Religion & Spirituality - 30 August 2006

"You are anointed to be prophets that you may make known Him who has loved and saved you, and may go about the world evidently inspired to show forth His praise, and make His name glorious. That anointing calls and fits you to be priests, mediators between God and man, bringing God to men, and by pleading and persuasion, and the presentation of the truth, drawing men to God. That unction calls and fits you to be kings, exercising authority over the little monarchy of your own natures, and over the men round you, who will bow in submission whenever they come in contact with a man all evidently aflame with the love of Jesus Christ, and filled with His Spirit. The world is hard and rude; the world is blind and stupid; the world often fails to know its best friends and its truest benefactors; but there is no crust of stupidity so crass and dense but that through it there will pass the penetrating shafts of light that ray from the face of a man who walks in fellowship with Jesus."

2006-08-30 04:11:03 · 11 answers · asked by Jay Z 6

Many of the replies to the question of Jesus being married state that if he was and had sex with his wife he would have some how stopped being pure. Why is sex impure? If it is so terrible then why does the most amazing thing in the world - new life - come from it? Sex between a loving couple is an expression of love, so why would Jesus (hypothetically) sleeping with his wife to express his love and create new life be so impure?

2006-08-30 04:10:38 · 25 answers · asked by Jooles 4

what does that mean? there are no stupid questions, just stupid people?

2006-08-30 04:10:27 · 1 answers · asked by practicalwizard 6

Sorry a few minutes ago i asked a similiar question but made a misatake , it is actually from Ephesians Chapter 5 not 4..

2006-08-30 04:07:09 · 7 answers · asked by jollypig 3

2006-08-30 04:06:58 · 38 answers · asked by cleo the pussycat 5

I would like to see how many jews, christians, mormon, catholic..... or any other religions there are in Yahoo. Please participate.

2006-08-30 04:03:27 · 28 answers · asked by im that short person! 2

when the whole bible is full of threats to keep you in line?

2006-08-30 04:03:27 · 23 answers · asked by Pale_13 2

2006-08-30 04:03:24 · 2 answers · asked by Anonymous

2006-08-30 04:02:44 · 25 answers · asked by Anonymous

2006-08-30 04:02:40 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous

Why or Why not?

I emphasize that you are there to observe only.

2006-08-30 04:01:03 · 34 answers · asked by Pablito 5

is this what sums up into your mind when you read passages from the bible?

2006-08-30 04:00:43 · 25 answers · asked by Pale_13 2

2006-08-30 03:58:13 · 9 answers · asked by iwanttobeboring 1

Imagine teaching your child that walking across the street with a blindfold on is healthy. Would you be outraged if I did that?

2006-08-30 03:58:06 · 41 answers · asked by Real Friend 6

Me and my boyfriend have a child together and we are madly in love with each other. We are looking forward to getting married someday. He doesn't believe in the Bible or God, and I am a preachers daughter that attends church. We are very happy together. We are having the problem of being told by family that we are not allowed to be together in a relationship because we do not have the same religious beliefs. Is it not true that love can conquer all?

2006-08-30 03:57:20 · 23 answers · asked by busyliz 3

Are you an Atheist that became a Christian? do you know any?.
If so, what brought you, or them to the Lord

2006-08-30 03:57:19 · 5 answers · asked by thunder 1

2006-08-30 03:56:27 · 15 answers · asked by jay-z 3

According to law all my kids will be Gods Chosen People and I will be the father of those GCPs.

There will be no need to send them to Church, teach them New Testament etc. Complete peace of mind, what do you think?

2006-08-30 03:55:39 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous

2006-08-30 03:53:19 · 11 answers · asked by semaver c 2

noahs ark and somson and delilah.

noahs ark is a made up story if the world was flooded to the mountain tops then where did all that water go? and it is impossible to collect two of every animal on the planet and put them on a giant ark that would be impossible to build with just a few people. and if noah and his family were the only ones who got on the ark that means every one else would be dead.

and about samson and delilah just relize how silly the whole thing sounds.

2006-08-30 03:51:58 · 31 answers · asked by Pale_13 2

A man goes to a shop, picks up a beautiful cup and says "my god this cup is so beautiful" and suddenly the cup starts talking to the man. The cup starts saying "O man, I am beautiful right now, but what was the state of my being before the pot-maker made me a beautiful pot?

Before I was sheer mud and the pot-maker pulled me out of the mud from the mother earth and I felt why that pot-maker is so cruel, he has separated me from mother earth. I felt a tremendous pain. And the pot-maker said, "Just wait." Then he put me and churned me, when I was churned I felt so giddy, so painful, so stressful, I asked the pot-maker "Why are you so cruel?" the pot-maker said, "Just wait." Then he put me into a oven and heated me up, I felt completely burnt. There was tremendous pain and I asked the pot-maker "Why are you so cruel?" and the pot-maker said, "Just wait."

