Religion & Spirituality - 31 May 2007

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2007-05-31 23:56:06 · 5 answers · asked by Kiss The Son 1

2007-05-31 23:45:42 · 9 answers · asked by That Guy Drew 6

If someone lived their life and adhered to all of God's rules, except they didn't believe in God (i.e. they only commited this one sin), they would go to Hell right?

Do you go straight to Heaven/Hell or is there a middle ground where you get judged?

Now i don't understand this what I mention above but I will explain for both possible outcomes...

(1) If this person goes straight to Hell (for commiting the sin of not believing in God) they will then think "Hey, it must be true about God because im in Hell". They now have NO sin because they believe in God therefore they are in Hell with no sin. Is this correct?

(2) If there is somewhere first before Hell where they get judged, they will think "Hey it must be true about God, I've been wrong all along", so then they would have NO sin, because they now believe in God...so they go to Heaven? If this scenario is true, then could a frequent sinner repent at this late stage and still get into Heaven?

Im confused

2007-05-31 23:42:40 · 10 answers · asked by zeppelin_roses 4

And will you join me in wishing Lokasenna all the best as she has chosen the path of atheism?

2007-05-31 23:42:15 · 14 answers · asked by Kallan 7

Further research info at: "The Rise, Decline, and Death of Islam in Bible Prophecy": www.revelado.org/islam.htm

2007-05-31 23:38:07 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-05-31 23:38:06 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous

In what may be its most audacious Olympic act yet, China's Ministry of Public Security has issued an incredible directive that lists 43 categories of unwanteds who are to be investigated and barred from the 2008 Beijing Olympics. Pariah groups include eerily vague "key individuals in ideological fields," "overseas hostile forces," "counter-revolutionary" figures, the Dalai Lama and all affiliates, members of "religious entities not sanctioned by the state" (e.g. Roman Catholics), "individuals who instigate discontentment toward the Chinese Communist Party through the Internet," and even certain types of "handicapped" persons.
Members of the Falun Gong would be barred, as would "family members of deceased persons" killed in "riots" -- a euphemism for events such as the Tiananmen Massacre -- and Uighur Muslims in Xinjiang province, which the regime brands "national separatists."

2007-05-31 23:35:08 · 5 answers · asked by walawala 3

I asked about Big-God yesterday, and was accused of basphemy for even mentioning that name. Oh well.

Creationists say that the universe is so complex, it has to be created. That implies that God is more complex than the universe and had to be created, thus God was created by Big-God.

Big-God is more complex than God, thus Big-God was created by UltraBig-God.

For arguments sake, let's stop here.

If UltraBig-God is obviously UltraOmnipotent, why didn't He create the Universe himself? "God spoke the Universe into existence", so it must have been quite easy. So laziness is not the reason.

So, why would UltraBig-God create Big-God, to make sure Big-God would create God, so that God could create the Universe?

("God was always there" is really not an answer, unless you're willing to admit, as I am, that you just don't know how Existence started)

2007-05-31 23:34:29 · 10 answers · asked by ? 6

Jesus mentions about the coming of a true and final messenger of Allah. This was written by the deciple Saint Barnabus

2007-05-31 23:33:29 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous

The koran says Allah wanted Abraham to sacrifice his son ishmael on the alter of wood

The bible says god wanted Abraham to sacrifice issac

now what am i supposed to believe? since the bible predates the koran by centuries i believe the bible account to be true, because i have no doubt that islamic writers copied that story from the bible , changed the sacrifice to ishmael and wrote it.

How ever the question that i ask is this.

what sort of an Allah/God would tell parents to sacrifice their children?
even though the boys life was spared the thought of human or even animal sacrifice makes me angry

what sort of allah's and god's are these?

xmuslim turned free thinker

2007-05-31 23:26:46 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous

David wrote: Psalm 26:1 Judge me, O Jehovah for I myself have walked in my own integrity, And in Jehovah I have trusted, that I may not wobble.
What does this mean to you individually?

2007-05-31 23:24:15 · 7 answers · asked by Sol is Real 2

2007-05-31 23:20:32 · 33 answers · asked by pitel 2

2007-05-31 23:18:24 · 16 answers · asked by Jadochop 6

having read answers on here, Christians seem to justify fatal disease and natural disasters as God's way of keeping the population under control. Obviously God is looking out for us then...

So what is the global population now then, about 6 billion? And the Asia tsunami was God helping us lower the population by a number of thousand because it was a few thousand too many?

So why were there killer diseases and natural disasters when the global population was nowhere near 6 billion?

Like the great plague in the 1600's - did God think the population was too high then when it was a LOT smaller than it is now?

It just doesnt seem to add up

2007-05-31 23:16:54 · 17 answers · asked by zeppelin_roses 4

I've read of angels, giants, demons, witches, prophets, leviathan, and many odd creatures not apparent today. But are trolls like the platypus?

2007-05-31 23:08:00 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous

I have commited a mortal sin and i dont know when i can go to confession.
I have prayed a rosary paryer for forgivness and a few more things.
I have said i wont do it and promised to god i will pray for this every night to forgive me.i also wont go to the holy communion as it will make it worse.
But if something happends to me and i dont end up going to confession and i "Die" because you dont know when it will happend to you could be in a second 5min,1month,10 years,50 years would i go straight to hell?
Or would i still be able to go to the place before you go to heaven the place where you suffer a bit for your sins?
Please answer properly and joking will be taken as abuse and reported.
Im a catholic.

2007-05-31 23:07:54 · 3 answers · asked by Dazzi 1

what is the reason.

Here are reason I can think of ?

1. To Test Your Belief ?
Answer: There are so many way to test, and don't forget your God is Omniscience, need NO TEST, He already Know,

2. God has a Plan ?
Answer: Then where is the FREEWILL.

3. I don't know how God work.
Answer: You don't know how your God work, then keep quite and listen.

4. When there is something you can't explain, then God do it.
Answer: I think it's call Gap of God.

Any other answer ?

2007-05-31 23:05:57 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous

Bible quotes and other religious quotes will be understood as a "yes" answer.

2007-05-31 23:05:29 · 7 answers · asked by Demopublican 6

Many people learned in elementary school that a theory falls in the middle of a hierarchy of certainty--above a mere hypothesis but below a law. Scientists do not use the terms that way, however. According to the National Academy of Sciences (NAS), a scientific theory is "a well-substantiated explanation of some aspect of the natural world that can incorporate facts, laws, inferences, and tested hypotheses." No amount of validation changes a theory into a law, which is a descriptive generalization about nature. So when scientists talk about the theory of evolution--or the atomic theory or the theory of relativity, for that matter--they are not expressing reservations about its truth.
In addition to the theory of evolution, meaning the idea of descent with modification, one may also speak of the fact of evolution. The NAS defines a fact as "an observation that has been repeatedly confirmed and for all practical purposes is accepted as 'true.'"

2007-05-31 22:53:03 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-05-31 22:52:42 · 18 answers · asked by kittana! 2

2007-05-31 22:50:35 · 6 answers · asked by † H20andspirit 5

2007-05-31 22:48:39 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous

Don't u just love the musical ringing of church bells??! Reminds me of weddings. I can hear them ringing right now.
PS - I'm not a Christian, in fact I'm a Muslim.

2007-05-31 22:44:17 · 14 answers · asked by ¸.•*´`*•.¸ ℓανєη∂єr ¸.•*´`*•.¸ 6

2007-05-31 22:43:53 · 14 answers · asked by Sir Reginald Whiskers 3

And your opinion of them? (thoughtful, supported with references or something, and not offensive please!)

And for born-again Christians - why do you think it is necessary to be 'born again'? If people don't call themselves 'born again', can they still be 'born again'? Can you still entire the Kingdom of God after you die, without necessarily being a 'born again' Christian?

Where in the bible does it say we must be 'born again' Christians (as opposed to other types of Christians)?

And what are all the 'bits' that go with being a 'born-again Christian'? (like, do you have to support George Bush? Belong to an organised presbyterian church with 'youth' music? Be baptised with the holy spirit?)

This is just a genuine Q from a (non-born-again, I think) Christian - I just want to really understand the whole 'born again' Christian concept and what a 'born again' Christian looks like.

Also, it is different from being a fundamentalist Christian, isn't it? What's the difference?

2007-05-31 22:22:00 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous

have masturbated 1st time after 3 months.
It was a bad habit around this time last year but i stopped and now i feel bad ive done it.
The main reason i done it was to get over the annoying urge and stop my wet dreams at night.
But i feel bad i dishonered god im catholic.
I have prayed
-a roseary
-Prayed for forgivness
and i have just like talked to try to explain i feel bad and why i did it.
And i really cant go to confession for at least 5 weeks because at my church there are 2 priests one is on holiday so its the other he never does confession on sunday b4 mass only on sat but on sat i have to work.
What can i do?
Is what ive done enough?
i have also promised to pray a few hail marys etc b4 i go to sleep for forgivness.

2007-05-31 22:16:09 · 11 answers · asked by Dazzi 1

I don't understand how certain Christian's can rhapsodize for hours on how loving their God is, and then tell you if you didn't do what he says you were going to burn in hell. How can they be the 'children of god' and still be willing to accept the concept of hell?

If your child came home from school with a note that said he had spit on the teacher, hit another student, and taken the lord's name in vain, would you proceed to set him on fire and keep the fire burning as long as humanly possible? CERTAINLY NOT!!!

If you saw on the news that someone had set their child on fire, regardless of the reason, you would be appalled.

Yet the 'children of god' accept this possible punishment from their 'loving father' without question.

How do they reconcile the concept of hell, with the 'Loving God' image?

Would a truly loving god set his children alight and watch them burn?

2007-05-31 22:13:10 · 14 answers · asked by Blue Scarrab 2

2007-05-31 22:02:12 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous

Was stained glass in a medievil church just for being decoritive or for being there for a reason???

2007-05-31 22:00:54 · 2 answers · asked by Anonymous

its not like u chose your orientation ..did u think we did ? do u think a gay person choses to be gay?its just an attarction to a gender . u cant help it even if u try to fix it it wont work it goes with ur mental state and itl mess with u E.X real world: denver.

2007-05-31 22:00:35 · 11 answers · asked by staro02002 1