Religion & Spirituality - 2 September 2007

Can anyone truly define God. We can't even define the universe that He spoke into existence.Then when I say this is what God is, what happens to God in my life?Wouldn't it be better to let Him be God and follow where He leads?

2007-09-02 02:04:13 · 17 answers · asked by don_steele54 6

Somebody committing a sin 5000years ago and you are still miserable for his sin? That seems to be absolutely unjust! If he did commit the sin, God made him suffer. Why should we be suffering? We were never a part of it. If anybody has to suffer, it should be God Himself, because in the first place what was the need of creating those two trees? If man was not allowed to eat from them, it was so simple-God should not have created those two trees..Then, even if He had created them, what was the need to tell Adam not to eat from those two trees?because I don't think that Adam, on his own, even by now would have found those two trees. Among the millions of trees, it would have been just a coincidence if Adam had found them. But God showed him the trees, saying, "These are the two trees, and you are not to eat from them." To tell somebody not to do something is to provoke them, It is not the snake who really persuades Adam and Eve, it is God's "don't" that hits hard; and they become curious.

2007-09-02 01:59:49 · 21 answers · asked by busybee 2

2007-09-02 01:55:48 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous

....are you planning? Have you notified your family, spouse, significant other or domestic partner of your wishes? Will it be a religious ceremony? Will there be a preist, preacher, pastor? Will they read any scripture?

I ask because I heard Kathy Griffin the comedian say on her Bravo show that even though she didn't believe it gave her comfort to have a traditional religious burial for her own father. And I thought how could she be comforted if she doesn't believe?!?

And then I wonder why it is so hard for an unbeliever to understand how much strength and peace and comfort our faith provides for us EVERY SINGLE DAY, not just when a loved one dies???

Be very interested in your comments.

2007-09-02 01:55:13 · 19 answers · asked by Anonymous

Isn't that what organized religion has done ?

2007-09-02 01:54:43 · 11 answers · asked by don_steele54 6

2007-09-02 01:54:34 · 9 answers · asked by sahara_springs 3

....mean to you?

To me, since all the ones who passed by and didn't help were religious and the one who stopped and did help was an infidel, it means that our works are more important than our faith.

Do you agree?

2007-09-02 01:48:26 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous

This is in regards to Christ's death on the cross for sinners.

2007-09-02 01:46:20 · 23 answers · asked by Kidd! 6

Corinthians 4:4
My conscience is clear, but that does not make me innocent. It is the Lord who judges me.

Matthew 9:4
Knowing their thoughts, Jesus said, why do you entertain evil thoughts in your hearts?

Romans 12:17
Do not repay anyone evil for evil. Be careful to do what is right in the eyes of everybody.

2007-09-02 01:42:50 · 2 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-09-02 01:41:42 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous

"In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth." (Gensis 1, The Creation)

Scientists have now proven that the earth and all the other planets in the solar system, and even the Sun, formed after a star exploded at the end of its life and left behind a nebula, because otherwise, heavier elements such as gold could not be present in the earth's crust.

What would you say to someone who pointed this out to you? Please don't feel I'm attacking your religion, I'm just a very curious person. I asked my Christian friends. They're regular church goers and said they'd try and find out an answer but they haven't so far.

I just want to be more informed about your religion, that's all, so if any Christian brother or sister can provide a good response to this, I'd be very grateful. No atheists etc please, I don't want answers insulting Christianity or any other form of theism.

Thanks

2007-09-02 01:39:15 · 34 answers · asked by lykastar 3

Was he silenced? Mary was left alone so she could back up the whole virgin story? Who wrote about the Nativity? I mean who was there? Mary was the only one who could have told the story. And with no Joseph to set the record straight... Well you get the meaning. Poor guy, how can you hold a candle to the almighty?

2007-09-02 01:36:06 · 7 answers · asked by The true face of religion 4

This is a normal question.

I heard that he apparently did to show people
that you do not need sex and that you don't really
enjoy it.

Was this real, it seams a bit weird to me?

Please don't report me, This is a genuine question.

2007-09-02 01:35:35 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous

does that make pedophile priests square with God?

2007-09-02 01:34:07 · 3 answers · asked by Brendan G 4

I'm a big fan of ann rice novels, and other books in the horror genre, but my wife considers it a sin or blasphemy to read such material. To me it is purely fiction. Tolkien was a hard-core Christian, and his works of fiction are one of the most renowned. What do you think?

2007-09-02 01:24:42 · 9 answers · asked by its_raining_outside 2

and all religions have a god as a focus of worship?
what is it about someones skin colour that makes people assume their religion?
im generalising a bit but hopefully you get the picture.

2007-09-02 01:24:18 · 21 answers · asked by manapaformetta 6

Some people are killed as mere babies. Some are aborted before that. Some die as children, some as young adults. Some grow incredibly old.

Most die in circumstances completely beyond their control. War, abuse, violence, natural disasters, the list goes on.

Given that in most major western belief systems everyone gets only one shot at life before judgment, who doesn't everyone get the same amount of time and the same chances?

2007-09-02 01:22:17 · 18 answers · asked by Anonymous

Concerning the origination of the Bible:

It was a roomfull of chain-smoking Catholic perverts that decided what was to be included in the Bible and what wasn't.

Why do I never hear a peep out of Protestants?

(Or, if there was a peep out of them and I missed it, tell me what became of it.)

2007-09-02 01:20:45 · 3 answers · asked by 2.71828182845904 5

So, Jesus died on the cross for me? I wasn't born 2000+ years ago. That is worse than african americans blaming me for slaving their great grand parents and whipping their women. I couldn't afford a new car much less a plantation full of slaves.

2007-09-02 01:17:59 · 8 answers · asked by Mary T 2

that it has nuggets of shining prose that are lost in internal inconsistencies that could have been solved by a decent line editor? Why would God not fact checked such an important document?

2007-09-02 01:16:55 · 11 answers · asked by Brendan G 4

Religion wise.

2007-09-02 01:11:34 · 23 answers · asked by Stacey-Marie J 6

For the pass couple of days, I been reading the bible and I don't know why. I'm not a religious person and I don't attend church because I was not exposed to it when I was younger; I'm now 26yrs old. I was looking for something to read while I was in the washroom and I grab a book that look like a novel from the outside. When I begun to open up the book, it was a bible for jail inmates. Every since then, I been reading the bible(beginning from the first page) every night now.

2007-09-02 01:02:08 · 22 answers · asked by KrOnOmEnTrOpHoBiA 1

God programmed the world in 6 days with no debugging, then he slept for a day. He created the ADAM program, from which he spawned the EVE program.

However, a virus lurked in the system and corrupted EVE who subsequently accessed a forbidden file. ADAM was corrupted because of the I/O links with EVE.

God removed all privileges from the ADAM and EVE programs and moved them to main memory. ADAM and EVE spawned a lot of child processes. Eventually this got out of hand and God purged the RAM with a great flood of zeros, leaving only a few child processes running protected by the Automated Recovery Console, or ARC.

Again the software ran out of control. This time God had a patch JESUS ready, so he ran it. The rogue spyware infection ROMANS eventually terminated the JESUS process, but not before it could touch several other processes which continued to apply the JESUS patch.

Some processes calculate that there will be a Great Reboot soon. Now we know JESUS saves, but does God do backups?

2007-09-02 00:56:20 · 20 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-09-02 00:55:44 · 8 answers · asked by kabduk 2

2007-09-02 00:55:38 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous

I am intrigued and very interested in different religious ways and would like to understand the resons for doing so. What the belief in changing the pre formed human body is?

2007-09-02 00:49:47 · 21 answers · asked by gypsy girl 2

Who was hurt more, Muslims by Muslims or NonMuslims by Muslims? What do you think?

"Taliban have "hurt Islam and distorted the reputation of Muslims throughout the world".
Full text of the Saudi Arabian Government's statement on the breaking off of diplomatic relations with the Taleban
IslamForToday.com Tuesday, 25 September, 2001

Despite everything that has happened, the Taleban government is continuing to use its territory to shelter, arm and encourage those criminals to carry out terrorist acts that terrorize safe and innocent people and spread panic and destruction in the world. This has hurt Islam and has distorted the reputation of Muslims throughout the world.

The Taleban government has not heeded the contacts and attempts made by the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia to persuade it to stop sheltering criminals and terrorists and training and inciting them, and stop turning its territory into a shelter and safe haven for them.

http://www.islamfortoday.com/taleban9.htm

2007-09-02 00:42:22 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous

okay...

have you ever seen a tree pop out of thin air? or a man/ woman / animal, pop out of thin air ?!

doesn't a tree grow from a seed, nourished, effected and influenced by the climatic conditions? can't you see the life forms evolving under such conditions in day to day life?

how is that you still manage to have delusional fantasies about some mystical creator creating the world out of thin air ?!

2007-09-02 00:33:53 · 21 answers · asked by x 2

Why not Muslims also? You are not being fair. They are also theists. Are you scared of them? Or do you just have a special hatred of Christians?

2007-09-02 00:28:22 · 36 answers · asked by Anonymous

It says in Genesis 2:18 that "it is not good for man to be alone." So God created Eve for Adam so that he wouldn't be alone. I believe the Bible is the literal word of God and I do my best to follow it. I just don't know if I want to give up being single. It's what I've been used to all my life.

2007-09-02 00:19:08 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous