Religion & Spirituality - 13 August 2007

...in order to recover your property.

So, as a teenager there was a dude in my neighborhood with a penchant for steeling property. My friend believed his bike was in this guy's trunk. He wanted to bust in and take it, but not in front of the guy's house.

Since I was the only one with the skill set to move this car (83 Cutlass or something) from the vicinity, I was enlisted to help.

So, we drove the car down the street, busted the trunk open, and removed the stolen property.

I then left the car across from the local police precinct, opened all the doors, the trunk, and the hood, and left on the hazard lights.

Police found the car. Apparently, the guy had a bag of coke in his glove and when the police found the registration, they went knocking on his door. The charges didn't stick because the vehicle was "stolen" and anyone could have planted the drugs in the glove box.

So, in light of the facts, did I commit a sin?

2007-08-13 08:06:46 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous

I always wondered..I Know sex before marriage is sin..But what if you are married but behind doors with your wife/husband try different possitions..And like to please each other in ways that are out of the ordinary..Like to try different positions..69..& whatever else....Is it a sin..I mean your married thru church and a strong believer..I dont understand..

2007-08-13 08:06:25 · 33 answers · asked by Anonymous

what would you do?

2007-08-13 08:06:19 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous

I go based on exactly what the Bible tells us. Jesus is the Way, the Truth and the Life and no man comes to the Father except through Him. We need to follow what the word of God tells us. Some would say that it is "over spiritual"...but wouldn't you be over spritual and go to heaven than not enough and go to hell? It's by God's grace and through His blood that we are saved.

2007-08-13 08:06:03 · 11 answers · asked by Shelley 2

I've noticed the phrase excuse me is no longer taught to our young people!

Some wonder where Modesty went, I'm more curious where the manners went?

2007-08-13 08:04:26 · 89 answers · asked by Forsaken1 3

Not your personal life but how you see the world in general?

2007-08-13 08:03:40 · 38 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-08-13 08:01:42 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-08-13 08:01:40 · 23 answers · asked by Anonymous

for example after eating the fruit of knowledge God punishes the women with painful childbirth and subordination to man("your desire shall be for your husband, and he shall rule over you;")

2007-08-13 08:01:24 · 17 answers · asked by Anonymous

my mom was just diagnosed with copd and its really hard for her to breathe the doctors are not doing much for her they are not giving her the meds. she needs. please pray that she may breathe easyer and that the doctors may give her the meds she needs.

2007-08-13 08:01:03 · 22 answers · asked by Anonymous

What if a bunch of my friends studied it as well and came to the same (or similar enough) conclusions, would that mean we were right?

What if another, smaller group of guys studied the same thing, but came to much different conclusions... would my group be right, especially if we outnumbered them by a large amount, simply because there's more of us than them?

2007-08-13 08:00:02 · 11 answers · asked by Deof Movestofca 7

ok I'm not a true atheist....kind of a deist borderline atheist, but I don't believe in the bible. But somehow, I have three of them right in my bedroom. What do you read into that?

I'm curios to know what you think just from the surface.

2007-08-13 07:59:36 · 53 answers · asked by Anonymous

Where are the clowns?

2007-08-13 07:59:24 · 22 answers · asked by Anonymous

Once Satan is sentenced to the Lake of Fire..

So my question is GOD will establish his Kingodm as the New Jerusalem here on earth that being the case.. Will heaven come down and remain on earth?

2007-08-13 07:59:12 · 17 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-08-13 07:58:31 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous

What if the norm was people dancing to the music (actually excited that they were going to live forever) and every Sunday there were many people healed of cancer, blindness, all kinds of sickness and diseases. There is no alcohol to be found but by the way people are acting you would think they had tapped a couple of kegs. Would you attend a Church that had all this going on?

2007-08-13 07:56:31 · 30 answers · asked by A Voice 5

2007-08-13 07:56:06 · 25 answers · asked by twopewsback 5

comparing Hinduism and Buddhism. Include terms such as yoga, sacred writings, nirvana, meditation, practices, and deities. In forming your essay, remember to include references to your text and other sources

2007-08-13 07:56:05 · 2 answers · asked by Anonymous

Malachi 4:2
2But unto you that fear my name shall the Sun of righteousness arise with healing in his wings; and ye shall go forth, and grow up as calves of the stall. (KJV)

So what does healing in his wings mean?

