Religion & Spirituality - 22 December 2007

I'd think there life would have improved significantly.
When Jesus was 12 yrs old we hear of him teaching at the temple. Did he have private tutors. Maybe home schooled.
If he had been poor he would have been scraping around helping to make a living for the family.
Then no mention of him until he is 30 yrs of age.
Where was He?

2007-12-22 09:01:29 · 19 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-12-22 09:01:05 · 6 answers · asked by flamespeak 4

I was mostly thinking of converting to Catholicism because it was the same as my ancestors. but I hear they think Jesus was a manifestion of god that put me off a bit. Anyway could you tell me the names of the biggest christian sects

2007-12-22 08:58:16 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous

Would you say that it is predetermined before birth to be an atheist through your genetic make up? Would that be considered an evidence of evolving into more logical conclusion?

2007-12-22 08:58:15 · 28 answers · asked by Traveler 5

Some Christians claim Muhammed declared himself a prophet because he wanted to power but if he wanted power

1) Why did he come with a religious of the purest monotheism in a land where idolatry was the main belief? A religion that was 360 degrees different from the pagan idolatrous belief of the Arabs - if he wanted power he would have compromised on this and followed their beliefs - (much as politicians compromise to get power)

2) Why did he come with such a "hard" religion -where you have to pray 5 times a day (including getting up before sunrise), fast a whole month, give 2.5% of your wealth to the poor and abstain from drinking ? If he wanted popularity and power he would have made a religion with no rules

3) In addition to idolatry people in Arabia loved alcohol - it was as much part of their culture as it is modern US culture - yet the Prophet called for it to be banned- hardly popular
If I stood on an election platform in 2008 of banning alcohol do you think I'd get electe

2007-12-22 08:56:24 · 2 answers · asked by shaybani_yusuf 5

why is it that when Muslims hear about someone who is not following the islamic teachings or way they say that person is not a true muslim?
I mean as long as they believe in Allah and prophet mohammad(pbuh) they are muslims, am I right?

2007-12-22 08:56:02 · 4 answers · asked by Don_$armad 2

if you could make everyone else an atheist/ catholic/ Muslim/ deciple of the flying spagetti monster, do you think you should? do we have the right to change other peoples beliefs or should their free will always come first, even if they were doing something you considered 'wrong'?

2007-12-22 08:55:45 · 24 answers · asked by Anonymous

She was only 23. A self-proclaimed atheist, she was always questioning our varied religious beliefs, but never belittled them. Never.

Anyway, she was murdered during a car-jacking incident exactly one year ago today. I never got to say goodbye.

2007-12-22 08:54:39 · 59 answers · asked by the-chick 2

Organ and tissue transplants are acceptible:
"The Witnesses do not feel that the Bible comments direction on organ transplants; hence, decisions regarding cornea, kidney, or other tissue transplants must be made by the individual Witness." —How Can Blood Save Your Life?, 1999, p. 28

Blood is an organ of the body and a blood transfusion is nothing less than an organ transplant:
"When doctors transplant a heart, a liver, or another organ, the recipient's immune system may sense the foreign tissue and reject it. Yet, a transfusion is a tissue transplant. Even blood that has been 'properly' cross matched can suppress the immune system." —How Can Blood Save Your Life?, 1999, p. 8

If blood is an “organ” of the body and “nothing less” than a “tissue transplant”, which Jehovah’s Witnesses accept, why do you still reject blood transfusions?

“Witnesses refuse transfusions of whole blood or of any of its four primary components.” —The Watchtower, June 15, 2004, p. 22

2007-12-22 08:54:13 · 13 answers · asked by Jereme K 3

2007-12-22 08:49:39 · 17 answers · asked by adamrbauman 1

Why not just get rid of the 4th one?

2007-12-22 08:47:08 · 17 answers · asked by Bride of Christ 6

What I tried to ask but for space problem I couldn't do it well, is this: If your only child was about to die and the only thing that can save him/her is a blood transfusion or an organ transplant, would you really rather see your child die than letting him/her have that transplant or transfusion instead of letting him/her have the opportunity God is giving him/her to survive?

Because that is an opportunity from God to survive. I find it disturbing that someone would let someone else dye just for not having a simple (well, maybe not that simple, but it is way possible and life guaranteed) medical procedure. If God gives us life and a body that is our temple and where our spirit resides, why letting it go so simply? like.. as if life was unworthy.

