Religion & Spirituality - 29 April 2007

ok, calm down, not you personally but, people in general, can someone prove to another that thay are capable of thought?
we can say we think, but we can't see, touch, smell, hear, or taste or thoughts. we can show them an electrical stimuli in our brain, but that electricity was not our thought.
finally we could say to someone i know i can think because i can hear my thoughts, but hearing is only done with the ears, what we just " heard " existed only in our minds. so how could anyone prove to another they have thoughts?

what is a thought made of?

2007-04-29 18:58:33 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Root_of_All_Evil%3F

2007-04-29 18:56:40 · 19 answers · asked by Anonymous

If not, why not? Doesn't Jesus say that it's better to do either of those things than burn forever?

2007-04-29 18:56:33 · 27 answers · asked by Samurai Jack 6

If the truth must come from a higher source, then if there is no higher source, there can't be any truth, right? So how can atheists criticize any religion for being "immoral?"

2007-04-29 18:53:51 · 21 answers · asked by icurabbi 2

a) i was born into a belief system and chose to believe

b) i was born into a non-belief system and have never truely sought God

c) i was born into a belief system and could not reconcile the questions the that arose from life's circumstances so chose not to believe

d) i was born into a belief system, but found my own path

e) i rejected the belief systems when young, and will never truely seek God again

2007-04-29 18:53:41 · 19 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-04-29 18:51:53 · 27 answers · asked by shawnbarel 1

2007-04-29 18:45:24 · 28 answers · asked by Anonymous

So much has been changed and even added (to make the Trinity look more biblical) that it is beyond scary.

Men are adding things and it has only been 100 years.

Can you imagine what they have done during the past 2,000 years !!


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2007-04-29 18:41:50 · 17 answers · asked by kloneme 3

does it make any sense to send satan into earth if he knew Adam and Eve were still clean and obedient?

2007-04-29 18:41:50 · 20 answers · asked by NONAME 2

Do you believe Christians will be persecuted for their beliefs even in "free countries" like America? Do you think this day is coming soon?

2007-04-29 18:40:53 · 40 answers · asked by Marie 7

So how has this affected religious practices and how they are percieved?

2007-04-29 18:40:03 · 13 answers · asked by Taliesin Pen Beirdd 5

and * I'm * the evil one?

2007-04-29 18:38:52 · 31 answers · asked by Samurai Jack 6

Matthew 18
23"Therefore, the kingdom of heaven is like a king who wanted to settle accounts with his servants. 24As he began the settlement, a man who owed him ten thousand talents[g] was brought to him. 25Since he was not able to pay, the master ordered that he and his wife and his children and all that he had be sold to repay the debt.

26"The servant fell on his knees before him. 'Be patient with me,' he begged, 'and I will pay back everything.' 27The servant's master took pity on him, canceled the debt and let him go.

28"But when that servant went out, he found one of his fellow servants who owed him a hundred denarii.[h] He grabbed him and began to choke him. 'Pay back what you owe me!' he demanded.

29"His fellow servant fell to his knees and begged him, 'Be pati

2007-04-29 18:37:07 · 16 answers · asked by Gardener for God(dmd) 7

wiped your memory of earth completely would you be happy about getting to die and server God?

2007-04-29 18:35:34 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous

How Did Pagan Customs Mix into Christmas and Easter?
It began hundreds of years ago, when the Church changed the Bible. . .


The "New Testament": Pagan revenge

Between G-d's own miracles and the Jewish teaching of His Word, the pagan priesthoods of Egypt, Greece, and Rome were steadily losing their power over the gentile populations. They decided to fight back by creating a new religion, one that would claim to be the fulfillment of the Hebrew "Old Testament," yet would bring back the pagan lies in a new disguise.

Thus the "New Testament" was written, in Greek rather than Hebrew, and attached to the original Hebrew scriptures to try to change their meaning back toward paganism.

The "New Testament" tried to change G-d from One, as in the Hebrew scriptures, into a "trinity" as in Egyptian cults or the eastern religions of Hinduism and Buddhism. It described Jesus as G-d in a human body, like the pagans always described Pharoah and other wicked kings. It declared G-d's Law to be a "curse" that no one can truly obey, announced that there must be a "mediator" between G-d and man, and pretended that salvation could now be achieved outside the Law.

To blind the gentile nations, the "New Testament" also warned people not to learn from the Jews, declaring that Israel no longer possessed the true, complete Word of G-d.

In the Bible, the book of Daniel warned of an evil power--a false religion--that would believe in the true "G-d of fortresses... plus a god its fathers did not know." This religion would "speak bizarre words about the Most High, wear out the holy ones (the Jews), and plan to change the festivals and the religious Law."7 The Christian Church has indeed replaced Passover with Easter (the pagan holiday of Astarte and Ishtar) and Hanukah with Christmas (the pagan winter holiday).

Since then, Christian paganism has expanded to include Christmas trees, Easter eggs, and so forth.

http://www.noahide.com/paganism.htm


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2007-04-29 18:35:03 · 14 answers · asked by kloneme 3

If this is true, that all 3 of these people are God, then God sent Himself (Jesus) to earth to die, obviously, he had a choice... to kill myself or to not kill myself. This is suicide. Isn't suicide a sin?

2007-04-29 18:30:04 · 3 answers · asked by kaltharion 3

After all, we are saved by faith, not by works.
Right?

2007-04-29 18:29:13 · 33 answers · asked by Samurai Jack 6

do you own slaves?

because the bible says it ok.

2007-04-29 18:27:46 · 26 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-04-29 18:25:45 · 17 answers · asked by Anonymous

“For I testify unto every man that heareth the words of the prophecy of this book, If any man shall add unto these things, God shall add unto him the plagues that are written in this book:” -------- Rev 22:18


“And if any man shall take away from the words of the book of this prophecy, God shall take away his part out of the book of life, and out of the holy city, and [from] the things which are written in this book”. ---- Rev 22:19


This is a severe warning to the Israelites to not change the revelations because the Bible is not guaranteed to be free from human corruption/changes.

If the Bible was to be protected from change by divine decree then this warning would not be needed.

That is why both the Old and New Testament and the Torah have gone through translations/new editions and other changes.

This doesn’t mean the Bible is not scripture…. It just means that not every word is guaranteed by God to be exactly what was revealed in the original form.


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2007-04-29 18:24:34 · 13 answers · asked by kloneme 3

Hardly a good role model now is he?

What's the BIG idea? A world full of Sumo wrestlers? What then? A society with just McDonalds and cardiac hopsitals?

It's madness I tell you, sheer madness!

2007-04-29 18:19:33 · 36 answers · asked by Slug 3

Just wondering: why do you feel that you have the right to decide for others what "God" is? And to condemn them for believing otherwise? Why are you so certain that you are right?

Also, if it is the Christian concept of God that you are defending (as those who attack others for their beliefs here generally seem to be), he is, according to your texts, omnipotent and superior to humanity: why do you feel a need to defend him?

This is posted out of curiousity.

2007-04-29 18:19:07 · 30 answers · asked by ? 1

How could a perfect being such as god, create imperfect beings? Shouldn't a perfect diety's creation be perfect?

2007-04-29 18:17:57 · 23 answers · asked by Diagoras 4

The grand Canyon was formed over tens of thousands of years. Yet the bible depicts a great flood more recent than that. The bible specifically says that the highest mountain tops are covered in the flood for 40 days.

2007-04-29 18:10:52 · 20 answers · asked by Anonymous

Im researching christian denominations

2007-04-29 18:08:45 · 20 answers · asked by Taylor r 1

What is your honest opinion of atheists? What if you discovered a close family member or friend was an atheist?

(Just to clear something up, true atheists are not atheists because they hate God. If they really don't believe in Him, they can't really hate him. I'm not saying this is your opinion of atheists, but I have noticed that some theists think this way.)

2007-04-29 18:03:46 · 19 answers · asked by ? 4

I gotta tell ya, it sounds a little crazy....

2007-04-29 18:02:01 · 35 answers · asked by Samurai Jack 6

2007-04-29 18:00:47 · 29 answers · asked by Anonymous

It would be nice to see more churches offer valet parking. It seems that so many churches don't realize that Christs followers aren't all lower and middle class, you know?

Why is it that even though many of my fellow churchgoers are rich, that we still aren't able to have our cars Valet parked during services. We actually have to walk all the way from the parking lot into the church. However, my family does have our car valet parked going to brunch at the Fairmont afterwards? Why is it one but not the other?

2007-04-29 17:58:10 · 23 answers · asked by Anonymous

The Bible says that Noah's ark was approximately half the size of the Titanic (it measures it in cubits, so it's difficult to say exactly). It landed, according to Genesis, at the top of mount Ararat in Turkey. An incredibly huge wooden boat landed at the top of a mountain only a few thousand years ago. Where is the physical evidence? Surely, something must remain.

This also implies that all land-dwelling life migrated from Turkey several thousand years ago. I somehow don't see llamas migrating across the Caucasus Mountains, into Russia, swimming across the ~60 miles of water in between Russia and Alaska, then migrating tens of thousands of miles south, back to their home in the Andes.

Also, how did Noah find two Llamas in the first place, if he was in the Middle East at the time?

How can Bible literalists possibly explain this?

2007-04-29 17:57:23 · 23 answers · asked by Dylan H 3