Religion & Spirituality - 5 March 2007

Some people point to scripture as having a literal interpretation and some people think it is symbolic. How can we know as Christians what interpretation to follow? This can be confusing to me! Take for instance, the issue of woman teaching in church. Some people say that it is ok and that there were women leaders in the early congregations. But the Bible clearly states that women are not to take the lead over men in church? Or the Book of Revelations, symbolic or literal? Thank you and God bless!

2007-03-05 06:59:23 · 4 answers · asked by Marie 7

2007-03-05 06:58:17 · 6 answers · asked by The What Should I do? Retard 1

If you give something up for lent, can you have it on Sunday?

2007-03-05 06:58:08 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous

Who is he?

2007-03-05 06:56:36 · 7 answers · asked by shanekeavy 5

Would the woman be considered "tainted"? What are Muslim beliefs on that kind of thing? What about age difference? Is that highly important in the Islamic belief?

2007-03-05 06:52:57 · 15 answers · asked by uuummk 5

I always seems to have arguments with the people I love the most. Do believers have the same, and argue with the God they love?

2007-03-05 06:51:57 · 18 answers · asked by Medy 1

A lusty fella wants to know.

2007-03-05 06:50:57 · 15 answers · asked by theagitator@sbcglobal.net 2

Besides seeming unfair, which I know many Christians who say nothing is fair, but however God is just (don't you hate that?), it makes him seem to be trigger happy.

Here is another chance to kill. Time to hone my skills.

Do you really like the idea of serving an unfair (but just) God, whatever kind of sense that bologna makes?

2007-03-05 06:49:50 · 27 answers · asked by Anonymous

This guy from Y!A (something like Scott or whatever)...keeps e-mailing me because he disagreed with one of my posts. In his e-mail, he whines and complains, he states he is college educated and smarter than I am (you should see his spelling/grammar, but that's a whole new thing...), and practically begs me to think like he does and that only smart people believe in the bible, and on and on, ad nauseum.

Why do christians do that? Is it low self-esteem?

Why do they think they need me to run blindly into their cult belief? Why does this guy whine so much, and practiclly beg me to think like he does? And, why do so much of his e-mails contain insults -- is that a christian thing to do, too? Is that what they think christ asks his followers to do? "Go forth and insult people, and when that doesn't work, go forth and whine like a little school-girl who got her pig-tails yanked at recess"?

Honestly, I read his e-mails, and people like that amaze and baffle me. Any insights?

2007-03-05 06:49:48 · 19 answers · asked by jen1981everett 4

2007-03-05 06:49:36 · 23 answers · asked by pickle head 6

i've heard 40 days and nights, anyone have the passage?


cuz that's not nearly enough time, even raining constantly, to flood the whole earth. weird.

2007-03-05 06:48:53 · 23 answers · asked by ajj085 4

If God were to read the book as it is printed today and view all the big debates, laws & issues in society today, what omissions do you think he would be most likely to address?
What would he add if he could add anything on? What would he take away (to make other interpretations go away)? & What would he say to the many forms of religion we have today?

& to those nonbelievers: what would the people who wrote the original thing do differently if they saw the world of today?

2007-03-05 06:48:36 · 25 answers · asked by Wise Kai 3

With all the evidence for Neanderthal man, including evidence of their extinction arount 35,000 years ago, and the emergence of Cro-Magnon man -- tell me how do church people deal with it?

And do some of them still think god created the earth 6,000 years ago?

What things go on in their minds regarding this issue?

2007-03-05 06:48:25 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous

My christian acquaintances told me that whenever I study, reach for a goal, ect. It is better that I pray to God about it.
But why would God help me? Not like.... studying makes me any more holier or anything.

So for a reason, I get scared of praying because it feels like I am going to pray for a selfish reason. Is praying to God to help me on a math test... selfish? I mean... I do study after I pray for God to help me.. but.... I am kinda confused.

It wouldn't hurt to pray, good or bad, right? Though sometimes I might get 'no' for an answer.

2007-03-05 06:46:47 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-03-05 06:45:56 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous

As a teen, we used to go to this National Park. It had camping sites which were full of oak, cedars and pines. There was a small river running alongside the park and I can still stop, smell the good woodsy smell, and hear the running water. It still brings me peace.
I put this under spirituality because I feel God whenever I go there...
Anyone?

2007-03-05 06:45:48 · 6 answers · asked by Wood Smoke ~ Free2Bme! 6

It appears that Jesus was actually married, and that He was just a man, after all....

Everything is changing now. Everything that I had faith in is now gone... I don't know where to turn now. Any suggestions to alternatives to the Abrahamic religions?

Is it possible that the atheists have been right all along?

2007-03-05 06:45:43 · 23 answers · asked by John Galt 2

So, other than the "you couldn't handle it" responses, there were a few themes in the answers:
1. Somehow, dying for sins is more painful than just regular dying.
2. Somehow, Jesus' death by torture was the most painful torture ever...more so even than christians doled out to heretics, heathens, and others during the inquisition.
3. People only sacrifice themselves for other people who are "good", never the bad ones too.

Obviously, these don't make any sense.
For example, is there any reason why it's more painful if you die as an atonement for others sins, rather than just dying?
Lots of people have been whipped to death. Was their death less painful because they weren't messiahs?

2007-03-05 06:45:30 · 8 answers · asked by Samurai Jack 6

2007-03-05 06:45:19 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-03-05 06:43:10 · 41 answers · asked by :) 3

2007-03-05 06:42:37 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous

but I can't get a modern man to last more than 5 minutes?

2007-03-05 06:41:20 · 22 answers · asked by Anonymous

The Lord spoke to a prophet telling him to travel to a sertan location and fast for 3-days. On his way another prophet met him and tricked him into eating food when God had told him not to. After this a lion met that prophet and gobled him up. Thats not exactly how it went but close. Why did he do it?

2007-03-05 06:41:05 · 10 answers · asked by chucky 3

See Luke 23:42,43.Since he probably wasn't baptized,then that isn't a requirement for Salvation is it?

2007-03-05 06:41:04 · 14 answers · asked by JR 2

2007-03-05 06:39:19 · 19 answers · asked by Anonymous

just wondering, i don't think he was. not that it matters really, just curious as to where the date comes from.

2007-03-05 06:39:09 · 20 answers · asked by ajj085 4

2007-03-05 06:38:57 · 27 answers · asked by Medy 1

People make mistakes and mistakes can be over looked, though some people are motivated in such a way that makes them inflict suffering upon others ... which is the evil inherent. (Much like an illness.) We close our hearts to the person and carry ill feelings about the injustice. Ever notice that? I'm learning to Close my heart to the injustice and to do my best to carry the person in my heart with no remorse. Difficult but possible. What are your thoughts?

2007-03-05 06:37:49 · 1 answers · asked by pickle head 6

When do you think it's gonna happen? Are you pessimistic and egocentric enough to think that light speed is the limit and that e.t. life will never read us in your life time?
What if there's a bunch of alien civilizations that will come to earth?
I know I sound crazy...But if this were to happen....how would you react? would you welcome them? would you start throwing rocks at them? Welcome them into your homes? Try to learn scientific and spiritual knowledge from them?

2007-03-05 06:36:58 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous

Genetically and anatomically similar leopards and jaguars are found in Africa/Asia and South America respectively, but not in between (except as fossils).


Raccoons are found in North and South America, but (until recently introduced) not in Europe or Asia.


Marsupials are the dominant mammal group in Australia, and are found in smaller diversity in South America, and one species in North America.


The distribution of all of these critters makes sense according to the theory of evolution, and evidence from paleontology, plate tectonics, and radiometric dating, but if you reject those theories, how do you explain why these creatures are found where they are, and not evenly distributed from some starting point (i.e. Garden of Eden or Noah's ark's landing site)?

2007-03-05 06:36:25 · 17 answers · asked by Anonymous