Religion & Spirituality - 28 September 2007

Two thousand years ago, fornication was done in public.

One hundred years ago, Western Culture and piety were joined at the hip.

Now, vanity and sexuality are our primary social drivers. The people who have these traits consider themselves to be the lucky ones. Yet, theirs lives always seem to be filled with every kind of malady and malfunction.

We don't want our kids to see violent movies on planes, but we are indifferent about Viagra and Cialis invading every kind of media.

Is there something wrong with this picture?

2007-09-28 02:03:24 · 12 answers · asked by TD Euwaite? 6

Since science has "faith" in its basic assumptions when it postulates, and interprets unproven theory?

2007-09-28 01:58:55 · 17 answers · asked by Eartha Q 6

And what about rosé wine?

2007-09-28 01:58:12 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous

The verse, from the New Testament, reads ``If your hand or your foot causes you to sin, cut it off and throw it away. It is better for you to enter life maimed or crippled than to have two hands or two feet and be thrown into eternal fire.''

2007-09-28 01:58:11 · 6 answers · asked by Hattiyah 2

I converted to muslim after i could not understand this thing and i can tell you some people misunderstand islam and kill others and i i am not one of those.Anyways what i wanted to know is that if anbody can answer my question then maybe i come back to christianty

2007-09-28 01:54:52 · 22 answers · asked by Anonymous

I mean he either meant it or he didn't period.

Example.

"It is easier for a camel to pass throuhg the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven"

Generally all those rich Christians (who by Jesus's own words should be giving up all that they own to follow him or giving away half of what they own like Zaccheus) argue that Jesus helped them to get rich and that they shouldn't give away what they own or at least half of it.

Yet when Jesus says "No one can come to the Father except through/by me" (John 14.6) they interpret this literally and stick to it like glue.

What gives Christians the right to determine what to follow and what not to follow and to interpret the literal words of the so called son of god?

How many have given up all that they own to follow Jesus or at least half?

I think you are hypocrites if you haven't and not true followers of Jesus.

2007-09-28 01:54:19 · 19 answers · asked by Anonymous

Here are some quotes, including ripping apart pregnant women:

Hosea 13:16 God promises to dash to pieces the infants of Samaria and the “their women with child shall be ripped up”. Once again this god kills the unborn, including their pregnant mothers.

1 Samuel 15:3 God commands the death of helpless "suckling" infants. This literally means that the children god killed were still nursing.

Psalms 137:9 Here god commands that infants should be “dashed upon the rocks”.

Leviticus 20:9 “For every one that curseth his father or his mother shall be surely put to death: he hath cursed his father or his mother; his blood shall be upon him.”

2 Kings 6:28-29 “And the king said unto her, What aileth thee? And she answered, This woman said unto me, Give thy son, that we may eat him today, and we will eat my son tomorrow. So we boiled my son, and did eat him: and I said unto her on the next day, Give thy son, that we may eat him: and she hath hid her son.”

2007-09-28 01:53:31 · 5 answers · asked by Hattiyah 2

Aren't atheists brave, for chancing hell to live in a way that they find to be true? Aren't they brave for not cowering to a god? I don't understand where the charge of cowardice comes from.

2007-09-28 01:50:03 · 24 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-09-28 01:46:32 · 18 answers · asked by Anonymous

I had a dream last night that was kinda scary?
In real life I met this guy named Bill, we dont really talk to much at the moment, just flirt a lot, he comes into where I work for lunch, and drops stuff, one day he said He gets really nervouse around me, then I started dropping stuff. any way I had this dream last night where we are inside this house and he kisses me. I have all the doors locked but all of a sudden something or somebody really horrible is trying to get in. I start rechecking the doors and windows to try and keep it out but I felt really terrified. can anybody help me with what this dream means? Thanks.

and please dont tell me to put this in a different section, I did, just want different opinions.

2007-09-28 01:45:30 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous

I'm a christian. I've heard the term agnostic, just curious what the difference between an athiest and an agnostic is.

2007-09-28 01:41:20 · 17 answers · asked by Kelli H 1

Here are the verses:

"So I find this law at work: When I want to do good, evil is right there with me. For in my inner being I delight in God's law; but I see another law at work in the members of my body, waging war against the law of my mind and making me a prisoner of the law of sin at work within my members. What a wretched man I am! Who will rescue me from this body of death? Thanks be to God—through Jesus Christ our Lord! So then, I myself in my mind am a slave to God's law, but in the sinful nature a slave to the law of sin"

My question is this:
Isn't it comforting to know that even the apostle Paul struggled with sin on a daily basis? Obviously, this does NOT give us a license to sin at will.....it simply means that all Christians everywhere go through this daily.

I praise God for His grace.....that I am saved from sin eternally.

2007-09-28 01:39:10 · 17 answers · asked by primoa1970 7

Or would you rather accept reality - that the only thing awaiting us is that we simply cease to exist?

If you believe that a god could exist at all then you have to acknowledge that you could have chosen the wrong one, or displeased the one you do believe in, and that your fate after this life is eternal agonizing torment. If you deny that, then you don't really believe what you profess to believe.

2007-09-28 01:37:53 · 24 answers · asked by Anonymous

ok. what i want everybody to do, is give one reason for both believing in god and not believing in god. you have to give both. like what is the best reason you can think of. don't put anything hateful, cause all you have done is cause hate on yahoo answers. just give it a try.

example:
believe: because of all the truly good things that happen. like not just happy things or stuff like that. but like the miracles of life.


don't believe: when children die. i don't understand what kind of god, would let helpless babies die. for no reason and causet that much pain for the people of the lost one.

2007-09-28 01:35:10 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous

Three gods for the price of one?

2007-09-28 01:35:04 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous

Or are they not published in reputable journals because they are bogus?

2007-09-28 01:33:04 · 16 answers · asked by Aspurtaime Dog Sneeze 6

Should I trust the visions of God that I saw those nights several years ago?

It's just that several responses to an earlier question seemed to deny that this thing could have happened to Moses, Abraham, and all the others in the Bible. They would have at one time or other eaten psychotrophic plants, moulds and fungi.

What should I do? Ignore it and put it down to hallucination?

2007-09-28 01:32:53 · 19 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-09-28 01:31:58 · 8 answers · asked by Rev. Deb 4

May all beings everywhere plagued with sufferings of body and mind quickly be freed from their illnesses. May those frightened cease to be afraid, and may those bound be free. May the powerless find power, and may people think of befriending one another.
--The Buddha

Namaste

Peace and Love

2007-09-28 01:31:23 · 5 answers · asked by digilook 2

By extending this he also gave us the scientists that invented dating techniques which show the earth to millions of years old.

People seem to rely on the fact that when dating techniques first came out they were not very accurate. Since then their accuracy has been refined to such a point that independent labs confirm like for fossil dates to within a few thousand years.

Why do creationists and Christians still cling to this original argument and fail to accept that dating techniques have now been validated and proven to work? The earth is millions of years old. Get over it and move on!

2007-09-28 01:26:19 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous

I want to ask this question:

1) Mary is the biological mother of Lord Jesus Christ

2) Mary was only used as a vessel - for Jesus to come into this world...

1) or 2????

2007-09-28 01:24:53 · 18 answers · asked by Anonymous

how shall we escape if we neglect so great a salvation, which at the first began to be spoken by the Lord and was confirmed unto us by those who heard Him

1 John 5
10He that believeth in the Son of God hath the witness in himself; he that believeth not God hath made Him a liar, because he believeth not the record that God gave of His Son.


11And this is the record: that God hath given to us eternal life, and this life is in His Son.


12He that hath the Son hath life, and he that hath not the Son hath not life.


13These things I have written unto you that believe in the name of the Son of God, that ye may know that ye have eternal life, and that ye may believe in the name of the Son of God.

1 John 4
14And we have seen and do testify that the Father sent the Son to be the Savior of the world.


15Whosoever shall confess that Jesus is the Son of God, God dwelleth in him, and he in God.


16And we have known and believed the love that God hath for us. God is love, and he that dwelleth in love dwelleth in God, and God in him.

2007-09-28 01:24:31 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous

My brothers and sisters in Christ - Good morning!

How would you interpret Phillipians 2:3

"In lowliness of mind, let each esteem others better than himself."

Do you think Paul is talking about our relationship with other believers, with the world or with both?

Hope everyone has a beautiful blessed day in the GRACE of our Lord and Savior JESUS CHRIST!

2007-09-28 01:23:00 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous

They seem like Islamicists without a caliphate.

2007-09-28 01:16:47 · 31 answers · asked by Anonymous

Theists are fond of saying that if there is no god then we ought to be out stealing, raping, murdering and torturing each other... but clearly we could never have got to the kind of civilisation we live in if that was our nature. If we were like that then we could never co-operate, work as teams, support each other, be compassionate, give up short term gratification for long term gains etc. - all the things that allow us to live in a complex tight-knit society. We've obviously evolved to be this way because it's an enormously successful survival strategy - an excellent way of passing on our genes. Why then do theists think we would want to reject human nature and behave in the ways they describe? It makes no sense. But then, I'm firmly of the view that there is absolutely nothing in religion that makes any sense at all. If there is, I've yet to see it, in 40-odd years of observing it.

2007-09-28 01:13:25 · 20 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-09-28 01:12:13 · 15 answers · asked by silkin_storm 5

2007-09-28 01:07:27 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous

What sort of Father will sacrifice and/or forsake his son?

Law: I will forget you and I will forsake you: Jeremiah 23:39
Grace: I will never leave you nor forsake you: Hebrews 13:5

David: My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?
Jesus: My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?

Forsaken? Isn't this how PTSD-ers now feel?

Will of God? "I will have mercy, and not sacrifice".
Perhaps it meaneth I will have grace, and not law.

The GRACE of our Lord Jesus Christ with you all. Amen.

2007-09-28 01:05:37 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-09-28 01:01:40 · 1 answers · asked by sleenieweenie 2

The "X" represents the Greek letter chi -- the first letter of "Christ" written in Greek....

2007-09-28 01:00:43 · 18 answers · asked by Skepticat 6