Religion & Spirituality - 7 February 2007

Recently My Grandfather died and my Grandmother is an Old School Christian. I was telling her about how I don't believe in God(She asked) and I realized that although I don't believe in God...the idea really seems to help people cope with death. Do you think thats a big reason most people believe? I mean she said she feels better about thinking he is in heaven,rather then he is just dead and in the ground. I mean my grandmother doesn't go forcing it down my throat like some people do.

2007-02-07 02:34:18 · 28 answers · asked by Anonymous

The Quran says about the cross of Jesus Christ. "And because of them saying we killed Messiah, Jesus. But they killed him not, nor crucified him. But the resemblance of Jesus was put over another man. And they killed that man (the man who was changed to resemble Jesus Christ, according to the Quran). The verse says that there was a crucifixion, but the man who was crucified was not Jesus Christ, but someone else whom God changed his face to the face of Jesus, his voice to the voice of Jesus, and he was crucified in the place of Jesus Christ.
If we believe that, then God is a great deceiver because he deceived generations of men believing that the one who was crucified on the cross of Calvary was Christ, while he was not. And after 600 years he sent Mohammed to say, "They crucified him not." Well, what is the whole story? The whole story is the misunderstanding of the Muslims of the holiness of God. Also Mohd wants to deny the credibility from Jews of killing Jesus Christ.

2007-02-07 02:34:05 · 17 answers · asked by iwant4wifes 1

How many farz in friday namaz? Is on friday one should pray only 2 farz as juma in place of 4 farz as in zuhar

2007-02-07 02:33:25 · 4 answers · asked by Tannu 4

I am a Jehovah's Witness and I will be traveling to Cuba on a secular vacation. I would like to contact the local congregation closest to Varadero, but I don't know how. Also, as Cuba is a communist country, would this be a good idea? Are Witnesses banned or under persecution there? I have been to Cuba before but couldn't find out how to contact the congregation. I wil only be there a week, so I don't want to cause any trouble for anyone.

2007-02-07 02:32:44 · 3 answers · asked by rachely1 3

2007-02-07 02:32:38 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous

I am not baptized so add that into the equation.. Thanks all.

2007-02-07 02:31:03 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-02-07 02:30:52 · 2 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-02-07 02:28:32 · 32 answers · asked by izaakarm 1

Mat 6:19 Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth and rust doth corrupt, and where thieves break through and steal:
Mat 6:20 But lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust doth corrupt, and where thieves do not break through nor steal:

2007-02-07 02:28:13 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-02-07 02:27:33 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous

Where is the peace or the love?
All I see is hate and pointless violence in the name of a non existant God!

2007-02-07 02:27:04 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-02-07 02:26:38 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous

before the invention of the speaker and amplifire

2007-02-07 02:26:00 · 2 answers · asked by Anonymous

The original Blasphemy Challenge, in which atheist teens and young adults were asked to say they don't believe in the Holy Spirit on YouTube:

http://www.blasphemychallenge.com

Now Christians have caught wind of it. One spokesman for Concerned Women for America, a right-wing group, calls them "attention-starved boneheads".

http://www.cnsnews.com/ViewCulture.asp?Page=/Culture/archive/200702/CUL20070205a.html

And now there is a Christian response called "Challenge Blasphemy."

http://www.challengeblasphemy.com/

Are other Christians really this scared or upset that some teens and young adults don't believe in their God or Holy Spirit?! I don't get it. I'm curious. I'm Pagan; I'm not upset if someone doesn't believe in my Gods.

2007-02-07 02:24:54 · 19 answers · asked by GreenEyedLilo 7

I read on a previous question that defacation is a sin. So, if thats true, then eating must be a sin also. I also read somewhere that you cannot get into heaven if you were rich on Earth.
So that means, God wants us to be anorexic, hungry, and poor. As long as you're all those things, and as long as you accept Jesus into your heart (whatever that means).....then you can get into heaven.
Is this the kind of God that you want to worship?

