Religion & Spirituality - 15 June 2007

.....he thinks fictional characters like jesus, mary, pikachu , super ted, spiderman etc are real and they possess superpowers

2007-06-15 00:36:41 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous

I am a bit confused. I know that being pregnant before getting married to you future husband is one of the worst sins. I understand that if if this happens to anyone they should repent and ask for forgiveness to allah and face punishment if necessary. A friend of mine says that if you get pregnant even if you get married before the baby is born, your baby is haram and won't have his/her book so you might as well have an abortion. Now according to some websites abortion is never allowed unless the mother will die buy completing the pregnancy. For others is allowed within 120 days, others say it's 40 or 90 days and others say before the soul is breathed into the baby ... which is not clear when. Anyways ... I don't understand why should the innocent baby be punished for two adults sin ... and why should you have to have an abortion if you don't want to, it also seems to me like the easy way out. Life is a test and if this should happen to anyone what should they do?

2007-06-15 00:30:28 · 36 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-06-15 00:28:47 · 13 answers · asked by Emperor Insania Says Bye! 5

"The gospels reflect the patriarchal prejudice of the first century Jewish world in which they were created. Even the Ten Commandments assume that women are the property of men (thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's wife, nor his ox). Polygamy is present in the Bible because women were defined as property hence the richer the man was, the more wives he could possess, as well as more sheep and cattle...One reason for the slow pace is that both fundamentalist Protestant churches and Roman Catholic churches spend enormous energy opposing these changes. Those efforts will fail, but they do keep us from moving as rapidly as we might otherwise move. It is also one more sign of both the irrelevance and even the death of institutional religion, which always seems to be on the wrong side of history." Bishop Strong

2007-06-15 00:27:12 · 8 answers · asked by bruce b 3

If it is true, how will this impact people? Is this the good news?

Christian Universalism: The belief that everything in heaven and on earth will ulitmately be reconciled back to the Creator through the work of Jesus Christ, his Son. In plain language, no one is going to be endlessly tortured as has been commonly taught. The teaching has been in the church since its inception. The ancient church fathers called it in by its name found in the Greek New Testament, apokatastasis, the is, the "restoration of all things." (Acts 3:21) It has also be known simply by the name universalism, sometimes it's called "Biblical Universalism. It's been known by Ultimate Reconciliation, Universal Salvation, Universal Restoration, The Larger Hope, The Greater Faith, the Doctrine of Inclusion. I, Gary Amirault, like to call it the "Victorious Gospel of Jesus Christ. Paul, the apostle called it the "Glorious Gospel."

2007-06-15 00:22:08 · 9 answers · asked by Emperor Insania Says Bye! 5

benny hinn is 100 percent sure fake isnt he

2007-06-15 00:21:04 · 12 answers · asked by jerry a 1

Why does most of His book only apply to a small group of ancient people, who lived long ago, in only a small part of our planet?

2007-06-15 00:20:54 · 18 answers · asked by ? 6

"Creation science" is a contradiction in terms. A central tenet of modern science is methodological naturalism, it seeks to explain the universe purely in terms of observed or testable natural mechanisms. Thus, physics describes the atomic nucleus with specific concepts governing matter and energy, and it tests those descriptions experimentally. Physicists introduce new particles, such as quarks, to flesh out their theories only when data show that the previous descriptions cannot adequately explain observed phenomena. These particles do not have arbitrary properties, moreover--their definitions are tightly constrained, because the new particles must fit within the existing framework of physics.
In contrast, intelligent-design theorists invoke shadowy entities that conveniently have whatever unconstrained abilities are needed to solve the mystery. Rather than expanding scientific inquiry, such answers shut it down. (How does one disprove the existence of omnipotent intelligence..?)

2007-06-15 00:20:52 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous

(3 just because I want answers other that prayer)

2007-06-15 00:19:53 · 5 answers · asked by Aria 3

Jesus died for the sins of ALL mankind so that ALL can have life.

What does that mean to you?

2007-06-15 00:12:47 · 9 answers · asked by Emperor Insania Says Bye! 5

What is the consequence of denying Christ after you have accepted him as your personal saviour? There are surely consequences in this world for God's children who have turned from him ( by his children I mean all who are saved by Christ)but what about the next life? I'm not asking if a christian can lose his/her salvation because I do not believe that it is possible and I'm firm on that belief. Pastor John Hagee has said something about saved christians who literally stink in heaven because they turned from God after they were saved and stopped following him or something like that. I'm still not sure if he was joking or what. So.....what are the after-life consequences of a christian who has turned from God?

2007-06-15 00:12:15 · 9 answers · asked by Mr. Lemons 4

Hi, I'm southern baptist and one sunday I went to my best friends church (she's catholic), I noticed that everyone, about half way through service kept repeating the same thing over and over again. When I asked what it was my friend said they were hail mary's.
So my question is, what is the significance of the hail mary, and why do you have to repeat it so many times?
Thanks :)

2007-06-15 00:00:47 · 10 answers · asked by ? 5