Religion & Spirituality - 1 September 2006

Meaning your absolutly right or your absolutly wrong, no middle ground, no compermises.

I'm reminded of when Jesus said, "I am the way the truth and the life, NO MAN COME TO THE FATHER EXPECT THROUGH ME"
If we except this as absolute truth, all other faiths are then shown as wrong to us.

2006-09-01 18:03:31 · 11 answers · asked by Sammy 3

Nowhere is the term "Nicolatian" written in other books of the Bible except in Revelations, the last book inn the Scriptures. What does "Nicolatian" mean and where is the term derived from? That Jesus hates it so much.

2006-09-01 18:00:43 · 18 answers · asked by Philadelphia 2

Deuteronomy 21

21:18 If a man have a stubborn and rebellious son, which will not obey the voice of his father, or the voice of his mother, and that, when they have chastened him, will not hearken unto them:
21:19 Then shall his father and his mother lay hold on him, and bring him out unto the elders of his city, and unto the gate of his place;
21:20 And they shall say unto the elders of his city, This our son is stubborn and rebellious, he will not obey our voice; he is a glutton, and a drunkard.
21:21 And all the men of his city shall stone him with stones, that he die: so shalt thou put evil away from among you; and all Israel shall hear, and fear.

2006-09-01 18:00:07 · 15 answers · asked by Toronto 3

What is your definition for truth? This is related to religion, don't worry. I'd like to hear everyone's take, but the only thing I DON'T want to hear is " my faith/prophet is the truth." And also, no dictionary definitions.

2006-09-01 17:59:25 · 20 answers · asked by Anonymous

The Virgin Mary was modest and lived in modesty, covered her body, covered her hair. Did she chose to act as such, or was she oppressing herself? Who are the people today that follow such traditions? Are Muslim women oppressing themselves for choosing to act modestly and covering their hair?

Jesus wore a long beard, dressed in robes, sometimes covered his head. Who imitates him today, what cultures/religions?

2006-09-01 17:57:49 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous

2006-09-01 17:56:19 · 18 answers · asked by Wayne S 3

2006-09-01 17:53:02 · 9 answers · asked by Ivy Fun 1

1 Peter 4:

3For you have spent enough time in the past doing what pagans choose to do—living in debauchery, lust, drunkenness, orgies, carousing and detestable idolatry. 4They think it strange that you do not plunge with them into the same flood of dissipation, and they heap abuse on you. 5But they will have to give account to him who is ready to judge the living and the dead.

2006-09-01 17:51:57 · 26 answers · asked by Ken 2

A co-worker of mine claims to be both. I asked him if there are anyconflicting ideas between these two ideals and he said no. I don't know enough about either to decide but I would like to know from people who are knowledgable in these areas. I'm asking this because this coworker seems to be saying this just to stand out and be different.

2006-09-01 17:51:27 · 10 answers · asked by Dana ♪ 3

How is is possible that everything all of the sudden with one giant "bang" everything suddenly was thrown into place? and if everything was thrown into orbit that why are there moons that rotate backwards? how can there be such great orginization on our own bodies? Dont you feel alone like what you believe in (the earth) is not enough? If you put your faith in the earth and it is day by day breaking down than isnt your faith breaking down? dont you hav enough signs that your beliefs are false? what about the missing links? Please help me understand this religion!

2006-09-01 17:48:35 · 31 answers · asked by unknown 1

1. New Beginnings.
2. Faith.
3. Endings and Wisdom.
4. The Mystery of Life.

2006-09-01 17:45:24 · 12 answers · asked by pickle head 6

Consider that the age of the Universe is 13.7 billion years and age of Earth is only 4.57 billion years. There is a big old gap of about 9 billion years -- while the Universe has been sitting there cooking something up.

Is it therefore not such a far fetch to say, some other consciousness would have sprung up and have advanced much further than our own human history? After all it took only about 200,000 years for human to evolve to our current state and we only had about 500 years of science.

BTW, I already know the time specified in the Bible which is more or less of 6000 years, so please do not repeate it at this time.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Age_of_the_Universe
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Earth
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_world#Paleolithic_Period

2006-09-01 17:44:43 · 13 answers · asked by : ) 6

The so-called Christians who support posting the Ten Commandments seem silent on posting the Sermon on the Mount.
Opponents of the commandments claim that the commandments, among other things, insist on a monotheistic viewpoint.
The Sermon on the Mount is about social justice. The argument is made that social justice is NOT really a high priority for the Religious Right, but imposing their monotheistic viewpoint is.