2007-02-07 02:23:42 · 12 answers · asked by Abby C 5

My daughter asked if her friend could come to church with us. I told my daughter to have Lucy’s parents call me. I wanted to make sure I explain that we are Baptist and I wanted to make sure it was ok with them. Well my daughter came back and told me her step-dad doesn’t believe in God nor does he believe in organized religion. However Lucy could attend Church with us, however they will have nothing to do with it. Basically, every Sunday Lucy would spend the night Saturday or I would pick her up Sunday. A few months later, I moved across town and picking Lucy up isn’t easy for me. So I asked if someone could drop her off at my home Sunday morning. Lucy told me her dad said he will not have anything to do with Church. So I asked about her mother. She then confessed that before her mother got remarried they would go to Church all the time. Then they stopped when her step-dad came along. I am wondering if I am doing the right thing.Especially if her family doesn’t believe in God.

2007-02-07 02:23:30 · 21 answers · asked by Renee 3

Mat 13:31 Another parable put he forth unto them, saying, The kingdom of heaven is like to a grain of mustard seed, which a man took, and sowed in his field:
Mat 13:32 Which indeed is the least of all seeds: but when it is grown, it is the greatest among herbs, and becometh a tree, so that the birds of the air come and lodge in the branches thereof.

2007-02-07 02:22:57 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous

I side with humanity?

2007-02-07 02:18:59 · 29 answers · asked by Assad 3

2007-02-07 02:17:57 · 20 answers · asked by aland411 1

I'm a history teacher who I suppose you could classify as a "debunker".

The other day I was studying the battle of Thermopalye in which 300 Spartans fought to the death against millions of Persians. I found that the Greeks had many men from many cities numbering closer to 5,600 and that the Persians would never have been able to logistically support an army of that magnitude so their numbers were more likely closer to 100,000. Learning this took a lot of the magic away from teaching my class about the Spartans. I was more then a little disapointed

Is a persons need to believe in magic what drives them to religion? Do we all need a sea parting, divine cave conversations, or men who walk on water in order to give meaning and more importantly excitement to our lives?

Because I must admit, that being an atheist is fairly boring when compared to the a strong man who kills a thousand philistines with a donkey's jawbone or a man coming back from the dead.

Your thoughts?

2007-02-07 02:17:15 · 14 answers · asked by gatewlkr 4

2007-02-07 02:14:19 · 31 answers · asked by Mari Flor 1

2007-02-07 02:13:09 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous

Mat 25:13 Watch therefore, for ye know neither the day nor the hour wherein the Son of man cometh.

2007-02-07 02:12:37 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-02-07 02:12:00 · 12 answers · asked by Assad 3

I'm curious, what do you guys think about it? Seriously this is a question.


Note: Please don't hurt me, I'm only asking. Please do not prosecute, please do not preach to me, please do not associate me with Christianity, I'm a Muslim, please do not use a banana as a remote control.

2007-02-07 02:10:06 · 20 answers · asked by Adia Azrael 4

Why do they contain so much whoop-a**?

Couldn't God find a more peaceful way to cleanse the earth. Couldn't everyone just die in their sleep or something like the Babies in Egypt?

If the Bible had been written in the 1990s would the 7 angels be holding 7 cans of whoop-a**?

2007-02-07 02:09:44 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous

A. A Christian man who sits around and wait for God to make things happen and thinks you're put on earth to serve him.

B. An Atheist man who blesses you with his own actions and believes we're here to raise healthy children

2007-02-07 02:09:38 · 9 answers · asked by Black Atheist 1

2007-02-07 02:08:36 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous

Did someone lie about a family long ago, saying everyone in that family was cursed by bad Karma? And all the peoples of that family are cursed today over that lie? When will this injustice be brought to justice by the peoples of India?
There is room for everyone around the World, once one overcomes the lies of evil!

Sadeek Muhammad.

2007-02-07 02:07:43 · 6 answers · asked by Sadeek Muhammad 2

Mat 24:3 And as he sat upon the mount of Olives, the disciples came unto him privately, saying, Tell us,

when shall these things be?

and what shall be the sign of thy coming,

and of the end of the world?

2007-02-07 02:07:18 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous