Religion & Spirituality - 15 July 2007

What are your favourite languages for celebrating mass? Personally, I have experienced many, and find that the most beautiful are the following (roughly arranged from best to least effective in ritual)

In Catholic worship:
Latin
Italian
Arabic
French
Spanish
English (as least suitable language amongst the ones I know)

For Orthodox Worship:

Arabic
Greek
Russian
English (again as least suitable language entirely for Orthodox worship)

2007-07-15 02:03:41 · 4 answers · asked by Pichka 2

No matter what your faith choice, do you and your family have a plan in place in case things get crazy? Do you have a plan for survival? Can you share any of your plans?

Oh - and responses like "Jesus is coming so I don't need to plan," will get a thumbs down. Since you don't know the hour, you should be prepared.

2007-07-15 02:02:40 · 10 answers · asked by yarn whore 5

Whatever is true, noble right, pure, lovely, admirable,excellent or praiseworthy, think about such things.
Philippians 4:8

2007-07-15 02:02:12 · 9 answers · asked by ? 4

The LOrd shall deliver me from every evil work and preserve me unto his heavnly kingdom. To whom be glory forever and ever. Amen
2 Timothy 4:18

2007-07-15 01:59:22 · 13 answers · asked by ? 4

Picture the time you were doings hoping that they were good yet wrong to some people.

2007-07-15 01:50:20 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous

Its the thought that counts....


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2007-07-15 01:50:11 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous

why does he turn his back on the most faithful, pious people from impoverished nations?
Allow thousands of children to die needlessly?
Allow the wicked to not be punished?

Surely these cannot be dismissed as being according to the mystery of his will?
IF these are then his will- is God then not benevolent at all but capricious, vain and contrary (assuming God exists at all)?
Or is God merely a construct of man and man's emotional immaturity to find solace in the essentially meaningless and infinitesimally total non-importance of our individual lives and provide some hope of immortality beyond the profane?

2007-07-15 01:48:37 · 39 answers · asked by B.o.B 2

2007-07-15 01:48:08 · 15 answers · asked by anil m 6

In Divine texts God refers to himself in the most majestic terms.

Just like in some ancient kingdoms the courts would refer to the King in the plural sense to show honor and majesty.

THIS is exactly why the words in Aramaic and Arabic words which refer to God in the Absolute single tense – they are impossible to be used in the plural sense but when they are TRANSLATED, to show their majestic meaning in the original language, they are made into WE and US .

In Hebrew, G-d is never once referred to in the plural, always in the singular. Those who do not speak Hebrew think His name is plural. Elokim is a plural noun. But, in Hebrew, the verbs always have to match the nouns, so if the noun is plural, so must the verb be. However, whenever Elokim is used, the verb following is ALWAYS singular. So we know that Elokim is an irregular word and has a plural ending but is actually singular.

This is an example of the EXTREME danger when Revealed books are translated and re-translated without keeping the original Aramaic, Arabic or Hebrew text with knowledge of the original language it was revealed in.




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2007-07-15 01:45:22 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-07-15 01:42:24 · 44 answers · asked by Kidd! 6

2007-07-15 01:42:13 · 12 answers · asked by NHBaritone 7

Which of these paths is most easily trodden?
I believe in the basics of evolution, and also am interested in finding out about religion, theology, and the bible.
I wonder if there are creationists who spend as much time finding out about the theory of evolution?

2007-07-15 01:35:34 · 21 answers · asked by hog b 6

2007-07-15 01:33:17 · 39 answers · asked by pilgrimspadre 4

Why could God not give them a clue - hey, this isn't the way it should be done.

2007-07-15 01:25:54 · 23 answers · asked by Anonymous

Please i need serious answers for this one as many as i could get. My Jehovah Witness friend told me that giving oral sex or receiving it is aginst the bible even if you are married what do y'all think about that? non christian can answer as well. how many of you like it? Personnaly i m a christian married young lady i enjoy it, please can someone tell me if i m doing something wrong. need a lot of answers

2007-07-15 01:25:44 · 22 answers · asked by caribbeangal 3

Behold, he cometh in the clouds, and every eye shall see him.
Revelation1:7

2007-07-15 01:24:27 · 17 answers · asked by ? 4

Call a spade a spade and then there will be no more confusion.


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2007-07-15 01:21:39 · 23 answers · asked by Anonymous

Seriously, do believe this garbage?

You know why I picked on you guys, because you all think/say "nothing exists" or "it never happened"-----you frequently use these words. You also say "it's a fairy tale", "it's fake" and "there's no magic in the sky". I thought you guys see things before you believe them.

The moon landing could be fake because it's somewhere in the "sky". Just like you haven't seen God/Goddess, you haven't seen a man landing on the moon (you only saw it on TV)-----so you believe it just because you saw it on TV, just like how Christians believe in God just because he's in the bible. You say the bible/koran was written by men (no Gods involved), same as the moon landing, it could be filmed somewhere on Earth (but no 'landing on moon' involved). They are just parallels.

So why do you all believe in that hoax if you all claim to be logic, smart etc?

2007-07-15 01:18:57 · 25 answers · asked by Anonymous

To say that paying a tithe is what protects the remaining 90 percent from a curse of destruction is contrary to the New Covenant and it devaluates the Blood of Jesus !

Money can't redeem anything and neither can the practice of tithing !

Col. 1:14 - "In whom we have redemption through his blood even the forgiveness of sins"

1Pet.1:18-19- "Forasmuch as ye know that ye were not redeemed with corruptible things, as silver and gold, from your vain conversation received by tradition from you fathers; But with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without blemish and without sport"
Heb 9:12 - "Neither by the blood of gaots and calves, but by his own blood he entered in once into the holy place having obtained eternal redemption for us"

2007-07-15 01:18:36 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous

ie, if they offered to read a book of yours, if you read the NT, what would you suggest they read?

2007-07-15 01:17:28 · 23 answers · asked by Peppers_Ghost 7

2007-07-15 01:13:34 · 11 answers · asked by Benyamin 2

Are there gaps pertaining to religiously bias materials in our TV and printed media standards that ought to be evaluated and perhaps even acted upon as new inclusions to our existing child protection laws?

Your thoughts please.

2007-07-15 01:02:09 · 21 answers · asked by Anonymous

does it give us a right to be a morons and say there is no GOD or be a Muslim or mormon, etc...?

2007-07-15 00:57:33 · 3 answers · asked by Benyamin 2

I haven't, but my grandfather tells me that he once had a vision of St. Luke carrying him to church (my grandfather runs the church). He also claims to have heard St. Luke talking to him.

2007-07-15 00:50:36 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous

I live in the southwest, arizona to be exact. Ive lived here for 36 years barring a few wanderlust moments. There is one thing here in my desert that I have always found absolutely delicious and that is the monsoon. Being a lay about in the pool, 420 am. And almost like a hollywood/biblical moment there is the most brilliant flash and the desert is absolutely still. Then out of the quiet comes this rolling thunder as loud as artillery a few miles away. And just like someone flipped a switch... a sheet of water hits me. (Damn... time to get outa the pool.) Sitting on the porch in the darkness, still 420 am... its really always 420 am, nature or god or whatever gives its version of the fourth of july at a water park. Then...
ten minutes later...
nothing.
Just the sound of the water dripping from the roof.

Life returns.

Whoever made, or whatever made it...
I think we can at least agree that what IT is
is awesome in the purest sense of the word.

2007-07-15 00:48:51 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-07-15 00:45:17 · 11 answers · asked by Sky in the Grass 5

From where you get the knowledge ,that there are existing angels in the universe ,?and how you can describe them?

2007-07-15 00:44:42 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous

Iran's Jewish population love Iran SO MUCH they dont want to goto ISRAEL.

If Islam is so nasty and cruel then why do Iranian Jews NOT want to leave Iran and live in Israel ?

http://www.guardian.co.uk/iran/story/0,,2125155,00.html


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2007-07-15 00:43:58 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous

Nobody got the right to talk about any relegion here on this site if u r happy with ur relegion then ok but dont gossipe about other religion and if anybody do so then abuse him/she write ur ideas regarding this here.

2007-07-15 00:34:27 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-07-15 00:27:05 · 13 answers · asked by ? 1