Religion & Spirituality - 6 December 2007

and how does it work?

2007-12-06 07:14:11 · 22 answers · asked by Anonymous

1620 the Pilgrims arrived at Plymouth with their Bibles and a conviction derived from those Bibles of establishing a new nation. The Bible was not the King James Version.

The king of England, the Geneva Bible was outspokenly anti-Roman Catholic, Rome was still persecuting Protestants in the sixteenth century. Keep in mind that the English translators were exiles from a nation that was returning to the Catholic faith under a queen who was burning Protestants at the stake. The anti-Roman Catholic sentiment is most evident in the Book of Revelation: "The beast that cometh out of the bottomless pit (Rev. 11:7) is the Pope, which hath his power out of hell and cometh thence." In the end, the Geneva Bible was replaced by the King James Version, but not before it helped to settle America.
Calvin's view that God reigns everywhere and over all things led him to develop the biblical idea that man can serve God in every area of life - church, civil government, education, art, music

2007-12-06 07:12:17 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous

Anybody from Massachusetts out there who can answer?

Christians need to know if the sky is still in place there.

2007-12-06 07:09:08 · 21 answers · asked by Anonymous

I am honestly looking for an answer. Thanks.

2007-12-06 07:08:39 · 29 answers · asked by Anonymous

I guess it must be made up of primarily Jews, Muslims, atheists and Pagans, right? Or are all of these anti-Christian legislative tangoes being perpetrated by... Christians?

Okay, that's just the set up for the question. What I really want to know is this: do you believe that the US government should do what the majority wants, or that they should protect the rights of the minority to have different religious views from the majhority?

2007-12-06 07:08:18 · 28 answers · asked by ZombieTrix 2012 6

2007-12-06 07:06:10 · 7 answers · asked by 4weeksman 2

i'm talking about entertainment, mass media, games, porn, internet, and sports. not just in america but around the world in general.

to the comparatively weak minded, immature, or inexperienced (basically most people as they're growing up) they seem to be irresponsibly affecting the world's youth.

i feel that it's easy to access them with technology's influence everywhere and then you can get sucked in, affected, or worse addicted. the industries then peddle anything, irregardless of what is good or bad for the audiences and individual viewers' psych.

this isn't a religious rant, even coming from a born and grown agnostic, i just feel from the bottom of my heart that these industries and businesses aren't being kept responsible enough for their actions (especially compared to the huge influence they have everywhere around the world..)

2007-12-06 07:05:50 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous

I want to live happily ever after too!

2007-12-06 07:05:38 · 34 answers · asked by ? 6

where can i find in bible, saying that jesus is god!

2007-12-06 07:02:37 · 26 answers · asked by sean paul 3

http://real-us.news.yahoo.com/comics/frankandernest
Comic: Frank and Ernest. Thursday Dec 6, 2007

How is your department doing?

(P.S. question never been asked, rest elbows)

2007-12-06 07:00:51 · 2 answers · asked by Anonymous

Every time I ask a question regarding the death of a newborn baby most Christians say something about them going to heaven because they haven't reached "the age of accountability".

Biblical proof... or is it just made up to support and add logic to the Christian argument

2007-12-06 07:00:18 · 19 answers · asked by Anonymous

The fact that nearly all people throughout history have believed they experience this on a personal level?

If not, can we also dismiss being in love as but a baseless trifle that doesn't exist?

I noticed a LOT of atheists just now arguing that no positive evidence of a Creator has been presented therefore there's no need to refute it, only to make outlandish and random claims about alternate, obviously far-fetched versions of God. But does this belief constitute a positive argument that the ubiquitous direct human experience is evidence?

No easy shots about believing the earth was the center of the universe - that is an external fact, this is internal like Love.

Thanks to all who give thoughtful answers instead of cheap insults so they can feel better about themselves.

2007-12-06 07:00:12 · 21 answers · asked by Anonymous

Why are so many questions on the religious section are nothing more than people looking to make stupid comments and get attention. Before posting some of these I would suggest reading over them to make sure there was a point

2007-12-06 07:00:09 · 20 answers · asked by user76 2

2007-12-06 06:59:47 · 15 answers · asked by Pamela 5

2007-12-06 06:58:41 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous

Where did this myth come from? Last time I check all Jews were white and Jesus was a big time Jew with a geneoligy dating all the way back to King David.

2007-12-06 06:57:53 · 44 answers · asked by Anonymous

What I mean is, why is death the wages of sin? It seems to have been determined as a fixed price between God and Satan, but how/why death as opposed to another sort of punishment?

http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?book_id=52&chapter=6&verse=23&version=31&context=verse

2007-12-06 06:57:11 · 5 answers · asked by Michael 4

to 2007> Do you think people would be worshipping GOD? what religion would exsist? Judaism and ISLAM? many pagan beliefs?

Would people in history created a vision to the world that we would be believing today? Would of the Jewish people and Israel been able to survive? Would the majority of people just dismissed there was a GOD in heaven and scoffed at any religious matters?

IMHO We would of never survived much more than the ancient world if the Lord of All did not grace this planet

Thoughts?

2007-12-06 06:54:36 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous

Which trumps the others and why?

2007-12-06 06:52:46 · 23 answers · asked by Anonymous

What evidence do you have that there ISN'T a dragon hiding under my bed?

Note that I am not belittling people who do or do not believe in dragons, merely suggesting that perhaps questions asking people to prove a negative should be discontinued. Thank you for your attention, and whatever ensuing hilarity might commence.

2007-12-06 06:51:56 · 25 answers · asked by Anonymous

Here in the home of the loser NBA Kings

2007-12-06 06:51:21 · 6 answers · asked by theagitator@sbcglobal.net 2

2007-12-06 06:50:36 · 22 answers · asked by Anonymous

when he said faith without works is dead?

2007-12-06 06:49:36 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-12-06 06:47:54 · 18 answers · asked by Anonymous

First of all, Christianity is an offshoot of Judaism. Most people know that already. It also steals ideas from 3 other religions. God impregnating a virgin is a rip of the Greek God Zeus. Zeus did this several times. Greek mythology was around long before Christianity. Jesus himself is a direct rip off the Zoroastrian Mithras. Mithras was born in December 25th and was also born to a virgin. Mithras raised the dead, healed the sick, and cast out demons. Mithras returned to Heaven at the spring equinox, but before doing so, he had a last meal with his 12 disciples who all represented the 12 signs of the Zodiac. The meal was bread and wine. Zoroastrianism was around long before Christianity. Jesus's death-revival-ascent to ascent to Godhood is a rip off of Egyptian God Osiris was murdered, resurrected, and then ascended to Godhood. Egyptian mythology was around long before Christianity. And Christians claim that their God is the only God that was not man made. Ha

2007-12-06 06:47:51 · 17 answers · asked by Anonymous

Is it that a Mormon President would draw more people into Mormonism?

2007-12-06 06:47:01 · 10 answers · asked by David K 1

I remember reading and answer from a mormon saying that he was a martyr and that he submitted to his enemies even though he was the commander of the most powerful army in Illinois.

On the other hand, I've read that he was the major of Nauvoo and he had a newspaper press destroyed because the first and only issu was very antagonistic towards him. He was imprisoned for this and it was then that his enemies asaulted the building where he was captive and died during the attack.

Is there an official document online that narrates the story according to the C. of J.C. of L.D.S.?

2007-12-06 06:46:10 · 5 answers · asked by Papucho 5

given that none of us are capable of actually PROVING each other wrong (for my fellow scientists who are offended by this statement remember we once thought flogeston was undeniably real) shouldnt we just lay of the battle??

2007-12-06 06:43:33 · 26 answers · asked by Doctor Weird 1

what is the setting of this parable?? and who is involved?? what would be the explanation of terms, circumstances, objects, traditions, culture etc.?? what is signifigant about the story?? how was God revealed or glorified in the parable?? please answer at least one question, and tell me which one you answered, thanx so much....

2007-12-06 06:42:20 · 11 answers · asked by ♥mctrevor♥ 1

What evidence do we have against a creator that started the life of the first single-celled organism and then left us alone/studies us/ignores us?

A creator that started the big bang?



As far-fetched as this is, do we have evidence against it?

Fundie Creationists, don't answer please.

Agnostics may support, and I expect Atheists to give reason against it.

2007-12-06 06:41:21 · 36 answers · asked by Anonymous