Religion & Spirituality - 7 August 2007

i'm a catholic but i don't behave like one.. i listen to slayer, lamb of god and some other santanic stuff.. i hate it when i have to go to mass.. i find it very hard to believe that god exists.. should i change the way i think?

2007-08-07 03:31:20 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous

I grew up in a Christian home, but a rather liberal one, I suppose. My father is a biochemist and my mother has a career and votes NDP/Liberal (democrats for you Americans), definitely not that American stereotype. We're Canadian anyways...

In Canada we get a lot of those American televangelist programs, we get American networks. Well, ignoring the crazed look in the televangelists eyes, I always noticed not only a hatred towards women and feminism, but a sort of worship of capitalism and a fear of socialism and communism (communism being an unrealistic ideal in Canada)

I'm not exactly the bible living Christian, but I've studied it because of my upbringing. From what I understand, heaven is actually communist. There are many versus and quotes from Jesus that support this argument. I never once followed a feminist hating capitalist argument from an American televangelist.

How does one support a right winged government and remain Christian? What's with the "Christian right"?

2007-08-07 03:26:50 · 13 answers · asked by skunk pie 5

And ye shall eat the flesh of your sons, and the flesh of your daughters shall ye eat” (Leviticus 26:29). “And thou shalt eat the fruit of thine own body, the flesh of thy sons and of thy daughters” (Deuteronomy 28:53). “And toward her young one that cometh out from between her feet, and toward her children which she shall bear: for she shall eat them” (Deuteronomy 28:57). “And I will cause them to eat the flesh of their sons and the flesh of their daughters, and they shall eat every one the flesh of his friend” (Jeremiah 19:9). I knew they were in a strange cult with all the blood offerings and their god needing the blood of a human(jesus) to make everything okay......but this is going to far! How can they believe in such a sick god?

2007-08-07 03:26:25 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous

If God so powerful and all that mighty stuff, why is he called lonely in the Bible? Why would he have to have a sinful bunch like us to call his own? First, we are born sinful then he makes us forgiven after we except Jesus, then raises us up and we are made perfect like he is perfect, knowing what he knows. So why not just eliminate all the garbage in between stuff and start us out the way we end up.
This seems like God is lacking something. And don't say God lacks for nothing, because apparently he does.
Don't say he did not want robots, because it seems that is how we end up after all. What FREE WILL choice will there be after we inherit eternal life?

2007-08-07 03:26:10 · 6 answers · asked by ♥Mігanԃa♥ 2

South Korea has 16,000 missionaries abroad at end 2006, many in Muslim nations. The S. Korean church leaders must surely be made accountable for making use of naive, innocent young adults as missionaries to satisfy their evangelical zeal. Discuss.

2007-08-07 03:24:59 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-08-07 03:24:22 · 27 answers · asked by Anonymous

when he is the son of God, he better be perfect, or the whole whole world would have put a boot up his butt. The flood and everything, judging people...God comes to us and walks perfect, and prides himself as rightouss....but as per the christians, he can be the only one to be Rightous and holy. So they can have someone to die for them........maybe we are all suppose to be rightous and holy like him?

How? I wonder if anyone is wise to answer this?

2007-08-07 03:23:30 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous

There are possibly more "practising" Muslims than Christians in the UK or possibly most of Western Europe

I don't even know anyone that attends a church.

2007-08-07 03:22:57 · 31 answers · asked by Abdul 5

I'm going to go with "self-righteous."

2007-08-07 03:22:43 · 19 answers · asked by Anonymous

Luther on Zwingli and His Followers
Zwingli was greedy of honour . . . he had learnt nothing from me . . . Oecolampadius thought himself too learned to listen to me or to learn from me.
(Grisar, IV, 309; in Table Talk, 1540)
Zwinglians . . . are fighting against God and the sacraments as the most inveterate enemies of the Divine Word.
(Janssen, V, 220-221; LL, III, 454-456)
It would be better to announce eternal damnation than salvation after the style of Zwingli or Oecolampadius.
(Daniel-Rops, 85)
The Zwinglians believed that the Eucharist was wholly symbolic (perhaps the majority position of Protestants today). Hence, whoever believes the same would have had the foregoing said about them by Dr. Luther, who firmly held to consubstantiation, i.e., the actual Body and Blood of Christ is present in the communion along with the bread and wine.


3. Luther on Bucer
They think much of themselves, which, indeed, is the cause and wellspring of all heresies . . . Thus Zwingli and Bucer now put forward a new doctrine . . . So dangerous a thing is pride in the clergy.
A gossip . . . a miscreant through and through . . . I trust him not at all, for Paul says [Titus 3:10] 'A man that is a heretic, after the first and second admonition, avoid.



Calvin on Luther and Lutherans
What to think of Luther I know not . . . with his firmness there is mixed up a good deal of obstinacy . . . Nothing can be safe as long as that rage for contention shall agitate us . . . Luther . . . will never be able to join along with us in . . . the pure truth of God. For he has sinned against it not only from vainglory . . . but also from ignorance and the grossest extravagance. For what absurdities he pawned upon us . . . when he said the bread is the very body! . . . a very foul error. What can I say of the partisans of that cause? Do they not romance more wildly than Marcion respecting the body of Christ? . . . Wherefore if you have an influence or authority over Martin, use it . . . that he himself submit to the truth which he is now manifestly attacking . . . Contrive that Luther . . . cease to bear himself so imperiously


I am carefully on the watch that Lutheranism gain no ground, nor be introduced into France. The best means . . . for checking the evil would be that the confession written by me . . . should be published.


5. Melanchthon on Zwingli
The timid Melanchthon launched at least one salvo against Zwingli:
Zwingli says almost nothing about Christian sanctity. He simply follows the Pelagians, the Papists and the philosophers.


6. Luther on Protestant "Heretics"
Heresiarchs . . . remain obdurate in their own conceit. They allow none to find fault with them and brook no opposition. This is the sin against the Holy Ghost for which there is no forgiveness.
(Grisar, VI, 282; WA, vol. 19, 609 ff.)
Those are heretics and apostates who follow their own ideas rather than the common tradition of Christendom, who . . . out of pure wantonness, invent new ways and methods.
(Grisar, VI, 282-283; WA, VII, 394)
Grisar adds:
In his frame of mind it became at last an impossibility for him to realise that his hostility and intolerance towards 'heretics' within his fold could redound on himself.
(Grisar, VI, 283)
We must needs decry the fanatics as damned . . . They actually dare to pick holes in our doctrine; ah, the scoundrelly rabble do a great injury to our Evangel.
(Grisar, VI, 289; EA, vol. 61, 8 ff.)
I am on the heels of the Sacramentaries and the Anabaptists; . . . I shall challenge them to fight; and I shall trample them all underfoot.
(Daniel-Rops, 86)
"Sacramentarians" or "Sacramentaries " were those who denied the Real Presence in the Eucharist (e.g., Zwingli).
Needless to say, Scripture condemns conceit: Romans 12:16: . . . "condescend to men of low estate. Be not wise in your own conceits." (See also Prov 3:7, Rom 11:20, 12:3, 1 Cor 3:18, 8:2, Eph 2:9).

2007-08-07 03:22:04 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous

in christianity, if you get married to your partner and take on the vowel "In sickness and in health" and your partner sonn aftrer becomes ill with alcolholisim, is it acceptable all of a sudden to go back on your word ?

2007-08-07 03:21:40 · 25 answers · asked by Anonymous

do you ever think about if the situation were reversed, would these people have donated money to help you out?

2007-08-07 03:21:24 · 19 answers · asked by Anonymous

If fortunate events are proof of God, are tradegies evidence against him?

If order is proof of God, is chaos evidence against him?

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Why isn't the reverse considered to be evidence of the opposite conclusion?

2007-08-07 03:20:58 · 11 answers · asked by Eleventy 6

This is a quotation from Norberto Bobbio that I got from an Umberto Eco book.
(Any error in translation is mine, please forgive or correct if you know the original)

I posted it originally on "education" but I think that I´ll get a better audience here....

