Religion & Spirituality - 26 October 2006

And please don't quote from the book with things like "fallen by the wayside". Cause I don't get it! How can I be given free will and then told "but you must choose this path or else"?

2006-10-26 15:26:23 · 12 answers · asked by steve 2

2006-10-26 15:24:21 · 17 answers · asked by Anonymous

2006-10-26 15:24:11 · 10 answers · asked by fuzzystuff511 2

I don't mean really "saw" Him, but had a dream about Him...

2006-10-26 15:22:59 · 15 answers · asked by nancy jo 5

Luke: 1-10

(summarized)
Jesus and Zaccheus. This story is about Jesus as he is in Jericho. A man named Zaccheus who was a rich man and a chief tax collector, climbed a sycamore tree to see Jesus as he passed by. When Jesus got near the tree he said “Zaccheus, hurry and come down, for I must stay at your house today”. Zaccheus went down to greet him and when everyone saw this they said “he has gone to be a guest of a man who is a sinner”. Zaccheus said to Jesus that he would give half his possessions, he will give to the poor, and give back four times as much to anyone he has defrauded. Jesus said to him “Today salvation has come to this house, because he too is a son of Abraham. (10): "For the son of man has come to seek and to save that which was lost"

This is a question for my religion hmwrk! I have like 10 of these to do, but there a few I can't figure out. so the question is: How was Jesus' action unusual? I can't figure out what is unusual about this one???

2006-10-26 15:22:25 · 23 answers · asked by Anonymous

after His resurection? Whom else did He visit? How long was it before His ascention?

2006-10-26 15:22:06 · 16 answers · asked by J DUB 2

2006-10-26 15:21:45 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous

fearing people,I've only seen his sorry a*s on BET, by telling them if they make a VOW they will be RE-PAID in multitudes.......He makes my blood boil!.....I know, don't watch him, but why do they give him a FORUM for this @*^$!, I believe GOD wants our heart and NOT our money, I think he is stealing in the name of the LORD..... do you feel this is a form of extortion? If not, please state why not ...thank you

2006-10-26 15:21:43 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous

2006-10-26 15:21:20 · 20 answers · asked by Anonymous

2006-10-26 15:20:41 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous

2006-10-26 15:19:40 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous

why did he create a world where his own son had to be murdered in order to redeem his own creation?

2006-10-26 15:19:11 · 18 answers · asked by Anonymous

(with the adress)

2006-10-26 15:18:32 · 9 answers · asked by vachool 2

The book of Revelations in the Bible states that Jesus will come again to judge the living and the dead. Well, I think He has, but in a different, more subtle, but just as meaningful way. Have you ever looked at someone and just known you were staring right into the eyes of Jesus? Like a homeless person, or a stranger, or just anyone?? Like you knew you had to help them. Or even a friend who was hurt, ever looked into the eyes of Jesus?

Kiara

2006-10-26 15:17:01 · 16 answers · asked by Kiara 5

Me?
I'll be mildly surprised.
no more than that, though.

2006-10-26 15:16:21 · 22 answers · asked by Anonymous

2006-10-26 15:12:58 · 39 answers · asked by Anonymous

A minor issue at the Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport (MSP) has potentially major implications for the future of Islam in the United States.

Starting about a decade ago, some Muslim taxi drivers serving the airport declared, that they would not transport passengers visibly carrying alcohol, in transparent duty-free shopping bags, for example. This stance stemmed from their understanding of the Koran's ban on alcohol. A driver named Fuad Omar explained: "This is our religion. We could be punished in the afterlife if we agree to [transport alcohol]. This is a Koran issue. This came from heaven." Another driver, Muhamed Mursal, echoed his words: "It is forbidden in Islam to carry alcohol."

The issue emerged publicly in 2000. On one occasion, 16 drivers in a row refused a passenger with bottles of alcohol. This left the passenger - who had done nothing legally wrong - feeling like a criminal. For their part, the 16 cabbies lost income. As Josh L. Dickey of the Associated Press put it, when drivers at MSP refuse a fare for any reason, "they go to the back of the line. Waaaay back. Past the terminal, down a long service road, and into a sprawling parking lot jammed with cabs in Bloomington, where drivers sit idle for hours, waiting to be called again."

To avoid this predicament, Muslim taxi drivers asked the Metropolitan Airports Commission for permission to refuse passengers carrying liquor - or even suspected of carrying liquor - without being banished to the end of the line. MAC rejected this appeal, worried that drivers might offer religion as an excuse to refuse short-distance passengers.

The number of Muslim drivers has by now increased, to the point that they reportedly make up three-quarters of MSP's 900 cabdrivers. By September 2006, Muslims turned down an estimated three fares a day based on their religious objection to alcohol, an airport spokesman, Patrick Hogan, told the Associated Press, adding that this issue has "slowly grown over the years to the point that it's become a significant customer service issue."

"Travelers often feel surprised and insulted," Mr. Hogan told USA Today.

With this in mind, MAC proposed a pragmatic solution: drivers unwilling to carry alcohol could get a special color light on their car roofs, signaling their views on alcohol to taxi starters and customers alike. From the airport's point of view, this scheme offers a sensible and efficient mechanism to resolve a minor irritant, leaving no passenger insulted and no driver losing business. "Airport authorities are not in the business of interpreting sacred texts or dictating anyone's religious choices," Hogan points out. "Our goal is simply to ensure travelers at [the airport] are well served." Awaiting approval only from the airport's taxi advisory committee, the two-light proposal will likely be in operation by the end of 2006.

But on a societal level, the proposed solution has massive and worrisome implications. Namely, the two-light plan intrudes the Shari‘a, or Islamic law, with state sanction, into a mundane commercial transaction in Minnesota. A government authority thus sanctions a signal as to who does or does not follow Islamic law.

What of taxi drivers beyond those at MSP? Other Muslims in Minneapolis-St. Paul and across the country could well demand the same privilege. Bus conductors might follow suit. The whole transport system could be divided between those Islamically observant and those not so.

Why stop with alcohol? Muslim taxi drivers in several countries already balk at allowing seeing-eye dogs in their cars. Future demands could include not transporting women with exposed arms or hair, homosexuals, and unmarried couples. For that matter, they could ban men wearing kippas, as well as Hindus, atheists, bartenders, croupiers, astrologers, bankers, and quarterbacks.

MAC has consulted on the taxi issue with the Minnesota chapter of the Muslim American Society, an organization the Chicago Tribune has established is devoted to turning the United States into a country run be Islamic law. The wife of a former head of the organization, for example, has explained that its goal is "to educate everyone about Islam and to follow the teachings of Islam with the hope of establishing an Islamic state."

It is precisely the innocuous nature of the two-light taxi solution that makes it so insidious - and why the Metropolitan Airports Commission should reconsider its wrong-headed decision.

2006-10-26 15:11:17 · 12 answers · asked by yagman 7

2006-10-26 15:08:04 · 9 answers · asked by qaz11u 1

I have been a devout Catholic my entire life yet I had my beliefs shook when I learned Hindus experienced a mass miracle in 1995 in which all the statues of Ganesha (the elephant-headed Hindu god) in the world started mysteriously drinking milk. Science has not been able to prove it (capillary action was mentioned for stone and marble statues but that doesn't explain how the metal and plastic statues drank milk too) and I myself have been to Vishnu Mandir, a temple that experience this miracle. What is the meaning of this? If this miracle had happened inside the Jewish faith or Muslim faith I could understand, but the supernatural behaviour of a half-elephant-half-man idol is beyond me. Somebody help me with this please.


Miracle can be seen in milkmiracle.com

2006-10-26 15:08:02 · 8 answers · asked by musical902003 4

Identify the regions (North, South, East and West) dominated by the Roman Empire at its height ???

2006-10-26 15:07:26 · 2 answers · asked by ha 1

1. How many years after the death of Muhammad do we find actual manuscripts of the Qur’an? Why is this a problem?

2. Why should we at least be able to find fragments of the Qu’ran from a much earlier date? Why is this a problem?

3. What is the Talmud and why is not considered to be “inspired” by Jews or Christians?

4. What is the problem regarding the “Talmud” accounts in the Qur’an? Why does this invalidate the Qur’an?

2006-10-26 15:05:12 · 12 answers · asked by anstod88 1

says that christ will come down (2nd coming) for the living and dead. what does that mean, that when we die now, we are just dead and waiting for the 2nd coming of christ. then there is no heaven at the moment.

2006-10-26 15:01:20 · 16 answers · asked by havingfun 4

why did i get only one answer on my question about cain (link below)

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20061026174614AAqufKW&pa=FYd1D2bwHTHwIrtvFOMyRqCOoDxHSrvpN4gGk1iXwn1NslBiB1ZsXhQ4VcuoU8S2nmYWvcS0lLfaZQ--&msgr_status=

if you believe in the literal story of jesus where two people walked on water, why do some believe the creation story is not literal?

where did cain get his wife?

2006-10-26 14:59:16 · 13 answers · asked by lnfrared Loaf 6

2006-10-26 14:57:10 · 44 answers · asked by Anonymous

is anyone into witchcraft? if so what can i do to help a friend for the courts to go easy with her?????? please i belive in all this and would like to help her.

2006-10-26 14:56:42 · 14 answers · asked by liontiver1992 2

for the coming of the Lord Almighty??!! Oh praise Him, for it will be glorious!

2006-10-26 14:56:24 · 25 answers · asked by Former Atheist 4

What identifies true from false? This is a Bible related question...If you don't believe the Bible then it is not a question for you....

2006-10-26 14:56:03 · 8 answers · asked by kdwcnliz2 2

what would happen if us christians prayed for our nations leaders and witnessed to our neighbors?we need to pray and witness more.

2006-10-26 14:55:13 · 4 answers · asked by Demon slayer 3

I believe I am a spiritual being having a human experience.

2006-10-26 14:55:07 · 4 answers · asked by summerladyhawk 2

How do they feel about atheists converting to their religion? Do they discourage it?

2006-10-26 14:54:30 · 7 answers · asked by -:- Masha -:- 2