Religion & Spirituality - 3 January 2007

Muhammad's life can be divided into two parts- the tolerant years in Mecca and the aggressive years in Medina. The Quran reflects those two parts, and that is why at times someone will point out a teaching in the Quran that seems to indicate that Islam teaches its adherents to live at peace with their enemies. When Muhammad began to preach his revelations from Allah to the people, he believed that a peaceful religion was a good strategy for attracting people, especially the Jewish people, to the teachings of Islam.
When Muhammad saw that his attempts to win over the Jews through peaceful coexistance were not successful, he "launched a new strategy based on power. This is when he declared jihad and went out to convert nonbelievers to Islam by the sword. Muslims today are tought to interrupt the Quran through a principle of progressive revalation known as nasikh. any contradiction in the Quran is solved by using the newest revelation. True or False???

2007-01-03 11:54:06 · 13 answers · asked by chris z 2

with specific examples.

2007-01-03 11:52:37 · 8 answers · asked by naturegirl 1

2007-01-03 11:51:35 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous

let's just say the people who use their free will appropriately are entitled to a little peace and happiness. why are there so many people suffering? someone must be using their free will to make some good choices out there.

2007-01-03 11:50:17 · 30 answers · asked by whore 4 HIM 1

That homosexuality is a sin,
That abortion is murder,
That evolution is false,
That christianity is the one true religion,
That women are meant to be submissive to men,
and That it is okay to discriminate and condemn?

I disagree with all the above things, but I am just wondering.

2007-01-03 11:50:07 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous

Do religious people believe that Prayers are answered and miracles happen at the Wailing Wall in Jerusalem? I ask because my mother in law is going to J. next month with her church. She is going to put my brother's name on it because he is an atheist and she thinks that will help him to become a Christian.
Please no inflamatory antichristian or antijewish remarks. I just want to know if others in the religious world believe that about the Wailing Wall? My brother isgetting an unholy kick out of this.

2007-01-03 11:47:25 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous

Why can't all Muslims be united. Is it like the Baptists and the Methodists who say they are both Christians but have differences that make them want to be separate. However I don't think a Baptist would want to murder a Methodist. Why is there such murderous hatred between the two Muslim Sects?

2007-01-03 11:46:24 · 9 answers · asked by SunFun 5

Find that it originated in the 4th century AD

2007-01-03 11:45:51 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous

Why does Jehovah Witness’ Bible have the word Jehovah instead of LORD? I noticed that their Bibles are the only ones that have the word Jehovah. Most of the Bibles have just the word LORD?

2007-01-03 11:45:46 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous

I dont go to church any longer because I am disabled.and I dont watch any religious television. much. but when ever Billy Graham crusade reruns are on tv I have to watch .he means a lot to me for some reason.

2007-01-03 11:43:21 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-01-03 11:42:03 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-01-03 11:40:21 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous

get into the bible!

2007-01-03 11:40:01 · 34 answers · asked by pebwan 1

2007-01-03 11:38:05 · 35 answers · asked by Brooke B 1

2007-01-03 11:38:01 · 8 answers · asked by whoknows 3

Somebody told me that once. I was really offended by that. Also considering that in the list of spiritual gifts tongues is always at the bottom of the list.

2007-01-03 11:37:41 · 24 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-01-03 11:36:38 · 6 answers · asked by Brooke B 1

I always thought God was good, but the Bible tells us about JOB who was plagued, and tormented by the devil while God stood by and did nothing...Children killed, fortune destroyed... Job gets sick, he has to live in the dump...yet God describes Job as good.

Is God a little qwirky, does he(or she) get satidfaction from human suffering?

2007-01-03 11:36:13 · 15 answers · asked by Bill A 3

If not, but you still believe in God, how come the search for knowledge has given you greater understanding of the nature of our world, but in two thousand years your understanding of God and creation has not progressed at all?

2007-01-03 11:36:06 · 21 answers · asked by THINKER 2

2007-01-03 11:35:59 · 45 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-01-03 11:35:19 · 8 answers · asked by ncisle 2

2007-01-03 11:34:37 · 14 answers · asked by so so 3

And why is Papa Smurf red?

2007-01-03 11:33:57 · 11 answers · asked by Night Shade 1

curious.

2007-01-03 11:33:27 · 5 answers · asked by Sarah 2

2007-01-03 11:33:27 · 10 answers · asked by chris z 2

2007-01-03 11:32:55 · 15 answers · asked by STFU Dude 6

He's omnipresent, especially this new TMX.

2007-01-03 11:31:43 · 21 answers · asked by Night Shade 1

Multicultural, evangelical and enthusiastic about serving and reaching others for Christ.

2007-01-03 11:31:14 · 28 answers · asked by Kenneth H 1

the kind of revelation that makes you change your whole life just because of what god shows you

like when you read something you have read a thousand times and never seen what he just shows you and you get so excited that you just want to pop

2007-01-03 11:29:57 · 15 answers · asked by superdaniel417 2

The Word says if someone says he Loves God, and then hates a man. He is a Liar!

I HAVE SPOKEN

2007-01-03 11:29:47 · 23 answers · asked by Hermes Trismegistus 2