Religion & Spirituality - 9 December 2007

Doesn't that put us women in a special condition? God needed a womb, but no sperm. Don't you think we are blessed and... essential? At least, in this example, we were, and what an example!

I am not feminist, but I know we women have suffered a lot of discrimination for centuries and centuries, and yet we are strong, wise and essential.

2007-12-09 15:24:59 · 16 answers · asked by Janet Reincarnated 5

2007-12-09 15:24:01 · 7 answers · asked by Jason S 1

About an hour ago I asked the following question: how can an all loving God consign people to eternal torment? The most common answer I received is that while God is loving, He is also just.

To say that God is just is to say that He practices justice, which the Oxford American Dictionary defines as: the quality of being fair and reasonable.

My question is this: how is infinite punishment for finite sin "fair and reasonable." A just punishment should be equal to the wrong committed, should it not?

2007-12-09 15:23:29 · 20 answers · asked by Harbinger 3

do yourself a favor & do a google search on "christian pagan Holidays, you'll be surprised then read 2 thessollonians cha 2 & see what you think

2007-12-09 15:21:05 · 27 answers · asked by zorrro857 4

I'm new here and just kinda curious.

2007-12-09 15:19:59 · 13 answers · asked by John D 1

can someone explain what has been going on while I've been gone?
1. Why do a bunch of people now have AM after their screen name? Is this some new inside joke I'm not aware of?
2. Also, why do a lot of people have Prince in their screen name?

2007-12-09 15:18:48 · 15 answers · asked by lindsey p 5

The age at which He was baptized was the law of public ministry, it was required. Now, if Jesus had been baptized by any other way other than by sprinkling of water (as it said at that time), would Jesus have broken God's law for public ministry? Some say He was imerged in water by His cousin John the Baptist. What's your take on this whole subject?

2007-12-09 15:18:00 · 14 answers · asked by ZORRO 3

This may seem like a stupid question if read at only face value. but seriously, Hanukah began 200 years before Christ was born. Jesus celebrated Hanukah as a young Jew. Jews and Christians BOTH use the old testament and follow it as gospel. The main difference between the two religions is bacically Christians believe in the New Testament and that Christ has already been on the Earth. Jews do not believe in the New Testament portion of the bible as they do not believe that the son of God has visited the Earth yet and are still in waiting. Since Hanukah falls under the old testament portion of the Bible and is even talked about in the book of Deuteronomy SOOOO..... Why then do Christians not celebrate it?

2007-12-09 15:17:25 · 18 answers · asked by Keith C 5

If you had someone you dearly love dying of cancer, You wouldn't want someone (like Jesus) to come along and save them from that? Are you even interested in knowing how that is achieved? Because I can tell you, Jesus has defeated cancer. But people who are not his friends are not heirs to his secrets and gifts.

2007-12-09 15:14:52 · 23 answers · asked by sisterzeal 5

Let's just assume for a minute that there is a higher power and She is a Goddess who is the living Universe. She is everything that exists, including you.

If that were true, how would it affect your view of the world? Of religion?

Have you ever seriously considered the possibility? Why or why not? Can you really say you've considered religion rationally if you haven't?

2007-12-09 15:13:20 · 21 answers · asked by Morgaine 4

in the movie Jesus Camp, it was clearly said whats the point of worrying about this earth when Jesus will take christian to a better place, should we just dump rubbish everywhere and start using plastic bags asap?

2007-12-09 15:12:34 · 53 answers · asked by tostosh 1

Seriously I am horrified. I have stayed away for about a week and this place is overrun with people hating and trying to destroy anything that resembles belief in God. We don't have to worry about the Golden Compass. We should just get ready for Jesus to come. Amen?

2007-12-09 15:12:32 · 11 answers · asked by sisterzeal 5

Here's how he felt with the early israelites (Jews) his then chosen people
*** rs p. 178 - p. 180 Holidays ***

Is there any objection to sharing in celebrations that may have unchristian roots as long as it is not done for religious reasons?

