Religion & Spirituality - 4 October 2007

2007-10-04 07:56:19 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous

And for Christians who do believe in evolution, can you please explain why you do?

I am a Christian, but I believe evolution and God can coexist. The truth is that we don't know entirely why God put us here. We also don't know how the origin of life occurred from a biological perspective. As a Christian, it is not in my heart to be so ignorant to evolution. We cannot ignore it because there is a tremendous amount of evidence in favor of it. I also have a BS in molecular biology, which is why I think so critically on issues such as the origin of life from a biological point of view.

2007-10-04 07:54:30 · 28 answers · asked by Anonymous

Tthe American Medical Association definition of death, is no brain activity. Many people who have NDEs are connected to EEG machines that are flatlined. There is no brain activity and no heart beat. This constitutes clinical death.

There is also an argument that says the brain continues to function after there is no activity. Mainly from the resuscitation efforts that are being conducted. This argument is questionable and not verifiable.

The length of time a patient is brain dead varies from a few minutes to several hours in the NDE accounts One patient had been dead for 40 minutes before revival. Brain activity can not account for the new information the patient has when revived.
The longest time someone has been dead (that I know of) goes to Grigorievich Rodonaia, a Russian, who was killed by the KGB. He was in the morgue for for 3 days in cold storage. During the autopsy, he regained consciousness. He has recovered without permanent injury and is now living somewhere in Tex

2007-10-04 07:52:18 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous

this lady comes here and says she is feeling drawn to the Catholic church
she is a non Christian and feeling an urge to persue what her heart is telling her
http://uk.answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=AmLusgAsbLXKqTe3pgtoyzlFLxV.;_ylv=3?qid=20071004113732AANHRTg

she is met with people telling her it is a cult , it is wrong etc
surely the fact that she is being drawn to Christianity is what matters no ?
shouldnt she be recieving good wishes and help from Christians ... any Christians
shouldnt you be rejoicing that someone is being drawn to Christ ?
or are you so closed minded to even your own faith that any church but your church is the wrong church ?

I just don't get it
personally as a non Christian I was encouraging her to follow her heart , even though it is not my religion at all

2007-10-04 07:51:36 · 33 answers · asked by ☮ Pangel ☮ 7

2007-10-04 07:51:29 · 24 answers · asked by Jenae, TV (tempter of the vile) 5

I'm a teen with ocd and I have to carry out or feel compulsed to do certain sinful rituals.

I can't stop.

Any advice? By the way, they're mortal sins.

Please, no rude answers. Im suffering

To all the non God believers please take your opinions somewhere else. I'm in no mood to hear that God doesn't exist.

Any one who doesn't listen to that waring will get reported.

Thanks

God Bless you/ Jesus Loves you

2007-10-04 07:48:55 · 22 answers · asked by Anonymous

So the belief is that God created us for His pleasure. Is it possible God could have created the earth (without humans at first) and the heavens for His pleasure and that evolution followed because of His creation? This could explain dinosaurs because they could have been for His pleasure. There is a theory that God created the earth and then destroyed it and then recreated it. This destruction of the earth could have resulted in the extinction of the dinosaurs. Maybe His pleasure changed to intelligent beings. He could have created man and allowed man to evolve. Your thoughts. Thank you.

2007-10-04 07:48:15 · 24 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-10-04 07:46:18 · 56 answers · asked by lindsey p 5

Here's a clue: it isn't.

2007-10-04 07:45:47 · 17 answers · asked by Meat Bot 3

a) why are there so many people now with different color skin, etc?

b [more importantly]) why can fossils of dinosaurs and prehistoric humans be found?

2007-10-04 07:45:01 · 10 answers · asked by cast.no.shadow 5

I don't understand the ability to attain knowledge that does not come through reasoning nor sense perception. Can anyone explain this concept? Is there a way to verify its credibility?

2007-10-04 07:42:36 · 14 answers · asked by Eleventy 6

2007-10-04 07:41:39 · 31 answers · asked by Anonymous

people, they had their sons, where did the sons find wives to help populate the world? Not being a wise guy , really want to understand this.

2007-10-04 07:40:38 · 35 answers · asked by mean evil woman 7

was this the equivalent of going to visit the sick and the elderly in nursing homes?

2007-10-04 07:38:26 · 5 answers · asked by Midge 7

Anyone who knows, please help me with this one. Read the first answer on this question: http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=AqkmH7ONmhsJlSg.XHhzK.rd7BR.;_ylv=3?qid=20071004111508AAMaSR8

He says Satan's body is made of pipes. I've recently heard others describe how he was supposedly an angel of music. Where are they getting this from? I'm fairly familiar with both Milton and Dante, but none of this rings a bell (no pun intended).

