Religion & Spirituality - 22 August 2006

2006-08-22 03:14:36 · 24 answers · asked by Anonymous

the finding of security in the permanence of the need for truth in human nature, used as a shield for fear when truth is unattainable. "In order that the area of love and understanding may grow, faith is necessary. Faith holds the character of the individual in a fixed position when comprehension is not sufficient to release the individual to a full scale relationship with the ideal. Faith bridges the gap when understanding fails; when understanding has grown to the necessary point, faith disappears, its work done, and insight is born." [Psychoanalysis and Civilization] analog: hope


http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Delphi/5179/Glossary.htm

2006-08-22 03:14:15 · 18 answers · asked by Anonymous

i dont want to offend so I ask this

2006-08-22 03:14:15 · 8 answers · asked by redirus91 3

Also, how many gods do you believe in? If Jesus was a god, but not the Son of God, is he even important to JW?

I've researched this before, but here is the last site I got some info from, if you are wondering about my source: http://www.relationalconcepts.org/Short%20Topics/jehova's_witness.htm

2006-08-22 03:12:18 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous

2006-08-22 03:11:37 · 22 answers · asked by Miss Flame 2

2006-08-22 03:10:18 · 13 answers · asked by mark m 1

if they ask forgiveness before they die but after they have taken the pills.

2006-08-22 03:10:17 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous

I'm half way through the book so no spoilers please!

2006-08-22 03:10:07 · 7 answers · asked by James T 3

2006-08-22 03:08:22 · 45 answers · asked by Anonymous

I think it's because Santa Claus they only hear about at one time of the year and they hear about God and Jesus every week if not every day. Repetition makes it stick in their heads more and seem more real until finally it is to them.

What do you think the reason is?

2006-08-22 03:07:59 · 27 answers · asked by Anonymous

2006-08-22 03:06:59 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous

My boyfriend is a Christian rapper and is looking for churches to perform at, and I want to email out his information to Pentecostal churches because they're open to different forms of praise and worship. I really need websites, but will accept phone #'s to contact the churches. (they dont have to be in Nashville, but please relatively close) Thank you all so much!

2006-08-22 03:05:52 · 3 answers · asked by brunettebeauty428 1

Why do most practising Christians eat pork even though, according to Bible, they shouldn't? I've heard some people say that it's forbidden according to Old Testament, which is for jews, and that they rely on New Testament. But the thing is New Testament says also not to eat pork.

In the book of Leviticus, chapter 11, v. 7, it is recorded that God declares the pig to be unclean for believers. Then, in verse 8, God says: “You must not eat their meat or touch their carcasses; they are unclean for you”. This command is repeated in Deuteronomy 14:7-8. Then, in Isaiah 65:2-4, and 66:17, God issues a stern warning against those who eat pork.

Some people are aware of this prohibition from God, but they say that they can eat pork because St. Paul said that all food is clean in his letter to the Romans 14:20. St. Paul said this because he believed (as he wrote in his letter to the Ephesians 2:14-15) that Jesus had abolished the Law with all its commandments and regulations. He seems, h

2006-08-22 03:05:50 · 40 answers · asked by 5445 1

thats why good practising muslims are doing their best to crash airliners filled with innocent people, bomb schools with children and bomb trains in india packed with poor people and children going to work and to schools.
did you know that our holy prophet (PBUH) told muslims to kill anyone who does not conform to islam and rape non muslim women and convert them to islam by force?

do you know that our religion means peace?

2006-08-22 03:04:33 · 17 answers · asked by ahmed 1

2006-08-22 03:03:58 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous

For me I would say the cup has run over.
It's all how you look at it.

Peace Be With You,
Debra

2006-08-22 03:03:09 · 22 answers · asked by Debra M. Wishing Peace To All 7

2006-08-22 03:03:06 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous

Read your church history, God's sovereignty won out at the Synod of Dordt. Dutch delegates plus 26 more from 8 countries decided that man's "free choice" belonged to God alone. Yet every YA response I've seen supports Man making the call. A lack of education, perhaps? How else could this doctrine have completely reversed itself?

2006-08-22 03:01:03 · 10 answers · asked by ccrider 7

2006-08-22 03:00:44 · 17 answers · asked by ? 2

Athieths try to say the Bible story of creation is wrong because Evolution is science. The Bible tells us that people and dinosaurs (dragons, Leviothan, Behemoth, unicorns) lived togeather. Evolution says that dinosaurs died out millions of years before man appeared. But all around the world there are inprints of dinosaurs and human footprints togeather (even overlapping)in the same rock. This shows that the Bible is correct and Evolution is just a theory.

Is there any thing in the Koran that shows that Evolution is not correct?

2006-08-22 03:00:36 · 12 answers · asked by tim 6

2006-08-22 03:00:26 · 11 answers · asked by Aimee Y 1

How looooooong you can protect your religous stupid thoughts. Please dont let your children to fall in the same pit. You have a chance to save them. C U. later.

2006-08-22 03:00:20 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous

Would you be willing sacrifice alot of things just to be good in GOD'S eyes...... Well not to become perfect but at least similar to perfect because I understand nobody can be perfect only but God!!!!

2006-08-22 02:59:50 · 17 answers · asked by Anonymous

We see that things and particularly living beings come into existence of a sudden, instantaneously. But, while things which appear suddenly out of a simple substance should be simple, formless, and without art, they are created with an art and beauty needing much skill, they are decorated with painstaking embroideries needing much time, and adorned with wonderful arts needing many tools. Thus, just as each of these instantaneous, wondrous arts and beautiful combinations indicates to the necessary existence of an All-Wise Creator and the Unity of His Dominicality, so too in their totality do they show in most brilliant fashion an infinitely Powerful, infinitely Wise Necessarily Existent One.

So now, O stupefied denier! Come on, with what can you explain this? With Nature, which is unconscious, impotent, and ignorant like you? Or do you want to make an infinite mistake and call that All-Holy Maker 'Nature', and on the pretext of naming Him that, attribute the miracles of His Power to it and perpetrate an impossibility compounded a thousand times over?

2006-08-22 02:58:44 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous

With a many rap artists? They sing about killing people, have gunshots in the background of their music.

Then they wear crosses, and thank god in speeches and in their albums.

2006-08-22 02:58:42 · 11 answers · asked by ? 6

. . . in the Creator but NOT in the god of organized religions.

I notice that whenever a mention the Creator people assume I'm a Christian - far from it! It is an understandable mistake, but I do not like organized religions because in my view they create their own gods to fit their own agendas.

Personally, I think the Creator is beyond our ability to comprehend fully and hate the way the Great Spirit is protrayed by organized religion - do you agree? disagree? why?

2006-08-22 02:57:54 · 10 answers · asked by bregweidd 6

A tried to answer a question that was deleted about sex and nuns and how they can go without it. I admit I had to laugh as although it is pleasant I do not place sex in the same category as food, shelter, and air. Does someone actually believe that they cannot live without it?

2006-08-22 02:57:03 · 6 answers · asked by Debra M. Wishing Peace To All 7

Obviously, you are going to say "well they are not true christians". I've met many people, girls in particular. If the conversation permits, I ask them what they believe in. They answer "I'm a Christian". Now this is after they just swore repeatedly, possibly just had a threesome, was all over a guy, just beat someone up, just told someone that they hate them and they should die, did drugs. And they reply "I'm a Christian"

Has the Christian religion fallen?

What do you think?

2006-08-22 02:56:39 · 54 answers · asked by ? 6

The more I look at people who claim to be highly religious - be they Christians, Jews, Muslims, whatever - they seem to be the most judgemental biogoted close-minded unwelcoming people I know. They're the ones committing wars, murder, hatred, and racism. Are they the devil in disguise?

2006-08-22 02:55:32 · 20 answers · asked by Anonymous

You can not design an scientific experiment to determine the existence or nonexistence of God (for now) and that subject is pure philosophical.

On the other hand you can question the claims of religion and individuals and argue against them (every religion have their own versions about how the universe begun, life appear, purpose of life etc. - if, maybe, not all are wrong, cannot be right in the same time)

My question: why is questioning a religion claim is tabu an questioning anything else is not?
Do you have the full freedom to question religion?

2006-08-22 02:52:45 · 20 answers · asked by a theist 2