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Yes, the Buddhist concept of Hell (which isn't in the doctrines of all of the branches of Buddhism) is practically the same as the Christian concept of Purgatory.

- Il-Mari

Humans use very small fraction (was it 10%?) of their brain? What about the rest? Telekinesis, pyrokinesis, telepathy, levitation, shapeshifting - all these and many more are possible. We only need to discover a way to use our brain at 100% efficiency. Of course, if you were to use your brain for a...

If God is perfect but we aren't, then logically our perception is of God is imperfect. Therefore any conclusion or opinion we can draw about him is wrong. Don't try to mix religion and logic. You just created a paradox, since if "any conclusion or opinion we can draw about him is wrong", that would...

Yes, and people who have lost a testicle or are born without one of them tend to have the other compensate by increasing sperm production. Like Flagg said, there's plenty of seminal fluid too, since it's not primarily produced in the testicles. (By the way, testicles are male gonads, though many don...

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR>The ultimate purpose of religion is /not/ to explain the workings of the universe - it's to try to explain how man should get along with his fellow man. <HR></BLOCKQUOTE> <P>Doesn't that really depend on the people in that religion th...

To Ishmael:<P> <BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR>Science shares a lot in common with spirituality as a whole as well - and there are questions it can't answer that religion does<HR></BLOCKQUOTE><P>Unfortunately, no religion provides concrete evidence and most of them ...

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR>atheism these days has become just as much an 'easy-out' as any religion was at it's worst. It gives people a simple answer and allows them to avoid thinking about difficult issues.<HR></BLOCKQUOTE> <P>What exatly are you implying her...

Just to clarify, Satan and Lucifer are synonyms, different names for the same guy. From dictionary.com:<P>"lucifer Lu"ci*fer, n. [L., bringing light, n., the morning star, fr. lux, lucis, light + ferre to bring.] 1. The planet Venus, when appearing as the morning star; -- applied in Isaiah by a meta...

Everyone seems focused on potential scenarios that would be fatal to one side or the other. Assuming that the spirits could, with belief or whatever, be capable of everything they would normally be capable of, there are plenty of non-fatal yet effective ways of preventing further deaths. For example...

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR>Put it this way. I am an agnostic. I couldn't care less whether any particular god, or none, exists. Does that make the good things I do in this life any less relevant? Certainly not! In my opinion, to do them purely in the hope of so...

Well, I was noting the first time they were incorporated into the Christian religion specifically, which was with Pope Grogory.<P>I'm relying on the internet for my information, so you'll have to excuse me if I was wrong, but deadlysins.com says that sadness was replaced with sloth in the 17th centu...

Just as a point of information:<P>The Seven Deadly Sins" as a whole are never mentioned in the Bible. It is thought that the list was drawn up by Pope Gregory the Great in the 6th century (he was compiling a list of sins in order of seriousness based on the degree from which they offended against lo...

New on the board, so hi to everyone!<P>As was stated earlier, it's somewhat difficult to determine exactly what is necessary for a person to be "saved" and go to heaven (that is, from a Biblical Christian viewpoint). Here are some relevant passages and summaries:<P>MT 10:22, 24:13, MK 13:13 He that ...