Then he poured hot paint on me and I felt the fume and the pain, I again asked the pot-maker "Why are you so cruel?" and the pot-maker said, "Just wait." Then again he put me into an oven and heated it to make me more strong, I felt life is so painful hence pleaded the pot-maker and the pot-maker said, "Just wait." And after that the pot-maker took me to the mirror and said, "Now look at yourself". And surprisingly I found myself so beautiful.

When god gives us lot of trouble, it appears god is very cruel but we need patience and we have to wait. When bad things happen to good people, they become better and not bitter.

So all difficulties are part of a cosmic design to make us really beautiful. We need patience, we need understanding, we need the commitment to go through in a very calm and wise way. So all difficulties are not to tumble us but to humble us.

With this understanding, let us not be against difficulty. Understand difficulty is a part of a purifying process. A purifying process at present which we cannot understand and hence we need faith and we need trust.

Let us understand how to handle stress with this background. You can be affected by stress from two angles. There is an internal stress and there is an external stress. Nobody can avoid stress; one has to only manage stress. Managing stress can be internal and also external.

The internal stress is; your thoughts can create stress, your values can create stress, and your beliefs can create stress, meaning thereby your stress is coming from your mind more from the outer world. Many people suffer not from heart attack - they suffer from thought-attack.

For example, when somebody says you are an idiot, we get so hurt, we get so victimised. My boss has called me an idiot and I am feeling tremendous pain. Now where does this stress come from? If my boss has called me an idiot, I have to ask myself "am I an idiot"?

If I am an idiot nothing to be upset about; and if I am not an idiot, then also nothing to be upset about! It is the perception of the boss. But why do we suffer from that stress? I suffer not because my boss has called me an idiot but because of the thought-attack.

I may say the boss has called me an idiot; therefore I am suffering? It is true that the words are unpleasant. But what hurts is the interpretation of the unpleasant word. The thought in me interprets. That is pain and therefore it becomes pain. Much of our stress is our mind interpreting it as pain. So we suffer from thought-attack more than heart attack.

2006-08-30 03:51:42 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous

It's a cross between "apathy" and "theist." In other words, actually don't care about God or religion. My brother and I thought we invented it for him, but some other people we've encountered online also thought they invented it. It's not atheism or theism; it's just not thinking it has much bearing on real life and not caring to think too hard about it.

So, that sound like you or someone you know? Just curious.

2006-08-30 03:51:16 · 3 answers · asked by GreenEyedLilo 7

If we assume the universe was created, then it’s reasonable to assume there was a creator. That’s as far as science has progressed today, but just look how far religion has progressed.

Religion states (fact) there was a creator called God, that God still exists, God also created places called Heaven & Hell, God wrote an instruction book called the Bible, God will banish evil people to Hell, God will send good people who follow the Bible to heaven, that people referred to in the Bible (like Jesus) will return to Earth, and a whole raft of other statements of fact. That’s right, religious fact, not assumptions. Sadly, it sounds more like mental illness.

The Bible is the biggest load of garbage and codswallop ever written by man, and I’m sure it will go down in history as the greatest load of gobbledygook ever to inflict such traumatic mental and physical damage on humanity, but still today, some people sadly believe the Bible to be true. That’s very sad indeed. Very sad.

2006-08-30 03:51:00 · 18 answers · asked by Brenda's World 4

2006-08-30 03:48:10 · 3 answers · asked by enlight100 3

I'd like to ask this of fellow Christians. I can't see why the idea is upsetting- especially if you believe God created the union of marriage. Why should His only son not be allowed to marry and have children like everyone else?
If you believe Mary gave birth to Jesus as a Virgin woman, then why not that Jesus may have married? Is it who he may have married or the simple idea of a marriage?

2006-08-30 03:47:00 · 37 answers · asked by CoolBabe 4

2006-08-30 03:46:32 · 12 answers · asked by semaver c 2

2006-08-30 03:45:46 · 15 answers · asked by semaver c 2

Is it a joke? Should I be ashamed of this sinner? I don't know what to do.

2006-08-30 03:43:54 · 17 answers · asked by Anonymous

paul was very negative towards women in his writings and even justified slavery by telling the slave on the run to go back to his master. he even critisiced homosexuals by branding them sinners. are these writings compatible with the teachings of our lord jesus ? i say NO.
i am a christian and i love and follow only jesus whom i have learned to call my lord and my God.
can i have some comments?

2006-08-30 03:43:10 · 23 answers · asked by s21181 1

2006-08-30 03:43:09 · 21 answers · asked by Anonymous