Religion & Spirituality - 11 July 2007

I am agnostic, I feel that people should all just believe in what they want to believe in, have their own morals, be the best person they can be and try to live their life to the fullest. Religion divides and separates the human race from each other, that is why there are still religious wars to this day. Everyone thinks their religion is the right religion. How can they know this seeing they are only human? They are going by a book that was written by other humans, so they are just taking their word for it? That this is how god wants us to live? No one will know for sure, and I mean no one, until they die. Who else believes this?

2007-07-11 09:12:34 · 22 answers · asked by Rain 1

ever make you want to research? Does it make you pray to Jehovah to help you to know if you are worshiping him in the right way? I know I am setting myself up here for some disturbing answers..but, I just want you all to know..that I personally have only intense love for you..I have pain in my heart for you, my family..because I have been where you are..and now I am in a better place in my life..with a true beautiful free relationship with God..I put answers on here and sometimes questions about JW's in order to try and help you to see things in a different way..to research...That is all I am trying to do..But, if it is not doing any good..I am not going to post answers nor questions any longer..I am going to spend my time more wisely..Reading the Bible and helping others to gain a relationship with Jesus and God.
I have great love for you all,I really do..I pray everynight that ones will hear the true message of Jesus.
I know you think you have the truth..but please just be sure..

2007-07-11 09:12:11 · 17 answers · asked by angel 2

2007-07-11 09:11:47 · 6 answers · asked by Mit A 2

Just curious.

Yes, the problem is that too many insecure people get threatened by thought-provoking questions that challenge their belief structure. But the real issue appears to be nobody on Yahoo's end checking to see if the report violations are legit.

2007-07-11 09:10:11 · 27 answers · asked by HawaiianBrian 5

And what type of people would worship her in particular?

2007-07-11 09:09:00 · 5 answers · asked by Drama Queen 3

Is it like being in a dream? Do you ever have moments of clarity?

2007-07-11 09:07:21 · 39 answers · asked by Hothman 2

2007-07-11 09:05:09 · 32 answers · asked by ? 3

would you rather live by a set of rules or find spirituality within?

2007-07-11 09:04:57 · 24 answers · asked by ♥SPARKLES♥™ 3

Adam and Eve were banned from Eden, and subject to pain, suffering, disease, old age, and eventually death, because of the curse of God as described in Genesis chapter 3. But if Adam's (and Eve's) sin applies only to them, then why are WE subject to Adam's curse? Why can't we just walk back into Eden and live forever, pain free and disease free, if we are not sinful too?

Obviously I am curious what is the Muslim, Mormon, and/or the Jewish explanation of why God allows suffering, pain and death.

Most branches of Christianity simply accept the explanation by the Apostle Paul that when Adam & Eve sinned, they somehow contaminated the collective human spirit in such a way that we are born selfish with an inherited predisposition toward sin that somehow offends God.

Since not all monotheistic, Abrahamaic religious accept Paul's explanation, then how do they explain why death and suffering is universal, instead of being observed only among "sinful" people?

2007-07-11 09:04:36 · 14 answers · asked by Randy G 7

Galations 1:8-9 is very clear...any person--angel or man--that presents a different Gospel than that taught by the Apostles (which is that Christ was God incarnate, was crucified for our sins, raised on the 3rd day, and that He alone provides savation through His grace by faith alone) is to be condemned.

Read it and then please provide a thoughtful response--no haters please...

Galations 1:8-9 (NASB)

8But even if we, or an angel from heaven, should preach to you a gospel contrary to what we have preached to you, he is to be accursed!

9As we have said before, so I say again now, if any man is preaching to you a gospel contrary to what you received, he is to be accursed!

2007-07-11 09:04:09 · 11 answers · asked by Todd J 3

harry potter magic which is all make believe
or
bible magic which is supposedly all true???

2007-07-11 09:03:13 · 14 answers · asked by slopoke6968 7

2007-07-11 09:01:28 · 20 answers · asked by Anonymous

Do you see how similar Mormon doctrine is to Satanism? Satan wanted to be like God. Mormonism claims that man will become Gods with their own planets. Mormon doctrine claims that the fall of man (eating the fruit tempted by the serpent), was a good thing because it opened man's eyes.

I wholeheartedly encourage you to depart from this demonic doctrine and get a real relationship with Jesus Christ, who is God and read his awesome living word, the bible. I suggest the New King James Version. May God grant you wisdom knowledge and understanding.

2007-07-11 09:01:09 · 15 answers · asked by wassupmang 5

The catholic pope, and even the protestant leaders are going back to the old mentalities that brough about the crusades and the witchtrials. does this bother anyone else?

2007-07-11 08:58:55 · 32 answers · asked by Anonymous

Don't pretty much all religions claim to be the only true one?

2007-07-11 08:57:32 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-07-11 08:57:06 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-07-11 08:56:28 · 33 answers · asked by ? 3

I have studied your religion more then most of you, and it seems to me that you have given up a lot of your principles to become more like the world, so that you wont be persecuted and now you persecute the ones that have'nt given those things up, I think you know who I'm talking about. So please tell me why you gave those things up, and why do you persecute those people?

2007-07-11 08:53:21 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous

Pope Benedict has approved a new text asserting that Christian denominations outside Roman Catholicism are not true Churches in the full sense of the word. What the heck? I know this story has been out since Tuesday and may have been discussed, but I just now had a chance to read it. This is as rediculous sounding as Muslim Clerics stating we're all infidels. Whats up with these individuals. Obviously, I'm not Catholic, however I'm a Christian. Who is he to judge me. Are you, if non- Catholic, offended by his comments? Crazy world!

2007-07-11 08:50:42 · 35 answers · asked by Anonymous

What if people chose you to be apart of there team, but you didn't want to be apart of it because of your own beleifs?
What if you choose not to be labled?
Why do devilish feet and evil bodies call themselves christains?
Is this not a bad lable/character? is that not jugding?
is that supose to hang over christianity?
Why is this aloud?

2007-07-11 08:50:00 · 11 answers · asked by Unbreakable Me 5

Anyone who answers with "the bible says it's real" is a kook.

2007-07-11 08:49:18 · 28 answers · asked by Anonymous

other....

Why do fundies try to make people be something that they are not?

Why are you trying to change the way God made someone?

Do you not understand that homosexuality is about more than sex...it is about love, commitment, connection...not just sexual acts.

The Bible speaks about homosexual acts...but, it does not speak about homosexuals of today...that have loving, monogamous, committed relationships...

Sodom and Gomorrah was about inhospitality and rape.

It was important for people of Biblical days to procreate...so of course, homosexuality would not be encouraged....

The word homosexual was not even part of our vernacular until 1865...so, the Bible does not really address at all.

So, the question is...Why are fundies so hung up about homosexuality...there is a Bible full of sins...you could rail against...divorce, gluttony, bankruptcy...why do you focus on homosexuality?

2007-07-11 08:47:31 · 8 answers · asked by G.C. 5

I want to gain more of an understanding for them. They have always been critized as 'pushy' and 'agressive' to convert non-believers. I'm a Catholic and we are always critized for everything. I just want to gain a better understanding and respect for them.

2007-07-11 08:46:47 · 24 answers · asked by ♥Blue Angel♥ 2

2007-07-11 08:46:46 · 48 answers · asked by goodfella 5

was hit by lightening? If it was a Catholic Church you know that would have been blared out right and left. On the News channels all they were saying was that it was a church. Why the double standard here? As it was I finally found it on an obscure site.

2007-07-11 08:46:26 · 8 answers · asked by Midge 7

2007-07-11 08:44:17 · 36 answers · asked by ۞Aum۞ 7

Why can't they say that stuff on the 360 page where you can send messages back or the ims?

2007-07-11 08:43:39 · 17 answers · asked by Dark Angel 3

in this document they said he wrote where it states that Catholicism provides the only true path to salvation?

2007-07-11 08:43:19 · 10 answers · asked by Another Fake ID 2

Charles Colson wrote an essay saying no on Newsweek's religion site. He is the founder of the Prison Fellowship Ministries (conservative Evangelical Christian), which he founded after going to jail for his involvement in the Watergate scandal.

http://newsweek.washingtonpost.com/onfaith/charles_w_chuck_colson/2007/07/paganism_may_not_pass_religiou.html

What do you think?

2007-07-11 08:43:04 · 20 answers · asked by GreenEyedLilo 7

Your faith requires you to believe in "sin" and "evil", so that any new paradigm of looking at inter-personal problems must be rejected if it fails to contain those two characteristics.

It is well that medicine was able to lift itself out of demonology so as to treat mental illness with something better than holy water.

But your need to interpret events as "the work of the devil" and to look for the worse in others only furthers a need to insulate yourself from the rest of humanity and see them as "evil corrupters of faith".

And yet, without the concept of "Satan" and "evil" and "sin" your faith has no real basis for existence, beyond learning to love one another which most other faiths and philosophies advise anyway.

So isn't it true you must believe in sin, Satan and evil to justify your faith in a God who saves you from all of that? Doesn't my refusal to be converted represent an evil, sinful nature in your eyes, and thus colour all else you interpret of me?

2007-07-11 08:41:24 · 24 answers · asked by Anonymous