Religion & Spirituality - 19 July 2006

The last couple of nights I've been walking around my house in soul form while my body is sleeping. I feel a lot of fear and just walk around trying to turn on lights and they don't work, but I don't seem to realize I am out of my body, I just feel really scared while I'm doing it and I don't know why I get the feeling I need to go outside and look at the stars but I'm too afraid to cuz I don't know what's out there. I don't see anything unusual in my house everything's the same no other spirits or anything, I seem to be all alone, I know it is real because I look at the clock since I couldn't turn on lights I thought maybe the electricity was out so I checked the digital clock to see if it was working and then I call out to god and wake up in my body and the time is the same. This has happened for two nights in a row. Is it caffeine or something?

2006-07-19 11:22:42 · 21 answers · asked by moonbaby279 4

2006-07-19 11:22:23 · 26 answers · asked by Anonymous

i kno i got t somewhere in my head but tell me pleaz

2006-07-19 11:22:12 · 8 answers · asked by Amy ly 1

do you really think any of us read them, or are you just to lazy to think and enter a stored quote as an easy way out.

2006-07-19 11:19:46 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous

2006-07-19 11:17:33 · 41 answers · asked by Anonymous

This question inspired by Lourdes.

2006-07-19 11:15:17 · 19 answers · asked by Anonymous

Are good just because you want into Heaven? There seems to be, on this board anyway, this belief Christians are only good because they are scared of God, and want into Heaven. So, to dis-spell this belief, how many of you are good, tolerant, nice, and kind because you want to be, because its your nature, and not just for Heaven?

I'll start it off. I am good and kind and tolerant and nice by nature, not because I think its getting me into Heaven, but because thats just the person I am. Who else?

2006-07-19 11:13:40 · 36 answers · asked by sweetie_baby 6

Some people believe that catholics are not christians.This,I have noticed is very predominant among people from the south american countries.They believe that catholics are not christians despite the fact that records show that the first set of christians were catholics.So,it only makes me wander why some christians should reject the very original set of christians.Afterall it was the catholics that first coined the word christian.

2006-07-19 11:12:08 · 23 answers · asked by nunice 1

The Israeli lobby in the US, AIPAC (American-Israel Public Affairs Committee), has helped exaggerate to the US media and public the importance of making the protection of Israel a key part of US foreign policy.

Want to know the whole truth? Click on here and watch with awe and wonder:

http://www.jewwatch.com/

2006-07-19 11:11:43 · 14 answers · asked by Biomimetik 4

Logic/Reasoning vs. Faith/Beleif? Is there a conflict? Is one the tool of Satan and other the grace of God?

2006-07-19 11:09:51 · 13 answers · asked by Jack Meoff 4

I mean get a girlfriend or boyfriend if ur THAT desperate!

2006-07-19 11:09:15 · 19 answers · asked by Anonymous

Many Christians believe that God is a thinking being, that he solves problems and makes a way for them when troubles come. Does God Think? If God is thinking, did he know his thoughts before he thought them? If so, again, where is his freewill and how is God thinking at all if everything seems to be one uncontrollable action/thoughts.

2006-07-19 11:09:06 · 15 answers · asked by IRunWithScissors 3

Dont worry, I'm not a christian- just agnostic. But everyone has an ultimate goal. Christians want to go to Heaven so the strive to be good in everything they do. And I'm sure thats how it is in most religions. I dont want to know where you want to go when you die- I want to know what you want as an end result. Total peace of mind? A big house, a nice car and 2.5 kids? I want to hear from every atheists out there!

2006-07-19 11:08:44 · 21 answers · asked by michelle112785 3

I was listening to Jeff Wayne's musical War of the Worlds and found myself wondering this: If there were Martians, could they also be saved by Jesus, or is it only for the humans? Do dogs and cats get saved? How do I know if my goldfish is born again or if he needs to be converted. I'd like to see my pets in the afterlife! Please help!

2006-07-19 11:05:35 · 15 answers · asked by Cheshire Cat 6

We have given Israel almost 100,000$ for every person that has lived there over the last couple of decades when all is said and done.. wouldn't it be better to buy off the Muslims instead of their most hated enemy, the Jews?