2007-08-07 03:20:39 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous

Exodus 23
1-3 "Don't pass on malicious gossip. "Don't link up with a wicked person and give corrupt testimony. Don't go along with the crowd in doing evil and don't fudge your testimony in a case just to please the crowd. And just because someone is poor, don't show favoritism in a dispute.
4-5 "If you find your enemy's ox or donkey loose, take it back to him. If you see the donkey of someone who hates you lying helpless under its load, don't walk off and leave it. Help it up.
6 "When there is a dispute concerning your poor, don't tamper with the justice due them.
7 "Stay clear of false accusations. Don't contribute to the death of innocent and good people. I don't let the wicked off the hook.
8 "Don't take bribes. Bribes blind perfectly good eyes and twist the speech of good people.
9 "Don't take advantage of a stranger. You know what it's like to be a stranger; you were strangers in Egypt.
13 "Listen carefully to everything I tell you. Don't pay attention to other gods—don't so much as mention their names
20-24 "Now get yourselves ready. I'm sending my Angel ahead of you to guard you in your travels, to lead you to the place that I've prepared. Pay close attention to him. Obey him. Don't go against him. He won't put up with your rebellions because he's acting on my authority. But if you obey him and do everything I tell you, I'll be an enemy to your enemies, I'll fight those who fight you. 25-26 "But you—you serve your God and he'll bless your food and your water27 "I'll send my Terror on ahead of you and throw those peoples you're approaching into a panic. All you'll see of your enemies is the backs of their necks.

2007-08-07 03:19:11 · 9 answers · asked by I Love Jesus 5

2007-08-07 03:18:05 · 21 answers · asked by Anonymous

pain that goes with living on earth? Or don't they believe deep-down that there really is a Heaven, which would be a logical reason for not cutting short a life on earth.

2007-08-07 03:17:03 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous

this verse has a very very very important message for each and everyone of us humans today, would you like to expound upon it, I'd like to hear.

2007-08-07 03:15:08 · 18 answers · asked by I Love Jesus 5

2007-08-07 03:14:50 · 14 answers · asked by Bruce Aurora 3

When it is written in the Bible that God spoke to someone, most Christians accept that as qualified, undebateable truth.

Yet, when someone today says the same thing, it is scrutinized by all walks of life, including Christians themselves.

2007-08-07 03:14:35 · 11 answers · asked by Deke 5

2007-08-07 03:12:22 · 31 answers · asked by Anonymous

or flat like the way you walk with God? DEAD?

2007-08-07 03:07:44 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous

I saw this on the BYU channel, but missed the part on why people did this to him.

2007-08-07 03:07:23 · 9 answers · asked by Unknown 3

I went to this website, www.indigointentions.com
I took the indigo child quiz and answered 20 out of the 22 quiestions yes. Does this mean I really am an indigo child?
Please no funny stuff. I'm really freaking out.

2007-08-07 03:07:17 · 21 answers · asked by Anonymous

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,289137,00.html

2007-08-07 03:06:29 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous

God commanded, "Though shall not commit murder"!

and don't give me the argument that it's not a baby yet because it can't survive outside the mother's womb, because that's just an invalid rationalization.

how is it possible that you can neglect that commandment whenever it suits you?

NOTE: this question is strictly for people who claim they are Christians yet are pro-abortion.

I ask this question because I am shocked in how some people claiming to be Christians condone abortion here in this question that someone posted: http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=AjC3FBzQY6Zh6PAI2z8EEcPsy6IX?qid=20070807063042AAzeAyS&show=7#profile-info-zcDBGVXzaa

atheists, please don't answer, or people from different faith. as I have said, this question is STRICTLY for people claiming to be Christians who are pro-abortion.

2007-08-07 03:04:19 · 32 answers · asked by Perceptive 5

I have faced this problem more than once in my family. Sometimes, people are forced to make a choice about letting someone linger with the aid of machines which keep them alive. Many people have a living will which states they don't won't to be kept alive. Usually, it's the family that has to make this decision. Is it murder when people have to make this choice for a family member?

2007-08-07 03:04:09 · 18 answers · asked by Soul Shaper 5

If Saint Peter was never in Rome, then the claim of authority from Peter peters out, so to say. Therefore, it is necessary for apostolic succession to be true that Peter have visited Rome.

2007-08-07 03:04:08 · 11 answers · asked by lundstroms2004 6

i choose to believe , but with so many fakes about its hard to find a decent 1. and should their "answers" influence the dessisions we make ?! . im going to see someone in november that had a 12month waiting list and has a good rep , i'm just hoping that the wait is worth while and that i dont forget all my questions ! thenwhat do i do with the answers ? and why are they so expensive???

2007-08-07 03:03:56 · 21 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-08-07 03:01:33 · 18 answers · asked by Saved by Grace 3