Religion & Spirituality - 16 February 2007

2007-02-16 13:39:18 · 2 answers · asked by christian b 3

by asking what am i, i am ready to expect all sorts of definitions of me...i am sure at school i was called worse things

2007-02-16 13:37:46 · 13 answers · asked by whoknows 3

I just wanna know your opinion...

Thanks. :o)

2007-02-16 13:36:58 · 20 answers · asked by Anonymous

If God is all powerful, he should be able to create a stone too heavy for himself to lift. YET... if he cannot lift this stone, he is not all powerful.. YET if he cannot create this stone, he is not all powerful... etc. Discuss.

2007-02-16 13:36:58 · 21 answers · asked by parquayjr 1

I mean are there any listed in Scripture that you know of?

2007-02-16 13:36:35 · 8 answers · asked by Midge 7

Sincere or fear?

2007-02-16 13:36:34 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-02-16 13:35:08 · 11 answers · asked by Midge 7

i was watching hocey, and they were talking about some guy who got hit by a puck and went into a coma. they said he had "the rights of the cathlic church" 3 times. anyone know what that means?

2007-02-16 13:34:28 · 13 answers · asked by jonathan e 3

2007-02-16 13:31:24 · 17 answers · asked by Anonymous

Then why didnt God choose to create many sons? and only had one Jesus Christ? What makes you think he has only 1 son? Maybe he could have had a few daughters and sons given that there are so many planets and possibilities of life forms elsewhere...
and why is God a HE...Jesus a HE...so 'SHE's are low classed animals to God? Stupid...

I believe this '1 son' theory was clearly created to create sympathy among believers...its jus another religious technique...

I said my view so now diss me off with whatever bible has taught you...

2007-02-16 13:30:37 · 28 answers · asked by Anonymous

So why didnt he send me a Valentines Card?

2007-02-16 13:28:13 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous

(by asking what i am, i am more than ready to expect all kind of definitions of me...i am completely sure at school i was called worse things)

2007-02-16 13:27:46 · 2 answers · asked by whoknows 3

to meet someone who invented intellect. They could sit at his feet and learn all day long so why don't they?

2007-02-16 13:27:28 · 18 answers · asked by Midge 7

2007-02-16 13:26:57 · 16 answers · asked by smartchick 1

21:16 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying
21:17 Speak unto Aaron, saying, Whosoever he be of thy seed in their generations that hath any blemish, let him not approach to offer the bread of his God.
21:18 For whatsoever man he be that hath a blemish, he shall not approach: a blind man, or a lame, or he that hath a flat nose, or any thing superfluous,
21:19 Or a man that is brokenfooted, or brokenhanded,
21:20 Or crookbackt, or a dwarf, or that hath a blemish in his eye, or be scurvy, or scabbed, or hath his stones broken;
21:21 No man that hath a blemish of the seed of Aaron the priest shall come nigh to offer the offerings of the LORD made by fire: he hath a blemish; he shall not come nigh to offer the bread of his God.
21:22 He shall eat the bread of his God, both of the most holy, and of the holy.
21:23 Only he shall not go in unto the vail, nor come nigh unto the altar, because he hath a blemish; that he profane not my sanctuaries: for I the LORD do sanctify them

2007-02-16 13:25:55 · 24 answers · asked by Jason Bourne 5

If diacide is the term for killing a god, when is the term for killing many?

2007-02-16 13:25:45 · 11 answers · asked by hades hell 1

i m looking for some friends. is it possible to fnd out real life partner. i m in very much doubt ful
plz help me...

2007-02-16 13:25:31 · 18 answers · asked by ARVIND Goyal 2

2007-02-16 13:22:41 · 37 answers · asked by ? 7

FATHER’S LOVE LETTER

My Child...
You may not know me, but I know everything about you...
I know when you sit down and when you rise up...
I am familiar with all your ways...
Even the very hairs on your head are numbered...
For you were made in my image...
In me you live and move and have your being...
For you are my offspring...
I knew you even before you were conceived...
I chose you when I planned creation...
You were not a mistake, for all your days are written in my book...
I determined the exact time of your birth and where you would live...
You are fearfully and wonderfully made...
I knit you together in your mother's womb...
And brought you forth on the day you were born...
I have been misrepresented by those who don't know me...
I am not distant and angry, but am the complete expression of love...
And it is my desire to lavish my love on you...
Simply because you are my child and I am your father...
I offer you more than your earthly father ever could...For I am the perfect father...
Every good gift that you receive comes from my hand... For I am your provider and I meet all your needs...
My plan for your future has always been filled with hope...
Because I love you with an everlasting love...
My thoughts toward you are countless as the sand on the seashore...
And I rejoice over you with singing...
For you are my treasured possession...
I desire to establish you with all my heart and all my soul...
And I want to show you great and marvelous things... If you seek me with all your heart, you will find me...
Delight in me and I will give you the desires of your heart...
For it is I who gave you those desires...
I am able to do more for you than you could possibly imagine...
For I am your greatest encourager...
I am also the Father who comforts you in all your troubles...
When you are broken-hearted, I am close to you...
As a shepherd carries a lamb, I have carried you close to my heart...
One day I will wipe away every tear from your eyes...
And I'll take away all the pain you have suffered on this earth...
I am your Father, and I love you even as I love my son, Jesus...
For in Jesus, my love for you is revealed...
He is the exact representation of my being...
He came to demonstrate that I am for you, not against you...
And to tell you that I am not counting your sins...
Jesus died so that you and I could be reconciled...
His death was the ultimate expression of my love for you...
I gave up everything I loved that I might gain your love...
If you receive the gift of my son Jesus, you receive me...And nothing will ever separate you from my love again...
Come home and I'll throw the biggest party heaven has ever seen... Luke 15:7
I have always been Father, and will always be Father...
My question is...Will you be my child?... I am waiting for you...

