Religion & Spirituality - 29 May 2007

there was no rain before the flood? Do we have all different trees and plants now?

2007-05-29 14:12:14 · 5 answers · asked by Daisy Indigo 6

Experience is not what happens to a (hu)man. It is what a (hu)man does with what happens to him.

(Bonus for naming the quote source!)

2007-05-29 14:11:28 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous

Without a Question or Doubt Him & Apply the God-given Free Will ?

If you consider that this question needs deep thinking, give it a Star!

Anyhow, please respond!

2007-05-29 14:11:24 · 17 answers · asked by Anonymous

i need help, i was wondering, since your buddhists, will you tell me more about the Dalai Lama? how to pronounce this Avalokitesvara? i need to know for an "unprepared" speech on thursday, but my teacher says its ok to cheat if we dont know anything about a Dalai Lama, I NEED INFO THAT IS EASY TO UNDERSTAND. MAYBE IN YOUR OWN WORDS?
thanks XOXOXOXO

2007-05-29 14:11:01 · 5 answers · asked by Anon omus 5

I hope I'm not going anytime soon but it is something we all must face. I don't want to be in a metal box. I don't want chemicals replacing my blood. I don't want to be burned in an industrial oven. I'd be fine with a pine box in the ground but don't think they let you do that anymore. What other options are there? Legal ones...don't want my family to be in jail just for geting rid of some rotting flesh!! Thanks.

2007-05-29 14:10:36 · 29 answers · asked by Anonymous

I could understand if they would call it the Creepy Bible, but holy?? Whose idea was that??

2007-05-29 14:08:12 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous

Are there any churches that actually teach Christian history, outside of what is in the Bible? I have been reading about Christian history, and find it very fascinating, and I find it explains a lot of things. I think it could enrich the life of a Christian to understand his or her own history. What do you think?

2007-05-29 14:08:00 · 25 answers · asked by Heron By The Sea 7

2007-05-29 14:05:01 · 22 answers · asked by lippy 3

If it turned out that all the passages in the Bible that condemn HOMOsexuality had been mistranslated, and we learned that the Bible actually condemns HETEROsexuality...

...would you be capable of abstaining from heterosexual sex for the rest of your life?

I keep seeing Christians say that homosexuals might be born that way, but they still have a choice to abstain, and they make it sound pretty easy. I know I couldn't give up sex for the rest of my life just to please god, but I'm wondering if you could?

2007-05-29 14:04:18 · 37 answers · asked by Aeryn Whitley 3

or jumping on them FOR following it. Seems like either way you're all over them... You guys are hash man..

And don't suggest I read all the forums, because I have read several and that is how I concluded what I have ...lol, it's unbelievable.

If you don't believe in God, I mean is it REALLY that serious? Dang..

2007-05-29 14:04:06 · 20 answers · asked by 00 0 1

When people in the "Pregnancy" section of Y!A talk about their *baby*, asking questions about it's development in utero, etc... and then turn around and argue that it's not a human baby, it's a fetus or a clump of tissue?
I'm not dissing pregnant mothers... just mad at the hypocrisy.

2007-05-29 14:03:20 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous

What about other books? Do Muslims not think for themselves because they believe the Koran? Do Confucianists not think for themselves because they believe the writings of Confucius? Do Jews not think for themselves because they believe the Talmud and the Torah? Do atheists not think for themselves if they believe Darwin's "On the Origin of Species and the Preservation of Favored Races" or other such books that teach evolution? Darwin was a racist. He lived in the 1800's so that shouldn't surprise anyone. Besides books that are known to be fictional because the authors said they were, which books, if you believe them, qualify you as someone who doesn't think for himself or herself? Just curious.

2007-05-29 14:00:56 · 6 answers · asked by fuzz 4

As you approach a town to attack it, first offer its people terms for peace. If they accept your terms and open the gates to you, then all the people inside will serve you in forced labor. But if they refuse to make peace and prepare to fight, you must attack the town. When the LORD your God hands it over to you, kill every man in the town. But you may keep for yourselves all the women, children, livestock, and other plunder. You may enjoy the spoils of your enemies that the LORD your God has given you. -Deuteronomy 20:10-14

2007-05-29 14:00:14 · 17 answers · asked by Anonymous

Why is it so difficult for Jews and Catholic to be wed?? i dont understand. Catholics believe in Jesus and Jesus was Jewish.
Make no sense to me. Help! Thanks!!

2007-05-29 13:59:17 · 15 answers · asked by ? 3

How about this then:
A nervous wreck, a mischief maker, a fascist, a baby hater, a lover of Moses and other ancient queers, and a reviler of free will -- who doesn't exist?

2007-05-29 13:58:07 · 28 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-05-29 13:56:25 · 31 answers · asked by NHBaritone 7

"Christ has no body now, but yours.
No hands, no feet on earth, but yours.
Yours are the eyes through which
Christ looks compassion into the world.
Yours are the feet
with which Christ walks to do good.
Yours are the hands
with which Christ blesses the world."

Let nothing trouble you,
let nothing frighten you.
All things are passing;
God never changes.
Patience obtains all things.
He who possesses God lacks nothing:
God alone suffices.

2007-05-29 13:55:41 · 14 answers · asked by Debra M. Wishing Peace To All 7

2007-05-29 13:53:49 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous

I work with a lot of kids and with autism some with aspergers.
I always got the impression that people with aspergers would have a really hard time with having a belief in God as they generally think in contexts of black and white and usually process things literally rather than figurativly.
I ran across this site that had a couple of polls
Belief in God was at 33% No belief 66%
56% said the world would be better without religion, 32% said no and 10% undecided.
What I am wondering is.. Aspergers is a defined neurological disorder. These people are functional in society and lead good lives but maybe can not grasps the idea of God.
How would God view these people? They have heard but possibly cant believe.
Also what are your thoughts? Makes me wonder if there is a connection between belief in God and neurological processes as many on the site say they can not "comprehend" believing in a god and thats how I feel for the most part.

Site is wrongplanet.net

2007-05-29 13:50:32 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-05-29 13:49:42 · 12 answers · asked by ? 5

Many of the stories serve absolutely no purpose and can only possibly serve to cause harm in today's society. So why can’t we edit them out? We edit gruesome movies and video games if they’re too much of a bad influence; why is the bible immune to the same standards?

2007-05-29 13:49:15 · 20 answers · asked by Desiree 4

2007-05-29 13:49:06 · 10 answers · asked by NHBaritone 7

(cont.)
8Why did God create humans in the first place?
9Why does God refer to himself as 'us'?
10Why did Abram believe God when He said that Abram would have as many descendants as there were stars in the sky, but Abram asked for proof when God told him he would own that land?15:5-8
11Why did Abraham keep asking God 'if you kill x number of good people, will you destroy the city?' and keep lowering x? Why didn't he just ask 'How many good people do there have to be for you to spare the city?'? 18:24-32
12Why did Lot offer up his daughters? Why didn't he protect both the visitors AND his daughters? 19:8
13Why did Lot's wife turn into a pillar of salt? Why weren't they allowed to look back?
14 20:18 Why did God punish the women of Abimelech's house when they commited no crime? And Abimelech wasn't even aware that he had commited a crime?
15Why does God say "I am the God of (Abraham for ex)"? and Jacob say "He will be my God"? What does that mean exactly?
More to follow as I read

2007-05-29 13:45:44 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous

In other words, she thinks it's ok to be attracted to the same sex, but acting on it is when it becomes a sin. I was taught, and I know, I should find out by studying myself, that if you think about it, it is just as bad as doing it, in God's eyes. But then, how can you control what your mind thinks from moment to moment. Help!

2007-05-29 13:44:02 · 17 answers · asked by Nika 4

Many ancient cultures got a lot closer than that when determining the ration between the radius of a circle and its other measurements.

2007-05-29 13:42:45 · 19 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-05-29 13:40:30 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-05-29 13:39:28 · 30 answers · asked by ? 5

I have one.
-Christmas and Easter is a pagen holiday yet Christians celebrate it. I have done this all my life because my parents have done it. Now I fear that it is wrong! :(

What are some contradictions people make when they talk about the bible?

If you have any that you feel, comment.

Thanks!

2007-05-29 13:39:02 · 15 answers · asked by Mommy 1

I think this is a bad Idea?oh but I love hot chocolate....so hot in my room, I am sweating all day long and I crave for a very hot chocolate.

2007-05-29 13:38:35 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous

Explain to me the purpose of any supernatural belief system that can't move a freakin paper clip. Every religion claims its own miracles and magic. You ask them to step up and they punk out.

Always excuses. Christians, muslims, all of them can't get their god to move one paperclip and prove that the magic is real.

Why is that?

2007-05-29 13:34:55 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous