Religion & Spirituality - 16 June 2007

2007-06-16 09:23:38 · 15 answers · asked by ? 7

2007-06-16 09:22:21 · 12 answers · asked by ? 5

2007-06-16 09:22:13 · 6 answers · asked by Marmeladealorangesanguine 3

do you breath? what is this breath comes from? what is this soul inside you from. who created you and created your fathers and mothers?

2007-06-16 09:21:53 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-06-16 09:21:14 · 11 answers · asked by bethybug 5

It is a fact. Christians are more generous. Republicans are more generous. The non-believers (typically Democrats) are cheap and don't give. They are the ones who demand that the government take money away from us and help those in need. Unfortunately, government doesn't do anything very well. So what's the answer? Why are believers so generous and non-believers such cold hearted cheapies?

In Who Really Cares: The Surprising Truth About Compassionate Conservatism (Basic Books), Arthur C. Brooks finds that religious conservatives are far more charitable than secular liberals, and that those who support the idea that government should redistribute income are among the least likely to dig into their own wallets to help others.

Some of his findings have been touched on elsewhere by other scholars, but Mr. Brooks, a professor of public administration at Syracuse University, breaks new ground in amassing information from 15 sets of data in a slim 184-page book .

2007-06-16 09:14:14 · 31 answers · asked by Anonymous

Society. The good of the many. First do no harm. Do unto others.

We believe in doing the right thing, simply because we want to.

2007-06-16 09:13:36 · 19 answers · asked by iamnoone 7

Conversely, if someone believes nothing impossible can ever happen, does that mean they are NOT spiritual/religious?

2007-06-16 09:11:29 · 10 answers · asked by Jon 3

2007-06-16 09:10:16 · 24 answers · asked by Anonymous

I don't know what they are or where they come from, but I believe they are what gives us our humanity.

I am not the only atheist in this forum who feels this way.

Comments?

2007-06-16 09:09:27 · 20 answers · asked by iamnoone 7

in Islam or the Quran, what God said about those who worship three heads of God in trinity or said Jesus is God ?

2007-06-16 09:06:35 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous

When I as 9, as well as believing that no Bronze Age god governed my life, I also believed, and many times more strongly, that Jim Crow and state-sanctioned hate in my native Georgia were unspeakably vile. I was only 9 and so I let the fact be known that I was "a traitor to the white race", and overnight I became a pariah dog. By no means is it as serious to me, the sad path which fundies are taking, but, you know, I have the same feeling that history will not be kind to them. American history certainly was on the side of a cotton-mill boy in backward Georgia in 1953, and it is on the side of American atheists in 2007. No matter how much cherry-picking of the Bible that fundies do, no matter their lies and really rather pathetic extortions, in not so many ticks of the clock, in universal terms, Christianity, as fundies define it, will be long-gone, yet another American oddity.

2007-06-16 09:05:47 · 12 answers · asked by ? 3

2007-06-16 09:00:54 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-06-16 09:00:01 · 2 answers · asked by Anonymous

..does it really make them any smarter by thinking we will change our minds believing in God? Their ignorance has actually reinforced my faith..so I guess that's one thing I can thank them for.

2007-06-16 08:58:44 · 25 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-06-16 08:57:36 · 17 answers · asked by †ღChristian♥Girlღ† 2

If so, how did the fresh and sea(salt) water become seperated again as it was before the flood?

Chemistry-wise, not geography-wise.

2007-06-16 08:53:24 · 26 answers · asked by Just! Some? *Dude* 5

With your thoughts, words, and deeds?

2007-06-16 08:53:22 · 24 answers · asked by THE NEXT LEVEL 5

Can there be organised religion without the writings? Please (Respectfully) no BiBLE/Koran quotes they won't help with my understanding.

2007-06-16 08:53:11 · 9 answers · asked by Edko 3

2007-06-16 08:51:30 · 18 answers · asked by bethybug 5

I believe they are. They follow a false teacher and those who follow a false teacher are false Christians. God did not promise that Christians will have their life all put together perfectly if they become Christians. In fact, God demands that Christians put to death the deeds of the flesh (Romans 8:13) and not be conformed to the patterns of this world (Romans 12:2). Agree or disagree?

2007-06-16 08:46:39 · 10 answers · asked by helper725 3

Such things as 'rebuking the devil'; quoting him scripture, etc. etc. Does the Bible instruct Christians to actually speak to Satan?

2007-06-16 08:46:33 · 10 answers · asked by Prof Fruitcake 6

Or to Jesus? Or to the Father?
Which one/s should we pray to?

2007-06-16 08:44:45 · 15 answers · asked by Prof Fruitcake 6

Questions like "If we evolved from apes why are there still apes?" and answers that insist "it's impossible for natural selection to produce new species" are mocked in this article on the Creationist website Answers in Genesis.

Have the creationists and atheists here ever come across this list of 37 "Arguments for creation that creationists SHOULDN'T use"?
http://www.answersingenesis.org/home/area/faq/dont_use.asp

2007-06-16 08:43:03 · 14 answers · asked by penguineditor 2

Go ahead. Get it all out!

2007-06-16 08:39:19 · 28 answers · asked by THE NEXT LEVEL 5

I also do what I can from my end to make my life better. But things can get very discouraging and I see lots of prayer as one solution. Is a lot of prayer good, especially about the same things. I am not asking about praying in general but is it more effective if you pray MORE, even about the same things.

This verse seems to say no:

Matthew 6:7
And when you pray, do not keep on babbling like pagans, for they think they will be heard because of their many words.

These verses seem to say yes:

Luke 18:1
Then Jesus told his disciples a parable to show them that they should always pray and not give up.

Psalm 86:3
Have mercy on me, O Lord, for I call to you all day long.

2007-06-16 08:37:49 · 28 answers · asked by lend322 4

A personal, life-changing "mystical" experience of God, or believing certain doctrines to be literally true?

Please provide reasons for your answer. Thanks!

2007-06-16 08:35:11 · 21 answers · asked by jamesfrankmcgrath 4

2007-06-16 08:33:17 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous

"Jesus said earth will pass away but my words will never pass away."

yet if we reject the prophets and Moses words why wouldnt we reject Jesus words and salvation too?

Moses said there is no forgiveness of sins without a blood atonement "The life of the flesh is in the blood, and I have given it upon the altar to make atonement for your sins." Leviticus 17:11

Isaiah said the Messiah would be God the child born, the Son given and the prince of peace "Isaiah 9:6

someone said that Jesus just read the prophecy and then fit himself into it? that is the ultimate joke-like Jesus decided to be the mighty God, and be the child born the son given, because he saw that prophecy, and decided to die to be our atonement, and live a sinless life so he would be worthy to die in our place.

I had to come to believe the words of the Scriptures of my own Jewish people who for the most part reject our Jewish Messiah Jesus.

do you claim Jesus & SavedXexisted? the most proven fact in life?

2007-06-16 08:32:15 · 28 answers · asked by Anonymous

ive seen a lot of ppl give out thumbs down on the relgion part of yahoo answers and it doesnt make sense. an atheist will answer the question with what they believe and get a thumbs down i mean the question was what do you beleve about this so how could they be wrong?? i saw someone do it to a christan too she just answered the queston and i thot it was funny too even tho im not a christan but someone gave her a thumbs down!!

if u give out thumbs down y do u do this?

2007-06-16 08:29:14 · 20 answers · asked by Anonymous