Love, Your Dad. Almighty God

2007-02-16 13:22:35 · 9 answers · asked by princess4eternity 1

2007-02-16 13:18:40 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous

the reason i ask this is b/c, a few years ago, a catholic friend of mine said that there was a story in the bible that said "there were soilders looking for all the baby boys unedr 2 years old, when mary encountered a soilder, he asked her what she was carrying in her arms. knowing that she has her son, Jesus in her arms, Mary was afraid...as she lifted the blanket, all that was there was a bundle of roses"

now i have studied the Bible all my life, and NEVER have heard this story!

also i na question posted in this forum earlier, someone asked "why do catholics pray to Mary?" a catholic repsonded:
"check these out if you have a bible:

apocalypse 12, 1

judith 15, 10-11

both of those talk about her coronation when she reached heaven"


again, i have read and studied the Bible all my life and have never heard the books of the Bible called "Judith" and "apocalypse"

2007-02-16 13:18:05 · 22 answers · asked by Anonymous

Did she have one of those red dots on her forehead?
Do men ever lick that dot off?
Is it just a cosmetic or some kind of sweet, red, candy?

2007-02-16 13:15:24 · 18 answers · asked by Anonymous

Good Muslims: I'm sorry if you have a misunderstanding, Islam isn't really like this. See, we preach peace, and are trying our best to get this terrorism thing out of our image. Any other questions?

Jerk Muslims: You guys suck, you all will go to Hell.

Good Christians: And the Bible teaches us to love our neighbours and do not judge others. Therefore I have no right to judge you, only God has the right.

Jerk Christians: Your religion had done many bad things, your book was written by Satan, you all will go to Hell. Damn you all to Hell.

Good Atheists: I'm sorry, but I don't believe in any God. Though, I respect your decision to have a faith, I wish you to respect mine too.

Jerk Atheists: God doesn't exist. Don't you know God doesn't exist? When will you relize God doesn't exist? Blah blah blah God doesn't exist.



Basicly, the good people practice their belief accordingly, the jerks are just hypocrites and try to convert you.

So what's your definition of goods and jerks?

2007-02-16 13:13:42 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous

were just following the bible like good christains
or
are going to hell for murder

2007-02-16 13:13:40 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous

Every time I read something that "proves" or "disproves" God's existance, I usually sway that way for the time being. I've gone from Christian to Athiest to Agnostic hundreds of times around. I know there has to be something that created this world, but who are we to know what it is? I think we give humans way to much credit for being able to figure stuff out. Science cannot prove or disprove creationism, or any of the hundreds of religions out there, and neither can philosophy.

So what happens if I go through life being clueless (as it seems God would want us to be if he indeed exists)? The Christians will say I go to Hell for not believing, and the Athiests say nothing happens. But wait, we all are going to hell, because there are many religions that say if we dont believe in them, than we go to Hell! And we have no way of knowing which religion is the one true one, no matter how long the human race is able to debate it......

2007-02-16 13:13:30 · 24 answers · asked by this Mike guy 5

I heard something about what we do affecting our descendents up to a thousand generations. Where does the bible speak of this? About the seeds we saw for our children?

2007-02-16 13:12:09 · 9 answers · asked by CJ 3

Matthew 23:9. And call none your father upon earth; for one is your father, who is in heaven.

This can be easily understood that do no one should be called god on earth, except there is only one god that is in heaven.

The bible writers describe the meaning as below:
Call none your father--Neither be ye called masters, etc... The meaning is that our Father in heaven is incomparably more to be regarded, than any father upon earth: and no master to be followed, who would lead us away from Christ. But this does not hinder but that we are by the law of God to have a due respect both for our parents and spiritual fathers [1 Corinthians 4:15], and for our masters and teachers.

They screwed up the meaning for their own likings.

2007-02-16 13:10:59 · 7 answers · asked by halo 3

Adam and Eve were the only two people on earth. Adam fathered 3 kids with Eve, one died and 2 were left. Cain was banished by God leaving Seth. So everyone dies as the earth is left empty once more?? NO!!! Eve sleeps with Seth and they have kids and his kids sleep with each other and have more kids. So why the hell is the church against Incest when that how the ball got rolling for us to be here????

2007-02-16 13:10:44 · 2 answers · asked by puzzlite 2

believe in the story of lilith? if not, why not?

2007-02-16 13:08:28 · 10 answers · asked by jrtoyboy 3

The Celtic Ancestor Gods.

Beli Mawr (the Great), God of the Sun
Beli Mawr, called Belenos by the Romans, was the Celtic God of the Sun,
representing the curative powers of the Sun’s heat. His festival of Beltane,
when bonfires were lit to welcome in the Summer and encourage the Sun’s warmth,
was held on May 1st, and is remembered in today's May Day festivities. His
symbols were the horse (as shown, for example, by the clay horse figurine
offerings at Beli’s Sainte-Sabine shrine in Burgundy), and also the Wheel (as
illustrated on the famous Gundestrup Cauldron). Perhaps, like Apollo, whom he
became identified with, Beli was thought to ride the Sun across the sky in a
horse-drawn chariot. Indeed, a Celtic model horse and wagon, carrying a gilded
sun-disc, has been found at Trundholm in Denmark. Sometimes he is illustrated
riding a single horse, throwing thunder-bolts (hence an occasional idenification
with Jupiter) and using his symbolic radiating wheel as a shield, as he tramples
the chthonic forces of a snake-limbed giant. This personification is similar to
the classic depiction of the Archangel St.Michael defeating the Devil. Sacred
pagan hills associated with Beli, are thought to have had their dedications
transferred to this saint (or sometimes St.George) by the early Christians. Well
known examples include St.Michael’s Mount (Cornwall) and the churches of
St.Michael on Brent Tor (Devon), and Burrow Mump and Glastonbury Tor (Somerset):
All on a supposed ley line that faces the Rising Sun at Beltane. He may also
have been worshipped on Dragon Hill below the great Uffington White Horse in
Berkshire.

Don, Goddess of Fertility
Don was known, in the Celtic World, by several similar names: Danu or Anu being
the most popular alternatives. She was a Mother-Goddess, the wife of Beli Mawr
(the Great) and considered to be the ancestor of all the Gods, the Tuatha dé
Danann, who found themselves obliged to the reside in the Otherworld when Miled
brought the Celts to the British Isles. She still looks down on us from the
night's sky where she appears as Llys Don, better known as Casseopeia. Don was
especially popular in Munster, though her most lasting memorial is a mountain in
County Kerry called the Dá Chích Anann or "Breast of Anu". The Dane Hills in
Leicestershire are also named after her and this area, perhaps a major centre
for her cult, is where her memory lives on as Black Annis. This hideous old
crone's habit of eating young children was, no doubt, invented by incoming
Christians to blacken the name of the Celtic Goddess. In Christendom, the lady
usually took on the guise of St.Anne, however, in order to smooth the path of
conversion. This saint's popularity in Brittany probably stems from the previous
worship of the Celtic Goddess there. Don was also the patroness of springs and
fountains, hence the numerous St.Anne's Wells throughout Britain today. Early
medieval historians confused Don (alias Anu) with Anna, the daughter of
St.Joseph of Arimathea. In Arthurian legend she probably appears as Annowre, a
sorceress who imprisoned Arthur in the Perilous Forest.

Lludd Llaw Ereint (the Silver-Handed), God of Health & Healing
Lludd (or Nudd), called Nodens by the Romans, was the Celtic God of Healing, and
the son of Beli Mawr (the Great). He had a large shrine at Lydney in
Gloucestershire, where the devoted made offerings of small bronze
representations of their diseased limbs. He was sometimes identified with the
protective Mars or the regenerative Silvanus and his companion and symbol was
the dog: a deerhound whose lick could cure the afflicted. An old story explains
his connection with amputees. At one time, Lludd was the leader of the gods, but
he was wounded in battle and lost his hand. Gorfannon, the divine-smith, made
him a new one out of Silver, but he was still forced to abdicate in favour of
his nephew, Lleu Llaw Gyffes. Later, Lludd was troubled by a constant scream
that was heard the eve of every Beltane. He travelled to Gaul, where his
brother, Llefelys, was particularly worshipped, to ask his advice. He explained
that the cry was made by two fighting dragons. Lludd managed to capture the
creatures and imprisoned them deep below Dinas Emrys. Lludd may have been
particularly worshipped in London, which was said to have been named after him.

Afallach, God of the Underworld
Afallach was the son of Lludd Llaw Ereint (the Silver-Handed). He was one of the
Celtic gods of the Underworld. He ruled Avalon where he lived with his daughter,
Modron, and her nine sisters. Avalon was like the Celtic heaven, a peaceful
island far away where apples grew and after which it became named. It is, of
course, best known as the place where the High-King Arthwyr was taken after he
was fatally wounded at the Battle of Camlann. Afallach himself appears in
Arthurian legends as King Evelake

2007-02-16 13:07:29 · 5 answers · asked by Terry 7