Religion & Spirituality - 6 July 2007

unknowingly I seek thier forgiveness.Will you please grant it?

2007-07-06 05:01:05 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-07-06 05:00:45 · 29 answers · asked by ? 3

i am not into voodoo or anything, i want a religious explination for this cause i just dont know. i was about to go to bed and i hear talking under my window, i go check, no one...try to go to bed, same thing..talking talking, and when i finally open my window to see who the hell was talking so loud at 1 am, i saw 2 cats running and suddenly all of the talking stops...ladies and gentlemen i was so freaked out that me, a 23 year old woman, went to sleep with my mother tht night!!! could anyone explain that to me??? prayers? help!

2007-07-06 04:59:06 · 29 answers · asked by Anonymous

Preferably Christians and/or religous people who believe homosexuality is acceptable.

2007-07-06 04:56:14 · 21 answers · asked by myeternalprayer 2

If so what is the intelligent purpose of Necrotizing fasciitis? If "god" is real what exactly was he thinking when he created this?

2007-07-06 04:55:56 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous

CNN reports that archaeologists claim to have found the original box that the Flying Spaghetti Monster, or FSM, came from. DNA testing on pasta shards found inside the box indicate that the FSM is not spaghetti at all, but an inexpensive form of elbow macaroni. Carbon dating tests are preliminary, but seem to place the age of the FSM at a mere 2 years and 6 months old, and not 8 billion years old as devotees claim. It remains to be seen how this new revelation will affect the continued serving of pasta in public schools.

2007-07-06 04:55:21 · 11 answers · asked by Graham 5

I was told my the mormons in my ward for years that he was tarred and feathed and how bad that was and that when he died in the jail his blood is still stained there, I have always wanted to see the evidence for this myself, because I don't believe it, has anyone seen this blood or lack of...???

2007-07-06 04:54:55 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-07-06 04:53:33 · 62 answers · asked by emily brooks 1

This one (Luke 18:16-17) is most often used when trying to prove that children and babies automatically go to heaven.
"Let the little children come to me," yes, and why? Because if the parents forbid them, they doom their children! "and do not forbid them; for of SUCH is the kingdom of God." A little child, not filled with and occupied by old concepts, can easily recieve a new thought. Therefore, it's saying that people need to be like little children and, with an unoccupied heart, recieve the kingdom of God as a new thing. (The kingdom of God on earth is Accepting Christ and living IN christ)
"Whoever does not receive the kingdom of God as a little child will by no means enter it." The little child HAS to receive the kingdom of God! Not receiving it dooms them.
Now the next verse (Corinthians 7:14) Someone here mentioned that if a child is sanctified by his parent/s then that child is saved, I'm afraid that is not so. Sanctification and salvation are two different things.To be sanctified does not mean you are saved but that you are made holy because of some attachment between you (the unbeliever) and the believer. So an unbeliever is sanctified FOR the believer.
Now regarding my previous post. The problem with so many "christians" is that they let their emotions get in the way of the truth. As Christians You are supposed to accept the bible as it is but you don't. Face it: The only reason you people believe that babies and children go to heaven is because thats what you want to believe. Not because it's in the bible, it's not. All those "christians" that believe what they want to believe instead of accepting the whole word of God as it is, without twisting it for their own convenience, are not Christians.
And just because I spoke the truth and backed it up with the scripture, yahoo deleted my question ? I guss the truth can be painful. God Bless

2007-07-06 04:53:01 · 6 answers · asked by John D 1

It's so powerful. Why can't we accomplish this kind of conceptual saturation with something that really exists?

2007-07-06 04:52:46 · 9 answers · asked by vehement_chemical 3

Who are these people who make up figures claiming that a majority of Americans are Christian, and why aren't they arrested for lying to the public?

2007-07-06 04:51:44 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous

... so how does religion manage to sell itself?

2007-07-06 04:51:10 · 1 answers · asked by Anonymous

Surely NASA has made it closer to heaven than the Tower of Babel?

2007-07-06 04:50:41 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous

and why did he fall etc? does it actually tell you why?

2007-07-06 04:49:40 · 21 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-07-06 04:49:24 · 44 answers · asked by sahara_springs 3

2007-07-06 04:49:16 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous

because it has mold on it and i havent worn it since the 80's. I was thinking of acquiring a new one anyway.

2007-07-06 04:49:08 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous

i'm really scared of being a victim in a terrorist attack ...
i don't support terrorists... and being a muslim doesn't mean that i'm a terrorist ... i hate innocent ppl getting killed .. everybody deserves to live ...that's what the quran teachs us
and i think that if i died in a terrorist attacks .. done by a non muslim .. they will blame it on me .. because they found a "muslim" body in the scene ...

2007-07-06 04:48:34 · 6 answers · asked by lor l 1

2007-07-06 04:47:28 · 34 answers · asked by sahara_springs 3

Has anyone else ever noticed that if you rearrange the letters in 'Santa' it spells 'Satan'? They both classically wear red too. One comes down the chimney and lands in the fireplace. One comes down from heaven and lands in the fires of hell.

What do you think?

2007-07-06 04:46:04 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous

1. When we say that man can recognize God through the construction of a cell or an atom it is only meant for those who really want to believe in God but not for those who do not have the intention of doing so at all. To illustrate this point the following examples can be cited:

(i) Look at a man who roasts and broils meat on a gridiron and who cuts several livers in a day into slices for roasting but does not know the various veins and arteries embedded in it because he had nothing to do with knowing those blood vessels.

(ii) Look at a man who is busy from morning to evening in selling mirrors to his customers and who has dishevelled hair and who never cares to groom it despite looking at the mirror several times in the day as he is only concerned in selling the mirrors and not grooming his hair.

(iii) When a man is busy cleansing with his handkerchief the glass of his watch and we ask him the time, he sees his watch again, because he was busy cleansing the watch and had not noted the time.

(iv) Look at a carpenter who makes a ladder but never does he himself mount it but for the sake of demonstration he does so several times in order to satisfy his customers.

From the foregoing examples we can conclude only one result that unless man wishes to know a thing or to draw benefit from it, he would not know it nor would he draw any benefit from it. Similarly, people do see the signs of God closely and minutely yet they do not have belief in God, because just by merely looking at the signs their intention is not to recognize God .

2. We all know that when from the very beginning we are favored with a blessing we do not realize its true significance and hence it loses its freshness. Similarly, when we see the signs of God everywhere we do not care to think about it or to realize its import because from the very start we had become used to them and as such they seemed to have lost their novelty. Take an example of the thumb of your hand about which you have never been thankful to God because it has been there since your birth. But suppose this thumb is bandaged for a while or is completely detached from your body, you will see that without it you cannot even button your shirt! (You can yourself imagine it while reading this instance).

Since the continuity of bounties leads to the forgetfulness of God misfortunes come to us as a warning. The Holy Qur'an says that sometime God inflicts hardship upon man so that he may return to God and ask Him for His forgiveness. The Holy Qur'an repeatedly reminds mankind to remember God's blessings and bounties and we often find in the supplications of leaders of religion that they enumerate one by one God's bounties and benevolence, for example they say: ' It is You, O God Who has elevated us from lower position to a higher status, from ignorance to knowledge, from small quantity to a larger quantity, from poverty and indigence to richness and wealth and from illness to health".

3. People ignore religion because many innovations have been introduced into it by ignorant friends and wise enemies.

As for example if we offer a glass of water to a thirsty person and a fly falls down in it, that person instead of drinking water throws it away. Hence, just a man shuns water because of the fly, similarly he shuns religion because of the presence of a few unreasonable and irrational things in religion. Therefore, we should not be unmindful of those whose actions distract the people from religion.

