Religion & Spirituality - 28 November 2007

Don't you just love that saying? It just hits the nail right on the head.

2007-11-28 08:05:22 · 10 answers · asked by Alex H 5

they wouldn't be avoiding you in droves?

*I need a grown-up!*

2007-11-28 08:03:58 · 17 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-11-28 08:03:29 · 13 answers · asked by Je Marche Drôle 3

How many of you are "pro-life", yet also support the death penalty and the War in Iraq?

2007-11-28 08:01:46 · 12 answers · asked by Erik 2

to keep you from thrashing around while they slice out your organs?

Don't believe me?

http://www.geocities.com/organdonate/AAACh2DonorsMayNeed.html

A third-generation freethinker

2007-11-28 08:01:18 · 18 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-11-28 07:59:28 · 2 answers · asked by nickpatel1o1 2

Why is there so little interest in the genetic line of the promise today? If he was hated for dispising his birthright then, would one of Jacob's children be hated now for dispising theirs? Or has the Judge changed His mind?

2007-11-28 07:57:06 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous

did you have doubts at some point, or do you now?
do you fake it?

2007-11-28 07:56:13 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous

the Jews stole the land of modern day Israel when:

Saul established his kingdom somewhere around 1025 BCE...

King Solomon's Temple had been standing 1,000 years before the Romans sacked it...

The Lefty's beloved United Nations ordained the partitions of the Middle East...

The land divided by the U. N. gave the Palestinians (a term invented in 1946) Gaza, grabbed by Egypt, and the West Bank, grabbed by Trans-Jordan...


Who stole what from whom???

2007-11-28 07:55:56 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous

TASLEEMA NASREEN is a hot cake these days. May be she always was but for all the wrong reasons. I mean, let's be honest, how many of us even knew her before she came out of her closet with her profane piece of writing? She certainly has a large audience now, considering the "HATE ISLAM" campaign running all over the world. Not surprising how she has found sudden admirers in the prejudiced political parties of India. I have no complaints as I know she will only manage to influence people who were, as it is, waiting for a voice to reverberate their hatred for the religion. What bothers me is the way Muslims are behaving towards the whole issue. I understand that she has vomited her blasphemy in the name of books but are’nt we Muslims living up to her misconceptions about ISLAM and Muslim men by behaving equally bad with her? After all she is a woman. Don’t you think the best way to prove her wrong in her prejudices about ISLAM is by being tolerant with her? Even if she is trying to gain any cheap publicity by doing such things, by ignoring her we will have bursted her bubble even before it takes shape? Most importantly, Why and How did we forget what our PROPHET MUHAMMAD (P.B.U.H) taught us? Did HE (P.B.U.H) not suffer; at the hands of HIS (P.B.U.H) own people when HE (P.B.U.H) set out to spread the word of ALLAH? Had ISLAM been the second most followed religion in the world if HE (P.B.U.H) would have reacted the way we are reacting today? There are several HADITHS which hint us at how HE (P.B.U.H) would have handled HIS (P.B.U.H) or critics of ISLAM in today's scenario.

To begin with, PROPHET HAS SAID "HE, WHO IS NOT MERCIFUL TO OTHERS, WILL NOT BE TREATED MERCIFULLY", BUKHARI (073:042)

Let us see .how he practiced what HE (P.B.U.H) preached.....

1. His story with the Jewish neighbor who used to THROW GARBAGE at his doorsteps:
The Prophet had this Jewish neighbor. Everyday the neighbor would throw his garbage at the Prophet’s door! Then, one day, the garbage stopped appearing. The Prophet wondered why and asked people about what had happened to his neighbor. He was told that the neighbor was sick, in bed. So, the Prophet went and visited his Jewish neighbor to make sure he’s OK and to wish him well. So touched was the Jewish neighbor that he later converted to Islam.

