Religion & Spirituality - 5 August 2006

Is there a passage of the Bible that refers to Mary Magdelene as an instument of God, or a victim of faith? If so, could you point me towards it?

2006-08-05 03:49:05 · 16 answers · asked by Kyle 3

importance like is it useful to us in human life.

2006-08-05 03:47:01 · 7 answers · asked by vince lee 2

2006-08-05 03:44:09 · 8 answers · asked by BumThus 1

2006-08-05 03:42:37 · 20 answers · asked by Anonymous

2006-08-05 03:40:38 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous

If the LDS faith believes in God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Ghost, are they truly Christian or just portraying themselves as such?

From the teachings of the LDS faith: "Invite the young men to discuss this idea. Help them see that Heavenly Father, Jesus Christ, and the Holy Ghost are one in purpose—unified in what they are doing. Explain that the will of Heavenly Father is the will of Jesus Christ and the Holy Ghost. Because other churches do not accept modern revelation about the oneness of the Godhead, these churches are confused and believe that Heavenly Father, Jesus Christ, and the Holy Ghost are one spirit."

What does the Bible say on this?

http://library.lds.org/nxt/gateway.dll?f=templates$fn=default.htm$xhitlist_q=godhead$xhitlist_x=Simple$xhitlist_s=relevance-weight$xhitlist_d=$xhitlist_hc=%5BXML%5D%5Bkwic%2C0%5D$xhitlist_xsl=xhitlist.xsl$xhitlist_vpc=first$xhitlist_sel=title%3Bpath%3Bcontent-type%3Bhome-title%3Bhit-context%3Bfield%3Azr%3Bfield%3ARef

2006-08-05 03:38:00 · 21 answers · asked by Pedir mi cosa 1

if we are all god's children...How come he hasn't called ???

I love my children and I call them all the time! I am tired of waiting forsomething thats never going to happen!!

2006-08-05 03:37:03 · 34 answers · asked by running2adream 6

2006-08-05 03:36:25 · 10 answers · asked by Iwanna know 1

2006-08-05 03:35:03 · 21 answers · asked by Iwanna know 1

Why is turning boring water into an alcoholic beverage a miracle to Christians?--Although I have to say it's an awesome party trick!
Why do Christians always say that the alcohol level was lower back then? this is based on what? Have you seen how prisoners today make alcohol by fermenting fruit themselves? and what about bath tub gin and moonshine? Home made alcohol is STONGER most of the time because most people can't control the alcohol content.
And um, if it wasn't really "wine" , why didn't they just call it "grape juice"?
Why do the fundamentalists who follow Jesus end up being much stuffier than Jesus himself?
Your savior actually created alcohol for a party through his divine powers!

2006-08-05 03:34:47 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous

2006-08-05 03:34:33 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous

(I forget how many years it lasted) Surely he knew in advance?

To me this story is grottesquely immoral and demolishes the Old Testament as a religious book. .
If a father had the medicine for cure, would he be allowed to test his child's love for him in a similar way? He would be labelled a monster and sent to jail for 20 years.

There are many other horror stories in the OT. It is a highly immoral book, completely incompatible with the teachings of the son of God in the New Testament. It should be either expurgated or preferably discarded.

2006-08-05 03:31:31 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous

People belonging to different religions should

1)Try to convert others to their religion by various various methods like propaganda., offering money, social facilities etc
2)Try to convert by force, state and individual by denying social facilites and adopting other positive discriminative practices.
3)Knowing that all are children of one and the same God, and all religions are nothing but different ways to attain God. live and allow people to pursue their own ways of religious life without creating social tensions
OR Alternativel people/ state should pursue material aspects of life only and should not be concerned with spiritual aspects as most of the political and social problems in the world were/ are basically due to religious differences[Religion is the opium of man]

2006-08-05 03:31:27 · 12 answers · asked by REAL 3

2006-08-05 03:29:34 · 23 answers · asked by Pete Allison 6

2006-08-05 03:29:21 · 17 answers · asked by vinus 1

what is it u do good and or bad- i like to help others now and be kind but stay away from mean people-what i do bad is sometimes i tell them about Jesus and they get mad-but im still happy in Jesus-so i tell them somemore and they get madder-then sometimes i even cry because i feel bad for them-because i know who i am-and that im gong to heaven-then they may get even meaner-and then like when a lady spit in my face because i was telling others about Jesus our Jewish Messiah -saying i was a traitor to our Jewish people-but i said im reading out of the Jewish scriptures Isaiah chapters 52&53 -u must be seeing something i havent even read a persons name-and when she was leaveing from that Wall street corner i whispered to her -Jesus still loves u. but then i felt bad later like i didnt like her-Jesus still liked us when we spit on him WWJD?
peace and i hope u do alot of good things and only a little bad

2006-08-05 03:25:58 · 10 answers · asked by ? 5

Sometimes whenever I go to areas with lots of people I don't know I feel very uncomfortable. Not in a agoraphobic sense but I feel like the thoughts of these people are combining into some kind of mixture of stress, tension, confusion, uneasiness....It is hard to explain. I have no problem being around people normally, but only when there is a group of very different people. Here's a better way to look at it.-----
It almost feels like I am trying to figure out what everyone in the area is thinking, like I am trying to read their thoughts and I am getting it all at once. It is very unsettling for me. Any thoughts?

2006-08-05 03:25:50 · 12 answers · asked by Corey 4

a great plan of deception ,what proof do you have your not worshipping satan in a covert way without you knowing,how do we know satan didnt inspire the bible not god ,because god gave us freewill why would he have to guide us ,alot of war and murder has been administered in the name of god, but what god satan or the lord

2006-08-05 03:25:33 · 6 answers · asked by gasp 4

ive done stuff before with a boy and really liked it and i really only look at boys. doesnt that mean im gay?

2006-08-05 03:24:56 · 27 answers · asked by Zac 1

Things in the vein of Godhatesfags would be good. I am using these on my website to try and educate people about the evils that can be spawned when people use religion to further their own agendas. Thanks in advance.

2006-08-05 03:24:38 · 2 answers · asked by Anonymous

2006-08-05 03:23:55 · 31 answers · asked by Iwanna know 1

Not everyone has the same beliefs and religion and lifestyle.

2006-08-05 03:21:31 · 19 answers · asked by Anonymous

Are there certain modes of living and thought, and if so, what are they? What does the Bible say on the subject? What is your opinion?

Please give lots of detail, and try to reference the verse if quoting the Bible. thanks!

2006-08-05 03:20:01 · 23 answers · asked by egfearless 3

not enough people are answering in the biology section so i'll put the question here

How is that life on earth as we know it evolved from soup when

second law of thermodynamics says that "The entropy of an isolated system not at equilibrium will tend to increase over time, approaching a maximum value."

2006-08-05 03:19:56 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous

23 And he made the Sea of cast bronze, ten cubits from one brim to the other; it was completely round. Its height was five cubits, and a line of thirty cubits measured its circumference.

1 Kings 7:23 (New King James Version)


These are GOd's instructions and I want to have faith in GOd and his begotten son Jesus, but having faith and following these plans for his temple won't work if I read this and follow it WORD FOR WORD. Why?

2006-08-05 03:16:56 · 19 answers · asked by Anonymous

2006-08-05 03:15:45 · 14 answers · asked by JUDAS PRIEST 4

to write such a huge lie only to be persecuted, burned, ripped to shreads and tortured in all kind of ways.......if it were a lie?

not expected to convince anyone but just to give the mind something to think about

i already know all the wise guy remarks to this one so don't waste your time

2006-08-05 03:14:38 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous

AND WHERE DID YOU GET THOSE SATAN STORIES FROM?
When the bible supposedly speaks of Lucifer it is highly interpretive, Lucifer could have been just some high priest or prince in Egypt--we ARE talking 4000 years ago!
And revelations was written 100 years after Christ's death and was just some scribblings that were up and decided to be put in as the grand finally to the bible by the Catholic church a few hundred years later--only because it was kind of old!
Now, any meantion of Satan and Lucifer or Hell in the Bible is incredibly vague.
Where do you get your colorful stories about Satan? Are you sure it is not just traditional myth handed down through word of mouth since it seems so many of you have it committed to memory? Are you sure the people who told other people who in turn told other people who told you didn't get most of it from fictional books, namely 'Paradise Lost'?

2006-08-05 03:14:16 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous

what sort of things do you put in there.

2006-08-05 03:13:27 · 15 answers · asked by a cottage by the sea 3

2006-08-05 03:11:44 · 18 answers · asked by Iwanna know 1