Religion & Spirituality - 24 July 2007

Seems to be a lot of hate going around today. More so than usual.
Agree?

2007-07-24 09:49:18 · 19 answers · asked by Spencer Y 3

If somebody murders more than one person while knowing Christ, but let's say it was there job or something, will Jesus forgive them like he would for a lie or stealing, or are they doomed to hell?

2007-07-24 09:47:29 · 13 answers · asked by f!ddl3. 3

When I was younger, I used to wake up with a start with dark creatures flying around my room or standing next to my bed. Once, I prayed the whole Our Father aloud, and only after that the face (which was an inch from mine), vanished.
I know God all my life. Have you ever had similar experiences?

2007-07-24 09:46:50 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous

Every psychic I've ever seen on tv seems self deluded and full of it. Why do so many people think some people have psychic powers?

2007-07-24 09:44:30 · 24 answers · asked by Link 5

2007-07-24 09:44:03 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-07-24 09:41:06 · 20 answers · asked by renanswers 1

Mat 10:34 "Do not think that I have come to bring peace to the earth. I have not come to bring peace, but a sword.
Mat 10:35 For I have come to set a man against his father, and a daughter against her mother, and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law.

Mat 10:36 And a person's enemies will be those of his own household.
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The sword symbolizes the division between believers and non believers .. and that's what Paul confirmed in his teaching. 1 Cor 5:1-13.

2007-07-24 09:40:06 · 24 answers · asked by Kimo 4

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2007-07-24 09:39:09 · 22 answers · asked by Emerald Blue 5

In our mosques I have never noticed any segregation, white, yellow, blue whatever your race Muslims are treated the same, but I have noticed when I went a little bit further south that that is not the case. Am I correct in assuming that different groups might have different centers of worship within the same religion based on racism??? It is sad that this still exists!

2007-07-24 09:38:08 · 26 answers · asked by   2

You people should look up "cage experiment" on google. Basically a cage experiment is were you put a bunch of plants and animals into a room, and then you slightly change the conditions of the environment in the room from the normal conditions on Earth, and just let them go and see what happens. Well what happens is that the plants and animals change form in a way that increases their chances of surviving in the new environment that we have put them in. We have literally observed plants and animals change and adapt to their environments rights in front of our eyes. I don't know what else scientists could possible do to convince you people that evolution is right.

2007-07-24 09:37:46 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous

In your own opnions do you think Atheism is a religion?

2007-07-24 09:35:58 · 49 answers · asked by Anonymous

does anyoe know a good webpage i can find all the verses i am looking for??? thanks!

2007-07-24 09:33:41 · 14 answers · asked by jennifer r 2

Please no hysterical garbage. Informed debate - is organized religion dead?
Unscientific Evidence:
What was once universally believed is now relegated to a small minority in Western culture. Plenty of people believe in a God, but a small minority go to church. Many people that believe in God are not even sure. They live their lives without regard to dogma or biblical teachings.

I would argue that the majority of people live their lives as existentialists - even if they are spiritual.

The only places left in the Western World with majority highly religious people seem to be the American South and Midwest.

2007-07-24 09:30:47 · 21 answers · asked by damilitia 2

I have heard people say that Evolution is "just a theory" and that they need something to be "more than a theory" in order for them to believe it. In order for something to reach the level of "theory" it must have gone through much scientific debate and scrutiny in order for it to still be called a theory.

The theory of gravity is "just a theory" too. It is rather unfortunate that people who believe solely in creationism and that evolution (the when and how) cannot coexist with creationism (the who and the why) do not understand what the term "theory" means and why saying that something is a theory is a powerful statement about its validity.

2007-07-24 09:26:51 · 20 answers · asked by Anonymous

Doesn't God want you to be happy and laugh or will you go to hell for this?

2007-07-24 09:26:24 · 36 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-07-24 09:25:37 · 10 answers · asked by Star B 3

Why do people ask others a question but then immediately say they can't answer with an anticipated response. What do you do if you think that the forbidden response is actually the truth?

Examples:
Atheists: why don't you believe in God...and you can't say lack of evidence?
Christians: if God exists why is there evil in the world...and you can't say free will?

2007-07-24 09:23:40 · 19 answers · asked by Anonymous

Did I not tell you earlier that a Jew is such a noble, precious jewel that God and all the angels dance when he farts?---Martin Luther (Germany)

“What then shall we Christians do with this damned, rejected race of Jews?
First, their synagogues should be set on fire, and whatever does not burn up should be covered or spread over with dirt so that no one may ever be able to see a cinder or stone of it. And this ought to be done for the honour of God and of Christianity, in order that God may see that we are true Christians.
Secondly, their homes should be likewise broken down and destroyed.
Thirdly, they should be deprived of their prayerbooks and talmuds in which such idolatry, lies, cursing and blasphemy are taught.
Fourthly, their rabbis must be forbidden under threats of death to teach anymore.” – Martin Luther

“If I find a Jew to baptize, I shall lead him to the Elbe bridge, hang a stone around his neck, and push him into the water, baptizing him with the name of Avraham!.. I cannot convert the Jews. Our lord Christ did not succeed in doing so; but I can close their mouths so that there will be nothing for them to do but to lie upon the ground.” – Martin Luther

“I hope I shall never be so stupid as to be circumcised; I would rather cut off the left breast of my Catherine and of all women.” --- Martin Luther

“If we are to remain unsullied by the blasphemy of the Jews and not wish to take part in it, we must be separated from them and they must be driven out of the country.” – Martin Luther

Jesus did not call them Abraham's children, but a "brood of vipers" [Matt. 3:7]. Oh, that was too insulting for the noble blood and race of Israel, and they declared, "He has a demon' [Matt 11:18]. Our Lord also calls them a "brood of vipers"; furthermore in John 8 [:39,44] he states: "If you were Abraham's children ye would do what Abraham did.... You are of your father the devil. It was intolerable to them to hear that they were not Abraham's but the devil's children, nor can they bear to hear this today.------Martin Luther

Learn from this, dear Christian, what you are doing if you permit the blind Jews to mislead you. Then the saying will truly apply, "When a blind man leads a blind man, both will fall into the pit" [cf. Luke 6:39]. You cannot learn anything from them except how to misunderstand the divine commandments...------Martin Luther

St. John Chrysostom: “I know that many people hold a high regard for the Jews and consider their way of life worthy of respect at the present time... This is why I am hurrying to pull up this fatal notion by the roots ... A place where a whore stands on display is a whorehouse. What is more, the synagogue is not only a whorehouse and a theater; it is also a den of thieves and a haunt of wild animals ... not the cave of a wild animal merely, but of an unclean wild animal ... When animals are unfit for work, they are marked for slaughter, and this is the very thing which the Jews have experienced. By making themselves unfit for work, they have become ready for slaughter. This is why Christ said: “as for my enemies, who did not want me to reign over them, bring them and slay them before me’ (Luke 19.27).”



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Therefore be on your guard against the Jews, knowing that wherever they have their synagogues, nothing is found but a den of devils in which sheer self-glory, conceit, lies, blasphemy, and defaming of God and men are practiced most maliciously and veheming his eyes on them.---------Martin Luther


Moreover, they are nothing but thieves and robbers who daily eat no morsel and wear no thread of clothing which they have not stolen and pilfered from us by means of their accursed usury. Thus they live from day to day, together with wife and child, by theft and robbery, as arch-thieves and robbers, in the most impenitent security.
--------Martin Luther


However, they have not acquired a perfect mastery of the art of lying; they lie so clumsily and ineptly that anyone who is just a little observant can easily detect it.

But for us Christians they stand as a terrifying example of God's wrath.-----Martin Luther


...but then eject them forever from this country. For, as we have heard, God's anger with them is so intense that gentle mercy will only tend to make them worse and worse, while sharp mercy will reform them but little. Therefore, in any case, away with them!-------Martin Luther


However, we must avoid confirming them in their wanton lying, slandering, cursing, and defaming. Nor dare we make ourselves partners in their devilish ranting and raving by shielding and protecting them, by giving them food, drink, and shelter, or by other neighborly acts..------Martin Luther



If we wish to wash our hands of the Jews' blasphemy and not share in their guilt, we have to part company with them. They must be driven from our country.-----Martin Luther


They [rulers] must act like a good physician who, when gangrene has set in proceeds without mercy to cut, saw, and burn flesh, veins, bone, and marrow. Such a procedure must also be followed in this instance. Burn down their synagogues, forbid all that I enumerated earlier, force them to work, and deal harshly with them, as Moses did...

If this does not help we must drive them out like mad dogs.----Martin Luther


Martin Luther: [ in his last sermon, four days before he died, ] called for practical measures: burn their synagogues, confiscate all books in Hebrew, prohibit Jewish prayers, force them to do manual labour, and drive them out of Germany.


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2007-07-24 09:23:23 · 11 answers · asked by wwhy 3

Does the name matter ?

Yes or No....

Those who know, would never use anything but his real blessed name when speaking with him.

If you believe it is important then find out what Jesus called the Father.

type down the word "God" in this Aramaic dictionary to find out what Jesus used to call God:
http://www.peshitta.org/lexicon/

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2007-07-24 09:20:06 · 14 answers · asked by wwhy 3

Is it so hard to understand that maybe people like to have their own beliefs and maybe christanity is not something they want to believe in?

Explain yourself.

2007-07-24 09:19:03 · 32 answers · asked by Anonymous

The latest hollywood news again is lindsay Lohan's arrest for DUI and Cocaine...

Why is this the only Industry that rewards bad immoral behaviour? Most industries would fire you in a heartbeat for the antics of people like Lindsay, Brittney Paris etc get away with.
If you are a Doctor, Nurse, Pilot, CEO you would lose your license or be suspended for some of this behavior..

Since these girls come from totally dysfunctional families and Hollywood is King of Dysfunction what is the answer?

2007-07-24 09:18:55 · 20 answers · asked by Anonymous

Can someone explain how I am taking this out of context? Because I keep hearing that Islam is religion of Love and that "Islam" actually means "Peace".

http://watch.windsofchange.net/pics/2006/634520_src_path_s.jpg

2007-07-24 09:17:10 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-07-24 09:16:35 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous

The very foundations of their faiths are galaxies apart......

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2007-07-24 09:16:12 · 11 answers · asked by wwhy 3

((For those that will read this entire post, thank you!))

Know the *truth* of the reality of life. Do not be blinded by your perceptions and misconceptions. One needs to see clearly that all you do to yourself in a negative manner is an infraction upon others; that all your choices for yourself in a positive manner are a reflection of the true self. In knowing this, one is then able to rethink, reconsider, realign and make better choices, not only for self, but for all others.

You are not on your own in this life, ever. Know that all you do, all actions you take, all words you speak, all things in your experience are reverberated around the planet, and that all others are affected by all that you do, think and feel. The echoes of you are heard and felt by others. The closer in proximity to you they are, the more these echoes are experienced in them.

2007-07-24 09:13:55 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous

Are the lies being spread about Islams treatment of women actually making them curious to study Islam even more ?

God works in mysterious ways !!



European Women Converting 2 Islam

http://www.csmonitor.com/2005/1227/p01s04-woeu.html?s=u

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Latino Women Converting to ISLAM

http://www.csmonitor.com/2004/1227/p11s02-ussc.html?s=widep

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/9352969/

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More in Hawai'i turn to Islam -------

http://the.honoluluadvertiser.com/article/2001/Nov/11/ln/ln06a.html

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More in TEXAS turn to Islam --------

http://www.channel4.com/life/microsites/T/texas_season/texas_season_muslim.html

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2007-07-24 09:13:28 · 19 answers · asked by wwhy 3

What causes you to believe that you dont have to submit and answer to the authority of God?

2007-07-24 09:12:07 · 27 answers · asked by Maurice H 6

I was having a conversation with my Aunt today who is a Catholic, however she never got round to telling me the differences between protestantism and catholicism - so if somebody could please help and also fill me in on why some people think catholics are hypocrites, it will be much appreciated! Thanks guys.x

2007-07-24 09:11:47 · 18 answers · asked by Faith 5

Jesus called the Lord --- Allah in his original language of "Aramaic".

type down the word "God" in this Aramaic dictionary to find out what Jesus used to call God:
http://www.peshitta.org/lexicon/

More evidence :
http://www.learnassyrian.com/aramaic/church/church.html


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2007-07-24 09:09:45 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-07-24 09:08:28 · 13 answers · asked by Owl Eye 5