 2:3 NASB/WEY).

"Let no one in any way deceive you, for that day cannot come without the coming of the apostasy first, and the appearing of the man of sin, the son of perdition."

Deuteronomy 13:6-10:

If thy brother, the son of thy mother, or thy son, or thy daughter, or the wife of thy bosom, or thy friend, which [is] as thine own soul, entice thee secretly, saying, Let us go and serve other gods, which thou hast not known, thou, nor thy fathers; [Namely], of the gods of the people which [are] round about you, nigh unto thee, or far off from thee, from the [one] end of the earth even unto the [other] end of the earth; Thou shalt not consent unto him, nor hearken unto him; neither shall thine eye pity him,

2006-07-05 00:49:05 · 4 answers · asked by Biomimetik 4

Do you feel that religious experience is a valid proof for the existence of deity (god)? Have you had a religious experience? If yes, do you believe that your experience is more valid then other people’s religious experience, why? If you have not had a religious experience is your lack of experience more valid then someone else’s confirming religious experience, why?

2006-07-05 00:48:59 · 16 answers · asked by Pablito 5