Religion & Spirituality - 10 April 2007

2007-04-10 14:28:43 · 71 answers · asked by Frog Five 5

Here are some examples of special pleading. See if you can figure out why it's a spurious form of argumentation.

Example: "Cocaine use should be legal. Like all drugs, it does have some adverse health effects, but cocaine is different from other drugs. Many have benefited from the effects of cocaine."

Example: "I know you think that I should be giving my money to the poor, but you've never been rich before. There are things about wealth that you don't understand."

Example: "I know the idea that ball lightning is caused by ghosts makes no sense to you, but that's only because you're human. Humans cannot understand supernatural phenomena."

Example: "The human eye is far too complex to have evolved from a simpler system, therefore it must have had a more complex creator. That creator would be God. No god doesn't need a creator ibecause he isn't bound by the laws of the universe. He exists outside of time."

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special_pleading

2007-04-10 14:27:19 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous

Can someone explain this phrase:

"Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God."

Does it mean that man also needs to be fed spiritually in order to also live?

2007-04-10 14:27:14 · 19 answers · asked by Mutual Help 4

i just wanna know No Asthists Please

2007-04-10 14:26:21 · 15 answers · asked by myjesusisgood44 2

No offense meant here.

I'm looking for an answer with a little more depth than "The Bible says so," or, "I just know."

How do you know you picked the right one?
Did you visit a variety of churches and study different religions before making your decision?
Did you read the texts of other beliefs and read texts which discredit various beliefs?
Were you introduced into your religion and knew from that moment that it was the only one for you?

Please....so many of you are positive you are in the right religion. I just want an indepth answer as to why you know you're right.

Remember....I'm not trying to offend. I am just looking for a good, well thought out explanation.

2007-04-10 14:25:14 · 28 answers · asked by KS 7

that the bible was written by man and has no grounds for proof of divine inspiration.

but it is ok for you to say that the bible is the ultimate single truth of the world. and that all other religions no matter their age or spiritual bleiefs. are the work of your own dark god Satan. and that all followers of every other religion are going to burn in a hell that was made up by your religion?

and you wonder why there are people that do not believe in god, or gods?

2007-04-10 14:24:02 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous

Catholics are the majority of Christians world wide and do not reject evolution. Are the Fundamentalists the only ones that reject reality for the sake of argument?

2007-04-10 14:23:27 · 21 answers · asked by Anonymous

Is there a scriptural basis for the teaching of sola scriptura? If so, is it stated explicitly in the Bible? What is the relationship of Sacred Scripture and Apostolic Tradition? Did divine revelation stop after the publication of the Bible?

2007-04-10 14:20:41 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous

The Orthodox have been separated from the Catholic Church for a thousand years. If Christians only believed Mary was ever-virgin because 'that wicked Catholic Church lied and kept the Bible from away from them', why does Orthodoxy teach the same thing?

http://www.orthodoxinfo.com/inquirers/evervirgin.aspx

2007-04-10 14:20:21 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous

1st timothy 3 & 16 proves he was God in the flesh

2007-04-10 14:19:45 · 25 answers · asked by James J 1

How many of you believe in Aliens?... have you seen any?.. I saw a flying saucer out my window once when I was a kid!

2007-04-10 14:18:34 · 25 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-04-10 14:16:26 · 6 answers · asked by Prof Fruitcake 6

If I wrote a book saying im right, and i said the book is right, and the book said i was right and i said the book was right then how can you prove me wrong

2007-04-10 14:15:44 · 36 answers · asked by Anonymous

Does anyone believe that Jesus had children and there are to this day, desendants of Jesus? I know i believe!

2007-04-10 14:15:13 · 24 answers · asked by Elephant Chick 2

The world would be the same .......I think.

2007-04-10 14:12:59 · 22 answers · asked by ™ ♥♥♥ 3

2007-04-10 14:11:56 · 11 answers · asked by erik g 1

mine is Subway!

2007-04-10 14:08:19 · 37 answers · asked by Anonymous

yes it takes answering 10 questions and asking 4 a day but its funny

2007-04-10 14:07:38 · 26 answers · asked by Anonymous

especially one expressing dis-taste for homosexuality?

2007-04-10 14:07:08 · 6 answers · asked by Sara E 2

The Great Commission is a Christian thing, where Jesus bade believers to spread the faith. This question isn't about just Christiandom, but to any other religion that requires its followers to spread their faith.

The fundamental conflict is that a devout person would consider the greatest act of friendship to be bringing the non-believing friend into the fold while the differently-believing friend might find that kind of behavior harassing and the basic core of the believer's faith (which generally ascribes the non-believer a negative status such as consigned to hell, a heretic, a heathen, or somehow inferior and/or unacceptable) hurtful and insulting. Religions that require proselytizing don't permit tolerance of other beliefs.

To rephrase: How can people of different religious beliefs find ways to be friends without either side having to apologize or set aside their religious beliefs, particularly when one or both belief sets require the believer to try to convert the other?

2007-04-10 14:07:02 · 7 answers · asked by Muffie 5

2007-04-10 14:06:09 · 9 answers · asked by omygosh 4

Philosophies

2007-04-10 14:03:10 · 17 answers · asked by Anonymous

I want to know if its as widespread around america as it is here in South Georgia.
I think that it makes as much sense as any other religion.

2007-04-10 14:00:57 · 33 answers · asked by Cody P 1

most people think adultery mean some one have sex with some elses wife thats what i thought too until i did a study on it because in the bible it talks about spiritual adultery and that don't make sence to me.

2007-04-10 14:00:26 · 14 answers · asked by scott g 2

No one can deny that catastrophes are happening at a rapid rate and it all can be pointed to the Bible. Bible prophecy or coincidence?

Thank you Dr. Adams Author of the books Nearing Midnight

2007-04-10 14:00:08 · 35 answers · asked by Anonymous

Deuteronomy 21:18-21 “If a man have a stubborn and rebellious son, which will not obey the voice of his father, or the voice of his mother, and that, when they have chastened him, will not hearken unto them: Then shall his father and his mother lay hold on him, and bring him out unto the elders of his city, and unto the gate of his place; And they shall say unto the elders of his city, This our son is stubborn and rebellious, he will not obey our voice; he is a glutton, and a drunkard. And all the men of his city shall stone him with stones, that he die: so shalt thou put evil away from among you; and all Israel shall hear, and fear.”

"Know this first of all, that there is no prophecy of scripture that is a matter of personal interpretation, for no prophecy ever came through human will; but rather human beings moved by the holy Spirit spoke under the influence of God." (2 Peter 20-21 NAB)

2007-04-10 13:57:59 · 2 answers · asked by Anonymous

I am going to visit a sick lady at the hospital with other members from the church.
What would you say to her?
Just to encourage her or make if feel a little better

2007-04-10 13:57:24 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous

did you know on the triple crown and throne that the bishop of rome sits it is written, vicarivs fillei dei. it is in roman numerals which add up to 666.

2007-04-10 13:56:34 · 22 answers · asked by God help us 6

2007-04-10 13:54:55 · 17 answers · asked by Anonymous

I don't and i will bet you money that Muslims online with us oppose terrorism. Muslims do you dare to prove me right? Others can you prove me wrong?

2007-04-10 13:53:56 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous