Religion & Spirituality - 5 August 2007

what is your religion?

2007-08-05 17:50:45 · 55 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-08-05 17:49:41 · 30 answers · asked by Uncle Wayne 3

Doesn't that seem somewhat adolescent?

2007-08-05 17:48:11 · 37 answers · asked by ManInTheBox 2

It's well known that he "had to have concrete proof" Jesus was resurected by feeling the wounds and such before he would believe. It's, then, fair to say,if he were born any other time he would have been an atheist. The question, then, is why was proof given to him and not, say, skeptics of today? Thomas supposedly saw Jesus perform numerous miracules too and was still skeptical of Jesus. So how is it fair that he got special treatment? The same could be said of Paul.

2007-08-05 17:47:13 · 14 answers · asked by Jack 5

how do you know if it is the demands of god/allah or demands of men?

because they sound very human decrees indeed

2007-08-05 17:45:27 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-08-05 17:45:07 · 31 answers · asked by Anonymous

I have to say one thing to all Christians, Muslums, Atheist, Wiccan, Pagans anr so forth...

How dare you criticize each other? Each one of you are thought to respect others, (except maybe atheist) stop putting people down for thier own beliefs.

Christians - stop telling people thier evil, for things like " I wanna have a halloween party"
Atheist - Stop throwing your depression of no god onto people who truly believe there is! And then spitting on them when they stand up to you!
Muslums - Stop forcing yourslef on being the only one right!
Pagans - Stop hating other people for being 'normal'.

this is absolutly ludicrus!!! I hate seeing all this comotion between religion.
It might sound stupid but can you all get a long??!!
I am Christian with Atheist - Daoist friends. God never tought me to disrespect other religion and i really feel horrible that everyone else thinks that it thier job to do so!

2007-08-05 17:42:09 · 24 answers · asked by ?? ?? 4

2007-08-05 17:40:37 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous

What are your perspective towards Catholics?

I wish to hear some earnest sharing :)

2007-08-05 17:40:33 · 36 answers · asked by Anonymous

DOH!

2007-08-05 17:39:06 · 17 answers · asked by Anonymous

Why on and inside the literature are all the Biblical characters always White? Even Job and the Ethiopian Unich, and Adam & Eve, they are all portrayed as being White. If Jehovah's Witnesses are to preach in truth why is it that they cannot depict the Bible characters as the way they truly are? Why must everything be White and esp. in America?

For instance, Job was the greatest Oriental the Bible says in the land at his time, yet when you see pictures of him in the Watchtower and Awake, etc., his skin is so pale white and his eyes are blue, nothing truly depicting an Oriental at all.

Again, Adam & Eve were of dark skin as that was just those two who walked the earth at the time of their existence until Eve bore children. Over the years the skintone of Adam and Eve has gotten so blinding white and even the society paints them with blue eyes now.

Some of the publications show mostly white, but pictures of other ethnicities "in the new system" but it's quite obvious mostly white.

2007-08-05 17:37:04 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous

Please atheists, I truely believe in God, and I'm greiving so much right now, I can't handle any rude remarks about God.

My Mother just died last Wednesday. I know in the bible it says "To be absent from the body, is to be present with the Lord." And I know Jesus said to the thief on the cross that "Surely you will be in heaven with me "today". But, then it says that the dead are sleeping. They know nothing. Untill the ressurection I assume. Can anyone explain any of this to me. I'm so confused. I don't understand. I'm just wondering more now because of my Mother. I KNOW she was saved and accepted Jesus as her savior. I hope this makes sense to you. Please help me to understand this more. My heart is hurting. And I'm praying to God for help. It's only been a few days and I know it will come in time for me, but for now, it just really hurts.

2007-08-05 17:36:54 · 23 answers · asked by Shari 5

How do you know if your prayer reach up to heaven and God heard it?

2007-08-05 17:34:30 · 13 answers · asked by Sweetgirl 3

I think people can sometimes be too vain when it comes to prayer. God can't possibly answer every single one of our prayers. Sometimes the answer is no because it's for our own good. Agree?

Aren't you tired of atheists distorting this to attack us?

2007-08-05 17:33:15 · 33 answers · asked by Anonymous

My sister just got her call to Ohio Cincinnati . . . leaves for the MTC on September 19th. Anyone else know of someone going? Where? When?

2007-08-05 17:31:02 · 11 answers · asked by paike 4

More importantly: WWJD!?!?!

2007-08-05 17:30:58 · 21 answers · asked by DEPRESSED™ 3

2007-08-05 17:30:22 · 6 answers · asked by Sweetgirl 3

Darth Cheney is Satan. What do you say to him?

This Satanic question has been brought to you courtesy of Jack

2007-08-05 17:29:29 · 24 answers · asked by Jack B, sinistral 5

When Jesus was on earth, He was a mortal, just like you and I. We have a Guardian angel watching over us. Would that mean Jesus had one too? I'm not talking about God watching over His Son, or the angels in heaven, just a special angel assigned to Him like one is assigned to us!

2007-08-05 17:27:38 · 27 answers · asked by ZORRO 3

I have ask this before, but I enjoy the variety of answers.

2007-08-05 17:25:11 · 35 answers · asked by Uncle Wayne 3

What are some modern day R&S miracles you'd like to see? Like maybe an evening without a single thumbs-down, or a day without trolls? What would you like to see?

This miraculous question has been brought to you courtesy of Jack

2007-08-05 17:24:21 · 19 answers · asked by Jack B, sinistral 5

First off, i am a christian in my sense of the word, i believe in christ and god, but i dont believe in the bible particularly and i dont like blindly following. So anyway my question is why do so many christians (or maybe other religions, but i mainly see christians doing this) believe that you will go to hell if you don't believe in God? How much sense does it make that a forgiving god would punish you eternaly for not believing in him? a point one of my friends made was that godless people usually arent held by morals... but if that is true why are there so many fanatic cult killings over godless killings? Budhists who follow budhist beliefs are very good people, but many of them dont believe in a god... so why do they go to hell? how much sense does that make? and go ahead and send me quotes from the bible but i doubt they will answer my question.

2007-08-05 17:23:46 · 19 answers · asked by Anonymous

If the name Jehovah is so important, then why is it Never used in the entire Greek New Testament?
If men edited out the name of God, "YHWH" when they copied the New Testament, as only the Watchtower organization claims, then how can we have any confidence in any of the New Testament?
Should we discard the New Testament or the Watchtower organization as Unreliable?

2007-08-05 17:22:44 · 7 answers · asked by RG 5

Don't you hate that? Jesus is NOT imaginary. While it may be true that there is no scientific evidence he performed the miracles, guess what? There were NO video cameras or photographs back then. OF COURSE there is no solid evidence. What do you want? A video on youtube?

Don't atheists drive you nuts?

2007-08-05 17:21:43 · 24 answers · asked by Anonymous

I asked this question earlier but I got the some old lame answers, which indicated they don't get it! Here's the explanation again, and I've added more in added details to clarify things!

The Bible says, "You saw me before I was born and scheduled each day of my life before I began to breathe. Every day was recorded in your book!" [Psalm 139:16]

---God had already decided what you will do each and everyday of your life and He's already officially recorded it down!

This verse clearly indicates that God not only knew our future, but He also predestined it! Christians classical argument for a God that knows our future is, "God knows our future but He didn't make our choice". This statement cannot be true because it is cleary written, "(God)scheduled each day of my life before I began to breathe". Now this clearly contradicts with the concept of free-will doesn't it?

2007-08-05 17:18:46 · 30 answers · asked by Anonymous

it annoys me because it's like we're not all believers of god and america is very diverse with lots of different religions

2007-08-05 17:16:03 · 28 answers · asked by Anonymous

There's been a fascination with him lately . . . not that I'm surprised . . . .

2007-08-05 17:15:16 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous

In so many verses it lies! In psalms it says god has a plan and sets up birth and death and later it says he doesint! and it says if you have a rebelious child bring him to the town square and stone him to death! what the hell is up!

2007-08-05 17:12:19 · 18 answers · asked by Anonymous

"You saw me before I was born and scheduled each day of my life before I began to breathe. Every day was recorded in your book!" [Psalm 139:16]
Ok, God planned each of your days as proven in the verse. You Christians, however, will say that God just numbered our days not saying what will happen during the interval. So if birth is destined by God then abortion is God's plan. If Sussie was killed by a murderer it was God's plan using the murderer as a puppet. If Ken died by cancer it was God's plan. So why do you Christians condtradict yourselves by praying for safety or being against abortion? No amount of prayer will change anything anyway. Why pray? Whether you pray or not the child will be aborted, Sussie will be killed, and Ken will die of cancer anyway. You can't mess with God's plan(that would make him not so divine eh?) The verse is clear so don't twirl it around. Focus on my question. WHY PRAY IF GOD ALREADY DESITNED DEATH AND BIRTH?

2007-08-05 17:11:55 · 46 answers · asked by Anonymous

have you tried praying for the restoration of a lost limb?

did anyone try without doubting?

serious answers please.

2007-08-05 17:10:20 · 5 answers · asked by Pisces 6