Religion & Spirituality - 12 November 2007

2007-11-12 14:53:29 · 29 answers · asked by Anonymous

What's so bad about the tree of knowledge?
Is this where they got the old saying "ignorance is bliss"?

2007-11-12 14:53:01 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous

What would get an atheist to believe in God? Seeing Him at your doorstep... Walking through a wall... An extremely improbable event... Hearing Jesus in your sleep... Inexplicable rushes of joy or happiness?

2007-11-12 14:52:58 · 36 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-11-12 14:52:02 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous

does it just make it easy demonize someone when they don't share your beliefs?
just like muslems believe all infidels don't have the right to live

2007-11-12 14:48:43 · 52 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-11-12 14:48:26 · 20 answers · asked by Ari R 3

Only Chuck Norris can save you from his all mighty roundhouse kick.

Repent and be saved!

2007-11-12 14:46:43 · 11 answers · asked by Gamla Joe 7

I am having an awful time in life.Someone said to me " Just hold on.Your life can change drasticaly at any moment." Well...that scared me...cause that could be good or bad! All of my luck has been bad.I'm dreading the future.I'm 28 years old.I have almost given up on my life

2007-11-12 14:46:34 · 24 answers · asked by Butterfly 2

In 1 Corinthians Paul talks about eating food sacrificed to idols and making a brother sin. He basically says that it does not matter one way or the other but if eating it would be a stumbling block to a brother then he would not do it.

This lead to a question. Catholics have many statues of saints and do some things that look like idolatry, even though it is not. However as this could easily make a weaker brother fall and end up in idolatry does that make it wrong? Is it possible the Catholic church should remove the statues rather than possibly cause a weaker brother to sin?

This is meant as a serious question and not an attack. Just something that came to me from someone' answer and I was curious to see the replies.

2007-11-12 14:46:31 · 15 answers · asked by Bible warrior 5

Even though this should go in a different section, I love asking the people of the R&S questions :)

It's kind of like the Infinite Monkey Theorem.

"The infinite monkey theorem states that a monkey hitting keys at random on a typewriter keyboard for an infinite amount of time will almost surely type a particular chosen text, such as the complete works of William Shakespeare."

You could apply that to the planet Earth. If there are an infinite amount of planets (or atleast a very large number) in the universe, there is always a chance at least ONE will get it right.

2007-11-12 14:45:46 · 15 answers · asked by :) 4

2007-11-12 14:45:11 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-11-12 14:44:40 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous

Should the christians be punished?

2007-11-12 14:44:10 · 26 answers · asked by Anonymous

We all know (or should), that faith is subjective. Religious belief is not something that can be proved in this life, therefore, what we have is a belief that we are correct.

Given this, how can people justify their intolerance, hatred and discrimination against others?

We have people who think witches should still be killed, based on a misrepresentation of their own scripture. They also claim that homosexuals are evil, and some rejoice when one dies.

Some, in the name of religion in the past were responsible for killing untold thousands of people of differing faiths. It is not unlikely that if it were legally permissible that they would do so today.

With no objective proof possible, and with contradictory religious viewpoints around, and no objective way to determine which is true, how can anyone justify evil toward another based on religious viewpoints?

2007-11-12 14:41:59 · 14 answers · asked by Deirdre H 7

2007-11-12 14:41:26 · 11 answers · asked by lilly kins90 1

Certainly God made more than two angels. Why did he make only two humans? Is it more difficult to make a human than an angel? Is incest only a human concept? Why did God not think of this?

2007-11-12 14:40:37 · 14 answers · asked by OKIM IM 7

People living to be 500, 900, etc yrs old. And why did they shorten drastically after the flood?

2007-11-12 14:38:22 · 23 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-11-12 14:37:53 · 8 answers · asked by poet 2

Im not really aloud to get married but my bf and i are really really comitted to each other. Its not just through each other that we are comitted, its also through God and we feel that we are already married in our hearts and we feel that God understands that..but is that good enough according to the Bible and what God really wants?

2007-11-12 14:37:41 · 7 answers · asked by iforgot540d 1

2007-11-12 14:32:48 · 41 answers · asked by Anonymous

Or would you have some doubt about it?

2007-11-12 14:32:20 · 18 answers · asked by Matthew P (SL) 4

2007-11-12 14:31:48 · 33 answers · asked by Anonymous

If so, can what is destroyable or breakable, be really called perfect?

2007-11-12 14:31:46 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous

yes, i've gotten the whole explaination about these days being the days that the angels take the record of our deeds up to God...but there must be something more to it because God is all-knowing, and knows when we are fasting regardless of what day of the week it is...so please, i would like a more precise and clear answer, not a repetitive one.

2007-11-12 14:31:25 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous

While at college today,after my one class today,I went down to the first floor to just chill and relax with the rest of the ****** down there, and there was this one table where they were taling (arguing really) about the laws of the OT and weather or not they should still be obeyed.I interjected myself into the conversation,becuase spiritual things is one of the main things I'm passionate&fervent about,having grown up both my parents Christians and my dad a minister,I knew and understtood basically what they were talking about.

My understanding as far as the OT laws is this&tell me if you agree or disagree,if you disagree why?

My understanding is The people of the OT salvation was dependent on weather or not they obeyed the law,in which breaking even one,just one,qualified a person for the lake of fire;&unfortunately all broke the law.Now in the NT when Christ came,He fullfilled the law by living a perfect sinless life.When He died on the cross,as John 3:16 says, anyone that...

2007-11-12 14:27:34 · 14 answers · asked by Maurice H 6

2007-11-12 14:26:54 · 27 answers · asked by Anonymous

According to your logic, according to the Bible, according to the advancements of "science," according to whatever you hold to be your authority; what is the "unforgivable" sin? Please back your answer with whatever it is you used to propagate your response. I am just curious.

2007-11-12 14:26:14 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous

i have never in my whole life felt i needed anyone to pray for me. i have no idea why but i strongly feel that the devil is taking way control of my mind. i am so f* !seriously all i think of is serious bad stuff......... today i had multiple suicidal thoughts and i felt the addiction of getting high..... can someone please tell me what i can do? i cant keep my mind focused on anything......

2007-11-12 14:24:32 · 30 answers · asked by Anonymous

I had an interesting thought today while my english class was discussing Paradise Lost. Someone brought up the whole incest issue...how Adam and Eve's children would have had to interbreed to create more people, and then said that those children should have been retarded or deformed or something. Then I suddenly had a light bulb go off. From my understanding of inbreeding, what makes the children have all those defects is because they are essentially amplifying defects already genetically present in the two parents who are related. However, if Adam and Even were created to be "perfect", then their children would have no such defects that would have been amplified by inbreeding, at least until several generations later when mutations started to arise. I don't necessarily *believe* the creation story, but could this be a plausible explanation to naysayers who bring up the inbreeding issue?

2007-11-12 14:24:10 · 25 answers · asked by G 6

2007-11-12 14:22:03 · 11 answers · asked by dogpatch USA 7