Religion & Spirituality - 14 December 2006

2006-12-14 01:38:29 · 12 answers · asked by mustafa 2

The word 'the' in that part of the movie title implies something other than a proper name (i.e., a title, a position, etc). Can someone explain this to me?

I wasn't sure where to place this question -- movies or religion, so I'm opting for religion.

2006-12-14 01:37:38 · 19 answers · asked by Anonymous

2006-12-14 01:32:45 · 16 answers · asked by fellster1 1

What are the most effective ways that you have found to share the gospel with someone, or how has someone totally turned you off of religion because they witnessed to you in a ineffective way? Just getting an idea for personal application. Thanks

2006-12-14 01:31:38 · 18 answers · asked by Anonymous

I want to change my religion, but I need to know about Islam first. I read a little but I wish I had a friend who's a Islam, true super Islam person to guide me. I'm a girl.

2006-12-14 01:30:25 · 18 answers · asked by confused... 1

C'mon, there's bound to be one catholic

2006-12-14 01:30:19 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous

I have had alot of christians who had a problem with my religion. Is it that they don't know the truth? Are they afraid of what they don't know? Or are they just stuck up and think they're better than everyone else? Do they even know that alot of things they celebrate were once pagan. Haveing church on a sunday also came from paganism, at one time christians regularly attended church on saturdays instead of sundays.

2006-12-14 01:29:55 · 19 answers · asked by Anonymous

"what soul is in the body that ____ are in the world. The soul is dispersed through al members of the body and they are scattered through all the cities of the world. The soul dwells in the body but does not belong to the body and _____ dwell in the world but do not belong to the world"
a. Christians
b. Jews
c. Muslims
d. Sikhs

whats the answer?

2006-12-14 01:29:37 · 6 answers · asked by Kristina M 2

1- The way he has been brought up
2- His genes which affects his personality
3- The circumstances in which he has grown up
4- His past experiences

A person's behaviour and actions are determined by these factors and he can not choose or change them

A believer may say that a sinner should find the right way even if these factors are negative in his life

Then I say:
Why is he in such a disadvantageous situation than the people who has been brought up decently, has good genes, has grown up in decent conditions etc...

Will God (if exists) take these factors into consideration?

2006-12-14 01:29:23 · 22 answers · asked by skeptic 2

2006-12-14 01:28:30 · 9 answers · asked by Guillermo 1

Christians are willing to tell un-truths just to make make their side seem more plausible. Witness the following question:

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=Avc9z701sFVPHfUWsRB9L.vsy6IX?qid=20061214055432AAVtmLG&show=7#profile-info-41c69cf513758c6b193ed9d0882e6a40aa

This silly story, now attributed to the President of India, was once attributed to Albert Einstein. In fact it is a fabrication.

Why would we believe today's Christians possess any less integrity than those who wrote the Bible?

Since their entire goal is to win and retain converts, why would you imagine anything in the Bible to be above reproach without a thorough, critical, historical analysis?

2006-12-14 01:25:42 · 18 answers · asked by NHBaritone 7

do you agree that this is the definition of SPIRITUALITY?

How personal is your relationship with your higher power?

Higher Power?

2006-12-14 01:25:33 · 5 answers · asked by Guillermo 1

heaven.

so are they all wrong with this notion or does the bible really contradict itself? because in revalations it says from the words of jesus himself "because you are lukwarm and nither hot nor cold i will vomit you out of my mouth." sooo does this verse pretty much say that you have to do more than just except him or your still going to hell? or is ths verse contradicting what the apostal pual and most christians teach?

2006-12-14 01:24:32 · 13 answers · asked by lucifer 3

This is an absolutely incredible short interview with Rick Warren , "Purpose Driven Life " author and pastor of Saddleback Church in California.
In the interview by Paul Bradshaw with Rick Warren, Rick said:
People ask me, What is the purpose of life? And I respond: In a nutshell, life is preparation for eternity. We were made to last forever, and God wants us to be with Him in Heaven.
One day my heart is going to stop, and that will be the end of my body-but not the end of me. I may live 60 to 100 years on earth, but I am going to spend trillions of years in eternity. This is the warm-up act - the dress rehearsal. God wants us to practice on earth what we will do forever in eternity. We were made by God and for God, and until you figure that out, life isn't going to make sense.
Life is a series of problems: Either you are in one now, you're just coming out of one, or you're getting ready to go into another one.
The reason for this is that God is more interested in your character than your comfort. God is more interested in making your life holy than He is in making your life happy. We can be reasonably happy here on earth, but that's not the goal of life. The goal is to grow in character, in Christ likeness.
This past year has been the greatest year of my life but also the toughest, with my wife getting cancer. I used to think that life was hills and valleys - you go through a dark time, then you go to the mountaintop, back and forth. I don't believe that anymore. Rather than life being hills and valleys, I believe that it's kind of like two rails on a railroad track, and at all times you have something good and something bad in your life.
No matter how good things are in your life, there is always something bad that needs to be worked on. And no matter how bad things are in your life, there is always something good you can thank God for. You can focus on your purposes, or you can focus on your problems. If you focus on your problems, you're going into self-centeredness, "which is my problem, my issues, my pain." But one of the easiest ways to get rid of pain is to get your focus off yourself and onto God and others. We discovered quickly that in spite of the prayers of hundreds of thousands of people, God was not going to heal my wife or make it easy for her. It has been very difficult for her, and yet God has strengthened her character, given her a ministry of helping other people, given her a testimony, drawn her closer to Him and to people. You have to learn to deal with both the good and the bad of life. Actually, sometimes learning to deal with the good is harder. For instance, this past year, all of a sudden, when the book sold 15 million copies, it made me instantly very wealthy. It also brought a lot of notoriety that I had never had to deal with before. I don't think God gives you money or notoriety for your own ego or for you to live a life of ease. So I began to ask God what He wanted me to do with this money, notoriety and influence. He gave me two different passages that helped me decide what to do, II Corinthians 9 and Psalm 72.
First, in spite of all the money coming in, we would not change our lifestyle one bit. We made no major purchases.
Second, about midway through last year, I stopped taking a salary from the church.

Third, we set up foundations to fund an initiative we call The Peace Plan to plant churches, equip leaders, assist the poor, care for the sick, and educate the next generation.
Fourth, I added up all that the church had paid me in the 24 years since I started the church, and I gave it all back. It was liberating to be able to serve God for free. We need to ask ourselves: Am I going to live for possessions? Popularity? Am I going to be driven by pressures? Guilt? Bitterness? Materialism? Or am I going to be driven by God's purposes (for my life)? When I get up in the morning, I sit on the side of my bed and say, God, if I don't get anything else done today, I want to know You more and love You better ...God didn't put me on earth just to fulfill a to-do list. He's more interested in what I am than what I do. That's why we're called human beings, not human doings.
Happy moments, PRAISE GOD.
Difficult moments, SEEK GOD.
Quiet moments, WORSHIP GOD.
Painful moments, TRUST GOD.
Every moment, THANK GOD

2006-12-14 01:24:00 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous

Okay, I've heard this rumor for many years now and I just have to know if it's true.

2006-12-14 01:23:58 · 12 answers · asked by Squirrel 4

I want to know where God is, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac...the God that I read about when I was 8 years old. Is he in the Christian church, Islam Mosque, or Hindu whatever? I don't know where to look...............................I'm crying.........................I'm lost. I don't know who to believe, Christian, Islam, whatever religion there is out there. I feel like just forgetting this life and not look back, drop my God, and tell the rock to fall on me.

2006-12-14 01:23:54 · 21 answers · asked by confused... 1

Not a single study has found children of lesbian or gay parents to be disadvantaged in any significant respect relative to children of heterosexual parents. Indeed, the evidence to date suggests that home environments provided by lesbian and gay parents are as likely as those provided by heterosexual parents to support and enable children's psychosocial growth. [Ref. from the American Psychological Association]
And same for the American Academy of Pediatrics and so are the rest of the leading reality-based children's advocacy and wellness organizations in accord.
What can you offer to the topic other than from the bible?

2006-12-14 01:23:05 · 8 answers · asked by dollparty.geo 2

We read in the Bible ( Deuteronomy 34: 5,6) :
(5) And Mosesthe servant of the Lord died there in Moab, as the Lord had said.
(6) He buried him in Moab..........

Moses appeared in the Transfiguration with Jesus and Elijah - although the first Old Testament Saints were resurrected only after that at the crucification of Jesus on the Cross.

2006-12-14 01:22:19 · 7 answers · asked by Charles H 3

for those who want to expiate their evil deeds, and is tecnique valid for believers and unbelievers alike.

what are the modern day varieties of this technique?
are the amerindiand rituals involving a man being hauled into the air by nothing but claws stuck into his body anything to do with the concepts of atonement or expiation?

2006-12-14 01:20:12 · 10 answers · asked by catweazle 5

Isn't that ever so funny, then that there are people like Afdhere Jama, the founder and editor of Huriyah, a queer Muslim magazine; based in San Francisco?

And what about Faisal Alam - a gay Pakistani American who founded the Al-Fatiha Foundation, an organization dedicated to advancing the cause of gay, lesbian, and transgendered Muslims?

And Parvez Sharma - a gay Muslim film director, living in New York?

And Irshad Manji - a Canadian author, journalist, and a lesbian feminist and critic of Islamic fundamentalism and orthodox interpretations of the Qur'an?

Waheed Alli, aka Baron Alli, of Norbury, London, who at the age of 34 becoming the youngest and the first openly gay peer in Parliament?

Seems rather queer, doesn't it, that they claim Islam doesn't allow gays and there are so many famous ones around?

There are many more, but not quite as famous as these.

2006-12-14 01:19:54 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous

2006-12-14 01:19:07 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous

GOD IS ATHEIST COOZ HE DOESNT HAVE A GOD TO BELIEVE IN AND TO WORSHIP

2006-12-14 01:17:53 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous

2006-12-14 01:16:20 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous

in a vacuum?

2006-12-14 01:13:24 · 19 answers · asked by Anonymous

God:You are an atheist.You cannot go to heaven but will be sent to hell
I:Shut up.There is no God.You does not exist.There is neither hell or heaven
Then will God accept me as his Lord?

2006-12-14 01:13:13 · 30 answers · asked by The atheist revolutionary 2

Does it bother you that some who wouldn't know Jesus if He hit them up side the head, not only want Christians to follow what the Bible really says, they also want them to follow all the made-up things they just think or assume He said, or heard someone else say He said, but He never ever said?

2006-12-14 01:13:11 · 6 answers · asked by Emmaean 5

2006-12-14 01:13:00 · 6 answers · asked by الحقيقة 4

I believe in God and in Jesus Christ his son. But I struggle with some stories in teh bible. Can I take these to be tales to make a point or is everything literal. An example: that one man could build an ark big enough to contain two of every type of animal?! I think not!

However, I have no problem with anything in the New Testament... Can I be a Christian and think these things?

2006-12-14 01:12:56 · 2 answers · asked by Searching 2

If God exists why would he need us?

I do not understand why a all powerful and all knowing God would require humans. The fact of the matter is if he does exist and he created us then we must be able to do something that he can not do.

2006-12-14 01:12:53 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous

2006-12-14 01:11:34 · 14 answers · asked by pinky 1