Religion & Spirituality - 28 February 2007

All life on Earth exists on a tiny little ball of rock revolving around the sun. If our solar system were the size of your monitor, the Earth would look like this dot -> .

This solar system, in turn, exists in a much larger galaxy made up of about 100 billion or 10^11 other star systems. To put that in perspective, finding the sun in our galaxy is about as easy as finding a specific grain of sand in all of California's coastline.

ON TOP OF THAT there are about 125 BILLION other galaxies.

Earth is not even at the center of it all, we are in the backwaters of the universe in every sense of the word. We exist on the spiral arm of an insignificant galaxy hurtling through space.

Assuming a God created all that I described above, why should it matter what a speck on a dot on another dot on a pinpoint thinks about him? We are so insignificant it's laughable. Doesn't he have more important matters to deal with in this majestic universe of ours?

2007-02-28 05:42:54 · 16 answers · asked by dmlk2 4

are true. afterall they basically preach the same thing. people have intereprated the holy writings differently over time which seems to have led to conflict about what is right and wrong. The differences that are apparnt in different religions could just be becuase God has revealed differnet messages for the different eras. Mankind has progressed and therefore differnt messages are needed at different times.

2007-02-28 05:42:52 · 11 answers · asked by meoi 1

If Christ arose as a spirit entity only, without the body of flesh and bones that he showed to His Apostles, why didn't the Apostles note that his body of flesh and bones just crumpled to the ground as his spirit left it? Did Jesus just make his physical body disappear into oblivion or wait until he reached the right hand of His Father to throw it away, preferring to live life as a spirit only? Also, why is there a prophecy that later on Jesus will show the wounds in his hands to the Jews and they shall ask, where did you get these, and he respond "these are the wounds that I received in the house of my friends," ? Zech 13:6.

Why are so many good-hearted people insistent that God is some incorporeal nothingness floating in outer space without substance or parts? The resurrection is a reunion of the body with the spirit to never be separated by death again.

2007-02-28 05:40:58 · 14 answers · asked by Arthurpod 4

2007-02-28 05:39:45 · 6 answers · asked by rad 1

I am told it is impossible to ever be perfect, yet we should try to achieve it.

Why? Because imperfection (doing sins & other dirty stuff makes us unhappy)

If this is so, being we can never reach perfection, we can never be perfectly happy either, so I am thinking of giving up and not trying?

Not because I can't do better than anyone else who has ever tried if I try hard enough and spend enough time, but why wast my time trying to do something that is impossible and still leaves me unhappy?

Why indeed? No wonder people are awash in depression. Who started this dogma mess? Christians? Islamists?

2007-02-28 05:38:51 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous

Even those who do not know the Scriptures are without excuse because, all around them, they can see ample evidence of the eternal power and deity of God. This should cause them to seek God. Israel was told that even in captivity they could find God if they diligently sought Him: "But from there you will seek the Lord your God, and you will find Him if you seek Him with all your heart and with all your soul" (Deuteronomy 4:29). God has promised: "I love those who love me, and those who seek me diligently will find me" (Proverbs 8:17). "And you will seek Me and find Me, when you search for Me with all your heart" (Jeremiah 29:13). Jesus said: "Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you. For everyone who asks receives, and he who seeks finds, and to him who knocks it will be opened" (Matthew 7:7,8).


Ignorance is no excuse. The evidence of God's existence is overwhelming, and God has promised that those who truly seek Him will find

2007-02-28 05:35:07 · 38 answers · asked by ♥Humble Proclaimer♥ 4

Check out the NYTimes article. Personally this article supports my own belief structure.

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/27/us/27jesus.html?em&ex=1172811600&en=c6dadbed52f0c33f&ei=5087%0A

2007-02-28 05:34:08 · 24 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-02-28 05:34:03 · 17 answers · asked by Contemplative Monkey 3

What would he say?

2007-02-28 05:33:41 · 8 answers · asked by Midge 7

My mother recently passed away, and I still talk to her. Alot of times when I feel like I need her, I will see a rainbow. Do you think that this could be her way to communicate with me or is it just coincidence?

2007-02-28 05:33:26 · 7 answers · asked by Katt 3

im doing a project on deaths in religion and i cannot remember if muslims believe in soul or body resurrection, or if they believ in both.

2007-02-28 05:33:23 · 4 answers · asked by emmalouise93 1

PLEASE DO NOT TELL ME TO PRAY! I HAVE ALREADY PRAYED LONG AND HARD AND I AM STILL SO CONFUSED
I have recently started turning my life over to God, but I don't know how to give everything to him. How do I know what He wants from me? How do I know what He is calling me to do? Everyone says I will be happy once I really begin to do what I am being called to do, but I don't know what that is, much less how to do it. I feel called to do things, but they just dont make sense. For instance, I feel this great urge to move to Alpharetta Georgia, and pursue working with the Passion Ministries Group, but that would mean quitting my current job, moving my children away from their fathers, and me moving away from my own family. So how can that be the right thing to do?

2007-02-28 05:32:43 · 21 answers · asked by Anonymous

i lied to him during confession. but it was just a little lie.

2007-02-28 05:31:20 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous

I saw Jesus/ Isa(PBUH) in my dream. In my dream, I was in the afterlife, someone I think gave me some kind of report or something in a folder, and someone said some warnings, though I could not remember much what it was, I continue to say Jesus is my God, muttering though I think. And my mother was with me.

I was really scared. Then we went on a lift, and there was this scary looking guy. I think, I was thinking of going to Hell, for I wasn't a Christian when I was alive accroding to my dream.

then we found ourself in an area, I saw then Jesus coming, and I know myself that he was Jesys/ Isla(PBUH). He looks different from the painting I saw about Jesus, from wot I know, I think he has got a black beared, and he wore a cloth similar to the painting I saw I think but black in colour, I think. When in my dream I knew Christianity is true, I asked Jesus/ Isa(PBUH), "why did Muhammed(PBUH) did that" I think. Jesus/ Isa(PBUH) didn't replied, instead he showed us some kind of a farm, and gave it to us, I was thinking why do we have to work in a farm after death.

I dunno much of wot my dreams meant, all of these are true honestly..I am Muslim..can u guyz help me out?

2007-02-28 05:31:18 · 6 answers · asked by erfan912 1

for example: a really gorgeous person has a crooked tooth, everyone notices that crooked tooth but, a really ugly person, well...one crooked tooth is no biggy.

I am thinking about the guilt everyone talks about when it comes to Catholics. Do we feel the guilt much more because we are so close to perfection himself?

2007-02-28 05:29:47 · 17 answers · asked by Midge 7

2007-02-28 05:29:41 · 2 answers · asked by Jamie B 1

Before you answer honestly read these scriptures which show the corporeal nature of the resurrection... Don't even bother answering unless you read these details. Job 19:26 And though after my skin worms destroy this body, yet in my flesh shall I see God: Isaiah 26:19 Thy dead men shall live, together with my dead body shall they arise. Awake and sing, ye that dwell in dust: for thy dew is as the dew of herbs, and the earth shall cast out the dead. Isaiah 37:12 ...Behold, O my people, I will open your graves, and cause you to come up out of your graves...Matthew 27:52-53 And the graves were opened; and many bodies of the saints which slept arose, And came out of the graves after his resurrection, and went into the holy city, and appeared unto many. Luke 24:39 Behold my hands and my feet, that it is I myself: handle me, and see; for a spirit hath not flesh and bones, as ye see me have.

2007-02-28 05:29:17 · 8 answers · asked by Arthurpod 4

What about all of the sinners and saints that have come and gone well before Jesus even existed? What about people that lived their whole life without ever knowing of Jesus, before during and after his existence?

2007-02-28 05:29:00 · 10 answers · asked by joshnya68 4

2007-02-28 05:28:37 · 4 answers · asked by Jeancommunicates 7

2007-02-28 05:28:30 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous

Whenever you try to counter their beliefs with facts or plausible theories or hypotheses, they close their minds and start baffling Scripture (their version).

The same goes for all other Theists; they do not dare hold a sensible religious discussion without resorting to Scripture, as if that book held all the answers (like the cure for Cancer or the principles of Democracy).

2007-02-28 05:27:44 · 12 answers · asked by Malcolm Knoxville III 2

How would the Greek Bible writers know to differentiate the spelling of 'Jesus' in the NT from 'Joshua' in the OT in what would become the Latin and various English translations if they are both the same name? The NT was written in Greek originally, not Hebrew, as that was the common language of the time (many years after Jesus' death).

2007-02-28 05:26:39 · 3 answers · asked by Cinnamon 6

A Follow Up Question...
Some research states that even though thier has been violent societies in the world, wars, cultural hate, thier has never been a society that rejected GOD and his word like today's society.

If you dis-agree with this statement, how do you think we have embraced GOD and his word in today's world?

2007-02-28 05:25:46 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-02-28 05:24:53 · 8 answers · asked by Jamie B 1

I know, I know, he gave us a choice, but if God knows how many hairs are on your head before you're born, how can't he figure out that you'll be the next anti-christ or next arch bishop? He just choses to know EVERYTHING but our choices? Isn't that a stretch of logic? I mean, our choices are what make the world what it is, and God knew of the end days before the beginning, so therefore he would have had to know our choices, and that those choices are what ended his earth. Am I wrong?

2007-02-28 05:23:55 · 3 answers · asked by joshnya68 4

2007-02-28 05:23:30 · 15 answers · asked by Jamie B 1

And if it is .. then thats not healthy and very respectful of other peoples religions?

2007-02-28 05:22:28 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-02-28 05:21:54 · 18 answers · asked by Malcolm Knoxville III 2

Also answer - Why did david kill goliath and rama killed ravana if violence is condemned?

2007-02-28 05:21:28 · 9 answers · asked by mint 2

And thereby blind themselves to what is going on around them?

Sadeek

2007-02-28 05:19:49 · 10 answers · asked by Sadeek Muhammad 2