Religion & Spirituality - 11 October 2007

how you can convert to a new religion from having no religion and be perfectly fine. but if you convert to a new religion from a previous religion, its a sin. pretty goofy huh? you cant tell me religion doesnt limit the mind.

2007-10-11 05:34:04 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous

What is going here?:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20071011/en_nm/syria_painting_dc

2007-10-11 05:30:23 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous

Just asking

2007-10-11 05:30:00 · 21 answers · asked by lucidwillow 4

what will that do to religion and belief in god?

2007-10-11 05:28:23 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous

It is truly shocking for us to hear this; but the Word of God says there is no longer any blessing of God upon those attending churches anywhere in the world. We have to understand this is why the great tribulation is so awful. The Bible declares that Satan is now the one receiving the worship in the churches:
For these things I weep; mine eye, mine eye runneth down with water, because the Comforter that should relieve my soul is far from me: my children are desolate, because the enemy prevailed. (Lamentations 1:16)
And all that dwell upon the earth shall worship him, whose names are not written in the book of life of the Lamb slain from before the foundation of the world. (Revelation 13:8)

2007-10-11 05:28:20 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous

Does that mean Hitler Youth was chosen by God?

2007-10-11 05:27:15 · 11 answers · asked by 2 5

2007-10-11 05:27:01 · 19 answers · asked by abubakar a 1

this is for people who are catholic only please. if you are atheist and try to disrespect me or try to say something that is rude. can you please relax and stop obsessing about what other people have chosen to believe, and i will pray for you. because i will not change who i am and i want to believe.

help, i'm quite noobie, and i don't know much. i want to read this book called the complete and updated catechism of the catholic church. and i can't read it because the grammar is too great for me, i can't seem to understand it much. i can understand some parts because god has created every man with love and with light and his image but i can't seem to read some other parts. help!

2007-10-11 05:26:01 · 2 answers · asked by Anonymous

i have found myself asking for Gods help regarding a situation that i've been dealing with since 1979 and it just seems as if he doesnt hear me.

2007-10-11 05:25:16 · 28 answers · asked by Anonymous

I am working on something at school. Can you answer my question??

What is the European location of Islam?

2007-10-11 05:25:11 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous

they must be saved and born again,to inherit the kingdom of heaven,please send them your thoughts,

2007-10-11 05:24:50 · 5 answers · asked by The Way 4

Following is a short staory that talks about the nature of Heaven - http://www.boomerangtags.com/gates.html

Do any Catholics know of a similar kind of story that speaks of the nature of Purgatory?

I will be more than glad to report and block anyone who argues that there is no Purgatory. Save it for another question.

2007-10-11 05:24:34 · 12 answers · asked by Sldgman 7

If there is no conscious awareness after death, how could the "spirits in prison", who lived during the time of Noah, be preached to by Christ after His death (I Pet 3:18-20) and how could the good news be "declared even unto the dead" (I Pet 4:5-6)?

2007-10-11 05:24:19 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-10-11 05:23:00 · 24 answers · asked by Anonymous

Another question actually made me think of this one. But these Christian bookstores sell all kinds of products with religious sayings or depictions on them. Soaps, candies, lotions, socks, lip balms, etc. Are you more faithful because you use these products? Are they a reminder of your faith (if so, why do you need a reminder)? Am I more likely to go to heaven if I die with a TestaMint freshening my breath? Or is all of this just straightforward commercialism. And, if it is commercialism, then what right do Christians have to complain when the rest of us commercialize Christmas (which was a pagan holiday to begin with)?

2007-10-11 05:22:42 · 7 answers · asked by Katie Short, Atheati Princess 6

Does Prov 4:18 really justify an organization replacing doctrines and failed prophecies with new doctrines and prophecies, or does it simply contrast the benefit to the "righteous" of obeying a wise father (Prov 4:10-19)? False teachings can be called "false words" and Prov 13:5 says, "A false word is what the righteous hates..." When the WTS changes a teaching to something that is totally different, is it like a light that is getting brighter and brighter or more like having one false light (word) completely turned off and a totally different light turned on? Do you think the WTS would be critical of any other organization that changed its teachings as many times on as many different issues over the last 100 years as the WTS has?

2007-10-11 05:21:32 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-10-11 05:21:04 · 36 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-10-11 05:20:33 · 17 answers · asked by Anonymous

Is it the giving of the presents, the family gatherings, the meals...? What does Christmas mean to you in terms of how you celebrate it?

2007-10-11 05:20:06 · 32 answers · asked by Linz ♥ VT 4

Whenever some particularly evil leader arises people immediately think he is the man of sin or antichrist; but the man of sin spoken of in the Bible is not a man at all, but rather he is Satan himself. Satan alone qualifies since he is the only one who could have been present nearly 2000 years ago; and yet, come against the people of God near the end of the world:
And every spirit that confesseth not that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is not of God: and this is that spirit of antichrist, whereof ye have heard that it should come; and even now already is it in the world. (1 John 4:3)

2007-10-11 05:19:34 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous

in genesis, phil collins sings "she seems to have that invisible touch." he doesn't say he. obviously god is a woman. how do you explain that?

2007-10-11 05:18:37 · 11 answers · asked by just curious (A.A.A.A.) 5

think about it,

to thiests, your current pysical bieng is only temporary and you will "continue to live" therefore isnt' belief in an afterlife cheapening human life and lessens the gravity of the decision to kill someone, see them die or whatnot.

athiests on the other hand see that there is only one shot. you take away someone's life, thats it. There is higher value to the athiest becasue life will not continue in some magical imaginary realm with ponies and flowers and robotechnology.

2007-10-11 05:18:28 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous

who was sending Jack B hatemail and pretending to be me? If you know, will you tell me, him or Yahoo staff? I wish we could see who was sending email (actual person) and who was doing all the target reporting...that would solve alot of R&S problems for me. Thanks for your help.

BTW I have an idea of who was doing this...so to that person, just know that the truth WILL come out.

2007-10-11 05:17:07 · 12 answers · asked by NONAME 5

Yes. However, the character of the great tribulation is not one of physical violence; but the character of the great tribulation is that of spiritual unfaithfulness in the churches and congregations of the world towards the Word of God. The churches of our day (all denominations: whether Catholic or Protestant) have fallen away tremendously from the truths of the Bible.
For then shall be great tribulation such as was not since the beginning of the world to this time, no, nor ever shall be… For there shall arise false Christs, and false prophets, and shall shew great signs and wonders; insomuch that, if it were possible, they shall deceive the very elect. (Matthew 24:21,24)
Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day shall not come, except there come a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition; (2 Thessalonians 2:3)

2007-10-11 05:14:43 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-10-11 05:11:12 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous

There is some confussion about the dark side, this being winter an` all. A lot of people tag the Celts, druidism and the occult as being anti christain or satanism. At the dark time year the dark side can be very powerful. As energy goes, all energy dark or otherwise are those energies that exist within the subtle realms of existence are niether good or bad until mankind interacts with them. Do you think this is so and why do think this?

2007-10-11 05:11:06 · 9 answers · asked by finn mchuil 6

If God has his hand in everything, surely we would be able to tangibly see it. And before you begin typing out that we only need to see the changed lives of those who are believers, remember that the followers of Zeus, Zoraster, Isis, Thor also felt a connection with their Gods and changed their lives according to "doctrine".

2007-10-11 05:09:18 · 24 answers · asked by Free Thinker 2

if Jesus died for my Sins then he will forgive my Sin of not Believing that he Died for My Sins? right ?

2007-10-11 05:08:20 · 16 answers · asked by B 3

World's oldest wall painting unearthed in Syria

DAMASCUS (Reuters) - French archaeologists say they have excavated an 11,000-year-old wall painting in red, black and white in northern Syria which they describe as the oldest in the world, although it resembles a modern work.

The 2-square-metre painting was found below ground at the Neolithic settlement of Djade al-Mughara on the Euphrates, northeast of the city of Aleppo, mission head Eric Coqueugniot told Reuters.

"It looks like a modernist painting. Some of those who saw it have likened it to work by Klee. Through carbon dating we established it is from around 9000 B.C.," Coqueugniot said.

2007-10-11 05:06:52 · 21 answers · asked by Anonymous

What was the mechanism or process involved? If it was a spiritual thing, why go through the Earthly motions?

Tell me in your own words please and not biblical verses. Tell me how that worked.

2007-10-11 05:04:51 · 7 answers · asked by Just! Some? *Dude* 5