Religion & Spirituality - 6 August 2007

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2007-08-06 03:52:38 · 14 answers · asked by Deke 5

if you have two (american) football teams playing, and both teams and their fans are praying for their team to win, how does God decide who wins? by who is prayer harder? if that's the case, how come there aren't more teams from the bible belt winning the superbowl?

2007-08-06 03:52:26 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous

Catholic and protestant teaching/belief are very similar but also very different.

Question I have for Catholics is what happens if you accept christ and your saviour and are baptised.

If you dont go to mass and as such dont partake of the Eucarist yet believe you have a relationship with Christ, pray to him love him, study about him etc.

Question is what do you believe happens to that person when they die. Likewise what is the difference if you go to mass every week and go to confession.

Further as far as I can tell in the catholic church the emphasis is worship and receiving grace through the sacraments. In the protestant churches it appears to be community, worship and in some aspects learning or being thought (sometimes long) sermons.

Lets not make it a bashing session and please dont respond if you are going to make stupid assumptions based on what your buddy said.

2007-08-06 03:51:59 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-08-06 03:50:49 · 35 answers · asked by poorme 1

Please, don't say science and logic. Even, thiests are scientists and engineers. What else is there that you athiests can back upon?

Don't give dumb examples like Santa Claus.

2007-08-06 03:49:31 · 40 answers · asked by Der23 1

1. Area 51 2. the "big sleep" 3. Dick Cheney's bunker 4. the Iraq war 5. All of them 6. None of them

2007-08-06 03:48:53 · 2 answers · asked by Anonymous

what´s the difference between those 2?????

and what´s a born again christian???????

2007-08-06 03:48:29 · 18 answers · asked by Sara Hitchens 2

Religion is bias to a certain idea it claims that one idea or one theology is correct and all other ideas are incorrect. When we generalize and clam our religion is the ultimate truce we become ignorant to any other ideas. Christian, Muslims, Jews feel the same way so who is right? Well, we can’t never conceive the truce since our mind simply can know god all we have is faith.

Instead of wasting our time bickering about God who might exist or not why don’t we just embraced others idea. Instead of trying to convert them claiming they are sinner and evil doers. We can all learn from other religion no matter how strong we feel about our religion. The first step is tolerance and acceptance.

2007-08-06 03:44:44 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous

Pardon my ignorance here. I understand that Catholics follow the same religious text and the same God as Christians. But I know very few Catholics who refer to themselves as Christians.

Am I missing something here? Do Catholics not like being referred to as Christian? Does everyone else consider them Christian?

2007-08-06 03:43:17 · 33 answers · asked by Anonymous

rather it's your dad or a priest?

2007-08-06 03:42:23 · 8 answers · asked by warrior*in*the*making 5

Christ's lost years, in between his childhood in egypt and his return as an adult seem to have been found -
thanks to good old archiology!

Aparently he traveled for a long time, he stayed in india for many years and was loved by the Dhalits and peasents and they refered to him as St.Issa. Further more he was thrown out by the Bhrammen for teaching the peasents about higher religion and philosophy (something to be repeated with the Rabis)
The he traveled to Tibbet apparently where he was taught by monks who believed he was Matreya Buddha (who was supposed to be white) - there are even writtings, written by an indian historian about jesus's/ st.issa's travels.

have you heard this?

there is also recent evidence provided to show that Jesus didnt die on the cross, or atleast when he came back to life. He traveled back to India, where he finally died of old age - there is a shrine to St.Issa in india....I also know that many Muslims refer to Jesus as St.Issa

2007-08-06 03:41:28 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous

If you believe in that Adam and Eve story, why not? Every time I hear a christian talking about it, they curse Eve's actions. That story is used often to get people to look down on women....but according to the story, wasn't it a woman who let human beings have knowledge and reality, no matter how harsh? Her husband would have had us sitting in idle, ignorant bliss, wouldn't he? She didn't bring "evil", it was already there before she ate the fruit. What do you think?
Hoping for intelligent responses!

2007-08-06 03:37:47 · 36 answers · asked by transitangst 4

Isn't it possible that all is possible and that there is room for everyone to be both wrong and right in there respective spheres of creation and that there is a place for everyone even if that place is there so called nowhere. What I mean is could God in his infinite wisdom make more then one way to do things knowing that people are different and that we all are I AM's not THE I AM but none the less existant to where we could be more then perception itself. More then choice itself. That the belief that any one way is the way is your God givin right to choose and have free agency and that if you want to be anything its ok and that the God I believe in would want you to be most of all honest with yourself and not be a fake doing what someone else wants you to do even him just wanting you to be yourself. so my question is also do you think that the true and just God supposeing for a second that there is one would want you to be you. I do believe in God by the way.

2007-08-06 03:37:29 · 5 answers · asked by ? 2

2007-08-06 03:34:40 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous

Are we really that ignorant of our own history?

2007-08-06 03:31:43 · 30 answers · asked by Anonymous

They come to enlighten us-but the world treats them..............!

2007-08-06 03:24:41 · 25 answers · asked by anil m 6

If the next big brother was R&S people, lets say it was:
Me, depressed, father K, I walk funny, spiritroaming, faustina aka president of the jppfanclub, run james run, X theists, and you

Who would you want to vote out?

2007-08-06 03:23:44 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous

ive always wondered,and no one i asked KNOWS!

2007-08-06 03:22:39 · 27 answers · asked by ♥[[Thesweetestgurl]]B®i♥ 3

The Yahoo! Answers equivalent of "I'm taking my toys and going home!"??

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=AkYx.aW.lGUE1.5oQXdDe67d7BR.?qid=20070806071157AA8jFig

2007-08-06 03:20:53 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous

what possesses a person to do this?

2007-08-06 03:20:03 · 12 answers · asked by TriSec 3

How many different groups are there that claim to be Christian?

My original phrasing of the question was going to be, "How many different denominations are there within Christianity?" But I saw that others had asked similar questions and received silly answers, such as, "There are NO denominations within TRUE Christianity." So, now my question is this.

Approximately, how many different established groups CLAIM to be Christian?

Jehovah's Witnesses do a lot of research, so I often trust their findings. They themselves claim to be Christain and say that there are approximately 35,000 different denominations that claim to be Christian. But who can be sure?

I know that there are NO denominations withing TRUE Christianity. But that is a BIG fight.

So what do we think? 35,000 sound right?

2007-08-06 03:16:11 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous

Are the rules the same for you people as they are for saints? Just asking.

2007-08-06 03:14:05 · 8 answers · asked by 2.71828182845904 5

2007-08-06 03:12:18 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous

Further still, who among you feel you not only have the right but the duty to stop someone from killing themselves?

2007-08-06 03:12:02 · 10 answers · asked by Roger C 2

I wonder today why it is that so many millions believe in a being they have named "God", but do not believe in beings such as fairies, elves, unicorns and the like.

I'm really not trying to be disrespectful of people's religious beliefs. I'm huge on coexistence.
I just wonder why some beings with no scientific proof of existence get credence and some don't? I find it fascinating that the mind can so definitely choose to believe in some things and not others.

If there was a bible that had fairies in it, would the masses be more likely to believe in them? After all, angels and fairies don't seem that far removed....is it all in the marketing?
What do you think?

2007-08-06 03:12:01 · 8 answers · asked by NinaFromNewEngland 4

2007-08-06 03:10:12 · 28 answers · asked by Anonymous

As far as I know, the main difference is that Christians believe that Christ is coming back down and Jews do not. Is that true? There still has to be more differences than that though.

2007-08-06 03:06:46 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous

im a fallen away catholic but recently have been trying to decide whether or not to get back in the church.

how involved is it to rejoin? help

2007-08-06 03:05:03 · 18 answers · asked by Anonymous

The Torah, the Bible and the Qu'ran all mention slavery as if it's perfectly normal. The Qu'ran even looks upon owning sex slaves as a reasonable lifestyle choice. None of them condemns slavery at any place.

Those of you who persist in wondering how, in the absence of absolute and infallible (sic) moral guidebooks like these, atheists get their morals from - please explain why you believe slavery to be wrong. Indeed, please explain why you may have chosen a moral path so at variance with your holy texts.

I anticipate some answering that such laws were suitable for biblical times, but are not for now. If this is what you think, please explain why other scriptural edicts (rules for food, clothes, sexual behaviour etc) are still in place, but slavery isn't.

Thanks to all.

2007-08-06 03:02:28 · 17 answers · asked by Bad Liberal 7

2 years ago they found the fossil remains of a fish with 6 legs that lived about 370 million years ago. It was discovered in canada on the rockies

in 1998 in australia near ularu (ayars rock) scientists found the skeletons of an aboriginal man and woman whom they say lived about 50 thousand years ago. These skeletons resembled more of an ape/man

I wonder how religious people will understand these discoveries?

2007-08-06 03:00:13 · 27 answers · asked by Anonymous