Religion & Spirituality - 27 August 2007

Biblically, God made his covenant with Abram, who was 10 generations after Noah. Why, other than his bloodline, was Abram chosen?

2007-08-27 13:49:54 · 7 answers · asked by Nathan 1

I am in complete awe when I see a particularly beautiful sunset. It's a feeling that is indescribable.

2007-08-27 13:48:56 · 29 answers · asked by mrs O 6

I'll use the following three for examples. Anyone wishing to discuss this further with me is welcome to IM me at messengerofphate@yahoo.com - whether you agree with me or not.


Is Yahweh good to everyone, or only to his chosen?

PSA 145:9 The LORD is good to all: and his tender mercies are over all his works.

JER 13:14 And I will dash them one against another, even the fathers and the sons together, saith the LORD: I will not pity, nor spare, nor have mercy, but destroy them.

Is he a god of war or peace?

EXO 15:3 The LORD is a man of war: the LORD is his name.

ROM 15:33 Now the God of peace be with you all. Amen.

Who was the father of Joseph, father of Yeshua of Nazareth?

MAT 1:16 And Jacob begat Joseph the husband of Mary, of whom was born Jesus, who is called Christ.

LUK 3:23 And Jesus himself began to be about thirty years of age, being (as was supposed) the son of Joseph, which was the son of Heli.

2007-08-27 13:46:48 · 25 answers · asked by Phate 2

today was the worst day in my entire 23 years in this earth. today while dirving i almsot fainted [i havent slept for the past 6 days because of serious insomnia], i was 30 min late to my class, i lost my earrings that my 12 year old cousin saved his allowance to buy for me...the only upside of my day was that i napped for 1h or so...i have been sad previously, plus yesterday a beloved family member died...i dont want to say can it be worse because then it will...any words of enouragement??? this was such a bad day man..

2007-08-27 13:46:23 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous

I believe it's the ones with the least myself

2007-08-27 13:46:00 · 9 answers · asked by Sean 7

If so, how much? Give a percentage. And lets see how many of you have enough self control to not go on a lame evidenceless off-topic rant like in my previous questions.

2007-08-27 13:45:12 · 17 answers · asked by Anonymous

I get the feeling that most of the atheists on this website are not really serious about anything they say. I think that most of the insults they come up with are just to get a quick laugh by pissing off all the fundamentalist Christians on this website, and that they really don't mean most of what they say. I also get the feeling that every Christian on this website is dead serious with everything they say and ask. Does anyone else think I am right????

2007-08-27 13:44:43 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous

I'm just curious. Could you please tell me your highest level of education, your current job (you can be general about that, i.e. manager of a large company), and you religion?
Thanks.

2007-08-27 13:44:00 · 36 answers · asked by Anonymous

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/08/08/earlyshow/contributors/debbyeturner/main3148359.shtml

2007-08-27 13:43:16 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous

What do your youth group friends go to? Just curious. I don't like labeling people that way but how else are you suppose to classify it

2007-08-27 13:43:02 · 2 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-08-27 13:41:45 · 8 answers · asked by Love Yahoo!!! wannabe a princess 4

I have listened as it was explained to me that mankind did not evolve from apes, but from a "common ancestor"...
I have wondered about Australia. I listened carefully as it was explained to me that the animals in Australia are so different from animals elsewhere, because the continent of Australia is cut off from the rest of the world.
Makes sense...
But then, how did the aborigines get there? I mean, there don't seem to be any apes about...and yet, there are men there.
I've been told that there was no 'land bridge'...that is why Australia has animals that can't be found anywhere else, like kangaroos, koala bears, and the duckbilled platypus.
But obviously, the aborigines didn't evolve from any of these...
I'm not trying to dis the theory...but I do find myself with alot of questions.
If anyone has any serious answers that might be helpful, I would be grateful...
I'll try to weed them out from among all the sarcastic answers I know are coming...
*sigh*

2007-08-27 13:40:28 · 21 answers · asked by Anonymous

Because honestly, I dont see anything wrong with it.

2007-08-27 13:38:27 · 33 answers · asked by Anonymous

Lt. Gen. William G. "Jerry" Boykin, is a much-decorated and twice-wounded veteran of covert military operations.

From the bloody 1993 clash with Muslim warlords in Somalia chronicled in "Black Hawk Down" and the the ill-fated attempt to rescue American hostages in Iran in 1980, Boykin was in the thick of things.

Boykin had advised for the gas attack on barricaded cultists at Waco, Texas.

He also had lost 18 men in Somalia trying to capture a warlord in the notorious Black Hawk Down fiasco of 1993.

Discussing the battle against a Muslim warlord in Somalia, Boykin told another audience, "I knew my God was bigger than his. I knew that my God was a real God and his was an idol."

"We in the army of God, in the house of God, kingdom of God have been raised for such a time as this," Boykin said last year.

He was at the heart of a secret operation to "Gitmoize" (Guantánamo is known in the US as Gitmo) the Abu Ghraib prison.

His beliefs of the battle between good and evil led to the Abu Ghraib scandel where guards ignored the geneva conventions concerning crimes against humanity ine the battle against "evil".

Just before Boykin was put in charge of the hunt for Osama bin Laden and then inserted into Iraqi prison reform, he was a circuit rider for the religious right. He allied himself with a small group called the Faith Force Multiplier that advocates applying military principles to evangelism. Its manifesto - Warrior Message - summons "warriors in this spiritual war for souls of this nation and the world ... "

Boykin staged a travelling slide show around the country where he displayed pictures of Bin Laden and Saddam Hussein. "Satan wants to destroy this nation, he wants to destroy us as a nation, and he wants to destroy us as a Christian army," he preached. They "will only be defeated if we come against them in the name of Jesus". It was the reporting of his remarks at a revival meeting in Oregon that made them a subject of brief controversy.

There can be little doubt that he envisages the global war on terror as a crusade. With the Geneva conventions apparently suspended, international law is supplanted by biblical law. Boykin is in God's chain of command. President Bush, he told an Oregon congregation last June, is "a man who prays in the Oval Office". And the president, too, is on a divine mission. "George Bush was not elected by a majority of the voters in the US. He was appointed by God."

Boykin is not unique in his belief that Bush is God's anointed against evildoers. Before his 2000 campaign, Bush confided to a leader of the religious right: "I feel like God wants me to run for president ... I sense my country is going to need me. Something is going to happen."


Look at this Crusaders Record :

1. 1980 Iran hostage rescue failure.
2. 1993 Somalia Black Hawk Down Fiasco
3. Waco Texas massacre
4. Abu Ghraib torture was from his GITMO program


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2007-08-27 13:37:45 · 2 answers · asked by wwhy 3

what i want to know is why will God let u get to a point where u cant handle something anymore, although you have been asking God for help and trying hard. during my hard times i feel that god has dangled something promising in front of me only to take it away. i dont feel like i'm asking for much, but i do feel like i'm being toyed around with. how can i believe god cares when not only am i not getting help, it feels like things are getting worse.

2007-08-27 13:32:49 · 52 answers · asked by Y 5

Well I was thinking many people are upset because they've been told they may be going to hell. The thing is these people seem so concerned by something they don't believe in.
So are they all really 100% certain in their belief there is nothing nasty waiting for them?
Tasteless question inspired by:
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=AkCIzYYJhsD8CLZ6ahHsn67sy6IX?qid=20070827171523AAtdHXk&show=7#profile-info-5eZSvtYVaa

2007-08-27 13:31:59 · 30 answers · asked by Link , Padawan of Yoda 5

900 months if your lucky. ups and downs if your born.

2007-08-27 13:31:54 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous

I have heard that some people believe it's in the center of the Earth -- but that's basically been ruled out since Seismologists and Geologists have discovered that the Earth's inner core is made up of solid nickel-iron alloy and some other stuff.

Hot or not, you really couldn't hang out there.

I have heard others say Hell is probably in another dimension.

What do you think?

2007-08-27 13:31:49 · 22 answers · asked by mistaken4sane 4

2007-08-27 13:30:48 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-08-27 13:29:49 · 16 answers · asked by colin050659 6

and why did these misogynistic men exclude the gospel of mary of magdalene?

2007-08-27 13:29:42 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous

What is that stuff that Christians eat when they are in the church, u know that stuff that the priest puts in their mouth ! I see ppl kneeling down infront of the Priest and then opening their mouth and he will put something (a little white thing) --what is that? and why eat it?

2007-08-27 13:29:06 · 13 answers · asked by Colfax 5

(I'll go first: If someone called me "selfish", it would make me cry. It is, of course, true that we are all rather selfish, but .. well, I'm sure you get my drift.)

2007-08-27 13:27:37 · 26 answers · asked by Anonymous

I cannot find anything in the Qu'ran confirming or denying it

2007-08-27 13:27:14 · 7 answers · asked by Darkness 5

Dont just say 'to punish the sinners' because that isnt good enough, remember he loves sinners. I wouldnt send anyone i love to hell.

2007-08-27 13:26:07 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous

It's common for people to tout their religion as a source of moral instruction (sometimes to the point of slandering anyone outside the faith as immoral). But people with very strong religious beliefs sometimes display an alarming willingness to cast aside their morals and do things that would shock the conscience of any sane person.

Terrorism is a good example, both from Muslims and Christians. Or human sacrifice (thankfully not a common event now). Or the support of slavery from the pulpit. Or any "holy" war.

Does the belief that one's moral code is handed down by God, and subject to judgment only by him, discourage one from considering the consequences of one's actions for fellow human beings? And can it lead one to treat those with a different concept of god as less than human?

2007-08-27 13:24:27 · 20 answers · asked by au_catboy 3

and how do you know

2007-08-27 13:23:10 · 26 answers · asked by Anonymous

When bible bashers stand in the street preaching, some christians stand and listen, others walk by and smile or ignore them. If an athiest did this saying God is not real, and expressing their theory of the big bang, people would probably ring the cops (this happened near me). I really dont understand.

2007-08-27 13:21:51 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-08-27 13:20:03 · 17 answers · asked by Anonymous

please be good to me

2007-08-27 13:19:37 · 46 answers · asked by Anonymous