Religion & Spirituality - 10 March 2007

I was baptised Catholic but I do not go to church. I don't know if I believe in God, I believe in having good morals, I try to always do the right thing. If there is a God & heaven, if I've always been a good,decent person , will I go to heaven?

2007-03-10 14:47:09 · 28 answers · asked by bethany 1

I've just been out i don't know why i'm on this thing but it's quite funny is anyone else a bit squiffy??

2007-03-10 14:46:43 · 8 answers · asked by Petra 1

2007-03-10 14:45:51 · 21 answers · asked by Anonymous

Is Jesus really God? Can you show me some scripture that can prove it?

2007-03-10 14:45:21 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-03-10 14:44:57 · 6 answers · asked by GIG45TXFL 3

I have to say the Buddhist is fading fast..........gulp.........words of encouragement...........don't say....just let it go............xoxo to everyone

2007-03-10 14:44:03 · 3 answers · asked by Yogini 6

2007-03-10 14:43:50 · 7 answers · asked by PrimeTime 2

The other night I was in bed just thinking, and I had the most unusal experience I have ever had. It was only like 5 seconds but I actually felt this complete feeling of love, real love like I never felt before. It was awsome.I felt Jesus for a moment. I was never really sure if I believed in the Bible God stuff,but now I do. Anyway,I tried to feel it again and I cant. If you are christian and have felt this or anything similar tell me. I am not going to say rude things about the bible or christians any more.

2007-03-10 14:43:46 · 25 answers · asked by sandra b 5

I was born and raised a French Roman Catholic but don't consider my-self to be of this faith. I do not fully believe in any of the christian denominations or beliefs either. I consider my-self to be open minded and not at all conservative. I have very liberal and modern views of Jesus's life. Having said all this I have a great respect for Jesus and his message.

I know a fair bit of the new testament and have little interest in the old testament. Bibles have always intimidated me. I consider my-self intelligent and have a strong grasp of english. I say all this because I want to read the Bible now but don't know which version is best for me. I don't want to do King James because I feel it's outdated. Where do I start?

Also, I heard there was a slang Bible that used swear words. What is it called?

2007-03-10 14:43:40 · 22 answers · asked by weirdnez 1

curses mentioned in the Old Testament

2007-03-10 14:42:54 · 17 answers · asked by Ron 1

2007-03-10 14:42:07 · 43 answers · asked by balan s 1

2007-03-10 14:41:29 · 24 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-03-10 14:41:06 · 8 answers · asked by Richard J 4

2007-03-10 14:40:22 · 4 answers · asked by WWTSD? 5

Some people don't deserve to be forgiven...

2007-03-10 14:37:50 · 26 answers · asked by singuler 1

Guess!1

2007-03-10 14:36:25 · 11 answers · asked by Laptop Jesus 2.0 5

science seeks to explain, in logical terms, how things works and function on earth with ONLY the laws of science and observable evidence as the one state of truth? Wouldn't bringing god into science not explain in realistic terms the phenomenon of how our earth, universe, and its coponents work?

2007-03-10 14:36:24 · 12 answers · asked by tsavo 2

Cave paintings have been made since the Upper Paleolithic, 40,000 years ago. The oldest cave is that of Chauvet, and is 32,000 years old. How come in the Bible, man is not depicted as using stone axes and stone tools, with flint arrow heads etc?

Also, how can one explain the fact that since after the "flood", the population had to start over, which, one would presume, was some time after adam and eve, the variations in race in humans? Why are there people of all different colours and racial bone formations, especially of the skull?

Speaking of "the flood", Was Noah commanded to take one pair of each clean animal into the Ark (Gen 6:19–20) or seven pairs (Gen 7:2–3)? Did the flood last forty days (Gen. 7:17) or a hundred and fifty days (Gen 7:24)?

Also, would all the animals, including the extinct ones, have fit in the ark? And if all the land on earth was covered, where did that enormous volume of water go? seriously! It had to go somewhere! Where is it!?

2007-03-10 14:35:11 · 11 answers · asked by irishcharmer84 2

By Richard M. Fales, Ph.D.

No other ancient book is questioned or maligned like the Bible. Critics looking for the flyspeck in the masterpiece allege that there was a long span between the time the events in the New Testament occurred and when they were recorded. They claim another gap exists archaeologically between the earliest copies made and the autographs of the New Testament. In reality, the alleged spaces and socalled gaps exist only in the minds of the critics. Manuscript Evidence.

Aristotle’s Ode to Poetics was written between 384 and 322 B.C. The earliest copy of this work dates A.D. 1100, and there are only forty-nine extant manuscripts. The gap between the original writing and the earliest copy is 1,400 years. There are only seven extant manuscripts of Plato’s Tetralogies, written 427–347 B.C. The earliest copy is A.D. 900—a gap of over 1,200 years. What about the New Testament? Jesus was crucified in A.D. 30. The New Testament was written between A.D. 48 and 95. The oldest manuscripts date to the last quarter of the first century, and the second oldest A.D. 125. This gives us a narrow gap of thirty-five to forty years from the originals written by the apostles. From the early centuries, we have some 5,300 Greek manuscripts of the New Testament. Altogether, including Syriac, Latin, Coptic, and Aramaic, we have a whopping 24,633 texts of the ancient New Testament to confirm the wording of the Scriptures. So the bottom line is, there was no great period between the events of the New Testament and the New Testament writings. Nor is there a great time lapse between the original writings and the oldest copies.

With the great body of manuscript evidence, it can be proved, beyond a doubt, that the New Testament says exactly the same things today as it originally did nearly 2,000 years ago. Corroborating Writings. Critics also charge that there are no ancient writings about Jesus outside the New Testament. This is another ridiculous claim. Writings confirming His birth, ministry, death, and resurrection include Flavius Josephus (A.D. 93), the Babylonian Talmud (A.D. 70–200), Pliny the Younger’s letter to the Emperor Trajan (approx. A.D. 100), the Annals of Tacitus (A.D. 115–117), Mara Bar Serapion (sometime after A.D. 73), and Suetonius’ Life of Claudius and Life of Nero (A.D. 120).

Another point of contention arises when Bible critics have knowingly or unknowingly misled people by implying that Old and New Testament books were either excluded from or added into the canon of Scripture at the great ecumenical councils of A.D. 336, 382, 397, and 419. In fact, one result of these gatherings was to confirm the Church’s belief that the books already in the Bible were divinely inspired. Therefore, the Church, at these meetings, neither added to nor took away from the books of the Bible. At that time, the thirty-nine Old Testament books had already been accepted, and the New Testament, as it was written, simply grew up with the ancient Church. Each document, being accepted as it was penned in the first century, was then passed on to Christians of the next century. So, this foolishness about the Roman Emperor Constantine dropping books from the Bible is simply uneducated rumor.

Fulfilled Prophecies
Prophecies from the Old and New Testaments that have been fulfilled also add credibility to the Bible. The Scriptures predicted the rise and fall of great empires like Greece and Rome (Daniel 2:39, 40), and foretold the destruction of cities like Tyre and Sidon (Isaiah 23). Tyre’s demise is recorded by ancient historians, who tell how Alexander the Great lay siege to the city for seven months. King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon had failed in a 13-year attempt to capture the seacoast city and completely destroy its inhabitants. During the siege of 573 B.C., much of the population of Tyre moved to its new island home approximately half a mile from the land city. Here it remained surrounded by walls as high as 150 feet until judgment fell in 332 B.C. with the arrival of Alexander the Great. In the seven-month siege, he fulfilled the remainder of the prophecies (Zechariah 9:4; Ezekiel 26:12) concerning the city at sea by completely destroying Tyre, killing 8,000 of its inhabitants and selling 30,000 of its population into slavery. To reach the island, he scraped up the dust and rubble of the old land city of Tyre, just like the Bible predicted, and cast them into the sea, building a 200-footwide causeway out to the island. Alexander’s death and the murder of his two sons was also foretold in the Scripture. Another startling prophecy was Jesus’ detailed prediction of Jerusalem’s destruction, and the further spreading of the Jewish diaspora throughout the world, which is recorded in Luke 21. In A.D. 70, not only was Jerusalem destroyed by Titus, the future emperor of Rome, but another prediction of Jesus Christ in Matthew 24:1,2 came to pass—the complete destruction of the temple of God.

Messianic Prophecies
In the Book of Daniel, the Bible prophesied the coming of the one and only Jewish Messiah prior to the temple’s demise. The Old Testament prophets declared He would be born in Bethlehem (Micah 5:2) to a virgin (Isaiah 7:14), be betrayed for thirty pieces of silver (Zechariah 11:12,13), die by crucifixion (Psalm 22), and be buried in a rich man’s tomb (Isaiah 53:9). There was only one person who fits all of the messianic prophecies of the Old Testament who lived before A.D. 70: Jesus of Nazareth, the Son of Mary. Yes, the Bible is an amazing book. (See also 1 Peter 1:25 footnote.)

2007-03-10 14:33:46 · 20 answers · asked by NONAME 3

2007-03-10 14:33:08 · 12 answers · asked by WWTSD? 5

I noticed this statement on an online video about Mormons. My dad was Mormon and also believed it was true. How can they be so dumb? Also, I have heard that they believe Africans had something to do with being cursed by god, having their skin cursed or something. My grandmother was a Mormon and talked like this. Is this true and where can these funny ideas be traced in the book of Mormon? Is there a page about this stuff that I can look up?

2007-03-10 14:32:52 · 12 answers · asked by Alan M 1

Spiritualists, sooth sayers, mediums, etc etc. are mentioned time and again in the old and new testaments, as evil and should be avoided. But if you believe in them, aren't you really acknowledeing a spirit world and the existance of some kind of God?

2007-03-10 14:32:13 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous

God does not want anyone to go to hell and Christians should be sorry if that happens. How are some here so belligerent about it?

2007-03-10 14:31:09 · 31 answers · asked by Fruitcake 2

2007-03-10 14:30:22 · 11 answers · asked by amos 3

you know who you are..... that want to know whether or not jesus is really the one true way to heaven...ask and you shall recieve, seek and you shall find, knock and and it shall open; thus sayeth the Lord.

2007-03-10 14:29:29 · 32 answers · asked by Anonymous

If this was real life I'd probably be hanged right about now.

2007-03-10 14:28:47 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous

I believe that God makes everything happen according to his plan and nothing is left to chance.

There were some kids in high school that were killed a week or two ago by a tornado. I know that is sad, but if they were Christian, then they are in Heaven right now.

I believe that God meant to have those kids die. It was their time. He had more important things planned for them. He is all knowing and he has reasons for the things that he does. We just can't comprehend this while we are alive.

The Lord works in mysterious ways.

Don't you agree?

2007-03-10 14:27:24 · 28 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-03-10 14:27:12 · 8 answers · asked by michael w 2

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I'm so conflicted by this.

2007-03-10 14:25:25 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous

why can't he see I want them now is he just hope for the hopeless I think so

2007-03-10 14:25:04 · 11 answers · asked by nendlin 6