Religion & Spirituality - 24 July 2006

If it hasn't, and you don't want it to, you can chime in, too.

This is all a little new to me.

2006-07-24 18:00:49 · 9 answers · asked by miraclewhip 3

If heaven and hell do exist why is it that we only get two choices? It seems so unfair; I really don’t want to go to either place. I would much rather be flying around the Universe exploring and seeing a bunch of cool stuff for all eternity. Please don’t tell me something stupid like you will know all of these things, because you don’t know. There is a big difference between physically experiencing things and being some mystical vapor floating around in heaven. I want to learn things and experience them on my own. What is so wrong with that?

2006-07-24 18:00:15 · 19 answers · asked by Anonymous

Whaddya think? Where else would he get the idea to walk on water and turn it into wine?

2006-07-24 17:59:30 · 16 answers · asked by I Know Nuttin 5

In my opinion, religion is just a way to answer all of the questions that we couldnt figure out. Since we couldnt figure out the answer, to, say, how the world was created, we made up a God that supposedly created the whole universe out of nothing.

2006-07-24 17:58:59 · 27 answers · asked by your best nightmare 2

2006-07-24 17:58:51 · 3 answers · asked by muhd safwan m 1

Is sex compatible with Gods rules, and if yes, are there any restrictions (oral,anal) or not? (Of course I'm talking about sex IN marriage)

2006-07-24 17:57:28 · 25 answers · asked by olaola 2

What is sadist? Some people tell me that they are sadist and I don't know what it means....

2006-07-24 17:57:22 · 14 answers · asked by Spiral Out 6

2006-07-24 17:55:46 · 24 answers · asked by likeitis 3

Oh Kwan La Jeh Wan

2006-07-24 17:54:52 · 1 answers · asked by dragonman343 3

I ASKED EARLIER ABOUT ANGELS POSSIBLY BEING THE STARS. MANY PEOPLE DID NOT "GET" MY QUESTION. THE BIBLE SOMETIMES SEEMS TO INTERCHANGE THE TWO. THERE ARE MANY CONNECTIONS BETWEEN SPACE AND OUR WORLD. (SIGNS AND WONDERS IN THE HEAVENS.) IF EVERYTHING THAT EXISTS IN THE UNIVERSE IS MADE UP OF THE SAME GASES AND ELEMENTS, THEN ISN'T IT POSSIBLE THAT SPIRITUAL BEINGS MAY LOOK ENTIRELY DIFFERENT THAN ANYTHING WE IMAGINE? IT SAYS WE WILL HAVE GLORIFIED BODIES....THE BIBLE SAYS MANY THINGS THAT, TO ME, SOUND LIKE STARS, METEORS, ETC. BREAK DOWN THE ELEMENTS---I GUESS WE COULD SAY GOD IS A SCIENTIST.

2006-07-24 17:54:23 · 8 answers · asked by gracefully_saved 5

no doubt about it said Brigham Young in 1870 Journal of Discourses volume 13 page 271. I read it for myself yep its there.

2006-07-24 17:54:07 · 2 answers · asked by Anonymous

2006-07-24 17:52:56 · 40 answers · asked by Touting Rain 1

2 Corinthians 5:19

2006-07-24 17:52:19 · 14 answers · asked by Wayne S 3

Why?

2006-07-24 17:52:03 · 10 answers · asked by Mustafa 5

2006-07-24 17:51:20 · 19 answers · asked by Red Yeti 5

What do you think of the religion? What do you think of Christians that convert to messianic judaism.

2006-07-24 17:51:13 · 5 answers · asked by Amber 4

2006-07-24 17:50:26 · 21 answers · asked by past_present_subsequent 3

I have seen several posts with an interesting rhetorical strategy:

The poster will say that "the devil/Satan 'believes in' God"

Does this mean that he simply believes that God exists?

Or do they (Satan and his legions) truly believe IN God, just like theists believe IN God and Christians believe IN Jesus?

This is also used as a defense that belief IN God is not sufficient to gain entry into heaven: Satan believes IN God but cannot go to Heaven. So I am led to believe that Satan may believe IN God the same way that theists do.

Doesn't saying "believe in" imply more than just a "belief of" something? I'm not playing semantic games here; I really would like to know.

2006-07-24 17:50:13 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous

John 20:28

2006-07-24 17:48:15 · 3 answers · asked by Wayne S 3

Praise the Lord Jesus Christ, now and forevermore.

2006-07-24 17:47:38 · 24 answers · asked by jordan l 1

I would love to help all of you out that don't know where.......Jesus loves you and wants to save you.

