Religion & Spirituality - 7 December 2007

there was a question to atheists, asking if one of my questions was logical or not? in parentheses it said part 1. here's the question:

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=AltzNEbegwIOzASudlb1fNnd7BR.;_ylv=3?qid=20071207134457AAuyh4J

did the asker realize the first question was so bad that funding for the sequel was denied? it's kinda like that bill cosby movie leonard 6. what ever happened to leonard's parts 1-5?

2007-12-07 09:12:34 · 9 answers · asked by just curious (A.A.A.A.) 5

Mormons have been saying they're Christians, but they still send missionaries to thoroughly Christian areas. The missionaries find out that the person they're proselytzing to is a Christian and still try to get that Christian to convert. Why would a Christian try to convert a Christian to Christianity? Other Christian denominations, upon finding out that the person they're proselytzing to is a Christian, no matter the denomination (excluding LDS and JW), still continue with proselytzing. So, why? I know it happens, I've both watched it and experienced it.

I've been curious about this for a while and the spate of Mormon questions got me to thinking of it.

2007-12-07 09:11:07 · 12 answers · asked by Muffie 5

Is it possible for Christianity to have more than half population of this planet as members?
Let's say we have 6.5 billion right now . Can 3.5 billion be Christians? Please think before answer ( bible knowledge is required for this one).

2007-12-07 09:10:39 · 27 answers · asked by PicassoInAction 2

2007-12-07 09:09:06 · 32 answers · asked by Buke 4

Doesn't Catholicism fall under Christianity? I keep telling the lady that I'm Catholic therefore, we believe in the same God. She keeps preaching me to convert to her Christianity, I think, it's Baptist. But we're the same, right? It's not like I'm Jewish or Muslim. What's the difference then? Why?

2007-12-07 09:08:17 · 20 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-12-07 09:07:04 · 26 answers · asked by Anonymous

Judges 8:30-31
30And Gideon had threescore and ten sons of his body begotten: for he had many wives.31And his concubine that [was] in Shechem, she also bare him a son, whose name he called Abimelech. (KJV)

Gideon fathered 71 sons through many wives plus a mistress in Sheche. Is this how the hotel-bible Gideon Society expects us to demonstrate family values?

2007-12-07 09:05:50 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-12-07 09:05:31 · 9 answers · asked by california gurl! 2

Walk around saying offensive things about other peoples religion and very mean things to people who are gay, and then when someone says, that is what I believe and just let me practice that and you can practice your own faith, the person who was doing the former flips out and says "stop persecuting me"
I have seen exactly 16 people do this.
Why did these people do this.

For the Christians who will say I am stereotyping them, please read the question.

2007-12-07 09:03:19 · 20 answers · asked by Anonymous

.. im a christian btw ... and in fact i have no close christian friends on here .... are atheist the friendlier of the 2 species?

2007-12-07 09:00:56 · 28 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-12-07 09:00:36 · 30 answers · asked by Anonymous

does it mean anything? What actually are you swearing to? I know being a Christian, you are swearing before God. But what does it mean for a non believer? Just curious.

2007-12-07 08:59:28 · 32 answers · asked by Anonymous

I am a loving follower of God, and I just had a moment of weakness, when questioned by a young man at a party how the Christian faith explained the Dinosaur theory. Unfortunately I did not know so the young man smirked at me as if he were right?

2007-12-07 08:59:01 · 6 answers · asked by stevenrox1 2

I just read in "Islam Unveiled," by Robert Spencer, that the "prophet" Mohammed married a 9-year old girl when he was in his 50s, and that he had sexual intercourse with her. Is this true? If so, doesn't it mean that over 1 billion people are following the teachings of a pedophile?

2007-12-07 08:58:40 · 22 answers · asked by Shane 7

This question I ask with respect, but with sincere doubts. I believe mantras have true spiritual power, and truly do help us connect more deeply with God, if we choose our mantra/s by divine inspiration.

I'm looking to find some Hindu mantras to increase my spiritual energy. I am attracted to the meaning of Ganesh (remover of obstacles). I'm LDS (monotheistic, believe God is a divine human).

I feel in my heart that God would not have the head of an elephant... I believe there is vast truth in Hinduism, but I feel that there as aspects that aren't true.

I am trying to understand who Ganesh really is... Hindus say that all the gods are really (aspects of) One God.

