Religion & Spirituality - 18 June 2007

i heard many christian say we should always show mercy and forgiveness. in the movie, jesus says "love your people, love your enemy.... " how do christian define "Revenge"? we nuked japan after they attacked us, we bombs afgan and iraq after they attack us in 9/11. is this revenge?

2007-06-18 09:33:15 · 9 answers · asked by NOMEGA 1

AS Thomas refeing to Jesus as Yaweah (as Jehovah)...Why do people still question the deity of Jesus?...Notice in v28 Jesus blesses Thomas for his recognition.

2007-06-18 09:31:57 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous

Then why wasn't it replaced for ALL of the times that it appears in the NT?

How did the Watchtower decide which LORDs to change and which not? Since they said it wasn't in the manuscripts?

Example:

KJV John 20:20
And when he had so said, he shewed unto them his hands and his side. Then were the disciples glad, when they saw the LORD.

2007-06-18 09:31:42 · 7 answers · asked by ~♥Anna♥~ 5

...was primarily devoted to anti-gay and anti-UN sentiments. topped off by telling all the men to take charge of their foolish womenfolks?

2007-06-18 09:31:40 · 13 answers · asked by constantreader 6

2007-06-18 09:30:28 · 24 answers · asked by STORMY K 3

" 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 09:30:08 · 10 answers · asked by ANyone but you 2

2007-06-18 09:29:16 · 4 answers · asked by dingoboy 1

2007-06-18 09:29:11 · 12 answers · asked by STORMY K 3

2007-06-18 09:28:00 · 14 answers · asked by STORMY K 3

Or perhaps just to family and friends? And if you feel it's necessary, what NEED do they have to convert? Why is it absolutely imperative that they become Christians?

2007-06-18 09:26:19 · 30 answers · asked by ZER0 C00L ••AM••VT•• 7

Can you imagine how much better the world would be if people stopped making donations to church and stopped spending 2 hours/week at church??
If everyone spent that money on the homeless and gave those 2 hours to helping tutor children or some other worthy cause, the world be a MUCH better place. Can you imagine if this happened?? Poverty would go down and our children would be much more educated. Religion won't help accomplish this! It is time to change our way of thinking. Imagine it...

2007-06-18 09:26:04 · 39 answers · asked by Mr. Luva Luva 4

(1) What's the point of the voice anyway?

(2) How did the people who wrote scripture make sure it was the Holy Spirit?

2007-06-18 09:24:50 · 9 answers · asked by WWTSD? 5

This is purely out of curiosity, and I don't mean any offense, but if the cross is where Jesus died (according to the Christian belief), then why is it so sacred?

I know some say it's not sacred, and that it's only a reminder, but if so, then why is it believed that it protects from "demons" and so on?

2007-06-18 09:24:01 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-06-18 09:23:28 · 29 answers · asked by STORMY K 3

When I was young, a man came to my church and gave the statistic that every ten seconds fourteen children die of hunger. Then he snapped his fingers ten times to nail in the point. After the silence of ten seconds he swore quite loudly. It was that word that our society deems as unacceptable that made everyone sit up and gasp, not the fact that children are dying.

I'm sure the fact that I have premarital sex would upset certain Christians more than if I had a bigoted attitude towards a specific race or subculture. My personal actions and what I do with my body don't harm anyone, but bias against people groups breeds intolerance and leads to senseless hate crimes.

Christians, why are we so focused on being self righteous and proper? Why do we get so worked up about people's choices and language that we don't think line up with our faith when they're really quite insubstantial in the big picture? Don't we have bigger fish to fry?

2007-06-18 09:23:04 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous

When I was a little girl I would tell people my name was Susan. Not really my name...... My younger brother spoke about remembering flying in an airplane, he had never been in an airplane.One of my Sons talked about another lifetime outright. My Grandson told me that he remembered when he was my little boy. I would like to study this because I am not getting any younger and I want to know what I was suppose to learn in this life, or if I am being punnished for things I have done in another life? I know that this go's against all christian beliefs or does it?

2007-06-18 09:21:52 · 18 answers · asked by pkvan 4

2007-06-18 09:17:00 · 23 answers · asked by Anonymous

The more I think about what a supernatural creator god would entail, the more I find the idea implausibe for mathematical reasons.

A simple example is a hallucination. Dreams and hallucinations tend to lack complex interactivity because the amount of information necessary to fool an interacting brain grows more than exponentially over a passive dupe. For example, the classic "brain in a vat" scenario fails if you imagine what it would take to convince your brain that you are interacting with a clump of sand. The data needed undergoes a so-called "combinatorial explosion."

So, then, I apply this to the universe. Theists say that God created the universe in such a way as to produce human life, but wouldn't some sort of absolute knowledge of the universe take a ridiculous amount of data storage and processing capability? Theists can cop out and say that their God can do the impossible, but that's just a cop out. How could any entity control that much data?

2007-06-18 09:14:12 · 34 answers · asked by Minh 6

2007-06-18 09:14:00 · 18 answers · asked by ANyone but you 2

education is here for everyone,

it sheds licht on the world, and light on the ethical question and yes it sheds light on faith aswell, why do so many religious people shun it because they a preeched into darkness?

Are fundamentalist christians/muslims realy seeking to return us to the darkages?

2007-06-18 09:13:10 · 21 answers · asked by mrzwink 7

2007-06-18 09:11:33 · 43 answers · asked by Anonymous

Theists [those who believe in the existence of god(s)] often use the causality argument to "prove" the existence of god(s). It goes something like this: Everything that exists must have a cause, therefore god(s) exist as the cause of all existence.

If everything that exists must have a cause, and god exists, the what/who caused the existence of god? To say that he/she/it had no cause is to deny it exists, since it claims that EVERYTHING that exists must have a cause.

So, here we have the the age-old question, where did god come from?

Peace,
Byron

2007-06-18 09:09:28 · 20 answers · asked by Byron A 3

i can take a joke against atheism. go on, take your best shot. but why can't religious people take a little joke??

2007-06-18 09:09:11 · 58 answers · asked by country gal 3

I think this one - http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=AvynM552I2Ghvd6b5Ai4mN7sy6IX?qid=20070618114022AAKf9Ij

Yes, questions about bananas count too.

Post the links if you have them or just describe the question.

2007-06-18 09:08:13 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous

I don't have 1, don't desire 1, they have no power over me, I seek no power from one, but, just for the sake of knowing, I'm curious to whether the design and position are crucial, and if the points must touch the circle, or etc. Nothing I need to know, but do you know? And why did you want to know before you knew? Lol. Maybe I should'nt seek to "know" too much about "that other tree". Arg. Something bout... "knowing". Knowledge. Something bout "what killed the cat"? Lol.

2007-06-18 09:07:42 · 6 answers · asked by SOULCRY 3

I haven't read the book. Please do not answer by saying "It insulted the prophet mohammed". How did it insult the prophet mohammed?

2007-06-18 09:07:20 · 13 answers · asked by tuthutop 2

What is the bare minimum of Christianity? What I am asking is this: what doctrines do you consider absolutely essential for one to believe in order to be a "true Christian". Now I know your answer will depend upon your definition of a "true Christian." The flip side of this is: which doctrines do you think are not essential for the faith? I don’t mean they are unimportant or that you don’t believe them, but what I mean is that they are not part of the core belief one must have in order to be identified as a "true Christian."

2007-06-18 09:06:04 · 26 answers · asked by Anonymous

in your disbelief for God? Or is your life just a lot easier without him?

2007-06-18 09:01:48 · 43 answers · asked by Jim 4

I'm talking about the process of creating another person artificially. I have yet to hear an argument that makes any real sense. The only just one I have heard is that there is a high risk of fatal deformity to the clone. Assuming you could eliminate that risk and create a copy of a person, what is the problem?

2007-06-18 08:57:57 · 22 answers · asked by ♥Satan♥Lord♥of♥Flames♥ 3

I know of a jewish grandmother who would not stay in her house at the same time as any other member of her family had gentile guests around. Is there any precedent for this, or is it just a case of individual prejudice and intolerance?

2007-06-18 08:57:44 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous