Religion & Spirituality - 12 September 2007

If a universal truth is that ALL things change, why do Christian's refuse to believe in evolution? Are Christian's that 'ignorant' to suggest everything changes except animals and people, therefore, not everything really changes?

What else, for a Christian and their "wacky" logic, doesn't change? Keep in mind that your state of mind may have changed several times just reading this question. You may have started thinking, you may have changed moods, you may have noticed you are bored with this. You weren't any of those before reading this question.

So, tell me, why is change only happening to what YOU want it to. I look forward to 'lack of logic' to support your answers and a lot of 'assumptions/made up answers' that will most likely contradict/lead to more questions

2007-09-12 03:23:31 · 19 answers · asked by Corvus 5

Genesis 19:31-36 One day his older daughter said to her sister, "Our father is old, and there are no men anywhere for us to marry. (32) Let's get our father drunk! Then we can sleep with him and have children." (33) That night they got their father drunk, and the older daughter got in bed with him, but he was too drunk even to know she was there. (34) The next day the older daughter said to her sister, "I slept with my father last night. We'll get him drunk again tonight, so you can go to bed with him, and we can each have a child." (35) That night they got their father drunk, and this time the younger sister slept with him. But once again he was too drunk even to know she was there. (36) That's how Lot's two daughters had their children. CEV

2007-09-12 03:22:42 · 16 answers · asked by MoPleasure4U 4

2007-09-12 03:22:33 · 2 answers · asked by Anonymous

Christians say they want to save people from hell. Why? Do you honestly care about others that much? Because if you did, you wouldn't mock and insult them. You'd show Christ-like love and compassion for them. You can't say "we want to help you" in one breath, and in the next breath brag about how you'll be looking down on the bad atheists one day, and how it'll be too late for them. That's not compassion. That's self-righteousness.

Also, where does it say that you're supposed to constantly bother nonbelievers? Jesus told people to pray in secret, not making public spectacles of their beliefs. He also said that not all who say to him Lord, Lord, would enter the kingdom, and that you should tend to the plank in your own eye instead of the speck in your brother's. In other words, worry about your own salvation, not everyone else's. AND, if you come preaching and you're not accepted, you should leave that place and shake the dust from your feet.

What part of any of this is unclear?

2007-09-12 03:22:11 · 5 answers · asked by Cap'n Zeemboo 3

2007-09-12 03:21:32 · 30 answers · asked by anil m 6

I realize the two arent entirely mutually exclusive.
But it is typical tha a person can have a very pleasant , comfortable life by following the "rules" and taking few risks. While most who live passionately take more risks in love, in life, in carreer suffering greater levels of both failure and success.

2007-09-12 03:21:14 · 22 answers · asked by G's Random Thoughts 5

check this out, this morning i was driving and talking to God and asking what should i do as far as should i go to work or go to school. my mom calls me up saying i got this letter from this college. so you know what im thinking? im thinking its time for school. now the letter inside had to do with child care but i thought it was so cool that i received mail from this place after asking "what should i do" if this was you and you asked and then received a letter from a college what would you think?

2007-09-12 03:21:07 · 15 answers · asked by warrior*in*the*making 5

I believe that a world without scientist would be a much better world as there wouldn't be Atomic bombs and other weapons of mass destruction and I am amazed to hear that most of you think that a world without science in inconceivable...

If you had travelled around the world and visited remote tribe, you'd know that they have no scientists and are happy without them.
In a world without scientist, there would be no medicines (as we know them) but these tribes will tell you that they never used to get sick until they were visited by the first civilised people so they didn't need these remedies until them. Moreover, they are able to use natural plants remedies as cures. Some of you would call this knowledge science but I would disagree with it for the simple fact that you wouldn't call a dog a scientist for eating grass which they sometime do to help digestion? Would you ? Knowledge is one thing, science is another!

Please note: all these tribes have some sort of religious belief.

2007-09-12 03:21:03 · 35 answers · asked by gumtrunk 2

2007-09-12 03:20:33 · 12 answers · asked by Fae 4

2007-09-12 03:15:10 · 27 answers · asked by Anonymous

Ever gone to Church Christians and been in the Church pew and I am talking even to you Christians who are hardcore Believers like me. Well anyways but from the week doing so many things and having so much stuff to do not get the rest on Saturday night that you know you need. Who has done this?

2007-09-12 03:14:05 · 5 answers · asked by calltoperservence 2

2007-09-12 03:13:12 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous

I dont know much about the lost books except that when they find them they cause a huge stir. So why are they not in the bible?

2007-09-12 03:11:46 · 17 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-09-12 03:11:37 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous

Someone asked that with their mind made up and chose the best answer that had 13 thumbs down

I though this was a forum for exchanging ideas not to hold onto ur own no matter what

Thanks for keeping ur minds open


1. Many more individuals are born than can possibly survive, thus there is competition for limited resources

2. Within this vast number there is variation, and because of this variation some of these individuals will have an advantage--however slight--over others

3. The ones who have the advantages are more competitive and thus they are more likely to obtain the limited resources

4. The ones who are succeeding in securing the limited resources are more likely to reproduce and thus pass onto their offspring the more competitive traits

Darwin

2007-09-12 03:10:55 · 29 answers · asked by Man of Ideas 5

we were discussing life and religion and he told me this,

'we need to face the fact that any deity who needs to be protected from the truth arising from any source has died already'

what do you say to this?

