Religion & Spirituality - 26 July 2006

Why don't you stop leaning on a 2000 year old work of fiction, and get your own life. Make your own decisions. Live the way you want to live.

No?

Thought so.

2006-07-26 05:14:55 · 63 answers · asked by kubrickian 2

2006-07-26 05:13:34 · 19 answers · asked by AYIOA 1

Divine foreknowledge is incompatible with the reality of human freedom, which is one of our most primordial and undeniable experiences. Divine omnipotence (or omnicausality) is incompatible with the existence of evil, also one of our primordial experiences. Scriptural infallibility is an absurdity to anyone who looks impartially at the factual and moral errors in the scriptures, and the often barbaric depiction of God in them. Your condemnation of homosexuals (and of heterosexuals who don't toe the line of your moral standards) flies in the face of our knowledge of nature. You refusel to give pride of place in your thought to reason and experience, and instead find your certainty in ancient texts in an act of intellectual suicide. How can you expect to be able to witness convincingly to the central truths of the Gospel? Or does your concept of the Gospel's central truths reduce to these absurdities themselves?

2006-07-26 05:13:15 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous

What if the muslims are right? Or buddhists?

Or better yet, what if I'm right?

2006-07-26 05:11:55 · 39 answers · asked by kubrickian 2

Just curious.
(did I spell it right?)

2006-07-26 05:09:33 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous

IMPEACH GOD!!!!

2006-07-26 05:09:29 · 13 answers · asked by kubrickian 2

2006-07-26 05:08:18 · 15 answers · asked by AYIOA 1

There are so many people with 777 in their nicknames that I thought I'd ask. A good day for a picnic, maybe?

2006-07-26 05:07:19 · 14 answers · asked by Brigid O' Somebody 7

Your family member has joined some religion and you decided to research their new found religion. You discover the founder was a con artist and all their "evidence" has been falsefied. Do you tell them that they had made a mistake? Or do you think that maybe that your religion may not be perfect either and if they are happy, it is ok.

2006-07-26 05:07:08 · 31 answers · asked by Fantasy Girl 3

2006-07-26 05:05:16 · 10 answers · asked by emma 1

...ask stupid questions about ID and then freak out and scratch the Q. because some one gives a good answer?

2006-07-26 05:03:49 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous

Peace and Love

2006-07-26 05:03:33 · 14 answers · asked by digilook 2

It isn't. There is a glaring difference between intelligent design and science. Science changes as we gather more evidence to make our ideas more accurate. It begins with observation, and then proceeds to hypothesis, testing, and debate.

Intelligent design however, is very rigid, it begins with works of fiction, then proceeds to asserting, insisting, twisting the facts, and even torturing those who don’t believe it.

As you can see there is a big difference between science and intelligent design. So why do people still think intelligent design is a science?

2006-07-26 05:03:24 · 17 answers · asked by acgsk 5

Then why do they like to say that God doesn't send people to eternal everlasting never ending torture in hell, but rather they volunteerly choose to send themselves. Would they make the same excuse for the rapist or for Hitler? They blame the rape victim, the Jew, and the unbeliever, and don't blame the rapist, the dictator, or the all powerful might makes right god? What kind of moral relativism is this?

2006-07-26 05:03:20 · 26 answers · asked by 自由思想家 3

For example, let's say I wanted to become an archaeologist, or a paleontologist, or a geneticist, or even a physicist.
And, let's say, for some reason, I transferred to Bob Jones University or some other Christian college/university . What kinds of classes would I take to start on my chosen career path?

(ok, I know this question seems snarky on the surface. But I really am curious to know how religious institutions of higher education handle the high sciences)

2006-07-26 05:02:15 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous

There are many religions. I do not believe in god, but am open to ideas. Everyone says their god is the one god. 10 points to the most convincing argument. Would you tell me exactly what religion and sect first. I want real proof. For the record, you must not just make your religion sound best, but make it sound reasonable to me. Athiests can join in.

2006-07-26 05:01:59 · 47 answers · asked by Anonymous

Do teachings exists that are compatible to MODERN WORLD ethics and meets doctrine ever?

2006-07-26 05:00:33 · 8 answers · asked by Adnan A. Arain (Dr.) 2

BEST EXPLANATION EVER!

> >This is one of the best explanations of why God allows pain and
> >suffering that I have seen: A man went to a barbershop to have his
> hair
> >cut and his beard trimmed.
> >
> >As the barber began to work, they began to have a good
> >
> >conversation.
> >
> >They talked about so many things and various subjects.
> >
> >When they eventually touched on the subject of God, the
> >
> >barber said:
> >
> >
> >
> >"I don't believe that God exists."
> >
> >"Why do you say that?" asked the customer. "Well, you just have to
go
> >
> >out in the street to realize that God doesn't exist.
> >Tell me, if God exists, would there be so many sick people?
> >
> >Would there be abandoned children?
> >
> >If God existed, there would be neither suffering nor pain.
> >
> >I can't imagine a loving God who would allow all of these
> >
> >things."
> >
> >The customer thought for a moment, but didn't respond
> >
> >because he didn't want to start an argument.
> >
> >The barber finished his job and the customer left the shop.
> >
> >Just after he left the barbershop, he saw a man in the
> >
> >street with long, stringy, dirty hair and an untrimmed
> >
> >beard. He looked dirty and unkempt.
> >
> >The customer turned back and entered the barber shop again
> >
> >and he said to the barber: "You know what? Barbers do not
> >
> >exist."
> >
> >"How can you say that?" asked the surprised barber.
> >
> >"I am here, and I am a barber. And I just worked on you!"
> >
> >"No!" the customer exclaimed. "Barbers don't exist because
> >
> >if they did, there would be no people with dirty long hair
> >
> >and untrimmed beards, like that man outside."
> >
> >
> >
> >"Ah, but barbers DO exist! That's what happens when people
> >
> >do not come to me."
> >
> >"Exactly!" affirmed the customer. "That's the point! God, too, DOES
> >
> >exist! That's what happens when people do not go to Him and don't
> look
> >
> >to Him for help. That's! why there's so much pain and suffering in
> the
> >
> >world."

2006-07-26 05:00:16 · 20 answers · asked by . 3

Go to this website and see for your self, here is a little piece of the article.

Perhaps the boldest thing, the most revolutionary change the Church ever did, happened in the first century. The holy day, the Sabbath, was changed from Saturday to Sunday. "The Day of the Lord" (dies Dominica) was chosen, not from any directions noted in the Scriptures, but from the Church's sense of its own power. The day of resurrection, the day of Pentecost, fifty days later, came on the first day of the week. So this would be the new Sabbath. People who think that the Scriptures should be the sole authority, should logically become 7th Day Adventists, and keep Saturday holy.

Source: Sentinel, Pastor's Page (Fr. Leo Broderick), Saint Catherine Catholic Church, Algonac, Michigan, May 21, 1995.


Here is the Website http://www.biblelight.net/st-cath.htm

2006-07-26 04:59:42 · 11 answers · asked by Pobedy S 2

2006-07-26 04:59:23 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous

Some of you may have thought Solomon..it wasn't..it was Noah.

He was floating his stock while everyone else
was in liquidation.

Another interesting bible fact: What kind of motorcyle did Kind David drive????
It's in God's word: David's Triumph was heard thoughout the land!...I would have said Harley.

Okay 10 points to the right answer: What excuse did Adam give his children to why they no longer lived in Eden??????????

2006-07-26 04:58:28 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous

It is wrong not to fight back when someone attacks you, verbally or physically. 'What does vengeance solve?' you ask---well, it maintains honor, and will possibly prevent your enemy from doing the same thing to you again. Letting the law take care of things isn't always the answer--the police cannot right every wrong. And besides, some acts should be punished by a method of the victim's choosing, I think... vengeance is not wrong, in all instances!

2006-07-26 04:56:46 · 31 answers · asked by Quang 2

2006-07-26 04:56:28 · 17 answers · asked by Anonymous

others like muslims & jews for example are less separated.

2006-07-26 04:55:09 · 9 answers · asked by ICE-T 2

In other words, if God is all knowing, then you cannot possible make a decision and God not know you are going to make it. In simple terms, lets say that you have to choose between Coke or Pepsi. God, being all knowing, has to know what you will choose. Let's say God knows you will choose Coke. You cannot possibly choose Pepsi then, since that would prove God wrong, thereby, dispoving God. So, if you cannot possibly choose Pepsi, how can there be free will?

2006-07-26 04:54:48 · 31 answers · asked by works_out_a_lot_27 1

Peace and Love

2006-07-26 04:54:08 · 7 answers · asked by digilook 2

At John 5:28, 29 it speaks of a resurrection of people who did good things and people who did bad things. At Acts 24:15 it speaks of a resurrection again of righteous and unrighteous. If good people go to heaven and bad people go to hell, why are these scriptures saying that people who did bad things will be resurrected? Why would a good person that is supposed to have gone to heaven need to be resurrected?

2006-07-26 04:53:10 · 15 answers · asked by Daniel L 2

"But I want you to understand that Christ is the head of every man, and the man is the head of a woman, and God is the head of Christ," (1 Cor. 11:3).


The headship issue is an issue of order, not of who is better or more important. The husband is the head of the wife in the family and he has the responsibility of guiding his family to a closer relationship with the Lord.


Some of you really take this out of context because the scripture OBVIOUSLY isn't giving a man the right to say "Do what I say or else." Who agrees? Disagrees?

2006-07-26 04:51:46 · 27 answers · asked by Jim Darwin's Peace 2

This was an answer to my previous question about what Creationists believe:

"Personally the whole evolution thing with the primates and the missing link just dont kame any sense.

People should stop monkeying around looking for "truth" just face facts. Some things arent ment to be answered by mere humans."

So ignorance is bliss then?

2006-07-26 04:51:19 · 17 answers · asked by Biggest Douche in the Universe 3

I'm a stay-at-home-mom who moved into a new (wonderful) neighborhood. I just met a few of the other mom's in the area and right off one asked me to join her bible study that will start in a few weeks. I feel really awkward about this because I haven't mentioned I'm not Christian (I usually don't talk about my religious beliefs with people I don't know very well) and now that she's mentioned it again I know next time I'll need a response !
She's best friends with my next door neighbor, has children the same age as mine, and has been really great to chat with and invited me to many other outings. But what do I do or say? She and her friends are the first women I have met here and I am worried that if I say I am not Christian I won't have the chance to become better friends...or they will try to "save" me. I have to give some kind of reason for why I won't be going. Or am I worried for nothing and should go and check it out?

2006-07-26 04:50:46 · 50 answers · asked by Amy B 2