Religion & Spirituality - 25 December 2007

If you are strictly loyal to your religion, have you ever researched any other religions? Or do you not out of fear of punishment from your God? Most people, when making a logical decesion that will effect the rest of their lives, will research all avenues/choices possible. You don't just buy the first car that a salesperson points out to you. You look at lots of cars. Maybe research online. You test drive different cars. You compare cars. Then, when you are ready you make your decesion based on comparison. You KNOW the car you buy is the one. So, shouldn't religion be the same? I mean, your whole life is controlled by what you believe. Maybe even your afterlife. What if you chose the wrong relgion because that is what you were taught to believe in? I just want to know how many people have based their faith on faith alone. And who have actually, in dept, researched other religions and indeed decided that they were not for them.

2007-12-25 17:50:42 · 25 answers · asked by Deb 2

1. Not really because Science is flawed. "Yesterday", it claimed caffeine caused cancer. "Today" it claims caffeine may prevent some types of cancer.

2. Maybe. I realize science is flawed, but I'm always searching for the best available explanation. This, in no way deletes God from the equation. Trying to understand the Creator is impossible.

3. Other. Thank you in advance for explaining.

2007-12-25 17:41:28 · 17 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-12-25 17:40:21 · 21 answers · asked by St Aimless 2

2007-12-25 17:40:14 · 26 answers · asked by Adyghe Ha'Yapheh-Phiyah 6

safe than sorry?
I ask this question in love.

2007-12-25 17:39:34 · 34 answers · asked by Jesus is the best. 3

Narrated Sahl: A woman came to the Prophet, and presented herself to him (for marriage). He said, "I am not in need of women these days." Then a man said, "O Allah's Apostle! Marry her to me." The Prophet asked him, "What have you got?" He said, "I have got nothing." The Prophet said, "Give her something, even an iron ring." He said, "I have got nothing." The Prophet asked (him), "How much of the Quran do you know (by heart)?" He said, "So much and so much." The Prophet said, "I have married her to you for what you know of the Quran." (Bukhari Volume 7, Book 62, Number 72)

2007-12-25 17:37:02 · 7 answers · asked by Sparrow hates Yahoo Answers 2

2007-12-25 17:33:50 · 16 answers · asked by lucifer 2

2007-12-25 17:30:18 · 36 answers · asked by whatever 5

Book: The Stand by Steven King

2007-12-25 17:29:37 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous

And if so, does she first have to ask permission from her husband?

2007-12-25 17:25:00 · 8 answers · asked by Sparrow hates Yahoo Answers 2

People will seek out anything & everything, but God
Do they feel He must conform to their way of life or what?

2007-12-25 17:24:03 · 21 answers · asked by Ky-Lady 2

answer yes are no

2007-12-25 17:21:45 · 25 answers · asked by Anonymous

I think, being a virgin is a purely personal matter which is known only by the person herself. Now, when a priest, pope, pastor, angel, devil, or even a prophet spoke of a virginity of a person, indubitably he is incompetent to testify on her behalf - his testimony on the virginity of a person cannot be admitted as reliable because it is simply HEARSAY.
Did Mary declared or announced that she's virgin? Where could it be found?

2007-12-25 17:16:29 · 20 answers · asked by pwd.alforque 2

I am Christian.
In most cases, your parents raised you to be whatever religion you are, or aren't. You are raised to believe in God and whatever your certain religion says. You are strong in your beliefs, because it is what you have known your entire life. You know your religion is the "legitimate" one.
But what about the other people...
I will use Budhists for example.
They were born, raised to believe in reincarnation and everything. They believe in THAT as strongly as I believe in what MY Bible says. If we all believe what we were raised to believe, how can we know for sure what is the truth. I have my reasons in believing what I do, from what I have seen personally... but haven't the budhists also... this is really hard for me to explain and get to my point, but basically... if you were raised to believe one thing, what makes it the truth, and it isn't really fair for you to have faith in God your entire life and go to hell because you didn't know which was the truth...

2007-12-25 17:09:18 · 34 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-12-25 17:08:08 · 18 answers · asked by Anonymous

Question: Does faith stifle free inquiry?

2007-12-25 17:06:06 · 20 answers · asked by the-chick 2

I want an honest answer on I could have a realationship with God.

I hate going to church I find it boring
and I really believe that God walked the earth and acutally had sex with Mary.
That Jesus was a philosopher and wasn't incredibly devine.

Is there a religion for me or am I hopeless?

2007-12-25 17:04:33 · 39 answers · asked by EJGKEHG0133 2

2007-12-25 17:04:07 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous

People might say the religion of Islam is unpopular but I have noticed their are a lot of people that feel the need to put Scientology down. There are numerous websites dedicated to "exposing" the religion and its (famous) followers.
Why is this so?

2007-12-25 17:00:49 · 24 answers · asked by Purple 2

Just wondering how many actually celebrated Christmas in some way and are offended by someone saying Merry Christmas?

2007-12-25 16:56:40 · 20 answers · asked by Theophilus 4

Even bone fossils of dinosaurs that lived millions of millions of years before has been found today. But strangely enough, not a single bone fossil of a bible character who lived for hundreds of years have been found when they supposedly only lived a few thousand years ago! Isn't that a little too absurd? If there really were humans who had a life span of several hundred years, at least one of their remains must've been found by now. There is no human bone found that have supposedly lived for hundreds of years. If dinosaur bones have been found, why haven't any of the bible characters bones been found? And why haven't any tombs of those characters been found?

Christians, doesn't this cleary point the fact that all bible characters were fictional?

2007-12-25 16:55:30 · 24 answers · asked by Anonymous

I said get my son Hot Wheels for Christmas. Who knew Hot Wheels make obnoxious noises nowadays, and have no off-switch?

I said don't get my kids lots of toys, they have too many already. We can't even walk over the piles of toys now - and all of them make NOISE! And all of them come in the sadistic packaging-from-hell.

I said don't get them anything big. So I've spent all evening putting together a Big Wheel - "*some* assembly required."

I wanted to wish all of you a Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays, etc. But apparently that's "chatting".

*sigh* Hope your holidays were great :-)

2007-12-25 16:55:19 · 18 answers · asked by Orpheus Rising 5

Wishing all of you a Merry Christmas (or Happy Holidays) and a prosperous New Year.

2007-12-25 16:54:21 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous

Some Christians tell me they don't need to do old testament requirements anymore because Jesus put a stop to them. Which makes sense, meaning many of the old laws no longer apply.

But then Christians also tell me Jesus didn't override the old law, Jesus merely completed or fulfilled it. But if that's the case, why do Christians do so many practices which under 'old' law are a sin? Eg:

-allowing menstruating women in a public place of worship
-eating meat with some blood remaining
-eating pork,
-non-circumcision,
-making statues and images of heaven, hell and God himself
-planting different crops in the same field
-not observing the sabbath correctly (Moses revealed the proper way through the Talmud from my understanding, so only orthodox Jews have kept the rule like not being allowed to light a fire, tie a knot or write anything)

If they weren't to apply eternally, why were they made in the first place? If they're meant to be followed, why do all churches breach them?

2007-12-25 16:53:56 · 8 answers · asked by grassfell 3

2007-12-25 16:53:40 · 9 answers · asked by Allen 1

2007-12-25 16:52:05 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous

In the Bible, Adam and Eve are the first 2 humans who were created by God in Genesis 2. They had 2 children, Cain and Abel. Cain killed Abel, then he took a wife and gave birth to Enoch.

Where did his wife come from? According to the Bible, there were only 3 humans on Earth at that time and they were Cain and his parents.

2007-12-25 16:46:59 · 31 answers · asked by Anonymous

Nothing says sinful quite like a ripe Mango.

2007-12-25 16:45:59 · 26 answers · asked by Anonymous

My college has a diverse campus ministry, though most of the ministers dont so anything. I checked them out and they have a female rabbi. I thought jews and catholics shared that and rabbis couldnt be females. I met her once and she isn't observant at all (she was at the ministry meeting and it was a lunch and she was eatting beef with cheese)

How does that work exactly? I get the being a reformist part (which makes me giggle) but are they THAT reformist now?

2007-12-25 16:43:06 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous

wishes them a Merry Christmas?
I'm not Christian and at my job we were told to wish everyone Happy Holidays! I don't get it. I mean I understand we're trying to be all secular and all but really why would it bother anyone to be "merry" ?

2007-12-25 16:41:53 · 45 answers · asked by Purple 2