Religion & Spirituality - 11 July 2007

I really want to know what it feels like to do that....
=0)

2007-07-11 06:59:13 · 21 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-07-11 06:57:51 · 7 answers · asked by ✡ 5

2007-07-11 06:57:39 · 32 answers · asked by THE NEXT LEVEL 5

Pope Benedict XVI reasserted the primacy of the Roman Catholic Church, approving a document released Tuesday that says other Christian communities are either defective or not true churches and Catholicism provides the only true path to salvation.

What do the rest of the christian groups think of this?
entire story -
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/pope_other_christians;_ylt=Av98UWiwmCNaN2jTKu7xKKrq188F

2007-07-11 06:55:44 · 19 answers · asked by Anonymous

...why didn't he have all authority in heaven and on earth until someone else GAVE it to him? (Matt. 28:18)

No long answers please.

2007-07-11 06:54:19 · 49 answers · asked by LineDancer 7

just kidding.....I love agnostics they are open minded

2007-07-11 06:54:17 · 11 answers · asked by . 3

2007-07-11 06:53:48 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous

And then get MAAAAD at the rude and pointless answers?

2007-07-11 06:53:11 · 27 answers · asked by THE NEXT LEVEL 5

There's a lot of talk about at least one bill that was recently shut down (though bills like that never stay down) that though there may have been some good ideas contained therein, was also loaded with instances that would make Bible believing Christians liable to criminal charges for having sermons preached, using the Biblical doctrine(s) against abhorrent sexual practices, including homosexuality. It would also basically criminalize parents who teach their children that sexual activity is right only for a married couple - one man and one woman.

The Constitution of the United States of America protects the Church from the government's interferrance into matters of religion and morality. So how is it that some government officials think it's okay to dismantle this great and treasured article and right of the citizens of the USA?

2007-07-11 06:51:37 · 38 answers · asked by stegokitty 2

2007-07-11 06:51:17 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous

An atheist asks a question about what we believe. It could be about prayer. Or God's goodness. Or the probability of a worldwide flood. Or free will.

Odds are, we've heard it before. There's not many new arguments circling around. So we give the stock answer we've been taught and move on. Or if you are like me you roll your eyes and don't answer the question at all. You think "Oh look, they think they are being creative and original and are going to change my mind. How cute."

Is it fair to write them off like this? If these questions are asked repeatedly, shouldn't we give them SOME consideration? What if they are on to something?

I think a lot of time we're afraid to question our faith because we fear the end result will be, as it has been for many, complete disbelief. Does it have to be? Or can we find the best of both worlds?

If a valid concern is raised by an atheist, as they often are, is it right to just ignore it and continue believing the way we always have?

2007-07-11 06:49:15 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous

1. What caused you to be spurned?
2. What did you learn from that experience?

2007-07-11 06:46:59 · 16 answers · asked by Uncle Wayne 3

The Book of Genesis? I am not saying I know all the answers about the Mystery of GOD no one does But GOD does not have anything to do with religion or faith UNTIL the Holy Bible

I think when GOD said *Let us make man in his image that is possibly when GOD was part of the Holy Trinity GOD, Son and Holy Spirit* But GOD was around long long time before the Book of Genesis what he was doing no one knows because none of us know how to think in infinite terms.

However when Adam and Eve were in the garden GOD and Evil were created and so religion came about and because the Jews were the ones that believed in ONE GOD creator of heaven and Eath did GOD let them be a light to the world about the Power of GOD and the story goes.

All I am saying is no one can figure out GOD before the Book of Genesis, do you think Science will? it just cannot be done
and if it can then how?

2007-07-11 06:44:47 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous

Should we follow EVERYTHING that Muhammad did, as sunnah?
He might keep some habbits as arab culture. For example: his cloth, keep beard, his way to eat, his food...
are all that habbits considered as sunnah that we should follow?

thanks...

2007-07-11 06:44:36 · 23 answers · asked by marhama 6

2007-07-11 06:43:20 · 17 answers · asked by Deke 5

Atheists make it sound like they get preached at everywhere. The movie theater. The public park. The waterfront. The baseball stadium. The classroom. I don't know exactly where you live, but that just seems impossible. In my entire life I've only seen 2 people publicly sharing their Christian faith, 1 person spreading Islam, and 3 of my teachers (two from high school one from college) spreading Atheism. Aside from that, religion has been contained to the church. I don't freak out and pretend I am being oppressed when I see a Muslim or an Atheist or a Jehovah's Witness. Don't many Atheists appear Christophobic? Religiophobic? Differences in religious opinion do not bother me, why do Atheists get so worked up about it? Relax. Religion is just a part of society.

