Religion & Spirituality - 10 February 2007

2007-02-10 05:44:22 · 12 answers · asked by Bryan 2

2007-02-10 05:42:31 · 9 answers · asked by Bryan 2

This is a recycled question. But the first time I asked it people didn't give me the answers I was looking for. Doesn't anybody see how God has evolved through the Bible? Aren't there any people out there who have studied the Bible seriously?

2007-02-10 05:41:26 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous

when you call the corners, what guardians do you invoke???

Do you call "Arch Angels, Elementals or what???"

2007-02-10 05:40:28 · 10 answers · asked by Bobby The Wolf 2

2007-02-10 05:38:20 · 18 answers · asked by Anonymous

Can one touch MC Hammer?
Hmmmm.......let us look into this.
MC Hammer clearly states that "you can't touch this". But the only way one can truley come to terms with the answer is by defining what "this" is. If MC Hammer truley refers to himself, then the answer is obvious, we may not touch that. If one spekulates that "this" refers to a sperate noun with a contracting verb, then the issue is open for debate. Let's here your thoughts.

2007-02-10 05:38:05 · 11 answers · asked by Bryan 2

In Mark 9:46, Jesus Christ says about hell: "Where THEIR WORM dieth not, and the fire is not quenched."

Jesus said explicitly — THEIR worm — not a worm, or the worm — but THEIR worm. The Bible teaches that Christians will one day have a body like the Lord Jesus Christ. Could it be, as some Bible students teach — that men and women in hell take on the form of their father, Satan (John 8:44)? In Revelation 12:3, Satan is described as a red dragon. Could Jesus Christ be referring to the body lost men and women will have for eternity?

The earth’s crust on land is normally 50 miles thick. You’d have to go down 50 miles before the edge of the fire. But in parts of the ocean floor, the earth’s crust is less than a mile thick.

Scientists recently discovered cracks on the ocean floor where fire was leaking out. Do you know what they found around these fire-breathing vents in the crust? Eight-foot long worms, found no other place in the world! The book, The Deep Sea, by Joseph Wallace (p.39), reads, "Perhaps the strangest of ocean creatures recently discovered are Riftia, the giant tube WORMS. Measuring up to 8 feet in length, the worms are ONLY FOUND NEAR DEEP SEA VENTS."

And Jesus Christ said, "Where THEIR WORM dieth not, and the fire is not quenched."

Have you read Isaiah 66 where the Lord Jesus Christ is quoting Mark 9:46?
Look at the context and time period of Isaiah 66:22-24:

Isaiah 66:22-24:
22 For as the new heavens and the new earth, which I will make, shall remain before me, saith the LORD, so shall your seed and your name remain.
23 And it shall come to pass, that from one new moon to another, and from one sabbath to another, shall all flesh come to worship before me, saith the LORD.
24 And they shall go forth, and look upon the carcases of the men that have transgressed against me: for their worm shall not die, neither shall their fire be quenched; and they shall be an abhorring unto all flesh.

The "new heavens and new earth" of Isaiah 66:22 matches Revelation 21:1. This occurs AFTER the Great White Throne Judgement of Revelation 20:10-15! The references to "carcases"; "their worm"; "their fire" (vs 24) — is AFTER the Great White Throne Judgement of the LOST people! The reference to ". . the men that have transgressed. . ." are the LOST people AFTER the Great White Throne Judgement.
And at this point — they have received their NEW BODY! Notice what Isaiah says, the saved people shall "LOOK upon the CARCASES of the men that have transgressed. . ." It's worth mentioning that a "carcase" is not always a "DEAD body". For instance, two times the Bible specifically uses the term "dead carcase" (Deut. 14:8 and Ezek 6:5). If a carcase is ALWAYS a "dead" body, then why say "dead" carcase? And there's NOTHING in the context of Isaiah to imply these "men that transgressed" are "dead".

In fact, Isaiah clearly says, "their worm shall NOT DIE". Even in our language, we refer to a living body as a "carcase". For example, "Get your carcase [body] in here". Why is that important? Because when the saved people in Isaiah 66:24 are "looking upon the carcases of the men that have transgressed" — And do you know what they are SEEING? "Their worm"! The "carcase" they are seeing is "their WORM that shall not die". The end of Isaiah 66:24 is a frightening endorsement of this interpretation. What the saved people are viewing Isaiah says is , ". . . an abhorring unto all flesh". And my friend, that is not JUST a normal flesh body they are looking at! It is something that will send chills screaming through your soul at the horror. And it will happen!

And it will happen TO YOU if you die without the Lord Jesus Christ!

Even though the world tries to extinguish the cries and reality of hell — the truth of hell echoes throughout our world. We desperately pretend to cover our ears and igonore the "screams, the weeping, the wailing, the gnashing of teeth" but it is there. . . And we know it. We refuse to accept such a place exist. But it is there. And we know it. Nothing we can do, nothing we can say, can erase the horror of hell from our minds.

It is there. And we know it.

National Geographic magazine truthfully titled their story on Volcanoes "Going To Hell". When PBS did a series on The Savage Earth, one episode was titled "Hell's Crust: Our Everchanging Planet". Everything we know. Everything we observe. Echoes the truth of a place called hell.






It is there. And we know it.

Revelation 14:10 says, " . . . and he shall be tormented with fire and BRIMSTONE . . ." And Job 18 describes the " . . . PLACE of him that knoweth not God" (vs 21), in verse 15 as, " . . . BRIMSTONE shall be scattered upon his habitation." Do you know what brimstone is? It's sulfur. And do you know where sulfur or brimstone is found? INSIDE THIS EARTH! According to the book Volcanoes by Pierre Kohler (p. 43), when Mt. St Helens erupted in 1980 — 150,000 tons of sulfurous gas was ejected! Job is the oldest book in the Bible, written over 3,000 years ago, and yet Job knew what science wouldn't know for years — inside this earth is BRIMSTONE!

Nature magazine recently discovered (July 2002) what the Bible knew over 3,000 years ago. Inside this earth is "fire and brimstone":

"Volcanoes may be more like hell than anyone realized. Eruptions disgorge streams of molten sulphur, the brimstone of evangelical preachers, which burns up before it can be preserved for posterity, new research in the journal Geology shows".
(Nature, Science Update, July 22, 2002)
Click here to view an incredible National Geographic M

2007-02-10 05:35:12 · 37 answers · asked by Anonymous

i keep hearing christians say that we are "blind", and we havnt seen the truth and light,ect.

so point out the exact details that you can see but we cant.

2007-02-10 05:29:17 · 27 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-02-10 05:28:12 · 10 answers · asked by 2 days after my B day :) 2

2007-02-10 05:27:45 · 9 answers · asked by katdelion 1

And how sick can they be to continuously send you hate mail on a daily basis saying how they wish your children were dead and projecting their own miserable lives onto others? Seriously, how deranged must somebody be?

2007-02-10 05:26:59 · 9 answers · asked by Proud Muslimaah-Beautiful Islaam 3

So you believe that the fetus gets a soul at conception( this being the main reason why you oppose abortion) but there are some cases when a twin assimilates the other one in the first stages, but this is after the conception so is the one that assimilated the other one guilty of murder or if you say that they became the same person then has it 2 souls?

2007-02-10 05:25:50 · 16 answers · asked by Sir Alex 6

I mean, surely you can see that rising from the dead, rising into the sky, and other reported feats of Jesus, can seem a little far-fetched to rational and thoughtful people -- but if these things are too much for them to swallow, what happens?

Do they automatically get sentenced to Hell? Can any church people help me with this? I mean, try to think about this in a rational way for a moment. Especially considering that the penalty for not believing these strange things is supposedly you burn and rot for eternity...

2007-02-10 05:25:48 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous

Quick call Pat Robertson and Jerry Farwell,

apparently there are some gay people who want to show others the love of Jesus Christ and want to spend eternity in heaven with God!

Oh no, those crazy gay Christians, probably joined the log cabin republicans too!

Quick call Pat!

2007-02-10 05:24:13 · 19 answers · asked by Anonymous

I'm not Christian, I'm a Deist guy, but I ask this question seriously. Is it OK to think for yourself and say: "Well...I don't agree with the bible on this", or must your thinking & logic be only within this book?

2007-02-10 05:23:44 · 24 answers · asked by Anonymous

in revelations it says Jesus had hair like wool and feet the colour of brass, therefore the images of Jesus around church and school walls are incorrect as Jesus was not that pale and he definetly must not have had blue eyes. (No offence to anybody, my question is to stimulate thought not anger)

2007-02-10 05:22:44 · 30 answers · asked by Laughing Out Loud 1

Do you guys think they are correct?

2007-02-10 05:22:04 · 3 answers · asked by ? 2

2007-02-10 05:21:40 · 7 answers · asked by syd 1

I've been researching the difference between the different churches, and am very drawn to the beliefs of the Lutheran church. What confuses me is that there are different groups in the Lutheran church: Lutheran Church in America, Missouri Synod, Wisconsin Syond. There may be others, but this is what I've seen. Please help me clarify why there are differences and what they are. I can't figure it out.

2007-02-10 05:20:57 · 6 answers · asked by Suzanne D 4

i just read the most desturbing article at faithfreedom.org by ali sina. not believeing what i read from the koran i googled' koran sex with a infant'. sharia law comes directly from allah and muslems want to impose that on all man kind. i will warn you if you are a non-muslem it is extremely revolting. i got sick and threw up. if someone would read it and give me a light version.

2007-02-10 05:20:29 · 21 answers · asked by Anonymous

The Bible is clear — Hell is inside the earth!

Ephesians 4:9, says of Jesus: "Now that he ascended, what is it but that he also descended first into the LOWER PARTS OF THE EARTH."

On page 85 of Beyond Death’s Door, Dr. Rawlings writes patients who described hell said, ". . . this place seems to be UNDERGROUND or WITHIN THE EARTH in some way."
Scientist and Bible teacher, Henry Morris also agrees the Bible plainly teaches that hell is in this earth:

"So far as we can tell from Scripture, the present hell, is somewhere in the heart of the earth itself. It is also called 'the pit' (Isa. 14:9, 15: Ezek. 32:18-21) and 'the abyss' (Rev. 9:2). . .
The writers certainly themselves believed hell to be real and geographically 'beneath' the earth's surface. . .
To say this is not scientific is to assume science knows much more about the earth's interior than is actually the case. The great 'pit' [hell] would only need to be about 100 miles or less in diameter to contain, with much room to spare, all the forty billion or so people who have ever lived, assuming their 'spiritual' bodies are the same size as their physical bodies."
(Henry M. Morris, The Bible Has the Answer, p. 220)
The Birmingham News, April 10, 1987 had an article entitled "Earth's Center Hotter Than Sun's Surface, Scientists Say". The article stated that scientists have recently discovered, "THE EARTH'S INNER CORE HAS A TEMPERATURE OF OVER 12,000 DEGREES FAHRENHEIT!"

Have you seen pictures of a volcano erupting, spewing a lake of fire from inside the earth — consuming everything within miles just from the heat? When Mount St. Helens erupted in May 18, 1980, it was described by reporters, "when HELL surfaced upon the earth." The book, Volcanoes, Earth's Awakening (p.91) describes an erupting volcano as "descent into HELL".

Thousands of years ago, the Bible described a place called hell in the heart of the earth that matches exactly what science is discovering.


YES! THERE IS A PLACE CALLED HELL!

In Numbers 16, the Bible gives the account of people falling into hell alive!

"And THE EARTH OPENED HER MOUTH, and swallowed them up, and their houses, and all the men that appertained unto Korah, and all their goods. They, and all that appertained to them, went down alive INTO THE PIT, and the EARTH CLOSED UPON THEM:" Numbers 16:32-33
Caspar Peucer, a famous fourteenth century astronomer and physician, who also researched and documented the volcanoe eruptions at Heklafell wrote some very frightening information in his research findings. Peucer, claims (as others) that "fearful howlings, weeping and gnashing of teeth" could be heard "for many miles. . ." as these volcanoes erupted:


"Out of the bottomless abyss of Heklafell, or rather out of Hell itself, rise melancholy cries and loud wailings, so that these can be heard for many miles around. . . there may be heard in the mountain fearful howlings, weeping and gnashing of teeth."
(Haraldur Sigurdsson, Melting the Earth, The History of Ideas on Volcanic Eruptions, p. 73)
And Caspar Peucer is not alone. There are others who believe they have heard "cries and screaming" coming from volcanoes. Most have tried to ignore the obvious. Some simply explain the "sounds of hell" to some rational meaning. But they are there. . .
"The fearsome noises that issued from some of their volcanoes were certainly thought to be the screams of tormented souls in the fires of hell below".
(Haraldur Sigurdsson, Melting the Earth, The History of Ideas on Volcanic Eruptions, p. 73)
Inside this earth, this very moment, there are millions of lost, tormented souls — burning, weeping, wailing — without any hope whatsoever!

2007-02-10 05:19:51 · 22 answers · asked by Anonymous

People killing each other/themself to uphold their believe (religion). Most discrimination happens because of religion. War happens because of religion. Muslims goes to Mekkah to worship, but some got stamped and died...i would say they are there because of religion. What will happen if there is no such thing as religion? We all know that we are worship the same ONE. We are actually worshipping the same ONE in just different ways and thats all. Right? Who actually created the concept of religion?

2007-02-10 05:18:58 · 13 answers · asked by Ramprashad 1

2007-02-10 05:17:32 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous

If god is all knowing, he knows both the past and the future. So he all ready knows if we are going to be born sinners, or as non-believers. So to punish us in hell is unreasonable if he is all good. If he is all powerful he controls all as well, so he controls the fact that we are born the way we are, controls the way we act. Therefore, he is the one who has willed us to commit sins, to go against god. This also makes it impossible for him to be all good. If he is all knowing and all powerful, than he knowingly has created natural disasters, disease, suffering, et cetera. And, he is all powerful and all knoing so he knows how he has made us and makes us suffer anyway. It seems to me god cannot be all three, or even one. If you say he is all good he can not be all powerful, because he cannot control the "bad" things that happen to people. If he knowing he can not be all powerful unless he is not all good. I think I see a contradiction of huge sorts.

2007-02-10 05:16:41 · 13 answers · asked by tsavo 2

2007-02-10 05:15:21 · 17 answers · asked by Gardener for God(dmd) 7

about a problem. But in reality their manager is getting them on here for publicity. and shouldent thay have a report button so we can report them for being phoney.

I am posting this in religion because I thing there are more people here to get a bettet responc.

I also believe if thay would promote Christ most of their problems would go away dont you think?

2007-02-10 05:14:46 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous

I attended my aunt's funeral yesterday and when I got home late last night and checked the caller ID it showed my own telephone number having called at 12:20 that afternoon. How exactly does the telephone call itself especially when no one is home? And.....as we all know - if we pick up our phone and dial our own number we'll get a busy signal. Any idea on how this could have happened? Is there any logical explanation? Or was my aunt was just letting me know she says goodbye?

I posted this in the Electronics/Land line section and haven't gotten an answer, so perhaps someone here has an idea.

2007-02-10 05:13:33 · 13 answers · asked by Kate 3

Islam and Christian Science are also highly criticized by many people (probably a great deal more so with Islam, in fact). As one person commented about the overwhelmingly negative reaction to one celebrity's beliefs - I feel bad for Tom Cruise. He was unfortunate enough to choose the only religion in the world, apparently, that is wrong. -

2007-02-10 05:12:46 · 11 answers · asked by Rachel 410 2

2007-02-10 05:10:36 · 24 answers · asked by Anonymous

Someone asked about some Eastern religions, and as I have studied them in school I was able to give a pretty good answer I thought.

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=AqagrQ3Gt.h.5YL.0hEy.iXd7BR.?qid=20070210095806AA5ZyCN

The only other 2 people that have answered to this point told the person they shouldn't be asking about it, or they are going to hell. And then they gave my answer a thumbs down!

So why would someone give me a thumbs down for answering a question appropriatly and respectfully?

2007-02-10 05:10:28 · 28 answers · asked by Anonymous