Religion & Spirituality - 4 February 2007

When someone points out the instances of commanded genocide or nonsensical murders in the Old Testament, why is it that Christians respond, "That's in the Old Testament, and we don't follow that," or, "Jesus would never say that."

What's my point, you may ask? My point is this: these stories are contained in a book or books you claim to be divinely inspired. However, you also claim that you don't follow them. So why do you keep this books in your Bible?

2007-02-04 07:48:40 · 17 answers · asked by Nowhere Man 6

Col 3:22-24
22 Slaves, obey your earthly masters in everything, not only while being watched and in order to please them, but wholeheartedly, fearing the Lord. 23 Whatever your task, put yourselves into it, as done for the Lord and not for your masters, 24 since you know that from the Lord you will receive the inheritance as your reward; you serve the Lord Christ.

2007-02-04 07:48:32 · 14 answers · asked by skeptic 6

I used to hear people say that when you die it was blackness, or nothingness, I know that's not true, and I haven't run into many people who believe this lately. So what do you think?

2007-02-04 07:48:05 · 25 answers · asked by Anonymous

mine- i was in a Anasazi type stone building, for some reason this was our school, but i walked into a class room and picked up this penny. i accidently dropped it, causing a teacher to flip out on me, i was arrested. i was in a jail cell, inside the school, the principal woman came in and told me that they sentanced me to death and walked out. i have no clue why, but i left the cell on my own, just walked right out, and started wandering around te school complaining to other people of how stupid this was, after i did this for a while, i returned to my cell when moments later they came in, shackled me to this other kid that i know from school, we were escorted to a wall with an electrical current running htrough it, he started freaking out going on a rampage, i woke up after this.

i couldnt have made that up if i tried. whats you wierdest dream?

2007-02-04 07:45:52 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous

1Tim 2:11-1211Let a woman* learn in silence with full submission. 12I permit no woman* to teach or to have authority over a man;* she is to keep silent.

2007-02-04 07:45:23 · 22 answers · asked by skeptic 6

2007-02-04 07:45:19 · 3 answers · asked by bobby s 1

tell your story throughout your convert

2007-02-04 07:44:07 · 11 answers · asked by ? 3

Num 31:14-1814Moses became angry with the officers of the army, the commanders of thousands and the commanders of hundreds, who had come from service in the war. 15Moses said to them, ‘Have you allowed all the women to live? 16These women here, on Balaam’s advice, made the Israelites act treacherously against the Lord in the affair of Peor, so that the plague came among the congregation of the Lord. 17Now therefore, kill every male among the little ones, and kill every woman who has known a man by sleeping with him. 18But all the young girls who have not known a man by sleeping with him, keep alive for yourselves.

2007-02-04 07:43:30 · 16 answers · asked by skeptic 6

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Currently the Pledge of Allegiance declares that the US is "... one nation, under God ..."

Would Christians be willing to recite the pledge if it said the following:

"... one nation, under NO God ..."?

Alternatively, would Christians be willing to compromise by just removing the God reference altogether, so that we can say the pledge altogether?

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2007-02-04 07:43:10 · 18 answers · asked by NHBaritone 7

2007-02-04 07:42:55 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous

Ok my parents are catholic,i believe in chistian churches ,my parent say i cant go to any church but theirs and that i betrayed them.i told them i dont want them to force me it says in the bible.what can i do to have them stop and be christians too.it breaks my heart they dont care and says christians are lyer and they dont balieve in the virgin mary.like they do in catholics.please help

2007-02-04 07:42:19 · 22 answers · asked by ♥I_rock_you♥ 5

What about hormone imbalances? Hormones are definitely chemicals. Do Scientologists believe there's no such thing as a hormone imbalance? So... IS there such a thing as a hormone imbalance?

Don't be a jerk and don't copy and paste a bunch of crap. I just wanna know what Scientologists believe and if they're right.

2007-02-04 07:41:58 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous

who all is here right now???

2007-02-04 07:41:42 · 6 answers · asked by Bobby The Wolf 2

2007-02-04 07:40:49 · 9 answers · asked by Evil Atheist Conspirator 4

2007-02-04 07:40:05 · 2 answers · asked by Beth 3

Ex 21:20-21
20 When a slave-owner strikes a male or female slave with a rod and the slave dies immediately, the owner shall be punished. 21But if the slave survives for a day or two, there is no punishment; for the slave is the owner’s property.

2007-02-04 07:40:01 · 23 answers · asked by skeptic 6

2007-02-04 07:37:43 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-02-04 07:37:28 · 22 answers · asked by ? 7

Isaiah 13:13-16
13Therefore I will make the heavens tremble,
and the earth will be shaken out of its place,
at the wrath of the Lord of hosts
on the day of his fierce anger.
14Like a hunted gazelle,
or like sheep with no one to gather them,
all will turn to their own people,
and all will flee to their own lands.
15Whoever is found will be thrust through,
and whoever is caught will fall by the sword.
16Their infants will be dashed to pieces
before their eyes;
their houses will be plundered,
and their wives ravished.

2007-02-04 07:37:07 · 16 answers · asked by skeptic 6

Since smoking is harmful to the lungs and drinking makes people do bad things and is harmful to the liver.

I of course am referring to cigarettes which contain tar and crud, and beer which is nothing but troll sweat.

2007-02-04 07:36:49 · 20 answers · asked by Anonymous

I have and do all the time!

I have dreams about people and then meet them, and already know things about their lives.

Sometimes when I meet a person for the first time I know things about their pasts, presents, and futures if they continue on the path they are on - or if they don't.

2007-02-04 07:35:30 · 6 answers · asked by Jewel 3

Ex 35:2
2 For six days shall work be done, but on the seventh day you shall have a holy sabbath of solemn rest to the Lord; whoever does any work on it shall be put to death.

2007-02-04 07:34:38 · 12 answers · asked by skeptic 6

Deut 20:10-18
10 When you draw near to a town to fight against it, offer it terms of peace. 11If it accepts your terms of peace and surrenders to you, then all the people in it shall serve you in forced labour. 12If it does not submit to you peacefully, but makes war against you, then you shall besiege it; 13and when the Lord your God gives it into your hand, you shall put all its males to the sword. 14You may, however, take as your booty the women, the children, livestock, and everything else in the town, all its spoil. You may enjoy the spoil of your enemies, which the Lord your God has given you. 15Thus you shall treat all the towns that are very far from you, which are not towns of the nations here. 16But as for the towns of these peoples that the Lord your God is giving you as an inheritance, you must not let anything that breathes remain alive. 17You shall annihilate them—the Hittites and the Amorites, the Canaanites and the Perizzites, the Hivites and the Jebusites—just as the Lord your God has commanded, 18so that they may not teach you to do all the abhorrent things that they do for their gods, and you thus sin against the Lord your God.

2007-02-04 07:33:06 · 16 answers · asked by skeptic 6

I just broke up with my boyfriend. I need answers though... he's such a liar. I know for a fact that he cheated on me with my friend Alena. He only admitted to kissing though... however I know there must have been more. How many times did he cheat on me??! with who?!? It's driving me crazy.

2007-02-04 07:32:40 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous

Since 17 Sept 1974.

2007-02-04 07:32:40 · 26 answers · asked by thewordofgodisjesus 5

But each sect says they have it right and the others do not.

And they wonder why non-believers will not accept their beliefs on faith alone....

2007-02-04 07:32:00 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous

If so watch the Naked Archeologist today on the History Channel. It's a show called "Jesus" the early years. I watched it earlier and it should be on around 5 central time, 6pm eastern. I would check your listings. It made me think alot about what I had previously believed about Jesus.

2007-02-04 07:30:02 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous

Deut 25:11-12
11 If men get into a fight with one another, and the wife of one intervenes to rescue her husband from the grip of his opponent by reaching out and seizing his genitals, 12 you shall cut off her hand; show no pity.

2007-02-04 07:28:03 · 17 answers · asked by skeptic 6

i have several questions that im going to ask...but i want honest answers...ready? ok...

1) do you believe in God(s)?
2) do you belong to any religion(s)?
3) are/were your parents believers?
4) did they raise you in any belief?
5) how did you come to believe in what you believe in now?
6) are you a convert?
7) do you believe in hevean and/or hell?
and finally....
8) whats your position on other religions?

thanks for your time and feel free to add any other details if you wish...

2007-02-04 07:28:01 · 14 answers · asked by shippos_grl 2

and if so how does it make sense to believe in a god who loves us all?

2007-02-04 07:27:20 · 22 answers · asked by james l 2