Religion & Spirituality - 5 July 2007

Let's first look at how TRUE free will works...

Remember the game show Let's Make a Deal?

There are two doors. You don't know what is behind them. You know there might be a great prize, but there might also be 200 can's of cat food. Monte Hall always gives you the option... keep what you have, or trade for one of the doors. You're not coerced. The choice is entirely your own.

Now here is Christian free will...

Monte tells you that behind door #1 is a great prize, and behind door number #2 is eternal torment. He suggests you choose door number one, but you are allowed to choose door number 2 if you want to burn. You can opt to not choose either and keep what you have, but before you leave the studio you'll be forced to exchange it for door #2 anyway.

Now, what have we learned? We've learned that god's free will isn't actually free will at all. It's COERCION because you know what the outcome of your choice is, and you know that one outcome was specifically designed to terrify you!

2007-07-05 13:27:19 · 38 answers · asked by Anonymous

someone said i was so there. tell when too

2007-07-05 13:25:58 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous

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Answer as many or as few as you wish:

Question #1: Who would you seek knowledge from regarding:

Your health: A doctor or a factory worker?
Legal matters: An attorney or a carpenter?
Your car: A mechanic or a vacuum cleaner salesperson

You would probably trust the person that is most knowledgable in the area you're questioning, right?

Then why would a creationist ignore geologists, biologists, geneticists, anthropologists, archeologists, astronomers, paleontologists, and anyone else who is most knowledgable in fields relating to our origins?

(more coming)...

2007-07-05 13:25:24 · 20 answers · asked by DougDoug_ 6

I meant was to say the fact if Knowledge is so wonderful than y the hell does it always like to take the most people we LOVE dear to us! Y?

every-time I use it always causes trouble/pain and even harmful more dangerous to..yet only few times where it does bring humour for me to........


Should I belive the question im asking or should I not listin and go with faith?


PLEASE..anyone help me..............

2007-07-05 13:23:51 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous

God, if there is a higher being, put me, on this earth, I have no place. How do I found out?

2007-07-05 13:19:54 · 16 answers · asked by just me 1

2007-07-05 13:19:45 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous

Unlike Muslims, Jews or Satanists, Christians seem to be the only religion that knock on doors or drop pamphlets on transit vechicles to recruit new members.

2007-07-05 13:19:07 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous

Life's Questions?

First off I am on no meds..I am very intuitive and I see the wolrld the universe as GOD allows us to see, and what he reveals if we listen. LISTENING is KEY.

GOD has always shown his power in CIimatic events since the beginnning of time..The Wisemen were WISE because they looked into the sky and saw what was written biblically and knew that certain STAR meant the Messiah has entered the world.
I don't propose to know GOD's entire will if I knew I would be GOD and I am not, I am a sinner saved by grace.
Everyone is freaked out over Global Warming and although I think we all should be loving to the enviroment this Global Warming is just one of the *SIGNS* more to come.
What will you do when the Government and Science cannot answer anymore of life's questions?

2007-07-05 13:18:06 · 28 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-07-05 13:15:42 · 2 answers · asked by hotpinkfruitloop 2

NOT lessen it?

i mean, come on, all these people fighting tooth and nail just to show their love and commitment for one another.

THAT's what marriage should be about.

2007-07-05 13:08:20 · 26 answers · asked by Anonymous

I'm just sayin'.

2007-07-05 13:07:23 · 17 answers · asked by ? 7

You CAN know for sure!

2007-07-05 13:05:53 · 51 answers · asked by Elizabeth M 1

2007-07-05 13:05:13 · 2 answers · asked by ♣Hey jude♣ 5

In education, the old model was to get students to repeat tasks, though they often did not understand. In the new model, students are guided into life-like problems, and asked to create answers, questions and meaning. How does God teach us?

2007-07-05 13:04:13 · 6 answers · asked by Calvin James Hammer 6

2007-07-05 13:03:32 · 19 answers · asked by Gypsy Gal 6

2007-07-05 13:01:58 · 40 answers · asked by Anonymous

why do you even give a crap if they get married or not?

does it affect you in any way whatsoever? no, it doesn't. so shut the hell up already.

2007-07-05 13:01:43 · 27 answers · asked by Anonymous

Having here on earth with terrorism?
I posted the Huge Solar Sytem Dust Cloud coming from MArs as a clue that Space is out of control, because Jesus is on his way..There is no PEACE until he arrives ANYWHERE.

