Religion & Spirituality - 19 October 2007

That your intentions are good - but the outcome of the intentions turn out to be harmful to others.

2007-10-19 01:41:46 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous

That may be true but seeing as how the blood of Jesus is rather scarce right now shouldn't we just take the vaccination?

2007-10-19 01:41:05 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-10-19 01:38:49 · 41 answers · asked by ifhusain 4

2007-10-19 01:38:36 · 13 answers · asked by mad&sad 2

2007-10-19 01:36:28 · 21 answers · asked by ifhusain 4

I went to a psychic a while back and I was told that I am an Indigo. I was born in 1987. What does it mean and how are they different from ordinary people. The psychic told me that my little cousin (2003) is a Crystal child...what is that?? Only sensible answers please, thanks

2007-10-19 01:36:02 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous

I know tradition states that, but is it biblical?

2007-10-19 01:33:56 · 17 answers · asked by Anonymous

you can chose protestant and catholic. i know some people who go to a pentecostal church which is protestant...so why don't they pick protestant for their religous views?

i'm not religous so i don't know...

2007-10-19 01:29:15 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous

Guidelines:

The first 5 atheists who respond to the question "Christianity vs. Atheism," which is more reasonable," will be "qualified" to be the question selected to provide a counter to my claim that I believe Christianity is more evident, therefore reasonable, than a belief in a lack of belief in atheism. The 1 counter response I will respond to will be selected among the first 5 responses, according to who's response entices the most thumbs up after a short period of time. Also, you must state that you are willing to debate. Note: Anyone can vote as to which of the first 5 atheists responses is the best response. The same rules apply for every counter-response during the rest of the debate. This debate can last 20 minutes, or 7 days, I will continue until everyone is done responding.

I'd like to thank everyone in advance for participating, and let's have some fun!

If anyone has any suggestions on how to make this debate more orderly, let me know.

2007-10-19 01:29:13 · 18 answers · asked by Let's Debate 1

This is a follow-up from "right" and "wrong".

Example:
Intentional harm is where I intentionally kill anorther person
Non-intentional harm is where I accidently stumble into a person whom falls and hits his head on something sharp and dies.

Is non-intention "good" or "bad"?

2007-10-19 01:23:49 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous

or do they doubt his existence? Obviously one could believe He was a person without believing in His biblical position, so I just wondered if any atheist had found proof of His existence to be true at any level?

2007-10-19 01:23:36 · 25 answers · asked by Anonymous

I know I have and I'm sorry for it.

But we have this treasure in jars of clay to show that surpassing power is God and not from us. We are pressed on every side, but not crushed, perplexed, but not in despair, persecuted, but not abandoned; struck down, but not destroyed. We always carry around in our body the death of Jesus, so that the life of Jesus may also be revealed in our body. For we who are alive are always being given over to death for Jesus' sake, so that his life may be revealed in our mortal body. So then, death is at work in us, but life is at work in you.

It is written: "I believed, therefore I have spoken." With that same spirit of faith we also believe and therefore speak...

2 Corinthians 4:7-13

2007-10-19 01:23:10 · 18 answers · asked by Anonymous

As evidenced so far this morning, there are widely varied opinions as to what is right or wrong, and there are those who don't believe those terms even exist.

Is there anything that you believe most people, regardless of race, color, creed, religion, background, or belief would classify as wrong? As evidenced by my previous question (linked below), as well as answers to questions by Espresso Kid, some do not believe murder or rape are wrong.

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=AuYXa1mWD_QuCmBrkN6t.qXsy6IX;_ylv=3?qid=20071019042510AASqrwp

2007-10-19 01:18:34 · 18 answers · asked by bamidélé 4

does all life end or is it the beginning of something better?

2007-10-19 01:16:26 · 24 answers · asked by popye 1

And did he go to hell for it?
Being a carpenter and all.

2007-10-19 01:13:49 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous

Church of Christ (and perhaps others, I dont know) does not allow any type of instrumental music in their services.
I truly believe the ability to play music is a God Given talent, there must be something scriptural that they believe forbids music in their services, what and where is it?

2007-10-19 01:13:49 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous

Richard Dawkins has suggested that its professors apply to other universities...

2007-10-19 01:13:31 · 23 answers · asked by I'm an Atheist 3

if it's scanty, then where are all the rules saying we must walk down an isle, get married in a church, showers, etc?

could it be a tradition and not a godly command? I found "be fruitful"

2007-10-19 01:11:31 · 6 answers · asked by voice_of_reason 6

Salvation is the only way to God the Father, would you like to know how?

this link right here says it all, call me lazy or whatever you would like but here it is. http://av1611.com/kjbp/salvation.html

Please atleast read it, that is all I ask for, just to read it. May God work in you hearts and minds, and the devil be free from your thoughts.

2007-10-19 01:11:03 · 20 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-10-19 01:09:00 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous

whole body frozen or just your head!

Which would you choose? Your whole body or just a Head Job??

2007-10-19 01:07:52 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous

is their really a higher power/ someone who listens to our prayers and some one who does all. or is it mind over matter. if you believe it you can do anything. help. jsut a little confussed

2007-10-19 01:02:12 · 34 answers · asked by confussed 2

But say you're very religious, and you're love is going to get executed the next day. YOu're not sure whether he loves you back, but this is the last night you will have with him.
Would you have sex with him, even if it is out of wedlock?

2007-10-19 01:00:47 · 22 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-10-19 00:59:25 · 19 answers · asked by oksiti 1

I am working on a case at church. A member of the congragation helped a person in the churches ministry by opening a checking account for the one being ministered (a permant resident alien- legal). The church wanted someone else to do it, an told the person who was helping that they could not aid in this way. The one being ministered did not want any one else but the person who opened it to do it for them, and refused help from anyone else. The church is now punishing the one who helped the other person, by denying them the right to pray over anyone in the church within any church function.
What scriptures can I offer in defence of the person who helped?

2007-10-19 00:58:37 · 11 answers · asked by Gwynn T 3

Religions which believe in the existence of GOD are only meant for:
1) GREEDY people who wants to request GOD to give them the things they desire and ask for.
2) PATHETIC people who are so scared to go to the so-called HELL in their afterlife and want to enter the so-called paradize of GOD
3) WEAK-WILLED peoplewho constantly needs reassurance and "divine" support to motivate them
4) CONFUSED people who are contemplating their afterlife path
5) GULLIBLE people who believe 100% by word of mouth what other people/religious texts are saying without questioning/doubts

Whether you like it or not, this is my opinion of people who believe somuch in their religions. I think inner strength is the most powerful. You don't need to rely on GOD to show you theway. YOU can find your OWN way out!!! Why should we pray to GOD when we can be LIVING GODS?

2007-10-19 00:55:41 · 22 answers · asked by JingleBells 2

I was thinking that prayers always seem to be so many words. I think that the language of prayer feeling. It is enough just to pray that God (or whatever power) removes whatever lies between us and love. Can every moment exist only as an opportunity to love? How can you help me to love more in the moment?

2007-10-19 00:55:01 · 5 answers · asked by slowwalker 3

An atheist with an afterlife seems in many peoples eyes to be an oxymoron. Yet ruling out the god hypothesis doesn’t necessarily mean that everything monotheists associate with their god must be ruled out also.

Through a series of ingenious experiments, Albert Einstein demonstrated how time is relative to the observer as opposed to absolute, as was previously considered the case. Yet it was already known that coma patients were capable of living out entire lifetimes in the space of just a few months or even weeks with the same phenomenon being associated to a lesser extent with dreams. Meanwhile, on another continent, Sigmund Freud was developing his ‘psychodynamic theory’ and explaining how unconscious defence mechanisms were capable of shielding people from painful events. One of the most painful, yet inevitable, events of all is seen by many as being death itself.

2007-10-19 00:52:39 · 24 answers · asked by Locust Eater 2

Take Proverbs 31 for example... in the New World Translation that they (created and) use, the word wife (ba'al) is replaced by the word "owner". Now this is part of the definition from Strong's:

H1167
בּעל
ba‛al
bah'-al
From H1166; a master; hence a husband, or (figuratively) owner (often used with another noun in modifications of this latter sense: - + archer, + babbler, + bird, captain, chief man, + confederate, + have to do, + dreamer, those to whom it is due, + furious, those that are given to it, great, + hairy, he that hath it, have, + horseman, husband, lord, man, + married, master, person, + sworn, they of.


So my question is, why would the word "owner" be used exclusively, and not the word "husband" as is its implication... nor any other closer words like "lord", and how is this usage explained to JW's??

Thanks for your input, and keep it nice.

2007-10-19 00:50:54 · 7 answers · asked by AngieMama 3

I grew up in the Church of Christ - but over time as I began to study and pray on my own; I grew tired of all the legalism, hypocrisy and especially judgmental attitudes in that particular body of believers.

That was over 20 years ago but I was wondering today about some of those beliefs, if they are still in effect today like....

1) Do they still believe instrumental music in worship service is a sin?
2) Do they still believe they are not just another denomination, but the one true church of Christ?
3) Do they still believe other Christians in other denominations are going to hell because they are not saved members of the one true church?
4) Do they still preach that dancing and mixed bathing are sinful, immoral behaviors (I swear when I was in high school, they forbade us to go to our own Senior Prom!)


Anyway - these questions are mostly just for those of you who are still in the Church of Christ or might know something about it?

Thank you all!

2007-10-19 00:50:31 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous