Religion & Spirituality - 9 August 2007

This is something that has bothered me for sometime. I am pagan, Germanic Heathen to be specific, and my religious belief is that the only way to get to "Heaven" is by doing good deeds and avoiding bad deeds. If you do do a wrong deed you must atone for it in someway, and there are some sins for which there is no way to atone (i.e. you are damned). If you fail to atone you can be punished in this life and the next.

Yet, I have seen others of my belief seen as somehow not as moral as Christians in divorce and other civil cases. Christianity, of course, believes if you repent and ask forgiveness you will be forgiven. But isn't this just a way to get out of being punished for the sin?

So I ask, which is more moral, the idea you must do good deeds to get to a good afterlife, or the idea you must repent and ask forgiveness? Or are they essentially just as good as the other?

2007-08-09 21:52:26 · 13 answers · asked by Swain 3

According to Isaiah 11:1, the messiah is supposed to be a descendent of King David, yet Jesus' mother Mary is of the house of Levi, not David. That means that Jesus cannot possibly be the Messiah referenced in the Old Testament. What is your opinion on this?

If you try to say that his stepfather Joseph's lineage is good enough, then here is the actual passage "Then a shoot will grow from the stump of Jesse (King David's father) and a branch from his roots will bear fruit". I am sorry, but the New Testament is quite explicit about the fact that Jesus absolutely did not come from Joseph's or any other man's stump. The only human being he was related to was Mary.

2007-08-09 21:51:05 · 19 answers · asked by Tea 6

My purpose in life is to find God, to help other people and to find me..!

2007-08-09 21:48:39 · 16 answers · asked by Dya - The white Angel 3

2007-08-09 21:44:56 · 16 answers · asked by G.xi 1

i hear crickets, the hum of the fridge, and the keyboard typing

2007-08-09 21:37:18 · 30 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-08-09 21:37:05 · 26 answers · asked by miya 3

2007-08-09 21:35:11 · 6 answers · asked by G.xi 1

Every atheist I've met has been huge Pokemon fans. Does anyone know why this is?

2007-08-09 21:33:09 · 20 answers · asked by Anonymous

as yourself?
Give reason why you think one is more imp than the other? can you substantiate?

pls identify your religion/lack of religion when you answer. this is for my info.

2007-08-09 21:20:57 · 30 answers · asked by joe e 2

Firstly, Muslims in India were theoretically all supposed to leave India in 1947 when partition took place. They stayed in India, knowing very well that they would be living in a Hindu majority country and one which was to be a western styled secular democracy with political, social and economic freedoms for its citizens.

So why, then, do they feel they have a right to issue fatwas, pass religious death sentences and take the law into the their own hands. When India already has its own established legal constitution which each and every Indian (irrespective of religion) is subject to, who the hell gives them the right to undermine the Indian constitution and pass death sentences and undertake what they perceive to be their own perverted view of Justice???

Do You Agree That The Indian Government Should Promulgate Official and Formal Legislation, Making It A Crime For Any Imam And Any Muslim Organisation To Issue Fatwas???

Anyone found guilty of this, should be penalised.

2007-08-09 21:20:42 · 20 answers · asked by Anonymous

I'm just shopping you know.

2007-08-09 21:19:23 · 20 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-08-09 21:17:48 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous

......Apart from weight lose.
Also are we a bit hysterical about the occasional Food-Free period in the western World.
Christan teaching extol the virtues of fasting every bit as much as other faiths. Why has it mainly died out apart from the half-hearted lent observances in this part of the World?

2007-08-09 21:15:45 · 17 answers · asked by Anonymous

She is my soul mat she goes by 2young 2quit And i am totaly inlove with her I am hers till the day i die

2007-08-09 21:13:41 · 9 answers · asked by clarkzila 2

2007-08-09 21:12:53 · 2 answers · asked by GEOFFREY K 1

And then they also get upset if hey question someone elses aith and they dont like it coming from a christian. What makes them so special. And does this upset anyone else too. It does me, even tho I now it shouldn't, because I am better than that, but you just get those certain people that knows (like Dexter's Didi) which buttons not to push. (",)

2007-08-09 21:10:57 · 25 answers · asked by DRAGON 2

2007-08-09 21:10:38 · 6 answers · asked by SMX™ -- Lover Of Hero @};- 5

Obvioulsy there can only be one GOD. No Matter What!

2007-08-09 21:10:16 · 10 answers · asked by Jennifer P 2

Whenever there is a news related to a islam it mostly turned out to be negative,Is this what they are so proud of?Do they enlighten themselves by seeing others misery?

2007-08-09 21:03:15 · 7 answers · asked by king_of_lankawi 1

What is it? What does it do, it's purpose, etc.?

Thanks!

2007-08-09 21:01:50 · 14 answers · asked by Daisy Indigo 6

2007-08-09 20:59:21 · 9 answers · asked by James-hova RTR: Suspended Champ 2

He was a prophet I am sure those educated I gave it all away with that.
If you can show proof that would be great inshAllah Salam, it’s in all books of scripture unless you don't believe that is when you’re going to loose sight of him.
Salam

2007-08-09 20:58:04 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-08-09 20:55:28 · 17 answers · asked by Anonymous

What Spreads in the most horrible ways in a body? How can we relate this to our sins, there is a clear connection show proof!
Salam
Atheist next time you get really sick, which you will for sure guaranteed! Ask yourself why, then turn to him he will heal you inshAllah but if he does not, then when you lay on your back, your side or stand up will you walk away again thinking that was you and your doctors that healed you with along side the lizard you came from where did he go to help. Are you to bring along side all your partners and think your going to be averted? Surely you’re being watched much closer by Allah SWT and all his angels and Jinn’s and mankind than anyone else.
But like Spiderman says, it’s always your choice :)

2007-08-09 20:55:09 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-08-09 20:54:33 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-08-09 20:53:51 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous

How many people believe in God but do not believe that Jehovah or Allah & etc are really God?

Many people believe in God but don't identify their God with the Gods of the major religions.

2007-08-09 20:49:44 · 16 answers · asked by Therapon 4

Well why did he?

2007-08-09 20:49:26 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous

idk if i do?but can someone show be a site with easy spells to perform, maybe love spells.ones that work.ones that you have tried and have seen that work.

2007-08-09 20:48:02 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous

Many people say that they are sister faiths, that they should just get along because they are the same. This is soso wrong, this couldnt be more opposite! The Bible is all about Love, the quran is about hate. Christians are told to Love thy neighbor, to show Christs Love through there love, Islam teaches that if they dont accept islam that you need to fight them, to rage jihad (holy war) until they are either dead or accept islam!

Whats your opinion ?

2007-08-09 20:40:24 · 17 answers · asked by Anonymous