Do you think that individuals with "stigmata" (i.e. bleeding hands), such as Padre Pio, are legitimate?
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I believe it is auto suggestion, but to me it is a miracle that you body can do something like that even if it is self suggested (and subliminally at that).
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Yep, more than likely.  Can you imagine people embracing a man who claims to be Jesus, can perform on the spot miracles , rose from the dead, etc?  Not many people would take a word of it seriously and would chalk it off to the ravings of a lunatic.\n\nFor all we know Jesus HAS been alive, walking our streets and being ridiculed.  People are so firm in their belief but refuse to entertain the possibility that a man who supposedly can do such miraculous deeds is unable to be alive today.  Those same people look to their priest or pastor and have no problem believing that god spoke to them in order to pass along his message(s).  Who made the rule that god can't speak to just regular people?\n\nAs for you saying that god spoke to you, if that is your truth, then that's the truth!  You just have to be careful in who you decide to tell.
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It's not at all surprising.  Ever heard of Roberto Calvi?  He was the chief at the Vatican Bank until his <ahem> "suicide" by hanging from a London bridge in 1982.  (How exactly does one ties one's own hands behind the back while strangling to death from the *underside* of a bridge?)  His death has all the known traits of a mafia execution.\n\nWhy was Calvi murdered?  Because he knew the intimate details of the land flipping that the catholic cult and the mafia conspired in.  (Land flipping is where two people sell property to each other back and forth at higher and higher prices.  Then they sell it to some chump for an inflated value when it's really worth much less, but they've got paperwork.)  The catholic cult profited tens of millions of dollars by collaborating with the mafia.\n\nIncidentally, then cardinal Paul Marcinkus (of Chicago) was given refuge in the vatican until the statute of limitations ran out in the US.  He was wanted for trial because of his involvement in the land flipping.  Wojtyla, the pedophile pope, let him stay safe instead of making him face justice (in the same way the vatican protected pedophiles).\n\n\nIf you don't believe me, just enter the names into Google and see what results you get:\n\n"Roberto Calvi"\n"Paul Marcinkus"\n"vatican" \n"land flipping"\n\n\n\n"Ruby" blathered some crap about "christians and brutality don't mix."  \n\nOh yeah?  So the crusades, nazis, KKK, inquisition, and terrorists like James Kopp and Eric Rudolph aren't christians?  Try again, Ruby...or should I say, *rube*.\n\n\n.
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I don't know but it wouldnt surprise me if it is fake, see gay guys dont like it when someone with facial hair goes down on them and I hear that sores from syphillis really hurt when there are hairs touching them, and syphillis is the real reason why hitler committed suicide
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((((   wow, cool, with this answer, i achieve level 5 status here on Answers.Yahoo.com !!!  )))\n\nThis piece of MIS-information gets repeated over and over again, and it is simply not true.\n\nYes, Gd in the Bible commands us not to get a tattoo. But Gd also commands us not to do many other things, and the idea that the cemetaries would single out this one commandment and then say that if someone violates this one, then he or she wont be buried here, is just stupidity. \n\nAnd if you dont mind my saying so, the first time i read this was in Readers Digest, when they interviewed Geraldo Rivera. He is a Jew. He told the story of how, when his gang were all getting a tattoo of a cross between the thumb and the forefinger, he got a tattoo of a Star of David, even though 'it meant i could not be buried in a Jewish cemetary.' That alone started everyone, Jew and non-Jew thinking that what he said was true.......WRONG!\n\nso, now i am at level 5, here.....that and a dollar will be buy me a candybar!
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The scientific proof you describe is in fact nothing more than conjecture based upon possibility.  According to a number of historians there were actually many different methods used in Crucifixion. \nOne was to insert the nails through the wrist, another was to simply bind the wrists to the crucifix with rope, but another was to bind the wrists to the cross with rope and drive the nail through the palm. \nIt is the latter of these three methods that is believed to used in the crucifixion of Christ as it states in the bible that after resurrection, Jesus offered the wounds in his HANDS as proof to Thomas in order to satisfy his doubts.\n\nThis is not to say that Stigmata is a true phenomenon, but only to show it's origin and connection to the biblical crucifixion.
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NO!  The body wasand still is represented by bread (the Body of Christ) and blood wasand still is represented by wine (The Blood of Christ)  Sheesh!  Even I know THAT!\n\nThose monks did not do anything like that and nor does anyone else of legitimate religious followings.\n\nANd if anyone asks me about "Illegitimate religious followings"....Ohhh I will give you such a PINCH!
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These phenomenom are called the Stigmata.  I have only ever seen those of Catholic faith claim to experience Stigmata.\n\nMany times they can be discounted.\n\nPersonally, I don't believe it to be of God.  It may be real, but not for spiritual reasons.  Because when these things happen people tend to flock around these people or places where "miracles" supposedly happen.  I think when that happens they are losing their focus on God and putting it on those who are "inflicted".\n\nI mean when you think about it, who does it happen to?  Those who already believe.  Who comes to see it?  Usually those who already believe.  Why would God need to reveal himself to believers in that way?  Why wouldn't those experiences or miracles be saved to prove to those who are not believers????\n\nReal or not, I have no conviction that it is of God.  I could be wrong.  But nothing within my being says it is.
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Hee Hee Hee! I do believe a lot of them are!....either drunk, high, mentally distubed, and /or possesed by the devil!.....The horrible things that many of the people say against God and His servants will be sorry one day when judgment day comes....but it will be too late for many of them! (Matt. 7: 13,14)
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Noticed the cover-ups too have you!!! I think it is Sgt_K, Fubar46, they are the same persons, multiple profiles to work off of. All use the Spiritual pages to keep from getting suspended. So you are correct about fake.
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Don't be ridiculous!  One is a group of bloodthirsty thugs, masquerading as legitimate professionals, who in reality create nothing more than pain and misfortune in their wake amid their grab for continual payola...and the other is Italian!
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have you googled Mafioso prisoners, like Gotti, Capone, and whoever else made it to prison, i'm sure there are plenty of examples.  What about the mexican mafia or arayan brotherhood gangsters, we can't forget them either.
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no.  there was a show on a few weeks ago about his siblings, and how if he was holy, wouldn't they be to?  It was an interesting show, but there is no DNA from Jesus left today, not even on the shroud of Turin, which some claim is a fake anyway.
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No.\nIt's just as believeable as the "Praying trees" farce.\nPeople can make any pattern look like anything they want it to look like. It's just a few overzealous faithfuls who want to spread the name of God and His works.\n\nJenova\n(d.yuffie@gmail.com)
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ok i know a lot of people who liked the taste of blood. some ppl are like that. as long as they don't catch aids or kill someone or hurt someone for pleasure they are ok. i guess
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I believe it to be highly improbable. I have never seen a credible account of demonic possession. It is more likely that these people were just suffering from a mental illness.
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Thank you very much Frankly Frank, because you were able to look right through Benny Hinn and see him for the Fraud, Fake Phony, Impostor that he is.  \n\nYes, you are right for a second time it was a child that died, what a nerve, that never can wanna be healer has.   You're right for a third time,  I don't really think that there are any real healers today.  Whats so bad about this is there are  a lot of people trusting that this guy's  word is straight from God, therefore they go away believing their healed.  How disgusting and deceitful of people like BH.\n\nI believe that if God is going to heal someone this day and age he'll just do it.  I certainly don't think he needs any fakers as BH.\n\nI got the scoop studying the back ground of BH and others like him, do you know that they believe that they are God?\nSick I know, but that's how it is with these money hounding fake, pretending to be men of God, only out for the money and dragging the name of the Lord down in the process.\n\nMay the Lord deal with him justly.