Religion & Spirituality - 22 January 2007

I keep reading answers by christians who say that god can do whatever he wants, or chooses, or desires to do but that language implies a few things about god that make him smaller than you're supposed to believe he is. first of all, if god is omniscient and omnipresent then there is no "choice" to be made. god cannot desire to do two different things since he already knows what he is going to do. second, to want is to not already have. if god can do anything then he cannot want anything. or desire it. finally, for now at least, to do things or to want or to think or to choose all put god inside a linear timetable, that is to say that if god is capable of wanting and choosing between options laid out before him and then acts on them according to their timing then he is smaller than time itself. nothing in the bible says that god is NOT inside time and the very fact that he's referred to as eternal (a time word) shows that he probably is. So, can god actually "want" anything?

2007-01-22 06:38:18 · 19 answers · asked by Shawn M 3

2007-01-22 06:38:02 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous

I took everyone's advice and went on to use the restroom. However a client called me "sir" when I came out. Then when he got a better look at me he said "oh, sorry, ma'am. I saw you coming out of the men's restroom...and, well, you know..."

I have deceived one of God's men.

Help!!!!!

2007-01-22 06:37:56 · 7 answers · asked by ÜFÖ 5

It would seem that there would be a certain level of purity and sinlessness to be chosen as the "Holy Mother" in the first place. (I mean, let's face it, it must have been a tough story to sell) I don't doubt her sinlessness and yes, I have gone to her hundreds of times for help and influence with her son. And I am always in awe of her greatness and holiness. I do know she has answered me with only the gentleness of the mother of the most High. I am curious to know how others perceive Mary. Imagine the strenght and resolve she had to have to see her son crucified. What are your feeling?

2007-01-22 06:36:57 · 24 answers · asked by JOHN 7

Sometimes I jump towards the sky all day hoping that eventually gravity will just cease to exist (since i know its not real now) so I can fly into heaven and meet J-dog

2007-01-22 06:36:06 · 7 answers · asked by cpt_of_tower 1

at least within the police force. or ban all women police officers from doing it.

http://www.itv.com/news/index_0f14468b9b1be8b207bb3e2fe6519cde.html

2007-01-22 06:34:30 · 18 answers · asked by Abdul 5

And there are other reasons to believe.
But we can see by looking at the totally of science that we know so far, that it is quite unlikely there is a God of the kind religions believe in.
I wonder whether the church people, at least the educated and thoughtful among them, are beginning to realize this in their private thoughts -- notwithstanding their adamant assertions on Yahoo Answers.

2007-01-22 06:34:23 · 18 answers · asked by Anonymous

Any information on it?

2007-01-22 06:33:51 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous

Let me see if I have this straight:

1. god creates the Universe.

2. god creates heaven (a very good place) and hell (a very bad
place).

3. god creates mankind and gives us souls (parts of us that live on after our physical body dies)

4. god demands reverence, respect and worship from all of mankind while we are alive on Earth.

5. god casts the souls of those who do not have reverence, respect and worship for it into hell (a place that it has created just for this purpose) for all eternity.

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IN CONCLUSION:

Your "god" either (a) has serious self-esteem issues (b) suffers from an inferiority complex or (c) is just plain f*cked in the head.

Which one is it?

2007-01-22 06:32:05 · 17 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-01-22 06:31:00 · 9 answers · asked by jessica e 1

2007-01-22 06:30:42 · 7 answers · asked by jamrock 1

I can just picture it now, future wars with millions of deaths between alien races all arguing over which was created in God's true image.

"We are God's image'

"No, we are!'

"Actually we are!"

"Wanna fight about it?'

"Yea!!!"

*War*

2007-01-22 06:29:50 · 13 answers · asked by cpt_of_tower 1

It seems I have a real dilemma. I do not want to violate Deuteronomy 22:5. "A man's item shall not be on a woman, and a man shall not wear a woman's garment; whoever does such a thing is an abhorrence unto Adonai."

I understand that some verses are figurative and open to interpretation. I am not clear on the correct interpretation of this verse.

The problem is that this morning at work we realized that one of the pipes going to the women's bathroom is broken. All the women have to use the men's bathroom now. I have tried to *hold it* all day but I can't anymore.

Help!!!

2007-01-22 06:27:16 · 23 answers · asked by ÜFÖ 5

Why do terrorists want to kill Americans so much that they would strap a bomb on a child to do so?

2007-01-22 06:23:16 · 3 answers · asked by suziblues2000 2

2007-01-22 06:22:31 · 36 answers · asked by Anonymous

I need this answered in depth bcause it is for a history project

2007-01-22 06:21:14 · 9 answers · asked by Dillon 1

Do people think God looks like the pictures we accept as Jesus or does he have a totally different look.

2007-01-22 06:19:32 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-01-22 06:19:30 · 12 answers · asked by hannel19 2

Anti-evolution theorists use the question about a tornado blowing through a scrapyard and leaving a boeing 747 in its wake. Yet I ask, as the children on Ephraim asked can God create a table in the woods.

Where is there any evidence of good other than the natural evidence that exists. Could God create something so undeniably created that it would defy all other reasoning?

Could God grow a table from a seed?

2007-01-22 06:19:12 · 22 answers · asked by Anonymous

YIKES!!!!

2007-01-22 06:16:35 · 9 answers · asked by cpt_of_tower 1

i cant say more as i dont know much else....

2007-01-22 06:16:23 · 19 answers · asked by Anonymous

Why do they contradict? Is the one in Luke Mary's bloodline? Jesus has two different grandfathers according to the two different bloodlines but both still trace back to David/Abraham.

I'm taking a guess that one was Mary's bloodline though I don't know for sure.

2007-01-22 06:15:39 · 14 answers · asked by Thinking 'bout it 2

2007-01-22 06:15:15 · 13 answers · asked by Barrett G 6

I mean, as soon as the first lifeform is found on another plant (which technically happened since they found plant life forms) what are you going to say? "It's a trick of Satan" or will you plug your ears, close your eyes and whistle loudly?

2007-01-22 06:15:14 · 16 answers · asked by cpt_of_tower 1

The last time i spoke with a JW he said the Holy Spirit was like electricity. So how does one lie to electricity?

2007-01-22 06:15:04 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous

Dad had a stroke, in a coma for 9 days, lung infection.resusutator, doctor told Mother ..No Hope, I heard the voice while praying very furvently On My Knees.. GO RUB HIS FEET.when I got off my knees it had been FIVE hours on the floor?didnt seem like just a few minutes. I did. he opened his eyes.lived well for 11 more years, he talked more and had a little memory lose.Question.who told me to go rub his feet?God? angel? a relitive of Dads thats passed on?WHO.?...Thanks.

2007-01-22 06:14:57 · 30 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-01-22 06:14:52 · 21 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-01-22 06:13:18 · 24 answers · asked by Sean 5

My personal belief is that all religions are based on people's needs to believe in something above and beyond themselves.

Scientology takes the cake however! How can people really believe this stuff? It's just too fantastic and too much to list.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientology

2007-01-22 06:11:18 · 36 answers · asked by Wurm™ 6

We have come so far in our world and our civilization. We have the means to do great things. Why is Eden better? I don't want to go back to the days prior to the tree of knowledge.

2007-01-22 06:09:44 · 21 answers · asked by slov72 2