Religion & Spirituality - 2 December 2006

With the problem being the mistake of taking the symbols and beliefs as truth as opposed to means to an end (the end being love and an experience of God)?

2006-12-02 08:32:49 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous

for ex., $23.66...Would you calculate the actual 10% of that or would you round it to 24 and then calculate the 10%?

2006-12-02 08:29:57 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous

what heaven is like and how you will be taken there?

2006-12-02 08:29:50 · 18 answers · asked by Anonymous

Does your god have feelings? I mean feelings of love, hatred, resentment, jealousy, revenge?

2006-12-02 08:29:26 · 12 answers · asked by Evil Atheist Conspirator 4

(like he taught Moses the Torah previously)

Click here to listen to beautiful recitation of Qur'an: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lsj9GPd5YTg

'And when they see you (O Muhammad SAW), they treat you only as a mockery (saying):"Is this the one whom Allah has sent as a Messenger?'

"He would have nearly misled us from our aliha (gods), had it not been that we were patient and constant in their worship!" And they will know when they see the torment, who it is that is most astray from the (Right) Path! (Qur'an 25:41-42)

2006-12-02 08:28:39 · 9 answers · asked by muslim 1

Please remember, this is ONLY a joke! I have several Christian denominations on my list already, but wanted to spread the fun around a little.

I would like to hear from as many different religions as possible.

Please spoof ONLY your own religion, or one you are very familiar with. NO NASTINESS please. Have fun!

2006-12-02 08:27:57 · 20 answers · asked by MamaBear 6

A church I have been attending, has had a real bad past and stopped growing a while back, our preacher said the church is dead and has a vision, he is trying to take what few of us is left and start another church, kinda hiding that we are the ppl from the "old church", so we are leaving the old building and we are gonna meet in a borrowed building to start the first 4 preview services. Is the lauch is successfull we will later abandon the old church building and let things there dissolve. There is a lot of controversity about what we are doing, and have lost some ppl. I am confused, I have been prayerful,, but there's a lot I don't understand? Are deacon's important to have in a church? What about the church body's ability to vote on major decisions in the futer? Hiding that the dead church with a bad past is mothering a new church? Lack of funds? I can't tell details, I don't want to gossip, I just want to know what should I know about a church? I know the word of God is most imprt.

2006-12-02 08:26:24 · 13 answers · asked by jennie m 2

I'm being serious! So please take me seriously and answer seriously...

My friend, James, is 31 like myself. He has never EVER sinned. He has also never had sex and refuses to even think or talk about sex. He preaches in the street and hoodies and chavs hit him with bottles and sticks. Amazingly, James shouts out "Forgive them father" and things likes that!

When he goes home with bruises and scratches, he doesn't show them to his family as he doesn't want to worry them. So he tells them his marks are make-up from an amateur play.

He refuses to change my water-taps into wine though because he says that I need to put my energy into working and not drinking.

When I seriously ask him if he is the new messiah or Jesus' relative, he just puts his hand on my shoulder and says nothing but DOES give me a strange smile a bit like the Mona Lisa.

He is driving me crazy because he won't tell me who cuts his hair and, AND I've never seen his dad? Weird eh? What's your opinion?

2006-12-02 08:25:36 · 14 answers · asked by ? 3

You'll have to excuse me, I have been looking at things in the bible and one of the things I have come across something about Jesus saying that bread was like his skins and bones and when you eat it you are eating him. Doesn't that mean that when you do this you are showing symbolism of cannibalism?

2006-12-02 08:25:17 · 10 answers · asked by Fastdog 2

Now we know that the sun does not make anyone black. Maybe you will get darker or get skin cancer but after that you go right back the color you were. This is Jesus talkng if you don't know that read the whole book of solomon.

Jer 8:21 For the hurt of the daughter of my people am I hurt; I am black; astonishment hath taken hold on me.


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Sgs 1:5 I [am] black, but comely, O ye daughters of Jerusalem, as the tents of Kedar, as the curtains of Solomon.

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Sgs 1:6 Look not upon me, because I [am] black, because the sun hath looked upon me: my mother's children were angry with me; they made me the keeper of the vineyards; [but] mine own vineyard have I not kept.

2006-12-02 08:25:14 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous

2006-12-02 08:24:56 · 12 answers · asked by Supercali 1

Revelation 4:2 At once I was in the Spirit, and there before me was a throne in heaven with someone sitting on it. 3And the one who sat there had the appearance of jasper and carnelian. A rainbow, resembling an emerald, encircled the throne.

2006-12-02 08:24:55 · 6 answers · asked by bachlava_9 3

PREGUNTA A MODO DE CONSULTA.ESPERO ABRAN SU MENTE.

2006-12-02 08:24:09 · 6 answers · asked by angel 1

Since they are not jugemental Christians?

2006-12-02 08:23:08 · 16 answers · asked by carl 4

On the day Moses comes down from Mount Sinai with the stone tablets containing the Ten Commandments, he discovers that the Israelites have created a golden calf. To punish the people, Moses gathers a group of men and takes the following action in the book of Exodus, Chapter 32:

Then he [Moses] said to them, "This is what the Lord, the God of Israel, says: 'Each man strap a sword to his side. Go back and forth through the camp from one end to the other, each killing his brother and friend and neighbor.' " The Levites did as Moses commanded, and that day about three thousand of the people died.

So... one minute we have God carving into stone, "Thou shalt not kill." Then the next minute we have God telling each man to strap a sword to his side and lay waste to thousands.

Does this make sense ?

2006-12-02 08:22:32 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous

Why do you think my questions are not reasonable? Is it because you can not give a reasonable answer?

2006-12-02 08:20:59 · 17 answers · asked by stone 3

Just thinking about it, wouldn't there have been fishermen and such who would have survived? Food would have been plentiful, aas fresh meat floated by at first, then fish started eating all the animal and human carcasses. There might have been some scurvy, but surely some people would have made it for the year or two of the flood.

2006-12-02 08:20:50 · 17 answers · asked by Mr. Bad Day 7

my dad tells me that i will i am scred help

2006-12-02 08:18:24 · 26 answers · asked by XxXRavenXxX 2

Do you think there are pathetic things about it? Most people who do it are ridiculously over emotional as are the people left behind who moan and whine constantly. Honestly people of all sorts are such laghable creatures in most ways and they deserve to be unfortunate when they are so sensitive. what do you think.

2006-12-02 08:17:59 · 25 answers · asked by Anonymous

Catholicism is the only church to have existed for almost 2000 years since the time of christ, it alone has preserved and protected the scriptures. Or are you willing to believe the horrible apostacy that Christ abandoned his church for nearly 1500 years until the Reformation got it right??!! comments>

Isaiah 5:20 "Woe to those who call evil good and good evil,
who put darkness for light and light for darkness,
who put bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter!"

2006-12-02 08:17:41 · 26 answers · asked by Anonymous

Because God made you for a reason, he also decided when you would be born and how long you would live. He planned the days of your life in advance, choosing the exact time of your birth and death. The Bible says, "You saw me before I was born and scheduled each day of my life before I began to breathe. Every day was recorded in your book!" [Psalm 139:16]
Under this view of the universe, God plans everything.
Therefore he planned the days of your life in advance, choosing the exact time of your birth and death. The implication is that God has pre-planned every abortion that has taken place on our planet.

2006-12-02 08:15:07 · 21 answers · asked by Anonymous

In the past 20 years science has pretty much proven that we come from Africa, according to DNA studies and other research. Do Bible story books ever have Adam and Eve as black?

2006-12-02 08:15:02 · 22 answers · asked by niko 3

2006-12-02 08:14:15 · 11 answers · asked by imaverickl1717 1

Ok, so I've seen these two bumper stickers around lately. The first says, "Christians aren't perfect, just forgiven." The second was actually worse if you can believe that. It said, "Chrisitans aren't just forgiven, they're perfect." Now to be honest, I can't tell if the second one is a bit tongue in cheek, but it doesn't really matter, only serves to highlight the sentiment.

Now, as a matter of simple honesty, can anyone say with a straight face, that this is not the most arrogant thing they have ever heard? Do you truly believe that you have the only, the ultimate answer, and the only way to salvation?

This thinking leads some "serious Christian thinkers" to the conclusion that Jeffery Dahmer is in heaven due to his repentence, but an unbaptized dead baby is in hell due to nothing more than bad luck.

Kind loving God eh? Must hate babies though.

2006-12-02 08:12:52 · 21 answers · asked by John S 2

2006-12-02 08:12:29 · 4 answers · asked by . 3

For those who read the Bible several times and still reading it and searching for more truth and treasures hidden within its pages

Please do not let the 10 points be the incentive behind answering this question, but let your wisdom and knowledge of the Bible, and your Love for God be the motive that stimulates your spirit to answer the question not just for me, but for the millions who are involved in Yahoo answers.

THE QUESTION IS:
Is the United States of America mentioned in the Bible? If you know and your answer is affirmative, please elaborate a little on how America is mentioned in the Bible.
Thank you so much!

2006-12-02 08:11:51 · 19 answers · asked by lonelyspirit 5

If a man commits adultery with the wife of his neighbour, both the adulterer and the adulteress shall be put to death. The man who lies with his father’s wife has uncovered his father’s nakedness; both of them shall be put to death; their blood is upon them. If a man lies with his daughter-in-law, both of them shall be put to death; they have committed perversion; their blood is upon them. If a man lies with a male as with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination; they shall be put to death; their blood is upon them. [Leviticus, chapter 20]


This is apparently written by the most intelligent person in the universe. If we are going to follow what this author says, we have to kill half the people in America. We are supposed to kill everyone who has cursed his father or mother, everyone who has committed adultery, and every homosexual.

Does this make sense ?

2006-12-02 08:10:41 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous

2006-12-02 08:09:23 · 32 answers · asked by kyle w 1

Jesus is not and was not white. He is black the bible clearly tells us this, but they are always depicted as white peopl. Another big lie. In time the world will find out who the true Israel is.

2006-12-02 08:08:49 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous

Last night I had a dream about Jesus. I was talking to a lady at my house when all of a sudden a saw a bright light appear out of the woods. Before I knew it, Jeusus was walking towards me with his arms held out. I immediately stopped talking to this woman and shouted "Jesus" and started to run towards him. Before I got to him I woke up. What in the world is this suppose to mean???

2006-12-02 08:07:55 · 9 answers · asked by Razor22 1