Why don't we cut EVERYONE off, and keep the billions in tax dollars and see what kind of democracy(!!!!) we can bring to our OWN land?

2006-07-19 11:05:01 · 23 answers · asked by Ether 5

2006-07-19 11:04:19 · 37 answers · asked by JUDAS PRIEST 4

THey are a murdering, incestuous,lying bunch of hypocrites.

2006-07-19 11:04:15 · 10 answers · asked by theagitator@sbcglobal.net 2

Moses orders the killing of the boys and non-virginal women, but said to go ahead and keep the virgins for themselves. Again, an implicit approval of rape.
QUestion:!!!!
(And how were the men supposed to determine who were virgins anyway?)

2006-07-19 11:02:00 · 15 answers · asked by PicassoInAction 2

One of my moslem friends mentioned that there are idols (hindu gods) inside the Kaaba that people used to follow and also that if someone ever finds them out, the whole moslem religion will collapse, which is the reason that non-moslems are not allowed inside that place. Is there any truth in this?

2006-07-19 10:59:04 · 8 answers · asked by Camellias 3

http://www.jewwatch.com/

2006-07-19 10:58:13 · 18 answers · asked by Biomimetik 4

how can you not think these people who believe in this stuff are all completely insane?

2006-07-19 10:56:46 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous

Mt 3:16-17

And when Jesus was baptised, he went up immediately from the water, and behold, the heavens were opened and he saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove, and alighting on him; and lo, a voice from heaven, saying, "This is my beloved Son, with whom I am well pleased."

John 3: 3-5

Jesus answered and said to him, "Amen, amen, I say to you, no one can see the kingdom of God without being born from above." Nicodemus said to him, "How can a person once grown old be born again? Surely he cannot reenter his mother's womb and be born again, can he?" Jesus answered, "Amen, amen, I say to you, no one can enter the kingdom of God without being born of water and Spirit.


Acts 2: 38-39

Peter (said) to them, "Repent and be baptized, every one of you, in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins; and you will receive the gift of the holy Spirit. For the promise is made to you and to your children and to all those far off, whomever the Lord our God will call."

Acts 22: 16

Now, why delay? Get up and have yourself baptized and your sins washed away, calling upon his name.'

Romans 6: 1-4

What then shall we say? Shall we persist in sin that grace may abound? Of course not! How can we who died to sin yet live in it? Or are you unaware that we who were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death? We were indeed buried with him through baptism into death, so that, just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, we too might live in newness of life.

1 Corinthians 6: 9-11

Do you not know that the unjust will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived; neither fornicators nor idolaters nor adulterers nor boy prostitutes nor sodomites nor thieves nor the greedy nor drunkards nor slanderers nor robbers will inherit the kingdom of God. That is what some of you used to be; but now you have had yourselves washed, you were sanctified, you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and in the Spirit of our God.

1 Corinthians 12: 13

For in one Spirit we were all baptized into one body, whether Jews or Greeks, slaves or free persons, and we were all given to drink of one Spirit.

Galatians 3: 26-27

For through faith you are all children of God in Christ Jesus. For all of you who were baptized into Christ have clothed yourselves with Christ.

Ephesians 5: 25-26

Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ loved the church and handed himself over for her to sanctify her, cleansing her by the bath of water with the word,

Colossians 2: 11-12

In him you were also circumcised with a circumcision not administered by hand, by stripping off the carnal body, with the circumcision of Christ. You were buried with him in baptism, in which you were also raised with him through faith in the power of God, who raised him from the dead.

Titus 3: 5

not because of any righteous deeds we had done but because of his mercy, he saved us through the bath of rebirth and renewal by the holy Spirit,

1 Peter 3: 18-21

For Christ also suffered for sins once, the righteous for the sake of the unrighteous, that he might lead you to God. Put to death in the flesh, he was brought to life in the spirit. In it he also went to preach to the spirits in prison, who had once been disobedient while God patiently waited in the days of Noah during the building of the ark, in which a few persons, eight in all, were saved through water. This prefigured baptism, WHICH SAVES YOU NOW .

2006-07-19 10:56:38 · 14 answers · asked by Shaun T 3

Consider this- several other Gods share the December birthday, and like Mithras, they are also solar deities, who are born in the winter solstices, often of virgin mothers, die, and are reborn. One of these, a pre-Christian deity called Attis, was called "The lamb of God," and his crucifixion and subsequent resurrection were celebrated annually, with ritual communions of bread and wine. His virgin mother, Cybele, was worshipped as "The Queen of heaven." It gets more interesting the further back we look- Attis and Cybele's predecessors are the Babylonian Goddess Ishtar, and her consort Tammuz. It is from their legend that we get the name for the annual celebration of the resurrection of Christ- Easter, a name of the Goddess Ishtar.
This is not the only coincidence related to this ancient couple- the earliest use of the cross as a religious symbol is related to Tammuz. In fact, crosses are related to a variety of solar deities. Of course, the cross was not popular with early Christians, except in the form of an X, the Greek initial of "Christos." (Even this was borrowed symbolism- the initials belonging to the Greek Chronos.)
Hundreds of years before Jesus, there was a passion story told about a God man, born of a virgin mother, in a stable. He travels about with his followers, preaching and performing miracles, including turning water into wine. Eventually, he incurs the wrath of the religious authorities, who are appalled that he refers to himself as the son of god. He allows himself to be arrested and tried for blasphemy- a willing self-sacrifice. He is found guilty and executed, only to rise from the grave three days later, where the women weeping at his tomb do not recognize him until he assumes his divine form. This god, also one of the first depicted crucified, is the vine-God Dionysus.

Common to all of these 'mystery' religions (so called because one was required to be initiated or baptized into the faith to learn its doctrines)- including early Christianity- are themes of rebirth, redemption, and the transmission of life-changing information- spiritual salvation. So many religions in those times shared similar themes with that usually the deities became melded together. Early depictions of Jesus show him holding the Lyre of Orpheus, or driving Apollo's chariot. A talisman bearing the crucified likeness of Dionysus is inscribed Orpheus-Bacchus. The follower of Jesus, named Lazarus ('resurrected,' a derivitive of the name of Osiris, the resurrected God of Egypt).

It is impossible to tell just by looking at old artwork which haloed infant gods are cuddled in the arms of which mothers. The Emperor Constantine, who legitimized Christianity in Rome, was a worshipper of Sol Invictus- an amalgamation of solar deities Mithras, Helios, and Apollo-and he recognized Jesus' place in that company almost immediately. Even today, ancient solar symbols abound in Christian iconography. Not that Constantine was the only one to muddle these gods together- in fact, Christianity's oldest known mosaic depicts Jesus as a triumphant Helios, complete with chariot.
Of course, later Christians were terribly perturbed by these similarities to Pagan religions- these coincidences so disturbed one early Christian church father, Justin Martyr, that he accused the devil of sending an imitator of Christ in advance. Had he paid a little more attention to the past, he might have noted that the association of Jesus with Dionysus is not so strange-philosophers had been making connections between Jehovah and Dionysus for centuries

2006-07-19 10:56:37 · 18 answers · asked by lifelover 4

The Christians kicked their butts
The Jews kicked their butts
The Hindus kicked their butts

The Muslim response kill innocent women and children what a way to restore honor

2006-07-19 10:53:09 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous

2006-07-19 10:51:55 · 20 answers · asked by Ether 5

2006-07-19 10:50:40 · 20 answers · asked by Anonymous

For more info on Columbia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Historical_Columbia

For more info on Marianne:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marianne

2006-07-19 10:49:29 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous

just another question that popped into my head

2006-07-19 10:47:45 · 45 answers · asked by ? 2

Why would God create a place such as hell to torture sinners forever when he foreknew who would disappoint him?

2006-07-19 10:47:03 · 26 answers · asked by IRunWithScissors 3

Ok, so children generally don't develop a strong sense of right and wrong until around 6-8 years old. My question is do you think God would allow Satan to decieve little children?

2006-07-19 10:47:00 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous