Religion & Spirituality - 17 October 2006

Imagine that!

2006-10-17 08:37:25 · 7 answers · asked by wisdom 4

We Christians beleive that God is far superior to us, much more than this analogy, perhaps as an ant to a human as far as minds go. Would you expect the ant to undertand the humans thinking? Or the person from 600 AD to understand our modern ideas? Have you ever tried to explain to a two year old why they must permit the doctor to give them a shot? How can we be expected to understand God's ways?

2006-10-17 08:36:40 · 16 answers · asked by Debra M. Wishing Peace To All 7

The Pope makes a couple of comments that say the Muslim faith is a violent religion, and Muslims extremists were outraged and called for the assassination of the Pope. Doesn't that only confirm what the Pope said, and make it less offensive?

2006-10-17 08:36:12 · 5 answers · asked by Dano 3

Why is there is difference between the religion (belief) and its practice ? We do something, where as our holy scriptures says something else. When we don’t abide by our religion, there’ a “guilty consciousness” is created, and our sense of guilty shows up.
We start blaming ourselves – “what the hell are you doing “ ? In spite of this, we do the same again. Why is this so ? The answer is :-
The body of human being is built by nature, controlled by nature, and its thought and feelings are natural. It is the aspect of body. There is a soul in the body also, which was completely a part of nature before. Now, it is going ahead in the direction of ‘conscious’, but till now it could develop itself to the consciousness only. It has not been released from natural wishes. It has not proved the real itself yet. Confusion is there in it, for it tries to press for autonomy sometimes, and comes under the custody of nature sometimes. And, as long as it doesn’t win over the nature, it can never get the autonomy. The nature will make it dance to its tune till then. The autonomy stage is a revolt against nature. It is trying to become a master to itself, because as long as remains under the rule of nature, its responsibility for both the grief and happiness in an equal proportion is a must. But, the “I” in their bodies is not accepting to it, doesn’t want the responsibility of grief, wants joy only.
Religion is the directive elements of pros and cons, which motivates us to become a self reliant “ I ”. Keeping the dignity of that “ I ” in mind. Religion is standing against the nature. It doesn’t want to bow against the nature. It doesn’t like the slavery under the nature, because it doesn’t want to be the part of miseries, whether or not is it deprived of the joy. For the greed of getting happiness, it doesn’t want to embrace the miseries. It doesn’t want to be the part of miseries, it doesn’t want to embrace the miseries. It doesn’t want the support of nature. It wants to be self reliant. When it is unable to become self reliant, it prays ‘god’. It is the experience of our religious personalities that only god is elf reliant and we have to take the shelter of God to relieve ourselves from the miseries.
The religion says – it is wicked to steal. Still you don’t hesitate to steal. The body (nature) motivates to steal but the religion for the satisfaction of “ I ” and for self dignity, prevents you to do so. Nature doesn’t want to spare the taste in the cream of stealing, it wants to enjoy every kind of taste. Where as the religion wants to lives on the ‘pure entity form’, where both joy and grief is missing. It is because, it doesn’t want canning for the result of the “ cream ”, derived from stealing. Thus, the kind of ‘coat’, the religion has stitched for the soul, doesn’t fit the body. The body has a different size, a different type of greed, and the soul is separating itself from this trouble. It is trying to made itself free from it, because the feeling of miseries has gone beyond tolerance.
There is a dual existence in every human being. One is “I” or soul, another is its body. Animals and other normal creatures have body only. They don’t feel get the dilemma. They live their life at ease. They enjoy both the feelings of happiness and grief in an equal way. But, where the “I” comes, there starts the dilemma. Like this the human being is in a big dilemma. It wants to get away from the body along with its all senses. The religion is made keeping the account, not the body. That is why, there is a difference between deeds and the speech. The body doesn’t listen to the soul. But, one day the soul will over the body, and will come to the neutral form. It will get away from the grief and joy and will become stoic. It is possible for the human being. In my view, effort is required beyond this also, to finish off that “I” That will be its prime stage. But, it is matter of controversy as- how far it is proper to discard happiness for the fear of the miseries. The decision is personal. I can’t impose your decision on others. Those who are of less soul and more body will have different one. Those, who are of less body and more soul will have different needs. And those, who neither have a soul and nor have a body, will have an unique decision quite different from others, because the needs of he body is different from that of a soul. And those, who neither have a soul nor have a body, do not have any ‘need’ It is a ‘zero’ stage, lack of joy- grief, dignity or indignity.
NOTE:- The soul has two parts. One is positive (+ve) another is negative(-ve) But, in totality the body is negative (Neutral). It is greedy of consuming everything. It carries no moral values. Therefore it is called negative.

2006-10-17 08:35:28 · 2 answers · asked by ibkhandel 2

When christians begin bashing Disney movies as having phallic symbols and such in them as hidden messages for our children, who thinks someone has way too much time on their hands? Come on people, I am a Christian and I am not that uptight or that overzealous? How do you get to be that narrow minded and still be Christian?

2006-10-17 08:32:11 · 2 answers · asked by Anonymous

I'm appearing in a prodcution of Raisin in the Sun which is being co-sponsored by a local black church and a large national bank. The church groups pastor is insisting that because we use their rehearsal space and performace space that all profanity (even mild things like hell and damn and GD be removed as well as the scene were Beneatha blasphemes that god doesn't exist and get's slapped by her mother and it's not the slap that bothers them. The N-word (which the actors, who are black if you didn't know, were asked about and supported it's usage) they don't have a problem with. It open to the general public and not exclusively for the congregation although they are obcviously a target market. I'd really like to hear from Southern Baptisis and Evangelicals to understand the thinking better. I can understand why they might object to taking the lords name in vain but the rest escapes me.

2006-10-17 08:27:42 · 3 answers · asked by Scott L 5

Do u believe in this "unique" outlook on our creator?

For the record I believe in G-d.

2006-10-17 08:27:31 · 2 answers · asked by ? 4

on this path we walk?

in this world of pointless fear, filled with empty talk??

I do feel moody!

2006-10-17 08:25:54 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous

I mean, the Christians in this country turn into cheerleaders every time the republicans want to make war on someone, doesn't even matter if the reason is valid or not. I guess the bombing and bloodshed makes for great after-church TV, sad.

2006-10-17 08:25:02 · 4 answers · asked by keepitsafe2think 2

2006-10-17 08:18:35 · 2 answers · asked by Mark K 2

Think about this...

Man has been inventing religions for thousands of years : sun worship, moon worship, ocean worship, star worship, Egyptian religion, Inca religion, Aztec religion, Maya religion, Native American religion, Greek religion, Roman religion, Aboriginal religion, African tribal religions, mono theistic religions, Maori religion etc etc. the current crop of religions seem to be more in the long list of man made religions that have come and gone over the millenia.

2006-10-17 08:16:58 · 2 answers · asked by Cindy 2

............. and let the real experts continue their real research into our actual orgins.

In much the same way as we ignore the ridiculous biblical claims of the "flat earth society" , isn't it just about tiime we stopped humoring the creationists by giving them attention ?

2006-10-17 08:15:33 · 2 answers · asked by Cindy 2

I've always wondered this

2006-10-17 08:12:40 · 2 answers · asked by dcsportbiker 2

The key steps of life:

Comet, or, primordial soup, or clay=?
Organic Goo=Miller experiment has been discounted as wrong
RNA replicator occurs=how did this happen?
Cell occurs=very complex step, how?
Many new single celled organisms
Mitochondria and chloroplast join cell=how?
Multicellular organisms
Many many multicellular organisms
Vertebrate occurs=how and why?
Lungfish occurs=how?
Land Lungfish
Various obscure animals occur
Mammals occur=how?
Primates occur=how?
Ancestor of monkeys and apes occurs=how?
Ancestral apes occur=how?
Ancestral humans occur=how?
Human occur=how?

