Religion & Spirituality - 14 May 2007

I know you'll act dishonest here and say "NOPE" if you're a christian, but do send me a private message for this deal, incase you don't want to get exposed here.

2007-05-14 20:20:19 · 20 answers · asked by Anonymous

If "God judges" is first then there is no need to be saved our behavior is what matters.
If the "belief in Christ" is first then our behavior does not matter (e.g.) Murder rape... is ok as long as I believe in Christ in the End.
Which is it boys and girls?

2007-05-14 20:18:32 · 11 answers · asked by Johnny W 2

i dont see why people are so confused about what the bible says. even if you DO read the king james translation, (which by the way, the dialect in king james is dead) its still relatively cut and dry. and if you dont get king james, try the simplified bible, or the new world translation. for gods sake people, wait, no for your own sakes, READ IT!

2007-05-14 20:17:28 · 9 answers · asked by mechmunkee3 3

Have you found god? What event in your life made you need religion? In what way were you an Atheist, in the first place? Were you brought up in a religion but lost your faith?

2007-05-14 20:16:53 · 8 answers · asked by cananddo 4

Ok, so I asked a Christian friend, "if a perfect and completely good god exists, why is there evil?".. he says it is because if there were no evil then man would not truly have free will because he would not have the option of acting in an evil way. If god took away all pain and cruelty then he would also have to take away free will.

Sounds ok, but how can a perfectly good being create evil in the first place? If god has even the capacity to fathom and appriciate the concept of evil, doesn't it suggest that god is in some way evil?

A perfectly good being cannot be partially evil.... what do you think?

2007-05-14 20:16:00 · 14 answers · asked by maggielynn 3

2007-05-14 20:15:55 · 11 answers · asked by Micz 1

2007-05-14 20:13:33 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous

is it reasonable that you and your children and your grandchildren are still punished for it?

2007-05-14 20:09:07 · 25 answers · asked by Anonymous

नैनं छिन्दन्ति शस्त्राणि नैनं दहति पावकः ।
न चैनं क्लेदयन्त्यापो न शोषयति मारुतः ॥२- २३॥

अच्छेद्योऽयमदाह्योऽयमक्लेद्योऽशोष्य एव च ।
नित्यः सर्वगतः स्थाणुरचलोऽयं सनातनः ॥२- २४॥

Kata Upanishad claims that an atom can not distructed or produced. Only transformation is there.

Can we erase a drop of water, or a praticle od sand?
Can most advanced science produce a new particle of sand?

If transformation is only thing that can change the forms what about the soul once dead is dead forever....and new chain of souls are taking birth since millions and mIllions of years?

Is there any soul nursery like star nurseries?

2007-05-14 20:03:36 · 12 answers · asked by Shripathi Krishna Acharya 5

And The Lord God said, Behold, the man is become as one of us, to know good and evil: lest he put forth his hand and take from the tree of life, and eat, and live forever: (Gen 3:22)

Is it not better this way?

2007-05-14 20:02:39 · 18 answers · asked by puma 1

2007-05-14 20:01:01 · 15 answers · asked by lebalicious 1

2007-05-14 19:59:46 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous

Faith is good, right?

2007-05-14 19:57:49 · 7 answers · asked by WWTSD? 5

I'd say John Adams. For a long time it was Ben Franklin but I found enough to know what he believed.... And I know Washington would not discuss personal theology openly..... but I think Adams would be willing to talk a lot about it.

Aside from that, I would say Leo Tolstoy.

And last, Anne Hutchinson.

2007-05-14 19:52:11 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous

Being omniscient, God knew Satan would turn out the way he did before creating him in the first place. So why did he create Luficer? Why did he opt to make him anyway knowing he would fall from grace and then torture His children for thousands of years?

Is it because God is a sadist?

2007-05-14 19:42:24 · 6 answers · asked by Deutscher Eishockey Bund 3

If you believe in sola scriptura please give the verse(s) in the Holy Bible that support the following traditions that most evangelicals accept:
-Christ was born on Dec. 25
-the revelation of Jesus Christ ended with the death of the last Apostle,
-The canon of the Bible was determined by God
-Provide(s) a list of the canonical books of the Old Testament,
-Provide(s) a list of the canonical books of the New Testament,
-Explain(s) the doctrine of the Trinity,
-John is the "beloved disciple",
-Matthew is the author of the first Gospel
-Mark is the author of the second Gospel
-Luke is the author of the third Gospel,
-John is the author of the fouth Gospel ,
-Luke is the author of the Acts of the Apostles
-You need to accept Jesus "as Personal Lord and Saviour" to be saved
-Baptism is for adults only
-The bible is the sole authority

The fact is that Sola Scriptura is a 16th century novelty built on a foundation of sand, since it is not supported by the Bible (see 1 Tim.3:15)

2007-05-14 19:40:05 · 9 answers · asked by jemayen 2

In Sura Al Mulk (Chapter 67) Ayaat # 5 it says

"And We have adorned the lowest heaven with lamps,
and we have made such (Lamps as) missiles to drive away Satans, ... "

So the stars were created by Allah as missiles to throw at the devils? In order to not let them eavesdrop on the heavenly council?

This does not sound very scientific. How can we believe indeed that Allah throws meteors, which are made up of carbon dioxide or iron-nickel, at non- material devils who steal a hearing at the heavenly council? And how do we explain the fact that many of earths meteors come in showers which consequently travel in parallel paths. Are we to thus understand that these parallel paths imply that the devils are all lined up in rows at the same moment? Any answer or views on this?

2007-05-14 19:38:28 · 7 answers · asked by Saphire4 5

The Islamists are always so angry because they think their country is in shambles because Shariah isn't implemented just right. If they would only execute one more homosexual, adulterer or apostate maybe things would be better. If they kept the women a little quieter and a little more covered maybe things would work out for them. I hear ancient history about algebra and architecture being created by Muslims but what have you done recently? If they hadn't built there society off of twice the African slaves than the west had and happened to be sitting on pools of oil, they would be worse off than sub-Saharan Africa. And no, I'm not being racist because Islam is a religion not a race. Religions are ideologies and ideologies either work or don't work. Islam has failed miserably.

2007-05-14 19:35:38 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous

i do

2007-05-14 19:35:16 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous

I'm absolutely certain that all of you hope it will, whenever I meet a muslim I am cordial, because I live in America and you are for the most part tamed here. But I never forget the words of your scriptures, I know every one of you will be my enemy until death.

2007-05-14 19:32:42 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-05-14 19:29:21 · 10 answers · asked by WWTSD? 5

Now we are beginging to understand what is in the Grand scheme of things!
Thank God for Jinnah (peace be upon him)

2007-05-14 19:27:15 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous

Genesis 3:8-9 says that Adam and Eve successfully hid themselves from God. If he's all-knowing, how is this possible? And is there somewhere that I could hide from him so that he won't send me to his hell when I die?

Genesis 3:8-9
Then the man and his wife heard the sound of the LORD God as he was walking in the garden in the cool of the day, and they hid from the LORD God among the trees of the garden. 9 But the LORD God called to the man, "Where are you?"
(NIV)

Or is this a simple mistranslation from all the translations the Bible went through.... if it was, is it the only one ... ?

2007-05-14 19:21:37 · 11 answers · asked by DD 2

Yeah,that one...performed at a wedding.

2007-05-14 19:11:05 · 12 answers · asked by SIR-KILO 1

Someone earlier said that if a person's parents have a religion or faith belief and tell their kids and raise them with that, that they are brainwashing them. Do you agree with this?
If you do then do you also believe that a vegetarian who raises their kids as vegetarians is also brainwashing their children?
If not then what is the difference?

I myself do not consider either of these to be brainwashing as i think a person who is raised a certain way can make a choice how they live when they are old enough to decide for themselves.

2007-05-14 19:03:11 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous

Okay, simple enough question. would be "What is heaven like?", but I want to be an equal opprotunity asker, Actually think about the question and how you "know" these things, are they just cultural cues you take from society and imagery or were they supposedly given to (insert deliver of divine word here).

The heaven of the bible, for example, is extremely vague, it is mentioned many times, but 90% of these mentions are regarding requirements for entrance, not actual details, the actual details paraphrased seem to be, "There is no suffering" and "God and angels live there.", extremely low on detail, and making it sound rather undesirable to me... So what does your religion actually say about (favorable afterlife condition here)?...

2007-05-14 18:58:15 · 2 answers · asked by ‫‬‭‮‪‫‬‭‮yelxeH 5

Some 4000 years ago, a small group emerge from the world, calling themselves the chosen people of God. These Israelites were lower class families and were ridiculed for their belief in just one God. They repeatedly fell away from, than returned, to God, but ended up denying the fulfillment of the prophesies of the coming Messiah.

Some 2000 years ago, a small group emerged from the Jews to become the 2nd chosen people of God. They were mostly uneducated, lower class individuals, such as Peter, a failed fisherman, and Matthew, a hated tax collector. Their brethren ridiculed them for their belief that a lower class, uneducated ex-carpenter was the Messiah.

Eventually, they repeatedly moved away from God, though some returned, but finally fragmenting into hundreds of sects, each claiming they are the Way, but Christ said there would be many "claiming" to speak in his name, while the gateway to life was narrow and hard to pass.

2007-05-14 18:55:27 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous

"Why is this night different from all other nights?" Does the answer to that question—the question at the heart of every Passover Seder of the Jewish people throughout the world for approximately 3,500 years lie at the heart of the salvation of not only the Jewish people but the entire world ?

You would have been hard pressed, 2000 years ago, to find anyone—Jew or Gentile—who did not look upon Christians as Jews who had formed a new sect within Judaism. Christianity was Jewish. Its followers were not converts; they were Jews WHO HAD DONE what Jews had been waiting to do for 2,000 years: welcome their Messiah, the long-expected hope of Israel.

On the eve of the tenth plague, God instructed the Jewish nation, while slaves to Pharaoh in Egypt, to slay a pure, unblemished lamb, which they would then consume, whose blood, painted on the lintels of the doorposts of their houses in Egypt, would take the place of the firstborn of every Israelite family and free them from the death of the tenth plague (cf. Ex. 12). In remembrance of that deliverance, the Israelites were instructed to celebrate anew and annually that first Passover (the night the angel of death "passed over" the houses of Egypt) with the death of a spotless lamb whose shed blood was the cause of their deliverance.

Approximately 1,500 years later, Jesus and his Jewish disciples celebrated that same Passover—also with a slain lamb at their table—to be eaten in remembrance of that first Passover. Could any of the twelve have imagined the answer to the "routine" question "Why is this night different from all other nights?" Could they have understood that what was prefigured in the lambs of Egypt would be fulfilled in the Lamb of God, the Lamb to which all other lambs pointed, the Lamb who would deliver them not from temporal bondage to slavery from Egypt but from eternal bondage to slavery from sin?

Salvation from the Jews, through whom the Messiah came, was not only for the Jews but for the whole world. Following his Resurrection and prior to his Ascension, Jesus gave instructions to the twelve (Jewish) disciples to take the gospel (the "good news" of salvation) to the ends of the earth: "You shall receive power when the Holy Sprit has come upon you; and you shall be my witnesses in Jerusalem and in all Judea and Samaria and to the end of the earth" (Acts 1:8). And, again, "Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you; and lo, I am with you always, to the close of the age" (Matt. 28:19–20).

Did the Jews fulfil their God-given mission to evangelize and preach to the whole world before the end ? Through the christians the God of Israel has become known to the whole wide world ?

2007-05-14 18:52:22 · 6 answers · asked by defOf 4

A lot of Christians ignore what Jesus actually says in the bible. They also tend to add things to the actual words to make them say something else.

If you honestly and truthfully read the following verses,without adding to them,it is very easy to see that Jesus is not saying god will think about your prayers. He says god will grant all your prayers.

Clearly, god doesent grant all prayers and this proves that Jesus was an habitual liar.

Matthew 21:21-22
Matthew 7:7-8
Matthew 18:19-20
Mark 11:24-25
Luke 11:9-13
John 14:13-14
John 15:7
John 15:16
John 16:23-24

2007-05-14 18:44:11 · 19 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-05-14 18:41:17 · 24 answers · asked by ibid 3