Religion & Spirituality - 23 April 2007

Voltaire once said "God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh." is it still the case?

2007-04-23 01:58:15 · 5 answers · asked by angelguy_paris 6

So much emphsis is on the NT that it seems the OT is put on the back burner. You always see or hear things about the NT. Scholars have put dates and possible authors to the gospels of the NT but what about the OT. Who were the authors and when were they written?

2007-04-23 01:58:00 · 6 answers · asked by ☼ɣɐʃʃɜƾ ɰɐɽɨɲɜɽɨƾ♀ 5

2007-04-23 01:55:03 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous

For those who are comfortable discussing this openely. Thanks.

2007-04-23 01:53:44 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous

and my pastor said he was so disgusted with all the blatant homosexuality he has been seeing. Over the weekend there were two church concerts at a church and he said when he was there he saw so many displays of homosexuality he said he had to speak out about it. He saw men dressing and acting like females. He even saw some lesbians. He said homoesexuality is unnatural and same sexes shouldnt lust after each other.He said hetereosexual Christians should be disgusted too and not condone that type of thing. He even gave us scriptures from the Bible about it. He said he didnt care if anyone got mad at him just because he was speaking the truth. He said he isnt homophobic but he is God doesnt like something he is going to speak out about it becasue its his duty as Gods servent to speak out about hings God doesnt like.So I just want to know everyone elses thoughts.

2007-04-23 01:52:08 · 37 answers · asked by Anonymous

I'm sure the men won't complain about this (normal ones anyway) but I do want to state something first. My ex husband was, well, not very religiously educated and most people said I trumped him when it came to knowledge. Apparently, and please folks from Pakistan correct me if I'm wrong so I can learn, a woman is to be completely quiet and shy in the bedroom, almost like being raped or afraid of him. This is why I state this and am clearing the air, and hopefully educating some.

The links are self explanatory. It's not for children, so please, be cautious.

http://www.answering-christianity.com/karim/sex_as_sadaqa.htm
http://www.answering-christianity.com/karim/women_rights_for_sex.htm
http://www.answering-christianity.com/karim/islamic_way_of_making_love_to_wife.htm

2007-04-23 01:51:09 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous

I know it is a hebrew alphabet and number

2007-04-23 01:50:33 · 2 answers · asked by Anonymous

He doesn't care about the solution, He cares about the journey to it. Don't you understand? It's not about how much you give, it's about how much of your heart you put into it.

Remember the story in the Bible which read Jesus said a woman's 2 pieces of gold were worth more than the hundreds of the pharisees because that was all the woman had, and that was what her heart wanted to give.

As Christians, believers in God, we need to start giving from our hearts and not from our hands. Just keep this in mind!

2007-04-23 01:49:17 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous

Does he like that you are waging spiritual warfare in his name on yahoo? Or do you think he would wish you spent your time doing something productive?

2007-04-23 01:43:27 · 15 answers · asked by PoseidenNeptuneReturns 4

2007-04-23 01:42:29 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous

A question was posed a few moments ago..."Who would you save?" Here's the link.

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=AnLgRN091o2S.6zdPhKDUOfd7BR.?qid=20070423052029AAQknCH

The questioner wanted to know who you would save from a burning car-your spouse? Or your child?

I was shocked by the number of people who said they would save their spouse.

How could you not even attempt to save your child? Please explain this to me, because I really don't understand the thinking behind this.

2007-04-23 01:41:30 · 11 answers · asked by iamnoone 7

just wanted to know if they get to go since the devil took the form of the snake. i didnt know the answer thanks

2007-04-23 01:39:32 · 17 answers · asked by jerry w 1

is it good to hear?

2007-04-23 01:37:32 · 8 answers · asked by Robert J 1

Or just a bunch of whiny people complaining because they are bored?

(I'm including myself in this one of course)

2007-04-23 01:33:54 · 15 answers · asked by PoseidenNeptuneReturns 4

‘Christ according to the faith, is the second person in the Trinity, the Father being the first and the holy Ghost the third. Each of these three persons is God. Christ is his own father and his own son. The Holy Ghost is neither father nor son, but both. The son was begotten by the father, but existed before he was begotten--just the same before as after. Christ is just as old as his father, and the father is just as young as his son. The Holy Ghost proceeded form the Father and Son, but was an equal to the Father and Son before he proceeded, that is to say before he existed, but he is of the same age as the other two. Nothing ever was, nothing ever can be more perfectly idiotic and absurd than the dogma of the Trinity.’

- Col. Robert G. Ingersoll



Polytheism = The concept that God can be three separate entities at one and the same time.

1) Jesus praying unto God
2) Holy Ghost in the form of a Dove
3) God Above


Water cannot be liquid, solid and gas at one and the same time.
Time cannot be past, present and future at one and the same time.

Whatever other explanations are out there……. they cannot exist in three forms at one and the same form unless you are talking about a polytheistic god.

Polytheistic gods were three deities within one spirit.

2007-04-23 01:27:04 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous

I hear a lot of Christians say this, but in your own words describe how you do this without trying to control the situation? I know we can't pray for answers and needs and then sit back and expect them to appear out of thin air without any effort on our part. Describe examples of how you've put it in God's hands without overdoing things on your end?

2007-04-23 01:26:47 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous

Please extrapolate you as Humans.

Because I truly maintain that believing in God is an extension of one's attitude that he can do what God could. But, the big differnce is that our sense of initiative is conditioned to give the responsibility away for seemingly difficult things on to others' shoulders . If we just tried , we could succeed like God..

