Religion & Spirituality - 22 December 2006

2006-12-22 02:26:45 · 11 answers · asked by Sean 5

Mithra of Persia

--Mithra was born of a virgin on December 25 in a cave, and his birth was attended by shepherds bearing gifts.
--He was considered a great traveling teacher and master.
--He had 12 companions or disciples.
--Mithra’s followers were promised immortality.
--He performed miracles.
--As the “great bull of the Sun,” Mithra sacrificed himself for world peace.
--He was buried in atomb and after three days rose again.
--His resurrection was celebrated every year.
--He was called “the Good Shepherd” and identified with both the Lamb and the Lion.
--He was considered the “Way, the Truth and the Light,” and the “Logos,” [Word] “Redeemer,” “Savior” and “Messiah.”
--His sacred day was Sunday, the “Lord’s Day,” hundreds of years before the appearance of Christ.
--Mithra had his principal festival on what was later to become Easter.
--His religion had a eucharist or “Lord’s Supper,” at which Mithra said, “He who shall nto eat of my body nor drink of my blood so that he may be one with me and I with him, shall not be saved.”
--“His annual sacrifice is the Passover of the Magi, a symbolical atonement of pledge of moral and physical regeneration.”

Furthermore, the Vatican itself is built upon the papacy of Mithra, and the Christian hierarchy is nearly identical to the Mithraic version it replaced . . .
. . . Virtually all of the elements of the Catholic ritual, from miter to wafer to altar to doxology, are directly taken from earlier Pagan mystery religions.
Zoroaster/Zarathustra

2006-12-22 02:26:23 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous

2006-12-22 02:24:25 · 35 answers · asked by pank 1

"We are moving toward a dictatorship of relativism which does not recognize anything as definitive and has as its highest value one's own ego and one's own desires... The church needs to withstand the tides of trends and the latest novelties.... We must become mature in this adult faith, we must guide the flock of Christ to this faith"

Personally I agree.

The fun part is that anyone who disagrees is immediately a non-issue because their view is "relative"

2006-12-22 02:23:39 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous

2006-12-22 02:23:18 · 22 answers · asked by musicgirl31♫ 4

2006-12-22 02:22:46 · 3 answers · asked by Sean 5

2006-12-22 02:19:35 · 7 answers · asked by Crazy Kod II 3

2006-12-22 02:19:04 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous

Just one quick look in the bookstore and I see the King James Version, the New International Version, The Good News Version, etc...I saw over 20 different versions. How do I know which one is the best. Are they all basically the same, or are there major differences between the different versions. What version do you own and read?

2006-12-22 02:18:45 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous

2006-12-22 02:18:33 · 8 answers · asked by Crazy Kod II 3

Or would such a person be one of these "false" Christians we hear about when they get caught doing something wrong?

2006-12-22 02:17:45 · 7 answers · asked by Bad Liberal 7

2006-12-22 02:17:11 · 4 answers · asked by Illegals Are S*** 3

And what is the main point of Christianity? Why should I believe in it?

2006-12-22 02:16:44 · 14 answers · asked by Sidewinder 3

2006-12-22 02:15:32 · 7 answers · asked by Crazy Kod II 3

Would God reward both of my friends equally? Here example my female friend owns a condo overlooking Lake Ontario and she has a good career job making big money and she owns lots of nice clothes, furniture and stereo equipment and she gets to go to plenty of rock concerts and many trips to different places and yes she is a Catholic and she has lots of friends and yes she is a really nice girl.

As for my other friend he has a learning disability and he is one of the most biggest hearted people I've ever met and he is currently umemployed and when it comes to his friends he'll do anything in the world to be a great friend for them and yes he does believe in God and Jesus.

2006-12-22 02:13:44 · 11 answers · asked by Fell In Love 7

2006-12-22 02:12:25 · 9 answers · asked by Crazy Kod II 3

2006-12-22 02:12:03 · 14 answers · asked by Kal 1

2006-12-22 02:11:20 · 2 answers · asked by Crazy Kod II 3

2006-12-22 02:10:30 · 8 answers · asked by Crazy Kod II 3

that will save them on judgement day,Y r they refusing the truth

2006-12-22 02:10:07 · 12 answers · asked by pkstn pride 1

Are the rewards in Heaven much better than a young woman owning a condo overlooking Lake Ontario, having a good career job, owning a nice sports car, going to many rock concerts, owning lots of nice clothes, furniture and going on many vacations to different places?

Would the rewards I'll be getting alot better than the rewards this woman gets for her hard work?

2006-12-22 02:09:46 · 23 answers · asked by Fell In Love 7

You know, the birth of Santa???

2006-12-22 02:09:31 · 11 answers · asked by JerseyRick 6

Jesus Christ died on Cross,,its ok,,,What if Jesus killed by A knife? or sword? Would a sword be symbol of Christians?

I know Cross was a punish way of Old Romans....And Romans killed Jesus Christ on Cross....Then it became a symbol.....Am I wrong?

2006-12-22 02:08:31 · 22 answers · asked by Mario J 1

Osiris was also the god of the vine and a great travelling teacher who civilized the world. He was the ruler and judge of the dead. In his passion, Osiris was plotted against and killed by Set and “the 72.” Like that of Jesus, Osiris’s resurrection served to provide hope to all that they may do likewise and become eternal.

Osiris’s “son” or renewed incarnation, Horus, shares the following in common with Jesus:

--Horus was born of the virgin Isis-Merion December 25 in a cave/manger with his birth being announced by a star in the East and attended by three wise men.
--His earthly father was named “Seb” (“Joseph”).
--He was of royal descent.
--At at 12, he was a child teacher in the Temple, and at 30, he was baptized having disappeared for 18 years.
--Horus was baptized in the river Eridanus or Iarutana (Jordan) by “Anup the Baptizer” (“John the Baptist”), who was decapitated.
--He had 12 desciples, two of who were his “witnesses” and were named “Anup” and “Aan” (the two “Johns”).
--He performed miracles, exorcised demons and raised El-Azarus (“El-Osiris”), from the dead.
--Horus walked on water.
--His personal epithet was “Iusa,” the “ever-becoming son” of “Ptah,” the “Father.” He was thus called “Holy Child.”
--He delivered a “Sermon on the Mount” and his followers recounted the “Sayings of Iusa.”
--Horus was transfigured on the Mount.
--He was crucified between two thieves, buried for three days in a tomb, and resurrected.
--He was also the “Way, the Truth, the Light,” “Messiah,” “God’s Anointed Son,” “the “Son of Man,” the “Good Shepherd,” the “Lamb of God,” the “Word made flesh,” the “Word of Truth,” etc.
--He was “the Fisher” and was associated with the Fish (“Ichthys”), Lamb and Lion.
--He came to fulfill the Law.
--Horus was called “the KRST,” or “Anointed One.”
--Like Jesus, “Horus was supposed to reign one thousand years.”

Furthermore, inscribed about 3,500 years ago [1500 years before Jesus’ alleged advent] on the walls of the Temple at Luxor were images of the Annunciation, Immaculate Conception, Birth and Adoration of Horus, with Thoth announcing to the Virgin Isis that she will conceive Horus; with Kneph the “Holy Ghost,” impregnating the virgin; and with the infant being attended bh three kings, or magi, bearing gifts. In addition, in the catacombs at Rome are pictures of the baby Horus being held by the virgin mother Isis—the original “Madonna and Child.” As Massey says:

It was the Gnostic art that reproduced the Hathor-Meri and Horus of Egypt as the Virgin
and child-Christ of Rome . . . You poor idiotai, said the Gnostics [to the early Christians],
you have mistaken the mysteries of old for modern history, and accepted literally all that
was only meant mystically.

2006-12-22 02:07:14 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous

crazy. Like the woman who threw her three kids off the born bridge? i completely understand how sad this is but i dont understand how she is crazy? my mind is just pondering why its so crazy if sineone says god spoke to them?

2006-12-22 02:06:41 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous

I might be wrong, but whenever I see preachers and such preaching God's word, the word 'Crusade' is always used!

That word is kinda scary if i say so meself!
Anyways, i'm not here to stir trouble...just answer me plz!

thanks

2006-12-22 02:06:32 · 5 answers · asked by -♦One-♦-Love♦- 7

Here's the new theory: Jesus was a time traveller who was born a hermaphrodite, but prodominately woman. He had sex with a stranger one night and gave birth to a baby girl. After Jesus had his child, the doctors had to give him a sex change to save his life, making him a man. As he aged, he met a man who told him about time travel. Jesus went back in time and fell in love with a woman, whom he impregnated. They had a baby girl, who, in her teens, was visited by a stranger and had sex with him. Basically, Jesus is his own mother, father and self! Any takers?

2006-12-22 02:06:01 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous

If you don't belive in praying to mary i don't care and id wrather u not post anything. And if you dont belive in god please don't post anything as well. Francly when you attack my faith if you protestants and atheists don't look a bit different from each other.

2006-12-22 02:03:41 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous

I am agnostic, although I am pretty much an atheist in all but the fact nobody can KNOW either way.

I do not beleive in a deity that has concious control over anything. But I do sometimes feel that nature itself and all the scientific mechanics of life is itself what christians call "god"

If we harm 1 part of nature, nature heals itself and adjusts accordingly to correct that damage.

it is in everything (just like "god") and is the force behind many a strange event.

do you not think this is a common ground? and that what agnostics and atheits say is science and logic, is just a physical proof of a christian "god". But that "god" is a human projection of these physical effects in which humans have elevated to a higher being?

Love nature and naure will respond positively. Hate nature and the opposite will occur.

Just a theory

2006-12-22 02:02:14 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous

She gave her life one month ago.

2006-12-22 01:59:57 · 23 answers · asked by SmartPerson 1