2007-07-11 06:42:26 · 19 answers · asked by Anonymous

i understand that you don't believe in God and that is your choice, you have that right....I'm a Christian and i believe in God, but i'm not here to criticize you on your decision, i'm here to apologize for the way you have been treated by other christians. The way that we treat you is wrong, and there are many people who don't want to believe that, they think it's justified, but it's not, we as Christians claim to follow the bible, but when we treat you, or any other people with hate, and put you down, that is not living the way we believe God wants us to act....so i'm saying sorry for the way you have possibly been treated, no one's perfect and everyone messes up, Christians mess up a lot and have their opinions about things, i know, i do, but the way we go about things should change.....i apologize....

2007-07-11 06:41:42 · 31 answers · asked by Anonymous

They asked him to teach us as John taught his disciples which doesn't mean to be taught the same things, Jesus knew they wanted to be seen in the same light their society held John which was the whole point of the question. Wouldn't it make more sense for an all knowing God to invent a whole new prayer?And How DID the Jews of the time pray to God BEFORE this prayer???

2007-07-11 06:40:53 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous

I routinely see questions asking for proof of God. So I found some logical proof. But to my surprise, every time I use it, I get at least one thumbs down. WHY?

- Proving the Existence of God -

THE BEGINNING

If we do indeed exist, there can be only two possible explanations for such a phenomenon. Either we had a beginning or we did not. The Bible says, "In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth" (Genesis 1:1). The atheist has always maintained that there was no beginning. The idea is that matter has always existed in the form of either matter or energy; and all that has happened is that matter has been changed from form to form, but it has always been. The Humanist Manifesto says, "Matter is self-existing and not created," and that is a concise statement of atheistic belief.

In order to decide whether the theist or atheist is correct we must ask after science to discover what it says regarding this question. In the local 'brane' of the cosmos are a number of galaxies like our own Milky Way. These galaxies are accelerating away from each other with every passing moment. We live in an expanding universe that gets bigger and bigger with every passing day. Now if we suppose that time can run backwards, we could see that all galaxies must come together at a beginning, at a point of universal expansion which scientists call a singularity. This puts the lie to the idea of an eternal universe. It had a beginning.

A second proof is seen in the energy sources that fuel the cosmos. Like all stars, the sun generates its energy by a process known as thermonuclear fusion. In every second, the sun compresses 564 million tons of hydrogen, fusing its components into 560 million tons of helium with 4 million tons of matter released as energy. In spite of that tremendous consumption of fuel, the sun has only used up 2% of the hydrogen it had on the day it was born. This incredible furnace is not unique. Indeed, this process takes place in every single star in the universe, as well as some gas giant planets such as Jupiter in our own solar system.

Now for a simple logical question: Throughout the cosmos there are 25 quintillion stars, each converting hydrogen into helium, thus reducing the total amount of hydrogen existing in the cosmos. Now if everywhere in the cosmos, hydrogen is being consumed, and if that process has been going on 'forever', how much hydrogen should be left? Obviously, the universe should have run out of hydrogen long ago. The fact is, however, that our sun has 98% of its original hydrogen still available.

Hydrogen is the most abundant material in the universe. Everywhere we look in space we can see the hydrogen 21 cm line in the spectrum - a frequency of light only given off by hydrogen. This would not be possible unless we indeed had a beginning.

A third scientific proof that the atheist is wrong is seen in the second law of thermodynamics. In any closed system, things tend to become disordered. If an automobile is never repaired, for example, it will become so disordered that it will eventually cease to run.

Getting 'old' is simple conformity to the second law of thermodynamics. In space, things also get old. Astronomers refer to this aging process as 'heat death'. If the cosmos is "everything that ever was or is or ever will be," as Dr. Carl Sagan was so fond of saying, then nothing can be added to it to improve its order, or to repair it. Even a 'bouncing' universe that expanded and collapsed forever would eventually die because it would lose light and heat with each expansion and rebound.

The atheist's assertion that matter/energy is eternal is scientifically impossible. The biblical assertion that there was indeed a beginning is in complete agreement with scientific principals.

THE CAUSE

If we know that creation has a beginning, we are faced with another logical question - was creation caused or was it not caused? The Bible states, "In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth." Not only does the Bible maintain that there was a cause - a creation - but it also tells us what the cause was. It was God. The atheist tells us that "matter is self-existing and not created." If matter had a beginning and yet was uncaused, one must logically maintain that something would have had to come into existence out of nothing. From empty space with no force, no matter, no energy, and no intelligence, matter would have to become existent. Even if this could happen by some strange new process unknown to science today, there is a logical problem: In order to say that matter can come from nothing, we would need to invalidate all scientific laws dealing with the conservation of matter/energy, including those of chemistry. Aand conservation of angular momentum would have to be wrong, invalidating all of physics. All of our laws of conservation of electric charge would have to be wrong, invalidating all of electronics. In order to believe matter is uncaused, one has to discard most if not all known laws and principles of science. No reasonable person is going to do this simply to maintain a personal atheistic position.

The atheist's assertion that matter is eternal is wrong. The atheist's assertion that the universe is uncaused and self-existing is also incorrect. The Bible's assertion that there was a beginning which had a cause is supported strongly by the available scientific evidence.

THE DESIGN

If we know that creation had a beginning, and that the beginning had a cause, there is one last question for us to answer - what was this cause? The Bible tells us that God was the cause. We are further told that this God did the causing with planning, reason and logic. Romans 1:20 tells us that we can know who God is "through the things he has made."

The atheist, on the other hand, will try to convince us that we are the product of Chance. Julian Huxley once said: "We are as much a product of blind forces as is the falling of a stone to earth or the ebb and flow of the tides. We have just happened, and man was made flesh by a long series of singularly beneficial accidents."

The subject of design has been one that has been explored in many different ways. For most of us, simply looking at our newborn child is enough to rule out chance. Modern-day scientists like Paul Davies and Frederick Hoyle and others are raising elaborate objections to the use of chance in explaining natural phenomena. A principle of modern science has emerged in the 1980s called "the anthropic principle." The basic thrust of the anthropic principle is that chance is simply not a valid mechanism to explain the atom or life. If chance is not valid, we are constrained to reject Huxley's claim and to realize that we are indeed the product of an intelligent God.

2007-07-11 06:40:12 · 23 answers · asked by Anonymous

After all, it is only christians who preach from the bible, and so many of them contradict each other is it any wonder there is confusion?

Who needs Satan when you have several million christians arguing with each other over what this means and what that means?

2007-07-11 06:39:16 · 20 answers · asked by Anonymous

There have been a couple of posts on YA claiming that the BNP represents white British Christians. Is this really so, or does the statement by the council of churches in 2005 still stand (in which they encouraged Christians not to vote for the BNP)?
By the way, I'm an atheist, British and non BNP voter. I will not report as long as you don't call names.

2007-07-11 06:38:42 · 17 answers · asked by Anonymous

just kidding so no serious answers please

2007-07-11 06:38:28 · 19 answers · asked by . 3

Is sunday not the first day of the week and is it not a pagan holy day for those who pray to the sun god? "...the man of sin will change the law and the times..." Is this action not consistent with this biblical verse?

2007-07-11 06:38:28 · 10 answers · asked by Luyanda M 1

How can you claim God is responsible for all of creation, then absolve him of responsibility for the parts that fail?

2007-07-11 06:36:52 · 21 answers · asked by Anonymous

The Bible says Satan is the god of this world.

He promises money and power to those who spread the message he whispers in their hearts.

Above all, Satan wants to spread the message of Polytheism because that is the Cardinal Sin.

Monotheism is the foundation of all success, Say your Lord is ONE.

.
.

2007-07-11 06:36:46 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous

is taking my antibiotics technically an act of faith?

2007-07-11 06:35:09 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous

After the townsfolk burnt down my lab ,hehe actually i was excluded because my wife divorced me.Now thats fair isnt it,for a religion of supposed love and peace(christianity that is), they sure do like to pelt you with stones when your down.Sadly to say this is truth about why i was excluded from church because my wife was an adulterous whore,hmmmmm somehow this was my fault, but thats how i became master shake number one in the hood G

2007-07-11 06:34:19 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous

I suppose you would agree that creationists believe that everything came from God but... they cannot explain where God came from. Tell me, if you knew that God came from 'X' then would you want to know where 'X' came from? Then if you were told that 'X' came from 'Y' would you not then ask where 'Y' came from? We could go on for hours! Then you would ask that it has all got to start from somewhere?! And that is where I would be happy to rest with GOD. I wonder what you have to say about that? Lets see if you've got the bottle to answer this without fumbling?

2007-07-11 06:32:09 · 41 answers · asked by Rico 4

Is Jesus not the head of the church, and he made a way for us to have fellowship with God(Jehovah). So why do we need the pope as an intercessor.

2007-07-11 06:32:01 · 10 answers · asked by Luyanda M 1

Please Note: I said, "CHRISTIANS"

This question has relevance to...."CHRISTIANS" only.
I will have questions for others ONLY later. .....thank you.

2007-07-11 06:30:57 · 7 answers · asked by JayDee 2