Religion & Spirituality - 28 May 2007

if so what do you think of them?

2007-05-28 09:58:16 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous

I don't really have a social life. My friend told me I'm obsessed with the Christian religion. I place God on the top of my list in importance. What are the benefits of becoming a monk?

2007-05-28 09:55:40 · 6 answers · asked by Daniel C 1

2007-05-28 09:54:48 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-05-28 09:52:17 · 9 answers · asked by Priestcalling 3

2007-05-28 09:50:55 · 17 answers · asked by ? 2

sience were such alcholics should we have a pryer like this

our be,er whitch comes in bottles hallowed be our drink
thy will be drunk i will be drunk at home as in the tavern give us each day our daily beverage and forgive us our spillages
as we forgive us thous who spill agenst us and lead us not in to incarcenation but deliver us from hangovers for thine is the vodka the shots and the tails forever and ever Barmen

2007-05-28 09:50:31 · 11 answers · asked by cthulhu will raise 5

How would the Kingdom of Heaven effect your portfolio?
Was He serious about Matthew 6:24 and all that camel walking through the eye of the needle stuff.
How do you rationalize both of your beliefs?

2007-05-28 09:49:33 · 9 answers · asked by The real Ed-Mike 3

2007-05-28 09:47:28 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous

As a benefit or a hindrance?

2007-05-28 09:46:31 · 12 answers · asked by yaabro 4

Religious or not, I'd like to hear your opinion of this video clip:
http://www.geekarmy.com/Science/The-Ethics-of-Hell.html

Good or bad comments welcome. Do you have any objections to the statements made?

2007-05-28 09:44:00 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous

i took this from a quote from a book i am reading

2007-05-28 09:43:47 · 25 answers · asked by vici 4

I have been tempted by things that I know in my heart are wrong, but in the flesh would feel so fine. Is God testing my judgement?

2007-05-28 09:41:06 · 11 answers · asked by jason s 1

What were your parents views on "Religion" ... Did your parents belief in God, yes no? If so, what religious affiliation, if not were they Atheists , Agnostics, Wiccan, Pagan? Thanks for any answers in advance.
*I am asking these two catagories, because they are who I most see "going at it" on here. LOL

2007-05-28 09:39:38 · 30 answers · asked by 00 0 1

I've noticed that a common thread among thought-provoking questions is a answerer who invaribly insists, "You're just angry with (my god / my religion) and I pray that you'll (get over it / get a life / realize I'm right)."

Is it really so wrong to be angry with certain religions, or at least with certain interpretations of those religions? I'm angry with fundie Muslims who want to fly planes into buildings, I'm angry with fundie Christians who think that God shouldn't cure kids with cancer because dying kids are "inspiring". I'm also angry with atheists who think whatever terrible things fundie atheists think (I'm drawing a blank, but there's surely some nut jobs out there somewhere).

Is it wrong to be angry in the face of injustice, hypocrisy, and the other bad things that can often be found in religion?

2007-05-28 09:37:48 · 17 answers · asked by Anonymous

Paul says you have been saved by grace through faith, it is a gift of God, not of works lest you should boast. James says faith without works is dead. How do these two verses fit together?

2007-05-28 09:36:09 · 8 answers · asked by Daniel C 1

accept Christ as your savior and honestly seek and work to follow him, accept the bible as God inspired and true,

Then are you a "true christian"?

but... if you decide after a few years you don't believe it, you were never really a true christian?

Is that it?

2007-05-28 09:35:04 · 11 answers · asked by Aria 3

I keep seeing Christians telling atheists that they couldn't REALLY have been Christians in the past because if they had really truly "gotten" Chrsitianity, they wouldn't have left.

The problem is, it's not unusal to find a Christian who talks movingly about how he/she "used to be" a Wiccan / Muslim / Atheist / Evolutionist / Etc. but now they are a Christian. The message is that they can personally testify as to how much BETTER it is to be a Christian than to be the other thing.

Is it fair, then, to insist that they couldn't have REALLY been this one thing, if they are no longer than one thing? Or can we all agree that people change as they get older and that to hold stubbornly to a creed in the face of all personal experience otherwise is to be intellectually dishonest with yourself?

2007-05-28 09:34:31 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous

... as evidenced by speaking in tongues?

"When the day of Pentecost came, they were all together in one place. Suddenly a sound like the blowing of a violent wind came from heaven and filled the whole house where they were sitting. They saw what seemed to be tongues of fire that separated and came to rest on each of them. All of them were filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak in other tongues as the Spirit enabled them." -- Acts 2:1-4 NIV

In other words, speaking in tongues is evidence for non-believers for the infilling of the Holy Ghost. Why does the Catholic ritual not follow through on calling out to God, until he pours down his spirit?

2007-05-28 09:32:21 · 14 answers · asked by Dr. G™ 5

Have got the evedence your heart needs to know, since the age of five there was the question and the answer came back
It dosent matter. I will find the answere one day.as long, as I wanted to know the truth the answer to my question will come
Just to remember the Question, thats inportent to us Sorry for
the misspelling. Everyone The check stoped working !!!!

2007-05-28 09:31:59 · 10 answers · asked by Del B 1

can you please compare mormons and "ordinary" christians?

2007-05-28 09:31:52 · 5 answers · asked by khoskel 1

A lot of times I see Christians tell atheists "if you read the Bible, you'd understand" or something along those lines. The general implication seems to be that atheists are ignorant of Biblical contents. However, in my experience, most atheists HAVE read the Bible extensively - indeed, often they were Christians who left the faith AFTER reading the Bible.

(On a side note, I saw a question this morning where the questioner said that he was losing his faith after reading the OT, upon which several Christians advised him to STOP reading the Bible, haha.)

My question is: How many of the atheists here have read the Bible, or most of it? And how many of you became atheists at least in part BECAUSE of what you read?

2007-05-28 09:31:13 · 18 answers · asked by Anonymous

Lets check out your religious knowledge and the winner gets 10 points ofcourse.

1) Kill not your hearts with excess of eating and drinking.

2) Man is a wonderful creature; he sees through the layers of fat (eyes), hears through a bone (ears) and speaks through a lump of flesh (tongue).

3) The good man brings good things out of the good stored up in his heart, and the evil man brings evil things out of the evil stored up in his heart. For out of the overflow of his heart his mouth speaks

2007-05-28 09:30:32 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-05-28 09:30:01 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous

Inspired by this question:

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=AhYDR_z9RC1MGL3Rhz3uIyrd7BR.?qid=20070528131719AAZGemM

I just wondered if anyone would own up to being in a position they themselves had formerly regarded as impossible, and what they think of those who still claim it is? Thanks to all in advance.

2007-05-28 09:29:05 · 6 answers · asked by Bad Liberal 7

Not a great question I know but I got to see it this weekend and I'm still smiling.

2007-05-28 09:28:32 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous

How you all doing? I am quite fine... any entertaining answers lately to questions?

2007-05-28 09:27:30 · 16 answers · asked by Highlander 4

While eliminating waste your sitting there thinking and the feeling overcomes you to pray...would it be ok to pray while on the toliet?
I know this sounds bizarre but I am serious.

2007-05-28 09:23:41 · 20 answers · asked by Anonymous

Any objective person who looks at the alleged lost tomb of Jesus, who looks at the so-called scientific evidence, and the miscontrued statistical evidence, will come to the conclusion that it is indeed false. Have you ever lost a loved one and attended their funeral? Do you remember where there grave, or place of rest is located? Please read on. Jesus was crucified, and buried in Jerusalem. Jerusalem is also the same place where Christ was preached. Surely, EVERYBODY, the disciples, his enemies, and the Roman guard, knew where his tomb was. Why for three years, he was the most controversial and talked about person in all of Palestine. If one healed people and raised the dead in your town, they would no doubt be the topic of many conversations. Those against the apostles could not refute their claims because they couldn't go to the tomb and say,"There's the tomb, the rock is still covering the entrance, and there is no body." Why don't we still know where Jesus' tomb is?

2007-05-28 09:20:43 · 16 answers · asked by Joe 1

The love of the father is not with marriages?

1 John 2:15-16

cuss there r no marriages in heaven....

15. Love not the world, neither the things THAT are in the world. IF an man love the world, the LOVE of the Father is not in him.
16. For all that is in the world the lust of the FLESH, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world.

So there is NO SEX in heaven. But all desire something in this world...........

2007-05-28 09:19:26 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous

I was just wondering, because I see lots of ex-Christians, who left Christianity after 20 years, being accused of never having been "real Christians' to begin with.

2007-05-28 09:17:19 · 49 answers · asked by ? 6