The SUN is in a uproar and that is why this 2012 Theory has some merit because the SUN will cause some cataclysmic event. Soon NASA Will not be able to see anything in space and everyone will have to rely on the Supreme Being for Hope Protection and GOD's plan for mankind and the universe.

Science and the Goverment cannot protect you..Why can't you unbelievers see that you have no hope? Its' your choice but it's baffling. Don't you want Utopia? GOD promies us that.

2007-07-05 13:01:20 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-07-05 13:01:10 · 5 answers · asked by ♥BEX♥ 7

And don't give me the "free will" nonsense. If god exists and if he/it is all-powerful, then it follows that everything is according to his will and nothing can be otherwise. Therefore, there is no such thing as free will.

2007-07-05 12:59:19 · 35 answers · asked by ? 7

2007-07-05 12:56:46 · 8 answers · asked by Sarah 3

I figure that if we give them a section, all the atheist trolls can go there and rant amongst themselves instead of picking fights with Christians and other theists.

2007-07-05 12:56:21 · 21 answers · asked by Anonymous

(((((((((((((HUGS)))))))))))))))
welcome
will you tell us a little about yourself and your beliefs ?

I am Pangel ( Angela ) a Spiritualist from Scotland
but I am very open to many aspects of other religious beliefs

you oldie regulars can join in also of course

2007-07-05 12:56:05 · 26 answers · asked by Anonymous

Growing up, the words God Christ Church Heaven and Bible were just not spoken. It was just not a part of our lives.. Now.. I have a daughter.. Ive lost my husband because he was unfailthful.. and Im just looking to make my like better.. Make my life more fufilling.. and Im interested in "checking into" Church, and god and seeing if it's something that is for me, something that calls to me. But I don't have the slightest clue HOW to begin. I guess my biggest thing is what denomination church will I fit best into? I'm already turned off by Presbyterian and Catholic. I'm not a fan of a church ruling over my life, I want it to be a support to my life. Any suggestions on how to approach this?

2007-07-05 12:56:05 · 17 answers · asked by kaylaj0418 1

If your saved but you still fill empty inside what do you think you should do? Do you think you feal this way because your not as close to God as you Should be?

2007-07-05 12:55:06 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous

the Bible says the devil will be locked up for 1,000 yrs, re 20:3, so what will happen during the 1,000 ;yrs?

2007-07-05 12:53:35 · 8 answers · asked by zorrro857 4

2007-07-05 12:52:17 · 18 answers · asked by ♣Hey jude♣ 5

That is, what is its nature? Why are the actions labeled "sin" so bad?

One perspective is that sin involves some kind of obsession with the self, while love is selfless. Thus, it is the "self" that is the problem. If this is true, do you think that a selfless person who commits a sin that harms no one is guilty of evil?

What is your perspective? Try your best to see it from God's point of view.

No "God/The Bible says so" answers. I'm asking for thought, here. If you have nothing to contribute, don't bother.

2007-07-05 12:51:22 · 27 answers · asked by Skye 5

But is the SUN , Science and GOD's will converging by what we see and what the Bible tells us?
Here is more Space info:
Callas said the storm's growth rate was shocking.

"The rovers have weathered weaker storms in the past, which developed over the course of weeks, but nothing like this. This thing came out of nowhere," he said. "The dust levels just skyrocketed."

John Wilson, a planetary scientist who studies Mars' atmosphere at the National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration in Princeton, N.J., says the topography of Mars' southern hemisphere is probably to blame.

"The southern hemisphere, on average, is about 4 km (2.5 miles) higher than the northern hemisphere, which helps dust storm formation go global," Wilson said, explaining that Earth experiences a similar storm-fueling phenomenon near India
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,288254,00.html

2007-07-05 12:50:01 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous

There's an old man named Chet Yorton whose in his 70's now, and he works out, he has an unbelivevable body for HIS age or ANY age rather. Now, he can do this (Working out until the day that the lord calls him to ride off in that chariot in the sky). Here's my question, Can you stay like this forever or will eventually even he will have to accept old age and have his body break down and start looking old eventually? If so, how will he die of natural causes if he's healthy?

2007-07-05 12:48:25 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous