Religion & Spirituality - 4 August 2007

why do Christians get mad when Christians sin? I can see them getting mad at non-Christians who don't have their sins forgiven, but if God has already forgiven someone through Jesus's blood, why don't Christians overlook the sins as well?

This is a serious question. I'm not trying to put anyone down.

2007-08-04 04:19:48 · 25 answers · asked by MBC 4

I got plenty of them... which i got before i embraced my beliefs in God. So, i could only hope that i'm forgiven for them by now, but until i get them off do you believe i will not be granted heaven for it? Ironically enough, they are religious symbols, however, (some aren't but those are just tribal arm bands) which are a cross and a scarab (Egyptian symbol for eternal life: off sidedly religious).

The way i see it though, is now they are just a part of me and if i were to get them taken off that would also be considered abusing the "body as a temple" because laser removal is somewhat damaging...

I just figure if i dedicate my body to God using symbols and such that He'd be okay with it :\....

Basically, i really like tattoos :(

2007-08-04 04:18:27 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous

Were you negative or contemptuous about the Church before, to the point of being strongly anti-Catholic? If so, what or who changed your mind?

2007-08-04 04:13:53 · 3 answers · asked by Clare † 5

Someone asked, "Why would a loving God send anyone to hell?"
Why do people, who spend their entire lives REJECTING Jesus, believe they should be rewarded for their disobedience, and be given a free pass into heaven anyway?

Some people just don't belong in heaven. They don't have what it takes.

2007-08-04 04:10:05 · 27 answers · asked by Anonymous

rawk!

2007-08-04 04:06:46 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous

I've only seen examples from Sahih Bukhari of men divorcing their wives by proclaiming 3 times. I've seen 1 example of a women complaining to muhammad that her husband wasn't pious enough and wanted a divorce. Muhammad subsequently ordered the husband to divorce his wife. So in islam, the husband has to do the divorcing, by proclaiming 3 times. If the wife wants a divorce, she needs to get the sharia court to order the husband to divorce her. In either case, it is the man that proclaims the divorce. Is this correct?

2007-08-04 04:03:14 · 14 answers · asked by ali 6

Cause that's what the Original Sin sounds like to me. And even so, God is considered to be infinitelly fair and just. Maybe from His point of view He is. But "justice" is a mankind's term, and no rational person with a pinch of common sense should attribute it to God. In my humble opinion.

2007-08-04 04:02:34 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous

Christians, why is it so hard to believe that all of life came from in-organic matter (protiens and what not in the primordial soup) but yet Genesis says that God made Man out of dirt...what's the difference? Gods holy word? Well then who's to say that God did not implement the Big Bang and the creation of all life from in-organic matter then? Same question for Athesits, and please no "sky fairy" thing...I want logical answers from everybody, or at least semi-logical if people (Christians or Atheists) can't do normal logic...now...let this fun little debate begin...

2007-08-04 04:00:58 · 42 answers · asked by Anonymous

true story, just happened, my baby and I are sleeping, and these two Baptist men are furiously banging on my door and ringing my doorbell, I open the door a crack and ask who they are, they tell me, I tell them to Go away, that they are going to wake my baby, and I swear one of them yelled at me that I was going to hell, do what? I am still trying to pick my jaw up from the ground.

2007-08-04 03:58:41 · 26 answers · asked by carpathian mage 3

Or do you not know that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have from God, and you are not your own? For you were bought at a price; therefore glorify God in your body and in your spirit, which are God’s. 1 Corinthians 6:19-20

2007-08-04 03:57:07 · 19 answers · asked by Anonymous

It appears he may be a greater threat to Christianity than the gay marriage thing, but you don't seem to bat an eye at a false prophet

2007-08-04 03:56:49 · 32 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-08-04 03:56:48 · 27 answers · asked by Anonymous

I know this sounds weird, but I have a friend that goes to church and she claims its a baptist church. But she says she ministers to this prophet who suppose to know her past. What do you think?

2007-08-04 03:55:54 · 7 answers · asked by Mosaic art 3

Paul talks about it in his letter to the people of Corinth.

2007-08-04 03:51:30 · 11 answers · asked by starfish 1

i hope you got the names.What is your opinion of our existence?

2007-08-04 03:48:36 · 29 answers · asked by samy 3

If we origanally evolved a need for a relationship with GOD then what is next? Are we going to worship science now? Or ourselves?

2007-08-04 03:43:54 · 19 answers · asked by Anonymous

I found out I was a female pre-raphaelite painter from 18th century east end london that didn't live long.
I believe this since I am better at drawing women than men which come out looking feminine unless I also painted homosexuals.

I believe I may have been Elizabeth Siddel, Dante Gabriel Rossetti's muse and model who is well known by Pre-Raphaelite artists.
I don't resemble her though but I share her love of poetry and I don't find myself that attractive ethier eventhough we have been told by others we are.

2007-08-04 03:43:18 · 12 answers · asked by ♆Şрhĩņxy - Lost In Time. 7

Remember, the more educated a person is, the less likely they are to believe in a literal interpretation of the bible. Therefore, science leads people from heaven to hell.

Are YOU doing enough to slow down the progress of science, and make other people thing it's false? (all the while enjoying its fruits, of course)

2007-08-04 03:41:38 · 19 answers · asked by Dreamstuff Entity 6

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She's so Saturday's sun
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Namaste

Peace and Love

2007-08-04 03:38:32 · 10 answers · asked by digilook 2

I'm a Catholic, and I do drink alcohol. I never get even close to being truly drunk, but there is a lot of ground between being falling down, vomiting drunk and being "buzzed." I'm just wondering if there is some principle of Catholic moral thinking that allows you to discern when you are sinning even slightly with regard to alcohol consumption. Thanks!

2007-08-04 03:38:12 · 19 answers · asked by Nicholas M 2

it's no crocduck but it's close enough

a venomous mammal that lays eggs, has a reptilian gait, duck bill like sensory organ, and uniqe jaw among mammals

happy now young earth creationists?


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Platypus

2007-08-04 03:31:26 · 29 answers · asked by Anonymous

The idea that there is no God is mathematically impossible. Basic probability tells you that the odds of a blob of primordial ooze morphing into a man, regardless of how much time has passed, are so remote that mathematicians regard it as impossible. Emile Borel and Fred Hoyle are just two mathematicians who reject evolution on statistical grounds. It idea is a "Statistcal Immposibility". For example, it is theoretically possible that you could blow up a junk yard and all the flying pieces would land and form themselves into a Cadillac - that is possible. But the odds against it are so high that it constitutes a "Statistcal Immposibility". Same goes for evolution. That only leaves one possibility: God. There's your proof, mathematically arrived at. Comments anyone?
http://www.topix.net/forum/seattle/T336A1Q0VK5CRTELF

2007-08-04 03:28:27 · 19 answers · asked by Anonymous

In an interview on NBC's Meet the Press, Louis Farrakhan said the following in response to host Tim Russert's question on the Nation of Islam's teachings on race:

"You know, it’s not unreal to believe that white people—who genetically cannot produce yellow, brown or black—had a Black origin. The scholars and scientists of this world agree that the origin of man and humankind started in Africa and that the first parent of the world was black. The Qur'an says that God created Adam out of black mud and fashioned him into shape. So if white people came from the original people, the Black people, what is the process by which you came to life? That is not a silly question. That is a scientific question with a scientific answer. It doesn't suggest that we are superior or that you are inferior. It suggests, however, that your birth or your origin is from the black people of this earth: superiority and inferiority is determined by our righteousness and not by our color." [1]
Pressed by Russert on whether he agreed with Elijah Muhammad's preaching that whites are blue-eyed devils, Farrakhan responded:

"Well, you have not been saints in the way you have acted toward the darker peoples of the world and toward even your own people. But, in truth, Mr. Russert, any human being who gives themself over to the doing of evil could be considered a devil. In the Bible, in the Book of Revelation, it talks about the fall of Babylon. It says Babylon is fallen because she has become the habitation of devils. We believe that that ancient Babylon is a symbol of a modern Babylon, which is America."
While Malcolm X was a member of the Nation of Islam he also preached that black people were genetically superior to white people.

"Thoughtful white people know they are inferior to Black people. Even Eastland knows it. Anyone who has studied the genetic phase of biology knows that white is considered recessive and black is considered dominant."

2007-08-04 03:27:55 · 18 answers · asked by Anonymous

Original Sin seems to be passed on through generations like a genetical disease, and if we don't accept Jesus in our heart along our lives, we'll be doomed. Nevertheless, I keep getting that young kids or babies that die, go straight to Heaven, cause they don't have the ability to grasp the concept of God, Hell, Heaven or whatever.
My question is: Are we born with the Original Sin? If not, at what age do we get it?

2007-08-04 03:27:38 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous

Personally I say no, as the Bible is religious dogma with no discernible educational value. However in school we were allowed to read whatever we wanted to in our free time, some people read the bible. I don't see why people would be against that as it was not forced upon the entire class and they were not trying to prosthelitize anyone.

2007-08-04 03:25:41 · 24 answers · asked by Anonymous

I was raised a Catholic. My husband and I were unable to be married in the Catholic Church, and I know that they do not recognize a "Justice of the Peace" kind of marriage. Are we still able to get a child we had together baptized in the Catholic Church?

2007-08-04 03:24:38 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous

Doesn't this fact bother any of you?

2007-08-04 03:22:13 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-08-04 03:20:38 · 23 answers · asked by Anonymous

Some people get verses from the Quran out of context and use them to prove that Islam is a voilent religion,

Do not think that I came to send peace upon earth: I came not to send peace, but the sword.

Does this sound voilent to you?

Does that sound something taken out of context?

You don't know the sentence before that or the sentece after it.
Or if its said from the Quran.

Its actually from the bible.
Matthew 10:34

See you can pull that trick on any religion.

2007-08-04 03:17:26 · 26 answers · asked by Nourhan 5

2007-08-04 03:05:35 · 29 answers · asked by Anonymous