2007-10-04 07:38:20 · 18 answers · asked by Anonymous

whenever I pass by a Catholic Church, I feel very at peace for some reason.

I have been studying Catholicism and what's it all about for that very same reason, but I still don't know what to do. it seems like I am from the outside just looking in, standing in amazement and awe.

being a non-Christian, I really don't know what draws me to Catholicism.

2007-10-04 07:37:32 · 28 answers · asked by The Asker 4

I think that it is important for people on all sides here including Christians, Pagans, and Atheists to recognize what really constitutes persecution.

Repeatedly being witnessed to even though you've made it clear you aren't going to be changed may be annoying, insenstitive, and downright cloddish but it is NOT persecution.

Some of the stupid, incredibly hurtful things (not counting witch hangings and burnings --Salem and all--that really DID constitute religious persecution) Christians have done to non Christians here in America (and there are plenty of ways we have really screwed up and hurt people!) does NOT constitute persecution.

Christians, having a school Christmas parade cancelled, the phrase Happy Holidays instead of Merry Christmas, and the Target urban legend DO NOT constitute religious persecution.

So what does? Being beheaded because somebody heard you praying the wrong prayer? Having your places of worship vandalized?

2007-10-04 07:35:11 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous

logically and analytically. Here's what i know....Atheisim is the belief of nothing correct? So by believing in nothing your actually believing in something which goes against your "cree", if you will. Therefore your belief system is completely illogical and moronic.

BTW, i'm not a Christrian nor a religious person of any sect....i'm Agnostic. I'm an analytical and logical person that has study many different religions and understand how and why ppl may believe in a afterlife and a god, but have never felt moved the "presence" myself. There's too much scientific logic to disclaim God and gods like him....but at the same time i feel that there must be something behind it since more than 85% of the world population believes in some sort of afterlife and higher power. I'm just curious how an Atheisism is an actual real belief since believing in Atheisism would go against the your belief. Please explain so i can better understand. Thanks! :)

2007-10-04 07:32:56 · 27 answers · asked by Hey U, Yeah U..Get over here 5

Please provide insight about this verse and its purpose. Thank you in advance!

2007-10-04 07:32:55 · 10 answers · asked by joer80 2

for better understanding? Is there something you can share to help me better relate to you?

2007-10-04 07:31:28 · 21 answers · asked by Patrick the Carpathian, CaFO 7

2007-10-04 07:30:47 · 19 answers · asked by Anonymous

I am NOT referring to The seven
Deutero-Canonical books, missing from non-Catholic Bibles.


There is no early writing that will surprise the Catholic Church.
The Catholic Church has seen it all.
When the gospel of Thomas was released in the late 50`s many Christians didn`t even know apocryphal writings existed alongside the canonical texts or that the Church was inundated with heretical beliefs; such as, Gnosticism.
The Catholic Church has known for centuries the existence of apocryphal writings. Many are extant today, but many are known by name alone.


The apocryphal writings were basically divided into two areas: those that were primarily orthodox but never accepted as inspired/canonical(epistle of Barnabas) and those that were heretodox (Acts of Thomas).
The gospel of Judas was the latter, heterodox. As was their habit, early heresies attempted to popularize their belief system by developing fictional texts and attribute them to an Apostle (usually one that did not make into the canonical 27 book NT) themselves or early disciple. Some of the more popular gnostic apocryphal texts are: the gospel of Thomas, the gospel of Mathias, acts of Thomas, and the gospel of Philip.

The gospel of Judas was known by the early Catholic Church as heretical and was a favorite text of the gnostic cainite sect. Cainites revered those who resisted the God of the Jews; such as, Cain and Judas Iscariot.

"Since it was the practice of the heretical sects, especially the Gnostics, to write gospels in support of their peculiar doctrines there existed a large number of such apocryph.
Most of them we know only by name, as for instance, the Gospel of Judas Iscariot, was used by the Gnostic sect of the Cainites. "


"Besides these Gospels, we know that there once existed a Gospel of Bartholomew, a Gospel of Thaddeus, mentioned in the decree of Pope Gelasius, and a Gospel of Judas Iscariot in use among the Cainites and spoken of by St. Irenaeus




Gnosticism was a heretical tradition prevalent from the NT times through the 4th century. It`s basic tenant is that all matter is evil and that one must rid oneself of all materiality in order to obtain the truth and salvation.
In other words, redemption and salvation is reserved only for the spirit not the body. Gnosticism is also a thinly disguised form of pantheism which includes unknown gods and various emanations with varying classifications, rankings and names (such as those mentioned in the gospel of Judas - Sophia, Barbelo, Aeons, Nebro, Yaldabaoth, & Saklas etc). We find several citations on behalf of Gnosticism in the small extant gospel of Judas:

For example, the following citation affirms the gnostic hatred for all things material:

"Jesus said . . . But you [Judas Iscariot] will exceed them all. For you will sacrifice the man that clothes me. " KMW p7

In other words, Jesus needed to rid himself of his evil material body.

Similarly, we find the fictional gnostic cosmology strewn through out the gospel of Judas:

"His name was Nebro, which means "rebel"; others call him Yaldabaoth. Another angel, Saklas, also came from the cloud . . . The first is [S]eth, who is called Christ. The [second] is Harmathoth . . . The [third] is Galita. The [fourth] is Yobel. The fifth [is] Adonaios. "
KMW p5-6

In short, the gospel of Judas was never embraced by the Church as an inspired canonical text because it was not the writings of an apostle but the fictional writing of the gnostic heresy.
Many today are trying to purport that the gospel of Judas is some long lost gospel unknown to the Catholic Church and missing from the NT canon.
However, as I wrote above the Catholic Church has already weighed in on this issue many times in the past.
The great and venerable Church Father St. Irenaeus, the bishop of Lyon, who provided the nail in the coffin on this heretical work 1800 years ago:

"Others again declare that Cain derived his being from the Power above, and acknowledge that Esau, Korah, the Sodomites, and all such persons, are related to themselves. On this account, they add, they have been assailed by the Creator, yet no one of them has suffered injury. For Sophia was in the habit of carrying off that which belonged to her from them to herself. They declare that Judas the traitor was thoroughly acquainted with these things, and that he alone, knowing the truth as no others did, accomplished the mystery of the betrayal; by him all things, both earthly and heavenly, were thus thrown into confusion. They produce a fictitious history of this kind, which they style the Gospel of Judas."


Good old St. Irenaeus -- pertinent more today than ever!

2007-10-04 07:30:14 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous

I believe that if you believe in that it would help a lot of questions people have been asking, & asking, & asking, & asking here on Yahoo Answers about homosexuality, transgender, cultures, lack, and all that come with those.

Whats your outlook on it?

2007-10-04 07:29:07 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous

Examples?

I don't mean this question to be offensive, so when you answer just think about all other religions except yours....

2007-10-04 07:28:49 · 12 answers · asked by larissa 6

I am inspired today... feeling the presence of good spirits.

2007-10-04 07:27:52 · 8 answers · asked by Janet Reincarnated 5

2007-10-04 07:26:14 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous

OVIEDO, Spain -- Scientists and forensic specialists gathered in Oviedo, Spain, this week to examine an obscure relic that many have claimed authenticates the Shroud of Turin -- believed by many to be the burial cloth of Jesus Christ.

The Sudarium of Oviedo is reportedly the other linen cloth found in the tomb of Christ, as described in the Gospel of John. The relic, whose dramatic history is intertwined with the Knights Templar, Moors, El Cid, saints and bishops, has been in Spain since A.D. 631.

The Sudarium has been in Spain since 631 so it's impossible for the shroud of turin to have been created in the 1300's as the erroneous carbon dating claims.
It's also quite odd that so called scientists would buy into the flawed methodology which was followed when taking the piece of the shroud to be carbon tested. Soot deposits from the fire that almost destroyed the shroud caused the readings to be wrong.
http://www.wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=17660

2007-10-04 07:24:59 · 9 answers · asked by pissdownsatansback 4

2007-10-04 07:22:12 · 18 answers · asked by Anonymous

Doesn't something have to exist first of all to be disproved? There is no evidence of God, so FIRST we must find such evidence (if at all possible) and then try and challenge it and have the 'theory of God' be thrown out or confirmed to the level of fact.

To say God can't be disproved makes no sense.

2007-10-04 07:20:08 · 25 answers · asked by Anonymous

Christianity has so many denominations that interpret the bible and carry out practices in so many different ways. What are the chances that people have strayed away from the true meaning of christianity? Would you still believe in christianity if you feel that what jesus was preaching is lost over the years due to the many denominations that humans have created?

2007-10-04 07:16:56 · 14 answers · asked by bandawagon25 2