Religion & Spirituality - 19 December 2006

I would have thought the self proclaimed "holy book" would have had a more convincing story that jesus was the son of god, mary was a virgin, talking donkeys etc... ie. some actual hard evidence and proof.

I am not actually looking towards being a christian (again) but why did the "good" book convert me in the an atheist??

2006-12-19 06:11:05 · 46 answers · asked by Anonymous

Namely the Old Testament. Do you truly think that it is in any way comparable to or gives legitimacy to Muslim violence today? I have my own view on this but I want to hear what you all have to say. 10 points to the best, and most easily understandable answer.

2006-12-19 06:09:28 · 15 answers · asked by chuck3011 3

"pull the log out of your own eye before you pull the twig out of someone elses."

2006-12-19 06:09:12 · 11 answers · asked by Jordi 2

2006-12-19 06:08:56 · 18 answers · asked by Anonymous

if its there where please

2006-12-19 06:08:44 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous

I know it's a hard question since you can't know how you would react to something that hasn't happened, but try to.
And be honest.

2006-12-19 06:07:44 · 17 answers · asked by Anonymous

A head on collision where he veered over the center line into my lane. (true story folks) He was killed instantly, I walked away unscratched. I am deeply grieved even though it was not my fault. My friend I had known all my life. What purpose did your God have in mind by taking the life of a good man and sparing mine?

2006-12-19 06:07:38 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous

If the bible is written by the God or by the God followers . .the Koran is written by the god or by its ...
followers . .. The Hindu stuff is written by the god or by its followers .... The followers = WE The Gods = 2 main gods ( Islam and Christinaty gods ) + jew god and other African tribal gods + Hindu gods + bor n ag ain an ag ain god + sunnie god + shia god + roman catholiKK god and mother marry god + flying spagatty god and my friends think I'm dumb..

please tell me exactly , how many god's are currently operating in Earth?

2006-12-19 06:07:16 · 12 answers · asked by ? 1

My suggestion is that you stay away from this area of yahoo answers until you are stronger. There are so many here who are only out to do the work of Satan and to try and bring you away from Christ.
Does anyone who is strong in the Lord have suggestions for them, please share?
God Bless and strengthen you~ Angie

2006-12-19 06:06:45 · 10 answers · asked by Angie 3

about how and who do Muslims worship?
do you think by making up Lies about Islam that we will suddenly believe you and become christians??

2006-12-19 06:03:15 · 19 answers · asked by Anonymous

2006-12-19 06:02:40 · 10 answers · asked by vehement_chemical 3

2006-12-19 06:02:29 · 37 answers · asked by Red Eye 4

That belief in God, is no different than belief in aliens, for those who claim to see them, belief in Big Foot, for those who claimed to have witnessed it, belief in Loch Ness, for those who claim to have pictured it?

What I mean to say is, Aliens, Big Foot, LochNess, are not provable as of yet, except to those who believe, so God, is not provable except to those who believe?

So how can any intelligent Atheist assert their BELIEF there is no God is factual? If you dont believe in God, its fine, but how is it you can tell ANY of us this is something you KNOW to be true, when you can readily admit, you can not know everything?

I believe in God, I have no PROOF to share, so logicaly I can not KNOW he exists, no more than you can KNOW he does not.

2006-12-19 06:02:28 · 8 answers · asked by sweetie_baby 6

2006-12-19 06:01:43 · 5 answers · asked by JOHN A 1

I don't see any Islamic or Buddhist shows were they ask for money, I don't see Catholic Priests on TV asking for money, why does it only seem to be Protestant fundamentalists with shows asking for money?

2006-12-19 05:57:28 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous

the parting of the Red Sea. What ever happened to the age of REALLY big miracles?

2006-12-19 05:57:21 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous

well i have asked about this and worried alot for a long time but i think i maybe ok but i wanna know what fellow christians have to say, I was saved a few years ago i came to God and said God/Jesus please come into my life and help me,and then a while after that i rememeber a period of time when i sorta said i wanna take a break from religion and i started focousing more on worldly things,and i sortof started doing all the wrong things that i prayed to be forgiven for again and i dunno if i really gave sinning a second thought like i knew it was wrong but i did it any way but i still rememeber thinking of God every know and then i think i knew soemthing was wrong,but know i think i have come back to God but i just wanted to make sure.
I have been told by many different people that if i had done the unforgivable then i wouldnt care that i did or not and i would be hardend against God if i had left him completly ,but i think i still love God i still care about God/Jesus.

2006-12-19 05:57:10 · 26 answers · asked by Anonymous

I have been through a lot this year and as a result my relationship with God has suffered. I don't pray the way I used to and I don't worship the way I used to. How do I press past my pain to spend the time I know I need to spend with Him?

2006-12-19 05:54:01 · 25 answers · asked by Cori 3

In talking about the Episcopal split, of course, christians are on their soap-boxes again about gays and the evil of gays.

What about divorce? Christians divorce and remarry and divorce and remarry like it's going out of style...the bible prohibits that in more places than it ever talks about gays... But christians have institutionalized divorce and they're so dependent upon it, that now, it's acceptable! Jesus prohibits divorce more than once in the NT, and never says ONE WORD about gays -- yet, I'm amazed at how christians have it so convoluted.

Pre-marital sex. Another one.
Adultery. Another one.
Coveting and greed. More of the same.

Isnt it funny, even hypocritical, how christians shriek and shriek and shriek about the perceived evils that they know, once enforced, will impact their own lives very little...

...but the other tenets and laws that, if enforced, would make their lives quite inconvenient and unpleasant -- they are less concerned with those? Hmmmm...

2006-12-19 05:51:18 · 23 answers · asked by Jeebus is my Rectum 3

regarding a different question, christians said that the bible is about love thus cannot be from satan. but they think satan is a deciever, and as a deciever would u tell people what they want to hear or what they dont want to hear? how would you decieve people if u were in his shoes?

do you think satan cannot speak truth and cannot show "love" or "compassion". if you do you are dismissing his ability to decieve arent u?

comments please? (keep them respectful as my question is respectful.)

2006-12-19 05:50:21 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous

Luke 2

1In those days Caesar Augustus issued a decree that a census should be taken of the entire Roman world. 2(This was the first census that took place while Quirinius was governor of Syria.) 3And everyone went to his own town to register.

4So Joseph also went up from the town of Nazareth in Galilee to Judea, to Bethlehem the town of David, because he belonged to the house and line of David. 5He went there to register with Mary, who was pledged to be married to him and was expecting a child. 6While they were there, the time came for the baby to be born, 7and she gave birth to her firstborn, a son. She wrapped him in cloths and placed him in a manger, because there was no room for them in the inn.

2006-12-19 05:48:50 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous

Please scroll down and read fireball22's response to the question on creation and dinosaurs.

Source:
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=Ag7.VlbjpIpLhL6wJDBANx3zy6IX?qid=20061219103321AAqlB3s

2006-12-19 05:48:17 · 7 answers · asked by Evil Atheist Conspirator 4

I'm confused, my science teacher or my friend? , My science teacher said that we evolve from some sort of a Ape , and the adaptation , survival , facing natures severity learning skills and love to the children has bring us to this stage. My friend told me that we are made from clay balls, and a another friend told me that we are from Adam and eve. I feel like its better to study the easy way. So I can just simply write the bible content to my science exam. The god is poerfull and he made the world in 6days . end of story!!!

2006-12-19 05:45:15 · 14 answers · asked by ? 1

Deu 20:10 Before you attack a town that is far from your land, offer peace to the people who live there. If they surrender and open their town gates, they will become your slaves. But if they reject your offer of peace and try to fight, surround their town and attack. Then, after the LORD helps you capture it, kill all the men. Take the women and children as slaves and keep the livestock and everything else of value.

Do i have to enslave and pillage like the bible says i do?

2006-12-19 05:44:34 · 24 answers · asked by Anonymous

I drempt that I entered a world that was dark and full of fire which engolfed me up; only it was not horrible in any way what's so ever.
I stood there completily black and I was huge with bat wings and craw like fingers; I had a gargoyle like face a bit like Goliath.
I was cover in this incredibily tight suit made of plastic that seemed to be alive as it got tighter and tighter, better and better.

Pleasure went through me as this God like being hirled me to the ground and as it this sensation intensified, I could see what look like the flames of hell roar way above me and my wings spread out.

I saw people whom were wicked running from me and I was told that they belonged to me.
I could feel the heat of the fire searing pleasure through me and it got to a rediculus level.

I woke up the next day all shaky, lying on the bathroom floor in my own spit.

What an Earth took place?

2006-12-19 05:43:57 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous

2006-12-19 05:42:09 · 30 answers · asked by Anonymous

I am a Catholic and I dearly love the Church, but I disagree with some things, including the spending of Church moneys to settle sex abuse cases out of court. I strongly believe that the abusers should get as much punishment as anyone else would if not more, and really don't like the idea of money I put in the collection plate for the essentials of my parish and charity going to help some child molestor. How can I be sure that my parish and diocese are not using alms to screw over the "justice" system?

2006-12-19 05:42:00 · 8 answers · asked by Rat 7

Seriously i am wondering. It actually appears as if the more a scientist discovers the greater chance that the scientist will become religious. And please, do not say darwin and all his stuff is the science that proves him to be false, but rather do you know anything about Quantum Mechanics and physics?

2006-12-19 05:41:24 · 19 answers · asked by Anonymous

where the other 11 are.

2006-12-19 05:41:24 · 9 answers · asked by zee zee 6

I'm trying to imagine that I had no mass and only a thought but no knowledge to react to my environment. Would I have to find similar entities or remain in confort until they found me.

Also, if I did not have any previous knowledge, how could I relate to the world around me.

Unless I suppose that my existence would be that of absolute discovery and growth.

The symbolic ring would be that first environment of potential unknowns mixed with our minimal knowns.

This question might not be for everyone, and if I sound crazy, I don't care.

Just something on my mind lately.

2006-12-19 05:40:41 · 4 answers · asked by Corey 4