Religion & Spirituality - 14 September 2007

Lucifer, who we all know was, at one time, an angel...
wouldn't the fall of him and man mean that evil existed even before Satan? In order for Lucifer to betray God? Does that mean even GOD had a little evil in him, that maybe passed to his angels? How could Lucifer have turned against God being purely good Like GOD?...I thought God was the most pure form of Good there is.
I know he wanted to be like God but....how? There should have been no trace of evil within him or any of the angels for them to have thought that way.

2007-09-14 11:54:09 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous

Why aren't all those punishments God placed upon humanity when He cast Adam & Eve out of Eden lifted off of those who accept Jesus?

A lot of people say they are Saved and are Born Again, and they say their Salvation was immediate but I see no difference between them and anyone else other than those who say they are Saved are all caught up on Jesus like a fish on a hook ... but we all still have the same burdens regardless.

God's Words in Eden obviously still stand. Isn't it more that we accept the burdens of God's punishments as written in Genesis and then God will judge each of us on our own integrity ... and blessed will be those who did NOT run to a man named "Jesus." Something to think about, eh?

2007-09-14 11:49:46 · 16 answers · asked by pickle head 6

Would God be considered beyond reproach if he behaved immorally? If not, would God punish himself for behaving immorally or would he let Satan do it?

2007-09-14 11:46:42 · 44 answers · asked by ZER0 C00L ••AM••VT•• 7

I asked a question about Christians insulting other Christian groups. What kind of answers did I get? Christians insulting the other Christian group in question! Is it so hard to leave your prejudices long enough to answer a question?

2007-09-14 11:46:41 · 9 answers · asked by Enigma®Ragnarökin' 7

Can Heaven really be a place, when your heaven might be my hell?

For example, say a murder goes to hell, he has a family in heaven and they miss him, how can heaven be perfect if a mother is left loning for her child for eternity?

or is it merely a man made concept because no-one is truely good nor evil, but more a mixture of the 2?

2007-09-14 11:45:09 · 25 answers · asked by Anonymous

brothers and sisters, i am about to give up on ppl. i WANT to give up on ppl. i only want Allah. this is driving me crazy. how can i detach from this world? all i want is Allah, yet sometimes i act like i care abt my so-called "frnds" more than Him. wat do i do? every night i cry b/c i want to be closer to Allah, but it seems like he doesnt like want me. how can i forget my "frnds" and focus on Allah? plz tell me a solution. how do u get closer w/ Allah? i mean, i pray and stuff but i dont pray 5 times every single day. i dont reli read the Quran, just sometimes. and when i read it, i read it in english. arabic seems too hard for me. but guys i need ur help. how do i get closer? how do i get tht full satisfaction tht u guys have? plz help.

2007-09-14 11:42:26 · 16 answers · asked by Al Qiyamah{top lawyer inshAllah} 5

2007-09-14 11:39:39 · 3 answers · asked by mike g 1

I was thinking about doing one for my son, but I wanted to know the true meaning of it.

2007-09-14 11:37:48 · 11 answers · asked by ITS ALL ABOUT ME 1

2007-09-14 11:36:04 · 17 answers · asked by Anonymous

Simple question...

Does what you believe confirm a well deserved sense of importance and significance, or does it make you unimportant, inconsequential, and insignificant?

What about your beliefs make the above true, and is this the best way to live?

Is it ridiculous, egotistical, narcissistic, fatalist, pessimistic, etc. to believe what you do or what others do? Why?

2007-09-14 11:34:00 · 6 answers · asked by manic.fruit 4

The problem seems to grow and grow. When parents begin lobbying that religious beliefs be taught in science classrooms you have to admit the system is failing (has failed) somewhere. It also seems that these people have convinced themselves that creation is true and evolution is false. Not only this they display a fundamental misunderstanding of what evolution really is, lumping things like the big bang into the theory along with statements like "man came from monkeys." It also seems that they are mostly unwilling to accept an actual education on the subject.

How can we educate those who need it so badly?

2007-09-14 11:33:19 · 36 answers · asked by ChooseRealityPLEASE 6

look at hate crimes, homosexuals are using this law as a chance to get rid of christianity. almost all christian congregations outside of church seem to be harrased and christians imprisoned for their beliefs. you see it often enough in the news. yet no matter what happens to christians people seem not to do anything. why all the hate, if you say that we are wrong why should you care what we do. we are not after all breaking any laws or going outside of our rights. also when christians protest there is always an uproar but when gays do nothing, even when they start to get aggresive all that happens is a quick break up. yet when we have a silent protest we are imprisoned and beaten. sorry i know this is really long.

2007-09-14 11:31:42 · 17 answers · asked by ? 3

Well, here it is:
http://www.abrahamic-faith.com/Testimony/Walid-Testimony.html

2007-09-14 11:31:40 · 6 answers · asked by Mutations Killed Darwin Fish 7

...a common ancestor? Humans share about 99.4% of DNA with monkeys, and some even argue that humans are a type of chimpanzee (or chimps a type of human). Humans also share DNA with gorillas, horses, and several other things (if not, all)...although I don't remember the exact numbers. I believe horses were around 80% and gorillas were 90%. Anyway, why would we all share DNA if we weren't connected somehow?

(Also, I'm not a scientist...if there is some scientific explanation behind this, please let me know!)

2007-09-14 11:27:46 · 15 answers · asked by Stardust 6

And what will he look like and what will he do ?

In the book of Revelation he is the first one to appear on a white horse !!!

The second Messiah on a white horse is the real deal !!!

2007-09-14 11:27:22 · 5 answers · asked by rapturefuture 7

What if you use them for ONLY good purposes, and you are a very good Christian, and pray, go to Church, believe in God, and believe Jesus died on the cross for you. Which direction do you take?

2007-09-14 11:25:27 · 24 answers · asked by Confetti! 2

And before that, the Jews thought the Christians were the fruitcakes! Never mind that the Hebrews seemed like a bunch of nuts to the various pagan religions in the region. Isn't this just harsh judgement based on the fact that this religion is newer? Noone has any grounds to claim any other religion is "wrong" or "decieved", so why continue to do so?

2007-09-14 11:22:23 · 26 answers · asked by Enigma®Ragnarökin' 7

2007-09-14 11:21:36 · 22 answers · asked by April 5

At least we wouldn't have to burn in Hell for not believing that way.

2007-09-14 11:20:34 · 20 answers · asked by Linz ♥ VT 4

NO WAY.
here's why from muslim.
1.Prophet Muhammad (peace and blessings be upon him) received his first revelation in his fortieth year. And it is true that both the books of the Bible and the Qur’an cover much common ground. It is also true that in the course of 23 years, verses were revealed to Prophet Muhammad (peace and blessings be on him) on different occasions and that he asked his followers to put these verses in particular places in different chapters.

2.There was no Arabic translation of the Bible available during the Prophet’s time.

3.It is well-known that the Prophet did not know how to read or write: he was illiterate. So there was no question of his plagiarizing the Bible, even if an Arabic copy did in fact exist in his time. What then of the charge that he was taught by some Christians?

2007-09-14 11:20:14 · 31 answers · asked by Anonymous

is over 6000 or 10000 years or whatever! And that kind of thinking is blasphemous, sir, and you will burn eternally in hell for believing it.

All these radiometric isotopes were clearly altered by Satan:

argon-argon (Ar-Ar)
fission track dating
helium (He-He)
iodine-xenon (I-Xe)
lanthanum-barium (La-Ba)
lead-lead (Pb-Pb)
lutetium-hafnium (Lu-Hf)
neon-neon (Ne-Ne)
optically stimulated luminescence dating
potassium-argon (K-Ar)
radiocarbon dating
rhenium-osmium (Re-Os)
rubidium-strontium (Rb-Sr)
samarium-neodymium (Sm-Nd)
uranium-lead (U-Pb)
uranium-lead-helium (U-Pb-He)
uranium-thorium (U-Th)
uranium-uranium (U-U)

2007-09-14 11:19:46 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous

Christianity is the dominant religion of the western world but to get that way, it had to do some dirty things. I'm not talking about the Crusaders, they lost remember.

Africa was tribal (with a few major exceptions), and Meso America had well developed civilizations with their own gods and cultures. They didn't know Jesus from Zeus. Then European imperialism placed Africa in bondage and decimated the Americas with guns and plagues.

So there is the obvious paradox of men like Sharpton and Jackson being both Christian and prejudice against white people when the only reason that they know Jesus is because their ancestors were slaves.

Christians, here is where you come in. I need you to justify the enslavement of a continent and the eradication by murder and disease of another as God's will and that you are okay with that being the method he choose to spread Christianity? And tell me what happen to those that died via disease and on the boats before their indoctrination/conversion...

2007-09-14 11:16:00 · 16 answers · asked by msuetonius 2

On Yahoo Answers, just as it is in everyday life, most of those who ask psychics for readings only want their needs pandered to and are willing to pay for the pandering. There are many who will pander for cash or points. Some true psychics and many not. In watching and participating I've seen this as a constant pattern. Therefore, I would say it is those who seek through remuneration and build the false house of cards in which they wish to abide, buttress the view of many none believers that divination of any kind is false.

2007-09-14 11:13:24 · 10 answers · asked by Terry 7

2007-09-14 11:10:36 · 11 answers · asked by markjoe33 2

I went to visit some family in Utah whom I hadn't seen or contacted in nearly 10 years and my aunt had half of her garage devoted to stored food. I mean it she must have had like 150 cans of food and vacuum sealed grain. It almost reminded me of those movies that depict the nuclear scare of the 50's where everyone was building bomb shelters. Well I asked her what the huge surplus was about and she ranted about "the end of the world". She told me the prophet told her to do it. Another thing is my aunt suffers from dementia so her answers to anything always seem a little paranoid. Any PRACTICING LDS out there that can tell me the reasons to such food storage? Is the church expecting the millenium? Another flood like in Noah's day? Has the general authorities given any reasons for this, or have they pretty much just said "Trust us, you need to start storing food"?

2007-09-14 11:09:39 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-09-14 11:06:46 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous

Why? If someone is a good person (nonChristian), why do people say they go to hell, when a man with a lifetime of wrongdoing, hate and violence could repent and on his deathbed and get in?

This is just what I gather from hearing people talk....Why isn't actions what you are judged by?

I don't belive in heaven or hell, but this belief seems incredibly unjust. Can someone explain?

2007-09-14 11:06:36 · 12 answers · asked by Moonlit Hemlock 3

you were smiling on the outside but crying on the inside?

2007-09-14 11:06:13 · 13 answers · asked by ¸.•*´`*•.¸ ℓανєη∂єr ¸.•*´`*•.¸ 6

... had an e- mail out during the week asking everyone to wear red on Fridays to support our troops...

2007-09-14 11:05:46 · 34 answers · asked by ? 4

Lets say you feel you are called to be a Missionary, you want to serve God, spread the gospel and tell others about Jesus Christ, however you are worried about so many things.
1. Will I be a good speaker or will I be shy in front of people?
2. how will my income be?
3. I want to do it right now but what if it is not the right path?
4. I want to do it but parents are worried...

If you were called to be a missionary, pastor, I am sure you guys thought about this. How did you respond? what is best thing to do?

2007-09-14 11:02:04 · 21 answers · asked by ilovechinachina 1