Religion & Spirituality - 11 June 2007

You believe that there is one God. You do well. Even the demons believe—and tremble! James 2:19
Does this sound like your belief in Jesus?

2007-06-11 11:19:55 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous

The argument that science is a religion is so absurd it's beyond words. But I have a question for all you fundies anyways. Ignoring the fact that most scientists in America are Christians, let's assume that science really is a religion. My science religion has produced cars, trains, computers, planes, houses, cd's, tv's, and much much more. What has your Christians religion given us besides a boring 1 hour lecture every sunday?

2007-06-11 11:18:32 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous

You think God likes it.

2007-06-11 11:17:54 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous

I run into this occasionally and don't understand.. I have heard many silly remarks about historical troubles but there is no over 2 century old organization with over 1.1 billion members which has not had hiccups - a few historical events do not invalidate the Roman Catholic Church. And the Roman Catholic Church has many many devout holy Priests.. I wish that someone would explain this to me. Thank you!

2007-06-11 11:17:45 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous

Hi, I want to just tell you before anything that I am a Wiccan, So I appreciate all religions, My Great Grandma was in a nursing home for maybe a month and a half. She had please forgive the spelling but I will spell it like it sounds, Altimers. She would not eat, She was starving herself to death, And the reason I ask this is because today she died, And she was a devout Catholic. So would you please say a prayer?

2007-06-11 11:17:23 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-06-11 11:11:53 · 29 answers · asked by Anonymous

I know for a fact that many Christians are intelligent, insightful, and learned men and women, and no doubt some of them are readers of Q&As here. Why oh why do you stand mute and not speak up when beyond-the-pale, snivelling, geeky nit-wits here give your religion a really bad name, with their pointless juvenile babbling and hate and un-Christian, Dark Ages ignorance? Do you care for your faith so little?

2007-06-11 11:07:33 · 20 answers · asked by ? 3

2007-06-11 11:03:24 · 35 answers · asked by joan wolly 1

Why did the Apostle Peter become a Saint?

Let us not forget that he denied Jesus not once but actually THREE TIMES....

How come the Cathoholic Church was founded by him?

And since the Pope is St. Peter's successor, does that mean that each Pope has also denied Jesus, who by Christian "logic" is ALSO the Holy Spirit,and ergo, the Pope is also doomed to suffer in the throes of HELL???

2007-06-11 11:03:20 · 31 answers · asked by Doomsday 2

Malachi 3:3..."He will sit as a refiner and purifier of silver..."

This verse puzzled some women in a Bible study and they wondered what
this statement meant about the character and nature of God. One of the
women offered to find out the process of refining silver and get back to
the group at their next Bible Study.

That week, the woman called a silversmith and made an appointment to
watch him at work. She didn't mention anything about the reason for her
interest beyond her curiosity about the process of refining silver.

As she watched the silversmith, he held a piece of silver over the fire
and let it heat up. He explained that in refining silver, one needed to
hold the silver in the middle of the fire where the flames were hottest
as to burn away all the impurities.

She asked the silversmith if it was true that he had to sit there in
front of the fire the whole time the silver was being refined.

The man answered yes - he not only had to sit there holding the silver,
but he had to keep his eyes on the silver the entire time it was in the
fire. If the silver was left a moment too long in the flames, it would
be destroyed.

The woman was silent for a moment. Then she asked the silversmith, "How
do you know when the silver is fully refined?"

He smiled at her and answered, "Oh, that's easy...when I see my image
in it."

2007-06-11 11:01:24 · 16 answers · asked by christiangoalie13 1

so I'm a christian too, but I was thinking, I don't believe in ghost. But don't I? I mean father, son and the holy spirt/ghost? Because it's the holy ghost doesn't that mean there are other ghost that are not holy and just random? I dunno just wondering.

2007-06-11 11:00:47 · 7 answers · asked by Jaroo 4

I mean racism is the belief that your race is superior to all other races.

Fundamentalism is the belief that your religion is the absolute truth and all other religions are false.

Also fundamentalism, like racism, has lead to violence (surely I don't need to give you an example).

2007-06-11 11:00:43 · 6 answers · asked by seands11 2

Nobody is a philosopher these days because no one thinks conceptually anymore. Imagination is a concept, just as God is a concept, but it's one thing to imagine a God exists, it's quite another to God a God exists. You following me?

And so if you can't think conceptually, how can you possibly know what reality is? Most people think that if you believe or understand science, you are thinking realistically. But you're not. You're merely believing the concepts someone else is thinking about. So you're not existing in your own mind, you're existing in someone elses mind. Which means you are only a figment of their imagination. So atheists, if you exist enough to hear me, Richard Dawkins is your God because you exist within his conscious thoughts, not your own.

And so of course you can't understand what God is, because God is not a what. The problem is that if it is an object at all, which it's probably not, our minds are pointed in the wrong direction to begin with.

2007-06-11 11:00:34 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous

do you think God will give me another chance again.

2007-06-11 10:56:08 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous

The scientific community has accepted the Theory of Evolution as scientific fact for at least the last 50 years.


If evolution is a lie and we were created as we are now, then this must mean that the scientific community is lying to us, and has been for at least 50 years.

There must be a vast conspiracy amongst scientist to have started and maintain this lie.

Can you please explain how a community of thousands of people have managed to keep this vast conspiracy a secret? How come there have been no confessions from any of these thousands of people. How come thousands more have quietly joined the conspiracy rather than reveal it?

How do all these scientist and technicians keep publishing papers based on a false premise? Millions of papers have been published that are underpinned by evolution. How have this conspiracy been able to produce this vast number of documents without ever slipping up?

2007-06-11 10:54:24 · 13 answers · asked by Simon T 7

What does this quote mean to you????

"Our uniqueness is what makes humanity interesting yet it is that which divides them apart from one another"

2007-06-11 10:54:10 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous

Poof?

2007-06-11 10:53:58 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous

and once we have concluded that it might be something, then how did it get there?

2007-06-11 10:52:46 · 13 answers · asked by pooey 2

I am supposed to Take a topic on which you are very passionate: poverty, violence, gossip, money. But I have to wrtie it in a letter syle like Pauls letters to a group of peopl. Pay attention to ho he begins and ends his letters. I have read but still do not understand the style in which I am supposed to be wrting in. How would I begin and end it if I were writing about violence?

2007-06-11 10:51:16 · 8 answers · asked by Anthropomorphic 2

I hate to be labelled or discriminated against myself...

-However, when I see people with children enter a theater or a restaurant...I cringe when I think they may sit next to me. I fear that they will not behave well, will be loud, will be up and about, etc...
-If I owned rental property, I would think twice about renting to someone with children, because many times those homes are not maintained well, etc...
-I also know that those that I work with whom have children, miss work far more than those without children...leaving the rest of us to pick up the slack

This, and I love my neices and nephews and thoroughly enjoy spending time with them...and their "noise" does not bother me...however, they are well behaved, and I know one word from a person of authority and they mind well.

Your thoughts? Do you have these same thoughts? Is this prejudice?

So, what are your thoughts

2007-06-11 10:47:25 · 13 answers · asked by G.C. 5

Muslim,jewish,Hindu,Buddhist,Bahai,etc. Do you try to convert them to Christianity? If not,why not? What do you think of people who associate with non-Christians without attempting to convert?

2007-06-11 10:46:29 · 12 answers · asked by Galahad 7

If a person has free will, then a person determines their own actions.
If God controls everything, then He determines the action of a person.
If He determines the action of a person, then it is false that a person determines their own actions.
It is false that a person determines their own actions and it is false that a person determines their own actions.
Therefore, it is either that it is false that a person has free will or it is false that God controls everything.

2007-06-11 10:45:39 · 13 answers · asked by (notso)Gloriouspipecleaner 3

he then explained that he thought that it was all man made as men couldn't explain things in them days and were scared about dying. Do you agree with him or is he an idiot?

2007-06-11 10:45:34 · 18 answers · asked by thethinker 2

2007-06-11 10:44:27 · 17 answers · asked by U-98 6

Please provide facts. This one is for everybody.

2007-06-11 10:43:19 · 16 answers · asked by square 4

an insulting name? She made a very foolish coment about How Americans Care more about the Environment than they do about going to Hell. As if Helping the Environment with send one to Hell. I would like to be able to tell her face to face what I think of her. I am however too angy at this moment to keep my composure, and am prone to profane language.

2007-06-11 10:41:57 · 19 answers · asked by ? 2

I believe that God is fair and that everyone will have a chance to accept Jesus, but do you think there will actually be mass conversions unlikely any we have ever seen right before the world ends? What do you think will happen?

2007-06-11 10:41:43 · 22 answers · asked by Anonymous

If the rapture happened tomorrow; would you believe in God then?? A simple yes or no will do!!!

2007-06-11 10:41:14 · 38 answers · asked by LayneP 2

I just wanted to say thank you for dancing around the question. I have concluded through your comments that you have no clue to what took place. but to those who have a scientific THEORY, make sure to let me know what happens when SCIENCE changes what it has found AGAIN! the reason you cannot explain evolution or the big bang into existance is because it did not happen. i know, you will all now say that i surely can not explain my beliefs, but in fact, if you actually wanted to know what we believed you would take the time to listen and not just criticize, ok, so lets hear it, what do you have to say now?

2007-06-11 10:39:17 · 29 answers · asked by pooey 2

I want to post up little notes around my house and on the refrigerator to keep me on track while I change my eating habits.

2007-06-11 10:38:55 · 13 answers · asked by razzthedestroyer 2