Religion & Spirituality - 8 March 2007

which of the following?

Priests

Lord's Supper

Sacraments

Predestination

2007-03-08 05:49:08 · 10 answers · asked by gem 2

Damn my fingers!!

2007-03-08 05:48:29 · 5 answers · asked by Malcolm Knoxville III 2

i'm a 16 yr old muslim and i go to a muslim-majority school. I dont know how to pray, and I'm afraid the if some people in myu class found out then I would be judged for that. I dunno why but this had started recently as i began to become older. What should I do, its really sarting to affect my life.

2007-03-08 05:48:26 · 17 answers · asked by weirdo_in_america 1

I notice that some people are more inclined to seek truth in their own subjective perceptions and hopes. They think what they believe is true because they can feel it or intuit it. Other people are more inclined to seek truth in objective analysis through tests and logic. They think what they believe is true because they can prove it (more or less) or logically defend it. Which inclination do you think you have? Which inclination is more desirable or beneficial to have? Which leads to greater happiness or satisfaction with life?

2007-03-08 05:47:46 · 19 answers · asked by Subconsciousless 7

Are the only similarities the name of the God and the 10 commandments given to Moses?

2007-03-08 05:47:37 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous

Has anyone every sharted? I did on the way home not too long ago and it was all the way up and down my crack. Anyhoo I cleaned up and noticed there was a little poo on my favorite undies. I rinsed them out and they look fine other than a tiny little skid mark. Should I throw them out anyway?

My husband doesn't care either way.

2007-03-08 05:46:19 · 5 answers · asked by Your Mom 5

Say you were on a plane and then the guy sitting next to you opened up his lap top and this came up on the screen. Be honest.

http://www.thecleverest.com/countdown.swf

2007-03-08 05:46:06 · 19 answers · asked by Anonymous

Questions For
Thinking Jehovah’s Witnesses

1. Would you be disfellowshipped today from the Watchtower, if you believed and taught the Society’s doctrines of 1920? _____YES _____NO.
2. Would a J. W. of 1920 have been disfellowshipped if he then believed and taught present-day Watchtower doctrines? _____YES _____NO.
3. Would a J. W. living in 1913 have been disfellowshipped from the Watchtower if he believed and taught that 1914 was not going to be the “battle of the great day of God Almighty” or Armageddon, as the Society was then saying (Studies in the Scriptures, Vol. II, The Time Is At Hand, 1908 ed., pp. 101, 172 and 245)? _____YES _____NO.
4. Did you know that the Watchtower once taught that 1874 was the “exact date” of the Lord’s return (Studies in the Scriptures, Vol. II, The Time Is At Hand, 1908 ed., p. 170)? _____YES _____NO.
5. Could the 1874 “exact date” change to 1914? _____YES _____NO
6. Since the Watchtower’s doctrines and practices are continually changing, would you say that thousands of J. W. s in the past were not really “in the truth,” as they confidently confessed, according to present-day Watchtower teachings? _____YES _____NO.
7. Have thousands of J. W. s died believing and teaching Watchtower “errors,” according to present-day Watchtower teachings? _____YES _____NO.
8. Are you sure the same won’t happen to you? _____YES _____NO.
9. Are you sure the 144,000 “born again” Jehovah’s Witnesses are really in Heaven, since they died believing and teaching false doctrine, according to present-day Watchtower teachings? _____YES _____NO.
10. Do you agree with the founder and first president of Jehovah’s Witnesses who said that if one lays aside the Scripture Studies and goes to the Bible alone, “within two years he goes into darkness” (Watchtower, 9-15-10, p. 298)? _____YES _____NO. Psa. 119:130 says:
The unfolding of your words gives light; it gives understanding to the simple.



11. If Russell and other Watchtower presidents were not false prophets, as the Watchtower says, then why does Deut. 18:21,22 declare them to be such? ______I DON’T KNOW WHY _____ THEY WERE FALSE PROPHETS.
12. Jesus taught in Mt.7:17, “Every good tree produces fine fruit, but every rotten tree produces worthless fruit.” That fact is just like saying every true prophet produces true prophecies and every false prophet produces false ________________.
13. Did you know the Watchtower claims to have the ability “to declare things to come” (Watchtower, 4-1-72, p. 197)? _____YES _____NO.
14. If the Watchtower’s claim regarding this was true, would they ever have to admit to any of their false prophecies (or “mistakes” as called by some) or even try to conceal them entirely as they have also done? _____YES _____NO.
15. Did Isaiah, Ezekiel, Jeremiah, Daniel or any other true prophet ever have to admit to any of their false prophecies? _____YES _____NO.
16. Did you know that there is not a single Scripture found anywhere in the entire Bible which exonerates a false-prophecy-maker from being a false prophet, if he admits to his false prophecy (or “mistake” as called by some)? _____YES _____NO.
17. “True, there have been those in times past who predicted an ‘end to the world,’ even announcing a specific date .... Yet, nothing happened. The ‘end’ did not come. They were guilty of false prophesying. Why? What was missing? ... Missing from such people were God’s truths and the evidence that he was guiding and using them” (Awake, 10-8-68, p. 23). _____TRUE _____FALSE.
18. Why doesn’t the Watchtower use the preceding bit of information on themselves? _____THE WATCHTOWER DOES _____THE WATCHTOWER HAS A DOUBLE STANDARD.
19. Did you know that Prov. 4:18 has nothing to do with prophecies? _____YES _____NO.
20. Does the Bible ever cite an example of a true prophet relying upon Prov. 4:18 to escape being branded a “false prophet”? _____YES _____NO.
21. Do false prophets make false prophecies? _____YES _____NO.
22. Does the evidence identify Zedekiah as a true prophet (2 Chron. 18, especially v. 10)? _____YES _____NO.
23. Does the evidence identify Micaiah as a true prophet (2 Chron. 18, especially v. 27)? _____YES _____NO.
24. Did both Zedekiah and Micaiah claim to speak God’s word? _____YES _____NO.
25. Does time reveal the false prophet? _____YES _____NO.
26. Does the evidence identify Hananiah as a true prophet (Jer. 28: 2-4)? _____YES _____NO.
27. Did he contradict Jeremiah’s prophecy in Jer. 25:11? _____YES _____NO.
28. Does Jer. 28:9 show a similarity between Hananiah and the Watchtower’s many false predictions about 1,000 years of peace coming after Armageddon which was supposed to occur in 1914, then in 1918, then in 1925, then in 1941 and then in 1975? _____YES _____NO.
29. According to 1 John 5:12,13, only two categories of people, past and present, exists. Which category are you in? _____I HAVE JESUS _____I DON’T HAVE JESUS.
30. If you are really in the first group, did you know that you have (present tense) eternal life right now, according to 1 John 5:12,13? _____YES _____NO.
31. While it is certainly true that we “must endure to the end to be saved,” “hold firmly till the end the confidence we had at first” and remain “faithful” to the point of death to avoid being thrown into the lake of fire (Mt. 10:22; Heb. 3:14; Rev. 2:10,11), we can still know we are saved presently like they did in first century Christianity, if we are currently putting into practice the Word of God (Lk. 8:21). _____TRUE _____FALSE.
32. Did the early Christians know they had present-tense salvation (Eph. 2:8,9; Titus 3:5; 2 Tim. 1:9; Rom. 5:1)? _____YES _____NO.
33. Have you gone to Jesus in prayer for eternal life, as John 5:40 recommends? _____YES _____NO.
34. The Bible teaches that we can go through Jesus to the Father, but it also teaches that we can also go to Jesus in prayer, that is, pray to Jesus as Stephen did (Acts 7:59)? _____YES _____NO.
35. In Acts 10:34-43, we read the Apostles Peter’s sermon that brought instant salvation to people who “received the word of God” (Acts 11:1). How much “accurate knowledge” did Cornelius and others have to take in to become Christians? _____MUCH _____NOT VERY MUCH.
36. Did they have to submit to a 6 month book study, then join an organization before they were “saved” (Acts 11:14)? _____YES _____NO.
37. Did you ever notice that the word “know” in John 17:3 is not referring to intellectual knowledge, but instead a personal relationship? (Compare to Matt. 7:23.) _____YES _____NO.
38. How long after Peter’s short sermon was it before they qualified for Christian water baptism (Acts 10:43-48)? _____IMMEDIATELY _____AFTER A SYSTEMATIC STUDY OF THE SCRIPTURES.
39. When Paul and Silas were asked, “Sirs, what must I do to be saved?” (Acts 16:30), why didn’t they inform the ignorant, heathen jailer that he would have to submit to an extended study and join their organization before he could ever have the hope (not certainty) of present tense salvation? _____THEY DID ANSWER THAT WAY _____ BECAUSE SALVATION COMES INSTANTLY WHEN WE EXTEND A TRUSTING-SUBMITTING FAITH IN JESUS CHRIST.
40. Did Paul and Silas say that he’d have to “believe on” the Father or the Son to be saved (Acts 16:31)? _____THE FATHER _____THE SON.
41. Why did they answer that definite, instant salvation would come, if the jailer would meet the condition, since the Watchtower Society doesn’t teach this way? _____PAUL AND SILAS WERE WRONG _____THE WATCHTOWER IS A FALSE PROPHET. (See the Watchtower Society’s requirements for salvation, as stated in the Watchtower, 2-15-83, pp. 12,13.)
42. Should you remain loyal to an organization that teaches contrary to the Bible regarding salvation (and many other things) and is a Bible-defined false prophet trying to conceal its real identity? _____YES _____NO.
43. Are you going to try to forget about these Watchtower inconsistencies, deceptions, false prophecies, false claims and damnable heresies? _____YES _____NO.
44. Are you willing to read only the New Testament for yourself and no other literature with it to find the real truth, as it was taught by Jesus and his apostles? _____YES _____NO.

2007-03-08 05:45:48 · 4 answers · asked by Bob S 1

Suppose you are arguing with your buddy over a statement he made. You'd ask him to back up his argument with factual evidence. In the end, however, his arguments amount to "it's so because I say it's so."

Would you accept this as proof that he's right?

Why then, would you accept the Bible's assertion that the Christian god is Lord and Creator? Doesn't it use the exact same rationale?

2007-03-08 05:45:40 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-03-08 05:43:33 · 29 answers · asked by RED ROSE 5

2007-03-08 05:42:23 · 23 answers · asked by jimmy 3

Oops, another typo!!!

2007-03-08 05:42:09 · 12 answers · asked by Malcolm Knoxville III 2

It is not about being damned. We already do that
to ourselves.
It's about our Creator giving us an opportunity to
be RAISED UP! To the Higher Worlds!

2007-03-08 05:42:07 · 16 answers · asked by Medicine Eddie 2

2007-03-08 05:41:35 · 5 answers · asked by summersweetheart_16 2

It's called infanticide when you have one of your children killed.

2007-03-08 05:40:45 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous

I caught the ending of something Tom Cruise was saying, and it sounded like this is what he was saying. How do they support or explain such a thing?

2007-03-08 05:39:56 · 9 answers · asked by Zumi 1

It is not about being damned. We already do that
to ourselves.
It's about our Creator giving us an opportunity to be RAISED UP! To the Higher Worlds!

2007-03-08 05:39:52 · 11 answers · asked by Medicine Eddie 2

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- every time when he is confronted with his misbehaviour either shouts or induce the ideea that all are sinners and he is the cleanist one and scares others with God punishment
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2007-03-08 05:39:31 · 20 answers · asked by freemind ci 2

The Bible says:

"No one can serve two masters. Either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve both God and Money."
-Matthew 6:24

I have no hate of God, but I have no love of God. I do not really even know if God is or isn't. I don't really care if he is or isn't.

Pretty meaningless to me. I guess it is kind of a grey area.

The Bible, claiming it is impossible to serve 2 masters, saying either I will love the one & hate the other or hate the one and love the other, doesn't seem to support this view.

Seems God is saying it is impossible to have anything except either love or hate towards him.

I have no feelings at all about God though, love or hate. What happens, happens. Life is life. As though I am an emotionless void, zombie, android.

What gives, why is the Bible lying like this?

I surely know how I feel, & it IS possible not to love or hate God. Cause I do not feel either towards him.

Why does it lie?

2007-03-08 05:39:16 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous

Aren't most modern religions sects of Hinduism?

Buddhism stemmed directly from Hinduism.

If you study Christianity it is basically Buddhism with the Hindu concept of Avatars and the Hindu end times prophecy.

Judaism has a similar concept of what God wants as Hinduism minus the Avatars

Why does it all seem to go back to Hinduism?

2007-03-08 05:38:48 · 26 answers · asked by Anonymous

I'm betting on the man with the most resurrections.

RAmen.

2007-03-08 05:36:27 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous

I think we should go into other categories here in YahooAnswers and answer a lot of questions with "Cause the Bible says so." and see if we get any best answers.

Any hypotheses as to what would happen?

2007-03-08 05:34:40 · 14 answers · asked by elfkin, attention whore 4

help of the Holy Spirit's help if we seek sincerely God through his begotten son Jesus Christ.

2007-03-08 05:34:21 · 11 answers · asked by ? 4

Oops, a typo!!!

2007-03-08 05:34:12 · 10 answers · asked by Malcolm Knoxville III 2

This is not a question to ignite controversy. So please do not respond as if you are being attacked. I'm just curious.

The Governing Body of Jehovah Witnesses and Society leaders, have all received an elders' manual entitled: Pay Attention to Yourselves and to All the Flock.

Why is it, the majority of witnesses I've spoken to have never heard of this publication when I ask them about it? Would it be an issue to offer this manual to any witness who would like to read it, even if they are not an Elder or other congregational leader? Or is it available to all witnesses?

Without having access to the guidelines these gentlemen are following, how would prospective and current members know if one has strayed from what is appropriate within their organization? Were U.S. citizens not privy to the guidelines our President must follow, I can't imagine the consequences.

2007-03-08 05:34:02 · 6 answers · asked by Zumi 1

Hi! I believe my son will have a vocation to the priesthood or at least a deacon and I want to know how should I support him and nuture him so he can come about this on his own. I don't want to pressure him into the priesthood or feel like I pressured him into it, however, I want him to know it's ok for him to express this desire in actions and if he chooses to be a priest when he grows up, that I will support him. I guess I want to know how I can be supportive without pushing him into it.

2007-03-08 05:33:36 · 5 answers · asked by Heavenly Advocate 6

2007-03-08 05:33:31 · 19 answers · asked by Anonymous

some1 said he did. where and what? huh? never heard this one be4. can some1 show me a pic? !muchas gracias!

2007-03-08 05:33:03 · 11 answers · asked by jeans545454 1

CHRISTIANS ONLY PLEASE

2007-03-08 05:32:15 · 21 answers · asked by ? 4

"A George Washington dollar coin struck without its edge inscriptions, including “In God We Trust.” An unknown number of new George Washington dollar coins were mistakenly struck without their edge inscriptions. The flawed coins made it past inspectors and went into circulation Feb. 15."

Is it the hope that true Americans will accept this as a mistake or do you truly believe that this is a conspiracy by Atheists, left wingers and the ACLU to do away with your God ?

2007-03-08 05:31:26 · 16 answers · asked by dollparty.geo 2