Religion & Spirituality - 4 September 2007

Since my father passed, of course I was naturally sad. I still am incredibly sad, but now I'm starting to feel angry with him. I'm angry that he didn't take care of his health. I'm angry that instead of eating healthily like all of us kept asking him to, he chose instead to keep eating junk. I feel angry that the doctors couldn't fix his heart before going into cardiac arrest. I'm angry that I can't talk to him anymore. I'm angry that I'm so sad and feeling so "weak" for feeling this way. It's like I'm angry at the world. This isn't like the other deaths. The other ones I was like a mindless robot. This one it's like I'm fully aware of everything, but fully helpless and unable to "block" these feelings. How many stages of grief are there and do people typically go through them in order or is it varied?

2007-09-04 13:47:16 · 20 answers · asked by Anonymous

Adam and eve did. How is it again that we have free will when I didnt get the choice. I was just born...into it. No fair

2007-09-04 13:46:50 · 17 answers · asked by Anonymous

Adam and eve did. How is it again that we have free will when I didnt get the choice. I was just born...into it. No fair

2007-09-04 13:45:57 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-09-04 13:43:41 · 12 answers · asked by larson4boys 4

Alma 63 versus 5-7
5 And it came to pass that Hagoth, he being an aexceedingly curious man, therefore he went forth and built him an exceedingly large ship, on the borders of the land bBountiful, by the land Desolation, and launched it forth into the west sea, by the cnarrow neck which led into the land northward.
6 And behold, there were many of the Nephites who did enter therein and did sail forth with much provisions, and also many women and children; and they took their course northward. And thus ended the thirty and seventh year.
7 And in the thirty and eighth year, this man built aother ships. And the first ship did also return, and many more people did enter into it; and they also took much provisions, and set out again to the land northward.
IF NOT TRUE THEN WHY DO THE COOK ISLAND AND NEW ZEALAND MAORI, TONGANS, SAMOANS, AND HAWAIIANS KNOW THIS MAN HAGOTH AS THE PERSON WHO TOOK THEM TO WHERE THEY ARE?
YOU WANT EVIDENCE THERE THERE IT IS!!!

2007-09-04 13:42:53 · 20 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-09-04 13:42:25 · 8 answers · asked by llnacianceno 1

2007-09-04 13:42:22 · 22 answers · asked by Anonymous

Know where I can find him? Do you know his cellular phone number or e-mail address so I may contact him? Someone said he was staying in Los Angeles for the summer.

2007-09-04 13:38:46 · 30 answers · asked by Anonymous

ok. i consider myself a Christian. like, i dont go to church everyday but i go to a youth group for like teens, but is it bad to question some things that are agains Christianity? like, i really dont have a problem with homosexuality, but i know that its against God's will and same thing with like stem cell stuff. like i asked a question about that and the person said that people are trying to become God but there are so many good things that can come from stem cell and cloning.

I was just wondering if questioning any of the beliefs of the Bible and other Christians. does that make me less of a Christian or not one at all?

I am sooo confused about this because I do believe in God and i know that he loves everyone.

2007-09-04 13:37:37 · 18 answers · asked by Bzzzailey 3

With the proposed discovery of the burial site of Jesus what effect will this have on people's beliefs if it can be proven scientifically?

2007-09-04 13:36:58 · 12 answers · asked by arrogate 1

Yesterday, I was reading across the omniscient word of God, when I stumbled across:

“If a man finds a girl who is a virgin, who is not engaged, and seizes her and lies with her and they are discovered, then the man who lay with her shall give to the girl's father fifty shekels of silver, and she shall become his wife because he has violated her; he cannot divorce her all his days.”

I was so relieved when I read this verse. For a while there, I was doubting God truly was a loving God! But now that he's provided me with the means of acquiring a wife, I feel the love of Jesus all over me!

P.S. I also have to thank the Spanish for the cheap price. There's no better way to extract silver from squalid mines than on the backs of countless Indians. =D Good thing it was all justified with the INERRANT BIBLE.

My question is, do you think the local priest will need actual silver, or will silver-backed u.s. treasury bonds do?

2007-09-04 13:36:38 · 19 answers · asked by robert 6

It's being held at www.deism.com:

http://www.deism.com/deistchallengetochristians.html

It's based on Mark 16:17:
"And these signs will accompany those who believe...they will lay their hands on the sick, and they will recover."

Deism.com is offering to provide a terminally ill person for a true Christian believer to heal, and they will happily post the results. If the Bible's true, and you're a true believer, you should be able to heal the sick. The Bible itself says so.

2007-09-04 13:36:03 · 12 answers · asked by The Doctor 7

When Isaiah the prophet talks about a person coming from a Virgin and when it talks about King David , when talks about the Lord said to my Lord???

2007-09-04 13:34:06 · 5 answers · asked by Gilbert 1

Do you see this as proof we do not have an eternal soul?

Ecc 9:5 "For the living know that they shall die: but the dead know not any thing, neither have they any more a reward; for the memory of them is forgotten."

John 11:24 "Martha saith unto him, I know that he shall rise again in the resurrection at the last day."

The verse in ecclesiates says the dead know nothing at all. And in John, Martha talks about a resurrection in the last day. So they must be dead up to this point to be resurrected.

2007-09-04 13:33:52 · 8 answers · asked by Steve 2

One of the best ministries for those who battle with addictions.
Any kind of addiction, not just drugs and booze.
It's the mind set that needs to be set free!

2007-09-04 13:32:31 · 11 answers · asked by ? 4

2007-09-04 13:30:43 · 46 answers · asked by K. Marx iii 5

Or is the need to be right as a culture stronger than the desire to get along with other cultures? You can't all be TOTALLY right, you know.

2007-09-04 13:27:22 · 28 answers · asked by Jean Low 2

2007-09-04 13:26:44 · 15 answers · asked by Stew 4

why do some Christians subject Jesus' teachings and neglect the rest of the Bible (notably the NT)?
I just read the Q on "gay Christians," using "Jesus never mentioned 'homosexuality,'" but neglect the rest of the Bible teachings on this and fornication, which falls in this category. Can anyone claim Paul was not well versed and knowledgeable in Scripture, since he visited the third heaven and received straight revelation from the throne of grace.
Why do we use what was not written and "taught" by Jesus in the gospels, but yet written in the rest of the NT?
The Bible says that not everything Jesus did could be written...

2007-09-04 13:26:42 · 17 answers · asked by n9wff 6

I've tried to reach out to family but they're no help. All my mom does is reiterate my problems as well as my brother. Neither one of them believes in me and it's so discouraging. My aunt she just doesn't care. I don't have any friends so they can't help since they aren't there. You see I failed my first year of college and right now I don't see this year being anymore promising. A lot of my classes require reading which I hate to do. My attention span sucks! Then I'm always late for class and everything else. My life is so out of order. I come in from class and get right on my laptop and goof off and I'm too lazy to do my real work. I 'm trying to rreach out for some type of help cuz right now I feel my life is going nowhere fast : (

2007-09-04 13:25:38 · 32 answers · asked by Anonymous

If someone in your family reported you to the "Internal Revenue Service" for not claiming your "Saturday Night" poker winnings?

1. How would you feel?
2. What would you say?

2007-09-04 13:24:03 · 20 answers · asked by Anonymous

This question is for Christians only.

I'm not judging, God is the judge. He's already called it an abomination. Not just bad, but an ABOMINATION.

Leviticus 18:22
22Thou shalt not lie with mankind, as with womankind: it is abomination.

I think it's pretty clear that Christians (and Jews) should reject the behavior of homosexuals.

What do you think?

Again, this question is for CHRISTIANS only. You hear that Atheists? Do you know what Christians are? Christians ONLY!

2007-09-04 13:23:55 · 22 answers · asked by Anonymous

How did you cope? I've lost people that were close to me before, but never a parent before this. I can't stop thinking about my dad. I know I have to go through the grieving process, but nothing seems to alleviate this pain. I'm so overcome with it I ended up hospitalized last night due to having a migraine so severe I was vomiting and Imitrex, a special migraine medication, would not work. This is affecting my health. My husband is being such an angel and comforting me, doing more than his part, and caring for the kids when he does not have to. For those of my religion, I am not screaming out or anything, I am going through the motions like a robot, but what other duas and prayers can I say to get past this? And what does Islam say about the death of a parent who is not a Muslim, as my father was a Christian? I also can't seem to relax and feel a desperate need to keep doing things. My house is now spotless, including the attic, and organized completely. Nothing is left.

2007-09-04 13:23:21 · 26 answers · asked by Anonymous

There are many many misconceptions about Muslims and Islam on the web. I have heard some christians say that Jesus called Muhammad a liar or false prophet. when there is NO Documentations of such saying from Jessus. As a matter of fact Muslims consider Jesus a True Messiah who will return back to this world and establish the rule of Justice all over this planet.

Do you agree that Jesus will return to the Earth and that he is the True messiah who will once and for all establish the word of God upon mankind?

2007-09-04 13:21:34 · 25 answers · asked by Call of Truth 2

http://abcnews.go.com/WN/story?id=3558134&page=1
Explain your answer, please.

2007-09-04 13:19:59 · 26 answers · asked by Anonymous

When I read the Bible, I sometimes truly wish I were a female, who would be a divorced Atheist lesbian feminist, who has had an unfortunate abortion, some premarital sex, who was about to marry her girlfriend...who also devotes all her time in working as a volunteer in an orphanage, simply to show that strange God how silly his morals are.

I'd wear a T-shirt that would say "Deuteronomy 22:28-29 are morals with a wrong twist, of course I won't marry my rapist!"

Anybody else have that feeling?

2007-09-04 13:17:32 · 22 answers · asked by ? 6

Would you consider it a religion or a cult? Is it christian or occult? How would one show someone the errors, if it is erroneous or dangerous. Any need for de-programming? Is it idolatry?

2007-09-04 13:16:36 · 5 answers · asked by Azure Ciel 2

I've seen some people unfairly targeted on this site by vigilantes who seem to think that the Yahoo officials cannot do an adequate job of policing this forum and feel it is their moral duty to do some self-policing.

It's one thing to go after those who are truly pornographic or truly trying to say something offensive. But it seems like many of my friends on this site have been penalized unfairly. I've seen many of the questions and answers they get violation notices for, and it would take a long stretch of the imagination to claim these questions were worthy of a violation notice.

So, I'd like to find out what types of questions I need to avoid answering or asking so that I can survive in this forum? In particular, I've know many accounts that have been deleted simply because they answered a troll's question.

So, Troll patrol, tell me, what questions may I have your permission to ask or answer that won't get cited?

I take it that you feel that you need to set the standards?

2007-09-04 13:16:06 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-09-04 13:14:51 · 19 answers · asked by Anonymous

over thousands of years are deluding themselves? So the Atheist view is that humanity (except for the enlightened few) has a great capacity for self-delusion?

2007-09-04 13:14:12 · 15 answers · asked by keri gee 6