2. His story with the people of Ta’if who’s children STONED him:
One day the Prophet visited the village of Ta’if near Mecca. He was hoping to find support amongst the people of that area after he was shunned by many of his own tribe in Mecca. Instead of support, he was faced by a mob of children, sent by their parents to throw stones at him. He was hit by the hail of stones. He was bleeding, and was barely able to escape into an orchard. He could have asked for God’s wrath to be brought down upon the village, but instead he prayed that one day these people will see the light.

3. His story with his tribe after he conquered Mecca:
When the Prophet’s army finally conquered his hometown Mecca, many of the leaders of his tribe were filled with fear. They feared the conqueror’s retribution. Most of them NEVER BELIEVED in him. They TORTURED and KILLED many of his followers and CONSPIRED TO KILL HIM in the early days of his Prophethood. What did the Prophet do? He told them: “Go. You are free!”

ARE WE EVEN REMOTELY CLOSE TO THIS?

2007-11-28 07:54:41 · 22 answers · asked by Anonymous

school hall monitors trying to send you to the principle's office all the time??

2007-11-28 07:53:09 · 25 answers · asked by Anonymous

Will God Shirley give me the ol' glad eye and answer my prayers, given my intense commitment and focus?

2007-11-28 07:52:55 · 24 answers · asked by Brandon's been a dirty Hore 5

If faith and reason are two methods of attaining knowledge, does that mean that faith is a process that does not utilize reason?

((I base this on the claim that faith concerns spiritual matters while reason concerns physical ones and that faith completes a task that reason cannot))

2007-11-28 07:52:03 · 18 answers · asked by Eleventy 6

Just wondering what people rather say/hear...No I'm not one of those people that actually lose sleep over this....but I am catholic and have been brought up to say Merry Christmas...I do acknowledge other religions, but its just my preference.

2007-11-28 07:51:24 · 15 answers · asked by Leannamick 5

that baby Jesus wasnt mentioned in the 'holiday' play?

2007-11-28 07:51:04 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-11-28 07:50:41 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous

Which is the more Natural State?

2007-11-28 07:50:39 · 17 answers · asked by Premaholic 7

I was made by sperm and egg cells. Two different people. They were made by two different people and so on until it reaches God (if he exists). But surely just because he may have started off the chain, doesn't mean he made me.

I can make a sandcastle, does that mean God made it since he started off the chain?

Conclusion; My parents made me, God didn't, that would be silly ;)

2007-11-28 07:50:37 · 19 answers · asked by Anonymous

What do you call people that Hate. deny GOD, loathe religion?

And with this live and let live attitude why should a person give a rat's patoon about what anyone does if it does not concern them personally?

If people want to have sex with multiple partners, use illegal drugs why should a society that spouts *live and let live* care if those people come down with a veneral disease, have a unwanted pregnancy or end up with HIV from a dirty needle? what if society says *Well since I was told to *Shut Up* regarding what I think is moral and will protect people from harm, now don't come running to me now when you are in trouble...

Which way do you want it? Should we have to pay for a society that does not want to hear what we have to say about right and wrong yet when society goes arraye you ask us to pay for it???

2007-11-28 07:48:48 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous

The Devil is calling upon it's calvary to amass and gather. He is leading his team of kings, dictators, and rulers of other nations in his global assertions.
Christianity is the enemy and America is it's protector. Israel, America, Etheopia, and other Christian nations will be at war. This war is the Last War and it is fortold in the Holy Bible in which God's people will become few. God's people will be forced into false religions and forced to live Satan's law. Nations are binding together now against the peace process going on in Maryland (Yahoo News) and uniting against the Christian Nations. I forsee America and the world will fail.
Islam will be the official religion of this world. Christians will be forced to either convert or recieve death and redicule. The innocent Islamic people will be slain by demon bombers and evil leaders. These leaders will fool their friends, their enimies, and achieve their goal as long as nothing is being done to prevent it. You think?

2007-11-28 07:48:28 · 18 answers · asked by J.C. 2

I have three stubborn Old Testament bible verses that raise the question,
How can Jesus have been begotten of the Father BEFORE all worlds, begotten, not made, being of ONE substance with the Father by whom all things were made?
This means that when God of the OT was saying these things, Jesus, was right beside him.
1Sa 15:29 He who is the Glory of Israel does not lie or change his mind; FOR HE IS NOT A MAN, that he should change his mind.”

Hsa 11:9 I will not carry out my fierce anger,
nor will I turn and devastate Ephraim.
For I am God, AND NOT MAN
the Holy One among you.
I will not come in wrath.

Num 23:19 God is NOT A MAN, that he should lie,
nor a son of man, that he should change his mind.

Don’t tell me Jesus was part man-part God and in these passages God was just talking about the part of trinity that was God. This would be called a demigod.

Do you Christians see how much of your REASONING you have to SHUT OFF to believe with your whole heart/soul/MIND?

2007-11-28 07:45:20 · 16 answers · asked by dougfr007 3

My best friend for 7 years is avoiding me and I really miss her, she joined the church 10 months ago and studies Bible every monday night. She no longer wants to talk to her old friends anymore because it reminds her of 'sinner' life, she also carries alot of guilt of what her past 'sin' e.g flirt with guys, go to nightclubs. I tried to let her go but i really miss her, we chat over the phone 2 nights ago, she kept telling me how stupid she was living in a sinner's life and how loving God must forgave her etc... i coudln't let her go because our deep friendship but she seems to be pretty easy to forget me. what should i do? should i pretend to be interested in christianity just to get her stay as a friend? (i am a strong atheist but i have no problem hiding it)

2007-11-28 07:44:40 · 21 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-11-28 07:43:40 · 20 answers · asked by ? 3

I am an English teacher from England, teaching in Saudi Arabia. I have noticed that the Americans have very bad grammar.

For example they will say : 'did you eat'? when you should say 'have you eaten'? (because the time is unspecified). Since all Americans seem to make this mistake (using the past simple instead of the present perfect tense) should I just accept that they are speaking American (not English) and not correct them?

2007-11-28 07:41:55 · 56 answers · asked by Anonymous

because your friends go there, because the priest is good, or you have a club or group or meeting there you enjoy going to after church?

Silly to say so many base going to church for some reason, but honestly, I will go into any Catholic church just because God is there and he welcomes all, anytime, any hour not based on who does what, or if there's a great sinner.
I have to look at myself and my relationship with God.

2007-11-28 07:41:49 · 11 answers · asked by Born Valentine's Day 5

Passages quoted from KJV on E-sword:
Rom 9:24 Even us, whom he hath called, not of the Jews only, but also of the Gentiles?
Rom 9:25 As he saith also in Osee, I will call them my people, which were not my people; and her beloved, which was not beloved.
Rom 9:26 And it shall come to pass, [that] in the place where it was said unto them, Ye [are] not my people; there shall they be called the children of the living God.

When one flips over to Hosea we find this:
Hos 1:10 Yet the number of the children of Israel shall be as the sand of the sea, which cannot be measured nor numbered; and it shall come to pass, [that] in the place where it was said unto them, Ye [are] not my people, [there] it shall be said unto them, [Ye are] the sons of the living God.

Explain who these 'gentiles' are actually according to Hosea and why Paul excludes all others in Romans 9 from the covenants, adoption, and promises?

2007-11-28 07:41:12 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-11-28 07:38:51 · 32 answers · asked by ricnoodle 4

2007-11-28 07:38:21 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous

Why must we have this debate about whether (or not) we evolved from a bunch of dim-witted monkies? The Bible CLEARLY states that we was created by Gawd, so can't we focus on something else that's more important like coming up with a cure for homosexuality?

2007-11-28 07:37:55 · 29 answers · asked by Anonymous

Why has there been any changes (even saviors for that matter) over the course of religion? Shouldn't God have gotten it set the right way, the first time?

2007-11-28 07:37:43 · 14 answers · asked by thebuffettour 2