Religion & Spirituality - 31 December 2007

im an agnostic.. and my ignorant uncle is tryin to tell me what an agnostic is when he isnt one... im lookin for answers maybe u can tell him the same thing i have

2007-12-31 10:52:34 · 16 answers · asked by Marcus M 1

interpreting the bible is really hard without it i mean God seems like an awful tyrant to me yet believers say God is love.

2007-12-31 10:51:49 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-12-31 10:50:27 · 6 answers · asked by STFU Dude 6

"Congress shall make...law respecting an establishment of religion or prohibiting the free exercise thereof"

2007-12-31 10:47:23 · 21 answers · asked by Anonymous

Galatians 3
16:Now to Abraham and his seed were the promises made. He saith not, And to seeds, as of many; but as of one, And to thy seed, which is Christ.

26:For ye are all the children of God by faith in Christ Jesus.
27:For as many of you as have been baptized into Christ have put on Christ.
28:There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither bond nor free, there is neither male nor female: for ye are all one in Christ Jesus.
29:And if ye be Christ's, then are ye Abraham's seed, and heirs according to the promise.

2007-12-31 10:46:53 · 14 answers · asked by don_steele54 6

I know that they are still waiting for the Messiah, but what then? Do they believe that it will be the end for sinners, as many Christians do? Or is it a new world for everyone?

2007-12-31 10:42:24 · 9 answers · asked by Tasha 6

Hello, everyone.

I am Buddhist and a devotee of Tara Buddha (particulary in her green manifestation). However, at the moment I am having something of a crisis of faith, and have been reading that these deities don't exist.

So, the question I ask is: do such deities really exist or not? Can any fellow Buddhists (particularly those of the Mahayana tradition) help me? I know some were said to be human beings who achieved Buddhahood, but how come one particular deity is known as someone else i another country, and looks completely different as well?! Help!

Thankyou

ps: No sarcastic commments please.

Om Tare Tutare Ture Svaha

2007-12-31 10:39:39 · 23 answers · asked by missy 2

How Can you believe in religion? seriously though. I really like the idea of life after death, but I think most religious people are a pain in the you know what.. especially evangelical christians, they seem rather ridiculous, with all the devil this and jesus that. Jesus hung out with lepers and hookers no? Most religious people I know would judge someone for doing that, like oh Nancy Grace or Glenn Beck? Explain USA.

2007-12-31 10:39:37 · 41 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-12-31 10:38:45 · 24 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-12-31 10:38:31 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-12-31 10:32:28 · 20 answers · asked by Traveler 5

in glorious indian we hindus have legalised this in order for the western peados to come and spend money. despite offering all this facility why do western peados go to bangcock
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/south_asia/1986826.stm

2007-12-31 10:31:01 · 18 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-12-31 10:30:22 · 11 answers · asked by engineerlaborer 3

the force, the energy, god .. whatever you choose to call it has always been, it is and it will always be.
this force developed its conciousness and with that came thought and then feelings. It created love, lots of love, so much love that it had to make a vessle to store it in. but the love got do much that the vessle exploded (the big bang) creating our universe. so you see everything in our universe was created with love. christian, muslim, jehova, seek , hindu.... whatever you are we were all created by the same love. over time greed developed and with it came war and famine and religion. we all lost our way. .. the reason we are here is to feel the love that created us, hell is where we are living now... heaven is within us all, heaven is the love that was in the vessel. so if we all share this love from deep inside greed would be no more and wars and religion would be gone to leave the heaven that dwells within each and every one of us. the meaning of life its why we are here

2007-12-31 10:29:33 · 17 answers · asked by in the truth 4

2007-12-31 10:28:24 · 14 answers · asked by FAWAZ 1

2007-12-31 10:27:54 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-12-31 10:25:05 · 17 answers · asked by FAWAZ 1

2007-12-31 10:24:19 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous

I am a dork when it comes to anything to do with computers, so please excuse my question.

The year has changed, so I don't need the Library to open showing the "Daily Text" page as there is nothing there now.
I can't for the life of me remember how to change the settings so that the opening page should be the "Index" or "Search" like I did last year January. (Does this make any sense??)

Please help, I've been fiddling for the past hour.

Conundrum- where are you??? :-))

2007-12-31 10:23:26 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-12-31 10:22:49 · 26 answers · asked by Anonymous

I hope this question is acceptable. I'm not meaning to Mormon bash verbally. I've had them in my home.

We talked about salvation and basically found I had said all the right things till they came to this point. According to them I had done everything required for salvation except had hands laid upon me by the appointed Mormon elder. Well beeeep! wrong the Mormons proclaim grace and works- the works of the laying on of hands by the Mormon elder.

Note I acknowledge the many fine Mormon people in the world.
But salvation is a gift of God.

2007-12-31 10:20:59 · 37 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-12-31 10:20:48 · 25 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-12-31 10:17:23 · 38 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-12-31 10:17:01 · 32 answers · asked by Anonymous

I have been reading so many instances of Biblical translations that are wrong and oppressive. Everything from a Pagan animal fertility ritual being turned into a homosexual act, from further evaluations of the book of Paul and it's really cryptic language.

There are tonnes of examples of mis-translations being used to oppress people and spread hatred. I just wondered if there was any sort of movement for a new translation from either Greek or Aramaic with the few hundred years of linguistic sciences that humanity has learned. Just a thought.

2007-12-31 10:16:30 · 20 answers · asked by Anonymous

How many of you think that repeatedly reporting people who don't share your faith gives you kudos with god?

2007-12-31 10:14:38 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous

Is it like winning football teams and Grammy winners? Does god "protect" countries by not letting natural disasters happen the way Falwell and Robertson hint at?

People like Huckabee say we need to "take the country back for Jesus" but I want to know - what would that look like? What would happen to a country that did everything god wanted? HOW would he "favor" it?

2007-12-31 10:13:50 · 12 answers · asked by Laptop Jesus 3.9 7

2007-12-31 10:13:19 · 7 answers · asked by STFU Dude 6

I have read it before, and the version I read was....ok. I would like to find a better English translation to add to my library.

FYI: I am not a Muslim, nor am I religious. I just like studying religious texts. :) Thanks in advance!

2007-12-31 10:12:08 · 4 answers · asked by Lostris 2

Romney knows that it is not a Christian faith and would be prevaricating if he said so to please the majority. His answer was honest
Why do many, including LDS members insist that they are Christians?
I have maintained that they are not Christian on this sight. I am NOT making a value judgement. They merely aren't Christian in the way that Jews are not Christian, the Moslems aren't Christian,
Baha'i aren't Christians. That is all I mean.

2007-12-31 10:11:27 · 15 answers · asked by Peter D 2