Religion & Spirituality - 18 August 2006

God the father is like the SUN, and Jesus Christ is like the sun's rays. The rays have always proceeded from the sun, just like Jesus has always proceeded from the father. The holy spirit is the warmth you feel if you are in the sun's presence.

2006-08-18 14:34:37 · 28 answers · asked by Anonymous

I think people are afriad to belive because then they have to be held accontable for there mistakes they make ,,,, but if the belive in christ he done took care of that for you .... that's why he hung on a cross just for us ...and besides if you don't belive why are you answering my question?????if you don't care about God why are you here ?????you must be weary of your on beliefs....

2006-08-18 14:33:04 · 21 answers · asked by littlebitty06 3

If you do, explain how it can coexist with christianity.

2006-08-18 14:30:25 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous

how do you know you are forgiven???

2006-08-18 14:29:02 · 23 answers · asked by ? 2

Should tradition of the church be on the same level as the Scriptures? What does the Bible say about tradition? How did Jesus and the apostles view Scripture and tradition?

2006-08-18 14:28:17 · 21 answers · asked by darkangel1111 5

Is It? It Think it Is...

2006-08-18 14:27:32 · 32 answers · asked by whatsupsasha 1

It’s good to see religion being banned from public schools, a step that certainly protects our children from a potentially very dangerous and damaging belief system.

Should we promote this trend and push for further bans on religious education and religious meetings being held in public places, television, churches and such like. I bit like having bans on smoking in various places because smoking is damaging to your health. Religion is really no different in this regard, except that is more damaging.

2006-08-18 14:25:23 · 19 answers · asked by Brenda's World 4

. For me and for many Atheists I know, the realization of our Atheism has been extremely freeing and has opened us to our own happiness.
Atheism helps us to see reality as it actually is, without the mental filters of superstition preventing us from directly experiencing it.
Atheism opens us to experience our selves, without the debasing idea that we are innately sinful.
Atheism allows us to experience true interpersonal love, without any imaginary supernatural intervention.
Atheism gives us the freedom to think for ourselves, to construct our own meanings. We each can choose what we think has value.
Atheism shows us that we can gain meaning by seeking to make our world a better place, for ourselves and our posterity.
Atheism teaches us to take responsibility for our behaviors in the here and now, not in an imaginary afterlife.
Atheism lets us see that we have to make choices about our future. No big daddy god is going to protect us from bad decisions.
Atheism teaches us to treasure this moment, this life, and this world — because we realize that it’s all we have.
Atheism also can work well for free societies. Free nations with high levels of Atheism — such as Sweden, the Netherlands, Australia, Switzerland and Japan — are among the healthiest, wealthiest, most educated, and most free societies on Earth.

2006-08-18 14:24:28 · 17 answers · asked by Mr. Mojo Risin 3

2006-08-18 14:21:42 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous

I've noticed something about Christianity that puts questions in my head, but before I explain I want to make it perfectly clear that this is in NO way slanderizing the Christian religion. This is NOT meant to offend Christianity. Okay, now.

I find it odd that most (not all) Christians give credit to all things good that they have done to God. For example, a family has a roof over their head, thank God. It isn't because they worked their whole lives to make it to where they are today. It is because God provided them with the house.

I know this is a useless question, and will get no one anywhere, but sometimes you need a good conversation topic. So...have at it.

2006-08-18 14:21:15 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous

2006-08-18 14:20:42 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous

and this all-loving god hasn’t prevented them. This is known as the Problem of Evil (also known as theodicy), and I think that it is one of the biggest problems for those attempting to prove the existence of the Christian god. How can anybody explain the existence of a loving, all-powerful god, while also knowing the bad things that happen to all of us and the terrible things that happen to far too many?
The ancient Greek philosopher Epicurus summed it up well when he wrote these ideas:

Either God wants to abolish evil, and cannot; or he can and does not want to.
If he wants to, but cannot, he is impotent.
If he can, but does not want to, he is wicked.
If, as they say, God can abolish evil, and God really wants to do it, why is there evil in the world?
And yet the idea of an all-knowing, all-powerful, and all-good god with free will won’t go away. So, here we are discussing this subject again. It’s good to remember that there have been over 2500 gods created by humankind. Monotheists don’t believe in all but one of them. Atheists don’t believe in just one more.
In fact, the existence of honest and kind Atheists is another proof that the Christian god, who demands belief, doesn’t exist. If this all-good god existed, it would want everybody to be saved — even Atheists. If this all-knowing god existed, it would know that Atheists just want real proof of its existence. If this god were all-powerful it would be able to give unambiguous proof of its existence. It hasn’t. Therefore this god doesn’t exist.

2006-08-18 14:18:40 · 11 answers · asked by Mr. Mojo Risin 3

I personally believe that God and Jesus Christ were consumers of the Holy Ganja plant, what think ye?