Eph. 5:10, 11: “Keep on making sure of what is acceptable to the Lord; and quit sharing with them in the unfruitful works that belong to the darkness, but, rather, even be reproving them.”

2 Cor. 6:14-18: “What fellowship do righteousness and lawlessness have? Or what sharing does light have with darkness? Further, what harmony is there between Christ and Be′lial? Or what portion does a faithful person have with an unbeliever? And what agreement does God’s temple have with idols? . . . ‘“Therefore get out from among them, and separate yourselves,” says Jehovah, “and quit touching the unclean thing”’; ‘“and I will take you in, . . . and you will be sons and daughters to me,” says Jehovah the Almighty

2007-12-09 15:08:53 · 20 answers · asked by zorrro857 4

2007-12-09 15:08:41 · 3 answers · asked by primary_chem 4

2007-12-09 15:08:01 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous

Christians, if wage of sin is spiritual death then why death of Jesus was physical not spiritual? I have learned from other place that punishment of sin is spiritual death. So, how does it work out. According to christian beliefs Jesus had physical death not spiritual

2007-12-09 15:07:03 · 13 answers · asked by Happily Happy 7

languages of the bible like homosexual.. ect.. those words I think they inserted by all the churches.. why do they manipulated the word of the Bible? please tell me a good version of the bible without sectarian words

2007-12-09 15:06:30 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-12-09 15:05:46 · 23 answers · asked by ali 3

2007-12-09 15:03:02 · 17 answers · asked by Orita 3

2007-12-09 15:02:51 · 1 answers · asked by primary_chem 4

If do why and If not why?

2007-12-09 15:01:35 · 14 answers · asked by skinfan23 2

I am agnostic, if you dont know what that is its a religion where you dont know if there is a god, im not an atheists THERES A DIFFERENCE. Is there really a god is my question because what proof is there about god?. A man just made a story of a person, how does that make it true. If god made the earth y is there a scientifical explanation to that " the big bang"?. And if god created the human y does science say that we came from monkeys in africa? If god is supposed to help people and make things better, why is there still killings and genocides? There is no proof that god or jesus was real, just a book made by a man

2007-12-09 15:00:59 · 55 answers · asked by SHESA10 1

If Jesus told you you must be part of a Church besides just being a Christian, which Church would you choose, and which Church would you not choose? Why?

2007-12-09 14:59:24 · 18 answers · asked by Angel Eyes 5

2007-12-09 14:58:11 · 16 answers · asked by Estrella E 4

I understand christian views and atheist views and I want to better understand agnostic views as well.

2007-12-09 14:58:04 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous

Not a catholic bible. Just a plain easy bible for teen girls. I want ti to show love and support for everyone. This includes races, orientations. Just a plain teen bible for girls.

2007-12-09 14:57:09 · 25 answers · asked by Anonymous

"Do not think that I came to bring peace on the earth; I did not come to bring peace, but a sword. For I came to set a man against his father, and a daughter against her mother, and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law; and a man’s enemies will be the members of his household. He who loves father or mother more than Me is not worthy of Me; and he who loves son or daughter more than Me is not worthy of Me. And he who does not take his cross and follow after Me is not worthy of Me. He who has found his life will lose it, and he who has lost his life for My sake will find it." (Matthew 10:34-39)

2007-12-09 14:56:11 · 21 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-12-09 14:52:19 · 23 answers · asked by chrisray 3

2007-12-09 14:51:45 · 10 answers · asked by G m 2

I've been a Christian for as long as I can remember. However, I have read Greek mythology for just as long. I really like the goddess, Athena. I used to tell myself the Greek gods were stories told by men, but isn't that the truth about Christianity, too?

I'm really thinking of becoming a follower of Athena. She is actually not that bad. I wouldn't be bound by so many restrictions then.

2007-12-09 14:51:36 · 13 answers · asked by Elysium 1