Religion & Spirituality - 9 October 2006

St. Peter was crucified upside-down because he insisted that he was unworthy to die like Jesus. Even in death he was humble.


Since my mission is to promote humility in Christians, don't you think that St. Peter's cross is a very appropriate symbol?


Why are so many of my fellow Christians unaware of their own religion? It makes me sad.
It makes me even more sad that Christians would jump to angry and hate-filled conclusions, and then attack me.

Apparently, I have a lot of work to do in promoting Christian humility.

2006-10-09 05:57:16 · 17 answers · asked by forpetessake 1

I change back and forth between atheism and agnosticism. I truly don't know.

I feel that if God was a truly benevolent God, he wouldn't allow for any of his creatures to suffer, no matter what.

I also feel that if God was a vengeful God, he wouldn't be perfect if he's holding a grudge like that, therefore not making him a God.

So when I lean back over to agnosticism, I think that God is truly a benevolent person, and cares for us no matter what.

This also conflicts with the fact that he lets us suffer here on earth. A lot.

When I think about this it makes me lean back to atheism.

With this question I just wrote down my thought process for the past 10 minutes.

Does this make any sense to anyone, or am I just a dumb kid?

2006-10-09 05:56:49 · 16 answers · asked by Southpaw 7

I just asked who could forgive in the spirit of real Christian forgiveness exhibited by the remarkable Amish people in Penn.

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20061009094017AAsx1MV&r=w

I fully admit that I could not have done what they did and acknolwedge their moral superiority. Nevertheless the world seems almost certainly better for people like them than it does for people like me and anyone else who cannot forgive when the most extreme evil is done to them.

Would we be better now if the Christian president of the USA had acted as Christ commanded, and forgiven bin Laden for 9/11? I personally think this is a toughie.

2006-10-09 05:56:38 · 17 answers · asked by Bad Liberal 7

It is a what if Q…so don’t go reporting me..:)

hmmm i would change the one about war!!

and say umm they're shall be none :)

2006-10-09 05:55:49 · 11 answers · asked by Fia 5

2006-10-09 05:55:28 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous

Adam didn't recieve a soul. He was dust and God breathed into him the breath of life and Adam BECAME a living soul. In other words, his brain was turned on like when you turn your computer. Without the breath of life, he would be a dead soul (brain dead).

2006-10-09 05:54:47 · 6 answers · asked by Poptart Demoniac 1

And if you know the answers to any of my other open questions, I would appreciate a response. Thanks

2006-10-09 05:53:36 · 10 answers · asked by SunFun 5

Why are we all in an agony, even after worshipping god for years ? Why is our religious mind getting inclined towards atheism ? Our faith in god is at stake. The life seems to be worthless now. We worship but the belief is getting diminished. Our vision towards the almighty and the life is changing. lnspite of all these the happiness is getting away from us. Have you ever tried to find the reason behind it ? There is nothing in this world without a reason there is a certain cause of all your sufferings like happiness, grief, rise and fall, diseases etc. which has to be found out by you and has to be analyzed to the deep, sitting with me. Together, let us find out where lies the real trouble. For thousands of years, even after getting all lesson and advice from prophets, the happiness is slipping away from us. The reason behind it is the undisciplined vision of us towards life. We want flowers but abhors the thorns, whereas both CO-exist together. We are always dependent on others. We implore god to solve our own problems. We expect others to help us. We want comfort for ourselves only. We want happiness with a healthy life. But, simply by longing for it we can’t obtain anything. Like flowers and thorns we have both grief and happiness in us. Thorns are like Babool Tree which is germinated by itself. But, we need to have the courage to germinate flower plants, it needs protections and nursing. If you feel moose then the flower plants are discarded by grasses. Which do not allow them to grow. Any body who is careless about his flowers can split his plants any time. Happiness can never be begged, nor can it be given by any body. Our ancestor have given us the vision to God, government and the society as givers. Don’t we have any responsibility of our own ? When we can’t take the responsibility of a mere number of people in a family, now it is possibility of the almighty and the government to we all ? If you are inactive then no body can give you the happiness. The plants of joy are scattered around you only. It is necessary to nurse them and grow them, after locating them. Discarding selfishness, laziness, meanness, egoist attitude, and taking the whole universe as one, sharing joy with every one, considering the betterment of the world with every body’s welfare are applied by an industrious person, whose life is always successful. The surrounding him becomes heavens, which is not given by any body else, but created by himself only. Whatever circumstances we are in the present is caused by us only. We are trying to escape from this world for being scarred of it. We want salvation. It is life uprooting the bamboo plants to avoid tuneless voice from a flute. It the world so inharmonious ? if yes then free to fleeing from it, is the only way ? But, where to flee ? To the space zone ?

