Religion & Spirituality - 31 August 2006

2006-08-31 05:04:53 · 20 answers · asked by Anonymous

Here's the gist. Back in the old testament days some king of Babylon decided to build a tower that could reach heaven. Now supposedly after a long time of building, God looked down and said 'If I don't stop them now, there will be no limit to what they can do'. So he changed their languages and dispersed the people over the earth.

Now, what happens when you get people together that don't speak the same language or have the same beliefs? Conflict. What do you get when you divide people and make them think they are different from others not like them? Racism.

This is actually a multiple part question.

1. Did God MEAN for/Know what was going to happen when he did it? Or was it a mistake?

2. Did God really think that these ancient people would 'reach heaven' with their tower?

2006-08-31 05:04:32 · 10 answers · asked by bleedcoltsblue 2

I am completely open to the idea of dating someone outside my race... I happen to be white btw lol... My parents are dead set against it. I was wondering what was your people's point of view on this... And what about the religous thing... I believe in god but am not really into the whole bible thumping thing... I thought that some where in there it is forbidden...???

2006-08-31 05:02:14 · 26 answers · asked by Anonymous

If heaven is some where waaaaay up in the sky. and hell in somewhere waaaay below us, would that mean the core of the earth? but what if there really is life on other planets in other gallexies? They must have a god as well? After all, God supposedly created everything. Where would their hell be? Is their hell in the core of the earth or the core of their planet? and heaven is high in the sky? or is it in a place seprarate from EVERYTHING,beyond where the sky ends (if it even ends) I'm confused....help?

2006-08-31 04:59:01 · 17 answers · asked by Sarah 4

What do you look for when someone asks to work in your church. We have been going to a church for nearly two years and we are gifted with teaching and preaching. My husband is ordained and a chaplin, and I have been a womens and teen minister in the past. Our church has a strong core group and there doesn't seem to be a place for us to work, and it makes us very sad to not use the gifts God gave us.
What do you look for when someone really has a heart for ministry, and just wants to serve.

2006-08-31 04:58:38 · 14 answers · asked by 2ndchhapteracts 5

I want to know why do some atheists spend so much time 'downing' Christianity in efforts to debunk the existence of God and the teaching of Jesus, when all religions, Islam, Buddhism, Judaism, even Native American and African Tribal Beliefs, believe in some form of God and Savior?

I have never, in the 6 years I've claimed Jesus as my Savior, witnessed or been part of a conversation with an atheist who tried to debunk the existence of other religions Gods. Why?

Before I became a Christian, I was an atheist with strict views on all Gods, and not once, at that time, was I criticized or 'downed' for my beliefs. But now that I'm a Christian, I find myself being criticized or 'downed' and having to defend my right to be a Christian to atheists constantly. Why?

** For all who want to know, I stop being an atheist when I was told by a man I loved, "If you don't believe that God exists, where does your morality come from. God is LOVE and you can't know LOVE for me without LOVE for Him."

2006-08-31 04:58:15 · 12 answers · asked by DeeVee D. Essemar 5

Candles? Prayers? Spells?

2006-08-31 04:55:25 · 14 answers · asked by Blossom_Kitty 3

I don't believe it is for just homosexuals.

What about other adulterers or fornicators of consentual sex? What about the heterosexual?

What do you think of this law against discriminating people of their chosen "sexual orientation" in housing or employment benefits or hate crimes, etc.? Wouldn't that include heterosexual unmarried couples. Even if one is estranged from ones husband. Wouldn't that include prostitutes? Are these also consentual "sexual orientations"?

2006-08-31 04:54:55 · 9 answers · asked by t a m i l 6

Here's the question:
What are the top three reasons you believe or disbelieve in god(s)?

Please avoid circular reasoning. That gets us nowhere in the discussion.

Don't say for example:
"all gods are false"
or
"He was the creator"

(notice that I'm picking on one atheist and one theist to be fair to both sides)

Those are CONCLUSIONS or part of your beliefs.
I'm not disrespecting those beliefs, but just saying that it's circular reasoning to say that you:
'Don't believe in god because gods are false'
'Believe in god because god is a creator.'


I'm looking for the BASIS of your beliefs.

***What makes you believe what you believe?***




NOTICE: this is hard. Part of the difficulty is in getting yourself to discriminate between your: (a) Beliefs and (b) basis FOR those beliefs.

I'm not saying that it's easy. But give it a shot.

Again, 3 things, and BE CONCISE. (unlike my question!)

2006-08-31 04:54:42 · 21 answers · asked by Anonymous

"It was, of course, a lie what you read about my religious convictions, a lie which is being systematically repeated. I do not believe in a personal God and I have never denied this but have expressed it clearly. If something is in me which can be called religious then it is the unbounded admiration for the structure of the world so far as our science can reveal it."

"I cannot imagine a God who rewards and punishes the objects of his creation, whose purposes are modeled after our own — a God, in short, who is but a reflection of human frailty. Neither can I believe that the individual survives the death of his body, although feeble souls harbor such thoughts through fear or ridiculous egotisms."

"The religion of the future will be a cosmic religion. The religion which based on experience, which refuses dogmatic. If there's any religion that would cope the scientific needs it will be Buddhism."

2006-08-31 04:51:36 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous

2006-08-31 04:51:03 · 9 answers · asked by maddy m 1

For from within, out of the heart of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, fornications, murders, thefts, covetousenss, wickedness, deceit, lasciviousness, an evil eye, blasphemy, PRIDE, foolishness: All these evil things come form within, and defile the man.

2006-08-31 04:50:42 · 27 answers · asked by Wayne S 3

Perhaps if more people did that, even in an attempt to "prove it wrong", more would be blessed and saved by the Word Of God.

2006-08-31 04:50:04 · 32 answers · asked by redeemed 5

We can date meteorites using isometric dating of Uranium which are left from the formation of the solar system which show that the solar system is 4,550,000,000 years old we know this is true. (We have to use meteorites as the rock cycle destroys Earth's old rocks)

2006-08-31 04:49:42 · 17 answers · asked by Anonymous

2006-08-31 04:49:16 · 16 answers · asked by ? 4

One of the biggest problems I have with Christianity is that it seems so exclusive. The religion seems to have such a bleak view of human nature...i.e. original sin...that all humans are inherantly evil. Do Christians really believe that all non Christians are destined for an eternity of torment, sorrow, or non existance? If so, no wonder you try so hard to convert everybody.

2006-08-31 04:47:38 · 41 answers · asked by Link 5

just wondering

2006-08-31 04:46:58 · 21 answers · asked by baddrose268 5

I am trying to do my best at understanding islam as a new friend of mine happens to be muslim... So i was wondering in your own words what is the best part of the religon for you???

2006-08-31 04:46:55 · 19 answers · asked by Anonymous

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=AsUGcYRwDLkA0mBWmq.NmiDsy6IX?qid=20060831075230AASoI9a

Since God is now eggplant purple, does this mean the following things are holy in the name of God?

-Barney
-Prince
-The Minnesota Vikings (the Purple People Eaters)
-Purple Rain (also pertaining to Prince)
-Eggplants, of course.


anything I'm missing?

2006-08-31 04:45:50 · 8 answers · asked by Southpaw 7

2006-08-31 04:43:21 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous

Why?

2006-08-31 04:43:19 · 14 answers · asked by Pablito 5

Meaning.... can you never be exposed to any concept of God or Jesus or anything in bible... and still find God on your own and know what his will is? Will you instinctually know what you need to do to be saved?

2006-08-31 04:42:08 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous

2006-08-31 04:42:08 · 28 answers · asked by Sorina 1

could I be pregnant at this time? I'm afraid to check myself? If I get my own home test I would be scared to check it out.

2006-08-31 04:41:26 · 7 answers · asked by Edeline A 1

Don't get me wrong, I love the comfortable garden furniture that you produce but it must take ages, how do you get the time to do that and run naked around a big oak tree covered in blood?

2006-08-31 04:39:03 · 19 answers · asked by Anonymous

tell me more about it

2006-08-31 04:37:31 · 23 answers · asked by 619_Princess 1

2006-08-31 04:36:28 · 23 answers · asked by Anonymous

2006-08-31 04:36:22 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous

OK, now that I am thoroughly convinced that God is purple, chubby, smooth, shaped like a womb, and tastes great with pasta (but also why hymns about eggplant are difficult to compose):

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=AsUGcYRwDLkA0mBWmq.NmiDsy6IX?qid=20060831075230AASoI9a


Let's consider one of the more serious questions suggested by someone today:

What are the top three reasons you believe or disbelieve in god(s)?


I only ask that people try to be concise in their answers. No one reads it when someone cuts & pastes 5 chapters from a book anyway. Oh, and try to be concrete as possible.

this may start an interesting discussion.

2006-08-31 04:36:18 · 28 answers · asked by Anonymous

If only to expose hypocrites.

2006-08-31 04:36:04 · 23 answers · asked by Anonymous