It is like killing your own child. God is making possible a medical treatment for him/her in order to save his/her life and you just don't take it??

My intention is not to bash and I am asking this question with respect.

2007-12-22 08:46:53 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous

Islam calls these people 'mortad' or apostate and the spilling of their blood is 'halal' or accepted by religion.

2007-12-22 08:46:35 · 16 answers · asked by Reverie 4

is it some kind of a miracle?
How?!

Does smokin have any relation with being Holy?

2007-12-22 08:43:57 · 20 answers · asked by ? 6

2007-12-22 08:43:50 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous

-Jesus conceived by the holy ghost making him the father.

-father is greater -- so is holy ghost for you can come against
Jesus and it can be forgiven, but if you come against the holy spirit it is not forgiven.

-holy ghost will teach you all things : only the father knows all things.

so it appears to me that holy ghost and the father are the same being.

2007-12-22 08:39:55 · 12 answers · asked by just because 5

2007-12-22 08:38:53 · 20 answers · asked by Anonymous

I grew up Catholic but could not answer this question that my husband asked last night. He asked, "I understand why people worship Jesus, but why do people also worship the Virgin Mary just as equally?" (I must have fallen asleep in CCD while they were talking about that!)

2007-12-22 08:38:20 · 18 answers · asked by Anonymous

I've never really been into religion. I want to be though, I am a buddhist but I don't know much about the religion. My grandma is really into it, but I don't live anywhere close to her. Tell me some reasons why religion is important.

I just want to know.

2007-12-22 08:37:18 · 14 answers · asked by faisdebeauxreves 1

Belief in no god, one god or multiple gods? Worship of yourself? Gatherings at regular intervals? Moral rulings? A single "think for yourself" commandment? Nothing at all (a vacuous religion that included no teachings/duties/benefits)? An afterlife or afterlives or reincarnation?

2007-12-22 08:37:12 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous

If not then why do many Christians learn about Islam using the same methodology?

2007-12-22 08:34:40 · 13 answers · asked by shaybani_yusuf 5

that there'll be one single currency (money) for the entire world?

I remember hearing about this and other things and I just can't come up with anybody else corraborating it now. Some religious groups that did belief and preach this have gone back on their word now.

Can anyone tell me what's going on with this?

2007-12-22 08:31:58 · 9 answers · asked by 1-2informationalways 1

Like the word spirit? Which simply means "invisible to the naked eye, or without material form". And can refer to many things. Like forces at work, as well as many different forms of Life that exist on multi-dimensional levels?

2007-12-22 08:30:16 · 19 answers · asked by THE NEXT LEVEL 5

I know it is stated in the Bible (Isa. 14:9, 15: Ezek. 32:18-21) that Hell is located in the core of the earth but is there concrete evidence for that?

2007-12-22 08:25:46 · 29 answers · asked by fatamorgana1989 2

since you have no partaked in honorable combat

2007-12-22 08:25:14 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-12-22 08:22:51 · 18 answers · asked by Anonymous

I'm sure that some of you know that there was a systematic massacre of an earth-based religion called the Gnostics. They possessed certain documents that would have unseated what the Church had built around Jesus and the Bible. If the early Church didn't have anything to hide then why did they massacre a people and destroy the documents. You can find this in a book called 'Not In His Image' and no this is not written by an atheist. What if everything that has been written about is only half of the information available about Jesus? I am asking this in the spirit of inquiry and not condemnation. Thank you for your thoughts. Blessings to everyone.

2007-12-22 08:22:04 · 22 answers · asked by Yogini 6

i believe in destiny a little bit so how can you be sure it will all work out or that something else won't intervene. what does the Bible/your religion say about it. if i understand this right, our thoughts are the most powerful tool but then there are also some people who don't mean well. so how do you know you/your plans are always protected. thanx

2007-12-22 08:21:56 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous

Catholics or Jews? Drug dealers or politicians?
and do you expect it to happen within the next 10 years?

2007-12-22 08:21:25 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous

I know this isn't a "biblical" question per se.

But to borrow from the event in history where God asked Solomon if he could have ANYTHING, he wanted, and it would be given to him.

If you were ever offered wings (like an angel) and thereby the ability to fly like one. And healing powers as well wherewith to heal whatever you touched. Would you take it? Would it change your mind if you knew ahead of time that your choice would be permanent?
(Example: to remain as you were till you die, or accept this offer and live that way till you die)

2007-12-22 08:19:41 · 5 answers · asked by Cherub 3