Religion & Spirituality - 19 November 2007

2007-11-19 04:46:34 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-11-19 04:43:05 · 38 answers · asked by Anonymous

if you`re an atheist why do you care if what others think? and if you`re a christian aren't we supposed to promote....unconditional love?

2007-11-19 04:42:03 · 25 answers · asked by Anonymous

I understand that there is a lack of archaeological evidence when is comes to events of the Bible(by the way I am not a Christian) but is a lack of Archaeological evidence enough to deem something untrue. There are a lot things we know happened in the past but we have little to no evidence of such as crucification. We know for a fact that tens of thousands of people have been crucified and it was a punishment used for like 800 years by the Romans, yet there is only one piece of of physical evidence of a crucifixation. The reason we know this is because of writings of scribes. One out of 10 thousand leaves evidence isn't is a little ridiculous to ask for 1 peice of evidence for one person.

2007-11-19 04:41:24 · 17 answers · asked by neveroutnumbered 4

Way I see it, there's this book. It describes and names a god, and you all have it. Great, that's nice. (name's the god "God", like naming the new '08 truck model "Truck", but whatever)

BUT, you actually believe this God is real and true for what reason(s)? Many of you have had special feelings, or special experiences. Many of you think the Bible is historically accurate, so everything in it must be true. Many of you think the prophesies are being proved true, so that's why the Bible is the word of God.

However, none of these reasons actually imply that the thing you felt, experience, believed was a miracle is can be exclusively attributed to one single being named God. It could have been a different god for each of you. It could have been a natural phenomenon. It could have been in your mind (another natural phenomenon). I'm sure you're thinking "God wouldn't act that way or let that happen", but you really haven't got that leg to stand on yet. So, how do you know?

2007-11-19 04:39:03 · 16 answers · asked by chem sickle 3

"But as touching brotherly love ye need not that I write unto you: for ye yourselves are taught of God to love one another."


Our Lord' Word

2007-11-19 04:36:25 · 38 answers · asked by don_steele54 6

John 13:34

Would you rather someone loved you as much as they loved themselves (many don't love themselves at all) or as much as Jesus loved you (enough to die for you)?

2007-11-19 04:36:23 · 13 answers · asked by Angie 3

"Married Priests are better Priests". Do you agree?
Do you think that this is true or not? Please explain your opinion and reasons. Thankyou.

2007-11-19 04:35:29 · 37 answers · asked by cute_kitty 1

2007-11-19 04:35:06 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous

I was raised in a very strict Christian household. I left the church when I was 18. Now, years later, I am married to a man who is a Christian. I want my children to be raised with the same values and morals that I was, but I just don't know if I believe that stuff anymore. I just haven't ever seen anything to leave me TO believe. I figure if God really wanted me to believe, he would show me somehow right? I don't NOT believe, I just don't really have any reason TO... What am I, agnostic?

2007-11-19 04:33:29 · 22 answers · asked by . 2

2007-11-19 04:32:58 · 35 answers · asked by Anonymous

The ACLU has just sued the federal government to ban Christmas as a federal holiday, one plantiff recently tried to burn down a Church.
Makes me want to go out and donate to the ACLU, how about you?

2007-11-19 04:32:30 · 14 answers · asked by wayne 4

Just a new take on an old drinking question. :)

2007-11-19 04:31:37 · 8 answers · asked by STFU Dude 6

Well if we can all agree that the world was not created in 7 days but rather 4 billion, and that the first two people were probably not Adam and Eve, and that the whole Tree of Knowledge and the Garden of Eden thing was all probably just a made up story.

If we can all agree on that, then allow me to take it a step further and also dismiss 'original sin' and all that it entails and in turn dismiss Jesus Christ as a redeemer and savior. Wasn't one of Jesus Christ's whole purposes on this Earth to make up for Adam's mistake in the Garden of Eden? Well if Adam and the apple didn’t really exist, than all of the significance placed on Jesus Christ is inappropriate and he was simply just a powerful and influential teacher, not a god.

Did I go to far or does this make so much sense you’re surprised no one else has thought of it?

