Religion & Spirituality - 23 October 2006

When the Christian Religion alone has 4,684 groups in just the U.S.

If you still believe you have chosen correctly then I would n't waste anytime going out to buy a lottery ticket!!


http://www.religioustolerance.org/reltrue.htm

2006-10-23 04:04:40 · 11 answers · asked by Agnostic Messiah 2

My Husband and I recently got saved and baptized and Married. The church that we attend doesn't allow for us to celebrate Holloween. We believe that this is satan's Holiday. I am not asking for religious advice, or anyone to tell us that we need a new church or anything like that, our beliefs are our beliefs and that is it. I want to know what I can do with my daughter so that she doesn't feel left out when all the other kids are trick-or-treating.

Please Help... This is more for the people who have the same beliefs that we do.

2006-10-23 04:04:14 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous

Could anyone help me this is a question I have been given in Re !! But I was not in class when they studied it so I don't know anything about it !!

2006-10-23 04:03:11 · 9 answers · asked by mimi 2

I am a Christian and a question was posed to me.. How do the dinosaurs fit in with the Bible if God made the world and man in 7 days. Did man and dinosaurs cohabitate. I have heard Christians dont belive in dinosaurs because its easyer not to belive it. HELP ANSWER!!

2006-10-23 03:59:29 · 13 answers · asked by elf_drummer_boy 1

It just seems wierd that despite starting in the middle east the westernized version of Christianity is so removed from the Jewish and Muslum faiths. Is this just something that was changed duing the Crusades and basically made into a religion that suited the Europeans better at that time?

2006-10-23 03:57:47 · 7 answers · asked by JustCurious 2

Is one of more benefit?

2006-10-23 03:54:53 · 5 answers · asked by angellozenterprises 2

This board is for religious and spiritual discussion. Why do people have to keep asking questions that either have underlying preaching or aren't questions at all and just tell you what to believe?

Do people really think this method will convert anyone?

2006-10-23 03:53:59 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous

Please help me on this one. I am asking to learn, not to criticize. Give scriptures, if possible.
Is Mary in Heaven making intercession? Many thanks for your answers.

2006-10-23 03:51:01 · 19 answers · asked by Anonymous

If God is perfect can he simply say it is okay that you are a murderer? If God forgives without atonement can he be perfect? to deny the deity of Christ is to deny your own salvation. No created being is perfect and if a created being can achieve perfection why would Christ need to atone for sin? We would all be required to be perfect.

2006-10-23 03:46:00 · 12 answers · asked by djmantx 7

Please, no disrespectful answers from nonbelievers. This is an earnest question. I know what I think faith is about but I want to see what others think.

2006-10-23 03:42:32 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous

johovas witness is the only religion i dont understand.How they wont give blood to family, even if their child are dying.How they never celebrate anything.When a child should expericence that kind of exitment.And i think thats anoying tha tthey try to go door to door pushing their religion on others, when most religion wont do that.I never push my cathelic religion on others.I would like to know who started this religion, and why they started it.Because they didnt want to spend money on gifts and birthdays??.They didnt like to waste their blood??And if they thought that walkign to door to door is fun?? have always been curiouse where this religion came from.I respect every other religion or i dont care.But this one always was on my mind.I have a child and it botehrs me that they wouldnt save their own child/

2006-10-23 03:42:11 · 9 answers · asked by askalotofquestionsmom 1

For Afzal's clemency case entire J&K Muslims cite possible civil war as the reason! and for Abu Salem's electoral contest from Mubarakpur (in UP) they say he can bring about development!. (i winder on these lines Dawood can bring about national development also!)

2006-10-23 03:40:34 · 5 answers · asked by manishsingh_india 2

2006-10-23 03:39:16 · 2 answers · asked by frayan 1

2006-10-23 03:38:32 · 18 answers · asked by hfdhs 1

Have you ever wondered what the lions den must have looked like?Could it have been like an underground cave or a large stadium arena with a stone wall around it?Amazing how Daniel took that step of faith and believed in God for a miracle.I see that teaches us to trust in God.

2006-10-23 03:37:01 · 7 answers · asked by Mr Christian Ct 4

Woman in Islam are horrifyingly oppressed, abused, and mistreated. The most obvious for of inequality is polygamy in Islam which allows a man to marry up to four women! How can this possibly be logical? Why do woman in Islam accept this. Can’t they see that when a man marries 4 women that makes a woman worth ¼ of a man? Women in Islam are literally sex slaves. “If a woman spends the night deserting her husband's bed (does not sleep with him), then the angels send their curses on her till she comes back (to her husband),” said Mohamed. Also, "If a husband calls his wife to his bed (i.e. to have sexual relation) and she refuses and causes him to sleep in anger, the angels will curse her till morning." See faithfreedom.org/Articles/quran_teaches.htm
It really is sickening: the way men treat woman as their property, deciding if they may work or if they must wear Hijab! In Islam woman exist to serve men and please them. A woman is totally governed by her father/brother/husband/Son! WHY?

