Religion & Spirituality - 31 July 2006

I am constantly told that jesus died and paid a "blood debt" for our sins. Who the hell was owed this debt? Why couldn't God just go "hey, i'm the almighty, everyone is forgiven"? Why the ritual. seems kind of barbaric and unneccesary. I realize that man needs symbolism. But why does God need it? BTW, not trying to be offensive. I truly have never understood this.

2006-07-31 11:17:47 · 29 answers · asked by Anonymous

Please answer this very question briefly.,

Another question.

Why named Jesus God? If we know who is God in Heaven.

2006-07-31 11:17:42 · 14 answers · asked by Hashiman S 1

You hear and read about them when they say "I don't let my wife work" or "when I get home the dinner better be on the table" and other such neanderthalic gibberish...
Honeslty have you people not noticed that this is the 21st century? Are you all so mired in your bronze-age mythology than you can't tell the difference between a materiel posession and what is supposed to be your best friend?
Honestly some of you treat your dog or your lawnmower with more respect than you do your wives...

2006-07-31 11:17:33 · 24 answers · asked by Anonymous

2006-07-31 11:15:08 · 17 answers · asked by girly_girl 3

Here we go. This is what christian is all about . this verse is from THE HOLKY BIBLE. Teaches slavery and sexual abuse:

When a man sells his daughter as a slave, she will not be freed at the end of six years as the men are. If she does not please the man who bought her, he may allow her to be bought back again. But he is not allowed to sell her to foreigners, since he is the one who broke the contract with her. And if the slave girl's owner arranges for her to marry his son, he may no longer treat her as a slave girl, but he must treat her as his daughter. If he himself marries her and then takes another wife, he may not reduce her food or clothing or fail to sleep with her as his wife. If he fails in any of these three ways, she may leave as a free woman without making any payment. (Exodus 21:7-11 NLT)

2006-07-31 11:14:08 · 10 answers · asked by ast5792 1

OK, so you ask those who don't believe in God, "where did we all come from? who created Earth?"
So I ask, Who created God?"
and you respond, "He always existed".
Well, maybe the universe also always existed, and the planets formed by themselves, and lived happened spontaneously.
Makes as much sense as God always existing.
The Bible?
Of course, you will refer to a book that was wriiten by Moses, and not written by God.
So I asl, where did God come from?
Who created Him?

2006-07-31 11:13:23 · 35 answers · asked by Hickemtwiddle 4

2006-07-31 11:10:49 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous

sometimes i cry about it , and other times im fine.

2006-07-31 11:10:41 · 31 answers · asked by Anonymous

i mean its in the bible
its pretty clear

i asked a questoin about how come people arent Christian and ppl said cause come ppl dont beleve in Heaven and Hell

so how come some ppl dont? didnt they read the Bible or something?

2006-07-31 11:10:10 · 14 answers · asked by truuuuubelever 1

2006-07-31 11:08:10 · 12 answers · asked by jumpalicious 2

I have heard that one can never demonstrate a negative, so is there anyway to tell when a cookie jar is empty?

2006-07-31 11:07:09 · 27 answers · asked by Anonymous

I took some lsd and realized what creativity really meant. I can alter this world with my focused intent.
I smoked some pot and discovered sacred concepts.
I ate some mushrooms and talked to a higher deity who showed me love and I was a creator like god.
I don't want to get any more detailed but where can i go to explain these things to people who want to here them?

2006-07-31 11:05:39 · 30 answers · asked by bob l 1

Does God still communicate in this way?

2006-07-31 11:05:29 · 17 answers · asked by Anonymous

What is the best way to let the church know that they shouldn't keep volunteering you for something just because you are retired .. I realize it saves them unnecessary expenses but one does get tired and burned out.

2006-07-31 11:04:44 · 8 answers · asked by jaimestar64cross 6

If such a place exists(Hell) then I would rather go there then worship a God that would create such a place.

2006-07-31 11:04:30 · 7 answers · asked by EasterBunny 5

Then Jesus Is not God? Beacuse Jesus is in the River of Jordan? (RIGHT),.

Anyway God dont need to be baptist by anyone even John the Baptist? GOD dont need salvations?..

JESUS IS NOT GOD!!! CANT YOU UNDERSTAND YOU ******???

2006-07-31 11:03:59 · 26 answers · asked by Hashiman S 1

that all religions have no scientific proof that it is real or fact? cmon guys?

2006-07-31 11:03:15 · 17 answers · asked by michael 2

"The way a child discovers the world constantly replicates the way science began. You start to notice what's around you, and you get very curious about how things work. How things interrelate. It's as simple as seeing a bug that intrigues you. You want to know where it goes at night; who its friends are; what it eats."

David Cronenberg, Canadian Filmmaker

2006-07-31 11:02:39 · 10 answers · asked by genaddt 7

2006-07-31 11:01:28 · 16 answers · asked by michael 2

I mean Christianity, Judaism & Islam...why do we still have to put up with these arab style exports when it's as plain as the nose on anyone's face that there has been nothing but religious strife where these religions originated...I mean puhleese! get a grip and get over it already!... 2.000yrs is long enough lets now move on past the sectarian mythology of nomadic peoples.

2006-07-31 11:00:52 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous

Most Jews are Ashkenazi which means they are from Germany. From the Jewish encyclopedia:The reason for this rather peculiar identification of Ashkenaz, who is one of the descendants of Japheth (Gen. x. 3), is found in the Midrash, where R. Berechiah says: "Ashkenaz, Riphath, and Togarmah are " (Gen. R. xxxvii. 1), which evidently means German tribes or German lands. It would correspond to a Greek word Гερμανικια that may have existed in the Greek dialect of the Palestinian Jews, or the text is corrupted from "Germanica." This view of R. Berechiah, again, is based on the Talmud (Yoma 10a; Yer. Meg. 71b), where Gomer, the father of Ashkenaz, is translated by "Germamia," which evidently stands for Germany, and which was suggested by the similarity of the sound. The explanation of as a Mesopotamian district (Neubauer, "La Géographie du Talmud," p. 421, Paris, 1868; Fürst, "Glossarium Græco-Hebræum," p. 92, Strasburg, 1891; Krauss, "Lateinische und Griechische Lehnwörter") is forced. Not better is the derivation by Elijah Levita from the Talmudic = "fair" (see Tishbi, s.v., and "Monatsschrift," xxxviii. 260). A peculiar usage of the word is found in the dictionary of Samuel ben Solomon of Urgenj, who interprets Ashkenaz as Khwarizm (see Bacher, "Ein Hebräisch-Persisches Wörterbuch," pp. 19, 31, Budapest, 1900).

In later times the word Ashkenaz is used to designate southern and western Germany, the ritual of which sections differs somewhat from that of eastern Germany and Poland. Thus the prayer-book of Isaiah Horowitz, and many others, give the piyyuṭim according to the Minhag of Ashkenaz and Poland. The neo-Hebraic writers, mostly of Russian and Polish origin, have coined a verb, "to ape modern social manners."D.

2006-07-31 11:00:18 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous

i mean, i come here and i see all kinds of stuff like athiests and islams and cathlics but dont you have to be a Christain to go to Heaven?

do these guys wanna go to Hell or something?

sorry if my old questions made people angry but i dont get ppl talking stuff like there is no God and no Jesus and stuff like that.

dont make sense to me

2006-07-31 10:57:16 · 32 answers · asked by truuuuubelever 1

2006-07-31 10:56:19 · 10 answers · asked by brianna_the_angel777 4

Are they born without out it or does it escape at some point to does it slowly leak out? Because christians don't have any logic at all. Yes of course a guy could build a boat big enough for 2 of every animal and then find 2 of every animal and then take enough food and water for them for 40 days and 40 nights. Of course that’s just one example there are countless more.

2006-07-31 10:55:54 · 32 answers · asked by Anonymous

I could see him rocking out to some Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young ..especially the song "Southern Cross" they sing, here is some of the song

Think about how many times
I have fallen
Spirits are using me
larger voices callin'.
What heaven brought you and me
Cannot be forgotten.
I have been around the world,
Lookin' for that woman/girl, {(sophia-the sacred feminine)}
Who knows love can endure.
And you know it will.
And you know it will.
When you see the Southern Cross
For the first time
You understand now
Why you came this way
'Cause the truth you might be runnin' from
Is so small.
But it's as big as the promise
The promise of a comin' day. { (this is heaven--earth) ;)}
So I'm sailing for tomorrow
My dreams are a dyin'.
And my love is an anchor tied to you
Tied with a silver chain. {(think about this lyric here--Out of body)}
I have my ship
And all her flags are a flyin'
She is all that I have left
And music is her name.

LOL, we still love you though

2006-07-31 10:51:50 · 23 answers · asked by bob l 1

career-wise.

2006-07-31 10:51:14 · 23 answers · asked by Anonymous

First off, I think cheapens the bible message by attempting to use scientific data to "prove" the act of creation.

But as for answers in genesis (aig) they're a ministry for the institute for creation research (icr).

How can an institution be "scientific" but require all of its members to swear an oath affirming their belief in certain specific conclusions, regardless of the scientific evidence?

As for Scientific credentials? Not even close. Only a few have a degree in any of the life sciences. 3 have doctorates in education, 2 theologians, 5 engineers and the rest are a physicist, a chemist, a psycho-linguist, and a "food scientist".

I'm sure that there are scientists who do believe in creationism, just as there are scientists who believe in Bigfoot. But validity in science is decided by the evidence and data.

Despite 25 years of effort, none of the ICR scientists have yet come forward with any credible evidence which refutes the evolutionary model of biological development.

2006-07-31 10:50:36 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous

2006-07-31 10:49:53 · 10 answers · asked by pass70 1

READ ALL OF THIS (DONT ANSWER IF DONT READ THESE)

Find me these words as the basis of your religion? If it is not in the Bible? I suggest dont use the Bible because the bible dont know christians or roman catholic (the roman owns you (your not Jesus catholic but Romans (ashamed)) ? Don't send me acts, romans and like psalms!!! who wrote them anyway? do you know? EARLY CRHISTIANS (who were crazy to have a God)?

Truly Jesus did want to stand a ne religion because he have only given one Prayer ( Our Father (means we are all children of God) not only Jesus (and Jesus did not say He is God, or the Holy Spirit) (Who are we to say He is God). And if he WANTED A NEW RELIGION, Why Pray in the Temple and join the prayer ( Be an audienced under the Priest (Is he God? Why Pray) (He teaches, because he is a Prophet) (he over and over saying He was sent By God) (He's Baptism was WITNESS BY GOD (IN HEAVEN) IN RIVER OF JORDAN (Are you insane, To Baptist God) (Do God need Salvation?)??.

Thank reader

2006-07-31 10:48:53 · 7 answers · asked by Hashiman S 1

Has anyone experienced the benefits of these words from Proverbs 15 v 1.

2006-07-31 10:48:51 · 24 answers · asked by Anonymous