Religion & Spirituality - 12 December 2006

There was a question earlyer, some of you may have seen it others not, that peeked my interest.

For a long time i have had this question and i want real catholics to answer it for me. I am a Christian and being so i pray directly to God and ask him to forgive my sins and other things. What i am wondering is why Catholics think that they have to go and repent to someone else and not just talk directly to God? I can find no passage in the Bible that tells us to do this and it makes me curious to find the motivation behind it.

It also confuses me why Catholics pray to saints. If they are dead, what good can it do? And if they can hear you from heaven, how? I mean, isnt God the only one that can hear prayers?

Just some stuff to think about i guess. if you have any answers to some of my questions it would be appreciated! thanks

2006-12-12 19:09:12 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous

2006-12-12 19:04:44 · 23 answers · asked by Satan Lord of Flames 3

Reading your questions and answers often explains your name. Do you know why you don’t use your real name?

2006-12-12 19:00:48 · 31 answers · asked by James 5

Personally, I sometimes feel a little more intrigued with the possibilities of life outside of Earth that God's imaginiation could have come up with.

2006-12-12 18:57:18 · 19 answers · asked by Mustafa 5

Logically only two of the following three statements can be true.

1.God is all good
2.God is all powerful
3.Evil exists


Which one do you think is false? Why do you think so

2006-12-12 18:55:49 · 34 answers · asked by Anonymous

2006-12-12 18:50:30 · 16 answers · asked by young_scholar2005 1

I am a Catholic who will marry a woman who is not catholic. We could either marry in the church or outside. I would like to baptise our children and raise them as catholic. If we do not have a full Catholic Mass and sacriment, can we still baptise our children?

2006-12-12 18:48:23 · 8 answers · asked by berkeleygolden_bear 1

that is, that every religion worships a different god, is this person unknowingly acknowledging more than one god?

2006-12-12 18:46:01 · 14 answers · asked by rebekkah hot as the sun 7

... to stop fighting over which religion is right, and just come to an agreement? It seems that fighting about it leads to more fighting. If we could get all religions to come to an agreement, would that end the fighting?

I know I'm not including everything here, but this is one of the many problems with the world that I think would slow the disagreements down a bit. No?

2006-12-12 18:42:26 · 16 answers · asked by Cold Fart 6

2006-12-12 18:34:58 · 5 answers · asked by *~SoL~ * Pashaa del Ñuñcaa. 4

ISAIAH 40:22 [It is] he that sitteth upon the CIRCLE of the earth, and the inhabitants thereof [are] as grasshoppers; that stretcheth out the heavens as a curtain, and spreadeth them out as a tent to dwell in:
Does this verse in the Bible, written about 2700 years ago, tell us that the earth was round? If it does, can this verse be used as evidence that the Bible is true?
Keep in mind that we only knew about the shape of the earth about 600 years ago.

2006-12-12 18:34:57 · 19 answers · asked by Anonymous

Or a Helper-God? A Holy Assistant?

Yesterday the most frequently quoted God again failed to hear the prayers of around 40,000 kids that suffer from starvation, aids, etc, etc. A little Holy Helper might help, perhaps.

If we can invent one God, why not two? Or three?

2006-12-12 18:33:46 · 8 answers · asked by Thinx 5

Does anyone on here even know what the word fundamental means? And if so why do so many people misuse it?

2006-12-12 18:29:16 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous

2006-12-12 18:28:36 · 13 answers · asked by The Brain 1

When did we discover the earth was round? What year?

2006-12-12 18:25:12 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous

I was wondering if anybody had heard of these and what they could tell me about them.

2006-12-12 18:24:28 · 4 answers · asked by enslavementality 3

Did He take his job? Who decides which God rules at what era? Did Thor do something wrong that they searched for a new God? And who's 'they' ?

2006-12-12 18:21:57 · 15 answers · asked by Thinx 5

I Heard a lot of cases of exorcism, but i never make up my mind. Offcourse i believe that we all have soul but once we are dead..it dissolves in nature or travel back to its origin.

2006-12-12 18:20:55 · 19 answers · asked by virgincloud 2

The Christian Muslim Forum, headed by leading clerics from both religions, argued: "Christmas is a celebration of the birth of Jesus, and we wish this significant part of the Christian heritage of this country to remain an acknowledged part of national life. The desire to secularize religious festivals is offensive to both of our communities."

More from that Christian Muslim Forum statement: "Those who use the fact of religious pluralism as an excuse to de-Christianize British society unthinkingly become recruiting agents for the extreme Right. They provoke antagonism towards Muslims and others by foisting on them an anti-Christian agenda they do not hold."

2006-12-12 18:19:25 · 5 answers · asked by D.A. S 5

My Jesus says to love one another the false idol god allah says to kill for him where is the love? and who wants to take another person life just because they have their own set ideas about God. This is hate and we have seem what they do and this has been going on since Sarah kicked Haggar out of the tent with her son Ismeal and there is where we get muslins from. dark and light always have been fighting since the times of old. But the light always over power the dark and light is Jesus and dark is satan or allah he have many names. Good and evil this is saten against Jesus and satan tryed to kill Jesus and he thought that we did but Jesus rose from the dead and over came the world. He is alive now for He lives in me and I live for Him and my future looks bright. I m saved by His shed blood that saved me and you and if you only you call on His name and you shall be saved. love Jesus freak

2006-12-12 18:15:09 · 23 answers · asked by Jesus freak 2

People think they know all this stuff about God from the Bible, but you can't fit an infinite being into a group of stories that are not even remotely original or different from previous folklore.

2006-12-12 18:15:03 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous

why are these books not considered as inspired by God by the non-catholic churches?

2006-12-12 18:12:52 · 9 answers · asked by amazonprincessrenz 2

2006-12-12 18:12:07 · 19 answers · asked by montathra 4

Never mind that it was for my nephew's wedding. Just the fact that I went to a church.

2006-12-12 18:11:47 · 5 answers · asked by The Brain 1

Right now I'm on a comfortable medium. Ok I won't exactly call it "comfortable". I don't believe in Jesus Christ and I don't believe in Satan. Neither have any proof that they're real. Even though as of late I am leaning toward Christianity but keeping my staunch view on "it needs proof".

2006-12-12 18:09:16 · 35 answers · asked by Meatwad 6

http://www.nobeliefs.com/Hitler1.htm

2006-12-12 18:08:56 · 27 answers · asked by Anonymous

and all that stuff but if a person doesn't accept religion, why enter the religion site? Last week I posted a question under two different headings just to see what happened and prove to myself the truth of my opinion. I posted the question under the Politics & Government heading, sub heading- Law & Ethics. And then I posted the very same question under the Society & Culture heading, sub heading-Religion & Spirituality. The kinder, more appropriate, more respectful, better answer, replys came from the Law & Ethics heading. It was a religious question! Most of the answers under the Religion heading came from mon-believers and atheists. Most of their answers were disrespectful, spiteful, and anti religion. The question was not written in an angry or degrading tone to anyone. Why do the anti, non religoius, visit the religoius section? Is it just to be arrogant, disrespectful, and cause ill feelimgs? It's kind of like a Republican going to a Democrat's fund raiser isn't it?

2006-12-12 18:08:32 · 17 answers · asked by Anonymous

How many years ago did Isaiah live?

2006-12-12 18:07:41 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous

2006-12-12 18:03:21 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous

I do.

God said, "Let there be all life forms" Genesis 20
And...... BANG!!!!! It happened!!!!!!!!!

2006-12-12 18:03:11 · 16 answers · asked by Lily P 3