In the beginning, at the time of creation of nature only one element was present in the vast universe of infinity, which is called the prime element or the God. In course of time it condensed into an energy element and then from energy it transformed into a solid element, which again got divided into seven re-transformed parts in course of time. These divided parts are earth (surface), water, air, fire (energy) consciousness, sky, and arrogance. In the seven elements were carried the truth (Positive), essence (Neutral) and sin (Negative) is equal proportion like wise in the whole universe there is a creation on 21 type of matters. These 21 maters constitute the whole universe. And divide themselves in to count less numbers of atoms. During the developing period of universe, in a desire to develop themselves the atoms carried on improving themselves spontaneously and gradually up to conscious soul, generally. Some highly developed carried high consciousness and divine power in them. The atoms of the universe are trying to go further ahead in the way of superiority.
If we take the milk as prime element, then curd, cheese, butter, buttermilk, butter oil, and creams etc. are the byproducts of it. Bacteria is cultured in the curd. Cheese is not active but the bacteria’s are active like wise, the matter, the living being and the ‘spheres’ are developed from the prime elements. The cause of the matter is energy and the energy is the condensed form of prime element (the essential elements of the universe).
The soul enters into the man though breathing to become the part of his cell, again to form into the sperm, and after that it take the form of a foetus in mother’s womb. Every atoms are well equipped to form alive. Wherever co-incidence occurs they become activated. And congruous to the developed state of own, with the help of other germs and atoms they take the form of a full bodied species.
Every atom has a free existence which is made of a part from the supreme element. Whatever is there in this universe, is existing from the beginning, will remain there. Only the shape and the size of it changes. Nothing reduces or increases.
The day atoms go back to there original position they will achieve salvation. Conversion of soul into super element is salvation.
This undivided infinite existing one is God. The soul, germs and the atoms are tiny parts of it. Like a stone and the molecules in it. Countless numbers of molecule combine together to form a stone. Likewise the tenure and the dominance of God are spread in molecules to molecules. This is a fact. An eternal truth.

2006-10-09 05:52:55 · 4 answers · asked by ibkhandel 2

2006-10-09 05:52:44 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous

If we take God out of the equation, how do we determine appropriate ethical rules? Why act morally?

With God absent, must we accept that Peter Stringer is correct when he posits that the parents of severely disabled newborn infants should be able to decide, together with their physician, whether their infant should live or die.

If not, what argument can we use to support the idea that an infant born with spida bifuda has an inherently greater right to life than a school of dolphins?

If we remove God from the equation, must we agree that a government may pass a law that permits non-voluntary euthanasia for elderly who have permanently lost the ability to understand or support themselves as long as it is the will of the people? If not, can we abandon those elderly?

In short, having excised God, may atheists freely set their own ethical boundaries? If not, why? On what grounding principles should an aethiest base his or her ethical framework?

2006-10-09 05:51:16 · 15 answers · asked by MBH 3

Why do people assume that I'm evil?
Jesus loves me.

2006-10-09 05:50:04 · 25 answers · asked by forpetessake 1

2006-10-09 05:49:47 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous

i need instructions on how to make fire in the woods if im going camping.... without matches or a lighter???? i just want to know if i ever need to make a fire ..i know this has nothing to do with religion but i find it that this is the most viewed subject...

2006-10-09 05:48:43 · 18 answers · asked by henry_o01 1

2006-10-09 05:48:19 · 12 answers · asked by Kennita L 1

Doesn't that contradict the idea of an afterlife? Does the idea of an afterlife also make a resurrection pointless if we are eternal already? If we have eternal souls, why did jesus die for us?

YIKES! What should I do?

God animates us, we don't animate ourselves

2006-10-09 05:47:07 · 10 answers · asked by Poptart Demoniac 1

Please don't assume I understand it implicitly. I really don't; I find it odd to bless the dead. Tell me what a Muslim means by this wish to Muhammed and to one another.

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2006-10-09 05:47:00 · 6 answers · asked by NHBaritone 7

The 1st Commandment prohibits this.

2006-10-09 05:46:31 · 15 answers · asked by forpetessake 1

Would he found his own True Christian Church? What would he make of the YMCA? The Mormorons? The Jehovah Witlesses? The Cathoholics? The Southern Batpisseds?

2006-10-09 05:46:06 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous

Studies of more than 126,000 people have shown that those who regularly attend church are 29 per cent more likely to live longer than non-churchgoers. A University of Texas study found that church attenders live up to seven years longer than non-attenders, and the most regular attenders have the longest life expectancy.

A Duke University study of 2391 people who were at least 65 years old found that regular churchgoers who also prayed daily or studied the Bible daily were 40 per cent less likely to have high blood pressure than those who did not. Elderly churchgoers had better mental health and were less likely to have high degrees of a protein associated with age-related illness.

2006-10-09 05:45:40 · 8 answers · asked by Aspurtaime Dog Sneeze 6

what is the meaning of point no 2 as mentioned below....

It is written in the ‘ Bible ’ as :

1. If somebody says that he loves god but hates his brother, then he is a liar. Because the brother is also a fruit of the same tree which he himself belongs to.

2. O beloved ! Now we are his children and yet. Nothing has been disclosed what we would be. We know only this much that we will be like ‘him’ when he shows himself. We will see him as exactly as what he is. Our presence in the world is as he has.

3. God is love, and whoever carries love in himself, remains with God.

4. ‘O’ ancestors ! I am writing you because whoever is there from the beginning, you know him.

God is light and nothing is dark in it.

2006-10-09 05:45:34 · 3 answers · asked by ibkhandel 2

2006-10-09 05:44:09 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous

So far I've had good advice and guidance but now it's telling me to burn down my neighbours shed

2006-10-09 05:44:09 · 27 answers · asked by Grinner5000 4

I don't think that Jesus likes arrogance.

2006-10-09 05:44:05 · 12 answers · asked by forpetessake 1

If yes, then why don't Muslims read the Bible, or accept it as the Word of God? If the Bible is a "corrupted" book, but originally was written by God, what does that say about God's ability to preserve His Word? Doesn't the Qu'ran rely on Allah's preserving it through the centuries? And if Jesus was a prophet, you would have to accept either everything He said, or nothing; for either he is a liar, or His Word is true and He is who He said He is: the Son of God. You can't have it both ways, because central to His message is that He is the way, the truth, and the life, and that no man may come to the father but by through Him.

And if Jesus, according to Islam, was not considered a prophet, then why does he not meet the 'standards' required of such?

2006-10-09 05:41:42 · 20 answers · asked by Crono 3

Or did he find a fork halfway so that Mary could remain a Virgin?

And guess where he detoured through?

2006-10-09 05:41:36 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous

i was brought up c of e, and i have explored several other religions. i actually feel most comfortable with my original creed, only i daren't go to church for fear of being judged for being gay, or else risk said church from being struck by lightening by my being there. am i still a christian if i don't go to church, and if i do not contribute to the collection plate if i do attend a church service? i used to go to sunday school when i was a bairn but i was never confirmed.

2006-10-09 05:41:27 · 21 answers · asked by swot 5

2006-10-09 05:40:17 · 20 answers · asked by Bad Liberal 7

2006-10-09 05:40:09 · 55 answers · asked by forpetessake 1

Where they educated?

2006-10-09 05:38:48 · 2 answers · asked by Aspurtaime Dog Sneeze 6

isnt god looking out for "his people"? is that your reward for a life of worship and self denial?

2006-10-09 05:37:59 · 42 answers · asked by slippie 4