Religion & Spirituality - 7 December 2007

I'm a christian and some things are a little hard to grasp. manly the old Testament stuff. Adam and Eve, Jonah and the Whale, Job, The Walls of Jericho.

I believe it to a certain extent but some of the stories really do seem like metaphors. So how do you deal?

2007-12-07 04:22:30 · 22 answers · asked by Anonymous

Do you promise to love and cherish him, in sickness and in health, for richer for poorer,
for better for worse, and forsaking all others, keeping yourself only unto him/her, for so long as you both shall live?

If so, wouldn't this be instructing to let nothing (including a god) come between you?

Just curious.

2007-12-07 04:20:30 · 17 answers · asked by Star 5

in the midst of this promotional boycott of the movie, the golden compass, talking all about how it's not only anti-catholic, but pro-atheist (meaning it's automatically bad), i have not heard one person voice anything in defence of atheists. in stead, we sit back and just allow the real whiners to complain all they want.

2007-12-07 04:18:36 · 22 answers · asked by just curious (A.A.A.A.) 5

Some of the questions here have inspired me to revisit what I learned in my college Islamic philosophy class, but I can’t find the specific material I want. I have Googled for Ibn Sina’s proof of the existence of God, but I cannot locate a website that simply spells out the proof; they’re all articles or papers that reference it.

Additionally, I cannot recall who is credited with the proof of the perfection of God, so when I Google it, I get better known western philosophers but I want the Islamic philosophy version.

Any suggestions of sources would be helpful!

I’m even willing to go look at a real live book if needed.

2007-12-07 04:17:16 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous

Also, why do they think that in order to pluralize a word in English, you need to add an s to the end of it?

2007-12-07 04:16:35 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous

Since you believe there is nothing beyond this current life, doesn't that mean your life is pointless? If it is pointless, why even bother? I am serious in this question. I have a major illness and if I thought this was all there is to life, I would ventilate my skull. I do not fear death nor do I fear God, but I just want to do more of His work before I meet Him face to face.

How do you keep up any hope if you feel this is all there is?

2007-12-07 04:15:42 · 26 answers · asked by Anonymous

http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Leviticus%2012;&version=9;

2007-12-07 04:15:09 · 6 answers · asked by Gap™ ( uses the WikiBible™ ) 2

2007-12-07 04:13:02 · 13 answers · asked by dj.hatchytt 3

If it is all "in heavenly father's plan", how can any death be considered "untimely"? I've been to many services for the departed at many different churches of different religious faith and people always speak of the death as "untimely". This does not make scense...

2007-12-07 04:12:26 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous

I love the answers by Christians, for example, where they always have to slip in "God is real". Besides making me laugh, thanks for that, it also makes me confused because you appear to believe that by stating that it makes it true. That is like a person stating "Santa Claus is real", makes that true as well. Can you see how childish that actually is? Those are the statements that a child makes, stating and believing in the tooth fairy or the Easter bunny or Santa Claus or the Flying Spaghetti monster or God does not make them real at all.

2007-12-07 04:12:00 · 15 answers · asked by disturbed001500 2

A yes or no answer is good enough...Thanks.

2007-12-07 04:10:44 · 18 answers · asked by Anonymous

One that didn't try and exterminate others?

Can an atheistic society live in piece with others and not try and exterminate them or oppress them?

I'm serious in this question and it is not an attempted slap at secularism. I have searched for a society like some here would like to have but have not found one single example of one that didn't oppress or try and exterminate others.

Look at China, the former USSR, Nazi Germany, Cuba etc...

Isn't this a strong reason to shun secularism?

Religious countries have had oppression but I don't know of any that killed millions like the secularist ones have. And before you try and use Nazi Germany as a "Christian" society, it won't fly. If they were a supposed Christian society why did Hitler exterminate millions of Christians? He pretended to be religious to win over the people and once in power he turned on them and killed even his top SS for being Christian.

2007-12-07 04:10:33 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-12-07 04:06:57 · 34 answers · asked by Eleventy 6

Many often say religion is sexist because it was created & written by man. Other views are that men & women are equal but different. What is your belief? Is gender equality compatible with religion?

"Miriam is a popular figure among some Jewish feminists"
"Miriam is called a prophetess"

2007-12-07 04:05:21 · 20 answers · asked by Anonymous

For example:

Abundance

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Word_of_Faith

2007-12-07 04:05:06 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous

You...enlarged me when I was in distress." Psalm 4:1 AMP

Did you know that the hermit crab looks for a shell that fits him, then lives in it till he outgrows it? At that point he has to scurry along the ocean floor and find a bigger one; it's a process that repeats itself throughout his entire life. Are you clinging to something that no longer fits you, just because it's easy and familiar? David said, "You...freed me when I was hemmed in and enlarged me when I was in distress." To develop and grow spiritually you must be willing to move out of your comfort zone and deal with a little 'distress.'

What worked for you yesterday may not work today. Maybe it's a job you've outgrown, a relationship you need to reexamine or a behavior you need to change. Regardless of what it is, never become so 'settled' that you can't let go and move on when you need to.

Patience and persistence are admirable, but they won't work in situations you've outgrown. Instead of hanging in and trying harder, at certain points you have to stop and ask yourself, "Is this situation good for me?" If you're not sure, ask God for "an understanding mind [to]...know the difference between...right and...wrong" (1Ki 3:9 TLB). His Word says, "If you need wisdom...ask [him], and he will [gladly] give it to you" (Jas 1:5 NLT).

When God says it's time to move on, it's because there's another shell out there that will fit you even better. But you can't take occupancy till you vacate the old one. So how about it - are you ready for bigger things?

2007-12-07 04:04:58 · 10 answers · asked by Fearfully and Wonderfully made!! 2

2007-12-07 04:04:33 · 19 answers · asked by The Church Lady 3

That Muslim women are mistreated and beaten because of verse 4:34 in the koran? I mean, just because it says the men can beat them, doesn't mean they do right? It's just like symbolism? Maybe like how at communion, Christians pretend to drink Christ's blood and eat his flesh, but it's just a cracker and grape juice...right? I mean, just because they actually do get beat, or shall I say, there are "alleged" reports of them being beat and mistreated...and they are forced into lives of subjugation in most Muslim lands, that doesn't mean anything right? I mean, as long as they toe the line and obey the master, er uh, I meant *man*, everything is copastetic, correct? So it's not all bad, right? The beating clause of 4:34 is basically a last resort, like when you are training a puppy to be housebroken, and you first use redirection, then time in the kennel, then a swat with a rolled-up newspaper...same deal, right? Just with human females?

Am I tracking now Drill Sergeant?

2007-12-07 04:04:17 · 9 answers · asked by goldenchilde11 2

Something like: "Whose sins you shall forgive, they are forgiven, whose sins you retain, shall be retained." Thank you.

2007-12-07 04:03:43 · 4 answers · asked by gismoII 7

What have you understood from this? Have you gotten the point that honor killing has no place in Islam? And about 4 witnesses, that has nothing to do with rape. When the woman is tested and examined and its proven, that is proof enough and the rapist is to be stoned. What say you?

"The Muslims who participate in honor killings try to justify the act as following Islam and the instruction of Allah, but they are wrong. Islamic law (Sharia) is against the act because the family should refer to the law rather than carrying out their own punishment.

Islamic law prescribes severe punishments for extramarital sex, by both men and women. The crime of zina (consensual extra-marital intercourse) is a Hadd (very serious) crime mentioned in the Koran. But the Koran specifically requires four eyewitnesses to prove the crime of zina. There is no evidence unless there are witnesses.

2007-12-07 04:03:29 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous

Evening in down times

2007-12-07 04:03:27 · 4 answers · asked by Ithnkgo! 1

Do you think Catholics are strict?

2007-12-07 04:02:47 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-12-07 04:02:39 · 14 answers · asked by Birdy is my real name 6

I understand this is chronologically significant with regard to 'end time' prophecies in the Bible. Is the 6,000 year mark still to come? Or has it passed?

2007-12-07 04:00:55 · 18 answers · asked by Anonymous

I believe that religion is a crutch for people to fall back on, who aren't strong enough on their own to be a good person. Instead they need the fear of hell and a wrathful god to make them do good in the world. Which most "believers" seem to throw out the window most of the time and are easily exempted in their mind due to their admittance of guilt to an invisible figure that will wash away any "sin" they've done. Having to have justification to be a good person while alive to make it to a false kingdom in the sky.

If god is real, then where did dinosaurs come from? Why is evolution a proven and still ongoing process? How can you believe a book that has been changed so many times for reasons of control and power? Why would he tell his followers to hate fellow men/women due to their sexual preferences and beliefs?

I'm not writing this to start a war, I want to know why you believe without all of the mumbo jumbo from an outdated text.

I have nothing against people who believe.

2007-12-07 03:59:30 · 27 answers · asked by zombiekilla45 2

“And the swine, though he divide the hoof, and be cloven footed, yet he cheweth
not the cud; he is unclean to you”.
“Of their flesh shall ye not eat, and their carcass shall ye not touch,
they are unclean to you.” [Leviticus 11:7-8]
Pork is also prohibited in the Bible in the book of Deuteronomy
“And the swine, because it divideth the hoof, yet cheweth not the cud, it is unclean unto you. Ye shall not eat of their flesh, nor touch their dead carcass.” [Deuteronomy 14:8]
A similar prohibition is repeated in the Bible in the book of Isaiah chapter 65 verse 2-5.

It seems that it does so why do ppl still eat pork?

2007-12-07 03:59:25 · 30 answers · asked by Ṣaḥābah . 5

Do you know who changed this belief? When and why was the cross changed to the torture stake?

2007-12-07 03:58:50 · 23 answers · asked by Jereme K 3

2007-12-07 03:58:00 · 12 answers · asked by 6th Finger 2

Do you see what is happening? Everyone wants to know what Mormonism is all about now, and when they find out how weird it is, it ain't gonna be pretty for you. They aren't going to find out about it from you, they'll look on the internet.

2007-12-07 03:57:35 · 15 answers · asked by Meat Bot 3

2007-12-07 03:57:02 · 27 answers · asked by Anonymous