Religion & Spirituality - 19 June 2007

Do you apply both of these attitudes to ALL sins a Christian may commit?

Let me clarify...

I've been told on several occasions that it's unfair to hold Christians to a higher standard because they're "only human" and that sinning doesn't make them a bad Christian so long as they repent and ask for forgiveness. I've also been told on several occasions that all sin is equal in the eyes of the Lord, so Christians shouldn't impose their human judgements on whether one offense against the Lord is more egregious than another.

So here's my real question:

If one Christians steals a pen and another Christian murders someone, do you apply "hey, they're only human, of course they sin" to both, keeping in mind that God considers them equal offenses in his sight?

Is stealing a pen "hey, it's just one sin, it happens"?
Is murder "hey, it's just one sin, it happens"?

2007-06-19 12:05:15 · 34 answers · asked by ZER0 C00L ••AM••VT•• 7

2007-06-19 12:00:59 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous

In the Old Testament, God seems to intervene in human affairs a lot. For example, Moses was able to call down airstrikes from God against the Jew's enemies, the homosexuals were brimstoned in Soddom and Gomora, and the even the Red Sea was moved around. Why don't we see these interventions nowadays? Surely based on track record, God should be sending earthquakes though the Gaza strip and firing lighting bolts into the gay clubs of San Francisco? What is the Christian explaination for this change of affairs?

2007-06-19 11:58:07 · 17 answers · asked by Anonymous

http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/transportation/320413_vatican19ww.html?source=rss

do you find this a bit offensive? doesnt this mean he thinks himself righteous enough to create 10 commandments himself? (even moses didnt create them?)

what are ur views?

2007-06-19 11:52:53 · 18 answers · asked by Chippy v1.0.0.3b 6

Are vampires the symbol of people who would not accept christianity in the past, the pagans, jews and all? Like them being labelled as blooddrinkers, for the blood is the life according to christianity.
Symbolism like them being afraid of the cross and all! So essentially it was the the so called vampires being hunted by christians for the spread of christianity and today it has come to be associated with something supernatural!

2007-06-19 11:52:41 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-06-19 11:49:00 · 18 answers · asked by Anonymous

I needed a drink...something strong...have a drink with me?

2007-06-19 11:48:25 · 29 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-06-19 11:47:50 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous

There have been so many prophecies in the Bible that would if looked through prove to people that it were true but still people say it's unbelievable. An example is in Psalms 22 it says that the Christ would be peirced through the hands and feet though that was 800 years before people were crucified as a means of exucution. Who can make correct prophecies every time besides some one that lives outside of the demension of time?

2007-06-19 11:47:47 · 19 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-06-19 11:47:46 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous

Isn't it better we help one another regardless of our individual beliefs? Undeniably, we can all agree we are here on planet earth and there is now. Can we make a loving memory out of R&S? For all of us....funny responses or sincere, they are all "good" for a smile...what can we do to make a positve memory?

Peace, Love, and Blessings
Greenwood

2007-06-19 11:46:59 · 16 answers · asked by Greenwood 5

Although I'm not a JW, I want to know how you honestly feel about the below mentioned points.

Serious thoughtful replies only. (If you hesitated when reading that, please post elsewhere).

1. If you look throughout history, all major forms of religions (Jews, Arabs, Hindus, Protestants, Muslims, Christians) have engaged in warfare with other groups or even amongst themselves (mine included). But jehovah's witnesses have not done so historically.

2. If the bible said that the good news is to be preached to the ends of the earth, then why haven't other groups done so? Ok, some churches may say they have missionaries, but is this being done GLOBALLY? JW's are everywhere. Islands, major continents, rural areas, indigenous lands.

What gives? It's annoying having them knock at doors, but objectively, what other religions come close? Mormons?

2007-06-19 11:46:51 · 29 answers · asked by Jus.Do.It 1

well i am here to tell you that jesus loves you sure we have all sined and fallen short of the glory of god but we are only human we live in the flesh not the spirit and i just want all of you to know that God never stops loving you no matter what you do wrong but just because he wont stop loving you doesnt mean you don't have to repent every sin to God. well see people always relate God to religion but religons just what i call a bubble of life you think religion can save you from hell well religions not what God wants God wants you to make a relationship with him see God didnt send his jesus to die on the cross for nothing it was for all you and every one else in the world so pry to God, Jesus well here is alittle bit to pry ( I am here to create a relation ship with you Lord i want to be your servent Lord i may struggle and sined in life but i know you forgive me and love me always so i lay my heart down to you lord and exsept you as my lord and savior in jesus name i pray amen.)

2007-06-19 11:46:46 · 15 answers · asked by b_latham16 1

Do they think there is a gigantic bloke sitting on a cloud somewhere? if not what?

2007-06-19 11:46:37 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-06-19 11:45:05 · 13 answers · asked by MadCuzImFlagrant 2

My apologies to Betti for borrowing her idea but taking it in another direction. Seriously, if you are a Muslim, can you appreciate Christian art? Christians, what about Hindu or Buddhist carvings, or the poetry of India? Or the Kama Sutra for that matter! :-)

2007-06-19 11:43:09 · 17 answers · asked by in a handbasket 6

Deut 6:4 says there is ONE JEHOVAH. (Jehovah our God is one Jehovah) Not Three.
Trinitarians say that the word “One’ here which is echad which means according to them is “compound unit of oneness”. Then Trinitarians say that if God is only one person, Deut 6:4 should have used the word “yachid” which means united, sole. See Judges 11:34

Because it uses the word “echad”, according to Trinitarians, then God can be composed of three persons.

The Bible disagrees with the Trinitarians’ reasoning about Deut 6:4.

Why?

Strong’s dictionary defines echad as united one, alone, one, only.

Ecc 4:9 (“Two are better than one (echad)”) basically says that echad is one. Not two, not three, but one.

What does the context in Deut 6 states about God? IS God one person or three persons?

2007-06-19 11:40:21 · 26 answers · asked by trustdell1 3

Well I'm a christian but find it so tempting sometimes to "have a day off", what do you think about sex before marriage?

2007-06-19 11:37:54 · 39 answers · asked by Anonymous

and the other group just freaks out and cries "intolerance"?

2007-06-19 11:37:51 · 30 answers · asked by Anonymous

And has any survived to this day?

2007-06-19 11:37:01 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20070619152631AATXKpA&r=w

:( And here I was wondering what your opinions were about a certain interesting branch of physics.

Unless you guys have no idea what quantum mechanics really is.

2007-06-19 11:36:58 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous

:-)

2007-06-19 11:36:58 · 28 answers · asked by enki 4

2007-06-19 11:36:28 · 24 answers · asked by chris 4

2007-06-19 11:36:00 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous

...or however you people call it.
What made them change their minds?
And, are any of them really intelligent (not emotional intelligence, but the mathematical sort)?

2007-06-19 11:35:56 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous

The idea of heaven and hell was not introduced into Judaism until late in its development. Even at the time of Jesus, according to the gospels the Sadducees did not believe in the resurrection of the dead. From my understanding Christian doctrine was heavily influenced by the writings of Plato, from the Hellenistic Greeks. Did this influence also come into play in the development of Jewish doctrine? This is a serious question.

2007-06-19 11:31:54 · 4 answers · asked by in a handbasket 6

2007-06-19 11:29:52 · 11 answers · asked by CHEESUS GROYST 5

I don’t believe a word of it. God would not do that and the only people who think he would are fundamentalist Christians who are virtually no different from the Taliban if they had their way.
Any god that plays a cruel game for thousands of years in that one must believe what some ancient person wrote (who knew nothing of how the world works) and if they do not they will go to eternal damnation.
Who would want to be in ‘heaven’ with such a cruel being?

2007-06-19 11:29:07 · 24 answers · asked by Anonymous

an Atheist who is a biblical scholar?

2007-06-19 11:28:10 · 21 answers · asked by Anonymous

Come on, it's just a "theory" right?
So do you believe in quantum mechanics?
Did you know that unlike evolution, quatum mechanics are very applicable and are used in television, computers, microwaves, CD's and DVD's?

2007-06-19 11:26:31 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous