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hello everyone i know i'm being a real pain here but i heard that there are (maybe 45?) prophesies in the old testament concerning the messiah. i don't suppose someone could give me the chapter and verse references for these could they? no need to quote the quotes, i can look them up for...

when i was a young boy i used to pray for a bicycle. then i realised God doesn't work like that......so i stole a bicycle and prayed for forgiveness:( i specially liked the kiddies mistakes near the beginning of the thread....it had me in tears. some other good ones too.

hello everyone is there a hebrew speaking messianic jew in the house? i have a question which i need to be answered specifically by someone in that category. if not can anyone tell me where i can find one please. thankyou:)

geist: hello personally i struggle with religion for all the usual reasons.....but somehow i have managed to separate God from religion and that's my current position until i study and understand more. i used to feel if i switched the tv on and there was some sheikh or priest "blah-ing...

i am in awe too:) it sends shivers down my spine when i think about the balance mechanism in the middle ear. i love my God and revere my God and respect my God and think about him constantly. unfortunately when i think about the middle ear, i say "sobhan allah". does this mean i am going...

well said:) i like that....thankyou:)

hello i agree that atheists may well have strong moral views of their own, such as being vegetarian for example. i think some atheists look around at bad things that happen and feel frustrated as to why a good and merciful god could let this happen. therefore he cannot exist. i think also...

hello everyone again i feel a bit sheepish....(no pun intended)....i just thought i ought to be clear....i feel a bit as if i am being welcomed in the christian section of this site as a "wannabe christian".....which isn't strictly true. i'm a "wannabe on the right path" and exploring the...

hello/shalom thank you for the site. now i know where to look i will go and try to understand some basics first then come back with questions. sorry if my questions were a bit "uneducated"....but that's exactly what i am:( . i know very little about judaism except from the "wrong"...

hello/shalom sorry, butting in on this conversation....i was reading this thread to try to find answers to some of my questions....i thought abraham was from an area which would be in present day iraq and the languages of the area are related for example aramaic and arabic. spoken arabic has...

hello again and thank you for replies. i didn't mean people had said those things here....i meant i have heard them generally from other sources. i wasn't meaning to blame anyone here. so far everyone here seems to be very helpful and genuine. there seems to be a very healthy attitude with...

hello again thank you so much for the information provided above. it was very informative. i have made a start trying to read the bible....but there's a lot of it and if you don't know exactly what you are looking for or where, it is very time consuming. it looks to me as if some people have...

hello again thanks for all nice replies i had another thought this afternoon on the same subject. me too, for years i have been struggling with the question of which is the right religion and go round and round in confused circles and continue to find that nothing is clear.....maybe the whole...

hello/shalom thanks for the general invitation to ask questions i would like to ask some questions about jewish religion please i tried to find information before but found inadequate sites i tried going to a jewish forum and found some very interesting ideas but was also put off by the...

hello everyone many muslim scholars commenting on the bible say that jesus never actually claimed to be the son of God. i have seen some quotes around here somewhere, although i can't remember where, where jesus definitely does admit to being the son of God. could someone please repeat these...

hello everyone i find it rather confusing that there are so many different religions. in view of the fact that there seem to be quite clearly good, bad and every degree in between amongst all religious groups of people (as well as non-religious people) there seems to be no clear indicator that...

thank you for all replies i was a bit confused by the idea of prayers going astray to the "wrong god". i thought there is only one God....just people know him/it by different names. my original question referred to angels and demons as a way of expressing the idea.....in general i was talking...

hello again and salam thank you for the detailed answer on halal slaughter. i was interested in the scientific studies, and the idea that the animal quickly becomes unconscious from the blood loss was quite comforting. i want to point out that i was not in any way suggesting that western...