by Awakened at Gilead 38 Replies latest watchtower beliefs
While 99% of JW are encouaged to give all to the ministry work..... there is still that 1% that weren't/aren't
If I didn't believe I would be accountable in an afterlife situation and this was my 'one life' then I would probably be utterly evil.
I am still not sure if it was the Armageddon readiness/ WTS training or a natural tendency......
Thus the world has been kept safe......
I think that there are many dangerous beliefs. Having said that, what muslims, atheists, and Jehovah's Witnesses all have in common is that they reject Jesus Christ as their Mediator. Now that IS very dangerous.
Believing that someone can survive Judgment day without a Mediator is far more dangerous than whether or not to entertain thoughts of an afterlife. While the Muslim and JW positions are completely incompatible with the impending event of the DOJ, at least the atheist position is consistent, even if incredulous.
In other words, the Muslim and JW agree that there is a DOJ, but are at a complete loss as how to explain how their sins are forgiven (a.) outside of the New Covenant and (b.) without Jesus as their Mediator and absorbing the death blow, in their place, to satisfy the Law.
Atheists must somehow convince themselves that everything either self exists, or came from nothing. It is very difficult to understand how they can be so critical against the self-existence of God but at the same time entertain the exact same thing about the universe. Huge holes in all these beliefs.
Judgment is the great answer to the "problem of evil". Few seriously consider the ramifications of that event. Whether they be cultist or atheist, they have the same flippant attitude about it.
If you lived everyday like it's your last you'd be a broke motherf*cker.
IPsec: Not all they are cracked up to be. 72 "'sluts'" now that is an afterlife i can get behind.
hahah....now we are team ip...i will turn them into sluts....then you can have them........oomps
@ Perry: LOLOLOLOLOLOL
Of course I reject Jesus. As you well know, I don't assume that he even existed. We went through this on another thread.
Let's keep this discussion to our beliefs or non-beliefs in the afterlife, and keep your Jesus preaching on someone else's thread, or make up your own thread. But don't come Jesus thumping over here...
I think Perry has the right to his rebuttal. If we're going to have discussions without allowing dissenting opinions we might as well be dubs again.
fair enough Jimmy.... you are right... I am just an unreasonable atheist...
but Perry and I (and others) have butted heads about the same subject on other threads... I don't see the point, nor the relevancy
just a quick AMEN to that lance......oompa
its here on freeminds http://www.freeminds.org/blogs/the-power-of-apostate-thinking/
When will you know FOR SURE whether there is, or is not, an after-life?
WHEN YOU ARE DEAD!
So the issue is only open to speculation, as long as we are alive.
Warlock