2007-08-13 07:55:48 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous

First of all, let me say that I am non-denominational and I can respect everybody's opinion. I just get a little confused when I read posts on here where people say there isn't a God. There isn't a heaven. There isn't a hell. Me personally, I know that God is real. In 1995, I was hit by a semi-truck on the freeway and it totalled my car. I was on a bridge when this happened and I can clearly remember the car almost being tossed over the bridge, but the guardrail was there. I remember seeing my entire life flash before my eyes. I could see imagines of me, my parents, my brother and other family members. There were no words, but just images of things that had happen in my life up until that point. When all of the action finally slowed down, I saw that both airbags had came out and the car was demolished. I walked out of the car with no broken bones and no cuts and bruises. I was a little shooken up and I had some fine glass particles on me, but that's it. But God isn't real?

2007-08-13 07:55:37 · 12 answers · asked by Hoping he will bless me with #1 4

Tragic is worried that all of the goof ones will soon be taken.

2007-08-13 07:53:42 · 17 answers · asked by Anonymous

Last night my son asked me 'how do we know we have the right religon?" " Some people worship stones and animals how do we know we have the right religon? I am a Christian and Iam spazzing out that he asked this. But please help me answer this for him. I was dumbfounded. Keep in mind please he is only 9 years.

2007-08-13 07:52:10 · 33 answers · asked by songbird s 1

E'-li, E'-li, la'-ma sa-bach'-tha-ni?
(from Matthew 27: v46)

I know that the Crucifiction of Jesus is seen as a sacrifice for the forgivness of sins.
However, the words in the question above, were one of the last things that Jesus said.

They MUST have huge significance.

My own view is that they are an expession of an Existential state of Isolation and that Jesus needed to become fully human and experience Seperation and Limitation.

Only then could a Reconcilliation between Spirit and Man occur. An Integration of BOTH perspectives.
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What do you think of my interpretation?

Can you let me know other interpretations?
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Thank you.
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2007-08-13 07:51:41 · 31 answers · asked by Anonymous

1. Hitler who was a christian and repented for his sins during his final moments according to an eyewitness
2. Jews who say jesus was the false messiah

2007-08-13 07:50:53 · 19 answers · asked by Anonymous

I'm reading "Joseph Smith, Rough Stone Rolling", and it seems like on a very regular basis people in the congregation see angels, and speak in tongues.

2007-08-13 07:46:58 · 11 answers · asked by Al Shaitan 4

2007-08-13 07:43:59 · 39 answers · asked by captbullshot 5

what classes would you like to see required?

Methinks A couple of english classes, a typing class... what else?

2007-08-13 07:43:27 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous

http://www.dallasvoice.com/artman/publish/article_6322.php

If this pastor is rallying for gay themed books to be pulled from the shelves of a local library....should we also pull religious themed books from these shelves?
- A tax funded library should not support or endorse any religions by stocking certain books
-Or can't we all just get along, and allow books from all interests to be stocked.


-Interesting point to the article...before the pastor publicized his gimmick to remove the gay themed books, no one had checked the books out....now there is a waiting list. Ignorant fundie.

-Last thought, why would an inner city Baptist Church, in the heart of the gay community, call an anti-gay pastor...shouldn't a church be reaching out to serve the community it is in? Don't think having a homophobe at this church is going to invite gay people in the door.

Your thoughts? Gay books/religious books being offered at a library....and gay neighborhood church calls antigay pastor

2007-08-13 07:43:13 · 28 answers · asked by G.C. 5

Jesus´s action in allowing himself to be crucified when he could prevent it (after all he was God or so some people say, so he could do anything ) was surely suicide in some form. Preachers always tell us to be like Jesus. So should we commit suicide too?

If I walked through some dodgy area at dead of night and was accosted by some guy with a knife or gun who threatened to kill me, and I could escape but chose not to, wouldn´t that be suicide?

2007-08-13 07:38:53 · 22 answers · asked by 2kool4u 5

2007-08-13 07:37:17 · 30 answers · asked by Anonymous