Religion & Spirituality - 3 November 2007

Any of you religious people want to answer this. Why do places like the vatican for example stockpile billions of dollars in art and crap like that for showboating, while millions go starving throughout the world. Wouldnt the money the church accumulates be better spent feeding starving people and helping make their communities self sufficient instead of extravagant monuments or buildings.

2007-11-03 21:44:16 · 20 answers · asked by ThE RiDdLeR 3

i was just wondering if Christian pastor were the white collars or is it just the Catholic priest's?

2007-11-03 21:44:00 · 5 answers · asked by Eddie P 1

How do you join the Fellowship of Isis when you are 17 years old?
I'm turning 18 in march (thats 5 months!) and the FOI website http://www.fellowshipofisis.com/ says that theres an age requirement :( i need to find an FOI center near me to join, i have to have a parents signature etc. but the nearest FOI is in Chicago IL!!! and i can't go all the way over there! :(

what do you think, should i just wait to 5 months?

2007-11-03 21:43:51 · 4 answers · asked by Bobby The Wolf JPA 3

Not an atheist. I believe the Bible, particularly the New Testament, I believe in Christ and that he is the Son of God.... But I never pray anymore. I used to pray with my first girlfriend but she died and I hated God for a while before becoming a Christian again, but I've never prayed since then. I believe totally in the Christian system but I have not really dedicated my life to God or resisted sin totally, I still give in to many sinful desires..... So I dunno, maybe I should stop associating as a Christian because a Christian should be pure and sanctified from sin and I am not.

What do all you guys think?

2007-11-03 21:41:32 · 25 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-11-03 21:41:19 · 5 answers · asked by Peter D 2

It would be so much easier to get a table at Red Lobster if you folks would just follow your instruction book.

2007-11-03 21:40:40 · 13 answers · asked by 9 O'clock Lonnie 1

Much less comprehend it.

2007-11-03 21:36:43 · 17 answers · asked by Peter D 2

I want to go to a meeting but there are a few people that I want to avoid that go there. One is my brother and his wife. Everytime Im with them I feel low, I think they think Im stupid. Also my cousing goes to the same meeting. They are more wealthy than me and more succesful in life. When we are in family get togethers I feel left out because the talk among themselfs about world issues. When I give my opinion they have this face like "ya sure budy".

Anyway, I want to avoid them because I don't want them to think I go to the meetings for them. Also I want to sit alone, if I go they will invite me to sit by them and I don't want to.

I wish I could go to another meeting but I live in a small town and that the only kingdom hall there in the town.

I want to go and meet other JW's, and if I go with my brother and cousins and their wifes I will just feel low because that is how they make me feel. Also I've noticed that my cousins wife tries to avoid me talking to girl in meetings.

2007-11-03 21:24:06 · 8 answers · asked by johnduo0007 1

Anna - (sorry about above) Matthew 22:30 is being taken out of context. Jesus was teaching about the resurrection of the dead to a sadducces "who say there is no resurrection" vs 23 not teaching the concept of eternal marriage. He only specifies that after the resurrection there is no marriage... he never says the woman wont be married to any of them.
Christ however did teach about the eternal nature of marriage - Mark 10: 7-9
cross reference that with Eccl. 3: 14.
So this mormon doctrine can be substantiate with biblical doctrine.

2007-11-03 21:22:34 · 12 answers · asked by mweyamutsvene 2

I have heard people say that the Bible has many contradictions and many mistakes, but yet when I aks someone to show me the contradicitons and mistakes, they always have an excuse that they will have to look for them and show me them later. This never happens! I believe the Bible is without fault or mistake and that it is the true word of God. My question to all who say there are contradicitons and mistakes, please tell me where these contradictions and mistakes are.

2007-11-03 21:21:39 · 5 answers · asked by Dakota Lynn Takes Gun 6

I believe in God. I belive in Jesus. I think man is corrupt enough to corrupt the orginal bible. For instance i dont speak hebrew nor read it so how do i know its true.

Christians have the reputation to be hypocrites, that reputation proceeds us. I dont believe you have to be Christian to go to heaven. I dont engage in pre-judging a believer. I dont think gays are going to hell, after all im not the big guy so i literally cant judge.

People question my beliefs when they see me act out. I belive Christianity is a "perfect" practice. Toooo perfect. Thats why i want to know why i should be a Christian.

2007-11-03 21:20:55 · 20 answers · asked by supamariobro46 2

2007-11-03 21:03:37 · 2 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-11-03 20:47:58 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous

Why did Christians change their nearly 2,000 yr theology so rapidly ?

Moreover, they are nothing but thieves and robbers who daily eat no morsel and wear no thread of clothing which they have not stolen and pilfered from us by means of their accursed usury. Thus they live from day to day, together with wife and child, by theft and robbery, as arch-thieves and robbers, in the most impenitent security.
--------Martin Luther

But for us Christians they stand as a terrifying example of God's wrath.-----Martin Luther

...but then eject them forever from this country. For, as we have heard, God's anger with them is so intense that gentle mercy will only tend to make them worse and worse, while sharp mercy will reform them but little. Therefore, in any case, away with them!-------Martin Luther


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2007-11-03 20:43:30 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-11-03 20:39:18 · 19 answers · asked by Moon :) 7

2007-11-03 20:34:30 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-11-03 20:20:27 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous

Did God write down somewhere that we should take back an hour in november and take an hour away in may?

2007-11-03 20:19:12 · 36 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-11-03 20:16:11 · 29 answers · asked by Future 5

2007-11-03 20:14:49 · 10 answers · asked by @g@memnon 1

No god/s can be credited, obviously. How do atheists overcome adversity, and most important: would you be capable of the same without your god/s?

2007-11-03 20:09:43 · 19 answers · asked by Anonymous

change their way of thinking and make it a better world?

2007-11-03 20:03:38 · 18 answers · asked by M-S 3

I am a believer; but, I am also a WORRIER! I pray on things and I STILL worry about them! I want to make a positive change. Any suggestions would be appreciated!

2007-11-03 20:01:41 · 13 answers · asked by 100% ♥Creole♥ 7

Sura 5:46
And in their footsteps We sent Jesus the son of Mary, confirming the Law that had come before him: We sent him the Gospel: therein was guidance and light, and confirmation of the Law that had come before him: a guidance and an admonition to those who fear Allah.

Sura 2:85
After this it is ye, the same people, who slay among yourselves, and banish a party of you from their homes; assist (Their enemies) against them, in guilt and rancour; and if they come to you as captives, ye ransom them, though it was not lawful for you to banish them. Then is it only a part of the Book that ye believe in, and do ye reject the rest? but what is the reward for those among you who behave like this but disgrace in this life?- and on the Day of Judgment they shall be consigned to the most grievous penalty. For Allah is not unmindful of what ye do.

2007-11-03 19:58:55 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-11-03 19:58:52 · 4 answers · asked by Gomakawitnessofjesus 7

Most christians are living under the yoke of the law(10 commandments)
Do you not know that we are to repent of the dead works of the law?
To mix faith with the law is the only way to fall from grace.
book of acts ch 15 verse 10
Jesus wasnt turning from his sins when he was baptized by john, he was turning from the law(10 commandments) Which he was born under.
i know how crazy this sound so feel free to e mail me.

2007-11-03 19:56:41 · 6 answers · asked by erickallen101 2

ADAM TO JOSEPH

Ages old earth is prepared ages to Adam, he die at age 930 in the day he sinned. Gen.5:5; Noah born year 1056, age 600, Gen.7:6; in flood year 1656, lives 350 years after flood, year 2006. Shem has 502 years after flood, Gen. 11:10; Terah born 222 years after flood, dies age 205 Gen.11:32; his son
Abraham age 75, Gen.12:4; year 2083, gets the Promised Land covenant. At age 86, Ishmael is born, Gen.16.16; age 100 Isaac is born Gen.21:5; Ishmael age 89, Isaac age 75 & Abraham age 175, they bury him, year 2183. Shem died 25 years before, Sarah died 13 years before Shem.
Ishmael age 137, Gen.25:17; dies year 2231.Gen.25:7,9; Isaac age 60. Gen.
25:26; Jacob born to age 120, Isaac age 180 dies, year 2288. Gen. 35:28,29; Jacob age 130, year 2298, Gen.47:9,11; in Rameses Egypt, 215 years after the Promised Land covenant, he has 70 family members Gen. 46: 27; he dies age 147, year 2315, Gen.47:28; Joseph age 110 dies, year 2368, 712 after flood, 1698 B. C. Genesis ends.

2007-11-03 19:53:08 · 5 answers · asked by jeni 7

My last question was - Is faith superior to reason. A couple of believers responded that faith is based on reason. Which leads to my question - what kind of reasoning.

Is not faith based on circular reasoning - can reasoning in a circle ever be considered reliable?

2007-11-03 19:49:15 · 23 answers · asked by Future 5

2007-11-03 19:47:19 · 49 answers · asked by Anonymous

I'm in Canada,freezing my butt!!!

2007-11-03 19:46:59 · 19 answers · asked by Inou 3