Religion & Spirituality - 4 December 2006

Surely, if you could, you would tell all your children how to avoid hell? You would love them and not want them to burn forever?

If G-d is all-powerful and all-loving, then why does he not tell each person, in a way they understand, PERSONALLY (not through a religious text) how they must behave to get into heaven?

Leaving a book around and expecting the child to believe it, when they have seen none of the actual events and have not been told personally by their parent that this is the book to believe... how is that fair?

I know I would make it CLEAR to my kids, because of my love for them, how they can keep from everlasting pain. If they didn't listen, I would keep trying in any way I could. G-d could use any means he has - he could allow angels to appear to everyone...

How is G-d all-loving if he does not even love as a parent would? How is he all-powerful if he cannot actively portray his message to everyone?

2006-12-04 09:33:55 · 14 answers · asked by lady_s_hazy 3

2006-12-04 09:31:53 · 17 answers · asked by Anonymous

This was said to be when Mary was taken up to heaven.
I have read the entire Bible, and am not familiar with this.
Can you quote a chapter/verse?
Mary was a human being like the rest of us - faithful and used by God for great things, but not divine.

2006-12-04 09:29:38 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous

well im a christian. In sciene we are learning about the first froms of life and how they were formed. Scientiffically god did not create us. we were evolved from apes who evolved form so on....so is god real or just a beief like santa clause?

2006-12-04 09:29:37 · 42 answers · asked by Anonymous

Have you ever told a lie, stolen, used God's name in vain? When you die, you will stand before God to be judged by His Commandments. If you are found guilty on that day, you will be sent to Hell. God provided a way for you to be found innocent on judgment day. Jesus came to earth to die, in order to pay your debt. What you must do is Repent, which means to ask forgiveness for your sins, turn away from your sinning ways, and put your complete trust in Jesus Christ. If you do this, you will be accepted into Heaven, not because ypur a good person, but because your a bad person who's been forgiven. This is the only way. It doesn't matter who you are, or what religion or culture you come from.

2006-12-04 09:28:20 · 30 answers · asked by fishinforsouls 2

"They shall recline on jewelled couches face to face, and there shall wait on them immortal youths with bowls and ewers and a cup of purest wine (that will neither pain their heads nor take away their reason); with fruits of their own choice and flesh of fowls that they relish. And theirs shall be the dark-eyed houris, chaste as hidden pearls: a guerdon for their deeds... We created the houris and made them virgins, loving companions for those on the right hand..."

2006-12-04 09:27:50 · 7 answers · asked by lady_s_hazy 3

2006-12-04 09:27:48 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous

like why is nobody parting oceans now or talking to angels. do you really think people should just automatically assume they happened?

2006-12-04 09:27:45 · 15 answers · asked by Red Eye 4

cuz if no isnt the possibilty of heaven better than nothing at all? yes theres hell as well but only becuz u lived a sinful way and never believed in God.....lol this section creates so much controversy

2006-12-04 09:27:42 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous

2006-12-04 09:26:29 · 16 answers · asked by Bruce 1

i am doing a head count for how many witches we have on R+S

so if you are witchey then speak up :)

I am so we are at 1 right now!

2006-12-04 09:26:05 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous

2006-12-04 09:25:30 · 20 answers · asked by jamesdkral 3

Both want the destruction of all other religions, but there own.

2006-12-04 09:25:21 · 7 answers · asked by Joe T 1

And where is that practice taught by Jesus Christ and The Apostles in the Bible? - Chapter, verse and quote, please.

2006-12-04 09:25:12 · 12 answers · asked by ___ 3

Say if you had 100% ownership over the Holy Grail, or something really one of a kind and priceless from the time of Jesus and you decided to destroy it for no reason, would you be charged with any crime?

2006-12-04 09:24:25 · 11 answers · asked by Elwood Blues 1

Would you have a problem with your spouse kissing someone else on stage in a play?

If your spouse was cast in a play which required him/her to kiss another character, would it upset you.

2006-12-04 09:23:51 · 7 answers · asked by fartica 2

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2006-12-04 09:23:37 · 10 answers · asked by Kimo 4

Can you tell me why the Bible contridicts it's self many times?
I'm not trying to be mean I am just wondering.

2006-12-04 09:21:16 · 47 answers · asked by Okami Ryuu 3

2006-12-04 09:19:27 · 20 answers · asked by Anonymous

I was out for a walk. He appeared in front of me. He had only a shirt on in the middle of winter.

I heard no footsteps. I asked him if he knew jesus. He said:I know Jesus personally"

The night was very cold. I was sweating. I felt the unction to give him my jacket and the $20 I had in my pocket.

We were in a basball field with no buildings around. I turned and walked a few steps and turned around to see where he might be heading.

He was no where in sight. What happened? This is a true story.

2006-12-04 09:19:14 · 17 answers · asked by TROLL BOY 3

2006-12-04 09:19:06 · 30 answers · asked by Anonymous

2006-12-04 09:19:05 · 14 answers · asked by Spearfish 5

A- Kill a bunch of people you dont even know and get rewarded
with 72 virgins?

B- A man that died 2000 years ago will come back to save us
from something or other?

2006-12-04 09:17:11 · 18 answers · asked by Anonymous

My Christian girlfriend bought a nice Christmas tree. I'm an Atheist, according to many on this forum I should not be allowed to celebrate Christmas. But yeah, we live together, so there is a problem.

Because I love my girlfriend so damn much, I decided to accept a God for Christmas.

Christmas is on Monday and Tuesday this year.

Monday comes from the Old English Mōnandag, meaning "day of the Moon". A small selection of the Moongods is: Artemis, Coyolxauhqui, Diana, Heng-O, Ix Chel, Khons, Mawu, Selene, Sin, Soma, Tsuki-Yomi, Yarikh.

Tuesday comes from "Tyr's day." Tyr was the Nordic god of single combat and heroic glory.

This long list of Gods confuses me a little, so which is the best God to worship on Christmas?

2006-12-04 09:16:26 · 23 answers · asked by Thinx 5

2006-12-04 09:15:21 · 15 answers · asked by suzie q 1

God has laid out one path to salvation, and only one, doesn't that show an appaling lack of imagination for such an infinite being?

2006-12-04 09:15:10 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous

According to to the lazy boy metaphor and/or the happy man in the chair

2006-12-04 09:14:40 · 2 answers · asked by Alina P 1

2006-12-04 09:14:11 · 5 answers · asked by sunshine_rain2000 1

do u think that you actully go somewhere?or meybe you just disappear and thats all.

2006-12-04 09:13:59 · 12 answers · asked by Carl W 2

Would they resurrect out of my stomach?

2006-12-04 09:13:33 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous