Religion & Spirituality - 13 September 2006

I am not really that religious...more spiritual. However, I still had a religious upbringing. David Blaine is seemingly WAY more then just a magician AND he is pretty likeable. Do you think his illusions/tricks are more then just magic? If so and he is in touch with some sort of supernatural power...doesn't it seem possible he could be the devil or a devil of sorts? He is exactly how the bible said the devil would appear. Appealing to the masses...

2006-09-13 05:17:34 · 6 answers · asked by Jay 1

24Therefore God gave them over in the sinful desires of their hearts to sexual impurity for the degrading of their bodies with one another. 25They exchanged the truth of God for a lie, and worshiped and served created things rather than the Creator—who is forever praised. Amen.

26Because of this, God gave them over to shameful lusts. Even their women exchanged natural relations for unnatural ones.

Romans 1:24-26 (New International Version)

This seems to suggest to me that the author believes his God does not like Lesbians.

Since its a mythology, it doesn't matter to me, I'm an agnostic, I was just curious, why do you think people need to write in a religious book that their God doesn't like Lesbians?

2006-09-13 05:17:05 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous

Must you really spew fire and brimstone threats at people because they don't agree with you?


As an agnostic, I've never threatened a christian.
So why do christians feel the need to threaten me with their mythology?

(and why do they think it'll even work? They might as well threaten me with the boogeyman)


and don't tell me that you're all trying to warn me and "save my soul" or I'll have to share some of the "christian hate mail" that I've received recently. Angry, hateful sh1t.

2006-09-13 05:15:06 · 30 answers · asked by Anonymous

Disclaimer: I'm an agnostic I'm not a Christian.

There must be something wrong with my Bible I'm reading. In the New International Version in Leviticus 18:22 it says the following:

" 'Do not lie with a man as one lies with a woman; that is detestable.

This was the NIV that was translated between 1965 and 1973.

Now in the King James Version, from 1611, the same verse Leviticus 18:22

22Thou shalt not lie with mankind, as with womankind: it is abomination.


According to http://www.m-w.com/ the words are defined as follows:

Detestable: arousing or meriting intense dislike

Abomination: extreme disgust and hatred

So, I'm confused, does the Judeo-Christian God hate homosexuals as it was translated in 1611, or does he just dislike them, as it is translated in the NIV copyright 1973.

Did the followers of God change their mind about their mythology?

Why the difference?

2006-09-13 05:09:25 · 32 answers · asked by Anonymous

2006-09-13 05:08:22 · 21 answers · asked by Anonymous

What to do?

2006-09-13 05:05:02 · 26 answers · asked by Anonymous

I have a few questions for you. Who is your prophet? Did the Jehovah's Witnesses predict that the Battle of Armageddon would be fought in 1914, followed by the end of the world? Did, in 1954, J.W. president Frederick Franz become exposed as a fraud as the most learned Hebrew scholar? Under oath in a court of law, he proved incapable of handling even the most basic Hebrew. Is Jesus God? Did Jesus' death accomplish everything needed to save us? Why is the NWT not recognized by Greek and Hebrew scholars? Is salvation received by faith? (Titus 3:5), Eph. 2:8-9. ) Is Christ God? (John 5:18, and John 20:28) Is the Holy Spirit God? (Acts 5:3) Do you recognize the KJV or the 1901 American Standard Bible?

2006-09-13 05:04:51 · 10 answers · asked by Brad 1

What characteristic of 'wisdom' can one draw from the other passages?

2006-09-13 05:04:18 · 7 answers · asked by wobbleeffect 1

2006-09-13 05:04:17 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous

I have found that there are a multitude of people that are told about Christianity and its views on certain subjects and get offended by the concept that natural actions have spiritual consiquences. Example: The concept of hell and who goes. Touchy subject I know, but people feel as if that subject can not be spoken on by a human being. Why? I am not playing God, just saying what he has said. Is it that maybe wholeness, and purity (God) can not be recognized in partial goodness and a semi-self control (people) and thats scary? I know it used to be for me. Please answer honestly and not with scarcasm and discontent for the question posed.

2006-09-13 05:02:41 · 32 answers · asked by Nico Suave 2

http://www.coasttocoastam.com/gen/page1632.html?theme=light

2006-09-13 05:02:16 · 12 answers · asked by In Honor of Moja 4

I was told that this land of Canaan is in the area that Israel is in.

2006-09-13 05:00:09 · 7 answers · asked by Ha Ha Charade You Are................... 4

Part of a person's answer to this question:
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=AsH7egdFtEJYTXRBxk3Q9Krzy6IX?qid=20060913084455AAirLPS


"Think of it this way, if I'm wrong, then when I die I'll just be dead. But if they're wrong (and they are), and God is real, then in hell will they lift up their eyes. What do I have to lose?"


Could we all just take a moment, educate ourselves about what Pascal's Wager is and why it is a false argument....

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pascals_wager

and NEVER BRING IT UP AGAIN?
Thank you.



(yes, it's a pet peeve of mine. Sue me)

2006-09-13 04:58:43 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous

For those who hold Revelation to be true!

2006-09-13 04:57:21 · 21 answers · asked by Anonymous

Prophecy-Isaiah 7vs14 a promised sign/miracle "A virgin shall concieve and bring forth God is with us (Hebrew immanuel=God is with us)!

what others said of Jesus -Peter thou art the Messiah, the son of the living God. Jesus answered, yes Matthew 16:16

Messiah "Jesus said,If you have seen me, you have seen the father."

have you let the Messiah Jesus into your heart as he asks us to do? Revelation 3 vs 19&20 "Behold i stand at your heart door and knock, if you let me in to forgive your sins, i will come in and begin a friendship with you and you with me." so i prayed -"Im sorry for my sins, come into my heart, help me and be my friend Jesus, amen-and a new life began-

do u think millions of people xathiests -i was a Jewish athiest cause we have no personal God-x alcholics x wackey weed x drug addicts x whatever are all wrong
-knowing Jesus as savior and best friend??? that is a real proof too-what is your proof??? do u have a testimony?-pray for my Jewish andAllShare

2006-09-13 04:55:59 · 15 answers · asked by ? 5

Describe what you think your life would be like if you were (are) a christian. What does it mean to follow Christ? I'll take all the answers I can get!! Don't hold back from what you think is the Truth on this one.

2006-09-13 04:55:31 · 22 answers · asked by Justwondering 1

The Bible god sends floods, fire, earthquakes. pestilence, commands war, tells you to hold slaves, kill people, gives stupid rules to live by that none can hold, tells you not to eat things that taste good (shellfish). Then it sends its "only begotten son" to be tortured so that god can forgive everyone else for not following the rules they were not able to follow in the first place. What a silly game, maybe this god is intellectually handicapped?

2006-09-13 04:55:18 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous

When we talk about God, we are supposed to do so "philosophically." Why? Why not treat God just like all other objects and devise experiments to detect his presence or absence?

The classic religious response is, "God must remain hidden. If he proved his existence, that would take away faith." This is clever -- here we have an object named God that proves its existence by completely hiding its existence. Of course, in the real world, any object that provides no evidence for its existence is classified as imaginary.

Even more interesting, this object called God, which is supposedly hiding its existence completely, is in the meantime supposedly writing books, answering prayers and incarnating itself. How can that be?

Could it be the reason why we can find no empirical evidence for God's existence is not because "God is a magical being completely able to hide from us." It is because God is imaginary?
Hmmmmmm, yet christians still believe in this fairytale?

2006-09-13 04:54:35 · 6 answers · asked by dino_ou812 3

Have you become a Christian having being brought up or heavily involved in another religion - possibly because of original social or parental influences etc..

If so - what were your main reasons? What did Christianity offer you that existing religions did not?

Or - have you moved away from practising Christianity into another practising religion? If so, why?

2006-09-13 04:53:57 · 18 answers · asked by ShowMeTheLite 3

Now as we all know God made EVERYTHING including Spaceships, Dildos, Slice Bread, the Internet, Google, hangnails, motor oil and trampolines.

Did he also invent "spanking the monkey" and pool tables?

2006-09-13 04:53:54 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous

afraid that they themselves are homosexuals. Do you think that the people here who show so much anger at what we have to say are really just afraid to admit that they want to believe and crave His infinite love?

2006-09-13 04:53:49 · 8 answers · asked by Love Shepherd 6

Peace and Love

2006-09-13 04:52:46 · 10 answers · asked by digilook 2

I am just curious.

2006-09-13 04:50:41 · 29 answers · asked by Megangel 2

2006-09-13 04:50:04 · 24 answers · asked by Thinx 5

A controversy has broken out in the U.K. and the U.S. with the media reflecting a debate over an Angelican priest who converted to Hinduism. However, Rev. David Hart finds no contradiction in being identified as a "religious pluralist".

2006-09-13 04:46:58 · 13 answers · asked by Hobby 5

2006-09-13 04:46:53 · 17 answers · asked by Xo 1

2006-09-13 04:46:40 · 21 answers · asked by Anonymous

2006-09-13 04:44:55 · 33 answers · asked by Anonymous

Hi you know that saying "don't judge the book by its cover"? Well I do and I'm always right. When I see a guy, I am always right about what he is, how he treats women whether he's a virgin or not ect just by looking at him and how he acts. I'm always right, I can tell a rapist or a guy that treats women like slaves, or child molestors from a guy that's clean, nice, sweet, doesn't force himself or rape women or abuse children, and all that. When I didn't obey my intuition I got in trouble. I'm not that way with girls though I can't tell whether they are good or bad just by looking at them. So is this a spiritual gift from God or a woman's intuition or what?

2006-09-13 04:44:52 · 15 answers · asked by bananapepperz 1

...is:
(1) Who/what do you think the Nephalim were?

2006-09-13 04:43:42 · 14 answers · asked by BowtiePasta 6