Religion & Spirituality - 12 August 2006

Why is there a complete 180 degree difference in punishments in the old testment vs the new testment. Is it because the people who made up the religion realized that if they kill all there members they wont be able to collect tithe? If not why were the laws implementated from the begining I mean god created man, he knows all he knew that ****** eve was gonna eat that forbidden fruit, and if the devil was an angel that gad got mad, why didnt he forgive the new appointed devil, and why did he even create the angel that he turned in to the devil to begin with, man I could go on and on.

2006-08-12 21:33:49 · 15 answers · asked by stocketrader24 3

2006-08-12 21:32:51 · 17 answers · asked by Anonymous

I'm reading genesis 3 and i came across:

24 So he drove out the man; and he placed Cherubs at the east of the garden of Eden, and the flame of a sword which turned every way, to guard the way to the tree of life.

My question is since the Garden of Eden is speculated to be on Earth has anyone seen the tree of life.. ? Souldn't be hard to find.

The tree of life couldn't be in heaven coz god was protecting the tree of life why do that when no human is around?

2006-08-12 21:31:08 · 9 answers · asked by Jamal 3

I have this problem, i can't stop it. But is it still a sin to reject it when it comes to mind?

2006-08-12 21:27:59 · 24 answers · asked by Anonymous

for all god`s affairs, all he does, is he sais BE and it is.( from the holy quran)
that simple he forgive the sin of those he want, and they are people who submit to god`s will, and repent of their sins, and they dont follow their desires instead of what god said.
ofcourse they will not become perfect humans and without any error and comepletely sinless.
but god KNOWS those people who sincerely come to him and TRY to be righteous as much as they can, and those who submit to his will instead their desires.he is all knowing.
( one of the meanings of islam is submission to one god)

2006-08-12 21:23:09 · 20 answers · asked by Afshin A. 1

2006-08-12 21:22:15 · 5 answers · asked by bananapuddingwithcoolwhip 2

...tom science

2006-08-12 21:20:28 · 72 answers · asked by tom science 4

2006-08-12 21:18:23 · 25 answers · asked by love5jab 2

2006-08-12 21:16:25 · 20 answers · asked by Phantom of the Opera 4

Wouldn't it be more commendable to live for somthing rather than die for it?? Once your dead thats all you can do. If Jesus had lived he could have taught us a lot more and kept his church from being peverted into what it is today. I know that some will take offence to this. I do not mean it that way. If you truly believe in somthing wouldn't it make more sense to live for it?? If one group lives for something and another wants to die for somthing who will win??

2006-08-12 21:15:22 · 11 answers · asked by captpcb216 2

This is for those opponents of evolution who always like to point out that evolution is just a "theory". I always chuckle then try to explain to them why, but to no avail. So I present this easy post to clear it up.

Scientific Definition of a Law

"An empirical generalization; a statement of a biological principle that appears to be without exception at the time it is made, and has become consolidated by repeated successful testing; rule "

Definition of a Theory

"A scientifically accepted general principle supported by a substantial body of evidence offered to provide an explanation of observed facts and as a basis for future discussion or investigation "

Too complicated for you still? Let me make it even easier.

Scientific Law- Describes what nature does under certain conditions

Scientific Theory- Explains how nature works

A law is neither "better than" nor "above" a theory. Laws and theories "do" different things and have different roles to play in science

2006-08-12 21:12:21 · 22 answers · asked by johngrobmyer 5

is it karma

2006-08-12 21:09:11 · 21 answers · asked by Big hands Big feet 7

if god asked you to kill someone would you do it, also keep in mind that we have call waiting now(not like in abrahams day) so if he call you and asks you to off someone and then switches over to take the other call wait until he comes back he may change his mind then you would have killed someone for no reason.

2006-08-12 21:03:41 · 22 answers · asked by stocketrader24 3

The are cutting down their own chances of being saved during the "Rapture."

2006-08-12 21:02:56 · 28 answers · asked by Anonymous

2006-08-12 21:02:54 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous

We have found an abundance of transitional fossils. What this sort of questioning is implying is that we find every transitional fossil. I will gladly admit such a thing is impossible. It would be like digging up everyone of your ancestors to prove you are a descendent of a Frenchmen. I will give two examples of missing links. One is homo ergaster found to have lived 1.9 million years ago. Fossils and information can be seen here (http://www.mnh.si.edu/anthro/humanorigins/ha/erg.html ). Another missing link is referred to as the Darwin Fish. Simply put this fossil shows the link between fish and tetrapods. The New York Times had an article about it found here (http://www.nytimes.com/2006/04/06/science/06fossil.html?ex=1301976000&en=76a1b46221b5cc6a&ei=5090&partner=rssuserland&emc=rss&pagewanted=all ).

Just another thing that needed to be cleared up.

2006-08-12 21:02:37 · 13 answers · asked by upallnite 5

The separation of evolution into micro and macro first came from Iurii Filipchenko in 1927. This is an artificial distinction that stands no reason. You would not separate a small amount of water in a cup and a large amount of water in a cup, then say that there is no evidence that applying several small cups of water would become a large cup of water.
That is why in 1937 Theodosius Dobzhansky stated that the two should be considered the same. A similar term used today is speciation. How could we separate micro and macro evolution? They both happen for the same reasons and in the same manor. There is no magic line that separates the two. Macroevolution is simply a lot of microevolution happening until the species has changed. Speciation has been documented as happening in nature and laboratories.
( http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/faq-speciation.html#part5 )

Just wanted to cleare this up also. Thanks everyone.

2006-08-12 20:59:15 · 6 answers · asked by upallnite 5

i would like to know to whichh religion is most people getting converted todeyy especially in the americas...like to get some statis tics in percentage or no:s wht ever..n wht could be the possible reason for convertion????

2006-08-12 20:58:08 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous

2006-08-12 20:56:43 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous

Is destiney set or can it be changed ??? And, what is 'Kismet' ? How does one know one's destiny ??? Can one know ???

2006-08-12 20:53:58 · 7 answers · asked by karma doll 2

2006-08-12 20:51:57 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous

...tom science...it's like I get older and they stay same age.....666

2006-08-12 20:51:32 · 28 answers · asked by tom science 4

Alll I know was during his last necromancer act he was trying to summon a soul. (for reasons I don't remember)
He had the circle of protection (or whatever it's called) and was waiting to see if he had summoned anything
Hours in and he hough he had failed so he left the circle... then he got pocessed by a powerful demon that was hiding and he got killed....

Anyone know who he was and where I can find more information on him?

Thanks a lot

2006-08-12 20:50:06 · 2 answers · asked by Dellian 2

2006-08-12 20:48:23 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous

2006-08-12 20:46:25 · 9 answers · asked by spacecadet 2

2006-08-12 20:46:22 · 18 answers · asked by Sockeyeeye 1

that is easy to remember? ANY denomination: Christian, Islam, Buddhist, Hindu, New age....

2006-08-12 20:46:20 · 8 answers · asked by eldridan 3

This is what someone said to me in a recent post. "Remember, Evolution is a theory that Darwin confessed that he made up on his death bed, and the bible is the INSPIRED word of god". I have also seen many Christians and others say that Darwin renounced evolution on his death bed and accepted Christ as his savior.

Well let me clear this up!

Darwin did no such thing before he died. This is merely religious propaganda from people who can't take on evolution with facts so they resort to attacking one of it's founders. Darwins wife and daughter both after his death confirmed that Darwin stuck to his beliefs on science and evolution. Below is a list of websites with articles recounting the truth. Too bad Christians and other opponents to evolution are too lazy to take the time to do their own research.

www.talkorigins.org/indexcc/CG/CG001.html

www.stephenjaygould.org/ctrl/ladyhope.html

www.apologeticspress.org/articles/2193

www.answersingenesis.org/docs/1315.as

2006-08-12 20:44:28 · 18 answers · asked by johngrobmyer 5

If you are muslimin and dazkat or sidqah had always been your goal to pays,amongst many other things you should have been accomplished, and due to current condition,whatever would that be, would you rather takes dzakat and or sidqah for yourself, or would you rather pass that up to other Muslim ? Would you morally ready to takes such an action, or would you pass that all by not paying dzakat nor sidqah this year ?

2006-08-12 20:43:35 · 2 answers · asked by Anonymous

So. I see yahoo answers and the idea as reincanation as being similar. In both you accumulate points. You ask questions and answer some until you have enough points to move to another level. You move to a higher level, with more points, but what prizes are there along the way? What do you get when you reach mystical level 8?

Simply, why bother answering all these questions, either here (yahoo) or in life before reincanation/to reach nirvana (heaven etc)

2006-08-12 20:41:28 · 7 answers · asked by nnjamerson 3