Religion & Spirituality - 21 February 2007

2007-02-21 08:27:37 · 3 answers · asked by Z 1

Why do they release their cookies during Lent? Ugh! The temptation!

2007-02-21 08:27:01 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous

I know that many believe that being gay is wrong, but would you be willing to allow gays to have the same rights as married couples such as health insurance, tax breaks etc. You can still disapprove of their lifestyle, and yet they would be treated as equal citizens.

2007-02-21 08:26:52 · 17 answers · asked by Anonymous

I once asked a question about how do we explain the universe being created by a loving god when the whole mechanism is such that predators must kill prey to survive. People responded by saying that God made the animals peaceful but Adam’s sin resulted in the negatives and one day the ‘lion will lay down with the sheep’. But then here’s the question: in the phase before Adam’s sin – assuming that God created lions, etc. – why did God create lions with the exact elements (sharp claws, teeth) required for killing other animals? Do you get what I’m trying to say?

2007-02-21 08:26:24 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-02-21 08:26:12 · 16 answers · asked by Smurf 7

Do you believe that? Why? can you show me a good example one way or the other?

2007-02-21 08:26:05 · 29 answers · asked by Anonymous

the book is about how to exist acting a certain way "life for dummies" so that was the skill of the writer not to do gods work or whatever butsimply create a system by which those influence and those be influenced

2007-02-21 08:24:48 · 6 answers · asked by lucifer 2

Those who do not support the theory of eternity of man and deny this reality - state that the occurrence of such an event is impossible. Of course, two explanations exist, for their claims of the impossibility of this reality,

1) The basis of the first objection is doubt and uncertainty in the Power of Allàh. Such people state that Allàh does not have the Power to make man alive again after death, or to grant him a new life, once dead.

2) Bodies that have decayed and turned to earth are in such a state that they are not capable of being collected and as a result, it is not possible to bring them forth in the form of a man. The Islamic philosophers and other scholars, for the occurrence of each and everything, consider two points to be necessary:

1. Power and the will of the agent.

2. Receptivity of the recipient.

2007-02-21 08:24:10 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-02-21 08:24:06 · 14 answers · asked by ultimatebaseclass 3

why a jew grow his beard and have a skull cap he is practicing his faith and he has freedom?

but when a muslim does the same have a beard and a turban then he is considerd a extremist and a terrorist!

why a nun can be coverd from head to toe she is respected for devoting her self to god

but when a muslim lady does the same she is made fun of and oppressed

any girl can go to university wearing wanwhatever she wants earning on her nose lips face

but when a muslim girl wears a head covering or scarf they prevent her from entering the university when its america and its caled a free country

when a christian or jew or budda or hindu kills someone religion is not mentioned but when a muslim does the same it is islamic man kiled someone islam goes to trial

without looking to the tridition of islam why do people belive the news paper and question what the quran says

when someone drives a perfect car in a bad way no one blames the car


when a muslim makes a mistake islam is the reason

2007-02-21 08:22:49 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous

They never get out, so they're not there to be reformed or converted, and most of them aren't there for doing things most people would consider evil... they were just of the "wrong" religion! So is Hell just there so God can get His jollies looking down at us poor miserable damned burning in the flames? Is God a sadist? If not, where's the purpose of it all?

2007-02-21 08:21:36 · 26 answers · asked by Anonymous

"Everying that is wrong with the world comes from envy."

Imagine what would happen if people would just love one another."

2007-02-21 08:21:15 · 7 answers · asked by icyhott4urmind 1

saying that the reason people believe in such things is becuase they fear death and must have faith that there's somthing after this life

2007-02-21 08:20:25 · 28 answers · asked by Anonymous

Or heal amputees or those born without completely formed limbs.

I've seen many people on here make silly, dubious claims about laying on of hands / anointing with oils / prayer as a means of healing illnesses.

How is it that only illnesses that are difficult to visibly track, without constantly hooking a patient up to medical equipment, can be 'healed'.

Is it because it makes it easier to deny evidence that would falsify your claims and makes it easier to continue lying/being duped?

I need a good laugh.

Go ahead and find a verse for me.

2007-02-21 08:19:37 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-02-21 08:17:12 · 16 answers · asked by ? 4

People who disagree with Christian Holidays like Christmas and Easter or even Sundays which were created as a day of rest by God, still take these days off as a holiday. These are usually the people who want monuments removed from government facilities and want (In God We Trust) taken off the US currency, and want prayers removed from classes, and (One Nation Under God) removed from our pledge of alegense, and (Happy Holidays) instead of (Merry Christmas). Do you think that these people should be entitled to celebrate our Christian holidays when in fact they try so hard to dismantle all that this country has stood on for decades?

2007-02-21 08:16:00 · 34 answers · asked by Tracy 3

I was so lonely before I met Eddy! Now I always have someone intelligent to talk to. He translates Latin and French for me and helps me with my writing assignments. I always have a drinking buddy, and 19th century history is so much more interesting when you know a 19th century person! What's not to like?
Seriously, why do people fear ghosts and consider them evil?

2007-02-21 08:14:30 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous

IF Jesus were a blood relative of Mary, obviously her son born of her Genes, which helped to make Jesus human,
correct?
And if Mary had other children, Which would have been Jesus' brothers and sisters, and they had children, which would have been Jesus' neices and nephews (again, blood relatives)

How could there be no bloodline of Jesus?

2007-02-21 08:14:20 · 18 answers · asked by Anonymous

I mean - it really doesn't make sence to me? Father of man would make sence. Or son of the creator of man. I mean, read this:

Mt.8:20 Jesus said to him, "The
foxes have holes and the birds of the air
{have} nests, but the Son of Man has
nowhere to lay His head."

"the Son of Man," it doesn't sound like he's talking about just him being born from a human being it seams liek its supposed to mean something.

Any ideas? :D

2007-02-21 08:12:49 · 14 answers · asked by godsrepresentative 2

This can be anything from misquoting the bible to misrepresenting scientific fact.

2007-02-21 08:11:35 · 17 answers · asked by Brofo 3

2007-02-21 08:10:46 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous

The fear of death, for most of the people, is not a matter which requires any evidence because it is totally obvious and we also see that a lot of people manifest extra-ordinary sensitivity with respect to the term 'death' and its reality. Thus the actual matter is self-evident. That which requires proof and an answer is the reason for this fear and alarm as to why we fear death?

2007-02-21 08:10:27 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-02-21 08:10:04 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous

if beliving in ' God ' brought peace to the world, would you be prepared to believe?

2007-02-21 08:08:58 · 42 answers · asked by Anonymous

Does one bad thing make life not worth living? Would some people be better off if they never lived?

2007-02-21 08:07:02 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous

What does the Bible say? I'm not asking what you've been told in churches but what does the Living Breathing Word of God say about the bride???

Rev 21 says that the bride is the New Jerusalem which will come out of heaven onto Earth. It says...vs 9 And there came unto me one of the seven angels which had the seven vials full of the seven last plagues, and talked with me, saying, Come hither, I will shew thee the bride, the Lamb's wife. vs 10 And he carried me away in the spirit to a great and high mountain, and shewed me that great city, the holy Jerusalem, descending out of heaven from God...

The church is called the Body of Christ and He is our head.

Eph 5:23 For the husband is the head of the wife, even as Christ is the head of the church: and he is the saviour of the body.

It does not say in Eph 5 that we ARE the bride.

2007-02-21 08:06:44 · 15 answers · asked by Jasmine 5

What part of "Yahveh/Allah/etc. is not God" do you not understand??? The REAL God, if one exists, would never commit mass murder (the Flood), genocide (see the Book of Joshua), allow child marriage/rape among his followers, permit slavery, send people to Hell for all eternity for trivial reasons, etc,etc,etc... What's wrong with your reasoning faculties that you cannot see that the above things are evil??? You seem to have no difficulty descerning evil actions/commands when done/given by any other deity... so why do you put blinders on when it comes to your own? - Or is that the answer; He's your God, so He gets a free pass?

2007-02-21 08:06:30 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous

If the above is true then what was he/she doing in heaven when Adam and Eve were frolicking and playing with each other?

2007-02-21 08:04:54 · 15 answers · asked by Freedom 1

"It was said to Jesus 'How did you begin the morning, O Spirit of God?' He said: 'I began the morning with my Lord, the Blessed and Supreme, above me and the fire (of hell) before me and death in pursuit of me. I do not possess that which I hope for and I cannot avoid what I hate.So which of the poor is poorer than me?

2007-02-21 08:04:30 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous

Is slave music (also called soul or gospel) still evident in today's music or is it a thing of the past? If it is still alive, where (in what music) does it exist?

2007-02-21 08:04:10 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous