Religion & Spirituality - 18 March 2007

2007-03-18 19:44:28 · 12 answers · asked by Abudulkar 1

Have any of you had to deal with this? If so, how did your spirituality affect your recovery?

2007-03-18 19:43:30 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous

What does it mean when someone wears a pendent like this? Does it represent anything? Thanks.

2007-03-18 19:40:50 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-03-18 19:39:05 · 4 answers · asked by ? 3

2007-03-18 19:38:46 · 5 answers · asked by Abudulkar 1

2007-03-18 19:33:42 · 14 answers · asked by CHEESUS GROYST 5

and it's uses?

2007-03-18 19:33:14 · 9 answers · asked by Abudulkar 1

i'm not trying to put JW down, its just my girlfriend has been talking about joining and i want to know about them more.

2007-03-18 19:29:54 · 14 answers · asked by benjamin_ephraim 1

A few days ago I asked why there was so much anger towards Atheists around here and a very intelligent gentleman pointed out to me that it goes both ways. I looked into it and lo and behold he was right! There are just as many Atheists shooting the same mindless vitriol towards Christians (and other proponents of the supernatural) as there are religious people angrily telling us we're going hell!

So now my question is to both sides: why? Why must this philisophical difference engender so much anger? I honestly don't mean this as a commentary, I really want to know. What is it about someone who disagrees with you on this that makes you so pissed off?

2007-03-18 19:26:59 · 12 answers · asked by The Lobe 5

2007-03-18 19:25:25 · 5 answers · asked by nonphysical 3

An inter-faith couple I know just had a little boy. She's Palestinian, he's Jewish - pause for effect - anyway, they're fighting now, asking me whether or not their kid should be circumcised. They're hanging on what I think so I feel like I'm caught in the middle. Who should I side with?

PS: I really like both of them.

2007-03-18 19:21:36 · 28 answers · asked by Anonymous

the better one?

Just look at the posts if you ever upset the Islamics they say they hate you, or try to put some curse on you. "may the fleas of a thousand camels infest your armpits Sahib." You choose

2007-03-18 19:18:18 · 26 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-03-18 19:17:40 · 3 answers · asked by gursewak s 1

2007-03-18 19:11:13 · 25 answers · asked by hardworkur84 2

Whats the best way for lucifer to torture them? Thanks!

2007-03-18 19:10:16 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous

Have you started to see through the smoky mirror, that is the world dream that is taught by society and religion? Or maybe you do know, do you?

2007-03-18 19:07:41 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous

I will start by saying that I believe EVERY word of God. I believe it to be true and undefiled (KJV obviously). I really did a lot of research on this in the past and I feel absolutly certain that the KJV is the ONLY true, uncorrupted bible.

"Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God... Heaven and earth shall pass away, but my words shall not pass away." (Mt 4:4; 24:35) I believe this to be a good starting point. This verse is saying that EVERY WORD of God is important. I will now show you an excert out of the back of the NIV that my husband recieved at a church when he was in high school.

......To achieve clarity the translators sometimes supplied words not in the original texts but required by the context. Also for the sake of clarity or style, nouns including some proper nouns, are sometimes substituted for pro-nouns and visa-versa. And though hebrew writters often shifted back and forth between first, second and third personal pronouns without change of antecedent, this translation often makes them uniform, in accordance with english style and without the use of footnotes..........Like all translations of the bible, made as they are by imperfect man, this one undoubltedly falls short of its goals........ The committee on bible translation.

With that said, Revelations 22:18-19 " For I tesify unto every man that heareth the words of the prophecy of this book, if any man shall add unto these things, God shall add unto him the plagues that are written in this book. And if any man shall take away from the words of the book of this prophecy, God shall take away his part out of the book of life, and out of the holy city, and from the things which are written in this book."

To me, reading a bible with that kind of disclosure in the back, is kinda scary. And they admitted to changing things so that we can "understand it". Well my bible is understandable, and I find no such a thing.

This is a letter written by someone named Frank Logsdon who found translators for the New American Standard. NASB.

I must under God renounce every attachment to the NEW AMERICAN STANDARD... I am afraid I'm in trouble with the Lord.. We laid the groundword ; I wrote the format; I helped interview some of the translators; I sat with the translator; I wrote the preface...
I'm in trouble; I can't refute these arguments; it's wrong, it's terribly wrong; it's frighteningly wrong; and what am I going to do about it?... I can no longer ignore these critisims I am hearing and I can't refute them...
When questions began to reach me at first I was quite offended. However, in attempting to answer, I began to sense that something was not right about the NASV. Upon investigation, I wrote a dear friend, Mr.Lockman, explaining that I was forced to renounce all attachment to the NASV... The product is grievous to my heart and helps to complicate matters in these already troublous times... The deletions are absolutely frightening... there are so many... Are we so naive that we do not suspect Satanic deception in all of this?...
I don't want anything to do with it...
The finest leaders that we have today... haven't going into it (the new version's use of a corrupted Greek text), just as I had'nt gont into it... That's how easily one can be deceived... I'm going to talk to him (Dr. George Sweeting, then president of Moody Bible INstitue) about these things...
You can say that the AUTHORIZED VERSION (KJV) is absolutely correct. How correct? 100% correct...
If you must stand against everyone else, stand.
Dr. Frank Logsdon

I really like when people who used to be one way, have changed and stand a different way. You can really see how God has worked on them , and also it is more powerful when you know someone from the inside who knows alot about something, then changes. (ie. gays who are no longer gay :) I love that. People who read from something other then KJV and found it to be wrong.) When people who actually know whats going on and support something so much that they are a part of making it, then renounce it, that is powerful and has to say something. :)

The God and the bible are truly amazing. God has done so many amazing things through his word, and unfortunatly many people dont see that. If you have a KJV, you should read Psalms 12:6-7. They say:

"The words of the LORD are pure words: as silver tried in a furnace of earth, purified seven times. Thou shalt keep them, O LORD, thou shalt preserve them from this generation forever."

Now I live by EVERY word of God. These are in there for a reason :) Lets just look at these for a minute , this is where there is alot of information about the KJV, and how and where it happened. Well, the KJV is the seventh major english translation of the bible.Seven is God's number of perfection, and completion (as found in genesis) I find it more then coinicidence that this verse is in the bible, and the KJV lines up. The words of the Lord are pure, and as you saw above, they changed some things :) Verse 7 states "thou shalt preserve them from this generation forever." The KJV has been the bible that people have used for a few thousand years. Now we have these "smart guys" telling us it's wrong. Why would God call a MAN to preach, and not give him the word of God. My grandpa reads out of the NASB, and he says that the KJV is a "good version", well that is fine and dandy, but if my bible says one thing and yours says another, one is wrong. The bible says "preach the word" more then once, wouldnt God give us the word?

The KJV (which I should refer to as the KJB, Since is it not a "version" it is the BIBLE) had no rivalrys for 274 years. You could either chose the KJB or the DOUAY-RHEIMS (the roman-catholic bible, which you would use if you were catholic, obviously) The KJB was the English Bible. Wescott and Hort's Revised Version, published in England in 1885, proved to be no competition for the KJB. The American Standard Version, was just a revised eddition of that one, and released in 1901, again not a real threat. The in 1952, the revised standard edition, published by the National Council of Churches of Christ, opened the floodgates for the more then two hundred English translations now available. We now have bibles that are "gender inclusive", and even some (living) that have SWEARING in them. That is sad. And by the way, when people say "I have seen the original manuscripts" They havent, they no longer exsist. They may have seen some very old ones, but not the originals, but the KJB translators did :)

In the beginning of many of these new "versions" they say the same thing that I showed you up there. Well it's very "close". And they have committees and it will say, "We voted and at least 2/3's agreed, on every translation. The KJB had a committee of 54 men, and it was 54 men who voted and agreed they had man a exact translation into english. The bibles now are saying they are not exact but thanks to God he has made them "close". I dont want a "close" version, I want the real thing. Like God promised :)

Every jot and every tittle shall come to pass. Not one comma and not one punctuation mark shall pass away. Matthew 5:18, "For verily I say unto you, Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law, till all be fulfilled." Matthew 24:35, "Heaven and earth shall pass away, but my words shall not pass away." I checked those words, "pass away," a little bit; a synonym for that phrase would be, "My word will always be alive." There never will be a day when somebody says, "Beloved, we are gathered here in the presence of 'Gawd' and these witnesses to remember the word of 'Gawd' that died." We never will! It will always be there. It always will.

Figures following the Bible versions named below indicate the number of Scripture portions changed from the reading of the Textus Receptus out of 162 references.

Revised Standard Version - 158 out of 162
Nestle's Greek Text - 155 out of 162
Goodspeed's New Testament - 154 out of 162
Westcott & Hort Greek - 151 out of 162
Tischendorf's New Testament - 150 out of 162
New English New Testament - 150 out of 162
Williams' New Testament - 149 out of 162
Berkeley Version N.T. - 148 out of 162
New American Standard - 147 out of 162
New World Translation - 145 out of 162
Good News For Modern Man - 144 out of 162
Moffatt's New Testament - 144 out of 162
Wuest's Expanded N.T. - 142 out of 162
Twentieth Century N.T. - 142 out of 162
Weymouth's New Testament - 138 out of 162
Amplified New Testament - 136 out of 162
Revised Version of 1881 - 135 out of 162
American Standard Version - 135 out of 162
Alford's Greek N.T. - 134 out of 162
Diaglot New Testament - 128 out of 162
Lachmann's New Testament - 121 out of 162
Philip's New Testament - 117 out of 162
Living N.T. Paraphrased - 114 out of 162
Confraternity New Testament - 90 out of 162
Douay Version N.T. - 75 out of 162
Griesbach's Greek N.T. - 61 out of 162
Wordsworth's Greek N.T. - 47 out of 162
Norlie's Simplified N.T. - 41 out of 162
John Wesley's N.T. - 38 out of 162
Martin Luther's German N.T. - 0 out of 162
Textus Receptus Greek N.T. - 0 out of 162
King James New Testament - 0 out of 162

Which brings me to my next point. I dont know what kind of bible you read out of but I have many verses for many bibles that are clearly not the same as the KJB. Only one can be right. Right? I will give a few differences, and then if you want more I can send you ALOT, but I will send you the biggest ones that really get me going :)

KJB
Daniel 3:25 says "He answered and said, Lo, I see four men loose, walking in the midst of the fire, and they have no hurt; and the form of the fourth is like the Son of God."

This is after the 3 hebrew children have been thrown in the firey furnace. All other versions read, "the fourth is like" either a son of the gods, a divine being, or an angel. I have looked this one up in many bibles, and obviously, a son and THE SON are not the same. This is Jesus in the other testament.

I hope you have a KJB available, I need to just list alot, not actually commentate on all of them , which would take me, well a long long long time :)

Do you have a "Holy" bible?
2 Peter 1:21
Matthew 25:31
1 Thessolonians 5:27
Revelations 22:6
John 7:39
1 Corinthians 2:13
Matthew 12:31
Acts 6:3
Acts 8:18

All of these in the KJB show that something is Holy, or holy, and in the NIV and NASB it is left out. Every word of God is important, remember? Why is this not there?

Isaiah 14: 12,15
KJB says " How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning... Yet thou shalt be brought down to hell."
NIV says " How you have fallen from heaven o morning star, son of the dawn... but you are brought down to the grave."
NASB says " How you have falllen from heaven O star of the morning, son of the dawn.. you will be thrust down to Sheol."

Revelation 22:16 "I Jesus have sent mine angel to testify unto you these things in the churches. I am the root and the offspring of David, and the bright and morning star."

Jesus is the morning star. Other versions have made satan the morning star. Do you not suspect satan in all of this? After all, he is the prince of this world.

The NASB and NIV omit verses also, just leaving foot notes saying, some versions have... These would take me a long time to find, I believe one is in matthew.

Just some verses Compare, KJV and Yours, you will see the difference.

1 Corinthians 8:4
Daniel 11:36-39
Colosians 2:23
Revelations 17:9-10
Revelation 17:18 and 11:8
Mark 10:21
John 10:34

The Nasb calls "natural, what God calls sin.
James 3:15
James 5:17

Immorality vs Fornication

Romans 1:29
1 Corinthians 5:1, 6:13, 6:18
Ephesians 5:3
Colosians 3:5
Revelations 2:14, 2:20, 9:21, 14:8, 17:2, 18:3, 18:9, 19:2
Hebrews 12:16

A vs The... These two cannot be intermingled. Something is either a (A truth) or The (The truth) you will find in these they take the out of Christ and the gospel and replace it with a, leaving room for more then one....

John 6:8
Revelations 14:6
2 Corinthians 4:4
2 John 1:1
Titus 1:4
Acts 14:27
Mark 1:4
Hebrews 4:2
Matthew 21:13
Matthew 21:12
Luke 4:4
1 Thessolonians 2:13
Acts 10:37
Acts 10:22

A Son vs The Son

Revelations 1:13
Revelations 14:14
John 6:69
Matthew 27:54
Mark 15:39
Daniel 3:25
Mark 1:1
Mark 12:6
Matthew 8:29
John 9:35

Is Jesus THE SON or a Son? Dont let people take away Christs diety.

Obviously to see the difference you will need to find these in a KJV and your bible, because you wont see them by just reading what yours say. I pray you will read into it, and see that this is what God wanted (KJB) and what he meant when He said He would preserve Gods word.

Just a last thought. The KJB was the last major english translation of the scriptures to be based soley on the textus receptus, the received text, the traditional, time honored, faithful pure text of the word of God. There has not been one popular English translation of the bible produced after the KJB that came from the true bible text. Every modern english bible since 1885 comes from the perverted, corrupted text fabricated by Westcott and Hort or at least borrows heavily from it. You need to understand this truth. Any bible produced since 1885 is not a bible at all, but a huge departure from the word of God. Do not settle for the devils fake!!

The KJB, authorized verion of 1611, is the seventh major english translation of the bible "purified seven times" in the english language. Seven is the number is Gods completion and perfection. When the seveth full translation was completed, Gods word was perfected. In verse seven of psalms 12 we find Gods promise of preservation. "Thou shalt keep them, O LORD, thou shalt preserve them from this generation forever."

I pray you look into this, and find it insightful. This is something that I have talked to my family members about that read out of corrupted versions. When two things say differently, only one can be right. If you must stand against everyone else, stand. :)

Erika Robbins

2007-03-18 19:06:20 · 18 answers · asked by Bl3ss3dw1thL1f3 4

Church of Christ says some of these are sinful based from bible??
1. Collections used to help the needy is a sin. cos collections are not for other people.
2. Sinful when you attend to a service or mass on any day of the week except SUnday.
Can a member of Church of Christ explain this? Any reaction on you readers?
Im a Catholic.

2007-03-18 19:04:04 · 8 answers · asked by girl lioneth 1

2007-03-18 19:03:43 · 12 answers · asked by CHEESUS GROYST 5

Miracles?....mmm David Copperfield or Blaine would probably be considered godly back the in day too, but they are merely two-bits magicians...
Why do so many people believe the word of one man (who with today's knowledge would probably be considered schizophrenic)?

2007-03-18 19:00:47 · 20 answers · asked by Anonymous

i mean, where could have all that water have gone? wouldn't the animals have ate each other on the ark?

2007-03-18 19:00:29 · 22 answers · asked by nmd061105 3

please leave me your favorite quote from the bible. I would prefer one about love or family plz

2007-03-18 18:59:03 · 9 answers · asked by Melvina 2

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2007-03-18 18:52:36 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-03-18 18:49:19 · 10 answers · asked by _•JhUZrInX•_ 1

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2007-03-18 18:48:33 · 1 answers · asked by Jeremiah 1

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2007-03-18 18:46:44 · 17 answers · asked by Anonymous