Religion & Spirituality - 5 November 2006

Ever wonder how us believers in Jesus Christ say we're saved, safe, have that eternal security, but yet thats what no other religion says or non believer for that matter. Wouldnt you agree it would stem back to the old saying "Better safe than sorry", common sense in a belief in Christ

2006-11-05 21:41:56 · 4 answers · asked by sliccapostle 2

2006-11-05 21:39:57 · 2 answers · asked by sexy_eyes04 1

dont get me wrong people i grew up in a religious home, my father was a minister and my mom is a missionary. but if there is truly a god why does he allow people to suffer the way they do? and why is tehre not enough food and money for eveyone? and why is it that the good people are the ones always dying why the bad ones live? For example my dad dies in 04 of cancer, why him, he was a good man, great father, and great husband. why couldn;t god give the cancer to the low life who is out molesting young kids or raping women?

2006-11-05 21:39:52 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous

the woman that recorded it said, I will never sit over another athiest dying it was too horifying.

Voltair also said one day belief in Jesus will be gone and my work place making my books will remain-after his death the bible society bought his place and used it as a publishing house for the bible. Yet he insisted on rejecting the savior even on his death bed knowing he would be going to gnashing teeth and torment forever as Jesus says in the bible in Revelation19-22nd chapters, rather than repenting and letting the loving savior into his heart? Why
do you have a good answer Why?

2006-11-05 21:33:55 · 15 answers · asked by ? 5

No stupid answers like "God said so" or "my cousin was" or something like that either.

2006-11-05 21:30:14 · 18 answers · asked by Anonymous

Newsweek has a wonderful online spread on politics and religion up today, so expect a lot of questions, hee...

In the article here, about Christianity attempting to break away from the image formed by politics in the past years: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15566654/site/newsweek/page/6/

is this quote:

Cal Thomas hits a common refrain: "What are Christians known for? We're against abortion, against same-sex marriage. But what are we for?"

So, as a Christian, what do you think you are known for in the everyday world besides the picture painted by politics?

For non-Christians, what's your answer to Mr. Thomas' question?

2006-11-05 21:29:33 · 3 answers · asked by angk 6

I have this theory that Mono Culturalism sped up the race to secularism in Europe. This would be analagous to mono cropping exhausting the soil. The great Cathedrals of Europe are empty because everyone was Christian and became culturaly bereft of new ideas, new impetus. Just like planting corn on the same field over and over. Look at Israel, it is one of the most secular countries in the world, because they are all jews so whats new to talk about, they have heard it for centuries. I think that maybe in the US the proliferation of many Christian sects has kept some freshness in the dialog. But I am curious about why American Christians don't take the lead from the Europeans and pack it in. After all, Christianity is largely a European construct. Don't beleive it? Think of Rome and all its pronouncements many followed even by Protestents. If France grounded the Airbus, a European construction, we would look into it. Europe has "grounded" religion, a European construct...

2006-11-05 21:28:48 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous

For me, I took an interest in Buddhism but only to educate myself.... then, I read "Ethics for the New Millenium" by the Dalai Lama and I had the same experience that people talk about.... like the whole white-light feeling....
Then I started meeting all these really nice, intelligent Buddhist people who seemed very patient and well-adjusted.... I wanted that.

What was it for you?

2006-11-05 21:26:06 · 14 answers · asked by rabble rouser 6

The worst moment for the atheist is when he is really thankful and has nobody to thank.
Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828 - 1882)

I always admired atheists. I think it takes a lot of faith.
Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

Nobody talks so constantly about God as those who insist that there is no God.
Heywood Broun (1888 - 1939)

How can I believe in God when just last week I got my tongue caught in the roller of an electric typewriter?
Woody Allen (1935 - )

I'm still an atheist, thank God.
Luis Bunuel (1900 - 1983)

I once wanted to become an atheist, but I gave up - they have no holidays.
Henny Youngman (1906 - 1998)

I'm a born-again atheist.
Gore Vidal (1925 - )

If there were no God, there would be no Atheists.
G. K. Chesterton (1874 - 1936)

2006-11-05 21:25:42 · 5 answers · asked by Sean 7

I will give the source its quoted to from where I got it, after a while, or when I pick an answer.

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"Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate.
Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.
It is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us.
We ask ourselves, "Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous?"
Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God.
Your playing small doesn't serve the world.
There's nothing enlightened about shrinking so that
other people won't feel insecure around you.
We are all meant to shine, as children do.
We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us.
It's not just in some of us; it's in everyone.
And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give
other people permission to do the same.
As we're liberated from our own fear,
our presence automatically liberates others."
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2006-11-05 21:24:27 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous

Who else is a believer in Christ besides me and is tired of religious denominations, what do you say we just call it Jesusism lol

2006-11-05 21:23:21 · 7 answers · asked by sliccapostle 2

if nonbelievers go to hell (lol guess thats me) does that mean that every other person who doesnt accept also goes to hell. how bout those poor buddhists who believe in pacifism and love :( or the hindus? poor buddhists what did they do? i know im gonna get flammed but it sounds like what hitler did to the jews, gypsies, and other people who didnt conform

2006-11-05 21:21:12 · 12 answers · asked by Red Eye 4

....Astral Projected (OBE) would you appear naked to the person you wished to visit? If so, perhaps PJ's may be an opition! lol

2006-11-05 21:20:29 · 14 answers · asked by Emma 4

In the bible it says that God rested on the seventh day which is Saturday and to keep the WHOLE (sabbath) 7th day holy, not just the hour or so your at church. Why do people go to church on Sunday which is the 6th day, not Saturday wich is the 7th day and only keep an hour holy?

2006-11-05 21:19:47 · 19 answers · asked by Anonymous

Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind. Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)

Live among men as if God beheld you; speak to God as if men were listening. Seneca (5 BC - 65 AD)

God made everything out of nothing, but the nothingness shows through.
Paul Valery (1871 - 1945)

I know God will not give me anything I can't handle. I just wish that He didn't trust me so much.
Mother Teresa (1910 - 1997)

God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
Voltaire (1694 - 1778)

God gives every bird its food, but He does not throw it into its nest.
J. G. Holland

What can you say about a society that says that God is dead and Elvis is alive?
Irv Kupcinet

Call on God, but row away from the rocks.
Indian Proverb

2006-11-05 21:15:05 · 9 answers · asked by Sean 7

2006-11-05 21:13:35 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous

Why believe?

2006-11-05 21:11:09 · 27 answers · asked by Anonymous

2006-11-05 21:08:28 · 9 answers · asked by I am that I am! 3

2006-11-05 21:03:31 · 8 answers · asked by lightning 2

Roman Cathlolics?
Protestants?
Presbyterians?
Eastern Orthodox?
Oriental Orthodox?
Jehova's Witnesses?
Lutherans?
Methodists?
Anglicans?

if someone wants to convert to Christianity, which one should they convert to and why that particular sect?

2006-11-05 20:59:38 · 34 answers · asked by Anonymous

they said that other religions believe on God but it is diferent in names some calls Ala to God.

2006-11-05 20:57:01 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous

How does the law of biogenesis fit in with evolution..?

Thanks for answering!

PeaCe** = D

2006-11-05 20:54:15 · 4 answers · asked by one 4

2006-11-05 20:54:06 · 17 answers · asked by Anonymous

2006-11-05 20:48:38 · 13 answers · asked by anthony sony 1

Hi, I heard a lecture recently by a rabbi and he kept referring to God(I think) as the Rabenishalelem (I dont know if the spelling is correct)...I am just curious what this means?

2006-11-05 20:35:42 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous

2006-11-05 20:35:19 · 8 answers · asked by Hmmm 1

2006-11-05 20:33:11 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous

this verse is saying that prophets were sent from among mankind and jinns:
يَا مَعْشَرَ الْجِنِّ وَالإِنسِ أَلَمْ يَأْتِكُمْ رُسُلٌ مِّنكُمْ يَقُصُّونَ عَلَيْكُمْ آيَاتِي وَيُنذِرُونَكُمْ لِقَاء يَوْمِكُمْ هَـذَا قَالُواْ شَهِدْنَا عَلَى أَنفُسِنَا وَغَرَّتْهُمُ الْحَيَاةُ الدُّنْيَا وَشَهِدُواْ عَلَى أَنفُسِهِمْ أَنَّهُمْ كَانُواْ كَافِرِينَ
"O ye assembly of JINNS and men! came there not UNTO you messengers FROM AMONGST YOU, setting forth unto you My Signs, and warning you of the meeting of this Day of yours?" They will say: "We bear witness against ourselves." It was the life of this world that deceived them. So against themselves will they bear witness that they rejected Faith. S. 6:130

2006-11-05 20:18:27 · 11 answers · asked by Omar 1

I see this alot in alot of questions, The speaking of Rapture, But I have yet to find this.
Can someone tell me where in the Bible this is at?

Thanks and Gods Speed to you and yours

2006-11-05 20:17:14 · 14 answers · asked by snuggels102 6

How about those people who have no religion like the chinese...but they help christians?

2006-11-05 20:14:11 · 12 answers · asked by jinkyvicente 1