Religion & Spirituality - 14 September 2007

2007-09-14 10:57:07 · 18 answers · asked by Enigma®Ragnarökin' 7

I didn't know the pyramid and the seeing eye is connected to Satanism!!! How scary is that?! What is appalling is why did they put God on it with that symbol's. "In God We Trust". What is going to happen to America?
Just in case anybody ask about my source, I learned it here on R&S by other Christian's. So is that True or False about the symbol's?
Your opinion about this, because if it is so, now when I look at the money in my hand I will have this uneasy feeling. You know what I mean.

2007-09-14 10:55:26 · 29 answers · asked by Debs 5

In a lot of Asian communities, eating shark fin is thought to cure diseases, extend life and make men more virile. Science has tested this theory hundreds of times and it turns out shark fin does none of these things. But people refuse to believe the science, Why?
The EXACT same belief exists in African countries concerning black rhino horn. Science has tested these theories and all of them are false.

Christians believe the bible is the word of god. But then a man did some research and wrote the book Misquoting Jesus. It is proof that the bible is a lie, that it has been falsified and made up by translators and scribes for 1700 years (until the advent of the printing press.) The bible is a story, a lie, and the evidence is right there, in that book. You cannot dispute it because the evidence is tangible, it is real, written down in ancient texts.
But you still insist that it IS real, that it IS the truth, that it IS the word of god. Why?

2007-09-14 10:54:15 · 42 answers · asked by Anonymous

In Hebrew that your be Yeshua Messiah Yahweh. Or Yeshua Messiah Adonai.

2007-09-14 10:53:41 · 22 answers · asked by LottaLou 7

i'm not generalizing,but why do the majority of them have a chip on their shoulder like the world owes them something,and that they areextremely opressed?

2007-09-14 10:50:58 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-09-14 10:48:17 · 10 answers · asked by April 5

the gospel, would you actually have lives? or are you all just selfish? Christians always say this life doesn't matter but if it really didn't why do you guys spend your times enjoying things of the world and not working your arses off "saving people."

2007-09-14 10:48:11 · 17 answers · asked by Bibiana La Atheist 1

I do wrong things and someone else suffers for my sins... That's Paul's Gospel of sacrifice for sins.

Jesus didn't preach that kind of law... he said "I will have mercy, not sacrifice." You forgive others and God will forgive you. The Real gospel seems to be a gospel of Responsibility.

I pass the punishment on to someone else sounds irresponsible to me.

Responsibility and irresponsibility, isn't that the basic difference between Paul's gospel and the Gospel Jesus preached?

Background for this question: http://gospelenigma.com

2007-09-14 10:46:07 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous

Face it folks, evolution is not grounded on science, but on the belief or desire that there is no god. I've read the books and there is nothing there but a whole lot of, " I postulate", " maybe this or that". No hard evidence.

I can find lots of manuscript, archaeological, historical, and philosophical evidence to support the claims of the Bible, especially the Resurrection of Jesus Christ. Not one shred of hard evidence exists to show that the universe, planet Earth, zebras, people, fleas or even subatomic particles just came out of nothing.

BTW, Christians believe the Biblical account of creation because we believe in the Resurrection of Jesus Christ, an event that is an historical fact.

IT TAKES MORE FAITH TO BELIEVE THE THEORY OF EVOLUTION THAN IT TAKES TO BELIEVE THE BIBLE.

2007-09-14 10:44:47 · 35 answers · asked by HAND 5

...but then give the Best Answer to other ex- and anti-witnesses?

2007-09-14 10:44:12 · 32 answers · asked by LineDancer 7

2007-09-14 10:43:44 · 19 answers · asked by Anonymous

best as in:
minimum interaction
minimum brain work
enough to support one self

2007-09-14 10:41:06 · 10 answers · asked by IT 1

2007-09-14 10:40:55 · 8 answers · asked by aa-hh 1

I have heard of tons of your so called evidence and yet I have also found a huge percentage to have been discredited. yet everyone denies that and they continue to teach the discredited theories in schools. I am not trying to bring anyone down but i really want to know why. I have asked scientist and teachers and they always act as if they don't understand. please help!

2007-09-14 10:39:17 · 23 answers · asked by ? 3

what would a non believer do to overcome desires or normalcy and remain staunchly adherent to their views?

2007-09-14 10:38:44 · 5 answers · asked by voice_of_reason 6

when it talks about in the bible that "no man comes unto the Father less the Holy Spirit draws him" ...so do all people get drawn or some? it kind of sounds selective...
any other interpretations?

2007-09-14 10:37:11 · 5 answers · asked by saraJ 4

In this case I am asking whether or not you reinforce strength and withdraw from weakness in your personal approach to life. For example do you attempt to stay in a learning mode and examine new choices as they come your way? Further, are you willing to expend the effort to change things that are causing you grief? Both of these relate to moral courage.

2007-09-14 10:36:25 · 3 answers · asked by thebinder7 3

2007-09-14 10:33:25 · 39 answers · asked by diana g 3

..we keep asking and been deducted 5 points??

for me,
the same goes to our faith..
how can we get close to god if we keep asking why god exists and any question that denying god rather than accepting god...

2007-09-14 10:32:22 · 8 answers · asked by singularity 3

when you had to be really patient? Did you get what you were waiting for in the end?

2007-09-14 10:32:17 · 10 answers · asked by ¸.•*´`*•.¸ ℓανєη∂єr ¸.•*´`*•.¸ 6

Hope, or truth?

Is it more important to understand how the world really works even if it means that we are alone and must fend for ourselves? Or is it more important to have faith that there might be someone out there looking after us even if this is not so?

2007-09-14 10:31:26 · 17 answers · asked by ChooseRealityPLEASE 6

Believers and non-believers alike, why don't you just read it for yourself??? I'm not being mean here, but why ask in this silly forum from people you don't know and will never meet, all the answers are in the Bible, so what is stopping you from finding them there???

2007-09-14 10:31:21 · 23 answers · asked by Indy 5

The more authentic and funnier it sounds, the better!

2007-09-14 10:27:34 · 21 answers · asked by Belzetot 5

Whatever happened to waiting to have sex till marriage?

2007-09-14 10:25:51 · 8 answers · asked by You Ask & I Answer!!! 4

Can you show me 1 verse telling you to pray to Mary, or to confess your sins to a priest, or confirming the existance of a place called Purgatory? I seem to have noticed some problems with the Catholic beliefs too.

2007-09-14 10:24:14 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous

Seems like sooooooooooooo many people practice it.

2007-09-14 10:22:48 · 28 answers · asked by ? 5

St. Matthew 16:13-19
And Jesus came into the quarters of Cesarea Philippi: and he asked his disciples, saying: Whom do men say that the Son of man is? But they said: Some John the Baptist, and other some Elias, and others Jeremias, or one of the prophets. Jesus saith to them: But whom do you say that I am? Simon Peter answered and said: Thou art Christ, the Son of the living God. And Jesus answering said to him: Blessed art thou, Simon Bar-Jona: because flesh and blood hath not revealed it to thee, but my Father who is in heaven. And I say to thee: That thou art Peter; and upon this rock I will build my church, and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it. And I will give to thee the keys of the kingdom of heaven. And whatsoever thou shalt bind upon earth, it shall be bound also in heaven: and whatsoever thou shalt loose on earth, it shall be loosed also in heaven.

Note that this is the passage in which Simon's name is changed to Petros (in Greek) or Cephas (in Aramaic; cf. St. John 1:42). Cephas means rock; there is no dispute about that. It is only a matter of common sense that Petros also means rock, even though the literal word is petra, which is a feminine noun, and it is really not difficult to imagine why Christ the Lord did not wish to give Simon a feminine name! Secondly, if you look at the above context, if "upon this rock" does not refer to St. Peter, then why did Christ change Simon's name right then and there? What was the purpose of adding "Thou art Peter"? Could Christ not have changed that name at another occasion? Why would the Lord effectively say, "Blessed are you, Simon. You are now to be called Peter, and upon I now build my Church. Here are the keys to the Kingdom of Heaven!" ??

Thirdly, our English language obscures the pun being made in this verse, but it's clear in some of the other languages of the world (I think we need to remind ourselves every now and then that English isn't the only language in the world). So, here's a little game now for the readers: read the verse (St. Matthew 16:18) in the following different languages and see if you can pick out which two words in each of these examples are the same (or very close to being the same).

2007-09-14 10:21:08 · 20 answers · asked by Anonymous

For those of you that are religion and spirituality regulars...

...should we enforce ROAMING CHARGES for those that leave their home section, good ol' R&S?

2007-09-14 10:20:47 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous

By the Bible I mean old and new testament. By mentioned I mean by God or Jesus as authorities on the subject.

2007-09-14 10:19:19 · 21 answers · asked by purplepeace59 5

success?
happiness?
women?
money?

lay it on me i can take it.....

2007-09-14 10:17:24 · 11 answers · asked by ? 3