Each Hindu god is given a certain visage (an image of how they look). Are the images of the Hindu gods believed to be truly representative of their actual appearance, or are the images just a way to remind ourselves of the qualities that each god helps us with?

(And should I capitalise god for Hindu gods?)

2007-12-07 08:58:23 · 30 answers · asked by MumOf5 6

pepole we need to honor GOD more. its about him not us.jesus is lord..

2007-12-07 08:55:32 · 17 answers · asked by BABA 1

why didn't he know he was a muslim, he should have only taken the muslims. its about as strange as christians not knowing that jesus was a jew or that allah, the moon god and his wife allat, was worshipped at the kabbah and other locations from spain to egypt for over 4,000 years.before mohammad and allah. yes' they where gods being worshiped at the kabah before mohammad. is it a law that muslims can't read history?

2007-12-07 08:53:42 · 18 answers · asked by Anonymous

if God is greater than us, then we cannot possibly "HURT" him, if He is compassionate and merciful, if He is love, why would he torture, seek vengeance, condemn, curse, send us to an ever lasting torment, etc? Moreover, if he created us fallible, then why punish us when we fail? Man, like any other living creature, from an amoeba to a whale, is born, growths, develops, peaks and then gets old and dies, these are facts. So why fear an eternal Torment if God is supposed to be so "LOVING"?

2007-12-07 08:52:38 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous

Inspired by this question.

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=AqDXEFx8XHc4U2vSTDyZDCDsy6IX;_ylv=3?qid=20071207120915AAPJOp1&show=7#profile-info-AA10410743

2007-12-07 08:52:00 · 24 answers · asked by Senator John McClain 6

You might say, who cares. But I guarantee you that in the future it will.
A clue. Quantity is not quality.

2007-12-07 08:51:50 · 7 answers · asked by kollo 1

Matthew 10:16

2007-12-07 08:51:39 · 16 answers · asked by Dr. G™ 3

Before I begin, I want to thank everyone who responded to my last question. I have also been asked this question because people I know tend to ask me for advice.

Anyway, not only does religion defines you as a person, it also defines your morals. Personally, I think that doing something that glorifies God with all your heart is the right thing, and anything wrong you do you are forgiven when you realize what you have done and ask God to help you to resist those things. But what do YOU think?

2007-12-07 08:51:00 · 21 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-12-07 08:48:39 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous

I have heard of them, but don't know who or what they believe in. I am curious.

2007-12-07 08:47:04 · 16 answers · asked by DeAnna 5

2007-12-07 08:46:41 · 15 answers · asked by Lisa2000 3

I'm going to try this again...I'll take it one at a time this time.

We will start with this one:
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20071207113735AAqhUxk

Yes, he is asking for confirmation...but three atheists respond that he has a good argument. But looking at it now...do any atheists think his logic is sound and that it is correct to "equate the kingdom of god with nothing"?


Here is why I think it is illogical. He takes a riddle that is a play on words...the answer implies the poor have nothing. So he finds a verse in the Bible that says "blessed are the poor for theirs is the kingdom of god". He then substitues the "nothing" from the riddle...that has nothing to do with Bible...and comes up with his "equation"...."kingdom of god equals nothing".

Please, if you really think this is a sound logical equation...give details on how it is.

2007-12-07 08:44:57 · 29 answers · asked by Anonymous

Did not Jesus say that "all who seek, find"? Yet so many people ask really dumb questions. Didn't any one Go to Sunday School, or perhaps CCD? 2000 years ago a man named Jesus was born & compleatly turned the world upside down. Even the calender denotes this.
What was that all about anyway? Isn't any one curious?

2007-12-07 08:44:01 · 27 answers · asked by Dave G 3

or even asked a Latter-Day Saint questions about their faith?

2007-12-07 08:42:49 · 20 answers · asked by Ethan M 5

I believe we evolved, but I don't believe it disproves the existence of any gods. How do you feel about it?

(I still don't believe in gods anyway :)

2007-12-07 08:40:48 · 27 answers · asked by Anonymous

One of my teachers and I were talking the other day about the Catholic Church and excommunication (removing someone from the faith as punishment). And she asked me a question I have no answer to.

"If someone is excommunicated, is there any way for them to come back or is it forever?"

I had no idea, since I never heard of anyone trying to re-enter the Catholic faith after being excommunicated. Is there such a thing?

Honest and respectful answers only.

2007-12-07 08:39:11 · 17 answers · asked by sister steph 6