In Christ,
Sabrina

2006-07-24 17:46:49 · 31 answers · asked by SS 3

Why does God allow suffering when He loves so love us that He gave His one and only son as a ransom to free us from sin and death?

2006-07-24 17:46:16 · 28 answers · asked by bewildered77 1

This is an honest question! I was reading online about several Christian men (caucasian American men, children of white European immigrants) who converted to Islam and changed their given names, kind of like when Casious Clay became Muhammed Ali after he converted.

When it comes to African Americans who convert to Islam, I have heard the name change described as them eliminating their "slave names" and reclaiming their cultural identity...things like that.

But why do people from other ethnic groups do it? Is there something in the Quaran that suggests a name change is necessary?

I tried to find an answer to this question on-line, but I didn't find anything other than more conversion stories.

2006-07-24 17:42:29 · 10 answers · asked by ziz 4

For about the last 2 years, I see numbers like 111, 222.333 ect.. all the time. I see them everyday, several times a day. Sometimes in three, and sometimes in fours. When I first started to see them I thought I was going bonkers it happens so often. I see them on clocks, mileposts and different places. It is almost like someone or something is trying to communicate with me. I have read the book Angel Numbers by Doreen Virtue, and she thinks that it's their way of communicating with people. I am usuakky a very logical person, and would be interested to know if anyone else has experienced this, and what theory they have come up with.

2006-07-24 17:40:07 · 11 answers · asked by Little Tree 2

It says in the bible (Luke 17-20) and in the Nag Hammadi, Gospel of Thomas, That "It will not come with observation, you will not say lo here, or lo there, for the Kingdom is within you". So how come everyone keeps saying that heaven is a "place", when the bible clearly states otherwise?

2006-07-24 17:36:33 · 23 answers · asked by Jedi Baptist 4

A fellow finds himself in front of the Pearly Gates. St. Peter explains that its not so easy to get in heaven. There are some criteria before entry is allowed.

For example, was the man religious in life? Attend church? No? St. Peter told him that's bad.

Was he generous? give money to the poor? Charities? No? St. Peter told him that that too was bad.

Did he do any good deeds? Help his neighbour? Anything? No? St. Peter was becoming concerned.

Exasperated, Peter says, "Look, everybody does something nice sometime. Work with me, I'm trying to help. Now think!"

The man says, "There was this old lady. I came out of a store and found her surrounded by a dozen Hell's Angels. They had taken her purse and were shoving her around, taunting and abusing her.

I got so mad I threw my bags down, fought through the crowd, and got her purse back. I then helped her to her feet. I then went up to the biggest, baddest biker and told him how despicable, cowardly and mean he was and then spat in his face".

"Wow", said Peter, "That's impressive. When did this happen"?

"Oh, a few minutes ago", replied the man.

2006-07-24 17:35:41 · 15 answers · asked by Doug B 3

The purest form of morality is simply doing the right thing, because it is the right thing to do. Once you introduce the concepts of reward (heaven) and punishment (hell) an action can no longer have any moral value because now the action is based on a desire to be rewarded or avoid punishment. Can Christianity still be Christian without the concepts of heaven and Hell?

2006-07-24 17:34:40 · 19 answers · asked by carolina_atheist 2

My mother in law is married to a muslim . I was raised roman cathloc my husband was raised by my mother in law who was once married to her late husband(my husbands birth father who passed 13years ago) they raised him christain, later she married a muslim changing her beliefs. My step daughter was raised her first 3 and a half years by my mother and muslim father in law. they have always told her she is muslim. we now have her for the past 3 years with us raising her telling her when she's old enough to understand she can make that choice. she is so confused visiting her grandparents who don't eat pork and parctice so muslim beliefs then coming home where realigon is not a daily pushed issue. we eat pork she does not yet she always ask me questions about what the true differences between the two beleifs......i always stand blank...not truly knowing myself please help me understand so perhaps i can help her..thnx

2006-07-24 17:34:19 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous

why are religions allways trying to prove themselves?
is it because they have doubt in it and feel insecure about it?

i dont see aithiest knocking on the door and saying "there is no god"

why why why i ponder.

2006-07-24 17:33:59 · 25 answers · asked by Anonymous

Pls follow all of this site. It is very intresting. Also, pls tell me ur views. how do u take it???

http://www.irf.net/irf/faqonislam/index.htm

2006-07-24 17:33:47 · 5 answers · asked by Knowledge Seeker 4