Religion & Spirituality - 18 June 2007

ok here's the thing...got into a car accident in april, the other driver was in the wrong, she told the cops and end of story right?? basically today i got a notice saying that she is denying that she ever backed up and SHE wants ME to testify!!! i am so upset, it's like ok i backed into you coujld u please say i didnt??? i might be exxagerating for being mad, but i am...if she had called me and told me i wouldnt mind. as a chritian should i elt it go and not show up or should i jsut teach her a lesson and show up??? i'm really mad! society's norms are going down the drain people...ok this might sound stupid but i want your advice, Catholics and other Chritians

2007-06-18 09:54:06 · 17 answers · asked by Anonymous

does anyone else have a little crush on Jimbo ?
I am getting seriously worried
I find him rather funny and sweet

EEeekk !!

2007-06-18 09:52:08 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous

Multiple parallell universes... Do you think it is a good possibility or gibberish

and do you believe in God or the possibility of God?

2007-06-18 09:52:02 · 17 answers · asked by G's Random Thoughts 5

Or that a rejection of deism must lead to atheism - nominally a rejection of deism but as practiced a rejection of mysticism altogether. I embrace elements of many mystical systems but reject organised religion and deism,in other words personification of spiritual qualities. My experience is most atheists pretty much reject the idea of spirituality,apparently because they cannot conceive of it without personification. Opinions? This is my first question,so forgive me if I am putting it somewhat awkwardly.

2007-06-18 09:51:32 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous

Note all christian churches

2007-06-18 09:50:10 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous

i ask the lodr for something but i was wondering if i ask him to please hurry will he i mean i know that it's on his time but if you told him to make it soon will he!

2007-06-18 09:50:04 · 25 answers · asked by manny 2

Inspired by Gandalf's curiosity, I thought I'd throw out an enquiry to the R&S community. Could you tell us up to three surprising things about yourself that most people you know don't know? I'm not interested in personal stuff, just things about you that surprise people you tell. For example, here's mine:

1) I've never owned an umbrella
2) I'm faceblind (prosopagnosia)
3) I have a resting pulse of 51.

2007-06-18 09:49:59 · 46 answers · asked by Bad Liberal 7

They profess to know God, but in works they deny Him, being abominable, disobedient, and disqualified for every good work. Titus 1:16

“Not everyone who says to Me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ shall enter the kingdom of heaven, but he who does the will of My Father in heaven. Matthew 7:21

What does it profit, my brethren, if someone says he has faith but does not have works? Can faith save him? If a brother or sister is naked and destitute of daily food, and one of you says to them, “Depart in peace, be warmed and filled,” but you do not give them the things which are needed for the body, what does it profit? Thus also faith by itself, if it does not have works, is dead. But someone will say, “You have faith, and I have works.” Show me your faith without your[d] works, and I will show you my faith by my works. You believe that there is one God. You do well. Even the demons believe—and tremble! But do you want to know, O foolish man, that faith without works is dead? James 2:14-20

2007-06-18 09:49:44 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous

I ask this question as I am supposed to be a muslim lady (although i do not practice) and want to marry a non-muslim man, but he doesn't believe in a God.

2007-06-18 09:49:41 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous

I learned (in 10th grade science) that earlier in history Christians always believed this.

2007-06-18 09:49:41 · 9 answers · asked by Sassafrass 6

2007-06-18 09:48:29 · 19 answers · asked by Laptop Jesus 3.9 7

is it true that even if you saw all proofs and evidences, and even if heavens fall down beyond you, the dead will talk to you, that you will still not believe?

[111] And even if We had sent down unto them angels, and the dead had spoken unto them, and We had gathered together all things before their very eyes, they would not have believed, unless Allâh willed, but most of them behave ignorantly.
Quran 6:111

2007-06-18 09:46:13 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous

Sometimes I feel as if the church at large doesn't seem to understand it. We say we do, but in the big scheme of things. I don't think so. True Repentance is admitting your wrong, asking for forgiveness, and shutting it down from there, never meaning to do it again. True Repentance is saying God, I say I am yours and that I LOVE YOU with all my heart and if that is so, I must and WILL do all that pleases you. I will eliminate that which I am doing wrong for you.

I know I've answered my own question, but I want to see what you think the definition is.

Please don't think I'm portraying myself as a perfect Christian. I am not, by any means, doing that. I'm growing and learning everyday and yes I do wrong and yes sometimes whatever the wrong is can be hard to stop. However, when I remind myself what I feel the definition of repentance is, it makes me feel more accountable to myself. I'm sure your answers will help me as well.

2007-06-18 09:45:01 · 15 answers · asked by insidious_22 2

For many are called, but few chosen. Matthew 20:16

2007-06-18 09:43:54 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous

Why do Christians and other theist fear, despise, and reject atheist? Why are we judged as immoral, evil, and unjust because we don't believe in god? Why am I considered a threat to the American way of life?

I am a wife, mother, teacher, and student. I pay my taxes, donate to charity, and mow my lawn. I knit for orphan children in Mongolia, Afghanistan, and Russia. I recycle, pick trash up from the sides of the highway, and scoop my dog's poop. I read Agatha Christie, sing karaoke, and camp.

And yet, I am judged most often by one small aspect of my personality, I am an atheist.

Is it so hard for Christians to understand that I was once like them? I read my Bible, attended church three times a week, and knocked on doors. I was even a fundamentalist. Is it so hard to accept that I have rejected all of that for logic, reason, and common sense?

Why do Christians fear and mistrust me because I don't believe in god?

2007-06-18 09:42:25 · 33 answers · asked by atheist 6

If Christians and churches were truly doing what they were called to do, think of the difference it would make in this world.

Churches are to help the hungry, poor, orphaned and widows...however, how much time, effort, energy and money is spent on raising funds to build bigger, better more expensive buildings...is this of God?

If that much effort/money was put into caring for the less-fortunate, what kind of change would that have on the world?

Isn't most crime a result of poverty
Isn't most teenage pregnancy the result of poor education.

The ills of our society is a result of people not having purpose or meaning in their life....

The ills of our society can be a result of people not having their basic needs met, not having positive role models, etc...

With the number of people in the country that identify themselves as Christians, why is their need and want? There are plenty of "Christians" that if acting God-like, could make a huge difference.

Your thoughts?

2007-06-18 09:42:06 · 14 answers · asked by G.C. 5

2007-06-18 09:41:32 · 24 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-06-18 09:41:09 · 12 answers · asked by ♦Hollywood's Finest♦ 3

2007-06-18 09:40:50 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous

" I know the buddha was a megalomaniac, a hater of woman, a dictator(he wanted to control every detail of his follower's lifes), a hater of tradition, a hater of family. Besides that, I think he developed some spiritual understanding, but he twisted it to his own ends"

2007-06-18 09:40:22 · 8 answers · asked by ANyone but you 2

2007-06-18 09:39:48 · 25 answers · asked by Anonymous

I have feelings that there is a higher being but there is this feeling deep down inside of me that leads me to believe that it is all absurd. What can I do to find my place in this world?

2007-06-18 09:39:45 · 27 answers · asked by SpinSpinSugar 2

A real Christian Quote

"Jesus is basically reinforcing the Jewish religious norms of his time. It was actually o.k. for a Jewish man to hit his wife. Societies and cultures change and so do religious "laws." When you look at the big picture of how Jesus lived and what he taught, you see that he was willing to go against religion when it was oppressive."

2007-06-18 09:38:39 · 30 answers · asked by Mary Magdalene 1

.....and there isn't anything in the Bible that says they will be there. Please tell me he is wrong. Anybody know of a verse that says about the afterlife for our pets. I know in biblical days, though people had animals but they weren't too many of them kept as "pets". Do you think this is why nothing is said in the Bible. Thanks!

2007-06-18 09:38:17 · 20 answers · asked by Amy K 5

I've compared two different ones(KJV & NWT? i think) and the KJV had verses that were taken out of the other translation!

And some translations were done by Atheists! One version(not sure which one) took all refences to the virgin birth out!



I think we should stick with the KJV? what do you think?

2007-06-18 09:37:14 · 31 answers · asked by Anonymous

I love Jesus. Tell me about your walk with Christ
Can you help me to be a better Christian? I feel like I am slacking and drifting away from the greatest life I could ever have

2007-06-18 09:36:13 · 25 answers · asked by Alicia R 1

I always get chewed out by somebody for not being on topic, but once in a while it's fun to break for a few seconds and answer a rather frivolous question. Here's one! I apologize in advance.

What is your earliest memory in life? How old were you at the time?

2007-06-18 09:35:04 · 44 answers · asked by Anonymous

Islam, Judaism and Christianity claim the same God/Allah and the same history, at least up to Abraham and Ishmael. And yet Muslims say the other scriptures cannot be trusted. Only the Quran as told to Mohammed is the true word of God/Allah.
If it is the same God/Allah, then the messages should be in agreement.
I invite serious responses from faithful Muslims, Jews and Christians. Please show respect for each other.

2007-06-18 09:34:56 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous

I joined a Christian chat room and went in and was having a chat with a person in Ireland, I was telling them about how I live in a Reservation with Native Americans and how it was illegal for them to speak their native language until 1979 and how it is still illegal for them to Ghost Dance, we the moderater flipped out and said I was talking about Indian witchcraft, I tried to explain that Native American Indians do not practice witchcraft and in fact they consider witches and warlocks bad medicine and the moderater banned me from the room without discussion or hearing me out. I feel this was discrimination, bigotry and ungodly of this person, what do you think?

2007-06-18 09:34:20 · 16 answers · asked by Mariah 5

" Buddha is just one of many false gods. The bible says that there should be no other gods before God. Christianity is the only faith thats savior has come. EVERY other religion is still looking for answers, waiting for a savior, and still asking why"

2007-06-18 09:33:59 · 5 answers · asked by ANyone but you 2