Religion & Spirituality - 13 March 2007

Reasoning may lead to confusion, as well. Especially, about ideas and beliefs. Closed-mindedness is the human race. Very few humans are open to the universalistic approach to existence. WRONG SITE to have an open-minded discussion. Bible crazed christians and atheists, you guys are all alike.

2007-03-13 20:48:52 · 14 answers · asked by blacksilk79 2

2007-03-13 20:44:54 · 3 answers · asked by jane l 1

Do you feel your actions effect others like your children, partners, groups you are in? What about the future, do you see yourself as having an impact on that? Do you feel you are made up of all you ancestors right and wrong actions? I know it is a broad question, but see how you go on it.

2007-03-13 20:43:29 · 8 answers · asked by michaeljripley 3

namely 'thou shall not kill'.is it possible that bible commandments are open for selective implementation? maybe we are supposed to use our brains instead blindly following god's commandments? our army are certainly not turning the other cheek. jesus was what...er..mistaken?

2007-03-13 20:42:30 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goa_Inquisition
http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/007589.php

2007-03-13 20:41:12 · 14 answers · asked by Sunil N 2

and not Kesari putra ?

2007-03-13 20:40:43 · 9 answers · asked by ۞Aum۞ 7

nun that taught at holy family accademy in beaverville, illinois in 1958

2007-03-13 20:40:25 · 2 answers · asked by michele v 1

I have heard people who claim self-worship = Satanism because it is worshipping themselves, instead of God.

My question is, how? God worships himself. We are supposed to strive to be like God, right?

So, if God worships himself, & we are striving to be like God, what is wrong with worshipping ourselves also? Is this not just another way of doing what God does, & worshipping him in the next level?

Surely, if we emulate God, we cannot go wrong, can we?

2007-03-13 20:39:03 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous

regarding having a relationship with an annulled person?
The bible says in Mark 10:11-12,"Jesus said to them,"whoever divorceshis wife and marries another commits adultery against her; and if she divorces her husband and marries another, she commits adultery."

2007-03-13 20:34:08 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous

Sweet, sweet irony of the (some) theists.

They insist that there is God because atheists don't know everything about the universe and there are a couple of unexplained things, how can they be certain that there is God?

At the same time, these are the same people that reject evolution just because it has "never" been observed, or perhaps they lack the ability to comprehend an event that requires a long period of time.


So basicly the irony is that these people claim atheists do not have a larger scope on things to comprehend God but at the same time they don't have the larger scope on things to comprehend evolution.

:P

2007-03-13 20:33:47 · 10 answers · asked by Adia Azrael 4

We observe lots of conferences, seminars over sprituality today but they hv just become an event or a break kind of thing in once life. Why aren't we still not ready to embrace humanity in our nature even after lots of spiritual spoon feeding & experinces from history?

2007-03-13 20:33:22 · 11 answers · asked by chirjeev a 1

Your right, the bible was a bad example, now that i think about it.

i didn't mean all together, i ment the parts that can be a part of the other, like god making evolution, and letting it take over for a while.

And plus, i dont think god is exactly what most people think he is, i dont think we rely on faith either. Blinding people from sight isn't the way. the truth will set you free.

2007-03-13 20:31:25 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous

who(what religion) gave them the title?

2007-03-13 20:26:51 · 19 answers · asked by lnfrared Loaf 6

If we do no believe in God, how do you think that Satan is perpetrating our lack of belief. With our current understanding of the universe around us, God does not seem to be in the least bit plausible.

Do you believe that Satan is actually a root cause of Atheism?

2007-03-13 20:25:08 · 28 answers · asked by Anonymous

Some people believe in that and I want to know if anyone here knows where can one find more info about it?

2007-03-13 20:25:05 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous

Someone put it to me recently that he believes the world to be millions of years old.
There is scientific evidence to proof it. Apparently.

I guess if you think about it it could work.

In Genisis it says "In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. Now the earth was formless and empty"
Maybe this is a few million years between these verses and this next verse.
"And God said, "Let there be light..."
This could be when God starts to 'dress' the earth with light, water, people, animals etc.


What are your thoughts or knowledge on this?

2007-03-13 20:24:59 · 8 answers · asked by vandewc 1

In wat ways did Jesus influence the world?

2007-03-13 20:24:51 · 4 answers · asked by Yippidyyappidy 2

Does it worship nature, or does it only celebrate it? Who or what is God? The Great Spirit?????

2007-03-13 20:24:11 · 2 answers · asked by . 3

Q1. Explain what is unusual about Jesus' Childhood?
Q2. What was Jesus' attitude towards people that everyone else saw as outcasts? Give examples.
Q3. What did Jesus do that caused the High Priest's and the Roman and some of his followers including Judas to turn against him?

2007-03-13 20:22:10 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous

Tonight, I became familiar with Humanism via the article below. http://www.jcn.com/humanism.php4 Unitarian-Universalists believe in GOD and Humanists don't. However, the article says the opposite.

2007-03-13 20:21:44 · 7 answers · asked by blacksilk79 2

Far too many times anti-Islamists Christians had attacked my religion, and surely it pisses me off. Sometimes, I had the urge to attack the Christians, but then, suddenly I remembered someone said

"I prayed for you last time when you asked for prayers.."

There was this time I asked everyone for some prayers, and she prayed for me. And then one week later there was this day where the anti-islamic questions are a bit high, so I sorta attacked the Christians. Then she answered my question with that and it made me feel guilty..

So, from that day on whenever I had the urge to attack those who attack me, I remember my friends of that faith and how I would hurt them if I do so.

Anyone else have this particular experience?

2007-03-13 20:20:16 · 5 answers · asked by Adia Azrael 4

What did it take to change you?

2007-03-13 20:18:40 · 6 answers · asked by beano™ 6

I wanted to find the right God, so I just started praying ten years ago for God to reveal himself to me, whoever he was. I wanted the real God - the creator of the universe - the God of love and truth!

Well, I get on my knees every night before bed and sincerely pray for God to show me himself (however he chooses to do it) I've done this for eight years! After I pray, it is my habit to sit for twenty or thirty minutes and just listen and reflect.

I pray first thing in the morning also, while I'm getting ready for work. I got nothing at all, really, except for this deep peace that I was a human and that everything was going to be alright.

I felt an increasing connection to all life and to the world. But no specifics about who or what God is!? Just a feeling that God is all around me. I am not trying to pick a religion, only trying to find the true God.

People are always trying to give me proofs for their religions: Muslims – history, name of God is miraculously everywhere.

2007-03-13 20:17:56 · 12 answers · asked by The Burninator 1

They don't even make as much sense as the Anti-Gravity people do!

2007-03-13 20:16:49 · 10 answers · asked by U-98 6

Some people are for or against the death penalty. However:

Truth is, all people have sinned. At least according to the Bible.

In simple terms, this means that God sees all people as deserving of the death penalty already. So we die, because we sin.

Not one of us have the right to judge another. Simply because we sin too. It's like telling a thief to accuse another of stealing.

Only a perfect person may judge.

Your thoughts pls?

2007-03-13 20:16:15 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous

I've gotten this quite a bit, actually. Not here, though, just in real life situations and on some forums...

When a person asks a question, recitation of a Bible verse -- no matter how profound one may find it -- is not a suitable response unless the question is something along the lines of, "Which verse says 'blahblahblah'?"

Am I the only one who is kind of annoyed by it?

2007-03-13 20:15:25 · 18 answers · asked by Allo 4

Furthermore, what can you attribute to the enlightening and amazing experiences atheists experience?

This question comes from another question I came across on a different website :

"How do you explain the changed lives of millions of people throughout history who testify to a life changing experience with Jesus Christ?"

If any single belief system could be the so-called "true religion", why are there "life changing experiences" accounted for that relate to almost any world-views?

Wouldn't any given god make sure the enlightening, profound experiences were reserved only for the ascribing members of this "one true" whatever?

2007-03-13 20:15:24 · 8 answers · asked by AtheistIdeas 1

2007-03-13 20:15:10 · 10 answers · asked by kelleygaither2000 1

I'm a little wierded out. Oh, tell me what Status Quo is.

2007-03-13 20:14:33 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous

GOD isn't the bible and the bible GOD, perhaps. I have faith in the supernatural(spiritual). Yet, I use reason. I believe in the physical, but there also exists the non-physical. I was reading an article on Humanism, and it separated every belief system into two categories- reason and GOD. Humanists remind me of christians, muslims, so forth. But, they try to separate themselves. If you reason with the bible, christians believe you are an atheists. Humanists (atheists) say you are not reasonable if you believe in GOD. Humanists denounce religion, but Humanism is a religion in itself. Humanity is destroying the earth. We cannot search only ourselves for solutions and answers. We have inhabited the earth for some years, and finally we will destroy it without intervention outside of ourselves.

2007-03-13 20:14:05 · 5 answers · asked by blacksilk79 2