Religion & Spirituality - 18 May 2007

Have you ever lost a closed loved one and someone says to you when you ask them why God allowed this to happen, things happen for a reason? I know people mean well and it's probably said because of a lack of something else to say...but I don't think it's a very good thing to say.

What reason would God have for taking a child from it's mother? Or a mother from it's child?

And I'm not doubting his plan or spitting on his name or anything...I just genuinely want to know.

Put yourself in their shoes, if you just lost a child, would you want to hear 'things happen for a reason?'

I think it's a phrase that a person has to come to terms with and tell themselves.

And even if you don't believe in God, but this doesn't necessarily have to be about God...maybe you believe in kismet or serendipity.

I just want to know...what makes you tell someone this? It just seems tactless to me for someone's grief.

2007-05-18 14:06:13 · 24 answers · asked by Anonymous

A Stick!

2007-05-18 14:04:52 · 12 answers · asked by Judas. S. Burroughs. 3

2007-05-18 14:04:23 · 14 answers · asked by Lighthawk Demon 4

Any creative ideas?

2007-05-18 14:04:06 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous

Tim McGraw...oh my God can you believe her!!
What can I do....believers quick tell me what to do when someone mocks your God.
Do I ask Tim to smythe her...do I ask Tim to forgive her?
Help I am in turmoil!!

2007-05-18 14:01:53 · 25 answers · asked by Anonymous

There are lots of reasons that you all believe. To you, what would be the worst thing about "being wrong"?

Thank you!

2007-05-18 13:55:02 · 41 answers · asked by Anonymous

to God and the saints for a soulmate to come into my life. I've prayed for years and now am 40.

Is it possible I missed him, or God needs to whack me on the head, or should I just remain single? Is that my answer.

Any help would be great. THanks.

2007-05-18 13:53:46 · 23 answers · asked by Anonymous

... but are skeptical about the existence of God? No one has seen or been on Pluto (many details about Pluto will remain unknown until 2015, when the New Horizons spacecraft is expected to arrive there.**). Many are certain about the atmospheric composition and size of Pluto, relying only on spectroscopic data and enormous telescopes. We don't have first hand experience on Pluto, but we assume it exists. So what is different about believing in God? Alot of people have first hand experience with God and His grace, but atheists still do not believe He exists. Puzzling....


** Space Probe Heads To Pluto - Finally. CBS News (2006-01-19).

2007-05-18 13:51:34 · 31 answers · asked by Dr. G™ 5

Did he fly way and disappear like the sandman on spiderman 3?

2007-05-18 13:50:13 · 9 answers · asked by Mr Christian Ct 4

Jesus Christ is coming folks....

Perhaps the non-believers would think the ailians took us away, since they don't believe in God.

I am afraid when that day comes, it maybe to late for some to change their minds.

2007-05-18 13:46:22 · 33 answers · asked by inteleyes 7

How long will it take for Christians to become an insignificant minority? 100 years? 500? Or do you think it will be much sooner than that?

Or do you think this will never happen?

This question is for atheists and agnostics only.

Thank you for your answers.

2007-05-18 13:43:15 · 25 answers · asked by Anonymous

I just read a post where Christians called homosexuality a sin, a perversion, sick, and they also wrote that God created man to find woman attractive. This is some of the most ridiculous garbage I've ever read on this site. Personally, I believe that people who think that way about homosexuality likely have latent homosexual desires that they aren't sure how to deal with and are scared of, so they lash out and label it as sick or a perversion. To those who think that homosexuality is immoral or a sickness, am I right? C'mon, you can be honest, nobody knows who you are.

2007-05-18 13:42:09 · 27 answers · asked by chazzychef 4

If not a place filled with fire yet a punishment no less what would yours be?
Mine would be eternity in WalMart....during Christamas season.

2007-05-18 13:41:09 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous

Please try to keep an open mind as to the reasons that fewer and fewer people identify themselves as Christians?

People don't buy into Christianity as much anymore because our world is changing really quickly, and Christian denominations INSIST on changing nothing, and looking only to the thoughts of 2,000 year old men for their guidance.

The Bible is not irrelevant. It has beautiful stories full of wisdom and lessons that could benefit billions of people around the world. But that doesn't mean that everybody who INTERPRETS it necessarily knows what they're talking about.

We need to look beyond the Bible, and within ourselves, have doubts, ask questions, and for crying out loud... BE KIND TO OUR NEIGHBORS... that means liberals, homosexuals, and non-Christians alike.

Christianity has so much to offer, and it's being stifled by hard-nosed conservatives who get angry and discriminatory toward non-believers.

Lead by example. Non-Christians are not your enemy. Can you do this?

2007-05-18 13:38:51 · 19 answers · asked by Buying is Voting 7

When some talk of OT Law, they say those were the laws for those people at that time. They may add that those laws -had- to be brutal because those were brutal times with brutal people.

But the Laws as given by Jesus are quite different from those brutal OT laws.

So when God is quoted in Leviticus as handing down those brutal laws, was God compromising His values by telling these brutal people to brutally put people to death for adultery and cursing their parents and so forth?

If the Love and Forgiveness of Jesus has given voice to God's true values, how do you explain God giving out laws with death penalties for all sorts of things that we do not believe warrant the death penalty?

Have we become a more civilized people than the God of the Old Testament?

2007-05-18 13:36:37 · 19 answers · asked by Anonymous

Do you think we will still know our family? Wil we still be married? Will their be animals there? Will everyone be floating around? Do you think that everyones heaven will be different or wil it be one set way? I'm just curious.

2007-05-18 13:36:22 · 14 answers · asked by moneybagsgrl 2

I am out of answers for the moment ... this is a sign that I have been on too long tonight eek
I do miss my level 7 at times like this !
but I just want you all to know that in between the odd negative comment ..... I havent smiled so much in ages
you guys rock !
will you all try to make each other smile tonight
say something funny , lighten each others hearts a little
and have a good one ok ?

2007-05-18 13:33:52 · 28 answers · asked by Anonymous

Isn't God greater than Jesus Christ and how should it matter to us?
(St.John 14, 28 : For the father is greater than I)

2007-05-18 13:33:42 · 16 answers · asked by miraculous_prophet 2

If God will take away our sinful nature in heaven then how do we have free will anymore? If the very definition of free will is choosing between good and evil and I have no choice but to do good, then how can I be making a choice?

2007-05-18 13:31:37 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-05-18 13:30:13 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous

like Christmas or birthday gifts?

2007-05-18 13:29:25 · 14 answers · asked by karma 3

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I am not the author/artist.

2007-05-18 13:26:03 · 8 answers · asked by rebekkah hot as the sun 7

Can you come out to play? (spiritually speaking, of course :)

2007-05-18 13:25:42 · 17 answers · asked by ? 6

when you ask Jesus into your heart, is that all you have to do to be saved or is there more to it?

2007-05-18 13:21:03 · 15 answers · asked by shaela x 2

lived among us?

2007-05-18 13:16:54 · 17 answers · asked by Open your eyes 4

or friday night?

Meows! =^-^=

2007-05-18 13:16:02 · 9 answers · asked by ♥ God's Kitty ♥ 2

Ok, let’s just say that sexual orientation is a choice and the Christians are correct. By that account, the reason I am straight is because I choose to be. It has nothing to do with the fact that I find women sexually attractive. I am straight because I choose to be. That about sums up your beliefs correctly doesn't it Christians?????

2007-05-18 13:15:54 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous

(1) Why are you so quiet?
There are a billion Muslims in the world. How is it possible that essentially none have demonstrated against evils perpetrated by Muslims in the name of Islam?

(2) Why are none of the Palestinian terrorists Christian?

(3) Why is only one of the 47 Muslim-majority countries a free country?
According to Freedom House, a Washington-based group that promotes democracy, of the world's 47 Muslim countries, only Mali is free.

(4) Why are so many atrocities committed and threatened by Muslims in the name of Islam?
Young girls in Indonesia were beheaded by Muslim murderers. Muslims — in the name of Islam — murdered hundreds of schoolchildren in Russia. Muslim daughters are murdered by their own families in the thousands in "honor killings."

(5) Why do countries governed by religious Muslims persecute other religions?
No church or synagogue is allowed in Saudi Arabia. The Taliban destroyed ancient buddha statues. Sudan's islamist mudered christians.

2007-05-18 13:13:41 · 12 answers · asked by Andrew 2

Faith is not belief. Belief is passive. Faith is active. --Edith Hamilton

Agree or disagree?

2007-05-18 13:12:04 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous

Islam = Covenant through Ishmael.

Every holy place has been given to the Muslims..... Mt Ararat/Turkey, Egypt, Iraq, Saudi Arabia etc.


1-----After Abraham had lived ten years in the land of Canaan, Abram's wife Sarai took Hagar the Egyptian [princess], her maid, and gave her to her husband Abram as HIS WIFE. -- GENESIS 16:3

2------So Hagar bore Abram a son; and Abram called the name of HIS SON, whom Hagar bore, ISHMAEL. - GENESIS 16:15



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2007-05-18 13:11:57 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous