Religion & Spirituality - 20 August 2006

2006-08-20 08:39:12 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous

2006-08-20 08:37:50 · 23 answers · asked by Anonymous

Sorry to get started on this again, but... it's really been bugging me that so many people thought that Jesus Christ used grape juice instead of wine. In today's gospel, the word wine was used over and over. So I got to thinking. Is this just another way that folks like to interpret the Bible and make it say what they want to believe.
My dad was a dyed in the wool Southern Baptist. He preached all the time against homsexuality. But when I would bring up the subject that he had divorced three times, then he changed the Bible to fit his thoughts.
What to you think?
It just seems so hypocritical.
By the way, I'm a Roman Catholic.

2006-08-20 08:37:02 · 17 answers · asked by Anonymous

Everyone looked like they were having fun in the 60's and 70's and people seemed less violent. Woodstock in the 70's was not violent and peaceful while in the 90's, it was a disaster.

2006-08-20 08:36:11 · 21 answers · asked by A. 1

Is there some cut-off point I should be aware of, or is it more of an all or nothing sort of thing?

2006-08-20 08:35:25 · 35 answers · asked by Anonymous

If people could make up for their sins by their own goodness, then there would have been no need for Jesus's sacrifice. In the bible, God didn't call on on certain people to perform miracles or spread the word as a reward for their righteousness, but because of grace. Was Saul a model Christian before he was chosen? Imperfection is imperfection. There's no such thing as being almost perfect.

2006-08-20 08:35:09 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous

is the Anti-Christ or Anti Anointed they two are the same.

2006-08-20 08:33:51 · 12 answers · asked by kritikos43 5

Hey
my day off ......just checking in!!1
The bombs have not made it... to theUSA!? (yet)
Thats great! God is Good!
Freedom is good agree or do you disagree?

2006-08-20 08:32:56 · 19 answers · asked by beantown10955 3

Is lululemon a cult?

2006-08-20 08:31:46 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous

http://www.publiceye.org/magazine/chrisre1.html

2006-08-20 08:31:40 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous

Islam permits defending a countries self in the case of being attacked. commonly known as "Jihad". however it forbids the killing of women, children & the elderly. how exactly is Isreal defending itself by killing innocent 4 year old children, burning 8 month old babies.Israel fights against Lebanon, Palestine, Iraq, and the list goes on.. but they give those countries no right to fight back? Fair isn't it? How wouldyou feel losing a father? Having your mother burnt? suffering from bruises yourself and having an innocent new born being killed but having no opportuinty to fight back? bring this sad pathetic heart aching feeling into your home!!! your shoes!!! feel what these people are feeling and then tell me how Israel is defending itself?

2006-08-20 08:31:02 · 13 answers · asked by 786 1

cuz when Stephen was being stoned he said "Lord, forgive them for they know not what they do" Isnt everybody accountable for their own sins

2006-08-20 08:30:09 · 14 answers · asked by chained6002 1

When you think about it, religion is man made because of all the spiritual texts are written by man and interpreted by man. I'm not throwing God/Allah out of the picture, just throwing out the notion of religion.

2006-08-20 08:29:47 · 19 answers · asked by zigspc2002 2

2006-08-20 08:29:34 · 9 answers · asked by kritikos43 5

i know there's a lot version of bibles.
king james, roman catholic, old testiment, new testiment, etc.
and that was made by human like us.

so why don't you change it's content or fill it with anything as you like for your best?
you're still a christian anyway...

2006-08-20 08:28:59 · 30 answers · asked by PHIG 3

Everything except truth can be proven wrong. So why believe in anything else besides the truth that is right there in front of you? Look outside and ask yourself, "How?" and you know that-- like a seed-- it was planted and from it came you and everything else you see and cannot see.

2006-08-20 08:28:36 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous

2006-08-20 08:27:30 · 14 answers · asked by cognito44 3

Muslims believe they are saved by deeds. and God forgives every thing.
Christians know The Blood salvation of Jesus and are saved by Faith in the Holy Father and our Lord. is this about correct?

2006-08-20 08:26:49 · 11 answers · asked by kritikos43 5

2006-08-20 08:26:16 · 8 answers · asked by cognito44 3

2006-08-20 08:25:33 · 39 answers · asked by cognito44 3

Do you think that it is right for a preacher to tell a girl who got pregnant before marriage to go before the church and apologize for it?(getting pregnant before marriage)

2006-08-20 08:23:19 · 16 answers · asked by Callie 2

Clearly it is not from any religion? Or is it?

2006-08-20 08:23:10 · 32 answers · asked by cognito44 3

As salt resolved in the ocean
I was swallowed in God's sea,
Past faith, past unbelieving,
Past doubt, past certainty.
Suddenly in my bosom
A star shone clear and bright;
All the suns of heaven
Vanished in that star's light

Happy the one who has become like us;
who has become all surrender and contenment;
Who has become the pledge of love and madness;
who has become a jewel in the sea of purity.


Come, come, whoever you are.
Wonderer, worshipper, lover of leaving.
It doesn't matter.
Ours is not a caravan of despair.
Come, even if you have broken your vow
a thousand times
Come, yet again, come, come.

Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that

you have built against it.”


Lord, said David, since you do not need us,
why did you create these two worlds?
Reality replied: O prisoner of time,
I was a secret treasure of kindness and generosity,
and I wished this treasure to be known,
so I created a mirror: its shining face, the heart;
its darkened back, the world;
The back would please you if you've never seen the face.
Has anyone ever produced a mirror out of mud and straw?
Yet clean away the mud and straw,
and a mirror might be revealed.
Until the juice ferments a while in the cask,
it isn't wine. If you wish your heart to be bright,
you must do a little work.
My King addressed the soul of my flesh:
You return just as you left.
Where are the traces of my gifts?
We know that alchemy transforms copper into gold.
This Sun doesn't want a crown or robe from God's grace.
He is a hat to a hundred bald men,
a covering for ten who were naked.
Jesus sat humbly on the back of a donkey, my child!
How could a zephyr ride an donkey?
Spirit, find your way, in seeking lowness like a stream.
Reason, tread the path of selflessness into eternity.
Remember God so much that you are forgotten.
Let the caller and the called disappear;
be lost in the Call.


We are as the flute, and the music in us is from thee;
we are as the mountain and the echo in us is from thee.
We are as pieces of chess engaged in victory and defeat:
our victory and defeat is from thee, O thou whose qualities are comely!
Who are we, O Thou soul of our souls,
that we should remain in being beside thee?
We and our existences are really non-existence;
thou art the absolute Being which manifests the perishable.
We all are lions, but lions on a banner:
because of the wind they are rushing onward from moment to moment.
Their onward rush is visible, and the wind is unseen:
may that which is unseen not fail from us!
Our wind whereby we are moved and our being are of thy gift;
our whole existence is from thy bringing into being.

2006-08-20 08:22:59 · 8 answers · asked by Afshin A. 1

Since you have ZERO proof to support your belief, why can't you just admit that you have FAITH. Your FAITH is placed in yourselves and other people. You trust them to have the right answers, which you really don't understand well enough to critique. So you are trusting them with your eternity. WOW!!! You guys really have a lot of FAITH.

2006-08-20 08:21:54 · 23 answers · asked by unicorn 4

1) is it because you were taught so from childhood ? (think hard, dont lie)

2) is it because you had a near-death/ trauma/ almost-a-miracle experiance in your life ?

3) Is it because you need SOCIAL acceptance? ((this is a serious thought, because you want your kids to be like that and/or you need others to see that you are a good person... and much more reasons))

4) Is it because you found your self feeling the most familiar feeling of being ALONE and found out the best solution is to find friendship in god (either real or not).?

5) Family Pressure (certain cultures)?

Iam a man of science,

i donot believe in spontaneous generation (conjured from thin air, supernatural). i believe in FACTS, either "abiogenesis" (evolution from pre existing abiotic, inorganic substances and/or cosmic origin {spores/ meteores/ comet tail fragments containing water as ice })

I DONOT believe that god exists. but i have a 0.0001% belief bcoz my parents INCORPORATED that god exsits into my head.

2006-08-20 08:21:50 · 29 answers · asked by The AnswerMan ? (J.L.A) 4

John 9:31 now we know that God heart not sinners,

2006-08-20 08:20:51 · 13 answers · asked by kritikos43 5

which include the scientific fact that the natural world is moving toward disorder, not a higher order?

2006-08-20 08:17:17 · 18 answers · asked by Preacher 1

Jesus made a number of very clear statements about money and wealth in the Bible. For example:

Matthew 6:19

Do not lay up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy and where thieves break in and steal; but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust destroys and where thieves do not break in and steal. For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.

Matthew 6:24
No one can serve two masters; for either he will hate the one and love the other, or else he will be loyal to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and Money.

The message is clear. If you want to follow Jesus, you need to "sell your possessions and give to the poor." It is a very simple message, and easy to do. Have you done it? Chances are you own a computer, pay for an Internet connection every month, live in a home or apartment, have a car, etc.

2006-08-20 08:15:58 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous

I've never heard of it, can anyone explain how you grow a soul?


Thanks.

2006-08-20 08:15:53 · 20 answers · asked by Left the building 7

Im looking for a network thats christian based myspace/facebook kind of thing - does any one know of one?

2006-08-20 08:14:16 · 6 answers · asked by Caitybell 1