This is a progession of increasing complexity and information. If there is a natural force capable of all this, it should be very pervasive and apparent. Natural selection is known to be able to only possibly explain a very small fraction of this process.

It takes great faith to believe that someday, maybe there will be a natural explanation.

Faith in a creator makes more sense.

2006-10-17 08:12:25 · 1 answers · asked by Cogito Sum 4

2006-10-17 08:12:24 · 2 answers · asked by Cindy 2

"And they shall say unto the elders of his city, This our son is stubborn and rebellious, he will not obey our voice; he is a glutton, and a drunkard. And all the men of his city shall stone him with stones, that he die"

(Deuteronomy 21:20-21).

2006-10-17 08:10:39 · 3 answers · asked by Cindy 2

If indeed Noah's flood was worldwide, then God's word is null and void. Carefull reading of Pslams 104:1-9, details a event that happened long before Noah's flood. The subject is "creation"...verse 5 "Who laid the foundations of the earth, that it should not be removed forever."..Verse 6 "Thou coveredth it,[the earth], with the deep, [water] as with a garment: the WATERS stood above the mountains. ...verse 7 ""At thy rebuke they [waters] fled; at the voice of thy thunder they hasted away". verse 8..""they go up by the mountains; they go down by the valleys unto the place which thou has founded for them". verse 9.."Thou hast set a bound that they, [waters], may not pass over, that they turn NOT AGAIN TO COVER THE EARTH".
Now, we read that the waters in the flood of Noah, [genesis 8:3]; "And the waters returned from the earth continually; and after the end of 150 days the waters were abated". That's 5 months!! in Pslams the waters abated IMMEDIATLY.
Was Noah's flood wordwide?

2006-10-17 08:06:01 · 2 answers · asked by Royal Racer Hell=Grave © 7

Has anyone had a thought about something might happen, you didn't pray about it, and then later on it came to be as if you did pray for it? Example: as a Christian I saw this rap group on stage one time rapping at our service and I was thinking "Wow, they're doing what I want to do. I want to rap too." I never got to pray about it because then it came to be. Now I'm in a rap group and we are the ones that perform for the church because that group I looked up to so much dispersed. Other examples have happened too, but this month I was thinking, maybe I should become a foster parent and I hadn't pray yet about it. This weekend a girl asked to stay for the weekend and it turns out that she is a foster kid (20 yrs old) who is in need of a home. This happen to anyone?

2006-10-17 08:04:28 · 41 answers · asked by Light 3

1) What is the purpose of wiping out all living things except what was on the ark, what did the other animals do that was so bad that they did not get a chance to live?

2) If then we are offsprings of Noah's family, shouldn't we all be good since we come from the choosen ones. Who and where did all these evil people today came from?

3) What is the purpose of these ' God Disasters' to rid the world of evil, when clearly evil always rear it ugly head again and again?

Can somebody please make some sense of all this for me? Thanks.

2006-10-17 08:03:51 · 46 answers · asked by Anonymous

I have poster a different question before and how funny it gets when people thinks that someone is judging them. But the fact is the most of these are judged by their own self and nobody else. jesus is more powerful than demons and even satan. Magic is only magic. But the real power comes jesus Christ who gives freedom of spirit. to live a better life. People seeks power but jesus has the real power to change the life.

2006-10-17 08:02:57 · 38 answers · asked by ? 4

Many of you godbelievers assert this belief. Why? Cite it!

2006-10-17 07:58:11 · 30 answers · asked by theagitator@sbcglobal.net 2

Indian pseudo-fundamentalist Dr.Naik said in one session that Mother terresa will not enter Mohamud,s paradise because she died as Kafir.(a derogatory term muslim arrogantly use for non-muslim).So according to Naik even the best chractered human has no right of paradise.The tragedy is not what Naik said or is saying, tragedy is that he is taken as highly intellectual .If muslim of this caliber and education talk so non-sense what to expect from a simple muslim.These Dividers of humanity are responsible for inter-religious conflict.

2006-10-17 07:55:26 · 9 answers · asked by nostalgia786 1

as a christian, would you abort a baby that came about as a result of rape?. if yes, why would you want to keep a reminder of an event like rape?

2006-10-17 07:55:20 · 24 answers · asked by lila 3

Let's just say I am a person that believes in god but I'm not sure which religion teaches about the right god. What's your religion and how do you know it is true?

2006-10-17 07:54:26 · 34 answers · asked by fruit salad 6

enemy terrorists murdereres, whatever kind, are hiding? Can you agree with me. And when God reveals this to us, give God all the praise & all the Glory. But to further pray that they get caught & bound & imprisoned to prevent them from killing any other. And after that, the Good News of God's Saving Grace presented to them to save them from hell?

2006-10-17 07:53:23 · 6 answers · asked by t_a_m_i_l 6

Luke 9:59He said to another man, "Follow me." But the man replied, "Lord, first let me go and bury my father." 60Jesus said to him, "Let the dead bury their own dead, but you go and proclaim the kingdom of God."

In your opinion, was He referring to those “dead in spirit”, that is, those that are not able to understand the spiritual message anymore? Did they have to be those to bury their “own dead”? Is this the sense of the sentence?

2006-10-17 07:51:38 · 22 answers · asked by Gospel of Thomas 2

While listening to Keith Green, at the end of the songs, he says: I would rather people hate me than have a cool friendship and knowing that I tried to offer the plan of salvation to them.

Are we there as Christians? ready to be hated for offering Jesus, or do we want an easy relationship with people,knowing they may have eternal death.

2006-10-17 07:49:55 · 25 answers · asked by 2ndchhapteracts 5

From the pope's will we can read "The personal notes have to be burnt. I wish for Don Stanislao to watch over this, to whom I thank for the extended and comprehensive collaboration and help in all these years." The source:
http://www.vatican.va/gpii/documents/tes...
Don Stanislao doesn't burn the documents: "An unequivocal wish, that hasn't been fulfilled by the man to whom the pope had asked to watch over: lord Stanislao Dziwisz, secretary of Karol Wojtyla for almost 40 years......... On an interview to the Polish radio “Polskie Radio” at the beginning of June, Dziwisz says, "I have not burnt anything of the personal writings of Wojtyla, just because nothing deserves the fire, it is an enormous treasure, made of excellent texts of great variety."
The source: http://www.korazym.org/news1.asp?id=1446...

What do you think of Don Stanislao’s gesture?
In your opinion, was a good decision not burning the documents he was supposed to?

2006-10-17 07:49:43 · 2 answers · asked by Gospel of Thomas 2

what is any religion good for

(apart from causing,war and hate)

ins't time we grow up as a species

now i dont have a problem with people and there religion. if it floats your boat.on you go .just dont bother me with it. but right now there is a lot of people bother me with it. i mean people coming to my door(disrupting my peace) tyring to convert me to there religion. i walk down the high street and get leaflets telling me i MUST come to the chuch(why so sum priest can brainwash me i dont think so) dont you people relise its the biggest con the world has ever seen.Its also the biggest killer on the planet..we have drugs alcohol and disese but religion the biggest killer

2006-10-17 07:49:25 · 21 answers · asked by rusty red 4

Why the Book of Revelation has been accepted by the Catholic Church as a canonical document only in 1545? For example, even some priests like Giovanni Crisostomo and Gregorio Nazianzeno, considered the Revelation as being non-canonical, that is apocryphal. Also at the beginning of the Reform (1537) there were some doubts regarding its canonicity; however, from the XVII century, it has been introduced again among the books of the New Testament. For the Catholics the matter of the canonicity has been definitely resolved by the Council of Trento on April 8 th 1545. Retrieved from ( italian): http://www.corsobiblico.it/apocalisse.ht...

2006-10-17 07:47:19 · 7 answers · asked by Gospel of Thomas 2