Religion & Spirituality - 15 August 2007

2007-08-15 08:26:17 · 6 answers · asked by Green kryptonite 1

2007-08-15 08:26:03 · 7 answers · asked by Lady 5

Even though I know without a doubt that GOD exsists, the one that created this earth we live on and everything in the Solar System and heaven.

Pascal Wager or not.. Every person here who believes in GOD wether it's the Christians, Jews and Muslims which I know all believe in the Same GOD even with the dispute about Jesus's divinity.

All are very happy, content, joyful, hopeful being people of faith

No one says I am a believer and I hate it.... That being said, if by chance thier is an afterlife we all have the chance to go, so wether you say it's Pascal Wagers can you admit we are really better off in the entire scheme of things?

Because if you really knew you could choose between laying in the dirt confined for eternity or living in Paradise of Heaven without a doubt none would choose a life of dirt

Can I get a witness on this?

2007-08-15 08:25:26 · 29 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-08-15 08:24:48 · 10 answers · asked by finchannmarie 1

Many religious folk claim that you need religion or at minimum a belief in a god to be moral. Most religions are only about 2000-5000 years old. However, the human species has been around for at least 200,000 years.

If religion is needed for morality as religious folk claim, how did the species survive and thrive? Wouldn't man have killed each other off long ago?

Since man is a social animal by nature, isn't morality developed based on the need and drive to be social?

2007-08-15 08:21:13 · 32 answers · asked by Anonymous

Others are welcome to answer too, but I want the catholic view.

See http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/20279326/

"A Roman Catholic Bishop in the Netherlands has proposed people of all faiths refer to God as Allah to foster understanding"

2007-08-15 08:18:41 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous

and don't respond to Atheist's questions. OR they report the question, of course.

2007-08-15 08:18:27 · 71 answers · asked by Anonymous

Don't they know they can be wrong.

2007-08-15 08:15:32 · 14 answers · asked by Green kryptonite 1

Paul started as Saul and hated Christians killing them all over the holy land until he was blinded spiritualy and fell from his hoarse. Then the bible has two versons of what was said.

Acts 9:5
And he said, Who art thou, Lord? And the Lord said, I am Jesus whom thou persecutest: [it is] hard for thee to kick against the pricks.

Acts 26:14
And when we were all fallen to the earth, I heard a voice speaking unto me, and saying in the Hebrew tongue, Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou me? [it is] hard for thee to kick against the pricks.

So was this Jesus or a voice or is this something else because it called the Christians pricks?

2007-08-15 08:12:30 · 7 answers · asked by gnosticv 5

Cro-Magnon´s (40,000 to 10,000 years ago) signs of cannibalism in the caves of Chou-Kou-Tien in China show that these acts were performed as a religious ritual. Skulls of killed enemies were scraped and emptied of their brains to be consumed. Nevertheless, they were intelligent beings that were barely starting on the art path. And they presumably rendered the Neanderthal extinct as a more adaptable contender.
This is so long before christianity that the notion is even ridiculous. Were they creatures of god? If they were, why did they disappear? Why did we... evolve... into something else?
Or maybe christians want to deny the existence of Cro-Magnon and Neanderthal? I´d like to hear a scientific reason to that!

2007-08-15 08:10:35 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-08-15 08:09:02 · 23 answers · asked by G.xi 1

I just started to read a book by a Christian man and he says there is no hell and that they will not be burning forever. They just will be destroyed meaning they will not live in the afterlife. I have always hated the idea of hell even though I am a Christian and shouldn't fear it. I fear it for the unbelievers. I don't understand hell....I mean its beyond torture. I dont understand why God would allow this. He knew what the future would be for all of us. What do you think?

2007-08-15 08:07:36 · 19 answers · asked by Anonymous

Will rally around and convert to believers...

Well my question is what if it's to late??? will you just accept your fate and suck it up? or beg GOD for forgiveness?

2007-08-15 08:05:57 · 36 answers · asked by Anonymous

I took an IQ test and the result was 107 but I don't really understand how it works and how the numbers are rated, etc... I have to admit that I have not done previous research for it althought I have heard about IQ tests before

2007-08-15 08:05:31 · 32 answers · asked by Love Yahoo!!! wannabe a princess 4

This emptiness that burdens you with so long has no justice in keeping you hostage.

2007-08-15 08:02:09 · 23 answers · asked by Anonymous

In Exodus 34:6-7, God proclaimed His name to Moses. He said, "The LORD, the LORD, the compassionate and gracious God, slow to anger, abounding in love and faithfulness, maintaining love to thousands, and forgiving wickedness, rebellion and sin." Isn't it good to know that we serve a loving God? We serve a God that won't deep fry us into crispy critters when we do wrong. I know that I would have been smited by God along time ago if that were the case. But amen, God loves us. He is slow to anger, and will forgive the sins and iniquities of our lives. And because of that we no longer have to worry about our lives, because we aren't our own. We have been redeemed at a price. And now we are tools of the Father. God knows our thoughts, He will supply all our needs, and will give us the wants and desires of our hearts, if we will just live for Him. As Psalms 46:9 tells us, "Be still, and know that I God." Who is God to you? What makes your soul still? God Bless.

2007-08-15 08:01:48 · 26 answers · asked by Joel 2 5

explain...

2007-08-15 08:01:46 · 17 answers · asked by Love Yahoo!!! wannabe a princess 4

answerinside:- you have asked me to tell the answer-but the "Best Answer"?!! already has been selected!!-- it is my duty to answer you.

“Chaturbhihi Srikantaihi Siva Yauathy Panchabhirabhi
Prasannabhihi Sambhoho Navabhirabhi Moola Prakruthibhihi
Chatus Chatvaribhi Trivalaya Trirekhaabhihi-Chardham Thava Charana Konaaha Parinathaaha"

Sri Aadhi Sankara Aacharya says 4 Chakrams are alloted to to Srikanta(Lord Siva having the goddess of wealth on His neck---% chakrams to Siva Yuvathy (sri.Parvathi) –
So totally (4+5=9) 9 chakrams-that is Navabhirabhi-for Sham(Sakthi)+Bho(Siva) =Shambho.The 5 chakrams to sri.Parvathi is considered as " the Driving force"--"Panchami--Pancha Bhoodheeswari(Appu,Theyu,Vaayu,prithivi,Aakaasam)-Pancha samyoga Saalini"(sri.Lalitha Sahasra Naamam)--so 9x 5 =45.but only 44 chakrams are drawn in "Sri chakram"--It is a long story-I shall explain it in my next post-because I have only 36 characters to use further.

2007-08-15 08:01:32 · 7 answers · asked by ssrvj 7

I would really like a definition of "free will" - just so I can see where everyone is coming from.

2007-08-15 08:00:58 · 36 answers · asked by Nea 5

The Dutch Bishop in Amsterdam that suggested this idea should put on a T-shirt written in Arabic, stating " we will not be silent" and then send him on a Jet Blue airline heading toward Iraq! This guy is not a true Roman Catholic. Any suggestions on what should be done with him?

2007-08-15 07:58:38 · 23 answers · asked by Ghostly Ghost! 3

2007-08-15 07:57:24 · 15 answers · asked by Dreamstuff Entity 6

Would that have been a factor in their decision to quit being a Christian?

Also, would it be a factor in their later decision to become Buddhist?

Or is religious choice never defined by logic?

2007-08-15 07:56:45 · 19 answers · asked by ? 5

2007-08-15 07:55:19 · 7 answers · asked by geyamala 7

THis is the whole quote...

"Reading good literature is an experience of learning what and how we are, in our human integrity and our human imperfection, in our public image and in the secret recesses of our consiousness"

i basically get the rest of the quote except for the conciousness part. I dont really know what conciousness is or what the secret recesses imply... maybe that sometimes you have to escape... HELP!

2007-08-15 07:54:14 · 10 answers · asked by minibug11 1

...........is being abused?

2007-08-15 07:53:43 · 17 answers · asked by firelight 5

2007-08-15 07:50:34 · 10 answers · asked by Murazor 6

Are they sleeping or paralyzed or something? Why don't they move?

2007-08-15 07:50:01 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-08-15 07:49:19 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous

Listen and find out:
http://www.catholic.com/audio/2007/MP3/ca070803a.mp3

2007-08-15 07:46:57 · 25 answers · asked by Anonymous

I've seen this question answered on here before, but not very well.
I've looked for reputable sources but the ones on both sides of the issue look like propaganda sites. The christian sites that seem to take at least a passing interest in scientific evidence has a weak argument, showing that there may or may not have been israelites in egypt at some point in time, while the ones claiming that they were never there look a bit sketchy.

2007-08-15 07:46:31 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous