Religion & Spirituality - 15 February 2007

2007-02-15 04:14:42 · 19 answers · asked by mouthbreather77 1

My girlfriend is Mexican and yesterday she was watching news on one of the spanish speaking channels. I caught a glimpse of these people, but I do not speak spanish and she wasn't paying attention. Anybody heard of them? Who are they? What do they believe?

2007-02-15 04:14:25 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous

Why not? If I go in to the town square so everyone can see my piety and hold a knife over my son saying I'm going to kill him as a sacrifice to god and then I say... no wait, god changed his mind - he said a lamb will do.

Will people venerate me the way they do, Abraham? I'm not willing to climb any mountain but I can go in to a room on my own and come back with papers that must have been written by GOD. What do you think?

2007-02-15 04:13:27 · 6 answers · asked by Serpent 2

Why did all the other religions spring up?

2007-02-15 04:12:23 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous

Which one allow more wives

2007-02-15 04:11:01 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous

This is really weird. My great grandfather, Matthew, who actually lived in the middle east many, many years ago...or so he claims...has always been a bit of an oddball...It has gotten worse and worse. He claims that he is over 2000 years young and that he was one of Jesus's followers...indeed he penned much of the New Testament...according to his talking. I don't beleive this nonsense...or at least I didn't...until I found some odd scriptures in a shoe box...with some kind of weird writing....I took it to a theology college...and they studied if for months...and now they want to ask me a whole pile of questions...they keep wanting to talk to my great grandfather too...What do I do? Could it be true???

2007-02-15 04:08:58 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous

This passage is from the Wikipedia article about Jesus:

"Christians also predominately profess that Jesus suffered death by crucifixion,[54] descended into Hell (variously understood as either the place of eternal punishment or place of the dead),[55] and rose bodily from the dead in the definitive miracle that foreshadows the resurrection of humanity at the end of time,[56] when Christ will come again to judge the living and the dead, resulting in election to Heaven or damnation to Hell.[57]"

In reciting the Apostle's Creed, in my experience it has always been said that Jesus descended into Heaven, not Hell.

So, my question is this: did Jesus descend into Heaven or Hell?

2007-02-15 04:08:53 · 21 answers · asked by Thegrip 2

I have been reading the questions from you ,this 'mystery' person ever since ive heard about how appalingly ridiculous you can be...

my heart and support goes out to the original Terry G.

why the immense disdain ,and still whatever truths and supported answers that has overthrown ur questions off board ( proven, look back to check), u still thrive on ignorance. Why?

2007-02-15 04:06:25 · 4 answers · asked by inquisitve soul 1

2007-02-15 04:05:14 · 7 answers · asked by A K 1

Let's take some examples:
A) Lot, who in Gen.19:8 offers his two virgin daughters to a crowd of angel rapers and later(19:30-38) impregnates them, was a "righteous man." Peter 2,2:8
B) James says Abraham was justified by works (for being willing to kill his son for God); Paul (Rom.4:2-3) says he was justified by faith (for believing that God would order him to do such an evil act). James 2:21
C) Jesus says that his disciples must hate their families (mothers, fathers, brothers, sisters, husbands, wives, children) and themselves. Luke 14:26
D) Jesus criticizes the Jews for not killing their disobedient children as required by Old Testament law. Mark 7:9-10
E) Jesus will reward men who abandon their wives and families. Mark 10:29-30
F) In the parable of the unforgiving servant, the king threatens to enslave a man and his entire family to pay for a debt. This practice, which was common at the time, seems not to have bothered Jesus very much. Matt 18:25

2007-02-15 04:03:46 · 14 answers · asked by adphllps 5

According to Christians - are all the souls alive before Christ or who lived in a country other then the middle east back then, or the really ancient cultures - are they all in hell?

Mayans, Ancient Egyptians, Greeks, Native American Indians, Hindu, Ancient Chinese, are all these souls still trapped in hell according to your beliefs?

2007-02-15 04:02:43 · 5 answers · asked by Nicholas J 7

I know none of us can say for sure, but what are some ideas of why the material universe would have come into existence?

2007-02-15 04:01:12 · 8 answers · asked by Art Vandalay 1

how funny is that. if ure offended then sorry.

2007-02-15 04:00:52 · 9 answers · asked by dont read if easily offended. 1

2007-02-15 04:00:06 · 19 answers · asked by robert g 1

Someone on this board said the following:

"All inhabitants of heaven will be coming back with Christ at His Second Coming and we'll be back on earth with Him. He will rule and reign for 1000 years and then after Satan is tossed into the lake of fire once and for all, a new heavens and earth will be formed and we'll live with Christ forever and ever."


So once Satan is (dead?) or whatever - and hell has been dismantled - doesn't that mean all the souls who are currently being tortured there either cease to exist at all - or recieve full pardons and enjoy the pleasures of heaven with the rest of us?

If not then what happens to them once hell is gone?

2007-02-15 03:58:34 · 17 answers · asked by Nicholas J 7

In the bible it says God will basically give you what you ask for - and that prayer can move mountains and such.

If enough people pray could we get God to destroy heaven or turn a mountain in to solid platinum - I mean can he do anything useful or do all the prayers have to be like 'God please make this coin flip come out heads' in which case heads means god loves you tails means god works in mysterious ways.

2007-02-15 03:58:23 · 9 answers · asked by Serpent 2

...intellectually lazy?

My god created everything. Okay that does it for me. I have all the answers now.

2007-02-15 03:57:43 · 19 answers · asked by Elwood Blues 1

how does it compare to Rick Warrens original . all opinions welcomed

2007-02-15 03:55:38 · 3 answers · asked by myrone1234 1

2007-02-15 03:54:49 · 6 answers · asked by philips e 1

I am new at ministering to young people. I love them and thin k they have lots of potential. I am not sure though, what programmes can be implimented. Please help.....

2007-02-15 03:54:09 · 6 answers · asked by doublee29 1

these links adds and send itself to someone i am chattingwith.
what can i do, please help me out
because of this wrong impression takes place.

2007-02-15 03:53:30 · 4 answers · asked by kapil g 1

My coworker and I are having a debate about if there is any way to know God exists (its really really slow today). I don't think there is a way to know and that people just assume but they really don't know. He believes in God and claims to know God exists through faith. I think that's BS because faith is only needed in the abscence of knowledge and that he is just making an assumption. Am I missing something? Because I simply don't understand how someone can know anything through faith.

2007-02-15 03:52:53 · 21 answers · asked by Subconsciousless 7

The fool said in his heart Jim Darwin is Satan.

2007-02-15 03:52:17 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous

Which one was hard working?

2007-02-15 03:51:15 · 19 answers · asked by Anonymous

recently a spitiual guru has said death is a happening where the body dies, the life leaves and the atman witness this..? philosophically and metaphysically what does atmaan mean.? a great thinker called j krishnamurthy said it was another invention of the cunning mind that is condtioned with all the factors of age old human? ... could anyone else enlighten me on this? though i am biased to my j.k 's answer

2007-02-15 03:50:26 · 10 answers · asked by abu b 1

The bible says the world will end and 1 sign is the sky will go dark and the sun, stars and moon wont shine light on earth so does this mean volcanos will erupt all over the earth? that is the only thing i can think of that would block all light to the earth. if u read about volcanos erupting, the really big ones turned the sky black. if it doesnt mean volcanos what does it mean? id love to hear ur views on this.

if ur not a believer then plz dont answer because ull just say that the bible isnt real and the world wont end.

2007-02-15 03:48:12 · 25 answers · asked by emilybailey1980 3

This is the question that spurred me to ask this. And it's just one of hundreds like it.

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=AmTS_hIqXyYk_tRqMJm_07Xsy6IX?qid=20070215060021AACf6Lx&show=7#profile-info-17ec5b2f4aceed13cf261c9e292c7437aa

The Jehovah's think their the most picked on, they say mainstream Christians hate them, the Mormon's think they're the most hated, the atheists think the Christians pick on them and the Christians think the atheists cause all the problems. And the poor Muslims ........... everyone picks on them.

Geez, everybody. Let's just get along and stop feeling we're the most picked on. Let's just agree to disagree.

2007-02-15 03:48:09 · 19 answers · asked by Anonymous

The book of Revelation was written before other books in the New Testament and was considered heretic until about 350 AD when the Catholic Church decided to stick it at the end of its "Official Canon" with those verses at the end.

So since the book of Revelation was written separately from the other books (even John's own other books, he "added unto" what had already been written), wouldn't those two verses apply just to Revelation and not the entire Bible?

It was the Catholic Church who defined what the Bible consisted of. Many books/gospels written by reliable sources (Paul's 3rd epistle to the Corinthians, the Gospel of James, the 2nd epistle of Jude, the History of the Apostles, etc.) Isn't it pretty subjective then to say that the Bible is infallible and complete? I mean, the word "Bible" means "the books" and doesn't even appear once in the Bible itself.

Anyway, if someone can get me a better definition of these verses than 'you can't add to the bible', I would appreciate it.

2007-02-15 03:47:17 · 16 answers · asked by James, Pet Guy 4

2007-02-15 03:47:05 · 20 answers · asked by DBA GODZY 3

that it is possible - in a very short time - to produce the building blocks of self-replicating DNA out of the promordial elements on Earth?

2007-02-15 03:46:23 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous