Religion & Spirituality - 16 September 2006

2006-09-16 18:36:01 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous

What does the bible say about it?

I'd rather take God's word for when life starts then some mans. So are there any verses about it?

The only one I know of is in Genesis 2:7 - And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.

If I go by this verse - it's when man actually breathes - because God calls it the breath of life - for a living soul.

Your thoughts or other verses. I know there is cellular life before a baby would breath - but they aren't born until they come out of the womb.

2006-09-16 18:33:31 · 22 answers · asked by stybaj 2

2006-09-16 18:32:33 · 8 answers · asked by George S 2

Most Christian denominations teach that evolution was simply god's tool in creating the world.

So why do people here constantly assert that evolution is atheistic?

2006-09-16 18:31:34 · 18 answers · asked by Anonymous

is that true, we are church-goers out of habit and not because we want to learn about Jesus??

2006-09-16 18:27:49 · 20 answers · asked by Anonymous

WHY DO MUSLIM DON'T CONDEMN THEIR BROTHER MUSLIM WHO BURNS 3 CHURCH IN GAZA JUST BCOZ THEY PROTESTING AGAINST THE POPE QOUTE ON MOHAMMED?

AND MUSLIMS ARE OVER REACTING THEY JUST USE THE ISSUE TO DISPLAY THEIR BARBARIC WAY OF LIFE HAHAHA

LOL THAT'S HYPOCRITE THEY SHOULD GO TO THE MOON AND MAYBE THEY WILL FIND THEIR GOD THERE "ALLAH THE MOON GOD"

2006-09-16 18:27:29 · 20 answers · asked by grrrrr 1

I know we're all excited about the 19th, but do you think it might be a form of heresy to talk like a pirate in advance of the official day?

2006-09-16 18:26:55 · 10 answers · asked by lenny 7

2006-09-16 18:23:59 · 18 answers · asked by SN 1

There are so many times in the Bible where Jesus is praying to God. Was He praying to Himself? When Jesus was baptized, God spoke to Him from Heaven, the Holy Ghost desened down from Heaven in the form of a dove. God, Jesus and the Holy Ghost were all at the same place in different forms. From all this I believe they have to be three seperate beings.

2006-09-16 18:23:58 · 7 answers · asked by J T 6

Thank you.

2006-09-16 18:23:04 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous

If I thought that low of myself, I would probably become a God believer also

2006-09-16 18:21:44 · 17 answers · asked by Black Atheist 1

2006-09-16 18:20:50 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous

a terrorist attack in Thailand.
I'd just like to remind everyone . . . ISLAM IS A RELIGION OF PEACE.
And by the way, Elvis is alive, we never landed on the Moon, Barry Bonds never took steroids, The President was abducted and replaced by aliens, and I am a robot.
THAT"S RIGHT!!!!!!! Living tissue over cybernetic skeleton.

So now for my question. What's your opinion on this?

2006-09-16 18:19:30 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous

Pope Benedict XVI “sincerely regrets” offending Muslims with his reference to an obscure medieval text that characterizes some of the teachings of Islam’s founder as “evil and inhuman,” the Vatican said Saturday.

**An Iraqi insurgent group threatened the Vatican with a suicide attack over the pope’s remarks on Islam, according to a statement posted Saturday on the Web.
**“We swear to God to send you people who adore death as much as you adore life,” said the message posted in the name of the Mujahedeen Army on a Web site frequently used by militant groups. The message’s authenticity could not be independently verified. The statement was addressed to “you dog of Rome” and threatens to “shake your thrones and break your crosses in your home.”
**In West Bank attacks on churches, Palestinians used guns, firebombs and lighter fluid, leaving church doors charred and walls scorched by flames and pocked with bullet holes. Nobody was reported injured. Two Catholic churches, an Anglican one and a Greek Orthodox one were hit. A Greek Orthodox church was also attacked in Gaza City.
A group calling itself “Lions of Monotheism” told The Associated Press by phone that the attacks were a protest against the pope’s remarks on Islam.**

In a broader talk rejecting any religious motivation for violence, Benedict cited the words of a Byzantine emperor who characterized some of the teachings of the Prophet Muhammad as “evil and inhuman,” particularly “his command to spread by the sword the faith.”
The pontiff did not endorse that description, but he did not question it, and his words set off a firestorm of protests across the Muslim world.

1. Morocco recalled its ambassador to the Vatican on Saturday to protest the pope’s “offensive” remarks, and Afghanistan demanded the pope apologize.
2. Turkey cast some doubt on whether Benedict could proceed with a planned visit in November in what would be the pontiff’s first trip to a Muslim nation.
3. Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan insisted the pope apologize to the Muslim world, saying he had spoken “not like a man of religion but like a usual politician.”
Asked if Muslim anger would affect the pope’s trip to Istanbul, where he hopes to meet with Orthodox leaders headquartered there, Erdogan replied, “I wouldn’t know.”
4. The grand sheik of Cairo’s Al-Azhar Mosque, the Sunni Arab world’s most powerful institution, condemned the pope’s remarks as “reflecting ignorance.”
5. The Shiite Muslim militant group Hezbollah and Lebanon’s top Sunni Muslim religious authority also denounced the pope’s comments.

Benedict quoted from a book recounting a conversation between 14th century Byzantine Christian Emperor Manuel Paleologos II and an educated Persian on the truths of Christianity and Islam.
“The emperor comes to speak about the issue of jihad, holy war,” the pope said. “He said, I quote, ’Show me just what Muhammad brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached.”’

2006-09-16 18:19:27 · 12 answers · asked by Augustine 6

Seriously. i was asking a jewish couple if they could give me directions somewhere and they totally blew me off. and i knew they were jewish from there big noses and jew fro hair.

2006-09-16 18:19:16 · 14 answers · asked by Release Anwar Al-Awlaki NOW 1

2006-09-16 18:18:07 · 24 answers · asked by Anonymous

I think he just might be. Do you agree?

2006-09-16 18:17:35 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous

i'm watching trading spaces and checking how many thumbs down or up i got.

2006-09-16 18:15:22 · 13 answers · asked by g-man 3

then why you refuse the thought of a god always existed ..
which one deserve the always existing .. an alive thing "GOD" ..
or a dead thing "universe" ..
cn you explain ..

2006-09-16 18:10:57 · 6 answers · asked by u&me 3

I just want to put this out there.

I know I may not speak for all Atheists, but I've heard an argument over and over again-"What caused the big bang/what was there before the big bang" or something like that.

This is not an argument for god, or at least a good one. One of the things about Atheism is when something is unknown, we just don't go "God did it!". We don't know what happened before/caused the big bang, but just because we don't know doesn't mean god is the answer.

So if any theist is trying to make a point with "well you don't know everything about everything" we don't claim to! (if there is an atheist out there who does happen to claim that, then be all means point out to him/her that he/she doesn't!) We just don't think that god is the answer to everything we don't know and neither is your holy text. Remember way back when we god was the cause of rainbows? Now we know better.

Who knows, maybe eventually we'll have the answer for everything, maybe not.

You guys agree?

2006-09-16 18:10:36 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous

I am looking to find
- how different school of Churches fund themselves ?
- Why is Catholic rich ? or is it not ?
- Is Proselytization a neccesity for sustainence of the church ?
If any body knows about Islam/Mosques that also would help.

2006-09-16 18:08:00 · 4 answers · asked by searchingwisdom 2

2006-09-16 18:06:09 · 5 answers · asked by celeste a 2

I am a single christian female in search for someone compatible in my friendship/relationship.

2006-09-16 18:04:43 · 8 answers · asked by celeste a 2

Is there any evidence for Jesus as a son of God?
Is there any evidence for praticing Pope or Rabbis in respective religion?

2006-09-16 18:03:35 · 22 answers · asked by Hidhaya 2

2006-09-16 18:02:36 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous

2006-09-16 18:02:23 · 29 answers · asked by celeste a 2

just curious to know how the young ppl in America look 2 muslims now.

DO U have personal experiences with muslims u like 2 share?

do u really think that Islam only lasted that long by the power of sowrd?

Have u ever tried to read any unbiased book about islam?

Do most of the american ppl agree with Pat rebertson and Ann Coulter views about Muslims and ARABS in general?

Do u know the difference between an arab and a muslim?can u tell from thier looks????

please feel free to say whats on ur mind.

2006-09-16 18:02:19 · 17 answers · asked by MORPHEUS 1

If they take only America in school.

2006-09-16 18:01:30 · 2 answers · asked by Anonymous

why are they always so easily offended!?!! Not that I'm catolic but it's about time people stop being afraid to ask real questions.

2006-09-16 18:01:24 · 16 answers · asked by double v 5

I think this pope's quite a revolutionary-for a xtian. earlier on he spoke on the contradiction between science and christianity and that xtians would have to believe by BLIND faith alone not by reasoning!! Then he question why god allowed the holocaust - "where was god when it happened". Now he questions the sanity of islam as a god religion. I believe no one should dispute his honesty-and i am not even a christian.

2006-09-16 18:00:22 · 5 answers · asked by dhammaisfree 1