Religion & Spirituality - 16 August 2007

2007-08-16 09:19:07 · 20 answers · asked by Anonymous

A. D. means "after death", after the "death of Christ". So you really do believe in God don't you?

2007-08-16 09:18:52 · 58 answers · asked by Anonymous

Ideas are not inscribed in our DNA and are learned later in life. That means God was invented by the human mind and passed down ever since infancy as family tradition or influenced by society. No human being on this planet is born with beliefs in God or anything else. This is why people over several generations have been following different Gods all over the world. So before you give me the free will speech notice that people are not born with it. If you need conclusive evidence and this does not provide enough evidence for you, then just look at our reproductive cells we need for biological reproduction and ask your self this. Does sperm and egg believe in God?

2007-08-16 09:16:06 · 19 answers · asked by Anonymous

All of these thought provoking questions today make me want to ask, does it have to be one or the other? Can I have my faith and believe in science? Or do I have to choose?

2007-08-16 09:16:03 · 17 answers · asked by Anonymous

Me (a muslim) and a christian friend debated the matter over the concept of free will.

He says that we have total free will and that God granted us that but He has no control over it.

I said the same but that God does have control over it, to that if God did not wish something then we as humans with our free will would never attain what God does not want...

He said the a human can do things God does not want, but that God allows.. which i found contradictory..

i said that humans can choose but that the outcome and the choice has already been known by God and he finds that contradictory...

Which of us do you agree with?

NOTE: "i believe" he has already asked a question about this..
please no being rude or insulting to him first, to our religions, and to me...

be respectful and answer with honesty and politeness

2007-08-16 09:11:58 · 18 answers · asked by Anonymous

Immoral = not worshiping my version of God


Right?

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=AsSKtWCLiXw9Rx7Y4QPtCRHsy6IX?qid=20070816122821AAavJyr

2007-08-16 09:11:05 · 17 answers · asked by Anonymous

has anyone looked at this and found out what the secret is supposed to be......so i do not have to pay for it?

http://www.thesecret.tv/

2007-08-16 09:06:03 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous

People often discuss the Christian axiom that God sent his son to die and take away our sins, and its related issues. A question that I don't often hear and have never received a satisfactory answer to is, how?

Ever since I was a small child it has never made any sense to me. In fact, I often doubted my mental faculties for not being able to deduce the methodolgy by which Christ, god or man, dying on a cross, suffering execution, would "take away our sins" or if you like, take away the punishment we would receive for committing sin. How exactly, is the act of Jesus dying on the cross meant to serve as a method for taking away our sins or the punishment for them? I can only assume some advanced metaphysics are at work, way beyond my comprehension.

This also begs the question, why did an omnipotent god require such an act? He could have sorted it out himself (and I'm not sure the Jesus thing was a complete success). What kind of god are we dealing with here? I mean, is he alright?

2007-08-16 09:05:53 · 61 answers · asked by Luther Blissett 1

2007-08-16 09:05:33 · 27 answers · asked by Page 4

1- do you think it would be appropriate under ANY circumstances?

2- what would make it justifiable (not fair, but if a situation arose where it was necessary), what cause would, and what would you implement to make it not become a repeat of the japanese internment camps- which the government ended up paying reparations. however it seemed more like the way it was handled than the actual interning.

any other LEGITIMATE comments.

2007-08-16 09:04:59 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous

Almost everyone in North America who wears a turban...is a Sikh...do you know what a Sikh is?

Is the image with a turban linked to terrorists some how?
Is the Media playing a big role in this? people with turbans shown on television are bad, do people think ALL people with turbans are bad people?

2007-08-16 09:01:47 · 7 answers · asked by pure_5abi 2

If something good happens, it's God's will, right?

But if something bad happens, it's either the work of the devil, or human tendency to sin, right?

So basically anything bad that happens is beyond God's control by that thinking.

Doesn't that make God NOT an all-powerful being?

Or is it that everything, both good and evil, happens because God says it should happen?

And then, if God allows evil to happen, and in fact enforces evil to happen, how is He an all-loving God?

(Sorry for all the questions rolled into one, just got going and couldn't stop myself for a minute there.)

2007-08-16 08:59:15 · 16 answers · asked by Professor Farnsworth 6

This is a play off the usual "can god create a rock so heavy he himself can't lift it".

And the answer to my question is no, they already found a fossil disproving evolution.

http://www.biblelife.org/evolution.htm

2007-08-16 08:57:17 · 24 answers · asked by Anonymous

Just throwing that out there.

Also, why are so many of you religious so convinced you're right when you've never even given other religions any thought?
You don't think that maybe you don't have it exactly right?

As Homer Simpson once said: "What if we picked the wrong religion? Every Sunday we're just making God madder and madder."

2007-08-16 08:56:47 · 29 answers · asked by pab 7

I answered some recent questions and to be truthful, I put the questioners to the task. Some have not agreed with me, I have done this for one reason and one reason only. If you have ever lived outside of the fellowship of Christ, in a fallen state apart from grace, it is the ugliest thing you will ever do.

I made comprimises here and there as a new Christian, and each time I forgot some of the basic tennants like "being fessed up" "being quick to listen, slow to speak and slow to anger" being "on the fence neither hot or cold". and I fell and there was no one to restore me.

So many sinfull activities God has delivered me from, I don't mean to look down on folk that have problems, I'm still a sinner too....but we as Christians have to step it up don't we?

We have a war that is not against flesh and blood , but against the unseen principalities and powers that are allowed to see how and who we really are. (if not how would they be able to accuse us?)

see addt'l

2007-08-16 08:54:31 · 42 answers · asked by ImJstBob 4

believers keep talking about how god gave us free will. but assume for a moment the absense of god. would we not still have free will? what would prohibit us from doing the things we want to do?

2007-08-16 08:52:28 · 8 answers · asked by just curious (A.A.A.A.) 5

then why not gays???
they are sinners according to religion just like all the others......
what makes thier sin any worse than any other??

2007-08-16 08:51:12 · 5 answers · asked by slopoke6968 7

Why is religion so powerful and controlling?

2007-08-16 08:47:56 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous

What do you say to people you barely know who preach or "witness" or seem like they want to argue. Are you polite and just nod, or do you engage them?

2007-08-16 08:46:59 · 43 answers · asked by elfkin, attention whore 4

I have been debating a Muslim guy on some issues .

I say God granted man free will to do right or wrong .

He says God controls everything including your choices in life .

I say God never wants us to do bad .

He says God controls you to do whatever and it's only us who 'think' it's bad .

What Do You Think ?
Does God Grant Free Will or Does God Control Your Will ?




NOTE : This all started when I asked for the direct transcript of Shahih 41 . Another user had implied that it condones the killing of all the Jews , and I wanted to see if that was true or just propaganda . Answer ? Oh , it's true alright . In fact none of the answerers even attempted to 'candy-coat' it .

2007-08-16 08:46:17 · 34 answers · asked by Anonymous

I don't want to burn in hell. What to do??

2007-08-16 08:44:00 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-08-16 08:41:38 · 17 answers · asked by KWAME A 1

2007-08-16 08:41:12 · 27 answers · asked by Anonymous

Regarding the MANY times they ask questions about eating pork-chops etc... Here is a UNIVERAL answer that the brighter ones should be able to get.

The OT Law was divided into 4 Categories.

1) CIVIL

2) CEREMONIAL.

3) SEPARATENESS.

4) MORAL.

Only (4) the MORAL laws apply to Christians today. Is that clear enough for you?

No more stupid pork-chop questions please.

2007-08-16 08:40:05 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous

Let me start by saying I am a christian. The Bible says that Sin entered the world when Adam and Eve ate the fruit God forbade. I wonder why God put that tree in Eden in the first place? Did he know that they would get tempted and eat the fruit overtime?
What if they ate the fruit after they had children, would we have been cursed?

2007-08-16 08:38:37 · 21 answers · asked by Answer-er 2

(overcareful about trivial things and undercareful about important ones)

2007-08-16 08:34:44 · 11 answers · asked by Top Cat 3

2007-08-16 08:34:28 · 11 answers · asked by SuperSkinny 3

the scripture from Leviticus to prove that God is against something like tatoos such as ;
Leviticus 19:28 states: Ye shall not make any cuttings in your flesh for the dead; nor imprint any marks upon you: I am the LORD. "

~Then you should also not be eating pork or seafood. . . .and I am sure some other things that you and I do everyday.

2007-08-16 08:32:55 · 33 answers · asked by sparkles9 6

Would Christians support embryonic stem cell research if the cells came from gay fetuses? Since of course, they're going to hell anyway?

2007-08-16 08:32:34 · 33 answers · asked by Peace Joy and Love 1

And of those how many are Christians?

2007-08-16 08:30:24 · 9 answers · asked by The true face of religion 4