Religion & Spirituality - 30 November 2007

& if these matters have suddenly become so important, does that mean they wld have bring you a fuller life if u attend to it earlier? eg. reconciled with estranged love ones, unsaid words, regrets unmentioned, apology not rendered, etc, etc

2007-11-30 03:13:16 · 6 answers · asked by BorgPet6of10 2

more people die every year from heart attacks to old age
what the difference if a tsunami killes them or they all just fall down dead

2007-11-30 03:12:40 · 12 answers · asked by The Doctor 3

and supposed Islamo-fascism?

2007-11-30 03:12:22 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous

I was looking at a website today; www.carm.org. Tricky question it is, the answer was yes. I know all sins are forgivable. What if you don't have time to repent before you actually die? Are you still forgiven.

2007-11-30 03:12:02 · 36 answers · asked by Nicole 2

Sure we are smart and far intelligent than you are but isn't it too presumptuous to label us all, 'Einstein'?

2007-11-30 03:11:22 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous

what is that proof?

(you can't use the bible, because santa has lots of books about him too)

2007-11-30 03:11:11 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous

'Bet we could!

2007-11-30 03:11:00 · 7 answers · asked by chem sickle 3

I can agree with this one point from the believer's stand point..

It sure would make life easier if there were an all powerful being watching over all of us, and fixing our problems...

It would also be nice to find a genie in a lamp...

Do you ever wish that you were wrong?
(not saying "wishing" will make it happen, but have you considered it?)

2007-11-30 03:10:19 · 27 answers · asked by Anonymous

the original text of moses are lost. after a few years eziel and jeramiah found some copies then they translated it with were lost again by 2 centruy. some copies were found later and copied into many religions. 13000 bits and pieces r found now which has been translated and retranslated a 100 times in the last 300 years because the first editions were always full of mistakes.
the one we have now is it authentic or after a few years another edition with come up with different translations.

2007-11-30 03:09:35 · 9 answers · asked by cooool dude 2

Note: Free will is an illusion.

2007-11-30 03:08:38 · 14 answers · asked by Meat Bot 3

2007-11-30 03:04:20 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous

The emerald cockroach wasp (Ampulex compressa) relies on cockroaches for its grisly life cycle. The wasp's sting leaves the cockroach able to walk, but unable to initiate its own movement. It then administers another, more precise sting right into their victim's brain. The venom works to block a neurotransmitter called octopamine which is involved in preparations to execute complex behaviors such as walking.
The wasp then grabs the cockroach's antenna and leads it back to the nest. The cockroach walks "like a dog on a leash". Once home, the merciless wasp lays an egg on the docile cockroach's belly, and the larva, once hatched, devours the hapless insect.

http://www.nature.com/news/2007/071129/full/news.2007.312.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ampulex_compressa

Gruesome but cool video:
http://www.bgu.ac.il/life/Faculty/Libersat/movies/Wasp_movie_short.mpg

2007-11-30 03:02:16 · 19 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-11-30 02:59:58 · 26 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-11-30 02:59:31 · 10 answers · asked by STFU Dude 6

The word RAPTURE is not in the Bible anywhere.
Where does this idea of a RAPTURE COME FROM?
I know that Jesus is coming back as He promised in MANY passages but why preach THE RAPTURE when Jesus Himself never used this word?

2007-11-30 02:58:41 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous

How do we benefit from having free will?

Couldn't an omnipotent God have provided us with any strength, appreciation, happiness, or knowledge that we gain from experience making decisions?

Is the only benefit of free will (to us) trials, tests, hardships, and the possibility of hell?

2007-11-30 02:55:57 · 25 answers · asked by Eleventy 6

If God is so perfect and loving, why would he condemn millions to a fiery fate when he's the one who created them with sin in the first place?

I'm beginning to think there isn't a Hell but rather a type of limbo where people go until they repent their sins for good. Then, they go to Heaven with everyone else. It seems to make more sense than a loving God punishing so many for eternity for sins that can be forgiven in time.

If he tells us to forgive no matter what, why doesn't he follow suit?

2007-11-30 02:55:25 · 25 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-11-30 02:55:09 · 41 answers · asked by anil m 6

The issue of creationism can be settled once and for all by the courts. If there is a murder, and the police find fingerprints and DNA and match those fingerprints and DNA to a suspect--the prosecution will argue that there is no other person on the planet with those two unique characteristics. A good creationist lawyer can argue that God created the world as it is, he therefore could create more than one man with identical fingerprints and DNA. If this is true, then whether God did or not is immaterial--he could. This leaves an element of doubt as to whether the killer is the killer. That God is all powerful should make that doubt a reasonable one if creationsim is correct. Logically, the man would have to be released via reasonable doubt. The court would have no recourse before allowing this arguement but to decide the question of creationsim vs evolution. Regardless what that decision is, one side or the other would appeal all the way to the supreme court.

2007-11-30 02:55:01 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous

Almost everyday, there are tv programs predicting the end of life on Earth through an asteroid, comet, meteor or blackhole but NOTHING ever happens. It's like the rapture people.
There are people teaching that Jesus is coming back to Earth and that His coming is imminent but NOTHING ever happens.

Your reply???

2007-11-30 02:53:34 · 37 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-11-30 02:53:02 · 16 answers · asked by . 3

2007-11-30 02:52:40 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous

I haven't read the Koran. I really don't post much about Islam.

I wonder how many Christians who holler for others to read the Bible have read anything BUT the Bible...

2007-11-30 02:50:12 · 27 answers · asked by chem sickle 3

No matter your answer, can you give chapter and verse proof?

2007-11-30 02:49:40 · 22 answers · asked by bbboz7 3

I have to agree that what's going on is barbaric.

The question is:
How do you see this playing out in the end? Will the world stand by forever and just stare at the stonings and beheadings?

2007-11-30 02:48:04 · 24 answers · asked by Anonymous

northpole@live.com

http://www.cafemessenger.com/info/info_asksanta2.html?ocid=EML_PROED_SantaCTA

Does Jesus have IM?

2007-11-30 02:47:42 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous

If you give a dog two bowls, one with chicken and one with beef, how does he determine which to eat?

(In reality, nobody has free will. It's an illusion)

2007-11-30 02:46:42 · 6 answers · asked by Meat Bot 3

I have many islamic friends and they tend to say stupid things like. "Islam means peace" and "Islamic terrorist is an oxymoron."

And while I don't think Islam on it's face is bad. The horrors that are carried out in the name of Allah go far beyond just a few people in the Islamic world.

Women (and by women I include little girls who should playing with their suzy bake ovens) fleeing a burning building are forced back inside for not wearing the proper, religious clothes. They of course died in the fire.

Women who commit the crime of adultry, are buried up to their necks and have stones thorwn at them until they die. while the people throwing shout "Allah Akbar" ie "God is Great"

A school teach names a teddy bear Mohammed at the request of at student and she is locked up in jail.

A danish artist draws a cartoon that has the image of Mohammed and the Islamic people riot.

I don't see how they can say Islam means peace mean while so many horrors are taken in Islam's name.

2007-11-30 02:45:58 · 24 answers · asked by The Teacher 6

What are some Bible verses on how we should be good representatives of Christianity and God?

2007-11-30 02:43:58 · 6 answers · asked by Squeegy 2

Jesus came across an adulteress crouching in a corner with a crowd around her preparing to stone her to death. Jesus stopped them and said, "Let he who is without sin cast the first stone." Suddenly a woman at the back of the crowd fired off a stone at the adulteress. At which point Jesus looked over and said, "Mother! Sometimes you really TICK ME OFF!"

2007-11-30 02:43:17 · 9 answers · asked by LetsGetReal 2