Religion & Spirituality - 26 February 2007

we wear the same color clothes, not planning it.
We come together speak on the same subject thinking about same thing at the same time.
I will be thinking about something and he will say it.
He will come up with an Idea that will help me.
Are we spirtually connected?
I even dream about this person and I wonder if he dreams about me I can even talk to someone on the phone about him and he will know it, him not knowing the person I talk to this is Strange.

2007-02-26 08:55:02 · 7 answers · asked by curious 2

If no ,why is Gambling a sin ?

2007-02-26 08:54:48 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-02-26 08:53:21 · 2 answers · asked by Madison T 1

Ok, don't kill me, listen first. As i see it you're following a book someone u don't know who wrote it thousands of years ago, when we understood less than we do now. And some of the terrible things done by religions to scientists or enemies... Its community spirit is undeniably good, but nonreligeous people are good people as well. It doesn't have to save people in the name of god, just kindness.

It also has an overwhelming presence. While children are banned from singing 'baa baa BLACK sheep', it's ok to sing gory songs about crusifixion. And religios shools, not teaching a balanced argument about abortion, homosexuality, and creation theories.

I can understand belief in god, life after death, etc. But why base it on one book? Imagine if that happened with catcher it the rye?(I think it's called that) people should surely believe in their own ideas, not one big identical one?

If people do rant at this, you're just proving my point. please answer fairly and calmly.

2007-02-26 08:52:33 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous

i want to learn the path of the witchcraft.

2007-02-26 08:51:42 · 11 answers · asked by ? 4

....who returned from the battle.
15 "Have you allowed all the women to live?" he asked them.
16 "They were the ones who followed Balaam's advice and were the means of turning the Israelites away from the LORD in what happened at Peor, so that a plague struck the LORD's people.
17 Now kill all the boys. And kill every woman who has slept with a man,
18 but save for yourselves every girl who has never slept with a man."

Is God condoning this or Moses? And how wrong is this on how many levels?

2007-02-26 08:51:27 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous

Many people say the Bible is full of inconsistencies.

Many people also says that the Bible was assembled (not written) by men in the 3rd or 4th century A.D.

I assume that the men who assembled the Bible knew how to read, and could tell if there were inconsistencies in these writings.

Why, then, did these men choose to leave so many "inconsistencies" in the Bible, when they could have easily edited the Bible to remove them?

Thank you for your time.

2007-02-26 08:50:24 · 21 answers · asked by Anonymous

Would Jesus approve?

2007-02-26 08:49:55 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-02-26 08:49:18 · 4 answers · asked by beccaroo101 1

Before 1492, the scientists of that day were absolutely convinced that the earth was flat. Up to the late 1800s, most physicians would have laughed at the idea of scrubbing before surgery. Just a few years ago, stomach ulcers were considered caused by acid in the stomach instead of by h pylori (spelling) bacteria which is treated with a simple antibiotic. All caused a paradigm shift in thoughts.

So, thinking in terms of this, and I'm sure this will give some debate here...so often, we demand proof based upon our existing standards, and then a paradigm shift comes, such as the advent of the quartz watch on the Swiss watch standards.

So, atheists, is it just possible that because the proof you seek does not come up in the way that you accept, could it be that you are not willing to consider that God just may exist? Faith cannot be a tangible factor, faith is based on the ABSENCE of evidence.

Could it just be possible that you are using the wrong paradigm?

2007-02-26 08:48:55 · 19 answers · asked by Searcher 7

Is it true that in the Kuran every none muslims will turn into pigs and chickens? If they do can you say the exact qoute.

2007-02-26 08:48:01 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-02-26 08:46:55 · 25 answers · asked by Anonymous

Then where the heck did the Easter Bunny come from?

Did he say to his disciples at the Last Supper:

"This is what I ask of you: Paint eggs and hide them from the children that they may find them. And dress up as a giant rabbit to carry the eggs in a basket. Do this in rememberance of me."

2007-02-26 08:46:45 · 1 answers · asked by Maverick 6

I'm getting my confirmation and I need some cheat sheets to study before I am question by the bishop. I have some papers at home but they're really confusing. Can anyone help?

2007-02-26 08:46:22 · 10 answers · asked by Ten Commandments 5

I want the name to be cool, but one that actually might've been used. (That is, if they had made magazines back then). Any ideas?

2007-02-26 08:45:16 · 8 answers · asked by LaLa 2

2007-02-26 08:44:57 · 24 answers · asked by Jim S 1

to prove anything?

2007-02-26 08:44:43 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous

And it would be great to go often like every week or few weeks or months. The three priests and parrishes would not meet seperate with me by appointment and i asked one via answering machine when they got back to me on mine as well. No suggestions yet so i am asking this quest. answer yahoo?

2007-02-26 08:44:35 · 5 answers · asked by jnathon m 1

There is so much soft-stepping about this idea...why? When new evidence comes to light about a scientific idea, the idea is quickly updated, no one cries, and the world is a better place. Now that we have found what might be the most important religious artifact in the world, Christians don't want it to exist, and archaologists are practically apologizing that they found it. Why this excessive consideration for theists desire to be continually deluded?

2007-02-26 08:44:16 · 8 answers · asked by vehement_chemical 3

that are some people who do black magic....
know of anyone whos life it has affecteD??

2007-02-26 08:42:39 · 5 answers · asked by icehot_pk 3

There's no way you could tell me that those words in the book is fake, some of the things that happened in the book happen thousands of years ago, and we see the results today, right?

2007-02-26 08:40:12 · 32 answers · asked by Anonymous

i see someone answer with this part of the bible in regards to a question on psychic abilities
A man or a woman who acts as a medium or fortuneteller shall be put to death by stoning; they have no one but themselves to blame for their death. (Leviticus 20:27 NAB)
so why am I not being stoned ?
is the law above God ?
if it is then why are the old laws still quoted ?

2007-02-26 08:40:05 · 19 answers · asked by Peace 7

As an Educational Example: ASTARTE
Astarte is a Canaanite/Phoenician Goddess whose attributes of war and love
relate her to the Goddess Inana(Nin-ana) of the Sumerumians, and the Goddess
Estar(Ishtar) of the Aggadians. With the end of the Bronze Age, and the
beginning of the Iron Age, Astarte becomes a familiar symbol and name
throughout the Eastern Mediterranean Seaboard. The 'love' of Astarte
is primarily sexual, i.e., prostitution; and in war, her playground is
said to be the battlefield. The name of Astarte is closely connected with that
of Anat, the Goddess who restores Baal to life by venturing into the underworld
and defeats Mot (the restoration may be related to the Egyptian Isis-Osiris
motif, and with the underworld venture of Inana motif. Canaan being an
inheritor of the Egyptian/Southern Mesopotamia mythos, and the birthplace of
the Judaic/Greek mythos). ...'Attarat, the Canaanite Astarte [was] deliberately
misvocalized by Jewish scribes as Ashtoreth.' In the Old Testament, virgins
give of their virginity to her (I Kings XIV. 24). However, Astarte in ...'Her
fertility functions at Ugarit were apparently usurped by Anat, as were also her
warlike characteristics, which remained with the goddess in her Babylonian
character as Ishtar.' (Ugarit is synonymous with Canaan). In Palestine
however, it was Attarat and not Anat who became the dominant Goddess. The
sacred pole, or rather Tree is her image as the repository of life under the
storm and autumn rain of the male God Baal (Exoteric). This natural or
stylized palm tree represents Attarat/Astarte as a 'mother goddess'. In
Palestine again, the name Attarat yields to that of Astarte.

2007-02-26 08:39:32 · 6 answers · asked by Terry 7

2007-02-26 08:38:17 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous

I was debating with a friend last night and we got stuck on this topic for the better part of 5 minutes.

She said that I had faith that the sun would rise tomorrow.

I said that you don't need faith for that the same way you don't need faith to think that 2 + 2 = 4.

She joked and said I had faith that 2 + 2 = 4.

(At least I hope she was joking)

What is the difference to you?

2007-02-26 08:37:16 · 25 answers · asked by Anonymous

Atheists, are there rights each person deserves simply by being alive?

2007-02-26 08:36:59 · 13 answers · asked by Eleventy 6

"1 At that time the kingdom of heaven will be like ten virgins who took their lamps and went out to meet the bridegroom."?

Where did Jesus get this from, what is he referring to?
What exactly is he condoning or describing?

2007-02-26 08:36:43 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous

They can't be THAT stupid - they must want to be attacked and persecuted by non-christians.

2007-02-26 08:36:15 · 10 answers · asked by Mike J 2

Matthew (ch. 1) and Luke (ch. 3) both list lineages for jesus back to King David, in an attempt to show jesus fulfilled the prophecy that the messiah would come from the house of David.
BUT...Matthew has him coming through Solomon (son of David) after 27 generations, Luke through Nathran (son of David) after 37 generations. The two lineages are almost completely different. Which one is right and which is wrong? They can't BOTH be right...
And besides, if Joseph isn't jesus' father by blood, what difference does Joesph's lineage make? Mary was NOT from the house of David, and jesus would only have her "blood" if she conceived through god...
How do you explain these contradictions in the bible?

2007-02-26 08:35:20 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous

What would you say are the fundamentals of being a christian...i'm trying to do a message and I need to pick your brains on what you all think the basic fundamentals are...Thank you

2007-02-26 08:35:01 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous