Religion & Spirituality - 21 March 2007

Seriously i am so sick of the monkey/human question i just might possibly chunk this laptop across the room.

can you not do your research. are you that naive? i challenge all christians to go to the library pick up every book about evolution and educate yourself before you ask another g damed question like that.

just the ignorance in itself gets my blood boiling

2007-03-21 10:06:36 · 34 answers · asked by Sheriff of R&S 4

2007-03-21 10:05:47 · 9 answers · asked by dmd a 1

I read the national enquire, and it says that God died... and my niece says the same thing.. is that true?... if so, how?

2007-03-21 10:05:12 · 18 answers · asked by Anonymous

for my releigion homework i have to find out that when judas died(killed himself or whatever) who was the one who replaced him. i have searched the internet for 3 hours and found nothing! please help thank you so much!

2007-03-21 10:04:51 · 12 answers · asked by Chuck Cartalono 2

since christians cry out, "we are being persecuted!"
can we just go ahead an persecute them for real? i mean if they are going to whine about it, lets give them something to whine about...

(or do they suddenly wanna change their mind and stop their stupid whining?)

2007-03-21 10:02:57 · 22 answers · asked by Anonymous

What is Jesus name? Christ, Messiah, son of God, son of man? Which one is he?

2007-03-21 10:02:35 · 7 answers · asked by sharls 1

I think he might act serious

2007-03-21 10:00:57 · 36 answers · asked by Anonymous

Please provide scriptures.

OTHER:

GENESIS 6 – Relates to who are the son's of God?

Three interpretations:

1- The sons of God are fallen angels who consorted with human women, producing giant offspring called nephilim. (1st century CE, supported by Flavius Josephus, Philo, Eusebius and otherAnte-Nicene Fathers.

2- Julius Africanus and Saint Augustine, the Catholic Bishop of Hippo rejected that fallen host committed fornication with women. St. Augustine's book named "The City of God" promotes the idea that the sons of God referred to the genealogical line of Seth that were preserving the true worship of God.

3 - The sons of God were the rulers or magistrates before the flood. (Judaism view 2nd century CE)

The Grigori - fallen angels - described in Biblical apocrypha who mated with mortal women, giving rise to a race of the Nephilim, who are described as giants (aka Watchers) in Genesis 6:4.

2007-03-21 10:00:04 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous

Do you know why it was faked?

2007-03-21 09:59:46 · 20 answers · asked by lady 5

i am a Xian but would love to convert to judaism, i just have different thought about jesus.
Can i convert even though i have no relation to the 12 tribes?
will they convert me will i be accepted
if the let me convert will i be a jew or just jewish in spirit?

btw what is the spiritual side of Judaism?

2007-03-21 09:59:31 · 15 answers · asked by newbie ice hockey fan & TV serie 3

what has been going on in R&S since I have been away?... I need to catch up on things...

2007-03-21 09:57:20 · 20 answers · asked by Anonymous

I'm a Catholic. In my religion, in order to be forgiven for sins you have to confess your sins to a priest , but what if you commited a sin without knowing it?

2007-03-21 09:57:10 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous

Always when I look at the clock the number 11 is onthe clock no matter what the hour may be its always 11 after the hour some one told me that it could be a message from an angel what does 11 mean or maybe it's # 1 can any one tell me anything that would help?

2007-03-21 09:53:21 · 11 answers · asked by me 1

I want to pray that our Christian president is able to survive this fired attorney "scandal" that has been fabricated by the liberal media. It doesn't matter if Bush did or didn't fire them, the important thing is that we need to make sure Democrats aren't able to get away with this because they have a pro-gay marriage, anti-life, and anti-God agenda that will destroy America.

So can anyone suggest a prayer that we as Christians can recite so the liberals won't be successful at issuing subpoenas to Alberto Gonzales and Harriet Meiers?

Thanks!

2007-03-21 09:52:31 · 23 answers · asked by Anonymous

Which do you feel is more of a threat to your way of living and why Secularism, Communism or Anarchism?

2007-03-21 09:51:31 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous

Mostly for Christians, but open to anyone of course.

The Apostle Paul teaches it is better to not marry, but permited if you cant contain your lust. In 1 Corinthians 7, he also teaches that when you marry, your "focus" is on your spouse, not so much on God.

My question (after a discussion with a friend of mine) is, following Pauls advice, are you "less" of a Christian, or could you be viewed as such, if you marry? Is it true in your Christian life, for those of you that are married, that you are less focused on God than you would be if you stayed single?

(Personally, Marriage has never diminished my faith. Just curious about other views)

2007-03-21 09:51:23 · 14 answers · asked by sweetie_baby 6

I pose this question because so many faiths are of the belief that it is wrong to occasionaly smoke a joint or drink a beer,

I think the differance is in the use vs. abuse area is this wrong??? if so why

Please no need to go on a rant just keep the answers simple cus us pot smoking beer drinkers have short attention spans :)

2007-03-21 09:51:16 · 15 answers · asked by blackplatnium007 2

‘Falsehood’, for instance, covers self-delusion equally if not more that attempts to deceive others. We have all experienced the effects of megalomaniac political leaders who believe their own lies and draw their populations into war or economic collapse. Even the highest form of truth can turn into falsehoods when they are applied in rigid, one-sided ways and interpreted so literally that they lose their inner meaning. This is how spiritual insights turn into fundamentalist shibboleths and programmes for social reforms become dogmatic and inhumane …‘despicable comments’ intended to discredit or wound others as falsehoods, even if their basis is true. For the value of this truth is undermined by the harm created by its expression and the hurtful intention behind that utterance. In other words… truth includes a form of cosmic libel law in which denunciations leading to mental or physical violence are regarded as falsehoods whether there is a superficial ‘truth’ can be proved or not.

2007-03-21 09:49:42 · 12 answers · asked by JustRish 1

ok tha question this week is What is it that keeps me from desiring God Himself over the benefits of using God to fulfill my wants? What things do I allow myself to hold onto?

I need some ideas!! Im drawing a blank here .. Thnx!! =]]

2007-03-21 09:48:31 · 11 answers · asked by misspayy 2

a.) square
b.) rectangle
c.) trapezoid
d.) parallelogram
e.) tetrahedron

2007-03-21 09:48:15 · 12 answers · asked by Murazor 6

2007-03-21 09:47:48 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous

If he does how can you beat my personal selection from Ytmnd itself?

Take a listen and be amazed-

2007-03-21 09:46:52 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous

im not kidding
I will go out of my way to be nice to jewish persons
but they treat me horrible

2007-03-21 09:46:17 · 14 answers · asked by dmd a 1

2007-03-21 09:45:08 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous

is any one a christian going to church during the week, i've been a christian for 12 years GOD has done amazing thinks in my life i go to church every day seek for a better life!

2007-03-21 09:43:43 · 12 answers · asked by claudiasulecio 2

Communism and Anarchism pose ten times more of a threat then Secularism. Do you agree or disagree?

2007-03-21 09:43:32 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous

Nearly every creationist believes in micro evolution but not evolution. The definition of evolution: change in the gene pool of a population from generation to generation by such processes as mutation, natural selection, and genetic drift... Evolution by itself is fact.

2007-03-21 09:43:20 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous

Don't be afraid to tell the truth.

2007-03-21 09:43:15 · 13 answers · asked by ? 3

IIs God Cruel?


By Jason Lovelace


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Key Scriptures:
II Peter 3.9 The Lord is not slack concerning his promises, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.

Ezekiel 18.23,32 ‘Have I any pleasure at all that the wicked should die?’ saith the Lord GOD: ‘and not that he should return from his wicked ways, and live?’

‘For I have no pleasure in the death of him that dieth.’ saith the Lord God, ‘Wherefore turn yourselves, and live.’

When someone reads the Old Testament, especially the Books of the Law (Genesis – Deuteronomy) and the Historical Books (Joshua – Esther), the stories of all of the wars, killings, and destruction that one reads may make God look terribly cruel. In the Old Testament’s first 17 books, not to mention many of the Prophesies (Isaiah – Malachi), the death, destruction, warfare, and apparent cruel corporal laws can make one think that God is not worth following, not worth serving. To the uneducated in the Bible, God can appear in the Old Testament to be heartless, ordering the slaying of the defenseless, the helpless, and the unbelieving in ruthless fashion. But is God really and truly as cruel as many say that he is portrayed as in the Bible? Is there something about God that we are not seeing or that is being ignored, either accidentally or by design?

Point #1 – God is the God of the Living: When Jesus was approached by the Sadducees – a Jewish Sect that didn’t believe in the afterlife, angels, devils, or resurrection – they asked Jesus a question, to which he replied that God “…is not a God of the dead, but of the living…” (Luke 20.38). God is not a God who is filled with death or with the dead. In the Garden of Eden and the Creation Story, it is God who gave life to every living thing (Genesis 1.1-2.3). God is not a false god or idol who delights in death, but instead is the one who sustains life (Luke 21.38, John 1.3). The two Key Scriptures for this lesson also say clearly that God does not delight in death, especially those who die without knowing him.

Point #2 – Those Whom God Ordered Destroyed were Receiving His Judgment After a Long Wait: The Old Testament is full of stories where the Israelites were ordered to totally destroy the Canaanites, and later, where the Assyrians, Babylonians, and other major Ancient Peoples were also commanded by God to make war against Israel much, much later. These may seem to make God look incredibly cruel. However, if we take a closer look into the facts and read the Bible carefully, we see something entirely different than what is perceived today of God. Instead of a Heavenly Tyrant bent on cruel and rapid destruction of any and all non-believers, we see a loving Heavenly Father who waited long periods of time for those he loved to return to him. In the Story of the Exodus, God states clearly to Moses that he will harden Pharaoh’s heart (Exodus 4.21). This may out God in an unfavorable light, that he is cruelly hardening the heart of the Egyptian King so that he can hit him and all his people with the Ten Plagues. However, we see in the Bible Pharaoh’s attitude towards God very clearly and easily:

And Pharaoh said, “Who is the LORD, that I should obey his voice…? —Exodus 5.2

In this verse, it is clear that Pharaoh already had his mind made up about who God is. History also records clearly that all Egyptian Pharaohs considered themselves the second-highest of the Egyptian gods, next to Amon-Ra, and further considered themselves much in the same way as the Pope in Rome considers himself: God’s #1 man on earth. Pharaoh, in Exodus, had beforehand rejected God, placing himself on the highest throne. This judgment came about from God because of Pharaoh’s refusal to clearly see who God really was and is. In spite of ten clearly seen and easily identifiable plagues, Pharaoh never accepted who God really is. The rest of the Egyptians revered Moses later for his following of God, but Pharaoh never did, and never fully accepted God and his life likely ended in the waters of the rolled-back Red Sea, as seen in Exodus 14.

The same can be said for the Canaanites. God was incredibly patient with them, despite their refusal to acknowledge Who He Is. Even though they knew the God that Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob served, acknowledging in the Book of Genesis that all three of these men were ranked as mighty princes (Genesis 23.5-6), the Canaanites still rejected God. Even after God had waited 470 years, after the Canaanites heard of and knew what God had done for the Israelites in Egypt, and saw further miracles that he did them, the Canaanites refused to accept who God was. God also waited more than 1,000 years for the Israelites to fully and totally accept and trust him after settling in Canaan, suffering them to be disciplined and punished until, in 722 BC and 536 BC, God removed them from their land for a time. God is limitless in his love, his mercy, and his forgiveness, but he is not limitless in his patience. And only a God who truly loved people would wait centuries and decades before executing his judgment on hard-hearted people.

Point #3 – God is still Merciful, Loving, and Patient Today as He was in Old Testament times: The same God who waited through ten devastating plagues, who waited 470 years for the Canaanites to repent, and who time and time again waited and warned the Israelites over a period of 1,000 years is still the same, loving, merciful God today. Consider Ancient Rome: Jesus Christ was born and had his ministry in the midst of the power and might of the Roman Empire, but for 300 years, Roman Emperor after Roman Emperor tortured, crucified, and executed millions of his followers. Finally, 400+ years after the birth, ministry, death, and resurrection of Jesus Christ, Rome crumbled, the majority of her people never truly believing in Jesus Christ, and a false Christianity, based on works over Grace, having risen to take its place. The same can be said for the great powers that followed, from the Medieval Frankish Kingdom of Charlemagn to the Present-day United States of America. God allows – and even helps, in some cases – a nation to build up and become strong and powerful, but after years of trying and trying to get the attention of the people of those nations, he at last – usually after several centuries – passes and executes his righteous judgment. God will wait for nations as a whole, and people in particular, and will warn, warn, and warn of the impending, coming judgment. Whether we as a nation, people, and world choose to follow is ours to make.

Conclusion – God is not cruel: As the title of this Conclusion states, God is not cruel. He is not heartless. He is not a tyrant. God is a God of love, who sent his Son, Jesus Christ to die on a cruel cross for the sins of everyone. God will wait and warn a long, long time, but he will not wait forever. His love is unending, his compassion and truth never–failing, but he will not wait forever. As the Books of the Prophecies in the Old Testament, and the Gospels, the Letters of Paul, the General Letters, and Revelation show in the New Testament, there is coming a Day of Judgment on the world as a whole, and each and every person in particular. Are you ready for that day? If you are not, you can be. As Revelation 3.20 states, Jesus stands at the door of your heart and knocks. If you open to him, he will come in, and he will show you exactly who he is.

2007-03-21 09:42:25 · 7 answers · asked by Erin 3

2007-03-21 09:41:59 · 21 answers · asked by espiridiocamez@sbcglobal.net 1