Religion & Spirituality - 25 April 2007

2007-04-25 06:58:10 · 25 answers · asked by Stef 4

Why do we think hell is down?

2007-04-25 06:57:56 · 22 answers · asked by look _inside 2

2007-04-25 06:54:46 · 2 answers · asked by Mosa A 7

What fruit does the leader of your country display and is this fitting action for a person of such a belief or ideology?

2007-04-25 06:54:29 · 22 answers · asked by Anonymous

It is a delicious irony that at the basis of fundamentalist creationism is the perceived need to use science to prove the Bible is the inspired word of God, and in so doing abandon faith altogether. That is, rather than being willing to let their faith in the existence of a creator be the basis of their belief, creationists seek scientific proof that there HAD to be a creator.

Does this not, in fact, make them members of a community of faithlessness?

2007-04-25 06:52:53 · 11 answers · asked by ? 5

Human consciensious, (i.e., our ability to experience through our senses and reason with our minds,) has a yet undescovered physical and chemical nature to it. These questions of physics are likely to be solved or at least become much better understood following a few more decades of research.

How will you respond when science tells you with certainty that physical death includes a definitive end to consciensious? Will you still insist that "life after death" is possible? Will you continue to claim that there is a "soul" and a "spirit" with the ability to live on after all conscious ability is obliterated?

2007-04-25 06:52:11 · 39 answers · asked by Anonymous

There is a planet, far away but none the less it's there.

If it was proven that there was life on this planet would you wonder......?

I'm asking this because to my knowledge none of the world’s major religions mentions anything of life beyond Earth.



http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070425/ap_on_sc/habitable_planet

2007-04-25 06:50:33 · 17 answers · asked by Anonymous

What is your opinion on those who follow organised religions?

In my experience, those I have met hold views which really aren't in the vein of 'love thy neighbour'. Many persecute those who different to them either through race, sexual orientation or, beliefs.

In my opinion, if people stopped practising their religious beliefs and just concentrated on respecting fellow man then the world would be a mush happier place.

2007-04-25 06:49:36 · 15 answers · asked by garym 2

2007-04-25 06:49:28 · 26 answers · asked by Artistic Hand 2

My boss is really into _A Course in Miracles_ and talks about it as though it's the best thing since white bread, but after flipping through the introductory book he let me borrow, it reads like gibberish to me, watered-down Christianity with a touch of New Age positive thinking sprinkled in.

Have any of you benefited from _A Course in Miracles_? In what ways?

2007-04-25 06:49:20 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-04-25 06:45:44 · 16 answers · asked by Artistic Hand 2

You CAN'T choose your own.

2007-04-25 06:45:36 · 20 answers · asked by monkeymadness878 2

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The events are described in Matthew, Mark, Luke, John, Acts & 1 Corinthians.

In the past 2000 years, no one has been able to provide a cogent summary of these events without either skipping events, fudging details, or ignoring particular accounts.

Can you meld together a summary that doesn't contradict any of the scriptures?

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2007-04-25 06:45:35 · 11 answers · asked by NHBaritone 7

Do you believe that atheism is the next evolutionary step from faith? I have seen it written in this forum a few times and want to know if this is common thought?
Also, do you believe that this evolutionary step creates superiority over those who have faith?
This really is an honest question because I am trying to understand.

2007-04-25 06:44:02 · 13 answers · asked by Steve M 3

Would you think less of the church leader for allowing his child to go?

2007-04-25 06:43:14 · 37 answers · asked by humbleone02 2

and why' - personally I am a Christian but just wondering who I would worship as above - if I were not thankfully a Christian.

2007-04-25 06:43:13 · 7 answers · asked by deep in thought 4

What would you call them? Zuesanity? Zueslam? Zuewsish?

2007-04-25 06:41:13 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous

Do you just need to hear the words "I agree"?

2007-04-25 06:39:01 · 23 answers · asked by Anonymous

No offense meant. So, please. don't take it offensively.

Namaste

Peace and Love

2007-04-25 06:38:49 · 9 answers · asked by digilook 2

I say no. My reason? It's fine if religious people want to follow their faith but for them to be able to have a say in laws that affect the rest of us is unfair.

The only law that should involve religious organisations is to allow the believers to practise their faith freely. Apart from that, they have no right to interfere with laws that affect a whole Nation.

2007-04-25 06:38:16 · 11 answers · asked by garym 2

Is faith in Jesus and God just not enough to withstand questioning?

Is there something about Christianity that makes the ego fragile, or does it simply attract more people who suffer from that particular problem?

I'm just wondering, because historically Y!A has suffered an overwhelming imbalance in the number of non-christian questions and posters who get yanked as opposed to christian questions and posters.

2007-04-25 06:33:33 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous

related to AntiChrist..

2007-04-25 06:32:20 · 15 answers · asked by roo 1

stop saying that the Bible contradicts itself?

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Yes, the Bible has a few very "minor" contradictions. Like how many years a king ruled or something like that.

And the VAST majority of supposed contradictions are simply taken out of context. Such as the list at sketpics annotated website.

However, the Bible NEVER contradicts itself THEOLOGICALLY. Meaning that the Bible is always talking about the SAME God and the character of this God never contradicts himself. Meaning the question of WHO is GOD is consistent throughout the Bible.

2007-04-25 06:31:52 · 39 answers · asked by Anonymous

The way I see the first century church is that they had a real sense of community and taking care of people they worked in much more power then the church of today....They also had little separation in their beliefs except for the religeous traditionalists...Does that mean the church fits into that same catagory as being more religeous and true to traditions of men then doing Gods will?

2007-04-25 06:29:11 · 16 answers · asked by blahblah 5

I asked this question in another category today, but I thought the good folk here in R&S could offer some interesting responses, as well.

2007-04-25 06:29:02 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous

its 1 of the best storys told ever, adam n eve had 2 sons 1 killed the other and he was banished over the hills where he found a wife?? where did this wife come from?????

2007-04-25 06:28:24 · 29 answers · asked by jones_kevyn 1

1 Samuel 16:14-15
But the Spirit of the LORD departed from Saul, and an evil spirit from the LORD troubled him. And Saul's servants said unto him, Behold now, an evil spirit from God troubleth thee.

2007-04-25 06:28:22 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous

Not only that, but did you realise they're even to scared to share communion because they think that only the 144,00 can partake.

In John 6:53-54, Jesus said, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink His blood, you have no life in yourselves. 54“He who eats My flesh and drinks My blood has eternal life, and I will raise him up on the last day," (NASB).

Today if you read this, choose life or get screwd by the JW teaching...the choice is yours.

After all, why aren't they keeping it a secret so as to keep numbers down and get a better chance, lol.

2007-04-25 06:24:24 · 21 answers · asked by Anonymous

When history teachers rattle off dates and names there classes tend to be difficult to follow and boring. This also applies to other subjects such as maths, science and geography. When they explain why this and that and get the class to debate the subject and think about the subject or different ways of looking at it then it becomes really interesting, much more easily understood and easer to learn.

2007-04-25 06:22:07 · 37 answers · asked by purplepeace59 5

Some atrocities were committed in both but in both cases Christians were responding to Islamic assaults on Europe. The Reconquista or Inquisition was the only way to get back Spain from the Muslims. The Crusades were called by Pope Pious as a direct result of the Byzantine Empire begging for help because they were being destroyed by Muslims. The Byzantine Empire was a Christian Empire that once included North Africa, The Middle East and Turkey. All of these places had somehow become Muslim in the years before the Crusades and remain so to this day.

Where is the outrage at the initial jihad that extended the Islamic Empire from India to Spain in less than 100 years? Christianity spread throughout the Roman Empire while being fed to lions and crucified not through force but we are compared to the Islamic religion who didn't even try to peacefully convert people.

Isn't this ironic that the greates "atrocities" in Christian history are in response to Islamic imperialism?

2007-04-25 06:21:48 · 21 answers · asked by Anonymous