Religion & Spirituality - 27 May 2007

All the time I read answers saying:
"Somebody who grew up in the jungle and has never heard about Jesus, will of course go to Heaven! God is just!"

"Aborted fetuses go to heaven, even if they never had the chance to hear the Gospels"

Etc, etc.

In short: the only people that go to Hell are the ones that heard about Jesus and rejected Him. People who have never heard about Jesus don't go to Hell.

Therefore: isn't it pure evil to preach about Jesus? It's forcing people into a choice. If you never had given that person that choice, that person would for sure go to Heaven.

2007-05-27 15:22:17 · 20 answers · asked by ? 6

ok i grew up believing in god but as i got older i realized that there isnt any proof that there is a god,until a friend told me to look around and told me that,thats the proof of him existing and that he made science to be the way it is.now ever since she told me that i woundered that maybe there is a god.but what hold me back is,how can a spirit even be created by itself???i mean,even if everything around us is a proof then how can you explain that a spirit that created everything,be created???how can you believe that it started off with one spirit???there has to be someone or something that created it.my anwer to that would be science but i want to know your reply.

please help cause im now stuck to whether to believe in him or not.

2007-05-27 15:21:15 · 16 answers · asked by EndlessMisery 2

If Jesus saved us from sin, how come people still sin?

Where does sin come from? If God made us all, and God is good, how does sin get into the world?

If all humans have free will, why don’t they choose good instead of evil?

Could Jesus have saved us without dying on the cross? If he died of cancer, would that have saved us?

If Jesus’ Father wanted him to die on the cross, doesn’t that make the Father seem bloodthirsty? Explain.

2007-05-27 15:21:05 · 20 answers · asked by Anthony 4

Question:How do you explain christians who are rude, violent, con artists, greedy, viscious, use drugs, mean spirited, etc.

Answer: They are not real christians

When atheists are asked a similar type of question such as:

"Why do atheists habitually point out flaws in the bible"?

Answer: Atheists don't respond "they are not real atheists".

How are you ever sure anything in your world is real or true? Or is it the faith thing that I'm just not seeming to get?

2007-05-27 15:21:00 · 18 answers · asked by Anonymous

Like I heard he went to China and kicked it with the monks for the last 40 years of his life getting drunk all the time and learning Kung Fu.

2007-05-27 15:19:03 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-05-27 15:16:26 · 29 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-05-27 15:16:05 · 18 answers · asked by ? 5

Just what are the simple things the belive in which differ from eachother?

2007-05-27 15:15:25 · 21 answers · asked by Anonymous

Can religion be God's enemy?

1. Every day people kill others in the name of religion. From the Crusades to the conflict in the Middle East, it seems that religion can go against everything God is. How can you serve a loving God by killing His children in His name?

2. It seems that instead of uniting us in faith, love of thy neighbor and love of the Lord, religion pulls us apart. These days you can't be just Christian - we classify ourselves into Catholic, Methodist, Baptist, Evangelical etc. Instead of being faithful, we are split into camps, groups, movements that fight with each other for money, donations and power.

3. Have we limited the great concept of God and the Holy scriptures to the narrowest of interpretations just to comprehend them? Is religious dogma doing more harm than good?

I respect people's religious views. This post is in no way meant to put off or insult any faithful, agnostics or atheists. Please do not take offense. I want a civilized discussion. :)

2007-05-27 15:15:08 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous

Doing another paper for school. Do you believe in Christ? Do you believe he died on the cross for you? Are you a believer? Do you go to church? Is there another religion you believe in?WHY or WHY NOT? Any answers would be very, very, very helpful! Thank you. After answering try reading John 3:16 in the Bible and tell me if you believe in it or not as well. Thanks agian.

2007-05-27 15:13:50 · 21 answers · asked by prettygirlie 2

"Graphing activity: When the Graduate Center of the City University of New York conducted an American Religious Identification Survey in 2001, it discovered that about the same number of people said they had joined the LDS Church as said they had left it. The CUNY survey reported the church's net growth was zero percent. By contrast, the study showed both Jehovah's Witnesses and Seventh-Day Adventists with an increase of 11 percent.

'Because membership statistics are prepared and reported differently by various religious groups, the LDS Church does not publish comparisons of total membership to other faiths,' said LDS spokesman Dale Bills on Friday. "

from http://www.sltrib.com/ci_2890645

2007-05-27 15:13:23 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous

Do shrimp count as fish? They should, right? I think I'm eating fish and chips right now... Coincidence?

2007-05-27 15:11:20 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous

I'm sick and tired of hearing this crap. I'm not gay, and I don't hang out with gays, but I don't hate them, and neither does God. GOD DOESN'T HATE!!!

2007-05-27 15:11:02 · 20 answers · asked by Incorrectly Political 5

Its a tough standard that we Christians live by. How can we make ourselves able to do it?

2007-05-27 15:10:40 · 12 answers · asked by Zezo Zeze Zadfrack 1

- Humans were created after the other animals

Gen.1:25-27
"And God made the beast of the earth after his kind, and the cattle after their kind ... And God said, Let us make man ... So God created man in his own image."

Humans were created before the other animals

Gen.2:18-19
"And the Lord God said it is not good that man should be alone; I will make a help-meet for him. And out of the ground the Lord God formed every beast of the field, and every fowl of the air, and brought them to Adam to see what he would call them

How did Judas die?
He hanged himself.

Mt.27:5
"And he [Judas] cast down the pieces of silver in the temple, and departed, and went and hanged himself."


He fell down and died.
Acts 1:18
" Now this man [Judas] purchased a field with the reward of iniquity; and falling headlong, he burst asunder in the midst, and all his bowels gushed out."

ADDING .....

2007-05-27 15:08:19 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-05-27 15:05:47 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous

I heard of this blasphemy challenge thing and was wondering if there is a thing against it from the christian point of veiw? and to counter the rational response squad?

2007-05-27 15:05:04 · 14 answers · asked by Borg_MonkeyDrone 3

Extraterrestrials have been imagined for at least 2300 years, if not longer. Epicurus wrote to Herodotus in 300 BCE proposing there could be "infinite worlds both like and unlike this world of ours", even ones inhabited by "living creatures and plants and other things we see in this world"

What say you?

2007-05-27 15:04:19 · 16 answers · asked by Tangy 2

2007-05-27 15:04:00 · 27 answers · asked by man o man 1

2007-05-27 15:03:36 · 8 answers · asked by Lisa the Pooh 7

2007-05-27 15:02:15 · 4 answers · asked by keri gee 6

In the name of Allah, the Gracious, the Merciful.

The same did Abraham enjoin upon his sons, - and Jacob also - saying, 'O my sons, truly God has chosen this religion for you; so let not death overtake you except when you are in a state of complete submission.'

Were you present when death came to Jacob, when he said to his sons. 'What will you worship after me?' They answered, 'We will worship thy God, the God of thy fathers, Abraham and Ishmael and Isaac, the One God; and to Him we submit ourselves.'

Say ye, 'We believe in God and what has been revealed to us, and what was revealed to Abraham and Ishmael, and Isaac, and Jacob and his children, and what was given to Moses and Jesus, and what was given to all other Prophets from their Lord. We make no distinction between any of them; and to Him we submit ourselves.'

And We gave him Isaac and Jacob; each did We guide aright, and Noah did We guide aright aforetime, and of his progeny, David and Solomon and Job and Joseph and Moses and Aaron. Thus do We reward those who do good.

And his wife was standing by and she too was frightened, whereupon to assure her we gave her glad tidings of birth of Isaac, and, after Isaac, of Jacob.

'And thus, as thou hast seen, thy Lord shall choose thee and teach thee the interpretations of things divine and perfect His favour upon thee and upon the family of Jacob as He perfected it upon thy two forefathers - Abraham and Isaac. Verily, thy Lord is All-Knowing, Wise.'

And remember Our servants Abraham and Isaac and Jacob, men of might and vision.

'And I have followed the religion of my fathers - Abraham and Isaac and Jacob. It behoves us not to associate anything as partner with God. This is of God's grace upon us and upon mankind, but most men are ungrateful;

And We bestowed on him Isaac and Jacob, and We placed Prophethood and the Book among his descendants, and We gave him his reward in this life, and in the Hereafter he will, surely, be among the righteous.

Muhammad is the Messenger of God. And those who are with him are hard against the disbelievers but tender among themselves. Thou seest them bowing and prostrating themselves in Prayer, seeking God's grace and pleasure. Their marks are upon their faces, being the traces of prostrations. This is their description in the Torah. And their description in the Gospel is like unto a seed-produce that sends forth its sprout, then makes it strong; it then becomes stout, and stands firm on its stem, delighting the sowers - That He may cause the disbelievers to boil with rage at the sight of them. Allah has promised, unto those of them, who believe and do good works, forgiveness and a great reward.




HOLY QURAN

2007-05-27 15:00:45 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous

Does it bother you that much of the stories of the bible are found in parallel Koranic texts (eg. the stories of Abraham, Noah, Moses and *JESUS*)?

Or do some prefer ignorance?

2007-05-27 14:58:45 · 22 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-05-27 14:58:22 · 16 answers · asked by MrsOcultyThomas 6

How is this a sin?
How are thoughts sins when they just pop into your head like that?
How does one control thier thoughts? If they cant control them how are they sinful?
I have ADD if that matters....well it matters to me cause I have strange thoughts pop in my head a lot.

2007-05-27 14:57:01 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous

See: http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20070527184738AAl9kVu&r=w

Telling me that it "doesn't work that way" or that you don't want to answer weirds me out. It's Y!A, and if you don't like the question then how hard is it not to answer?

2007-05-27 14:55:54 · 16 answers · asked by Aeryn Whitley 3

2007-05-27 14:54:35 · 13 answers · asked by MrsOcultyThomas 6

the bible says that "god" created man in his image, and when the first men were around, they were cavemen. so in theory, wouldn't that make "god" a caveman...another hole in the christian beliefs? sounds like it...

p.s. i'm an atheist, so atheists, dont call me dumb, and christians, dont spread hate, give a good answer

2007-05-27 14:52:25 · 25 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-05-27 14:52:22 · 15 answers · asked by MrsOcultyThomas 6

I asked a question earlier about God and recieved about 30 different answers as to how to worship and serve him. How can this be? There is but one God and the same road to him one would think would be universal.

2007-05-27 14:51:39 · 24 answers · asked by Progeny Rising 2