Religion & Spirituality - 17 August 2006

I just want to see and hear for myself what is actually preached and goes on there, instead of getting all my information third-hand and through the media. Do you have to have special permission or something, or can you just slip in at the back and observe?

2006-08-17 01:08:53 · 21 answers · asked by Clodia 2

If you commit suicide you go to hell right....

but if you sacrafice yourself to save others do you go to hell? You would be intentionally killing yourself but by doing that you are saving others.

2006-08-17 01:07:14 · 28 answers · asked by Moses_Santos_ii 2

Peace and Love

2006-08-17 01:03:05 · 12 answers · asked by digilook 2

I mean I am losing points, right. Then Why ask?

2006-08-17 01:03:01 · 17 answers · asked by notthesharpone 2

2006-08-17 01:01:51 · 27 answers · asked by notthesharpone 2

if god does exsist than why hasn,t he/she stopped it, and why hasn,t he/she helped against illness. i know if we all were immortal the world would become crowded but if there is a god he/she could find a better way.

2006-08-17 01:00:48 · 21 answers · asked by yennifnismat 2

While the other 30 or so gospels written not?

2006-08-17 01:00:33 · 10 answers · asked by softenthecorners101 2

How is he different from a bully if he commands man to serve and worship him or else... Is mankind born with a gun to its head?

2006-08-17 01:00:18 · 15 answers · asked by Jonny SA 2

What do you like best about it, the enthusiastic worship, the attached ice rink, or that day in Spring when the firetrucks roll up and everybody gets babtised?

2006-08-17 00:59:01 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous

assume human flesh and become human?
Could it?

2006-08-17 00:58:10 · 17 answers · asked by zorro 2

I'm pretty sure he is not a Christian. Yet, him and Warren Buffet will do more good than ANY two men who have walked the face of the earth.

2006-08-17 00:57:16 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous

Peace and Love

2006-08-17 00:56:45 · 17 answers · asked by digilook 2

Love is one of the most common, yet misused and misunderstood words in the English language. On the bookshelf

love is synonymous with romance and seldom used without a sexual connotation.

On television, love is depicted by programs like

Love Boat.

Commercials tempt the audience to pay for a call to a love connection,

where companions can be matched or where romantic secrets are told.

Even Christians have a very fuzzy grasp of the meaning of love. The lyrics of all too many contemporary Christian songs use the word love in a way that falls far short of that which the Bible defines and describes.

I love the way you love me are the words of one song. The meaning seems to be,

I love the warm, fuzzy way you treat me and make me feel so good.

Toyota's television commercial says the same thing

I love whatcha do for me Toyota.

No mention is made of God Himself, of who He is.

There is no mention of the chastening of the Lord as a manifestation of His love for us (see Hebrews 12:3-13).

There is no mention of our subordination or service, to God or to others.

Love is a subject of vital importance, not only because of our fuzzy ideas about what love really is, but because love is a matter of highest priority:

But now abide faith, hope, and love, these three; but the greatest of these is love" (1 Corinthians 13:13).

For a number of reasons, Paul regards love as greater even than faith and hope. To show the magnitude of the importance of our study, allow me to summarize these.

(1) Love is greater than faith and hope because love is eternal, while faith and hope are temporal (see 1 Corinthians 13:8-13). Because that which God has promised cannot presently be seen, faith and hope are necessary in this life. But when the perfect comes, when our Lord returns and we are living eternally in His presence, we will no longer need faith, for we shall see Him and experience all that He has promised. Our hope will be fulfilled. Our love for Him, however, will last for all eternity, inspiring our worship and service in His presence.

(2) Love is the appropriate response to God's love and grace, in Christ (see Luke 7:42, 47).

(3) Love is the great commandment and one of the distinguishing marks of a true disciple of our Lord (Matthew 22:37; Mark 12:33; Luke 6:27-36; John 13:35; 15:12-13).

(4) Love facilitates and contributes to Christian unity (John 17:20-26; Colossians 2:2; 3:14).

(5) Love is the lubricant which greatly reduces the friction which can build up between us and others (Ephesians 4:2; 1 Peter 4:8).

(6) Love is a key motive for our obedience to our Lord's commands (John 14:15, 21, 23, 24; 15:10; 21:15-17; 1 John 5:2; 2 John 1:16).

(7) Love is a stabilizing factor in our lives (Ephesians 3:17).

(8) Love is the goal of Paul's teaching as it should be the goal of all Christian teaching (1 Timothy 1:5).

(9) Love is the one command which encompasses all aspects of our Christian life (Romans 13:8-10; 1 Corinthians 16:14).

(10) Love makes our service more profitable to others and to us (1 Corinthians 8:1; 13:1-13).

(11) Love is a key element in our defenses against Satan's attacks and devices (1 Thessalonians 5:8).

(12) Our love can and should be constantly growing (Philippians 1:9; 1 Thessalonians 3:12; 2 Thessalonians 1:3; Hebrews 10:24; 2 Peter 1:7).

(13) Our love can grow cold, especially in difficult times (Matthew 24:12; Revelation 2:4)
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2006-08-17 00:55:52 · 6 answers · asked by Heart 2

Peace and Love

2006-08-17 00:53:57 · 21 answers · asked by digilook 2

I'm greatly concerned about religious fanaticism threatening our society. One religion, in particular, that seems to have a problem with so-called "infidels" is particularly alarming. There seems to be a lot of followers (of many religions) who are intolerant of other religions and are vowing to eliminate non-believers. It seems to me that, by definition, they are being brainwashed. (Webster's definition: persuasion by propaganda or salesmanship). Are you as concerned as I am? To religious fanatics: If you aren't brainwashed, what are you? Don't you have the ability to see that maybe, just maybe, someone is trying to control your thoughts?

2006-08-17 00:53:03 · 12 answers · asked by Mr. Peachy® 7

2006-08-17 00:50:25 · 18 answers · asked by Anonymous

"Preach always. When necessary, use words."
-St. Francis of Assisi




Peace and Love

2006-08-17 00:50:16 · 3 answers · asked by digilook 2

Isn't their moral and ethical codes much more accepting and require more maturity and personal responsibility than just blaming mistakes on 'the Devil' like Christians do

2006-08-17 00:49:44 · 20 answers · asked by Anonymous

Or are people just choosing to believe because it makes them feel more secure?

2006-08-17 00:49:06 · 33 answers · asked by Henry 5

2006-08-17 00:47:23 · 18 answers · asked by Anonymous

2006-08-17 00:47:02 · 3 answers · asked by Heart 2

It's like using a sniper rifle to commemerate JFK.

2006-08-17 00:45:30 · 16 answers · asked by softenthecorners101 2

2006-08-17 00:45:03 · 17 answers · asked by christiansarenotweak 1

Why doesn't the bible mention them?

2006-08-17 00:43:46 · 19 answers · asked by softenthecorners101 2

2006-08-17 00:41:47 · 23 answers · asked by shakes_u 1

Can an explination of three being one is that God created us in his own image. Since God is God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit, and yet still one. Does that relate to Humans the Mind, Humans the Body, and Humans the spirit. We do have a mind, body and spirit. We all have our own trinities yet we are one in the trinities. Is us being three and one relflect how we are created in God's image?

2006-08-17 00:37:39 · 8 answers · asked by christiansarenotweak 1

I think he stole my favorite pen.

2006-08-17 00:36:28 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous

Or, to put it differently, when the Christian God was introduced to Europe, He was better able than other pagan gods to thrive in the European environment, passing His information on through His followers in greater numbers from generation to generation, slowly squeezing the other gods either into their own reduced niches or into extinction?

Would this be a fair way of describing the Christian God's conquest of Europe in the first thousand or so years C.E.?

2006-08-17 00:35:26 · 8 answers · asked by XYZ 7

It wouldn't make any sense for God to create the Devil and give him power to do things against himself right? This would point to a creator above and of God and the Devil. Hmmmmmm

2006-08-17 00:34:50 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous

I really need some experience,strength and hope this morning. I would love it if people shared some ways their faith has helped them through. Thanks in advance. Peace.

2006-08-17 00:29:55 · 8 answers · asked by Theresa Rose 2