Religion & Spirituality - 4 June 2007

Religious and Christian follower's are against gay Marriage, however, what have you got against Civil Unions? It's not religious, and homosexual couples get the same right/privileges under the government as heterosexuals!

I would also like to ask, how many of you have divorced which is not recognised in the eyes of most church's but have gone ahead because you can by law?
Is this not double standard if you are against gay marriage?

2007-06-04 01:15:25 · 23 answers · asked by Leah 4

What's Buddhism about? Surely good manners and niceness is a necessity?

2007-06-04 01:11:32 · 27 answers · asked by Hello 2

Please can you give me the quotation from the Bible which says: Pray to Mary otherwise you will go to hell? I also wonder why do people pray to saints. They are NOT God.
Peace

2007-06-04 01:09:12 · 16 answers · asked by eldridan 3

What Is Soul And Spirit?

Again!
As always! I am not only an adult, I'm a person! My questions aren't meant to offend anyone, but if they do, I'm sorry that you were offended. If you do respond, PLEASE, no matter how you may feel or what you may thing, do not label me as someone else you may know with extremest views, and do not insult me.
Peace and Infinite Blessing!

2007-06-04 01:08:14 · 8 answers · asked by meuw_two 2

For Jains, God is not someone who created the world. By their definition God is any soul who has been liberated from the cycle of birth and death. So it is a spiritual religion, but they also believe in God even though their definition of God is very different from Christians, Hindus or Muslims.

The problem here is that many Western scholars, like Durkheim, classifed this religion as atheist. How is this possible when they believe in God?

2007-06-04 01:07:42 · 9 answers · asked by S 1

2007-06-04 01:02:32 · 13 answers · asked by CHEESUS GROYST 5

2007-06-04 00:51:24 · 14 answers · asked by spitfire_1964 1

or do you need to see a signature in the extreme right hand corner of the universe!

what proof would satify you...?

2007-06-04 00:50:09 · 24 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-06-04 00:36:03 · 9 answers · asked by GEOFFREY K 1

2007-06-04 00:35:20 · 4 answers · asked by GEOFFREY K 1

2007-06-04 00:34:35 · 4 answers · asked by GEOFFREY K 1

2007-06-04 00:33:39 · 4 answers · asked by GEOFFREY K 1

I've read many christians say he is false, what do you think??

2007-06-04 00:32:47 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous

Could the following be true:

1. Jesus was not, contrary to popular belief, a pale-skinned aryan with straight, golden hair and sapphire eyes. As a semitic peasant he would have been dark, slim and most likely unclean, or at the very least scruffy.

2. The bible lands during the early Iron Age were made up of many tribal families who, ethnography has proven, would have led hard lives and therefore also been heavy drinkers and drug users during rest periods (therefore explaining the visions oe Ezekiel and Revelation).

3. During his life Jesus was not viewed as a Messiah; he would have been a young Jewish troublemaker whom the Romans would have seen as little more than an annoyance.

4. If your friends wrote a book about you, you'd look pretty good too.

How far do you think this may be true HISTORICALLY, not THEOLOGICALLY? And yes, the frst point is made in jest.

I am not saying I agree with these points but would just like to hear your take.

2007-06-04 00:32:24 · 16 answers · asked by Nelson 1

2007-06-04 00:24:27 · 6 answers · asked by GEOFFREY K 1

of the series of universal educators known to history as Krishna (3228-3100 BCE, Hindu); Abraham (1800s BCE, Father/Patriarch of monotheism, possibly Sabean); Moses (1400 BCE, Jewish); Zoroaster/Zarathustra/Zarathus... (1000 BCE, Zoroastrian/Parsi); The Buddha, Siddhartha Gautama ( 566 BCE, Buddhist), Jesus (8/2-29/36 BCE/CE, Christian); Muhammad (570-632 CE, Islam); the Bab/The Gate (1819-1850 CE, Bab’i); and Baha’u’llah/Glory of God (1817-1892, Baha’i)? None of them had a formal or scholarly education; and they themselves claimed that their knowledge was innate, different from the generality of humankind, not from themselves, but from an unknown realm. Even those who chose not to accept the religious system established upon their teachings nevertheless recognized their uncontestable greatness, genius, total lack of self-interest, and influence, which is unlike any other historical figures’.

2007-06-04 00:21:09 · 9 answers · asked by jaicee 6

"GOD", "God","god" What Is The Difference?

Again!
As always! I am not only an adult, I'm a person! My questions aren't meant to offend anyone, but if they do, I'm sorry that you were offended. If you do respond, PLEASE, no matter how you may feel or what you may thing, do not label me as someone else you may know with extremest views, and do not insult me.
Peace and Infinite Blessing!

2007-06-04 00:17:17 · 24 answers · asked by meuw_two 2

the old bugger can still sing well right? i love his songs and voice

i love the way he sings that song HOME ON THE RANGE

my muslim girl friend senita b and myself we always sing it together when we are alone

comments?

2007-06-04 00:14:30 · 2 answers · asked by Anonymous

Hardening is like a callus or like the tough bone fibers that bridge a fracture. Spiritual hardening beings with self-sufficiency, security in one's self, and self-satisfaction. The real danger is that at some point, repeated resistance to God will yield an actual inability to respond, which the Bible describes as a hardened heart. Insensitivity indicates advanced hardening.
Here are some warning signs:

Rebelling and being discontented - suffering or discomfort can create an attitude that blames God.

Rejecting a deserved rebuke - rejecting God's gift makes one's neck stiff and one's heart hard.

Refusing to listen - leads to a loss of spiritual hearing.

Failing to respond - listening to God with no intention of obeying produces an inability to obey.

Today if you hear His voice - harden not your heart!

2007-06-04 00:14:05 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous

Sometimes when I meditate I see colours, or sometimes images as clear & sharp as watching a dvd. Sometimes I see people & they 'tell' me things (although not verbally, its like they are 'downloading' the thoughts & feelings from their mind to mine.)
Does anyone else have any experience of this?
Aum, Pangel, BSS...... what do you think?

2007-06-04 00:13:30 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous

I am pretty sure that there is "something" else in my house aside from my family, and other than a few other instances is is fairly innoculous. I have heard wisperings in the basement from time to time, I would be in the living room, and hear very soft mumbled canversations coming up through the floor, I occasionally see (for lack of a better term) a "shadow person" in the house, and on mostly feel as though I am being watched.
Last night when my wife and I got home from picking my son up from his grandparents house, he was there all weekend (he is almost 2 and this is the longest he has been away), she had already gone inside and I was getting Jack and his bag out of the car. I was carrying him as he was mostly asleep and I heard a whisper that sounded like it was inches from my ear that said, "Welcome back". Immediatly I got freaked out and looked for a possible source, but I was totally alone, and Jack was looking around too, so I know I wasn't halucinating.

2007-06-04 00:10:04 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous

I have seen "Christians" angry at Atheist, people in false Gospels and non believers. I've even got replies that Jesus got angry at the money changers. This is true , but they brought false doctrine into the house of God, as Jesus said making my Fathers house a den of thieves. We are not to win minds , but hearts and souls. "He who saves souls is wise" This is not a contest ,

It is eternal life or eternal death (separation from God). I ask a spirit of love and peace in Jesus name. I pray that we pray for the lost , encourage and build them up , not fight with them. Even for those that would take your life, "vengence is mine saith the LORD" We have no beef with those that are lost or those that curse us for Jesus sake.
Ask yourself "what would Jesus do" The time is short.
What is your take?

I don't know what tomorrow holds but I know who holds tomorrow!

2007-06-04 00:02:59 · 9 answers · asked by ? 6