Religion & Spirituality - 19 August 2006

Are they real....or can it be explained??

2006-08-19 05:21:48 · 12 answers · asked by julean33 2

2006-08-19 05:20:40 · 34 answers · asked by Anonymous

I can say, "I don't believe the Earth is round" or "I don't believe the Earth rotates around the Sun." But my belief doesn't really matter. Nature does not require belief in order for its processes to happen. It moves all the same, with or without my belief or my perception (yes the falling tree makes noise).

So how is it that evolution, unique among scientific concepts, is subjected to one's opinion?

Responders, please avoid telling me that evolution is just a "theory." "Theory" in the scientific sense carries a different connotation than "hunch." Within science, gravity is just a theory after all. Understand the scientific use of "theory" before throwing it back at me.

Related to this question, try this experiment: Try holding a 20 lb bowling ball above your foot, saying "I don't believe in gravity," and letting go. Did your "belief" change the result?

2006-08-19 05:19:00 · 15 answers · asked by ? 4

2006-08-19 05:18:58 · 13 answers · asked by zharif z 1

How is sin possible if people don't know the rules?

If the goal is for everyone to be in heaven, wouldn't it be better for Christians to keep their religion to themselves?

Please answer all 3 questions as briefly & clearly as possible if you want to be considered for "Best Answer."

Thanks.

DISCLAIMER: I am an atheist, these questions are based on general Christian doctrine and are unrelated to my personal beliefs.

2006-08-19 05:18:33 · 27 answers · asked by Left the building 7

If god is all-powerful, wouldn't "he" be the engineer of all our sins? If he has given us free will to decide for ourselves, then he has relinquished power. If the devil can push a person to sin, the devil also has some kind of divine power (in that he is invisible, yet capable of changing our lives). Again, god has relinqueshed power to the devil. So he is not all-powerful.

Which is it? Is he all powerful or not?

2006-08-19 05:15:53 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous

Why don't they really want to deal with Humanity?

2006-08-19 05:15:31 · 9 answers · asked by pickle head 6

Okay, here is the situation: one friend visited a "doctor" or as i believe, a fortune teller/seer/channeller tyype. this "doctor" tells her that her husband is in danger of going crazy b/c he has two girlfriends who are putting "magic" of some type in his body, making him not interested in his wife, in hopes that he will leave her. In the past (she has told me for months now that she believes he has two girlfriends. the husband is a good friend of mine and, while it isn't completely impossible, lets just say i highly doubt she's correct. Yes, he likeley has had an affair or two and prehaps goes to prostitues from time to time but i cannot see where a man whom i know for sure runs a business from 7 am Monay-Friday until 8-9 PM and on Saturdays and Sundays tutors me from noon til 6 PM or so...with what time does he have a girlfreind? Can it be that the fortune teller "saw" me, and the "magic love potion " is really just the Holy Spirit working on this mans' heart?

2006-08-19 05:14:18 · 5 answers · asked by karen i 5

People have been wrong before in the past thinking that they were in the end times. They never really had a definite sign.

Today however, there are signs that I think people are missing.

Sign 1: Can anyone can tell me when will terrorism end? The answer: when the terrorists get what they want. It is a growing religion within the muslim community fundamental terrorism and will not end. It will be controlled for a while but as it grows at the rate it does, soon it will be out of control. It says in the bible that people will come out of Magadon to make war. Magadon is believed to be the Middle East and muslim country.

Sign 2: The sun will scorch people. When do you think global warming will stop? Do you really think it will? UNLIKELY. Hence, being scorched by the sun is just around the corner - the next 50 - 100 years.

Sign 3: Earthquakes. Do you think we are heading for bigger earthquakes? The earth is overdue for a shift in molten activity.

2006-08-19 05:13:44 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous

sinned against? Doesn't Jesus tell us that before we offer a sacrifice to God for forgiveness to seek the forgiveness of the ones we have done ill too?

2006-08-19 05:11:27 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous

I serve in my church and I like to serve in nursery 2 where all the 1 year old babies get together. They are so cute and so loveable.

2006-08-19 05:09:11 · 12 answers · asked by Wenice W 3

2006-08-19 05:06:56 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous

I'm talking about the kind of love God has for his creation, and the kind of love he calls his followers to express to one another.

No cliches please! No 1 Corinthians 13 etc, I've heard all the standard answers, but I'm looking for more!

What does it truly mean to love? To love God? To love others? To love your enemies? Who is God, and how is God love? What does love look like in practical terms?

What did Jesus really mean when he said "love one another as I have loved you"?

2006-08-19 05:05:57 · 15 answers · asked by ravingsquirrel 1

2006-08-19 05:05:11 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous

I want to know what we can do in this country to make you stop hating us. What does it take? We will not bend to forced beliefs, but I don't think that is what you are so angry about. I have studied Osama Bin Laden and his past, and understand why he is so angry with us, but I do not approve of his methods. Why can it not be seen that we are not all out to use the Muslim community to our benefit? Would you strike me down for the acts of my fellow countymen? I can assure you that I (albeit alot of my countrymen feel otherwise) would not do that to you or yours.

2006-08-19 05:04:23 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous

I usually do at first but then I am glad to have forgiveness.
I like to be free!

2006-08-19 05:03:43 · 17 answers · asked by Anonymous

I just got off the phone with my mother and she told me that a couple streets away from her some hate crimes were committed. The houses, the cars, and even the public road was painted and carved into awful symbols denegrating peoples ethnicities and beliefs. This is a fairly small rural northeastern CT town.. the type where nothing much usually happens so the whole community is in shock.

When we are supposed to love our neighbors, why do we allow such things to occur?

2006-08-19 04:55:24 · 28 answers · asked by genaddt 7

2006-08-19 04:54:16 · 18 answers · asked by whynotaskjesus 1

I have read numerous post from christians that if you don't accept Jesus then you will go to hell and be dammed for eternity. How do christians reconcile this with the fact that the majority of the human race is not christian.. are they all doomed?
Additionally how do you reconcile the fact that until the 17th the 18th century the vast majority of the world had no way of even knowing of christianity. Even today there are tribes in Amazonia that have almost no contact with the outside world. Are you saying that the innocent children raised in those societies are doomed??? How can you be so crass and self-serving????

2006-08-19 04:54:04 · 43 answers · asked by trouthunter 4

2006-08-19 04:51:22 · 15 answers · asked by Julie 2

What's the common thing between Jesus Crist -Moses from Egypt-Jean d' Ark-Dalai Lama-Mother Mary?

2006-08-19 04:51:15 · 4 answers · asked by Helen from Greece 1

2006-08-19 04:50:46 · 25 answers · asked by evelyn 3

i need to know now

2006-08-19 04:49:32 · 5 answers · asked by Justin E 1

if so if you have at any time encountered with ghosts or spirits please furnish

2006-08-19 04:48:05 · 14 answers · asked by evelyn 3

2006-08-19 04:47:00 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous

2006-08-19 04:46:11 · 35 answers · asked by ? 7

any incidents in your life became true which were forecast by palmists and astrologers?

2006-08-19 04:44:28 · 9 answers · asked by evelyn 3

Is it alright for a person to be re-bapitized?

2006-08-19 04:43:57 · 23 answers · asked by BYRD 1

.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.

2006-08-19 04:41:19 · 24 answers · asked by Mr. Mojo Risin 3

2006-08-19 04:40:17 · 21 answers · asked by Anonymous