Religion & Spirituality - 31 July 2007

Bible version....need to write a paragraph about it....thanks :D

2007-07-31 11:21:17 · 4 answers · asked by JD 3

2007-07-31 11:20:54 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-07-31 11:16:49 · 20 answers · asked by ☆Zestee☆ 5

2007-07-31 11:14:17 · 28 answers · asked by Page 4

2007-07-31 11:14:03 · 25 answers · asked by WhyNotAskAlice 1

NOT HIDDEN/KEPT SECRET!!!

2007-07-31 11:12:58 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-07-31 11:12:54 · 16 answers · asked by Jerusalem Delivered 3

How would you explain:

2 Thessalonians 2:10-12
And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie: That they all might be damned who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness.

Definition of "Delude":
de·lude /dɪˈlud/ Pronunciation Key - Show Spelled Pronunciation[di-lood] Pronunciation Key - Show IPA Pronunciation
–verb (used with object), -lud·ed, -lud·ing. 1. to mislead the mind or judgment of; deceive: His conceit deluded him into believing he was important.
2. Obsolete. to mock or frustrate the hopes or aims of.
3. Obsolete. to elude; evade.

That looks like deceit to me. How do you reconcile this statement with a belief in a God who cannot lie or deceive?

Thanks for your replies!

2007-07-31 11:12:09 · 36 answers · asked by Christine S 3

this is just a survey and everyone can answer and name the country where you live in.

2007-07-31 11:11:45 · 32 answers · asked by Anonymous

Haven't heard anything about them for years?

2007-07-31 11:11:38 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous

and other stories? No, I don't belong to a Church or Bible Study yet, I'm still looking, I do not have a denomination. Thanks.

2007-07-31 11:09:59 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous

When Catholics gave them the Bible (what became catholic was 1st century christians).

So evangelicals have to trust that Catholics were right in putting together the bible.

So evangelicals only use the bible and twist the words to be Anti-Catholic. If Catholics were no so sure of their faith wouldnt they have taken those bits out before they created the bible.

But they didnt so they must have though that there is no way that evangelicals would be so blind to turn from the Pillar of Truth (Chruch)

Question: Can any evangelical back up their claims without twisting the bible or without using the bible at all.

Answer - Not a hope.

2007-07-31 11:09:38 · 20 answers · asked by Luke L 1

mythology?

2007-07-31 11:09:29 · 27 answers · asked by WhyNotAskAlice 1

To some people, the God of the Old Testament and the God of the New Testament are totally incompatible and not the same God. The ancient Gnostics explained this by stating God of the Old Testament not as the true Father of us and Jesus Christ (who the God of the New Testament was), but as the demiurge, an egomaniac of a deity who loves to dominate his creation and crush them if they look at him the wrong way, below the true Father from the fullness of the Light, where Jesus Christ originated.

Although a contemporary Gnostic Christian that I am, I don't subscribe to the ancient Gnostic myth of creation or the ancient Gnostic view of the God of the Old Testament, but know that Yahweh of the Old Testament is the same Yahweh of the New Testament, the same loving Father that Jesus Christ lovingly portrays in the gospels. However, I can also reconcile a God of the Old Testament who destroys cities and slays children and women, condones slavery and murder, views women as chattels of men and property to be controlled, and slays His own people for gathering wood on the Sabbath, with the God of the New Testament, the epitome of love, compassion, truth and forgiveness.

On the surface, as the ancient Gnostics saw, the God of Old and God of New are two disparate deities with almost nothing in common. However, I also view the Old Testament as being written in the times it was, in the culture it was, by the persecuted Jewish people looking for a warrior God (which is ultimately the reason they rejected the pacifist and loving Saviour of Jesus Christ – he was no warrior, did not condone sexism, murder, rape, pillaging), which is why the God of the Old Testament, although the same God as the New, seems so different. I also can see the times have changed, societies have changed, cultures have changed, and although God is unchanging in eternity, the human view of Him changes with these items, which is why we know God as the loving, compassionate and forgiving Father as we do today.

How do you reconcile such disparate views of God of the Old and New Testaments?

2007-07-31 11:08:59 · 12 answers · asked by Christine S 3

I am jewish.

Jews only make up 1/4 of 1% of the world, and only 2% of the United States. Compared to Islam, Buddhism, and Christianity, we are nothing. So why is it that we get so much attention relative to our size.

2007-07-31 11:06:25 · 14 answers · asked by Big Larry 2

2007-07-31 11:06:15 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous

My favorites:

"The time has come for people of reason to say: enough is enough. Religious faith discourages independent thought, it's divisive, and it's dangerous. ”
“ For many people, part of growing up is killing off the virus of faith with a good strong dose of rational thinking. But if an individual doesn't succeed in shaking it off, his mind is stuck in a permanent state of infancy, and there is a real danger that he will infect the next generation."
"The god of the Old Testament has got to be the most unpleasant character in all fiction: jealous and proud of it, petty, vindictive, unjust, unforgiving, racist, an ethnic-cleanser urging his people on to acts of genocide. ”
“ Fundamentalist Christianity is on the rise among the electorate of the world's only superpower, right up to and including the President. If you believe the surveys, 45 percent of Americans, that's about 135 million people, believe the universe is less than ten thousand years old."

-Richard Dawkins

2007-07-31 11:05:30 · 25 answers · asked by Anonymous

Just wondering what people think the differences are, if any.

2007-07-31 11:04:53 · 6 answers · asked by Heathen Mage 3

Genesis 22:2-19
Then God said to Abraham, "Take your son, your only son, Isaac, whom you love, and go to the region of Moriah. Sacrifice him there as a burnt offering on one of the mountains I will tell you about."

…. Abraham took the wood for the burnt offering and placed it on his son Isaac, and he himself carried the fire and the knife. As the two of them went on together, Isaac spoke up and said to his father Abraham, "Father?"

"Yes, my son?" Abraham replied.

"The fire and wood are here," Isaac said, "but where is the lamb for the burnt offering?"

Abraham answered, "God himself will provide the lamb for the burnt offering, my son." And the two of them went on together.

Abraham built an altar there and arranged the wood on it. He bound his son Isaac and laid him on the altar, on top of the wood. Then he reached out his hand and took the knife to slay his son.

2007-07-31 11:03:56 · 27 answers · asked by HawaiianBrian 5

2007-07-31 11:02:28 · 20 answers · asked by Page 4

JESUS
Luke 8:9-11
His disciples asked him what this parable meant. He said, "The knowledge of the secrets of the kingdom of God has been given to you, but to others I speak in parables, so that, 'though seeing, they may not see; though hearing, they may not understand."

PAUL
1 Corinthians 2:6
We do, however, speak a message of wisdom among the mature, but not the wisdom of this age or of the rulers of this age, who are coming to nothing. 7No, we speak of God's secret wisdom, a wisdom that has been hidden and that God destined for our glory before time began.

Clearly, some secrecy going on here. Jesus taught his disciples differently from the masses, and Paul as well insinuates secrecy. What of these secret teachings? Those of inner transformation, spiritual alchemy, the Secret Wisdom of the Ages. As Jesus said, "The Kingdom of God is within you".

Why do contemporary Christians have so much trouble with this? Why do they only want the milk of Christianity and not meat?

2007-07-31 10:58:05 · 14 answers · asked by Christine S 3

Should non believers respond in a suitable forum such as YA R & S or be intimidated by fanatics who tell us we have no right to be here.

2007-07-31 10:57:03 · 19 answers · asked by Anonymous

If I say that Angels are really spirits of our ancestors...
Purified spirits who want only to help us in any way possible...
How far am I from the truth ?

2007-07-31 10:56:12 · 14 answers · asked by Laff -Hugs 4all- 5

Where in the bible does it say it's wrong? Where in the bible does it say it's right? Some of my friends have tatoos including my bf and my mom says it's wrong. What do you think?

2007-07-31 10:55:47 · 22 answers · asked by Anonymous

Christians: Do you beleive that you worship the same god as Muslims? Why or why not?

Muslims: Do you beleive that you worship the same god as Christians? Why or why not?

2007-07-31 10:51:57 · 22 answers · asked by Thursday 1

what did he gain by all those lies? i mean, personally?

2007-07-31 10:51:40 · 23 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-07-31 10:51:39 · 21 answers · asked by hypno_toad1 7

Do they not know the difference between honoring, adoring, and worshipping?

2007-07-31 10:51:34 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous

Is it discrimination to not allow atheists in foxholes?

2007-07-31 10:50:58 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous

I get "i KNOW God exists" from Christiand more often that i blink. But, you're not supposed to know God exists. He won't let you know He exists. There's the key of the whole question. What gives sense to the whole dementia. He wants you to believe in Him, in the face of the huge void of evidence, and another load of conflicting evidence. That's what "faith" is about. If you "know" God exists, what do you need your "faith" for?

2007-07-31 10:50:58 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous