Religion & Spirituality - 14 November 2006

If they were after him wouldn't the soldiers know who HE was?

2006-11-14 07:44:47 · 24 answers · asked by Starry Eyes 5

2006-11-14 07:43:17 · 23 answers · asked by bc_munkee 5

I've seen the question posed in reverse ("Why do Catholics pray to saints?") So I was wondering how they became so misinformed in the first place. I am Catholic and will tell you that I have never prayed to anyone but God. If you are Catholic and have prayed to a saint, then please let me know. I can only think that their misinformed view comes from their church leaders who want to spread anti-Catholic propaganda for some reason.

2006-11-14 07:43:14 · 26 answers · asked by Anonymous

YIKES!!!!

2006-11-14 07:43:02 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous

It is often said that God will not act a certain way because s/he said the s/he won't in the Bible. For example, God will never again flood the earth but purge it with fire. If God truly is the Supreme Being, why could s/he not change hir mind and do whatever else s/he wanted?

2006-11-14 07:42:41 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous

The Bible never says anything about continually making new species. So wouldn't all species have to have been here from day one? How then are species that have appeared in the last ohh...65 million years explained?

2006-11-14 07:41:14 · 26 answers · asked by bc_munkee 5

Quite a few times on web chats, I have seen folks go off on a tangent about how unbelievable a story is and how it doesn't make any sense or is completely impractical.

Have people forgotten how to identify a metaphor? Are people so angry inside that they can't take something good from a legend if they can't prove it to be a scientific fact?

I don't understand people who feel the need to "prove" the bible... does your faith require that?
I also don't understand people that laugh at the Greek myths and call it a "fake" religion because they can't just appreciate the metaphors and moral points.

Enlighten me. What do you require from a story in order to appreciate it?

2006-11-14 07:40:54 · 6 answers · asked by rabble rouser 6

Could anyone please tell me the words to the prayer said on Yom Kippur that begins, "here I am, poor in worthy deeds"
Thanks.

2006-11-14 07:39:48 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous

If we wasn't here what would there be?

2006-11-14 07:39:42 · 19 answers · asked by Anonymous

how young people are influenced by media, parents, friends, bullies, relatives, etc.

2006-11-14 07:36:25 · 6 answers · asked by gfloodsie 2

I feel because of materialism in todays world we are missing the greatest pleasure in this life by ignoring our realtionship with God.Does anyone else feel the same.

2006-11-14 07:36:21 · 17 answers · asked by Anonymous

It doesn't have to be a Christian prayer...any one will do...I dig all religions

2006-11-14 07:36:16 · 16 answers · asked by elfkin, attention whore 4

My soul needs saving. My Email and IM is fenderrhythm. If anyone in this forum can come up with a logical arguments for the authenticity of Christianity I will convert myself to Christianity.

Good luck.

2006-11-14 07:35:23 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous

He healed me from a skin cancer, changed my life, and is taking me on an extreme life journey!
Bout U?

2006-11-14 07:34:05 · 33 answers · asked by Traveling Bard 1

It is nowhere in the bible. Why do we go through it when a baby is too young to understand what is going on? It is basically baptism. So shouldn't it be done @ an age they can comprehend & form a relationship with God?

2006-11-14 07:33:24 · 7 answers · asked by twinkle toes 2

When Muslims confront the Christian missionaries with the etymological evidence that the word Allah is indeed related to the word Elohim, the missionaries are very quick to point out that


Yhwh

is the “Divine Name” for The Deity that they worship and that since Muslims are not taught about this “Divine Name” of God, it therefore follows that Muslims are calling upon God wrongly. This is not a new argument from the missionary. When the Prophet Muhammad(P) was in Madinah, the Jews of Madinah offered a similar objection, claiming that Muslims should not refer to The Deity by merely calling Him Allah. Thus, the following Qur’anic verse was revealed to reply to the objection:

“Say: Call upon “Allah or call upon “Rahman”; By whatever name ye call upon Him (it is well): for to Him belong the most beautiful names.” (Qur’an, 17:110)
We should also note the following observations regarding the claim:
1 - First of all, the very first word in Genesis 1:1 is “Elohim”, not ‘Yahweh’. The word YHWH only started appearing in Genesis 2:4, and even then, it was almost always accompanied with the word “Elohim”, as in “Yahweh Elohim”.

2 - According to The New Strong’s Exhausive Concordance of the Bible, the word Yahweh is “…the Jewish national name of God”[1]. In short, this is the name that only the Jews themselves use. Compare this with the entry for Elohim, in the same reference: “…specially used of the supreme God”[2]

3 - The final point is that according to the Christian belief itself, the name Yahweh is only used for the old covenant context, and not valid for Christians, who believe that they are in a new covenant. This is evident when nowhere in the New Testament does the word Yahweh appear. As John Gilchrist says:

… While the name Yahweh appears throughout the Old Testament in the original Hebrew text, it appears nowhere in the books of the New Testament, not even in the original Greek texts. In 0ld Testament times Yahweh was the name of the covenant God of Israel (Exodus 3.15), but the Lord has never used this name in a new covenant context. The coming of Jesus Christ brought about a major change in God’s relationship with his people. Now he is projected solely as the Father of all true believers, Jew and Gentile alike, without any distinction being made between them (Romans 10.12). The name Yahweh was used solely in an old covenant context and the New Testament plainly states that the old covenant has become “obsolete” (Hebrews 8.13) and that it has been entirely “abolished” (Hebrews 10.9). For this reason one never finds the name Yahweh in the New Testament - it was relevant only to the people of Israel in old covenant times….The New Testament deliberately avoids the use of the name Yahweh and the only possible translation of theos into Arabic is Allah[3]

On a side note, we refer to Mark 15:34 where Jesus(P) is reported to have cried out in Aramaic:

ELOI, ELOI, LAMA SABACHTHANI?

Which is translated into English as:

My God, My God, why hast thou forsaken me?

According to The New Strong’s Exhausive Concordance of the Bible, the defination of eloi is as follows:

?eloi [ELWI] of Aramaic origin, 0426 with pronominal stuff.; n m AV - Eloi 2; 2; Eloi = “my-God”; 1) Aramaic for the phrase “my-God”[4]

If the claim is that Yahweh is the so-called “true” name of God, then why instead of calling out

ELOI, ELOI, LAMA SABACHTHANI?

Jesus(P) could have instead just cried out

YAHWEH, YAHWEH, LAMA SABACHTHANI?

This shows that the claim that Yahweh is the “only true name” for God certanly does not hold water. Jesus (P) did refer to God as “ELOI”, or “ELI” (according to Matthew 27:46). So are we expected to believe that Jesus (P) was ignorant of this “true name” of God when he called upon Him as “ELI” (which root word is related to the root of the Arabic, ALLAH) instead of Yahweh, and Christians who only exist 2000 years later are “aware” of the “true name” of God? We think not!

It seems that the missionaries have created more problems than they think they had solved. And certainly, only God knows best!

2006-11-14 07:32:16 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous

2006-11-14 07:31:13 · 25 answers · asked by Nart 1

1. Do deists worship a god or just acknowledge a god?

2. Does their belief have any affect on their life?

3. Do they believe in an afterlife?

2006-11-14 07:30:09 · 4 answers · asked by LearningGuy 3

Toys for Tots rejects Jesus doll

LOS ANGELES - A talking Jesus doll has been turned down by the Marine Reserves' Toys for Tots program.

A suburban Los Angeles company offered to donate 4,000 of the foot-tall dolls, which quote Bible verses, for distribution to needy children this holiday season. The battery-powered Jesus is one of several dolls manufactured by one2believe, a division of the Valencia-based Beverly Hills Teddy Bear Co., based on Biblical figures.

But the charity balked because of the dolls' religious nature.
Toys are donated to kids based on financial need and "we don't know anything about their background, their religious affiliations," said Bill Grein, vice president of Marine Toys for Tots Foundation, in Quantico, Va.

As a government entity, Marines "don't profess one religion over another," Grein said Tuesday. "We can't take a chance on sending a talking Jesus doll to a Jewish family or a Muslim family."

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061114/ap_on_re_us/jesus_dol

2006-11-14 07:28:51 · 19 answers · asked by Anonymous

o.k the bible explains the beginning of the earth is the only book that humans have to understand the existance of the world. how the humans were created? o.k this man called darwind came up with the idea that the humans come from the monkeys/or chimpanses / or sapiens whatever!!

having that in mind - which of the two theories is more accurate!

the bible explains that God created adam - and from adam God created the woman - God told them to multiply the earth o.k -and they did .

questions for atheist:

do you know how Adam and Eve multiplied the earth?? as you answer this question

let me tell you that the same method has been used as of today!!

now if darwin or evolution is right why the monkeys are still monkeys?
if that theory were right.. the monkeys would still become humans still??

so atheist how humans were created??

my answer = God

2006-11-14 07:27:11 · 35 answers · asked by Anonymous

and was told it was a drop in the bucket compared to atrocities committed against them. Does this mean they are the only ones that need not turn the other cheek? The reason I ask is when they go door to door they say other Churches have lost their grace from God by committing such acts as these? I do not understand the double standard here.

2006-11-14 07:27:04 · 11 answers · asked by Midge 7

It seems a lot of people don't like it. Why?

2006-11-14 07:25:57 · 22 answers · asked by LearningGuy 3

This is my question - where is the proof of the existence of God?

I want you to prove to me the existence of god. I don't want to hear 'look around you' or 'he's every where'. I want hard factual modern day evidence of his existence. I want you to be able to give me modern day proof that does not arise from the bible. You have to be able to give me evidence of his existence from the 20th centuary to date. Show me modern day miracles that have his hand on it. I'm not interested in people recovering from illnesses or druggies converting to his faith. I'm sure some will come with 'he does not have to prove his existence' but..... oh yes he does. Especially when you can see the whole wide over that there is more evidence that he does not exist.

Quotes from the bible cannot be used. Lets see what the religious enthusiast can come up with on this one?

2006-11-14 07:24:50 · 34 answers · asked by Tabbyfur aka patchy puss 5

and the buddhist and Hindus seem to live in peace with others?

2006-11-14 07:22:31 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous

Since tithe was an Old Testament law, did the fufillment of the New Testament, or covenant do away with tithe? Is it offering that we have today, as thanks for the abundance shown us?

What do you think, with scriptures please.

2006-11-14 07:22:20 · 9 answers · asked by 2ndchhapteracts 5

I just read something a Christian put as an answer to a question on here. I found it kind of odd, as I had never heard it before. I really want to know if this is a common belief.

If you have something talking to you (for instance, a black labrador), you should ask it to say "Jesus is Lord".

If it says it, it's an angel. If it doesn't, it's a demon, because "demons can't say that."

Is this really true??? Not meaning to offend, just very curious!

2006-11-14 07:21:33 · 10 answers · asked by Heck if I know! 4

John 1:1 In [the] beginning the Word was, and the Word was with God, and the Word was a god. Is the word “god” here wrongly translated? Notice this example.

In the pre-Christian times was the human judge, and the human judge was [walking] with [the] God, and the human judge was [God or god]? How would you translate theos? God or god? Israelit judges in the OT are called gods.(John 10:34)
Remember Jehovah is called "God of gods" Deut 10:17. It is wrong to say that Jehovah is called "God of FALSE gods". Just like saying "King of kings" other kings exist. The main difference is that Jehovah God is not created but the rest of these so called "gods" are created.

Other Bible translations translated "john 1:1" as "... the Word was divine".

2006-11-14 07:21:26 · 14 answers · asked by trustdell1 3

2006-11-14 07:20:15 · 19 answers · asked by ben 2

I herad about a book (religious) which holds what will happen in the future. I heard the twin towers accident was in it and that god is supposed to come and wash the earth in the year 2012?

2006-11-14 07:17:05 · 33 answers · asked by Anonymous

It's highly probable (even certain?) that there is more life out there in distant galaxies. Let's assume that there is.

Simple question - did God create that life too?

(For the sake of this question, let's assume that God created the world as religious people say).

2006-11-14 07:16:33 · 24 answers · asked by Musicol 4