Religion & Spirituality - 17 July 2007

on thier faith instead of researching and finding the answer? Would this not drive away someone truly searching for answers instead of drawing them closer to god? Why not answer in a respectfull manner what you believe and why instead?

2007-07-17 05:41:01 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous

Then why do people follow the bible? The recent book, Misquoting Jesus, clearly shows to anyone who reads it, that the bible is mostly falsified and made up over 2000 years by translators and scribes. The rest is just borrowed from the Pagan religion and the story of Mithras.

Yet people still follow the bible. Why? Would you rewire all the electrical wire in your home using a book that was falsified? Would you learn to fly a plane with a manual that was mostly made up? Would you perform heart surgery on someone if all you ever studied was contradictory medical books?

I don’t get it. Sounds like desperation to me.

For those of you who insist that the bible in not contradictory:
http://www.infidels.org/library/modern/jim_meritt/bible-contradictions.html

2007-07-17 05:38:37 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous

Revelation 20:6 Blessed and holy is he that hath part in the first resurrection: on such the second death hath no power, but they shall be priests of God and of Christ, and shall reign with him a thousand years.

2007-07-17 05:36:59 · 4 answers · asked by Terry N 1

It is my belief that If you need faith, it's what works for you. I am fortunate to have been brought up to have spirtuality and faith, but unlike some religions, I don't believe "everyone" has that potential to have faith and that is why we must have faith for them. This includes children of severe autism or from severe dysfunctional violent cultures. If you are speaking of the average person (being someone of a high enough IQ and global awareness functioning score of someone who understands life reasonably) then still you must take in account dynamics of many degrees. Describe your search for what is good for you to fulfill your needs for spirituality and faith. For me, I am just really glad I had a grandmother who took the time to explain faith to me and was there until I became pregnant at 25 with my own first child. I miss her, but will always remember her for the faith she instilled in me.

2007-07-17 05:36:14 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous

WTF is up with this Religion? I've never heard of this sort of thing in this magnitude with any of the other religions.

Not bashing, but seriously, it's not looking good for Catholic Priests nowadays...

2007-07-17 05:35:25 · 32 answers · asked by Anonymous

You will you still get into heaven if you are a gnostic if you believe in Jesus teachings? I would have to say I'm more gnostic than anything else. Because I believe as God's children we can do as christ did.

2007-07-17 05:34:16 · 18 answers · asked by Anonymous

If not tell me why

2007-07-17 05:33:05 · 28 answers · asked by Anonymous

I have ideas already put to action, but I'd like to gauge the fine ladies of R&S for advice.

2007-07-17 05:31:28 · 14 answers · asked by Dr. G™ 5

Serious question for serious answerers. I hear alot of Atheists who are apparently angry at the God they don't belive in (coming form things they say, not my own assumptions), so I am wondering if you found it for sure that he was real, would you still not be his follower, or would you try to follow him just so you have fire insurance, or maybe would you seriously try to get to know him?

I am curious for a reason, yes.

2007-07-17 05:31:18 · 22 answers · asked by ? 4

I think that anytime we see a Christian write a question that is very hateful or inflammatory against any non Christian group, we should just respond with "What would Jesus do?"

2007-07-17 05:28:48 · 14 answers · asked by razzthedestroyer 2

yet, when we turn on the news, there is always something about sexual abuse in catholic churches?

$660 million was given to over 500 victims of sexual abuse that occurred with catholic priests from the 1940s to the 1990s.

I don't understand how the Pope has the right to tell other Christians that their denominations are untrue.

God sent Jesus to simplify the way we worship him, yet in Catholicism, there are so many levels of leadership, so many complex ways to worship God. What gives the Pope the right to say which ways of worship are right and wrong, especially when the catholic church is in the news a lot for sinful acts committed by catholic priests?

2007-07-17 05:28:13 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-07-17 05:28:12 · 14 answers · asked by izel 2

According to the "Idiots Guide to the Koran" page 58 "In the Koran, Jesus himself explicity renounces any effort to portray him as God or as the Son of God: When God asked Jesus, son of Mary "Did you tell men to consider you and your mother as their gods besides God?" He replied, "Glory be to you! How could I say what I have no right to say? Had I ever said it, you would have certainly known about it. You know what is in my soul, but I do not know what is in Yours. It is You who have absolute knowlege of the unseen." Koran 5:116
Now in the Christian Scriptures John 1 "In the Beginning was the Word and the Word was with God and the Word was God." In other scripture Jesus says, "I and the Father are one" Didn't Jesus say, "Before Abraham was, I am." "I am" being a word for God?
Do you see how Islam manipulates the ideas of Jesus to suit its own causes? Didn't St. Paul say that those who denied that Jesus came in the Flesh (as God) were the antiChrists?

2007-07-17 05:27:27 · 15 answers · asked by hossteacher 3

2007-07-17 05:27:13 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous

What exactly are mormons beliefs? I am not trying to be rude or sarcastic. I just want to be educated about the religion. Please someone with smart knowledgeable answers and no sarcasm.

2007-07-17 05:25:52 · 23 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-07-17 05:25:49 · 17 answers · asked by Anonymous

Besides molestation of innocents.

2007-07-17 05:25:40 · 12 answers · asked by realchurchhistorian 4

My parents always ask me why i stay depressed,now what am i suppose to tell them? My story is way long to tell and lil difficult to understand but if there are any spiritual people
out here i would love for ya'll to read this and help me out.I have a 10 yrs old mentally challenged bro.and since almost my whole life i have been taking care of him(im 17).And
Just cuz of him i couldn't have my own life i mean i dont have any friends nor any bf(but i dont care about that at all!!)I mean im doing soo much yet bad things are always happening
with me?And no one seems to understand me?Not even my own family??I used to be really religous in god because i know he knows what i go through but what happend yesterday was horrible(thats another story).I have been hurt tremendesly all the time even in my school(im a very sensitive person)and i mean i dont know what am i doing wrong?I takecare of my
brother all the time,i dont go out anywhere then what am i being punish for?Why are people soo mean to me?even my own cousins mock me??its like i dont have a good relationship with anybody??Who and where am i suppose to go ask for help??I dont want to belive in god anymore i want him to leave me alone.I know he may not love me thats fine but he has no right to hurt me like this.I have been praying since last year and asking god to change my life.But it seems god just dont care about me so i have also decided not to ask him for anything anymore!!!But i dont know what im gonna do with my life.I just feel like killing myself!!What am i doing wrong??

2007-07-17 05:23:39 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-07-17 05:22:18 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous

I enjoy watching and listening to political talk shows, but sometimes I start to feel hate towards non-chrisitians who don't believe the way I do. I don't like feeling that way. It makes me wonder how involved Christians should be in politics. Should Chrsitians focus more on leading people to Christ on an individual manner? Is it ok to use politics to further Christianity? How do you think Jesus would feel?

2007-07-17 05:21:06 · 17 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-07-17 05:20:55 · 11 answers · asked by realchurchhistorian 4

I had not seen him since he was 10 and now he shows up with a wife and no phone call or anything just shows up at my door?{He is 25 years old now?

2007-07-17 05:19:22 · 21 answers · asked by Gypsy Gal 6

2007-07-17 05:18:11 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous

before me there was no god formed, now shall there be after me.
11. I even I am the lord and besides me there is no savior.
So how can Jesus save you if God said only he can and all you need for redemption is to ask him?

2007-07-17 05:17:28 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous

Even before we look into its extremely dubious origins.
Surely god cannot have two contrasting opinions. If this were the case he'd have to be incorrect on one of them.

2007-07-17 05:14:06 · 40 answers · asked by Anonymous

Has modern day thinking erased all of your tribal day dreaming and spiritual touch with "the other side"? Have you been brainwashed that it is totally insane and evil to connect with the spirits of the dead and that there is no healthy way to do this?

2007-07-17 05:12:47 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-07-17 05:11:23 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous

They actually came up with the goods there the place is under the persian gulf! If it existed at all. What do You Think?

2007-07-17 05:07:01 · 27 answers · asked by Anonymous

Mormons is a nickname

2007-07-17 05:06:41 · 21 answers · asked by Anonymous

why is all the angelic miss-representation? if the angels are transparent with no reproductory organs, does god just whip them up with the wave of a hand?

what happens if they break rules and are kicked out of heaven, ? their punishment be an existence w/o sexual pleasures and kids?
some readings states that various angels gave up their heavely rights to be with the beautifully and sexy earth females and in the case of females males. are they just lying tales?

why do all the books show them to be european? and if thery are caucazoids/european, are europeans not of the earth?

no doubt there has been a series of mal information in our historical evolution. now that we know how things was supposed to be.
why don't society w/o using them as reference, begin burning all the existing books relating to the mal information of our past and substitute them with new writings. i think if they can do that, all the garbage and the braught forward crap would fade to obscurity/nothing.

2007-07-17 05:01:12 · 3 answers · asked by jonasc1r 1