Religion & Spirituality - 28 May 2007

Why or why not?

2007-05-28 14:51:32 · 28 answers · asked by Lost. at. Sea. 7

When I was a teenager, I visited a Catholic church, a Fundamentalist church, a mainstream Protestant Church, a Hindu temple, a Buddhist shrine, and a Muslim mosque. I traveled a lot and my parents wanted me to experience and understand other cultures. Most people never have such opportunities and may not even want to do such a thing anyway. However, I found it very enriching to understand how people think and what they believe. Would the world be better off if everyone learned about the major world religions?

2007-05-28 14:50:33 · 14 answers · asked by Graciela, RIRS 6

2007-05-28 14:49:35 · 23 answers · asked by Anonymous

I would like to know some good examples of Christian Guidance that one can use all throughout their life toward fullfilment. Accepting all answers.

2007-05-28 14:49:16 · 7 answers · asked by leaf 4

2007-05-28 14:48:48 · 7 answers · asked by harridan5 4

The fact that Christians - who follow the teachings of a man who spent most of his personal (non-sermonizing) time exclusively with other men, who never had sexual intercourse with a woman, and whose closest female friend was an "actress" - revile and condemn homosexuality seems hilariously hypocritical. In light of the time in which he lived, being an asexual, unmarried late 20 something would have been seriously aberrant, as would seducing the sons of the villages and locales he visited to follow him off into the wilderness. Of all Christian writers, he would be the one you would expect to be most vehemently opposed to homosexuality, and yet it's a point he remains silent on. All rote, tradition, and religious hysteria aside, - seriously, does no one else see the possible irony?

2007-05-28 14:45:17 · 40 answers · asked by Anonymous

If God is all knowing and powerful then at the begganing of time he already had a list of people going to Hell which doesnt sound all mercifull when you dont have a choice.

Also I use to hate and let me relitterate HATE gay people but thanks to a very good friend I relized the error of my ways and now one of the best friends is lesbian but the reason I hated them was because the Bible says being gay is bad but you dont choose who you are attracted to you are just attracted so why would God make Gay people and say hay you are a sinner?

2007-05-28 14:45:01 · 17 answers · asked by Anonymous

As I have been reading all of the various debates and discussions regarding Islam and Christianity, I'm left wondering how many of you that rip on the Muslim religion actually have Muslim friends.

There seems to be a VERY LARGE proportion of people that seem to be experts on Christianity yet they also seem to know very little about Islam and Muslim people.

I've even read statements that Muslims wipe their butts with their left hand without the benefit of toilet paper. lol! I'm sorry but I know plenty of Muslims and have yet to catch one of them with crap on their hand!

Likewise, I have also heard that Middle Easterners are dirty people. I have been in the homes and cars of many Muslims and Chaldeans and they are impecabbly clean.

So, please tell me, how many of you that make these ignorant statements actually know a Muslim and actively hang out with he or she?

2007-05-28 14:38:18 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous

No other species has spirituality like we do, and it seems that we build bigger churchs and do bigger things ( missions,mass suicides, stand offs with ATF ) for whatever deity it is we believe in as time goes by.

Do you think this could be part of human subconscious changing and evolving?

2007-05-28 14:36:56 · 22 answers · asked by The Angry Stick Man 6

Since it was cursed by magic Jesus radiation.

Or did the tree repent and accept Jesus?

2007-05-28 14:36:50 · 9 answers · asked by Depend 4 Poopmoor 1

without telling me how stupid I am or that I wont understand.
Trust me if I dont understand I will ask more questions thats what the place is about right?
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=AqXn_b6rSzqTYL8Hut9msWbd7BR.?qid=20070528181836AAsUM8C

2007-05-28 14:32:23 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous

how a god eats food hahahaha so funny you are chrestians

2007-05-28 14:25:00 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous

if its too late?

2007-05-28 14:21:32 · 6 answers · asked by Silly BaBy505 1

In this day and age of science, do some people really believe the Biblical account of creation? That Dinosaurs and humans walked the earth together? Do they tell their kids that Fred Flintstone's world is true? Are people really that gullible? I hope not, at least for their kid's sake.

2007-05-28 14:19:46 · 35 answers · asked by Anonymous

Do you think it would be bad if I went to a catholic church as well as a christian church at the same time. I want to do this because I want to be a cathechist for the cathlolic church and be a missionary (one who travels around the world with church missionaries to help the poor) for the christian church. Do you think its wrong???? Please give me your opinion. Thanks

2007-05-28 14:19:31 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous

If no, what should one say? Simply 'None'? What defines religion (Christianity, Hinduism, Hellenicism) from those that are simply philosophies (Confucianism, Taoism) and belief systems (Objectivism, Marxism, Romansticism)?

2007-05-28 14:15:02 · 3 answers · asked by pecier 3

I've been reading many heated debates and discussion comparing Christianity and other religions.

Time and time again, I see Christians calling all sorts of other religions "false".

I'm just curious, but how can a religion be "false"? Doesn't falsity rely on the fact that there is no truth. If a person chooses to believe in a certain ideaology, then how can that be false?

Likewise, why is it the Christians that are constantly insulting the beliefs of others? I have read many of these types of questions and NOT ONE TIME have I seen a Muslim or Hindu or Buddhist say that Christianity is a FALSE RELIGION!

2007-05-28 14:11:23 · 36 answers · asked by Anonymous

My boyfriend went to a rabbi, a special rabbi who told him basically some advice on his future, and he said that if i wont convert to judaism, he would be facing literally hell. He loves me to death, and claims that this is one thing that i cannot do for him, and i wont convert. But my question is, can these things hapen? can he not be with me because of his fear of the rabbi's "prediction"?

2007-05-28 14:09:56 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous

... that can keep one from recieving the gift of heaven?

Lately I've been hearing a lot of talk of "doctrinal errors".

What are some of these "doctrinal errors"?

Examples? (I'm interested in answers from the Word of God.)

What types of things should one look out for pertaining to errors being taught concerning the Truth?

2007-05-28 14:06:30 · 12 answers · asked by JayDee 2

Matthew 21:19 "And when he saw a fig tree in the way, he came to it, and found nothing thereon, but leaves only, and said unto it, Let no fruit grow on thee henceforward for ever. And presently the fig tree withered away."

2007-05-28 14:05:28 · 29 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-05-28 14:03:25 · 14 answers · asked by Silly BaBy505 1

2007-05-28 14:00:46 · 30 answers · asked by Anonymous

I beleive that no one on earth can predict when teh world will end. Only God our Heavenly Father can. He already knows, so that means no one on earth knows.
Therefore, people down here can't tell us when the world will come to an end.

Thats what I believe.

2007-05-28 13:58:24 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous

I've had it since day one and I want it back.

2007-05-28 13:54:55 · 19 answers · asked by iamnoone 7

I know this is not true..I just wanted to feel more capable to understand that He is there and He does listen to me. My life hasn\t been easy and there are times it seems He has wal~ked away from me. I call HIm, I ask Him why so much going on and it seems all that I hear is the sound of the silence. I know He is everywhere, and I do not want to sadden Him by talking like this. I have been trying and learning to Praise Him even for His silence. But I admit, there are times it seems I can not handle so much loneliness, and the future scares me so much. I have no family or many friends. Even the Church is cold where I live. I talk to Jesus, I look at His picture I have hanging on the wall and I wonder if what I say does make sense to Him. Thanks for listening to me.

2007-05-28 13:51:18 · 43 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-05-28 13:50:36 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous

I have a friend who is a christian.She hopes to help those who have been brainwashed for lack of the right word.To set themselves free from man made doctrines that so many are faced with today and encourage them to walk in the Spirit as God would have them to do.What do you think of such a ministry?

2007-05-28 13:49:49 · 15 answers · asked by don_steele54 6

I have bought heaps of followers from P&S to take over this category and turn it in to a festering pit of decadence and eternal misery for all - would anyone like a cup of tea?

2007-05-28 13:45:05 · 32 answers · asked by Anonymous

I know Jehovah Witnesses previously used the KJV. I assume the KJV is no longer used because it loudly proclaims the divinity of Jesus Christ. Whereas the New World Translation has tried to remove any trace of the Godhood of Christ. However, it is still unsuccessful.

It will have to be "edited" again. Even the NWT shows Mark 2:7b "who can forgive sins but God only"? We see throughout the Bible that God alone can forgive sins. Yet, you say Jesus Christ is the chief angel. How could a chief angel forgive sins? Jesus Christ repeatedly showed that He had not only the power to heal, but to forgive sins as He did for the lame man lowered through the roof and the sinful woman. To them both, Jesus said, "Your sins are forgiven" (Mark 2:5 and Luke 7:48)

Who can forgive sins but God? Jesus Christ is God.

Read the version you used to use: John 1 from the KJV-- 1In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.

2The same was in the beginning with God.

3All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made.

4In him was life; and the life was the light of men.

5And the light shineth in darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not.

2007-05-28 13:44:08 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous

like when Michael Moore and Rosie O'Donnel get there, can he say "no i don't want you, go away"?

2007-05-28 13:43:21 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous