Religion & Spirituality - 26 July 2006

If you do or have experience some kind of supernatural thing write about it.

2006-07-26 15:55:18 · 23 answers · asked by master and the chief 2

They are certaintly not proof of anything.

2006-07-26 15:55:12 · 8 answers · asked by jesusisdead 2

I'm Christian btw. In the arabic translation of the Bible...Allah is used instead of God. Does that mean that those christians are worshipping the Muslim God? I think a better way to contrast God is not by name, but by the religion> agree?

2006-07-26 15:54:20 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous

I'm not asking for the first person to call themself a "Christian". I don't want a knee jerk answer. Please think about it before answering.

2006-07-26 15:54:05 · 17 answers · asked by Anonymous

2006-07-26 15:52:19 · 21 answers · asked by dino_ou812 3

I defintely want an answer from achtung_heiss cause I've been reading up on his answers on this site and its provided a pretty good laugh at the apparent contradiction of JW. Why do you/they believe in going to other people's homes and try preaching? I'm amazed by the bravery it takes to actually do something like that but why go through all that trouble when you don't care about other christians anyways? You only care about the fact that when the currently tardy apocolypse comes, only JW's will be saved. If I am wrong or got the wrong idea, please correct me. In addition to that, I was wondering if someone could explain to me why and how you/they could base your/their faith on a belief based on a doctrine 20x older (sarcastic multiple) than the faith you/they currently practice? Do you/they believe in evolution? Are there any types of sciences you/they don't believe in? Is it true that you/they believe that God resides in a star system (I forget the name)?

2006-07-26 15:51:26 · 8 answers · asked by Shortstuff71 3

2006-07-26 15:51:15 · 7 answers · asked by democrazyd 1

This question has really been bothering me and argus. We cant understand this but we do know this much:
Him = Male with penis
her= female with noony

2006-07-26 15:51:04 · 17 answers · asked by Anonymous

I want quotes, like I have heard: " I am here." & (about prayer) "I always hear, and it always helps."

2006-07-26 15:50:50 · 24 answers · asked by UCSteve 5

I notice atheists are always making fun of theists, but theists are always praying for atheists. No humor what so ever!! What's up?

Peace and Love

2006-07-26 15:50:44 · 9 answers · asked by digilook 2

I understand baptism is the ritual of washing away of sins?

Since Jesus was sinless, why was he baptized?

and shouldn't he have baptized John?

2006-07-26 15:50:31 · 15 answers · asked by Jamal 3

2006-07-26 15:50:08 · 18 answers · asked by grrrrr 1

Serious answers please. I want to know if ANYONE has a legitimate clue.

2006-07-26 15:48:48 · 6 answers · asked by Molly 6

faith and for her confidence in talking about it. She would stand in front of her house and say "Allah be praised" to all those who passed by. Next door to her lived an atheist who would get so angry at her proclamations he would shout, "There ain't no Lord!!"
Hard times came upon the elderly lady, and she prayed for Allah to send her some assistance. She would pray out loud in her night prayer "Oh Allah! I need food!! I am having a hard time, please Lord, PLEASE LORD, SEND ME SOME GROCERIES!!"
One night the atheist happened to hear her as she was praying, and decided to play a prank on her. The next morning the lady went out on her porch and found a large bag of groceries. She raised her hands and shouted, "Allah be praised!."
The neighbor jumped from behind a bush and said, "Aha! I told you there was no Lord. I bought those groceries, God didn't."
The old lady laughed and clapped her hands and said,"Not only did Allah send me groceries, but he made the devil pay for them!"

2006-07-26 15:48:37 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous

2006-07-26 15:47:53 · 35 answers · asked by Anonymous

7 nukes in U.S.,warns al-Qaida
Man claiming to be top bin Laden operative threatens to kill millions, destroy economy

WorldNetDaily.com
November 14, 2002
© 2002 WorldNetDaily.com

Terrorists have placed seven nuclear bombs in as many U.S. cities and will soon detonate them, causing millions of casualties, massive panic and destroying the world's biggest economy, warns a top al-Qaida operative in an interview with Al-Jazeera television in Qatar. While much of the world's attention has been riveted on Al-Jazeera's
broadcast of an audiotape apparently made by Osama bin Laden, this more specific threat aired on the station has received scant media coverage. Th! e spectacular threats were made by a man claiming to be Mohammed
al-Usuquf, reputedly al-Qaida's No. 3 operative. Al-Usuquf is said to be a doctor in physics who holds a master's degree in international economics.

A copy of the interview was sent to the prestigious Arab-language daily Al Quds Al Arabi, edited in London, but it was not printed. Parts of the interview were published by Asia Times, which could confirm neither the identity of the man nor his membership in al-Qaida. Al-Usuquf says al-Qaida's Kuwaiti spokesman, Sulaiman Abu Ghaith, and bin Laden himself, suggested that he grant the interview. Bin Laden, he says, is "alive and healthy, along with his commanders Mohamme! d Atef, Khalid Shaik Mohammed and Mullah Omar." While Al-Usuquf begins the interview by criticizing Washington for its positions on the Kyoto Protocol on climatic change, the International Criminal Court, the Palestinian cause and for its "financial greed," he concludes by saying America must be destroyed. "Aircraft carriers, nuclear submarines and spy satellites will be worthless in the next war," he says.

Al-Qaida has 5,000 first-rank operatives and around 20,000 others all over the world. "We have more than 500 first-rank and 800 second-rank [operatives] inside the U.S.," he says. He explains that "first rank" means they have lived in the U.S. for more than 10 years, most of them married with children. "They have an idea about the plans, and they are just waiting for a call." "Second-rank" operatives arrived in the past five years and "have no idea about the plans," he says. All are willing to die for the cause, he says. Sept. 11 "was just the beginning," says al-Usuquf. "It was a way to call the world's attention to what's going to happen." He details a plan to destroy the U.S. by "attacking the heart of what they (Americans) consider the most importa! nt thing in the world - money."

This economic cataclysm will be prompted, he says, by "destroying America's seven largest cities and some other measures" with "atomic bombs." The bombs "won't be launched," he says. "They are already there. Seven nuclear heads have already been positioned on American soil, before Sept. 11, and they are ready to be detonated. Before Sept. 11, American security was a fiasco, and even later, if we needed, we could position the bombs there. They arrived through seaports as normal cargo. A nuclear head is not bigger than a fridge, so it can easily be camouflaged as one. Thousands of containers arrive at a seaport every day, and even with very efficient security, it's impossible to check and examine each one ! of them." Al-Usuquf says the bombs were bought on the black market – five from the former USSR and two from Pakistan.

The five Russian heads "are from T-3 missiles, also known as RD-107, and their power is around 100 kilotons each. That is five times the Hiroshima bomb. The Pakistani ones are less powerful, something around 10 kilotons each." Each of the Russian bombs would have cost around $200 million, claims Al-Ususquf. Al-Qaida was able to raise the money "because we have many sponsors. Many countries sponsor us, and also some very rich people."Not all of the sponsoring nations are Arab countries, he says. "Some European countries as well are interested in the fall of the U.S." As to the "rich people," they are "people who are also tired of seeing the U.S. bleeding the rest of the world." Iraq's Saddam Hussein, says Al-Usuquf, is not one of these people, "but just a collaborator, represented by Abdul Tawab Hawaish, his vice prime minister and responsible for Iraq's arms program." Al-Usuquf says that the bombs cannot be detected by U.S. authorities.

"Even if they are old, they were modernized and are very well hidden," he told Al-Jazeera. "Even if they were located, they have auto-detonation mechanisms in case something or someone gets close. Even an electromagnetic pulse is not capable of deactivating them." The bombs allegedly cannot be detected because "they are enveloped in thick layers of lead." They could be detonated "by various methods - cellphone call, radio frequency, seismic shock or by their regressive clock." Al-Usuquf details the whole plan in the Al-Jazeera interview. "First, one head would be detonated, which would cause the deaths of 800,000 to 1 million people and a chaos nev! er seen before," he said. "During this chaos, two or three planes, which are now disassembled inside barns near empty roads in the U.S. countryside, would take off in suicide missions to pulverize another two or three big American cities with chemicals.

Once the disease was identified, all seaports and airports would be quarantined. Land borders would also be closed. No plane, boat or car would enter or leave the U.S. This would be total chaos." The first target would be the city "that would offer the best conditions, for example bright sky and winds of eight or more miles an hour blowing toward the center of the country, so radioactive dust can contaminate the largest possible area." This attack would not knock out the U.S, recognizes al-Usuquf. "But the process would be initiated," he explains. "As with the World Trade Center, it would be just a question of time for the whole economic structure to be turned to dust. If the objectives are reached with one bomb and diseases, probably we will save the lives of other people, but it's risky, and probably six more bombs will be detonated, one a week, and more attacks with chemical weapons will be launched." According to estimates made by al-Usuquf and Ayman al-Zawahiri, al-Qaida's No. 2 man and a physician, about 15 million people would! die, victims of the bombs and the radiation. Among those contaminated by diseases, "25 percent will die, a figure around more than 5 million, plus many others due to the chaos and disorder." But the real cost will be the American economy, says al-Usuquf. The world economy would not collapse, says al-Usuquf, although "in the beginning, it will be very difficult. But without the U.S., the world will soon rise in a more just and fraternal manner. Nothing can stop the plan." And whatever America does, "it's too late." Al-Usuquf refused to give any indication as to when the attacks would begin.

