Religion & Spirituality - 30 September 2006

2006-09-30 15:07:07 · 11 answers · asked by suresh t 1

And they love the darkness more than the light because they don't want their actions to be revealed?

2006-09-30 15:06:59 · 11 answers · asked by theo j 1

To say that you are respnosible or better yet, able to respond to the world and can blame no one but yourself for your own actions?

2006-09-30 15:06:58 · 5 answers · asked by Corey 4

2006-09-30 15:04:14 · 7 answers · asked by tonitonice34 1

2006-09-30 15:02:51 · 20 answers · asked by Anonymous

How is this done?
What are the steps?
Is there anything particularly important to know on this subject?

2006-09-30 15:01:21 · 6 answers · asked by JAKE F 1

2006-09-30 15:01:18 · 5 answers · asked by Asilos Magdalena 1

2006-09-30 15:00:27 · 23 answers · asked by crazyman_2 1

2006-09-30 15:00:02 · 4 answers · asked by Corey 4

2006-09-30 15:00:02 · 14 answers · asked by atreadia 4

In the book of Job in the Bible, when God is speaking to Job He mentions something about a creature He created, the leviathan, He says that this creature has tightly fitted scales, and blows flames from its mouth Is this creature a dragon?

2006-09-30 14:57:07 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous

There is no solid proof to the beleif in God, nor the christian stuff...Logically, it can be disprooven. Step by Step, that a beleif in God is not sane because there is no solid evidence of it. So, why has not someone, used the documented rules of logic (such as LSAT logic), to proove that the beleif in the christian, muslim and jewish God (as described in the scriptures) is insane and ridiculous....

I think logical people KNOW, who are not religious...what are the reasons for it being ridiculous......so why has it not been "RESOLVED"---religion= ridiculous...ban all religious people to the realm of "delusional" ?

why? maybe its because they actually ARE DELUSIONAL and cannot be convinced EVER---because they will not be persuaded by logic...

we could come up with how religion was created by man because it served a purpose of unity in those days...bla bla bla...

and how that would be am ore relevant explanation than an actual GOD telling people to write in a book...

but

2006-09-30 14:55:27 · 15 answers · asked by jack d 1

I've had all that I can take, have I been erased?

2006-09-30 14:54:57 · 20 answers · asked by Anonymous

There is a 11th commandment. How many people know's what it is. (Hint) It is what Jesus Taught, and showed on the cross.

2006-09-30 14:54:36 · 17 answers · asked by Icie's_Girl 2

and destroy it?

2006-09-30 14:53:46 · 11 answers · asked by suresh t 1

2006-09-30 14:52:48 · 24 answers · asked by kdwcnliz2 2

Who holds a religious faith that does not impact how they view the world, the decisions they make and how they act? That is a sad, impotent, worthless religious faith indeed!

2006-09-30 14:51:26 · 14 answers · asked by nobodiesinc 1

I just answered a question on religion & spirituality, & then scanned previous answers. (The question was--DO WESTERN DEMOCRACIES...) & so many of the answers proved my point.
So many believe there's only one "God," & theirs is IT. Just feel compelled to respond if I knew how...thanks

2006-09-30 14:50:29 · 9 answers · asked by Valac Gypsy 6

2006-09-30 14:49:48 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous

2006-09-30 14:48:46 · 20 answers · asked by Anonymous

i was reading this .
i have been so confused about religion for several months!!!
i just settle down, see that GOD is god, jesus is his son...
figure that not all of the bible kjv, is real, but maybe 65% or so..!!
man written, man re written,,,
then i run across this!!
plezz read and comment. can u defend the bible?


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According to the bible, heaven is on the other side of the sky. Genesis requires a literal interpretation, in order for it to make sense... no metaphors... no allegory... no hidden meanings. It takes no more that a critical reading of the first few verses of Genesis to ascertain that it is all a myth. In biblical times, people thought that the earth and heaven were all that there was... and that the earth was essentially a 'terrarium' (you might want to look that up). They thought that the sky was a solid object, called the 'firmament', and that the sun, moon, and stars were affixed to it. So, essentially, heaven is 'on the other side of the sky'.

The story of Genesis is comprised of the myths, superstitions, fairy tales and fantastical delusions of an ignorant bunch of Bronze Age fishermen and wandering goat herders, lifted from the oral traditions of other cultures, and crafted into a tale that incorporated some of their own folk tales and pseudo-history. This collection of ignorance provides the basis for the Abrahamic death cults of desert monotheism... Judaism, Christianity and Islam.

The cosmological aspects of Genesis are perfectly understandable, if you contemplate them in the proper context. At the time the bible stories were concocted, the perception was that the earth was the object and the center of creation. Why? Because they had no reason to think otherwise. Today, as we advance science, we stand upon the shoulders of all the scientists that came before. Back then there were no shoulders to stand upon... so they did the best they could with what they had... their senses and their imaginations.

* They had no concept of 'outer space', and so they conceived that in the beginning all that existed were dark waters.

* They had no concept of 'nothingness'. Remember, the concept of 'zero' wasn't invented (discovered?) until thousands of years later. With that in mind, the term 'void', as it is employed in Genesis, can not refer to 'nothingness'... it can only be applied in its alternative definition, which is 'empty'. So, the waters were dark, formless and empty (devoid of content).

* They thought that all of creation consisted of the earth and an unseen 'heaven', and they thought that the sky was a 'thing'... a substantive 'firmament' that was created by god to separate the waters and differentiate earth from heaven, when both were created.

# They had no idea that Earth was a planet, orbiting the sun.

# They had no idea that there is no firmament... that the sky is not a 'thing'.

(If you don't believe that they thought the sky was an object... a solid barrier... consider the Tower of Babel, that they were building to reach heaven. Apparently, God ALSO thought that the sky was an object, since it concerned him so much that he confounded their speech, so as to disrupt their project and keep them from reaching his domain. God must be pretty much of a dumbass, if he doesn't even know the actual configuration of the universe that he created. So much for the 'inerrant' bible.)

* They thought that the sun was a light that god had placed upon the 'firmament' to differentiate night from day.

# They had no idea that the sun is a star... the center of our solar system.

# They had no concept of 'stars' in the same sense that we understand them today.

* They had no idea that night and day were a consequence of the earth's rotation.

* They thought that the moon was a 'lesser' light that god had caused to travel across the firmament to enable man to differentiate the seasons, and provide illumination at night.

# They had no concept of the moon as a satellite.

* They thought that the stars were tiny lights that god had placed upon the firmament to provide for omens. (Some thought that the stars were 'holes' in the firmament that allowed the 'light of heaven' to shine through.)

# They had no idea that the stars were suns, just like our own sun.

# They thought the eyeball-visible planets (Mercury, Mars, Venus, Jupiter, Saturn) were 'wandering stars'.

# They had no idea that the planets were actually sun-orbiting bodies, just like earth.

* They had no idea that the earth, itself, is a planet.

# They had no clue as to the actual nature of the earth, our solar system, the place of our solar system in the galaxy... or even of the existence of our galaxy. (Up until very recently, we didn't even know that there were other galaxies. Our galaxy, when it was first known that there actually WAS a galaxy, was thought to be the whole universe.) From their perspective, the 'earth' and 'heaven' (i.e., whatever existed on the other side of the sky) represented all that there was. A terrarium.

I do not say these things to disparage what they thought back then. They were trying to do what science is trying to do today... trying to understand nature and reality. Today, we have technology and disciplined meta-procedures (scientific method) to help us extract answers from nature.

Back then, they did not.

Today, we have 'theories' to provide a consistent explanatory framework for what we are able to observe in nature, supplemented and validated by the additional information that we are able to extract from nature by means of our technology, our disciplined methods and our intellectual tools (mathematics, logic). Most of our theories are incomplete, so we continue to work on them... because we know that they are incomplete.

Back then, they did not have disciplined methods, and they did not have the technology to extract answers from nature. The only information they had access to was what they could see with their own eyeballs. There was no technological knowledge base or scientific context in which to interpret their observations, so they had to appeal to their imaginations... and the 'supernatural'... in order to make sense out of what they saw. Actually, what they really achieved was deluding themselves into thinking that they knew the truth. Amazingly, over time, this delusion has become codified, institutionalized, and incorporated... complete with franchises.

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Basically, Genesis can be thought of as a 'hypothesis', concocted by people who were constrained by lack of technology, methodology and intellectual tools... but they sure weren't constrained by lack of imagination.

Today, we try to interpret Genesis in the context of what we KNOW about the universe... galaxies, stars, planets, moons, gravity, orbits, inclination of the earth's axis, planetary rotation, etc. They problem is that Genesis CAN'T be interpreted in terms of those things, because Genesis was written by men, based on oral traditions, and those men DID NOT KNOW about those things. They could only write about what they could see and what they could guess about the reasons that lay behind what they saw. In any event, it provided them with a mechanism to quell the innate anxiety that comes with fretting about how and why they came to be here.

They guessed wrong.

So... the cosmological aspects of Genesis require a literal interpretation... no metaphors... no allegory... no hidden meaning. The key, though, is in understanding that the literal interpretation DOES NOT lead to a description of the way things ARE... it leads to a description of the way they THOUGHT things are. It leads to a naive description of reality, concocted by people who were doing the best they could with what they had.

It is absolutely appalling, though, to realize that hundreds of millions of people, TODAY, including participants in this forum, ACTUALLY BELIEVE that this mythological nonsense is actually TRUE.


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2006-09-30 14:48:28 · 8 answers · asked by grasshopper 1

2006-09-30 14:47:06 · 11 answers · asked by Tofu Jesus 5

I believe 9/11 was an inside job and the war on terror is a scam, all the foiled terror plots were scripted fake alerts by the white house.

I believe We are moving into a full blown police state and the terrorists mainly will be the christians as they already state in thefederal documents.

I also believe I will be forced to take an RFID chip in my right hand or forehead or I will be considered a terrorist.

I am trying to figure out ways to escape this, They all will turn against me with Operation TIPS...How do i build an underground home and where is the best place to build it? How many feet maximum can i got underground until there no oxygen??

Do you recommend another way out of this?

Please Help.

My email is sleepy_y2k_23@hotmail.com

2006-09-30 14:46:26 · 9 answers · asked by 911blogger.com 1

How I can spell cast make object float?

2006-09-30 14:46:24 · 13 answers · asked by Miss Pinky 1

If a person wants to stay away from other people just about constantly? Family is trying to persuade me into going out more and maybe getting involved with a church singles group...is it so wrong that I don't really want to do that?

2006-09-30 14:45:27 · 15 answers · asked by herenthere 5

2006-09-30 14:45:13 · 8 answers · asked by mr_nice_guy 1

2006-09-30 14:44:58 · 6 answers · asked by Mary B 1

2006-09-30 14:43:36 · 9 answers · asked by atreadia 4

How would you live ur life if u were in one of the following situations?
1. Being hadicapped for life.
2. Mentally retarded
3. Not smart enough to do well in school and succeed in life
4. Have been suffering from long-term illness
5. Life doesn't work out no matter how hard you try

2006-09-30 14:43:10 · 16 answers · asked by nicesinging1 1

Constatine played a major role in the deciding factor of the Church to adopt the Athanasian creed yet secular history shows that Constatine had no knowledge of Greek theology nor the questions debated to resolve the argument.

2006-09-30 14:42:33 · 4 answers · asked by kdwcnliz2 2