Religion & Spirituality - 8 June 2007

I have read a number of questions/answers that include heaven in them- the latest from a woman who posed an excellent question-what are you willing to do to create heaven on earth. Why all the crazy reactions? go with it as a concept of what it is that you truly would love your life to be.
Here's a heaven day to me; wake up to sunshire and birds, excellent coffee, a little meditating under the oaks. Work on my art, lunch of fresh food grown locally, walk on the beach, see some dolphins, have a laugh with some friends. Talk to my son, tell him I love him, have a laugh. Walk my dogs, have a friendly chat with my neighbour, listen intently while she talks about some issues she has, she walks away a little happier that someone listened. Cook a great dinner with a perfect California wine, enjoy with loved one sitting outside, laughing and flirting. Light some candles, and the night is still young.....
did you create heaven or hell for yourself and those around you today? it is a choice

2007-06-08 15:45:21 · 8 answers · asked by cosmicshaktifire? 5

or did any groups guru say it differently but same paraphrase?

2007-06-08 15:45:02 · 3 answers · asked by voice_of_reason 6

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If so, please explain faith in the supernatural.

If not, please explain why not, and then why other religions don't have an equal claim.

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2007-06-08 15:43:29 · 2 answers · asked by NHBaritone 7

Thanks. Not just one verse like the whole event from When he comes to the New Earth and Heaven.

2007-06-08 15:39:47 · 17 answers · asked by Chauncy B 2

I wonder, over the course of history, if more Christians have been killed for their beliefs or have more people been killed by Christians for not believing?

Which do you think it is? Cite references if possible!

2007-06-08 15:37:39 · 15 answers · asked by ? 5

I'm thinking about ways to comfort a person who has just lost a nice pet.

2007-06-08 15:37:21 · 13 answers · asked by Midge 7

2007-06-08 15:34:56 · 22 answers · asked by healing wings 5

If you are so sure that there is not a God, then why do you keep arguing this with Christians and the like? Could it be this is more about you vs. you rather than vs. the other person?

2007-06-08 15:34:29 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous

My bf and I have been dating for a little over 3 years now. He is Catholic and I am not. I know that he wants a Catholic wedding, but he never goes to church. I think if we started going to church together, it would be good for us. What all is involved in becoming Catholic, and how long does it take?

2007-06-08 15:31:37 · 17 answers · asked by Anonymous

I Don't Really Believe In Religion, But Why Did We Start Counting Our Years At The Time When Jesus Was Around?

2007-06-08 15:27:20 · 20 answers · asked by Nitro RC Guy 2

Some of you here say that evil is the absences of God.
Darkness is what happen when there is no light.
And bad things happen in the absence of good.
What if it is the other way around.
What if everything you know is backwards.
What if the devil created the book;
Filled it with inconsistancies to destroy mans faith.
Then made the rules too hard to follow to ruin mans will.
Then never showed himself again to destroy mans trust.
I love God and believe that he help me but sometimes i have to wonder at all the backtracking and double talking..

2007-06-08 15:26:29 · 17 answers · asked by Anonymous

How many murders of the sort is the modern legal system holding back? The thought passed through my head today brought on by a catholic woman that glared at me today... thank god looks can't kill but it's the thought that got me...

2007-06-08 15:26:13 · 18 answers · asked by ? 4

as in..... "heaven's to mergetroid"???

witty answers most welcome!
thank you

2007-06-08 15:25:44 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous

Apply this how best you see fit.

2007-06-08 15:25:42 · 28 answers · asked by tee // projectExist 1

It's easy to say the words....
have you truly deeply LEARNED forgiveness?
thank you

2007-06-08 15:24:33 · 26 answers · asked by Anonymous

In Episcopal/Anglican Churches? Methodist Churches? Southern Baptist and Ind. Fundamental Baptist Churches?Pentecostal Churches? Lutheran Churches? Presbyterian Churches? Holiness Churches? Other Churches?

2007-06-08 15:24:27 · 4 answers · asked by James O 7

Do Jehovahs Witnesses count time on their timecards (they have to keep an accounting to for the time they spend, and report it to the watchtower seosciety) for answering questions on the internet?

2007-06-08 15:24:19 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-06-08 15:23:51 · 9 answers · asked by STORMY K 3

A Hitler paid his compulsory (German state collected)church tax to the Catholic Church as some other Nazis did to the Lutheran Church or the Protestant Church of the Prussian Union,but Hitler hated Catholicism as "a Jewish corruption" and a"weakener of the German Volk( "racially pure"people).
Hitler and the Nazi leadership had to move skillfully to de -Christianize Germany since 1/3 of Germany was Catholic and the almost all the rest was at least nominally Protestant.
Catholic Church was a rival international power,too filled with "lesser breeds" like Latins,Slavs and Amerindians,harder to control than the Protestant "German Christian Movement" and dogmatically devoted toJews like Jesus ,Mary and the Apostles.
Hitler avoided Catholic religious services and approved the deaths of thousands of Catholic,especially Polish, clergy. Once the war was over and Nazi control was complete the Catholic Church was to be destroyed.

2007-06-08 15:20:22 · 14 answers · asked by James O 7

2007-06-08 15:17:40 · 5 answers · asked by Midge 7

If was not important John the Baptist would not have preached and taught about it. Jesus Christ would not have gotten baptized. He did it tofulfill all righteousness. We find the Apostles he chose that loved him ,baptizing sinners in Jesus christ. His beautiful and lovely name. It is through the Acts of the Apostles their testimony. Luke 11:28 But he said, Ye rather, blessed are they that hear the word of God and keep it. Jesus the master stated this as well. Luke 13: 5 I tell you Nay: but except ye repent, ye shall all likewise perish. So all of us living on earth have to make the decision to love him or reject his offer of love.

2007-06-08 15:16:36 · 16 answers · asked by spiritwalker1227 1

What happens when you die where do you go? Anyone who can tell me with at least 5 verses from the Bible shall be rewarded with the Best Answer.

2007-06-08 15:14:17 · 7 answers · asked by Chauncy B 2

This is a question that has boggled the minds of many people for centuries. Many people have their personal views. Some might ague that we are just here simply to live....Is that all? I beleive I've found the answer to that question.....I would love to hear yours:)

2007-06-08 15:13:30 · 30 answers · asked by Anonymous

Most muslims are killed by other muslims. Most Christians are guilty of killing other Christians especially in foreign countries. Catholics kill prostantants. Catholics kill other smaller religions of the Christian faith. In Africa they killed Jehovah's Witnesses, Mormons, SDA, and other african religions. But mostly other Christians.
For some reasons most religions were their own worst enemy.
Most wars are faught over religion. Most soldiers go to war with their religious leaders blessings. Am I the only one who didn't know that and find it supriseing?

2007-06-08 15:12:59 · 12 answers · asked by Steven 6

the keys of hell and of death?
"Also ,why did God send Jesus to earth?
What will a person give inexchange for their soul,doe's anyone know?

2007-06-08 15:11:10 · 10 answers · asked by Wellll... hello then! 1

I'm a Muslim woman who loves books and has my own mini library...If I went to a Christian Bookstore to get a couple books for reference and you were there and saw me, how would you react? Would you think I am converting to Christianity and praise Jesus? Would you try to talk to me about religion? What would you think/do?

There is one by my home...but maybe I should just order the stuff off the net....

2007-06-08 15:11:10 · 10 answers · asked by Sassafrass 6

I asked something similar not long ago but realized its shortcomings. To define 'God' is necessary in discussions about these beliefs. So now I'm going to more effectively get at what's bothering me.

An atheist rejects the possibility of God, but not necessarily the supernatural. Still, many atheists reject the possibility of the supernatural as well. Why is this, logically? A lack of evidence does not mean anything, especially considering the fact that the nature of the supernatural is to transcend the physical world that we perceive. You (we) use this same argument against theists, though we also criticize their individual ideas of the supernatural and of God. I understand the logical problems of Christianity, but that is not what I'm questioning right now. Just: for those of you who do reject the possibility of the supernatural, what is your logical reason for this?

2007-06-08 15:11:02 · 14 answers · asked by Skye 5

2007-06-08 15:09:37 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous

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2007-06-08 15:05:35 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous

If our faculties for reasoning are a product of natural selection, then they exist because they facilitate survival, which is not necessarily the same as them existing because they impart objective truth. Many animals can be conditioned towards a specific behavior through a stimulus/response mechanism utilizing their biological senses, which is how natural selection would work. We would be "trained" to keep certain mental processes because they produce a response to environmental stimuli better suited for survival. C.S. Lewis wrote "But it is not conceivable that any improvement of responses could ever turn them into acts of insight. The relation between response and stimulus is utterly different from that between knowledge and the truth known." Evolution of more acute eyesight could not bring a species to a knowledge of how light and sight function. How, then, can we trust the ability of our mental capacities if they originated in this manner?

2007-06-08 15:02:48 · 13 answers · asked by M&S 2