2006-08-18 14:18:26 · 13 answers · asked by ? 1

Who is the original creator of God?

2006-08-18 14:18:24 · 11 answers · asked by semaver c 2

Because they buried him next to a bunch of Christians.

2006-08-18 14:16:25 · 18 answers · asked by Anonymous

I am not mentioning names nor am I trying to be rude. I do not understand. I do not hate nor do I understand why some people feel such strongly. What causes such hatred and such a strong desire for returning good with evil in your opinion? Why do some people not just walk away from a question that is not rude that they do not like?

2006-08-18 14:16:16 · 16 answers · asked by Debra M. Wishing Peace To All 7

Im Jewish and to the best of my knowledge no Rabbi living now or in the past ever advocated the murder of innocent people. Why do religious Muslims do so? It seems that when Muslims cant act on their anti semitism because of security fences or military action they turn on each other. It seems very common for Shiites and Sunnis to kill each other without much thought. Reform Jews and Orthodox Jews sometimes have differences; such as is it ok to drive on the sabbath or not; but their differences remain as dialogue and debate. When Moslems have religious differences, they settle it through Jihad.

2006-08-18 14:13:01 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous

I do, AND I love God.

2006-08-18 14:11:23 · 32 answers · asked by Anonymous

2006-08-18 14:11:16 · 37 answers · asked by Anonymous

All the Christians say we are going to Hell in a hand basket so I'm just curious if I'm going to have company.
Road Trip anyone?

2006-08-18 14:10:25 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous

I felt good for a while today and then I felt something evil above and all around me and then all over me. My thoughts raced and I had to fight to keep them in order. I was in class and there are a few men who I dont think like me at all. I was looking at them when they didnt know it and I would just space out and have these thoughts of slapping them over and over again and making them afraid of me. I wondered what would happen to me if I did that. Im to small to really hurt them but I thought it would be a relief to scream at them for revenge. Then I realize Im spacing and staring and have to drag my thoughts back to not thinking that. I wonder if I should tell a counselor this ? I dont seem to get help from them and I get more from yahoo answers. I wonder where is the place of being happy and going on with my life ? Truthfully, I am fed up with counselors...

2006-08-18 14:09:18 · 14 answers · asked by trinity_loves_neo1 1

This immaterial god would have an immaterial mind, and the only minds that we have any examples of result from physical brains.

The only invisible, immaterial things that I know of are ideas, like mathematic, scientific and social concepts. Although ideas can be powerful in moving people to action, they are human creations and have no separate reality. If humankind were to disappear tomorrow, so would ideas — including the idea of God.
The English language even has a term for this — “reify” — which means “to regard something abstract as real or concrete.” The god idea is about as abstract as possible, with no real evidence for existence. However, people have been regarding some god or gods as real for thousands of years.

2006-08-18 14:08:46 · 12 answers · asked by Mr. Mojo Risin 3

2006-08-18 14:08:17 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous

The question of our origins was settled well over 100 years ago, as everyone well knows. We are the product of an unthinking, undirected natural process in an uncreated universe. That being the case, can we all not just rejoice in the good and useful qualities that evolution has led to, such as intelligence, empathy, compassion and love, rather than invoking a deity as the source of these things? Let us be grateful for what we like about our species, and strive to minimise the bad, and do these things for their own sake simply because they are good things to do, instead of with one eye on a reward in a non-existent afterlife. Let's make a better world without religious beliefs and all the division and conflict that such beliefs lead to. It really is long past time for our species to grow up.

2006-08-18 14:07:50 · 35 answers · asked by Anonymous

Billy Graham one day gets in a car accident and lose his memory. He forgets that he was ever a Christian. If the Billy Graham after the accident becomes an Athiest, does he go to heaven or hell when he dies?

What if the opposite happens, a man who is an athiest gets in a car accident, lose his memory and becomes a christian after the accident. Is he going to heaven to hell?

2006-08-18 14:05:48 · 33 answers · asked by Anonymous

2006-08-18 14:04:57 · 36 answers · asked by Anonymous

2006-08-18 14:04:35 · 13 answers · asked by Harvard 4

. If there really were a personal god, the existence of this god would be an obvious fact in the universe. God would be reaching into events in the world, and bypassing the laws of physics to influence the outcomes. People who lost limbs might have them re-appear. Babies killed in fires might come back to life. Other true miracles would happen. I’ve seen none of this, and I know of no one else who has either. In fact, there is no reliable evidence of any divine intervention, ever! God fails the reality test of everyday life.

2006-08-18 14:03:30 · 15 answers · asked by Mr. Mojo Risin 3

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qAmljaj5stA

2006-08-18 14:02:21 · 18 answers · asked by Anonymous

Without being forced to?

I've never read it, and was just wondering.

2006-08-18 14:02:19 · 39 answers · asked by Anonymous