2006-09-01 17:43:19 · 7 answers · asked by L.V. Ames 2

2006-09-01 17:43:12 · 10 answers · asked by jim 2

...for anyone else's beliefs?

Oh, and bonus question: How many people have been killed by Christians for not believing in Christianity? Just take a random shot at this one.

2006-09-01 17:42:50 · 28 answers · asked by Anonymous

According to Christianity, God made everything. That means EVERYTHING. He made everything with great purpose. That is to say that nothing he made was a mistake or an accident. Everything, and every characteristic/nature of said things, he made, was done so purposefully.

So let me get this straight. The following is what Christians ACTUALY believe:

2006-09-01 17:41:59 · 17 answers · asked by atheistradio 1

From my understanding, the bible (the christian god's word) says that if I don't worship him, I'll be tortured in Hell for all eternity. That's not very tolerant of him. He doesn't seem very friendly towards people with other points of view. Why should I worship him if he's going to be so mean and discriminate against others?

2006-09-01 17:41:51 · 14 answers · asked by Toronto 3

1. Where did the space for the universe come from?

2. Where did matter come from?

3. Where did the laws of the universe come from (gravity, inertia, etc.)?

4. How did matter get so perfectly organized?

5. Where did the energy come from to do all the organizing?

6. When, where, why, and how did life come from dead matter?

7. When, where, why, and how did life learn to reproduce itself?

8. With what did the first cell capable of sexual reproduction reproduce?

9. Why would any plant or animal want to reproduce more of its kind since this would only make more mouths to feed and decrease the chances of survival? (Does the individual have a drive to survive, or the species? How do you explain this?)

10. How can mutations (recombining of the genetic code) create any new, improved varieties? (Recombining English letters will never produce Chinese books.)

2006-09-01 17:41:04 · 16 answers · asked by Matthew5:27_28 1

If you are sinning and because of the Holy Spirit living within you, your convicted of you sins and repent immediatly...What then does God have to judge you on? God said that he throws your sins away and remembers them no longer. So why will you face a judgement?

2006-09-01 17:40:45 · 12 answers · asked by comingofage03 4

please put whether or not you believe and your age so we can all get an idea of where you're coming from.....

2006-09-01 17:39:17 · 41 answers · asked by Ken 2

Revelation 3 WEB
1 "And to the angel of the assembly in Sardis write: "He who has the seven Spirits of God, and the seven stars says these things: "I know your works, that you have a reputation of being alive, but you are dead.

2006-09-01 17:37:05 · 6 answers · asked by lilith 7

2006-09-01 17:35:25 · 32 answers · asked by geskuh 2

2006-09-01 17:35:18 · 15 answers · asked by coolienam 1

2006-09-01 17:31:00 · 32 answers · asked by Anonymous

If you don't want to believe, then don't. Why are you so insistent on attacking us for our beliefs and starting fights? Why not just mind your own business?

2006-09-01 17:30:43 · 31 answers · asked by mynickname 3

If ur a true dedicated christian who loves the lord wit all your heart, and u believe in only being one true love out there for you sent to you by God, then do you think that most likely that the person God sends (or makes u meet) is a true dedicated christian as yourself?

2006-09-01 17:30:10 · 19 answers · asked by louie 1

Just thinking about it... I am watching something on the History Channel related to it. Does anyone believe that it can tell what is to come, etc.? They say it leaves relative times as to when the End of the World is to come, but then again, there are writings where it says that the time of the Armaggedon is not to be known.

Any thoughts?

2006-09-01 17:29:12 · 10 answers · asked by Tha Goose 2

All these questions attacking Christians for their beliefs. Why? Why do the non christians complain about the christians forcing their beliefs on others, while I didn't see a single question from christians regarding other beliefs. It is always the nonchristians trying to force their beliefs on us christians. Doesn't anyone else see this?

2006-09-01 17:28:00 · 27 answers · asked by mynickname 3

Didn't God say that no fornicator will go to Heaven but be cast into the lake of fire forever?

2006-09-01 17:27:40 · 27 answers · asked by coolienam 1

Nature does not regard life with any respect and what appears to us as an intelligent design may be a reflection of the complex dynamic physical rules of our own electromagnetic mind

2006-09-01 17:24:24 · 26 answers · asked by kitty 2