Religion & Spirituality - 25 October 2006

please i want clear answers and only for serious people in this topic

2006-10-25 03:45:09 · 10 answers · asked by trustworthy 1

Why live...for what...doesn't it seem like a TOTAL waste of time...to just exist? Live for 80 years or so, survive, buy a house and car, give a few dollars to the poor or volunteer a few times, go lay down on sand in the sun, bring more offspring into a dying world...what is the point? Please someone, with minimal sarcasm, please tell me...WHY LIVE?

2006-10-25 03:45:03 · 32 answers · asked by Matt 2

2006-10-25 03:44:36 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous

Recently, someone posted this quote to show the hostility of Jesus' teaching.

"not in peace but with a sword"

Clearly Jesus was referring to His words being like a sword that divides.

Just one example of how Atheist who think they know scripture have no idea what they are talking about. There are plenty examples of Christians not understanding evolution. But when it comes to biblical and spiritual matter I think Christians have the inside track.

What do you think?

2006-10-25 03:44:21 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous

A few years ago I couldnt care less about religion or politics, now everywhere I look and listen there is a mad mullah threatening my life or a crazy christian preacher telling me I will go to hell unless I embrace god. 10 years ago nobody gave a toss what religion you were, now we are all being forced to choose, why. Its mad, youve got the prime minister saying God told him to go to war, excuse me but if I told someone god told me to do something I would be sectioned. So what on earth is going on, are we being armed for the final battle or is it just the world we live in falling apart?

2006-10-25 03:42:53 · 23 answers · asked by Anonymous

and did God answer that prayer?

2006-10-25 03:42:30 · 11 answers · asked by Wassana L 1

would you still ask for things when you pray?

2006-10-25 03:41:33 · 10 answers · asked by Wassana L 1

2006-10-25 03:40:57 · 19 answers · asked by ® Espresso ® 4

2006-10-25 03:39:52 · 7 answers · asked by ? 1

What made you first start frequenting the Yahoo! Answers Religion and Spirituality Section?

Personally, I was already addicted to Yahoo! Answers when I started frequenting this section. I used to not look at particular sections but answer whatever looked interesting. I then found that the Religious and Spiritual questions interested me and that this section had a lot more thought provoking questions than other sections - not to mention some good laughs.

What's your story?

2006-10-25 03:38:27 · 42 answers · asked by Anonymous

2006-10-25 03:36:58 · 18 answers · asked by Anonymous

Now, if you, in your entire life (since the day you were born) have ever said something bad about another religion (or belief system) raise your hand.

My hand was raised both times - you?

2006-10-25 03:36:54 · 8 answers · asked by daisyk 6

or future if u are psychic

2006-10-25 03:36:33 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous

Why is God such a Coward? Why does God hide in the shadows of life instead of making his presence known to all clearly without question? What is God afraid of? What kind of God would make his will so ambiguous that endless numbers have killed each other in defense of differing positions of what is God's true will? Why does God allow his "works" to be misconstrued as pure happenstance? Why did God give us 5 senses to explore his world then deceive us to make the world appear much older than his "word" says it should be? Why would people worship a God that has been nothing but a deceiver and coward at best?

2006-10-25 03:32:56 · 27 answers · asked by ULTIMATEMEANING 2

2006-10-25 03:32:14 · 21 answers · asked by Anonymous

The "First Vision" story in the form presented to you was unknown until 1838, eighteen years after its alleged occurrence and almost ten years after Smith had begun his missionary efforts. The oldest (but quite different) version of the vision is in Smith's own handwriting, dating from about 1832 (still at least eleven years afterwards), and says that only one personage, Jesus Christ, appeared to him. It also mentions nothing about a revival. It also contradicts the later account as to whether Smith had already decided that no church was true. Still a third version of this event is recorded as a recollection in Smith's diary, fifteen years after the alleged vision, where one unidentified "personage" appeared, then another, with a message implying that neither was the Son. They were accompanied by many "angels," which are not mentioned in the official version you have been told about. Which version is correct, if any? Why was this event, now said by the church to be so important,

2006-10-25 03:29:57 · 11 answers · asked by lpxerounderground 3

Does anyone really think Tyrannosaurus Rex could have prayed with those itty bitty forearms?

2006-10-25 03:29:39 · 7 answers · asked by Brendan G 4

2006-10-25 03:29:13 · 20 answers · asked by Anonymous

2006-10-25 03:27:56 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous

Not since Salman Rushdie's Satanic Verses has the publication of a book, SHAME a Novel Taslima Nasrin, provoked such mob violence, public outcries for the arrest and death of the author, and international efforts to secure her safety.

The animosity and bloodletting between Muslim and Hindu extremists on the Indian subcontinent is centuries old. When the Barbri Mosque at Ayodhya, India, was destroyed by Hindu fundamentalists on December 6 1992, fierce mob reprisals took place against the Hindu minority in Muslim Bangladesh.

These incidents form the backdrop for Dr Taslima Nasrin's explosive and courageous book describing the nightmarish fate of one family within her country's small Hindu community.

Shame (or Laija in Bengali) demonstrates Dr. Nasrin's determination to speak out in favor of Islamic reform, religious tolerance and freedom of expression, and against Muslim extremism and other forms of fundamentalism.

2006-10-25 03:27:24 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous

2006-10-25 03:27:05 · 25 answers · asked by Anonymous

Spurgeon writes, "Chance is banished from the faith of Christians, for they see the hand of God in everything."

If you were to observe this day without the concept of "chance" playing a part in your conclusions, just quietly observe and ACT instead of REact to all of your external happenings... Do you think you would better see God in all of this, your life? I do.

We often REact according to the desires of our flesh never thinking about the cause and effect of our reactions, failing to ever ACT according to God's Word or His will in our lives.

I have spent days in silence, observing and making a concious effort to ACT according to God's Word rather than REACT to the world around me according to the desires of my flesh. My eyes were opened. I have seen God's hand in everything.

2006-10-25 03:25:44 · 14 answers · asked by NONAME 4

Even if you are not Christian, you can at least respect His teachings of love, mercy, compassion and piousness.

2006-10-25 03:23:46 · 29 answers · asked by Anonymous

What does it mean?

2006-10-25 03:23:19 · 9 answers · asked by hazydaze 5

2006-10-25 03:22:33 · 4 answers · asked by nellie 3

2006-10-25 03:20:31 · 17 answers · asked by Brendan G 4

have you felt good about the things you said about Jesus the one died for all of us?

2006-10-25 03:19:37 · 5 answers · asked by I give you the Glory Father ! 6

of whales to try and test their faith in creationism?

2006-10-25 03:18:20 · 12 answers · asked by Eureka! 4

Just read some posts that need to be debated.

Evolution as in the fossil record is a fact.
Natural selection is fact, as in breeding, isolation, etc.

Random mutations that provide choices for selection are not a fact.

Random mutations cannot create 3 Billion lines of genetic code, that then are selected. That is science fiction.

Natural selection needs something to select, and that takes a lot of biology to be in place to begin with. The origins of life are unknown.

What property of matter possesses the property of consciousness? Where is consciousness in the brain? Researchers are tending toward dualism.

It takes great faith to believe in a solely materialistic and deterministic universe. That is ok. The dogmatic belief in unlikely theories, communicated as fact is not.

2006-10-25 03:12:33 · 21 answers · asked by Cogito Sum 4

Wouldnt it be more threatening to evil people if you told them that they were going to heaven for their sins instead of hell? Good people are afraid of hell, so shouldnt evil people be afraid of heaven?

2006-10-25 03:10:53 · 24 answers · asked by Anonymous