2007-11-19 04:30:00 · 35 answers · asked by dougfr007 3

To get his way.

2007-11-19 04:26:28 · 20 answers · asked by carl 4

If you only had one month left to live?

2007-11-19 04:25:50 · 17 answers · asked by Special K 2

I forgot who came up with that snivelutionist but I find it so useful to decribe all those who think they know evolution. I'd like just for once these whiners who just yell THERE IS NO GOD! to actually describe how the process of evolution works.

And please don't puke back facts you find in a book or on a website. I mean actually explain it in a way that shows you actually understand it

I know some of the ideas and thoughts behind evolution. I've read them I've studied them and I find them very interesting. I'm not a molecular biologist but I do undestand how sme of it works. So if you could instead of just spouting off could you be a real evolutionist and expalin why its true and not a sinvelutioinist that sounds liek a 5 yr old?

You don't like people quoting the bible and saying there its true
I don't like people saying look Darwin said this so its true
Be a real student learn what you support and explain how it works to the best of your ability. So any takers?

2007-11-19 04:24:06 · 17 answers · asked by Anonymous

How do you make contact? What do you do? Please state your religion of choice & what ritual or method you use to 'receive'.
Thanx.

2007-11-19 04:22:50 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous

How many of you will admit to blocking people who gave you answers you did not like? I have not blocked one. Zip, none, zero. I may not like, agree, or concur with the answers, but I am open to all honest answers. I asked the question, they responded. So how many of you open-minded people on either side have blocked others, and are honest enough to admit it? How many?

2007-11-19 04:20:02 · 61 answers · asked by Anonymous

In other words, what philosophies of Jesus's should an atheist respect?

Anything that references God, the Father, the Kingdom, the apocalypse etc is out.

Anything from the old testament - Golden Rule/Love thy Neighbor - is out.

Any parable that is an allegory for the Kingdom or the apocalypse is out unless it can stand on it's own as a brilliant philosophy.

I think that the philosophies of Jesus are quite useless when viewed through an atheist lens. Sure, there are a couple of good sayings - but honestly what's the big deal?

Remember, this question is about the philosophies of the natural Jesus, not the Christ.

2007-11-19 04:19:57 · 24 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-11-19 04:19:47 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-11-19 04:18:36 · 14 answers · asked by deacon 6

I know that Christ is a prophet, but how do the Muslim people interpret the virgin birth? Do they believe that Mary DID NOT have intercours and that Allah did this miracle, or do you believe that Jesus was just a prophet and was concieved the same as you and I? If so, do you believe Joseph is Jesus's father? Thanks

2007-11-19 04:17:16 · 7 answers · asked by Y!A P0int5 Wh0r3 5

In the early 19th Century a papyrus, dating from the end of the Middle Kingdom, was found in Egypt. It was taken to the Leiden Museum in Holland and interpreted by A.H. Gardiner in 1909. The complete papyrus can be found in the book Admonitions of an Egyptian from a heiratic papyrus in Leiden. The papyrus describes violent upheavals in Egypt, starvation, drought, escape of slaves (with the wealth of the Egyptians), and death throughout the land. The papyrus was written by an Egyptian named Ipuwer and appears to be an eyewitness account of the effects of the Exodus plagues from the perspective of an average Egyptian. http://ohr.edu/yhiy/article.php/838

http://www.anchorstone.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=155&Itemid=53

2007-11-19 04:16:42 · 18 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-11-19 04:16:40 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-11-19 04:16:37 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous

Since Luther did just that.


Doesn't that make your whole manmade beliefsystem crumble?

2007-11-19 04:16:27 · 11 answers · asked by carl 4

People still sin. It didn't prevent that. People still get punished for sinning by being sent to the flaming abyss, so it didn't prevent that. Why should one care if some dude got executed 2,000 years ago?

2007-11-19 04:16:05 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-11-19 04:15:20 · 19 answers · asked by Anonymous

at work was rubbing her breasts up against me, and I enjoyed it? I am not gay, and have never thought about it, but that kind of excited me when she did that, does that mean I am gay and will go to hell?

2007-11-19 04:14:57 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous