Religion & Spirituality - 3 October 2007

Would you rather have a just God who gives everyone (across the board) the freedom to choose Him or not and live your life just as you please?
OR
a just God who (across the board) dictates every aspect of your life to ensure that nothing bad happens to a single person on the planet?

The hands off God gives you the freedom to drink AND the freedom to kill a teenager in vehicular manslaugter when you drive home trashed from your buddy's house.

The controlling God opens up the earth and destroys anything sinful on the spot across the board....no exceptions.

I ask because for all the bristling at the NOTION of God telling them how to live their OWN lives....those are the same people trying to defame God because He DOESNT intervene in OTHER folks lives to stop suffering around the world.

....good grief. .your freedom to DEFY God is the same freedom that perpetrates the EXISTENCE of suffering.

So embrace all the sin your freedom affords or shaddup.

2007-10-03 10:10:35 · 36 answers · asked by Anonymous

Generally, What is it about?
I know it has something that involves Thor, The thunder god.
Can anyone tell me what "Norse" Means and what it's all about?

2007-10-03 10:09:29 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous

I'm really trying to understand what each sect believes so I can find out where i fit in. I'm looking for a non biased simple answer about the differences between the major Christian faiths (Catholic, Babtist, Lutheran, Prespreterian...) Thank you so much!

2007-10-03 10:09:04 · 8 answers · asked by smile and don't stop 3

How many have also had Pagan healers "lay healing hands" on them

2007-10-03 10:07:56 · 8 answers · asked by kloneme 3

why must we be taught it, if it is true? if there is a great being who created everyone and will punish you if you dont believe. why did he create us without any knowledge of his existance...?

doing this only causes more people to suffer. his choice lead us to our consequences?

2007-10-03 10:07:24 · 12 answers · asked by Chippy v1.0.0.3b 6

What are the chances that God will make someone magically pregnant at this time?

I'm serious.

Like how it happened to Mary.
Mary was a virgin, wasn't she? Then came Jesus...

Anyway, just answer the question...

But I mean, is it possible? He could do whatever he wants right?

2007-10-03 10:04:26 · 31 answers · asked by frosted flakes 5

let Protestants convince you that for 1500 years everyone was wrong and followed a 'false' gospel?

2007-10-03 10:04:06 · 25 answers · asked by SpiritRoaming 7

2007-10-03 10:02:12 · 31 answers · asked by Anonymous

that Jesus Christ WAS the resurrection, why do they always deny that fact.

2007-10-03 10:01:49 · 27 answers · asked by ? 5

Why did Allah pick Muhammed and dozens of others to memorize the quran, long before it was ever written? Why didn't he choose a smart, charismatic scribe to spread the Arabic version of the old testament? And why all the others? How do we know, out of all the others who allegedly "received" Allah's message from Gabriel, along with Mohammad, that Mohammed was Not the real prophet but simply the first one to yell, "I'm the prophet! And nobody else is! You better believe that because god told me!"

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2007-10-03 10:01:41 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous

kind of like the backstreet boys of their day? pimping their crap, and looking for poon?

2007-10-03 10:01:36 · 2 answers · asked by Anonymous

yes it is true about Religous people and they can be so mean
to others

2007-10-03 09:58:42 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-10-03 09:55:49 · 10 answers · asked by Mithrianity 3

2007-10-03 09:55:16 · 26 answers · asked by Eleventy 6

Some humans are shy, timid, depressed, ugly, slow talkers...etc...

These are things that some of us are born with.

Why did a loving creator create such imperfections in humans?

2007-10-03 09:53:53 · 9 answers · asked by johnduo0007 1

Can you send any pixs?

2007-10-03 09:53:52 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous

saying that :
there are other, earlier accounts and my account is copied and stolen from other cultures?
That my history of the Roman Empire has been corrupted and is not even in its original language so it can't be true?
That who am I anyway to write this account as I wasn't even there when these events took place?

2007-10-03 09:53:43 · 3 answers · asked by Prof Fruitcake 6

In reference to a previous question about thoughts on this videohttp://connect.thetruthproject.org/content/video/lesson2/DVD/PostmodernismStories.html

Wiseone: none

Rin: My IQ just dropped a few points

Gumby: Well, I've been all over Ohio State's campus and I can't think of what building they're talking about

poseiden: Daaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhh
I like blue.

lilith: I think christians are nuts

2007-10-03 09:52:20 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous

Clearly, the Bible declares that men wrote the Bible as lead and inspired by the Holy Spirit!

This is why the Bible itself refers itself as “the word of God” and the “holy scriptures”.

Furthermore, which of the following were written by “Catholics”???
Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, Deuteronomy, Joshua, Judges, Ruth, 1 Samuel, 2 Samuel, 1 Kings, 2 Kings, 1 Chronicles, 2 Chronicles, Ezra, Nehemiah, Esther, Job, Psalm, Proverbs, Ecclesiates, Song of Solom, Isaiah, Jeremiah, Lamentations, Ezekiel, Daniel, Hosea, Joel, Amos, Obadiah, Jonah, Micah, Nahum, Habakkuk, Zephaniah, Haggai, Zechariah???

NONE! ALL were written by JEWS before Jesus Christ established the “church”.

OK – how about the New Testament?
Matthew – a JEW who believe Jesus was the Jewish Messiah
Mark – a JEW who believe Jesus was the Jewish Messiah
John – a JEW who believe Jesus was the Jewish Messiah
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2007-10-03 09:47:29 · 30 answers · asked by yachadhoo 6

Have you asked him into your….

Er…

Uhhhh....

Well….

Stomach?

2007-10-03 09:46:29 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous

Did you come to believe in God by logical reasoning? Did Aquinas proofs really convince you? Did you decide to take Pascal up on his wager?

If not, what did show you God was real? Was it, perhaps, God Himself?

If so, why are you arguing with atheists who have (obviously) not been called by God?

2007-10-03 09:44:30 · 23 answers · asked by Bebe 3

I sure as hell hope so.

2007-10-03 09:41:50 · 23 answers · asked by Brandon's been a dirty Hore 5

Proverbs 21:2
Every way of a man is right in his own eyes,but the LORD weighs the heart.

Those who did what was "right" in the eyes of the Lord, in the Bible, they were BLESSED, and God continually kept them under the shadow of His wing. Those who walked according to His ways it says:
2 Chronicles 34:2
And he did what was right in the eyes of the LORD, and walked in the ways of David his father; and he did not turn aside to the right hand or to the left.

2007-10-03 09:38:42 · 15 answers · asked by Mandolyn Monkey Munch 6

2007-10-03 09:38:29 · 23 answers · asked by Linz ♥ VT 4

This question is for Christians, and Muslims only,
Please be objective, and be away from hate speech.
Thanks

2007-10-03 09:36:52 · 18 answers · asked by Anonymous

God is all-knowing which includes all-seeing and more. God knows what you look like and what your surroundings look like from every possible angle over the course of your entire life. God never stops looking, because if God did, then God would not be "all seeing" anymore! So an all-knowing, all-seeing God is definitely watching when you shower.

Theists, do you think about this? God watching you in the shower, soaping up your body is like having 1000 video cameras pointed at you from every angle - does that bother you?

It wouldn't bother me. People who claim that God looks away while they shower are probably the same people who think they can sin because God is not paying attention. An all knowing (and therefore all-seeing) God is ALWAYS paying attention. What do you think?

2007-10-03 09:36:33 · 24 answers · asked by Anonymous

Scratching his nose when he was on the cross?

2007-10-03 09:35:44 · 29 answers · asked by Anonymous

I was wondering if certain colours within Paganism were significant and if so which and why.

Red and Yellow are the ones I mainly need to know about, but its always fun to learn new things

Many thanks.

2007-10-03 09:35:24 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous

King James Version

Matthew 26:39 - "(Jesus said) O my Father, if it be possible, let this cup pass from me: nevertheless not as I will, but as thou wilt."

John 8:18 - "(Jesus said) I am one that bear witness of myself, and the Father that sent me beareth witness of me."

Colossians 1:15 - "(Jesus) is the...firstborn of every creature"

Mark 13:32 - "But of that day and that hour knoweth no man, no, not the angels which are in heaven, neither the Son, but the Father."

Matthew 20:23 - "...(Jesus said) to sit on my right hand, and on my left, is not mine to give, but it shall be given to them for whom it is prepared of my Father"

John 14:28 - "(Jesus said) I go unto the Father: for my Father is greater than I."

Corrinthians 11:3 - "the head of Christ is God"

John 17:1-3

1 Corinthians 15:28

2007-10-03 09:35:11 · 30 answers · asked by Paul S 4

2007-10-03 09:33:52 · 34 answers · asked by Anonymous