2006-07-26 15:46:43 · 14 answers · asked by RAIHAN J 1

and if you are dead before you are born then havent we all been ressurected from the dead? and if were nothing before we were born then how can something come from nothing? and if were were nothing before we were born will we return to nothing after we die? if we are nothing after we die then how can there be a heaven of nonethingness?

2006-07-26 15:46:15 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous

Mattiew Mark Luke and John

2006-07-26 15:45:17 · 8 answers · asked by Sailor 2

Hezbollah for example.

2006-07-26 15:44:40 · 22 answers · asked by Anonymous

you people may think im crazy but the raptuer will soon take place beacuse of these signs.Aids,gays,wars,murders,f... christ wich is bush.the middle east is the biggest clue!soon every one will turn against the u.s.report me if you have to.:).blessed are they who are reported for my names sake.Gays arent going to heaven.i may sound harsh.and you may say that god loves you he does.you have to turn from your unnatural ways same for transexuals.see?! i just heard on the news that the boy on nsync is gay!at this very moment on channel 7!i would never beatup a gay or anything but wrong is wrong!and if yall use that lame excuse that your born gay! ubsurd!no ones born that way unless its a curse!curse at me if you have to.report me if you have to closer am i to my blessing :)

2006-07-26 15:44:00 · 17 answers · asked by Anonymous

Or is there a set time line (historical) that describes the process and roots of today’s world wide religions.

2006-07-26 15:43:19 · 2 answers · asked by Mr Hex Vision 7

why do men have nipples?
seriously. scientifically, it is because when we are concieved, we all start exactly the same, as female. then a little while later, a male gets a shot of hormone, and becomes a male.

But if Man was created first, in God's image, and Women created for that man, why the nipples?

2006-07-26 15:41:39 · 20 answers · asked by lyleaux 2

I know, it's 3 questions, but bear with me.

2006-07-26 15:41:37 · 13 answers · asked by TommyTrouble 4

2006-07-26 15:40:50 · 37 answers · asked by Anonymous

What bugs me most is that the pretext for the who Afghanistan/Iraq invasion was 9-11 and that 9-11 was so obviously a false flag operation conducted by a rogue network in-and-out-of the executive branch of our own government. Several foreign intelligence agencies had dirty hands in the matter, as well.
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Bush and his colleagues should be impeached, tried for their crimes and hanged.

2006-07-26 15:39:43 · 10 answers · asked by Doug B 3

I know so many people that are christians that started just like ME! I am not an athiest at all (never have been), but I am not a beleiver in ANY religion. Some strange things have been happening to me lately, though. I am seeking additional information. So, what CHANGES PEOPLE from one end of the spectrum to the other so completely? Many of my christian friends and family members used to be hard-core athiests! What happened?

2006-07-26 15:39:19 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous

If you have experienced sanctification--do you sense anything different about yourself--do you sense more guidance from God than you did before, less likelihood to sin, etc?

I've wondered about this because I was raised in the Church of the Nazarene and read about and studied about entire sancification and the other articles of faith (http://www.nazarene.org/welcome/we_believe.html) but I've not understood what real life difference 'entire sanctification' actually makes in a person's life. If you say it's a process (I've heard it described that way) what milestones in that process have you reached--any results?

I'd expect changes like what I mentioned above. Thanks

2006-07-26 15:38:12 · 2 answers · asked by mikayla_starstuff 5

How do I stop feeling the need to have sex???
I want to have sex but want to save it
How do I become asexual???

2006-07-26 15:38:09 · 24 answers · asked by smart 1

and become a unified family under God?

2006-07-26 15:37:05 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous

I have accepted Jesus as lord and savior about two weeks ago and now someone has stated that unless I am baptized, I am still not saved. Anyone can you help with this please.

2006-07-26 15:36:52 · 35 answers · asked by Anonymous