2006-10-23 03:35:52 · 29 answers · asked by Pichka 2

Woman in Islam are horrifyingly oppressed, abused, and mistreated. The most obvious for of inequality is polygamy in Islam which allows a man to marry up to four women! How can this possibly be logical? Why do woman in Islam accept this. Can’t they see that when a man marries 4 women that makes a woman worth ¼ of a man? Women in Islam are literally sex slaves. “If a woman spends the night deserting her husband's bed (does not sleep with him), then the angels send their curses on her till she comes back (to her husband),” said Mohamed. Also, "If a husband calls his wife to his bed (i.e. to have sexual relation) and she refuses and causes him to sleep in anger, the angels will curse her till morning." See faithfreedom.org/Articles/quran_teaches.htm
It really is sickening: the way men treat woman as their property, deciding if they may work or if they must wear Hijab! In Islam woman exist to serve men and please them. A woman is totally governed by her father/brother/husband/Son! WHY?

2006-10-23 03:35:19 · 14 answers · asked by Pichka 2

I recently answered aquestion that someone aske about Gay marriage. My reply was I dont believe in it. And to Go read the Dible. So many people reported me and yahoo removed my answer. I have seen so many people say things worse than that. People have told me on here that I am wrong because I married a white man. I did not flag or report them. Everyone here is entitled to their own opinoin or are they? Why do you think so many people reacted this way

2006-10-23 03:32:14 · 32 answers · asked by Anonymous

Abb. of the letters posted on the cross that Jesus was on. What does it stand for, and what does it mean?

2006-10-23 03:31:09 · 7 answers · asked by Tina d 2

besides reincarnation and canibalism

2006-10-23 03:28:38 · 24 answers · asked by Lelia Pop 3

AM I MY BROTHER'S KEEPER?
...THE HAND YOU PULL UP, MAY BE THE HAND THAT SAVES YOU!

A SIMPLE LESSON:

A rat looked through a crack in the wall to see the farmer and his wife
opening a package. What food might it contain? He was aghast to discover
that it was a rat trap. Retreating to the farmyard the rat proclaimed
the warning; "There is a rat trap in the house, a rat trap in the
house!"

The chicken clucked and scratched, raised her head and said, "Excuse me,
Mr. Rat, I can tell this is a grave concern to you, but it is of no
consequence to me. I cannot be bothered by it."

The rat turned to the pig and told him, "There is a rat trap in the
house, a rat trap in the house!"

"I am so very sorry Mr. Rat," sympathized the pig, "but there is nothing
I can do about it but pray. Be assured that you are in my prayers."

The rat turned to the cow. She said, "Like wow, Mr. Rat. A rat trap. I
am in grave danger. Duh?"

So the rat returned to the house, head down and dejected, to face the
farmer's rat trap alone.

That very night a sound was heard throughout the house, like the sound
of a rat trap catching its prey. The farmer's wife rushed to see what
was caught. In the darkness, she did not see that it was a venomous
snake whose tail the trap had caught. The snake bit the farmer's wife.

The farmer rushed her to the hospital. She returned home with a fever.
Now everyone knows you treat a fever with fresh chicken soup, so the
farmer took his hatchet to the farmyard for the soup's main ingredient.

His wife's sickness continued so that friends and neighbors came to sit
with her around the clock. To feed them the farmer butchered the pig.

The farmer's wife did not get well. She died, and so many people came
for her funeral that the farmer had the cow slaughtered to provide meat
for all of them to eat.

So the next time you hear that someone is facing a problem and think
that it does not concern you, remember that when there is a rat trap in
the house, the whole farmyard is at risk.

"Am I my brother's keeper?" (Genesis 4:9d)

2006-10-23 03:26:48 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous

or is it a stereotype at all??

2006-10-23 03:26:38 · 10 answers · asked by Erikawithasmile 4

religion religion religion....for thousands of years people believed in the egyptians and their religion, until another religion came. don't you think with this one its just the same? what is religion anyway?

2006-10-23 03:26:22 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous

Apparently according to some christains its perfectly okay to go to war because God lead the Isralites to war. Which makes me wonder then why they nedded God to lead them to war if anyone can do it, like they could have been lead to war by a Mongolian war lord, a pirate from the Carrabian, or a Texan oil billionaire, like what are we as Christains waiting for, lets all make groups and get some odd bod enthusiasts to lead us to war cause obviously that was Gods lesson, anyone can do it! Am i right, is that the message of the Bible, we dont need God to lead us to war anyone can do it?

2006-10-23 03:26:06 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous

Does that tell you anything?

2006-10-23 03:24:52 · 18 answers · asked by Anonymous

I wonder why did Adam & Eve had genitals if they were not supposed to have sex. They could have been created without any genitals at all (theoretically). Please only serious answers.

2006-10-23 03:24:19 · 22 answers · asked by Serghei R 2

If the 4 Gospels are all true, then Jesus' claim as Son of God must be true, and Quran claiming Jesus as only a prophet is not true?

from Quaran: 5:110 Lo! [131] God will say: "O Jesus, son of Mary! Remember the blessings which I bestowed upon thee and thy mother-how I strengthened thee with holy inspiration, [132] so that thou couldst speak unto men in thy cradle, and as a grown man; and how I imparted unto thee revelation and wisdom, including the Torah and the Gospel;

2006-10-23 03:23:37 · 6 answers · asked by Steve R 2

I think we should memorize the Qur'an in Arabic.... But do you also feel that we should definetly learn arabic. My goal is to memorize it by the time I am 30 years old!

2006-10-23 03:22:52 · 9 answers · asked by . 3

2006-10-23 03:21:39 · 25 answers · asked by Anonymous

2006-10-23 03:19:55 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous