Religion & Spirituality - 12 October 2006

2006-10-12 16:00:08 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous

Matthew 1:16 "And Jacob begat Joseph the husband of Mary, of whom was born Jesus."

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Luke 3:23 "And Jesus himself began to be about thirty years of age, being (as was supposed) the son of Joseph, which was the son of Heli."

2006-10-12 15:56:46 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous

a) Is it to spread hatred and poisonous thought?
b) Is it made to anger everyone that is not of their believes?
c) Is it a place to release your anger,frustration and jealousy?
d) Is it a place to spread your religion
e) Is it a place to bash other's believes with false stories and twisted facts?

Or is it a place to expand your knowledge and acquisition of things that you have no idea about?

2006-10-12 15:56:41 · 21 answers · asked by TheWillBe 3

Jeremiah 32:27 "Behold, I am the Lord, the God of all flesh: is there anything too hard for me?
Matthew 19:26 "But Jesus beheld them, and said unto them, With men this is impossible; but with God all things are possible."

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Judges 1:19 "And the Lord was with Judah; and he drave out the inhabitants of the mountain; but could not drive out the inhabitants of the valley, because they had chariots of iron."

2006-10-12 15:55:10 · 22 answers · asked by Anonymous

I do. A woman in my church was raped. She and her husband are white, yet the rapist was black. She had the child. Zack is one of the greatest people I've ever known and I've always looked up to him.

2006-10-12 15:54:44 · 10 answers · asked by BABY 3

II Samuel 6:23 "Therefore Michal the daughter of Saul had no child unto the day of her death."
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II Samuel 21:8 "But the king took the two sons of Rizpah . . . and the five sons of Michal the daughter of Saul."

And how many stalls did Solomon have?

I Kings 4:26 "And Solomon had forty thousand stalls of horses for his chariots, and twelve thousand horsemen."

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II Chronicles 9:25 "And Solomon had four thousand stalls for horses and chariots, and twelve thousand horsemen."

2006-10-12 15:54:01 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous

Now the believers can lay their superstitions aside and we can all relax and enjoy life for a change.

2006-10-12 15:53:48 · 15 answers · asked by Davie 5

2006-10-12 15:53:33 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous

Don't have sex, don't have an aborotion if do have sex, don't be gay, don't do this don't do that. Whatever happened to forgiveness and charity?

2006-10-12 15:52:39 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous

John 1:18 "No man hath seen God at any time."
Exodus 33:20 "Thou canst not see my face: for there shall no man see me, and live."
John 6:46 "Not that any man hath seen the Father, save he which is of God [Jesus], he hath seen the Father."
I John 4:12 "No man hath seen God at any time."

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Genesis 32:30 "For I have seen God face to face."
Exodus 33:11 "And the Lord spake unto Moses face to face, as a man speaketh unto his friend."
Isaiah 6:1 "In the year that king Uzziah died I saw also the Lord sitting upon a throne, high and lifted up, and his train filled the temple."
Job 42:5 "I have heard of thee by the hearing of the ear: but now mine eye seeth thee."

2006-10-12 15:51:59 · 23 answers · asked by Anonymous

I was baptised when i was a kid, but i havnt gone to church at all except for like one or two times when i was a kid, but i still believe in fate and that God controls everything, and if i really need help i'll pray to him, but i dont pray every night. A lot of people are now saying that you have to go to church and worship and be a really devoted christian to go to Heaven, I havnt read the bible at all. What im worried about is that I will be sent to Hell for not being "loyal" enough or something. I have the personal belief that as long as you believe in and have faith and know god does everything you'll get to Heaven and live an eternity of happiness. Do you think I will get in?

2006-10-12 15:51:12 · 21 answers · asked by Andrew 2

John 14:27 "Peace I leave with you, my peace I give unto you."
Acts 10:36 "The word which God sent unto the children of Israel, preaching peace by Jesus Christ."
Luke 2:14 " . . . on earth peace, good will toward men."

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Matthew 10:34 "Think not that I am come to send peace on earth: I came not to send peace, but a sword. For I am come to set a man at variance against his father, and the daughter against her mother, and the daughter in law against her mother in law. And a man's foes shall be they of his own household."
Luke 22:36 "Then said he unto them, . . . he that hath no sword, let him sell his garment, and buy one."

2006-10-12 15:50:55 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous

2006-10-12 15:50:03 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous

2006-10-12 15:49:43 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous

Psalm 145:9 "The Lord is good to all."
Deuteronomy 32:4 "a God of truth and without iniquity, just and right is he."

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Isaiah 45:7 "I make peace and create evil. I the Lord do all these things."
Lamentations 3:38 "Out of the mouth of the most High proceedeth not evil and good?"
Jeremiah 18:11 "Thus saith the Lord; Behold, I frame evil against you, and devise a device against you."
Ezekiel 20:25,26 "I gave them also statutes that were not good, and judgments whereby they should not live. And I polluted them in their own gifts, in that they caused to pass through the fire all that openeth the womb, that I might make them desolate, to the end that they might know that I am the Lord."

2006-10-12 15:49:28 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous

Think about those times when you have to meet someone who is annoying to you. God cares about the least of these. So, let's picture the most annoying person in the world. How can you show love to that person.

2006-10-12 15:48:59 · 7 answers · asked by Searcher 7

If the Universe is infinitly old, then it never began. It could never be created since it was always around. So if that is the case, then what role does a "creator" play when there is no need for one.

2006-10-12 15:48:30 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous

2006-10-12 15:47:34 · 13 answers · asked by crownvic64 4

Hints: His Ph.D is from Yale. He was a Guggenheim Fellow, a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellow, and president of the American Philosophical Association, Central Division. He has lectured and taught at Harvard, Oxford, Princeton, UCLA, and Notre Dame and been the subject of ten books.

2006-10-12 15:47:07 · 3 answers · asked by BABY 3

2006-10-12 15:47:07 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous

Exodus 20:13 "Thou shalt not kill."
Leviticus 24:17 "And he that killeth any man shall surely be put to death."
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Exodus 32:27 "Thus sayeth the Lord God of Israel, Put every man his sword by his side, . . . and slay every man his brother, . . . companion, . . . neighbor."
I Samuel 6:19 " . . . and the people lamented because the Lord had smitten many of the people with a great slaughter."
I Samuel 15:2,3,7,8 "Thus saith the Lord . . . Now go and smite Amalek, and utterly destroy all that they have, and spare them not; but slay both man and woman, infant and suckling, ox and sheep, camel and ***. . . . And Saul smote the Amalekites . . . and utterly destroyed all the people with the edge of the sword."
Numbers 15:36 "And all the congregation brought him without the camp, and stoned him with stones, and he died; as the Lord commanded Moses."
Hosea 13:16 "they shall fall by the sword: their infants shall be dashed in pieces, and their women with children shall be ripped up."

2006-10-12 15:46:57 · 2 answers · asked by Anonymous

2006-10-12 15:45:00 · 11 answers · asked by VT 1

The bible CLEARLY states in 1 Peter 2:18 "Slaves, submit yourselves to your masters with all respect, not only to those who are good and considerate, but also to those that are harsh". So aren't black christians picking and choosing which biblical laws to follow and which ones to gloss over?

For the record - I am no christian and I don't condone slavery

2006-10-12 15:44:01 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous

To Christians on Answers? Why can't you just leave us alone? Why do you come here to the religion section just to try to make trouble?

2006-10-12 15:42:03 · 29 answers · asked by Anonymous

pretty cool when it happens.

2006-10-12 15:41:04 · 8 answers · asked by Didgeridude 4

In CHURCH???

2006-10-12 15:40:25 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous

2006-10-12 15:37:11 · 11 answers · asked by jrealitytv 6

2006-10-12 15:36:57 · 27 answers · asked by Anonymous

At times, we see a dialogue akin to the following:

Atheist Scoffer: What about this Old Testament verse that permits ______ (fill in the blank, slavery, eating shellfish, child sacrifice, etc.)?

Christian Apologetic: We are under the New Covenant. Thus, the rules of the earlier covenant as described in the Old Testament no longer apply.

I understand the reason and logic behind this statement. But it raises the following questions in my mind:

1. Why is the Old Testament in the Christian Bible? It is clearly important source material. But given the Christian faith's focus on salvation through Jesus, would it not more appropriately go with such works as the apochryphal and deutero-canonical books?

2. If one reads and follows solely New Testament scripture and bases his or her actions solely on the New Testament, can he or she obtain salvation? If so, again, why is it part of the Old Testament included in the Christianity's handbook for salvation?

Thank you for your time.

2006-10-12 15:33:57 · 33 answers · asked by MBH 3

spread of islam to Indonesia,Malysia,and black Africa and others.

2006-10-12 15:32:34 · 16 answers · asked by Kimo 4