2007-09-12 03:09:40 · 1 answers · asked by Anonymous

I was born at 6 min's past 12 on Friday the 13th June 1969.
6 6 69

2007-09-12 03:09:04 · 38 answers · asked by Anonymous

The man who took over the presidency from Abraham Lincoln, Andrew Johnson, said in a speech to the Senate, “...Let us look forward to the time when we can take the flag of our country and nail it below the Cross, and there let it wave as it waved in the olden times, and let us gather around it and inscribed for our motto: ‘Liberty and Union, one and inseparable, now and forever, and exclaim, Christ first, our country next!’”

Do you see this as too religious ("wearing one's religion on his sleeve in today's jargon) or right on the mark?

2007-09-12 03:07:44 · 16 answers · asked by whitehorse456 5

It seems that atheism is an unsubstantiated theory if no evidence exists to prove it conclusively.

2007-09-12 03:07:42 · 30 answers · asked by Anonymous

bulls||it .

2007-09-12 03:02:51 · 13 answers · asked by Thomas 2

2007-09-12 03:01:19 · 19 answers · asked by Anonymous

"The three-in-one/one-in-three mystery of Father, Son and Holy Ghost made tritheism official. The subsequent almost-deification of the Virgin Mary made it quatrotheism . . . Finally, cart-loads of saints raised to quarter-deification turned Christianity into plain old-fashioned polytheism.

By the time of the Crusades, it was the most polytheistic religion to ever have existed, with the possible exception of Hinduism. This untenable contradiction between the assertion of monotheism and the reality of polytheism was dealt with by accusing other religions of the Christian fault. The Church - Catholic and later Protestant - turned aggressively on the two most clearly monotheistic religions in view - Judaism and Islam - and persecuted them as heathen or pagan.

The external history of Christianity consists largely of accusations that other religions rely on the worship of more than one god and therefore not the true God.

These pagans (Jews and Muslims) must therefore be converted, conquered and/or killed for their own good in order that they benefit from the singularity of the Holy Trinity, plus appendages." -- The Doubter's Companion (John Ralston Saul)


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2007-09-12 03:01:15 · 20 answers · asked by Anonymous

Rejoice! Your sins are forgiven! Jesus died for the sins of all. That includes you whether you like it or not. All you have to do is have FAITH and believe. Yes, it is that simple.

Won't you call upon his name today and allow him to set you free? Whom the Son sets FREE is FREE indeed!

2007-09-12 02:58:59 · 27 answers · asked by A Voice 5

When I left 4 months ago the big thing was the drinking game that people who take a cybernetic "drink" when common and somewhat annoying questions were asked. Do we still do that? If so I need to pick up my grape juice!

2007-09-12 02:56:14 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous

I ask because I'm wondering if the athiest perspective is more broad because they have already tried Christianity, for example. I would expect this is true.

Conversely, I would expect that Christians have not looked deeply at other perspectives as much.

2007-09-12 02:55:07 · 22 answers · asked by Anonymous

Thought provoking..... what if! (please dont post unless you have the courage to watch the whole video)....

2007-09-12 02:54:50 · 7 answers · asked by Bagels 3

what are the differences between religions and cults? for some reason religious folk seem to get mad when you refer to their belief system as a cult i'm just trying to figure out why. as far as i know they're the same thing.

2007-09-12 02:53:22 · 21 answers · asked by just curious (A.A.A.A.) 5

I am about to talk about your communion.
Leviticus 17:12 Therefore I said unto the children of Israel, No soul of you shall eat blood, neither shall any stranger that sojourneth among you eat blood. Really the whole chapter would be best. So with that being said does that not mean that when your priest supposedly changes your wine into Jesus blood, it is going against God's law?

Matthew 5:17 Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfill.
So with that being said Jesus didn't take that part out of the law.

Also if I was to put rat poison in the cup before the blessing would you still drink it? Or something that would kill you, not saying I would but it would prove my point, hmmmm.

2007-09-12 02:49:17 · 19 answers · asked by Anonymous

Why are Christians the target of non-believers and antagonists? I don't care what you say, I have been watching the questions here for quite a long time, and when detractors post questions using terms like "fairy tales", "magic sky fairy", "sky daddy", etc., etc., at least over 90% of them are aimed at Christians. Why is that? If you think that God is a fairy tale and religion is bad like your professor at UC Berkeley told you, then why don't you aim the same amount of these attacks at Jews, or Muslims, or Hindus? Well, I know one big reason why: Because Institutions of Higher Learning (what a joke!) have systematically attacked Christianity and indoctrinated their minds-full-of-mush students into believing this garbage.

These attacks are better proof than anything else I kinow of that Christanity is the true religion. Why else would the world attack it so hard? Well, all you haters? Can you answer why you don't aim the same amount of these attacks at Jews, or Muslims, or Hindus?

2007-09-12 02:46:13 · 41 answers · asked by Anonymous

Now, where did he come from. Was he just automatically an Angel or was he from woman. I am not sure.

2007-09-12 02:45:40 · 17 answers · asked by make?love*not$war! 4