4. Environmental Influence: The cause of man's deviation from religion and religious commands is the problem of the environmental influence. Man by his very nature and instinct dislikes the act of stealing and considers misappropriation as a bad thing, but when he is in an environment which is dominated by thieves and usurpers, he too adopts their habits.

5. Sometimes indifference to religion is due to shirking responsibility, because accepting religion means binding oneself to accept various religious restrictions and obligations. Hence some people shun religion since they want to be free from all restrictions. They do not realize that to be so free as to abstain from following Divine commands means that they have accepted all other restrictions and all sorts of servitude. He who does not accept to be the servant of God is a slave of everybody else, and he who does not obey His commands must obey the commands of everyone else. He who leaves God and turns to others is as if it were like one who falls from the sky to the earth. He becomes a prey to the vultures before whom he falls down.

6. Enmity: There is a certain group of people which harbors grudge and indulges in prejudice and selfishness. Such people oppose and criticize things for the sake of opposition and thereby disregard the Divine commands altogether.

7. Lack of Proper Preaching: It is also lack of proper preaching or preaching in a wrong way which makes people indifferent to religion .


Do you agree? why? why not?

2007-07-06 04:45:19 · 17 answers · asked by MUHAMMAD 3

When did supporting murder become acceptable? I know many christians who are Pro-Choice.

2007-07-06 04:42:10 · 31 answers · asked by Anonymous

Surely there's a conflict of interest here.

2007-07-06 04:41:51 · 19 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-07-06 04:40:21 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous

I am going to get married here on July 20th and my gf is Catholic and I am non religious. She wants to attend Catholic marriage classes after the wedding so the church will recognize the marriage and bless it. I thought it was only a 1 day class but I found out it is 8 weeks!?!?!?! I am not religious and I care nothing for religion as I think the world would be better off without it and believe church's really only want money. Now I dont care that she is religious and I do not say anything for it. I just ask she does not try to talk me into church or ever expect me to go as it will not work.

But what do these classes involve? And is it filled with a bunch of crap about why I should become Catholic? I mean dont get me wrong I am not going to just complain to her as I will keep it inside but I really dont care for these classes and I really dont want to go as they are a waste of time on my part.

2007-07-06 04:38:53 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-07-06 04:38:00 · 48 answers · asked by Theophilus 2

I started the following to organize the Yahoo Answers Fantasy Football

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/religion_section_football/

2007-07-06 04:36:27 · 14 answers · asked by ? 1

hey dears.,

as a muslim i believe that there is just one God ,but you christians believe in a lot of things which does not exist in your Bible .Anyway,it's ok .Moreover ,if we scrutinize the whole bible ,we ll never find any verse where the prophet Jesus says i'm God .All christian doctrine doesn't exist in their Book.Well, i know that you believe firmly the Jesus is God that is fine,so let get to practice instead of theory .And here is a verse by the prophet Jesus where he says the when ever 2 persons gathers in his name and ask for something ,then it happened immediately;and here is the verse it is in (matthew 18:19,20):Again, (amen,) I say to you, if two of you agree on earth about anything for which they are to pray, it shall be granted to them by my heavenly Father. For where two or three are gathered together in my name, there am I in the midst of them." . so plz try to call him and ask him to appear to you .and now i tell you that he ll never appear to you .

2007-07-06 04:29:12 · 42 answers · asked by Anno 3

Here are my current faves:

India: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AlBG03dY3o4

Russia: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QF5k1ZL8ZpI

Honduras: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7pfcxizk650

Fiji: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q6mU8OT2L_4

Ivory Coast: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LnwVuha_LRc

Czech republic: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b5Q4oSeJKe8

Jamaica: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S2gY-NylC9E

Egypt: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cpf0WMA5_A0

Anyone know of any more?

2007-07-06 04:29:01 · 1 answers · asked by Rossonero NorCal SFECU 7

2007-07-06 04:27:37 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous