Religion & Spirituality - 25 April 2007

There was someone I thought was just wonderful when I was young, but I had been warned that he wasn't nice, he was charming. After many years I heard of many things the man had done. Actually, I heard that the man stated he believed in God but not an afterlife and that he had sold his soul to the devil for a cause that was dear to his heart. He did not care what he did to people to further the cause.

People of faith, what do you make of that?

2007-04-25 09:01:16 · 18 answers · asked by Shirley T 7

It seems like the very definition of bad luck to me...

2007-04-25 08:59:40 · 10 answers · asked by Tiktaalik 4

And let's not forget that this goes both ways, because you could just as easily ask me what proof I have there is a God and I could easily tell you my proof. But, this question is for you..so, what proof do you have? (Being serious here, so serious answers only.)

2007-04-25 08:58:17 · 38 answers · asked by adrian♥ 6

I don't understand how some average Jew dying on the cross for saying he was God made my sins forgivable.

2007-04-25 08:57:18 · 22 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-04-25 08:57:06 · 10 answers · asked by ☻☻☻☻☻☻☻☻☻☻☻☻☻☻☻☻☻☻☻ 1

i do watch Joyice meyers clifer dollors and other wean i have chance to see theam

2007-04-25 08:56:16 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-04-25 08:54:24 · 23 answers · asked by Anonymous

~700 BCE "That nature only is good when it shall not do unto another whatever is not good for its own self." - Dadistan-i-Dinik 94:5, Zoroastrianism.

~500 BCE "Hurt not others in ways that you yourself would find hurtful." - Udana-Varga 5:18, Buddhism.

~500 BCE "One word that can serve as a principle of conduct for life [is] reciprocity. Do not impose on others what you yourself do not desire." - Doctrine of the Mean 13.3, Confucianism.

If Jesus wasn't even the first man to espouse the Golden Rule, how can it be said that humans would not be moral without God?

Confucius didn't believe in God, yet he got it right long before Jesus came around. So doesn't it seem that humans were pretty capable of figuring out how to be a good, moral person even before Jesus showed up?

2007-04-25 08:53:15 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous

K. I asked my friend what it was and he said i should know. So i looked it up and it gave me some really bad answers. I was just wondering what it is. I know everything else but that. Thats all.

Blessed be.

Jasmine

2007-04-25 08:53:08 · 4 answers · asked by Jasmine B 1

2007-04-25 08:52:30 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous

Eternal damnation sounds a quite unmerciful.

2007-04-25 08:49:48 · 16 answers · asked by (notso)Gloriouspipecleaner 3

2007-04-25 08:49:09 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-04-25 08:48:09 · 44 answers · asked by Ashley 4

Yes but i think we all do it but it wrong

2007-04-25 08:46:47 · 23 answers · asked by brothermikegoestenkors3 1

Just Wondering.

2007-04-25 08:46:32 · 29 answers · asked by ilovethebeachgurl 1

2007-04-25 08:44:40 · 12 answers · asked by ☻☻☻☻☻☻☻☻☻☻☻☻☻☻☻☻☻☻☻ 1

Some of the most reputable historians are know seriously questioning whether Jesus even lived or not. I personally do not believe he existed. He has very similar characterists as the god Horus, who was born on December 25, was known as the Son of God, died for humanity's sins, was buried and ressurected in 3 days. I ask people for proof, and I get quotes from the Bible, which is more like a fairy tale book than a decent historical book. I admit I never read the Bible, but it sounds like a myth book to me. I don't care if every scholar and historian could prove the Bible was factual, because I still would not believe crap like that. And I get Josephus, who did writings on Jesus AFTER Jesus supposedly died. So besides the Bible, what proof is there?

2007-04-25 08:44:26 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous

why does the bible refer to the whale in story of jonah as a giant fish. aren't whales mammals, not fish?

2007-04-25 08:44:23 · 12 answers · asked by just curious (A.A.A.A.) 5

2007-04-25 08:43:56 · 6 answers · asked by rezany 5

2007-04-25 08:41:41 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous

I'm leading a bible study with a girl named Amelie.

She is going to college in the US from France, and I've been introducing her to the people here at church.

She is a lot prettier than my wife, and I'd like her to start dating me. She doesn't speak English all that well, and I'm not sure if she understands what I'm trying to say.

We get to spend a lot of time together, since my Korean girlfriend is in jail in Seattle and my wife is busy with her job helping an adoption agency.

We have a "Christian" hike next week, and I'm thinking of "accidently" booking one cabin instead of two for the leaders.

What do you think? It's not fair that a person like me has to deal with this much stress all of the time. It feels like I'm always having to explain myself! I just figure it's God's test.

2007-04-25 08:41:31 · 24 answers · asked by Kermit 2

I was told that on a recent Jeopardy show the question, "What is the most accurate translation of the Holy Scriptures?" was asked, and all I want to know is if it really was asked on Jeopardy and on what day and year?

2007-04-25 08:40:06 · 12 answers · asked by silky 1

I'm Jewish and I really don't know the answer to this question. Why are there so many different kinds of Christians? There are the Catholics and the Protestants. Within the Protestant faith, there are Episcopalians, Presbyterians, Baptist, Methodists, Lutherans, etc. Do they all accept Christ as their savior? Do they all believe in the Trinity? If so, why aren't they all just Protestants?

2007-04-25 08:39:50 · 20 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-04-25 08:39:08 · 27 answers · asked by farleefarkle 2

2007-04-25 08:38:47 · 23 answers · asked by Anonymous

I don't trust my priest

2007-04-25 08:37:51 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous

obviously, the people who wrote the New Testament (and the people in it) were big fans of Jesus, thinking him to be the Messiah. One of the big reasons was that he fulfilled OT prophecies right? But why did Jews in Jesus' time, also looking for the Messiah, reject him? Do I have that right, that Jews don't accept Jesus as the Messiah? So why were some Jews convinced (to turn Christian) and some not?

2007-04-25 08:37:44 · 10 answers · asked by ajj085 4

How about wine?

If not, why did Christianity pick up this ritual? One would think metaphorical cannabilism doesn't do much to get into heaven...

2007-04-25 08:37:40 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous

I think of this as hypocrisy. Why would God send His only son to die for everyone? I thought God loved Jesus.

2007-04-25 08:37:25 · 38 answers · asked by Anonymous

i'm curious how people take this to be historical fact. and please, before you throw questions back at me about if i believe in people like alexander the great, christopher columbus and other people throughtout history that i've heard of but never seen, realize that what they did in their lives were not as hard to grasp as the events that happened in genesis. so for me to accept that someone sailed across the atlantic is not as hard to believe as a snake tricking someone into eating something they shouldn't eat.

2007-04-25 08:37:00 · 21 answers · asked by just curious (A.A.A.A.) 5