Religion & Spirituality - 7 July 2006

religions teach that god is vengefull , judgmental, jelous, and spitefull.. none of which is god like qualities. why do they attach bad human qualities to god. its ok he will forgive them. he or she is forgiving. but if we want to see peace for this planet they should stop or were going to kill everyone on this planet

2006-07-07 14:45:49 · 27 answers · asked by Anonymous

2006-07-07 14:45:45 · 19 answers · asked by gee-geeofmo 3

Last year I went to a Muslim Country where I met a radical Muslim
who seem to hate everything American--but He told me that he prayed to Allah so that Bush come to power second term. Then he gave a very shrewd smile. I didn't ask him anything more.
What do you think is behind his wording.

2006-07-07 14:45:34 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous

I just read a question about the Lord's Prayer that asked about the Lord leading us into temptation. The prayer asks the Lord not to lead us into temptation. Why? It doesn't ask that the Lord give us the strength to resist Satan's leading us into temptation. What's the deal.
Please do not quote a lot of inane scripture and give lots of goofy speculation. WHAT IS THE HISTORY OF THE PRAYER? Was the phrase a blunder?

2006-07-07 14:44:44 · 5 answers · asked by valcus43 6

I heard people say for an example that love can’t be (just) a chemical reaction and the love comes from god is that true and what else does god give you ?
For example does god give fear,pain,laughter,being happy,etc

2006-07-07 14:44:15 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous

i am a catholic, but i believe in reincarnation, i wanted to see if there was anyone else out there, that had the same beliefs, or some way to back their beliefs

2006-07-07 14:43:25 · 11 answers · asked by mommyof5 2

christians are told that everything in the bible is true and they must live by it.but how do we know for sure?
some think it is a book,no more no less,with storys ,just like the odyssey, brothers grimm ,aesops fables,or mother goose.....

should we also worship these storys?

>>>no personal attacks please-i did not add my opinion because i wanted everyone to read this and give an honest answer about what they believe.....

2006-07-07 14:41:17 · 22 answers · asked by Anonymous

There are literally millions of species of animals in the world. Your telling me noah travelled around the whole world and got every animal?

And do you really believe that story about jonah getting swallowed by a whale. That is insane. Seriously.

2006-07-07 14:40:32 · 32 answers · asked by Anonymous

2006-07-07 14:40:18 · 43 answers · asked by Anonymous

between the spirit and the soul??

2006-07-07 14:39:40 · 6 answers · asked by Adrienne H 3

2006-07-07 14:39:34 · 13 answers · asked by briley4242 3

What are three major challenges you believe the church faces today and who do you believe is responsible for meeting these challenges?

2006-07-07 14:37:58 · 10 answers · asked by lady_bugs_2000 2

if somebody says to save us,he can save us without being tortured!
if somebody says this is to forgive and clear our faults,why he was punished as he is not guilty?if we r the guilty then we r to be punished!!!
besides if he is the judge of the universe,so in front of whom he want us to get forgived?
what happened to the universe when he died,if he is controlling it,it should got collapsed!!!!
if you say that the son was the one who was crossed,to make the father forgive the guilty.what logic is this!!!!!
had u ever seen the king punished crossed and tortured his son the prince to forgive the criminals in the prison!!!!!
there is something wrong with this belief
if i believe that the jesus had died for me and i'm forgived.am i free to do faults?

2006-07-07 14:37:10 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous

I do

2006-07-07 14:36:50 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous

2006-07-07 14:36:43 · 18 answers · asked by Anonymous

When we see a painting, we know there's a painter. A tent? There's gotta be a tent maker. None of this stuff just evolved from nothing. The world (the creation) is much more intricate and complicated. There must be a creator. What do you think.

2006-07-07 14:36:39 · 8 answers · asked by ScottyJae 5

I'm trying to do this geneology project and one of my relatives became a nun. I think there must be a verb for it, akin to "ordination" (which is priests) but not just "taking vows." Any ideas?

2006-07-07 14:35:57 · 11 answers · asked by DakkonA 3

haven't we had enough fun by now? i know our old habbits are hard to break, and how extremely funny it can be to watch all the sillyness around us...

But shouldn't we tell them the truth by now? Or at least set a date to tell them the truth? We can't do this forever, now can we? It wouldn't be fair...

2006-07-07 14:35:29 · 10 answers · asked by Thinx 5

if you dont bother to do any of the things your religion asks you to? why do you bother beleiving in it? is it just something that you can get worked up about when you hear someone decrying your religion somewhere? do you treat your religion as a sort of club that you belong to?

2006-07-07 14:33:56 · 31 answers · asked by thejakeman16 2

2006-07-07 14:33:32 · 5 answers · asked by seeker_kat 4

2006-07-07 14:32:15 · 8 answers · asked by HEY boo boo 6

2006-07-07 14:32:06 · 10 answers · asked by matchcom 3

2006-07-07 14:30:50 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous

This is really starting to anger me. Everyone wants to throw something out. People try to give an answer to which the intended reader will not read. You people have no lives.

Jesus is My Strength, My Redeemer, My Lord.

God Bless You All

2006-07-07 14:30:19 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous

ever since its its beginnings the christian faith has resolutely fought on every level every technological advance we have ever had as a civilization. they tried to stop doctors from curing people in the early years cuz only jesus could heal. they said the earth was flat, they said we are the center of the universe. they said that galileo and copernicus were heretics. they censored much of leanardo da vincis work. even today they would rather make liver problems suffer dialysis treatments when genetic research could clone a replacement liver that the host body would not reject because it really is its own? ever since the apple of adam and eve was symbolized as the knowledge of good and evil and things they have seriously seriously set our technological advancement back. they even burn books and destroyed the alexandria library because many of the documents went against the bible! all that knowledge they flushed down the toilet. how much longer do we have to survive the christian ego?

2006-07-07 14:30:17 · 20 answers · asked by mournyngwolf 3

OUR LORD'S PRAYER
Our Father, Who art in heaven, hallowed be Thy Name, Thy Kingdom come..... give us this day our daily bread..... AND DELIVER US NOT INTO TEMPTATION..... Forever and ever, Amen.

2006-07-07 14:28:19 · 23 answers · asked by Uncle Obi 1

To see how well we would get along despite our differences, and to see the things we would do and say in His name, including judging another's fate, either directly with our words/lips, in our minds or by what we tell our children?

2006-07-07 14:25:44 · 23 answers · asked by Happy! 2

how it true?

2006-07-07 14:25:42 · 16 answers · asked by GENARO B 1

What is the percentage of sexual perverts, adultarors and unchaste and promiscuous women among the Christian Western People?

2006-07-07 14:24:35 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous

But even amongst those Indian philosophers who accepted the separation of mind and body and argued for the existence of the soul, there was considerable dedication to the scientific method and to developing the principles of deductive and inductive logic. From 1000 B.C to the 4th C A.D (also described as India's rationalistic period) treatises in astronomy, mathematics, logic, medicine and linguistics were produced. The philosophers of the Sankhya school, the Nyaya-Vaisesika schools and early Jain and Buddhist scholars made substantial contributions to the growth of science and learning. Advances in the applied sciences like metallurgy, textile production and dyeing were also made.

In particular, the rational period produced some of the most fascinating series of debates on what constitutes the "scientific method": How does one separate our sensory perceptions from dreams and hallucinations? When does an observation of reality become accepted as fact, and as scientific truth? How should the principles of inductive and deductive logic be developed and applied? How does one evaluate a hypothesis for it's scientific merit? What is a valid inference? What constitutes a scientific proof?

These and other questions were attacked with an unexpected intellectual vigour. As keen observers of nature and the human body, India's early scientist/philosophers studied human sensory organs, analyzed dreams, memory and consciousness. The best of them understood dialectics in nature - they understood change, both in quantitative and qualitative terms - they even posited a proto-type of the modern atomic theory. It was this rational foundation that led to the flowering of Indian civilization.

This is borne out by the testaments of important Greek scientists and philosophers of that period. Pythagoras - the Greek mathematician and philosopher who lived in the 6th C B.C was familiar with the Upanishads and learnt his basic geometry from the Sulva Sutras. (The famous Pythagoras theorem is actually a restatement of a result already known and recorded by earlier Indian mathematicians). Later, Herodotus (father of Greek history) was to write that the Indians were the greatest nation of the age. Megasthenes - who travelled extensively through India in the 4th C. B.C also left extensive accounts that paint India in highly favorable light (for that period).

Intellectual contacts between ancient Greece and India were not insignificant. Scientific exchanges between Greece and India were mutually beneficial and helped in the development of the sciences in both nations. By the 6th C. A.D, with the help of ancient Greek and Indian texts, and through their own ingenuity, Indian astronomers made significant discoveries about planetary motion. An Indian astronomer - Aryabhata, was to become the first to describe the earth as a sphere that rotated on it's own axis. He further postulated that it was the earth that rotated around the sun and correctly described how solar and lunar eclipses occurred.

Because astronomy required extremely complicated mathematical equations, ancient Indians also made significant advances in mathematics. Differential equations - the basis of modern calculus were in all likelihood an Indian invention (something essential in modeling planetary motions). Indian mathematicians were also the first to invent the concept of abstract infinite numbers - numbers that can only be represented through abstract mathematical formulations such as infinite series - geometric or arithmetic. They also seemed to be familiar with polynomial equations (again essential in advanced astronomy) and were the inventors of the modern numeral system (referred to as the Arabic numeral system in Europe).

The use of the decimal system and the concept of zero was essential in facilitating large astronomical calculation and allowed such 7th C mathematicians as Brahmagupta to estimate the earth's circumferance at about 23,000 miles - (not too far off from the current calculation). It also enabled Indian astronomers to provide fairly accurate longitudes of important places in India.

The science of Ayurveda - (the ancient Indian system of healing) blossomed in this period. Medical practitioners took up the dissection of corpses, practised surgery, developed popular nutritional guides, and wrote out codes for medical procedures and patient care and diagnosis. Chemical processes associated with the dying of textiles and extraction of metals were studied and documented. The use of mordants (in dyeing) and catalysts (in metal-extraction/purification) was discovered.

2006-07-07 14:24:20 · 9 answers · asked by indian phlprs 1