Religion & Spirituality - 22 July 2007

Your brief opinion of suicide. Enlighten me to your opinion on this topic, I believe it is an ultimate sin.

2007-07-22 13:50:23 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous

I am just wondering.

2007-07-22 13:49:47 · 2 answers · asked by stacie c 3

I am a Pentecostal Christian. I go to an Assembly of God church, and my father and grandfather were Assembly of God pastors. I have never said that Jesus is only coming back for Assembly of God Christians. I only have love for others. So what is wrong with me? I just got done reading an answer that said the person was driven away from an AG church, because there was speaking in tounges and the moving of the Spirit. I speak in tounges, almost every day. It is Biblical, Pentecost is Biblical. So what is the problem with it? Do people not understand that when we pray in the Spirit we pray in the perfect will of God? Paul said that he was glad that he spoke in tounges more than them all. I am just a little confused, and saddened. God bless you all.

2007-07-22 13:44:21 · 23 answers · asked by Joel 2 5

What is a true Christian? What is the true Christian church? Are Protestants the only ones going to heaven? Are Catholics going to hell? I mean I see quite often on here how some Protestants say that Catholicism is a false religion and the Catholic church is a false church. Now if you say Protestantism thern which sects or denominations are the true sects and denominations? Aren't we all who accept Jesus Christ as lord and savior Christians?

2007-07-22 13:43:42 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-07-22 13:42:59 · 10 answers · asked by Josiah 1

…of the Communion of Saints? The Church defines Communion of Saints as the union of all members of the Church in heaven, on earth and in purgatory as one family of Jesus Christ.

2007-07-22 13:42:26 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous

This sometimes happen when a person has an out-of-body experience where they have visited the other side of heaven and lived to tell about it! They become an angel when they see the other side of Heaven, not the side everyone claims they see with the bright light. What do you think?

2007-07-22 13:42:05 · 16 answers · asked by ZORRO 3

What do you think of this?

"Islam rejects Jesus because:
Jesus is not accepted as `the Son of God'

The Qur'an and Sunnah both teach us emphatically and without any doubt that the Creator considers the statement of the Trinity to be a great falsehood. The Qur'an states (translation):

[19:88-93] They say: "(Allah) the Most Merciful has begotten a son!" Indeed you have put forth a thing most monstrous! At it the skies are ready to burst, the earth to split asunder, and the mountains to fall down in utter ruin, that they should invoke a son for (Allah) the Most Merciful. For it is not consonant with the majesty of (Allah) the Most Merciful that He should beget a son: Not one of the beings in the heavens and the earth but must come to (Allah) the Most Merciful as a servant.
However, the misconception that Jesus is rejected does not follow from the reason given above.

2007-07-22 13:41:32 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous

Just curious.

2007-07-22 13:38:57 · 18 answers · asked by Anonymous

On EWTN mass was 2 hrs long and people had feather hats, like from robinhood days i suppose..... who are they and why feather hats?

2007-07-22 13:38:18 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous

is any1 christian in this room?

2007-07-22 13:38:07 · 1 answers · asked by samantha b 1

Luke 16:19 “But a certain man was rich, and he used to deck himself with purple and linen, enjoying himself from day to day with magnificence. 20 But a certain beggar named Laz´a·rus used to be put at his gate, full of ulcers 21 and desiring to be filled with the things dropping from the table of the rich man. Yes, too, the dogs would come and lick his ulcers. 22 Now in course of time the beggar died and he was carried off by the angels to the bosom [position] of Abraham.
“Also, the rich man died and was buried. 23 And in Ha´des he lifted up his eyes, he existing in torments, and he saw Abraham afar off and Laz´a·rus in the bosom [position] with him. 24 So he called and said, ‘Father Abraham, have mercy on me and send Laz´a·rus to dip the tip of his finger in water and cool my tongue, because I am in anguish in this blazing fire.’ 25 But Abraham said, ‘Child, remember that you received in full your good things in your lifetime, but Laz´a·rus correspondingly the injurious things.

2007-07-22 13:35:13 · 8 answers · asked by Steven 6

2007-07-22 13:29:52 · 2 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-07-22 13:29:40 · 6 answers · asked by Josiah 1

Does it mean do not be angry with a person or nation, or religion just because you are told to, without any reason or provocation, by your government, or organization ?

2007-07-22 13:29:35 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-07-22 13:29:28 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous

Do they have ministers now, or not?

2007-07-22 13:29:27 · 5 answers · asked by Pascha 7

Human decisions are made from our cognative ability based on our 5 senses. For example, when a large semi-truck is speeding towards you an a highway, WHY does the normal person jump out of the way? What reason? Because the person is recieving visual data (light) being reflected off the truck, and possibly because you can hear it. But it's that combined with our cognative ability to understand what that data means. You come to the conclusion to jump out of the way because you can SEE the truck someing in the form of PHYSICAL DATA.

So, we make decisions based on data recieved from our sensations, It's an undeniable, psychological fact.

My question: How does a being that exists outside of the physical universe 'recieve data' to make decisions on? Does anyone else realize that it is impossible to make a decision without PHYSICAL INFORMATION to make a COGNATIVE choice based apon?

2007-07-22 13:29:16 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous

Rather, a president who is American by citizenship, meaning he was born here, but not by blood. Lets say an Arab Mexican who was born in the u.s.a? Will there ever be one? Why or why not?

Hey, I thought anyone who was born in the u.s.a has an equal opportunity to run for presidency ?

Maybe I'd like to run, and I'm Iranian Arab American.

2007-07-22 13:28:30 · 18 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-07-22 13:27:42 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-07-22 13:26:21 · 25 answers · asked by Zefram 2

Why were Jews the ones used as the scapegoat in the Holocaust?

Jewish people aren't known to be a drain on the economy [this is a prejudiced argument justifying the mistreatment of black people in the US and south asian people in the UK] many of them are professors, doctors, scientists; and they haven't be known to engage in terrorism here.

Physically they look more like white people [skin colour is a horrible reason to discriminate against people] but I'm saying I don't see what discriminatory grounds are used to justify anti-Semitism.


So why the Jews?

2007-07-22 13:22:34 · 23 answers · asked by fading 2

The Catholic Church is the Church Universal--"No one, let his almsgiving be as great as it may, no one, even if he pour out his blood for the Name of Christ, can be saved, unless he remain within the bosom and the unity of the Catholic Church." (Pope Eugene IV, the Bull Cantate Domino, 1441.)

We have a "new thinking" now that those outside the Church can be saved like those who reject Christ as the Messiah and those who have left the Church and made up their own beliefs concerning salvation, many of them calling themselves Catholics.

What are your thoughts?

2007-07-22 13:22:30 · 14 answers · asked by Tiberias 2

I counted today (Cheese and Rice asked if one of us would be willing to count -- so I did)

Here is my report:

It is the Sunday before Pioneer day (the day the first pioneers entered the Salt Lake Valley) so I tract how many times the following were said:

Jesus Christ = 201
Joseph Smith = 1
Pioneer/Early Saints = 8
Brigham Young = 0
Gorden B Hinkley = 4
Ezra Taft Benson = 1
Spencer W. Kimble = 1

I attended Sacrament Mtg., part of Primary, part of Sunday School, and Priesthood Mtg. (Elders Q.)

Hinkley, Benson and Kimble are recent Prophets (Hinkley is our current Prophet)

Honorable mention: (Peoples names came up often that I did not plan to track)

Peter
Matthew
Luke
Nephi
Lehi
Helamen
Harod
Pilot
Roman Soldier
Jonah

2007-07-22 13:21:09 · 24 answers · asked by Dionysus 5

I saw this on one question, that Christians actually seemed to believe in various sciences...(genetics mainly) BUT Christians seem to reject science (I seen it on here....) *So* my question is, why are some Christians hypocritical? I know some responses but PLEASE at LEAST semi-intelligent answers please from both sides...but anyway, why is it that Christians believe in Genetics (chromosones, mutations, etc.) But not in microevolution, we have proof of that, (if I'm not mistaken, our immune system adapting and evolving to protect us from illness a prime example)

2007-07-22 13:17:47 · 18 answers · asked by Anonymous

Can't we all agree that many roads lead to enlightenment. Do we have to keep chastising and killing each other over this very issue. Maybe we can all learn from each other.

2007-07-22 13:14:58 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-07-22 13:14:53 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous

I asked this as a retorical question . . . and thought I should ask the general YA population:

What sort of person would choose a relationship with a mythological person out of fear of going to his made up hell for not believing in him?

2007-07-22 13:14:19 · 22 answers · asked by Meow 5

…and don’t even think of trying to tell me you don’t attempt to scare people. I mean the cross, the symbol of Christianity, is a slow torture and murder device! Fear comes from ignorance; from not knowing and gradually ‘not knowing’ is declining. A few decades ago, the guy in thins clip would’ve had a much more attentive audience, but today, he’s mocked, scorned and ridiculed. But you guys probably think this is a sign of a morally depraved society, right?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S_GvcXrrY3A

2007-07-22 13:13:49 · 16 answers · asked by Desiree 4

2007-07-22 13:07:11 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous