Religion & Spirituality - 11 December 2007

Or is just angels and kings and everyone else saying he was?

Please provide a quote if he said that anywhere.

2007-12-11 11:25:42 · 24 answers · asked by Anonymous

This is just making it ok to make up what you think Jesus would do yourself. This is not biblical. It should be What Did Jesus Do. You are creating a Jesus to suit yourself. This is Idolitry!
Do you have your own views
on God?
Idolitry of the imagination is the oldest sin
in the Book, "these men have set up their
idols in their heart..." Ezek. 14:3. God says
that no idolitors "...shall inherit the
kingdom of God." 1 Corinthians 6:9-10

2007-12-11 11:25:21 · 17 answers · asked by Anonymous

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=Ap1rLxbWXQWJAqV1Fuw4_m_d7BR.;_ylv=3?qid=20071211120335AAT7kCw

2007-12-11 11:24:02 · 18 answers · asked by Shawn B 7

2007-12-11 11:23:26 · 19 answers · asked by MR.LV 1

check this page out

http://www.jesus-is-lord.com/tencomma.htm

like we all know catholics pray to idols, yes

2007-12-11 11:22:46 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous

If Yeshua/jesus wandered the country side doing acts of healing, kindness, and preaching love, why isn't that enough for him to be remember for. Why did they add these impossible acts to his story.

2007-12-11 11:21:58 · 17 answers · asked by TheAsender 5

effort, belief and faith led no where. When your heart and soul believed 100%, what is left besides devastation? Thanks.
Nancy

2007-12-11 11:21:19 · 18 answers · asked by Nancy E 2

2007-12-11 11:21:03 · 18 answers · asked by Enigma®Ragnarökin' 7

2007-12-11 11:20:11 · 24 answers · asked by SoulEaterKurizu 5

Which name is better for a little girl? thanx!

2007-12-11 11:19:09 · 24 answers · asked by Anonymous

Well, I've been advised I'm going to hell on this board so many times now I could probably get a group discount for my family and friends.

Why is this such a standard method of getting your point across on here? Atheists don't go around telling people that if they continue to believe in God, there won't be an afterlife.

Hmm. OK, well, I can see why that wouldn't work so well.

Seriously, though. To the guys out there who play this trump card every round, why? Is it part of what you're taught, that non-believers should be threatened with the stick, so you get to keep the carrots? Is this the love thy neighbour policy? Do you actually think I'm going to be concerned about going to a place I don't believe in? I'd be more intimidated if you threatened to send me to Disneyland. Are you glad to tell me this? Happy? Gassy?

Yes, yes. I know all Christians don't do this. Especially you there, fingers poised above the keyboard to protest. But if you have, what's /that/ all about?

2007-12-11 11:14:31 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous

How?
I want to stop being a b**** when I interact with people face to face.

2007-12-11 11:12:55 · 9 answers · asked by rebekkah hot as the sun 7

And not the other way around?

Does he really want people to worship him so much?

2007-12-11 11:09:57 · 44 answers · asked by Anonymous

I don't get it: your eternal merit is based on whether or not you believe in arcane stories, not how you live life. This seems like a collosal oversimplification by God (a supposedly omniscient being). Also it seems a bit harsh to torture people who have lived morally and honestly for an eternity simply because they didn't believe that Jesus was the son of God.

For the record purgatory doesn't exist; it was created by the Catholic Church to play on people's fears during the middle ages and get money.

It seems like an all-knowing being who had an eternity to think about this would at least go to the length to allow people like humanists to go to a seperate place where they 1) don't have to be burned forever and 2) don't have to believe in random stories that were probably translated poorly.

The whole thing doesn't make sense to me, can someone explain it to me?

Also please only post actual answers.

2007-12-11 11:09:20 · 29 answers · asked by mannzaformulaone 3

2007-12-11 11:08:07 · 18 answers · asked by Mike 4

If you believe in the bible word for word doesn't that mean you have to believe everything like:
slavery is OK: "Your male and female slaves are to come from the nations around you..."(Leviticus 25:44-45)

it is wrong to have a field with two kinds of crops:"...do not plant your field with two kinds of seed. Do not wear material woven of two kinds of material." (Leviticus 19:19)

You can't eat shellfish: "But all in the seas or in the rivers that do not have fins and scales, all that move in the water or any living thing which is in the water, they are an abomination to you." (Leviticus 11:10)

This website gives more examples:
http://www.fallwell.com/ingnored%20old%20testament%20verses.html

In case you do not follow the bible word for word:
Doesn't that mean that the Bible is supposed to be interpreted?
Then who is in charge of the interpretation?
Is it up to every person to interpret the Bible themselves?

I'm just asking, serious answers are appreciated...

2007-12-11 11:08:00 · 14 answers · asked by thatsneakyguy 3

Who do you think would convert to the other's religion first?

If any?

2007-12-11 11:05:20 · 24 answers · asked by Skeptic123 5

Can't apologize, so how to make up for it??

2007-12-11 10:59:46 · 36 answers · asked by Prof Fruitcake 6

Or perhaps for irony, an afterlife for those who don't believe in one, as a reward for our boldness?

Trapped by the cognitive dissonance engendered by hard evidence and common sense, you theists feel obligated to reconstitute society on the basis of arrested development and envious malevolence in a laughable, conceited attempt to justify your warnings.

2007-12-11 10:58:09 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-12-11 10:58:08 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous

Or does the Catholic Church do RCIA in other countries as well?

2007-12-11 10:56:06 · 6 answers · asked by Peter R 3

do any activities on Saturday?

2007-12-11 10:54:27 · 28 answers · asked by Sly Fox [King of Fools] 6

2007-12-11 10:53:09 · 4 answers · asked by anwersvitae 3

since we all know that we are the "whore of babylon", as the very intelligent christians have informed us. does this mean that they all are the daughters of the whore of babylon as they are all offshoots of the true catholic church?


just a thought

2007-12-11 10:51:32 · 16 answers · asked by Adam of the wired 7

Ok this isn't a homework question, just an overall general question, looking to see what your perspective is: How does Jesus' lineage illustrate the steadfastness of God's promise?

Thanks :)

2007-12-11 10:50:18 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous

It makes no sense and makes me an atheist!

2007-12-11 10:48:39 · 17 answers · asked by lolly 3

It makes no sense and makes me an atheist!

2007-12-11 10:47:14 · 19 answers · asked by lolly 3

Do you pray with your hands pointed up, cupped together? With your fingers laced between each other? With your arms crossed?

Do you pray silently, or do you speak outloud?

Do you bow your head?

Do you close your eyes?

Did Jesus, or the early apostles ever discuss the proper way to pray?

2007-12-11 10:46:17 · 28 answers · asked by Anonymous

Full questions:
+Could somebody please help me find historical information about the authorship of the Torah and the Old Testament?

It is easy to find religious information, but historical information is not so easy to find.

*Like, who decided to transcribe the oral Jewish Torah into its written form?

*Was it really a Jewish decision, done before Christ, or was it a Roman Christian decision, done after Christ?

*Why did the Jews willingly hand over their entire (give or take some edits) canon to a new religion called Christianity?

+...And why do Christians talk about the Old Testament like it was always a Christian book? If it is their Christian book right from the start, then it would mean the Romans wrote it - isn't that so?

2007-12-11 10:43:49 · 13 answers · asked by Yahoo user 4

2007-12-11 10:42:30 · 26 answers · asked by Artrock 1