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Religion & Spirituality - 7 June 2007

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A 39yr old friend is dying of Lou Gehrigs disease given a week left. He is 52 pounds now and 5'9'' refused feeding tube and vent. All is left is his mind. His friends from high-school flew in from Ohio (to Florida) they are taking him to watch the shuttle launch tomorrow in Florida please pray for everything, peace, strength, joy, moments. Let us keep perspective and pray for a cure for this horrible disease. Bless you all for your prayers.

2007-06-07 23:56:49 · 13 answers · asked by mustardseed 3

Has an angel ever led you to someone who needed your help? Where you able to help that individual? What did you gain out of that experience?

2007-06-07 23:51:59 · 14 answers · asked by Sol is Real 2

2007-06-07 23:48:24 · 53 answers · asked by Anonymous

About 18 months ago, my best friend died in a car accident we had said that if either of us died we would come back and see the other person.

To cut a long story short, I have had weird goings on since. I kept thinking about going to see a medium but always got scared. Today I just had a feeling that I had to go, i goodled some numbers and it came up with the name 'silver birch' as I went to out the number in my phone I had a memo flash up with the name silver birch.

Am i reading to much into this, or should I go and see a medium and see what happens...?

2007-06-07 23:44:33 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous

From reading I have done, it seems that a the time of Jesus, Jewish culture considered marriage not merely as something to be honoured but considered it a sacred duty. The voluntary renunciation of marriage was a conception quite foreign to Judaism. Even in such heterodox, ascetic groups as the Essenes or Qumran community, sexual abstinence was partial and did not exclude marriage before joining or in the early stage of membership. As for ordinary Judaism, the father of a family considered it an important part of his parental role to arrange a suitable marriage for his sons and daughters at a comparatively early age. The fact that the Bible never makes a point of Jesus' lack of wife almost invariably prove he had one? Wouldn't for it to not to be mentioned at all, when not being married would have been an anomaly, be bizzare?

Why is the idea that Jesus may have been married so abhorrent to many Christians?

2007-06-07 23:40:28 · 19 answers · asked by Anonymous

This question is primarily directed toward Christians, but please, anybody, feel free to answer.

The number one problem I have with religion (Christianity) is that it is a requirement for someone to believe in something to go to heaven.

Honestly, how can that be a standard? How can one be punished for what they believe? What I'm saying here is that maybe there are those out there that appreciate your values and even share them, but they cannot bring themselves to believe that Jesus was the son of god, that he was born of a virgin, that two people populated the entire planet, etc..

If I asked you to believe something that you didn't, could you? You could say, "okay Alex, I believe" but would you? Is believing really an option? Does anyone choose to believe one thing over another or is it within themselves they find what they believe? Is your intuition an option? Are feelings optional? Is skepticism optional? How can I accept Christ if I don't believe in him? Could anyone?

2007-06-07 23:38:41 · 9 answers · asked by Alex S 4

This is an extension to the question I asked about why the universe is such a big achievement

Some of the answers are basically annoyed that I asked the question, they say I shouldnt question things I dont understand or that I should 'just pray to God'

So do these people think that people shouldnt be educated? Education is based on asking and answering questions to further knowledge. Should children just accept that things are as they are? Should they 'just pray to God'?

For those who gave me those answers: Do you honestly believe this or is it that you cant understand my point?

2007-06-07 23:17:43 · 18 answers · asked by zeppelin_roses 4

2007-06-07 23:13:37 · 17 answers · asked by Anonymous

Don't get me wrong, im not full of myself, of course I couldn't create the universe, I can barely make my dinner. And YES, the universe is an amazing place with things that my tiny brain cannot possibly comprehend.

But then again, I'M not an omnipotent being...

If God is all-powerful (as Christianity claims, along with some other religions too), then creating the universe wouldn't be difficult. In fact, if he was all-powerful, every task would have the same difficulty, zero.

I am not omnipotent, so really when I make a cup of tea it is actually a greater achievement than God making the universe because it has challenged my ability (albeit not much, but challenged it nonetheless)...but will anyone praise me or worship me for thousands of years? no of course not, because that would be ridiculous.

2007-06-07 22:53:22 · 23 answers · asked by zeppelin_roses 4

If it was by God he could of said I created huge reptiles but destroyed them all, but he never

2007-06-07 22:47:54 · 25 answers · asked by sahara_springs 3

crazy or sarcastic?

i was going with sarcastic but apparently quite a few people think they're serious.

2007-06-07 22:46:48 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-06-07 22:42:10 · 11 answers · asked by sahara_springs 3

have randomly begun after the right amino acids combined together to form the first single celled creatures, then evolved eg. evolution. Religious people (Intelligent Design)argue that the diversity of life is so great that the chance of it just occuring by accident is so small as to be effectually impossible. Atheists counter that given an infinite amount of time any possibility no matter how unlikely will eventually occur. Mathematically this is true. However, I would argue that we are not dealing with an infinite amount of time. Most scientists agree that the best explanation for the begining of the Universe is the Big Bang. Life could not have existsed before that time and survived, so even though we are talking about a very long time, it is still not infinite. Therefore, is the Intelligent Design argument not correct. The likelyhood of life just happening is so unlikely as to be effectually impossible, therefore there had to be an intelligent plan in place before hand, i.e. God.

2007-06-07 22:41:40 · 7 answers · asked by David M 6

worshipping him with great faith and chanting his mantra?

2007-06-07 22:20:29 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous

Has anyone ever had an experience with a saint they had never seen or heard of before only to then come to find out who that saint was?

My brother saw the face of a bearded man one time while meditating (he was into New Age) and later (after returning to the Catholic Church) saw a picture of a saint, only to find out it was the face of the man he had seen (Saint Sharbel Makhluf, a Lebanese monk/priest who lived in a Maronite monastery around the end of the 19th beginning of the 20th century).

A friend of mine had a dream of a man in a brown robe holding a Bible with a baby standing on it, only to find out later it was Saint Anthony and the baby was Jesus. He also wasn't a practicing Catholic at the time and had never seen or heard about Saint Anthony before that.

Anyone else have stories of saints they can share?

2007-06-07 21:50:25 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous

Why people with mistress' and mistress' is running free, while people with more than one wife are put in jails?
No one scream about Bill Clinton or Jesse Jackson with mistress', but Mormons are pick on for a short term practice of polygamy?
It seems having many mistress' is OK, and having legally married wives is a crime.

2007-06-07 21:14:16 · 8 answers · asked by Wahnote 5

i.e. killing of god

2007-06-07 20:58:54 · 4 answers · asked by HawaiianBrian 5

NOW WHAT ARE WE GOING TO DO !?!

2007-06-07 20:52:51 · 17 answers · asked by 2BaD4u 4

2007-06-07 20:43:33 · 33 answers · asked by Anrê TrẦn An Dũng 2

What does this quote make you think and feel?

"Q. What does Islam say about Fundamentalism?

A. Basically, Fundamentalism means ‘sticking to ‘fundamentals of any religion. In this sense the Jews, the Christians, Hindus, Buddhists and Muslims can be fundamentalists. But sadly, the term ‘Fundamentalists’ has been linked to militant Muslim extremists who indulge in disruptive activities in the name of Jehad. That’s not true. Islam does not allow disruptive activities."

2007-06-07 20:39:33 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous

Really Sir Jon C motivated me to ask this.

Some time I feel that we are all related to one and another eventhough we never met .........Which is that unknown bondage is working between??.Just names and avatars?? Some profiles........ questions .....and answers .???.

Why I am very happy with you??

I do not know.

2007-06-07 20:36:44 · 60 answers · asked by Shripathi Krishna Acharya 5

Hey, maybe it's like being straight or gay--you're born that way.

“An American molecular geneticist has concluded after comparing more than 2,000 DNA samples that a person's capacity to believe in God is linked to brain chemicals. … Studies on twins showed that those with this gene, a vesicular monoamine transporter that regulates the flow of mood-altering chemicals in the brain, were more likely to develop a spiritual belief. “

2007-06-07 20:35:32 · 10 answers · asked by ? 3

I mean the whole terror thing painted by the west.

2007-06-07 20:34:48 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous

without using Jesus as an example.
(i don't have anything against Jesus, I'm just looking to hear some creative explanations)

2007-06-07 20:34:33 · 11 answers · asked by :) 4

Where is your outrage?

What would you say if we Christians started killing imams and Muslem clergy in the West?

2007-06-07 20:27:49 · 4 answers · asked by carl 4

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Do you not realize how oppressed you are? Your leaders say "the man and the women are equal partners" but they treat you the opposite of that. Actions speak louder than words. They can say you're equal to the men, but do you feel that way when there are only men up there on the stand during sacrament meeting, when only the men have the priesthood, when the man presides OVER the family, including the wife. How can you remain in a church that puts you down like that??? Why???

I was raised mormon, so dont say i dont know what i'm talking about.

Open your eyes and see what your church REALLY teaches.

2007-06-07 20:27:39 · 16 answers · asked by 17*mezzo*17 3

This is the title of a book I bought at an estate sale for $1.00. It is authored by Lloyd Mallan, eminent science writer and editor, who has investigated a wide range of technical reports and has interviewed top ranking research scientists to arrive at the truth about smoking. LIsted are at least 50 top scientists, doctors, chief bio research consultants, and, let's not forget the American Cancer Society. This was published in 1966. Turns out, smoking does not actually cause lung cancer, as long as you use water soaked or cellulose-acetate filters.
AHHHHHHH..... this is just science at it's best. Let's all enjoy a cigarette, and discuss some hard science and oddball religion.

2007-06-07 20:27:15 · 19 answers · asked by Anonymous

I looked up the word Easter in the Nelson Bible dictionary and learned that the word "Easter" (as mentioned in Acts 12:4) is a mistranslation of "pascha," the ordinary Greek word for "Passover." As, you know Passover is a Jewish celebration not a Christian holiday. I think human hands, all to human, had played havoc with the Bible.
From the brief points mentioned above, and the fact that Biblical scholars themselves have recognized the human nature and human composition of the Bible (Curt Kuhl, The Old Testament: Its Origin and Composition, PP 47, 51, 52), there should exist in the Christian’s mind some acceptance to the fact that maybe every word of the Bible is not God’s word.

2007-06-07 20:26:21 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous

some sort of study/survey. thanks

2007-06-07 20:26:07 · 12 answers · asked by Anrê TrẦn An Dũng 2

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