Why give up at thinking stage ?.Perfectionism is your own perception- , who says God is perfect? If we claim he created us and all around us , then why not Unity and brotherhood. Andyes, by the way Don H.( the top scorer) always refers God as ''she". I like that. She is a creator

I am in no way questioning the authority of God. My point is very simple. What is stopping us to be God - Efforts and persevearance, I think .We always refer to God as she did that and this and she always has the power to do this and that . If we are a part of her can we all be not our own God. My idea is why canbe not our creators, mentors and sustainer

2007-04-23 01:19:37 · 12 answers · asked by Prince Prem 4

2007-04-23 01:15:44 · 8 answers · asked by squirrel 1

This would explain why Christians love to bash Islam with current events while ignoring all the violence they themselves are orchestrating around the world.

Monotheism is the true belief in the God of Abraham which is why Jews and Muslims do not believe in the Trinity.

"The three-in-one/one-in-three mystery of Father, Son and Holy Ghost made tritheism official. The subsequent almost-deification of the Virgin Mary made it quatrotheism . . . Finally, cart-loads of saints raised to quarter-deification turned Christianity into plain old-fashioned polytheism. By the time of the Crusades, it was the most polytheistic religion to ever have existed, with the possible exception of Hinduism.

This untenable contradiction between the assertion of monotheism and the reality of polytheism was dealt with by accusing other religions of the Christian fault.

The Church - Catholic and later Protestant - turned aggressively on the two most clearly monotheistic religions in view - Judaism and Islam - and persecuted them as heathen or pagan.

The external history of Christianity consists largely of accusations that other religions rely on the worship of more than one god and therefore not the true God. These pagans must therefore be converted, conquered and/or killed for their own good in order that they benefit from the singularity of the Holy Trinity, plus appendages." -- The Doubter's Companion (John Ralston Saul)


Polytheism is the concept that God can be three separate entities at one and the same time.
1) Jesus
2) Holy Ghost in the form of a Dove
3) God Above

2007-04-23 01:15:02 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous

I'm in need of some assistance, I'm doing an essay on the impact of the English Language on Religion(Christianity)....Got any info on some good sites? I've been searching and well I've found nothing really. Thanks in advance.

2007-04-23 01:13:34 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous

I see some on here stating that muslims can't live peacefully. Ok, please state any major national news showing so in the West or anyplace outside of the ME and Pakistan. I am a muslim, I live in the US, and I don't care what my neighbors believe. To be honest, I only know the belief of one. The others, we chat and help each other out and religion is literally never a problem It's the same all over. You want to say that the small amount of the nutcases claiming to be us means we are all like that? Ok, I can say all Christians are like the VT shooter as he was Christian, and I can also say that all are serial killers as well, as almost every serial killer is a white christian male. You don't like it? HOw do you think we react? You want to say we should round up each and every one? Fine, round up each and every baby snatcher that is shown on TV and in various stores. Round up every rapist, murderer, etc. You can't? Neither can we, as it's impossible.

2007-04-23 01:13:07 · 17 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-04-23 01:09:44 · 20 answers · asked by ? 2

In the Cookeville incident the children were seeing their great grandparents as angels?

2007-04-23 01:08:38 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous

Jesus was the last Israelite Prophet. If his message was truly for all the world then he would NEVER have said (even once) that he came only for one group of people unless he was sent only to the Israelites.

If he was sent to all the world then he would have said he had come for the whole world from the moment he started preaching.

(Matt 10:5-6)--- Jesus sent out these 12 after giving them instructions: "Don't take the road leading to other nations, and don't enter any Samaritan town. Instead, go to the lost sheep of the house of Israel.
(Matthew 15:24) He (Jesus) replied, "I was sent only to the lost sheep of the house of Israel."
The main point is that if someone was sent for the whole world then he would have stated that from DAY ONE . Saying it later points toward a changing of directions after the first goal was not reached. This shows that the original target of the message was NOT the entire world.

God sent Jesus as a Messiah to the Jews.

A “Messiah” for the Jews was a last chance for getting forgiveness from the tremendous sin of killing so many Prophets in the past. A Messiah was to be a Redeemer for the Jews. If they accepted him and his admonitions then God would be forgive all the Jews for all their rebellion and no curse would be sent down.

It is too bad the true message of Jesus did not reach us all. We all receieved the message of Paul who never met Jesus.

Jesus was the last Prophet sent unto the Israelites and after he was denied, Prophethood was shifted to the Ishmaelites.

2007-04-23 01:06:54 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous

Someone suggested that god did not, and that I shouldn't blame him for when his creations go bad.

2007-04-23 01:04:17 · 10 answers · asked by PoseidenNeptuneReturns 4

2007-04-23 01:00:49 · 12 answers · asked by squirrel 1

He smote my account! Or at least his people did.

2007-04-23 00:59:42 · 14 answers · asked by PoseidenNeptuneReturns 4

i just want to know whether atheist and believer behaves similarly or not
thanks

2007-04-23 00:59:03 · 5 answers · asked by apple 3

I think Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens) got this right a long time ago.

It was not that Adam ate the apple for the apple's sake, but because it was forbidden. It would have been better for us -- oh infinitely better for us -- if the serpent had been forbidden.

He also said
If I were to construct a God I would furnish Him with some way and qualities and characteristics which the Present lacks. He would not stoop to ask for any man's compliments, praises, flatteries; and He would be far above exacting them. …He would value no love but the love born of kindnesses .In His Bible there would be no Unforgiveable Sin. He would recognize in Himself the Author and Inventor of Sin and Author and Inventor of the Vehicle and Appliances for its commission; and would place the whole responsibility where it would of right belong: upon Himself, the only Sinner.

2007-04-23 00:57:20 · 9 answers · asked by nicevolve 2

Namaste

Peace and Love

2007-04-23 00:53:12 · 16 answers · asked by digilook 2