Religion & Spirituality - 17 September 2007

How would you depict God, his/her/its image?

Male, female, both, neither? Old wise man on a tall mountain? Energy ball?

How do you picture God (or would picture God if God existed)?

2007-09-17 09:15:42 · 21 answers · asked by Anonymous

For example, you work with someone who is articulate, highly educated, skilled, successful, and has a great personality. Then one day they share with you the stories of their weekly tongue-speaking ritual at their church's Sunday service. They do not try to impose their beliefs on you, but do you still lose respect for them?

2007-09-17 09:14:33 · 18 answers · asked by Anonymous

I am doing a research paper and also thinking of becoming Wiccan myself. Help me to find some of these answers so I can write a fairly detailed paper about our beliefs and why we choose to practice as either Solitaires or in Covens. Do our social upbringings have anything to do with our decisions?

2007-09-17 09:12:27 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous

Would binLaden kiss the popes ring? It don't happen. Jesus being a Jew and ending up the god of Rome tops his "born of a virgin" act. Being born of a virgin is a second rate miracle.

2007-09-17 09:10:20 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-09-17 09:09:49 · 17 answers · asked by LordVader 4

2007-09-17 09:07:10 · 30 answers · asked by Fitz 4

God, Lord, Almighty and such are titles not a name.

How can something be said in the name of God if it is not said?

Getting past the superstition of not using God's name in case it is used in vain - shouldn't God's name rendered in English, Jehovah, be used with pride?
We have no trouble saying Hallelujah which means "Let us praise Jehovah" as Jah is shortened for Jehovah.

Why be ashamed or frightened to use the personal name that God uses. Shouldn't it be a name to be honoured?

YWEH and other could be considered God's name but Jehovah is the English way of calling God by his name just as the something like the french name for Jesus is Jésus or japanese イエス・キリスト or greek Ιησούς

KJV Psalm 83:18

2007-09-17 09:06:02 · 18 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-09-17 09:05:12 · 23 answers · asked by ShadowCat 6

I asked a question yesterday requesting contacts who are conservative and Christian. I didn't mean to imply that I don't love everyone, and that I don't want to communicate with people who are not Christian and conservative. I would just like to have contacts with whom I can ask prayer and to pray for. I'm sorry for the misunderstanding.

2007-09-17 09:03:12 · 18 answers · asked by lillybreeze 2

Do they actually hear disembodied voices, or is it just something they feel in their hearts?

2007-09-17 09:01:23 · 24 answers · asked by Anonymous

I do believe this has something to do with John the Baptist and I'm wondering what it means for 'you' in today's world ?

2007-09-17 09:01:01 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous

When Christians mention anything about God its almost like we've violated them or done something so horrible. Sometimes i feel like my Christianity offends some people, especially atheists.

2007-09-17 09:00:04 · 35 answers · asked by Jamaican Princess 2

2007-09-17 08:57:18 · 8 answers · asked by Axiom 5

2007-09-17 08:54:09 · 9 answers · asked by oraine g 1

Do you know name of the song that goes " When I think about jesus and what he done for me. When I think about jesus and set me free. I could dance, dance, dance , dance ,dance. dance, dance all night". And if you do can you tell me where I could find it at?

2007-09-17 08:52:06 · 2 answers · asked by NeNe 2

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NO DOUBT!


* Lady Kikyo *

2007-09-17 08:50:57 · 33 answers · asked by Anonymous

The Bible says One God One Faith ONE Baptism. The Bible says He shall be called Immanuel, meaning God with us, por example if you have a son, you are a father, you are a son and a part of you is in that son, and you have a spirit, but your NAME is John or something.The only difference is He is a father, he is the son, he is Jesus. And I cant find a place where it says there is any such thing as a Godhead, thats a manmade Idea. If you have proof I need to see it in KJV, and dont put in your own interperetation.

2007-09-17 08:50:33 · 22 answers · asked by Anonymous

Or was Jesus the only good person?

Do all Christians believe there are no good people?

2007-09-17 08:49:30 · 11 answers · asked by JWill 4

So many Mormons say that "If I could do it, so can you."
Ahem, but everyone is different! Why do we Mormons (since I'm one, too) feel the need to think everyone around us is so similar that we all have the same problems and temptations and that we must all solve them in the same way?

2007-09-17 08:48:17 · 6 answers · asked by Anthony C 4

2007-09-17 08:46:04 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous

If he is still living, why the pbuh? I get doing it after the Prophet, who is dead, but Isa escaped death and his betrayer was killed instead.

Also, does anyone else find it offensive when a Muslim says pbuh after Jesus? I do.

I am tolerant, but I find that level of Blasphemy to be maddening, the lowering of God to a mere prophet...

2007-09-17 08:45:52 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-09-17 08:45:48 · 27 answers · asked by Anonymous

Human rights

Homosexuality is illegal in Nigeria as it runs counter the country's deeply ingrained cultural and religious mores. Homosexual intercourse is punishable by imprisonment in the south and possibly death in the Muslim north.

On February 14, 2007 The National Assembly held public hearings on a bill to ban gay marriage and criminalize virtually all forms of gay expression. The bill reads as follows:

Any person who is involved in the registration of gay clubs, societies and organizations, sustenance, procession or meetings, publicity and public show of same sex amorous relationship directly or indirectly in public and in private is guilty of an offense and liable on conviction to a term of five years imprisonment.

In April 2007, the voluntary Sharia police of Nigeria known as the Hisbah issued arrest warrants against an alleged lesbian who married four women in a large celebration in Kano, Nigeria.

2007-09-17 08:45:21 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous

God said He would put the rainbow in the sky to remind Himself to never flood the world again.

Yes we have floods, but they do not wipe out the whole world.

Do you see the rainbow as a sign of God's promise, an actual sign of His presence?

I do.

2007-09-17 08:44:02 · 12 answers · asked by Diver Down 3

How would you react?

2007-09-17 08:42:19 · 23 answers · asked by alfgarnettthegreat 1

...depends on whether or not it causes someone or something suffering, am I wrong?

2007-09-17 08:41:23 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous

The Websters dictionary defines religion as, "1b (1) : the service and worship of God or the supernatural (2) : commitment or devotion to religious faith or observance; 4 : a cause, principle, or system of beliefs held to with ardor and faith."

I don't know any Christians who say that they aren't religious and don't practice what the word "Religion" stands for.

I think most Christians don't understand the word "Religion."

By the definition of the word, all Christians are "religious." Maybe their form of religion isn't the same as others, but they're religious none the less.

From a non-religious or secular view point, anybody who acknowledges a deity and orders their lifestyle by that belief is a religious person.

Don't you agree? How about it fellow Christian? Can you admit that you're religious no matter how much you want to avoid the "sterotypes"?

2007-09-17 08:39:29 · 28 answers · asked by Zk 1

2007-09-17 08:38:12 · 11 answers · asked by NONAME 4

Daniel 2:44 “And in the days of those kings the God of heaven will set up a kingdom that will never be brought to ruin. And the kingdom itself will not be passed on to any other people. It will crush and put an end to all these kingdoms, and it itself will stand to times indefinite;

2007-09-17 08:37:10 · 16 answers · asked by Jason W 4

"You are Peter, and on this rock I will build my Church, and the powers of death shall not prevail against it." Matthew 16:18
- How could it be that Christ, who should have known better, would promise that his Church wouldn’t be overcome if he knew full well a great apostasy would make short shrift of it in a matter of decades? Was Christ lying?

the utter destruction of the Nephites in A.D. 421
-where is the evidence?

Why are the errors of the Textus Receptus found in the Book of Mormon, if Smith was divinely inspired?

Scientists have demonstrated that honey bees were first brought to the New World by Spanish explorers in the fifteenth century, but the Book of Mormon, in Ether 2:3, claims they were introduced around 2000 B.C.

Please advise and respond.

2007-09-17 08:35:29 · 7 answers · asked by lundstroms2004 6