by cameo-d 59 Replies latest watchtower beliefs
37 As it was in the days of Noah, so it will be at the coming of the Son of Man. 38 For in the days before the flood, people were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, up to the day Noah entered the ark; 39 and they knew nothing about what would happen until the flood came and took them all away. That is how it will be at the coming of the Son of Man. 40 Two men will be in the field; one will be taken and the other left.
The Lord is not slow in keeping his promise, as some understand slowness. He is patient with you, not wanting anyone to perish, but everyone to come to repentance.
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Hi Dad.
How are your new hips?
Renaai: "That is how it will be at the coming of the Son of Man. 40 Two men will be in the field; one will be taken and the other left."
So are these the apostates being taken out by a private military...a hired hand of god?
or are these the "good christians" being airlifted in rapture?
neither
every new dawn means the "end"
is closer than it was yesterday and
not nearly as close as it will be at
the NEXT sunrise....
the final seconds?
get back to me in an hour
Mankind has been waiting how many years for the end of the world, system of things, Armageddon etc ? It has always been very very very near, all one has to do is look at the primary teachings of the major religions of the world to see this. What’s interesting is this nearness was always evident by every generation of the past. If you go back 1500 years the end was near, 1000, 500, 200, etc. Now we fast forward and we have exactly the same thing being told, is this a test of the emergency broadcast system or the real thing? Bottom line is simple and I’ll use an analogy. If I am a parent and I tell my kid that he will be punished for his bad behavior, what would be considered a reasonable amount of time to take action? 1 week? 2 weeks etc. Logic tells me that if I want to be taken seriously by my child it needs to be done in a reasonable amount of time. If not he starts calling my warnings bull(&^%, and rightly so. It comes down to gods credibility and mankind’s logic. It’s almost like god wants mankind to continually doubt which seems like very odd behavior for a benevolent and loving creator.
Food for thought: I have always found the god of the OT extremely different from that described in the NT. The OT god “I’m not taking this bull” and the NT “Oh poor mankind I pity them bla, bla, bla.” It’s almost like he finally figured that you catch more flies with honey than vinegar.
The Lord is not slow in keeping his promise, as some understand slowness. He is patient with you, not wanting anyone to perish, but everyone to come to repentance.
... Said people before they understood the statistics of populations. Jehovah waiting for people to repent is the worst plan I ever heard of, since there are more and more people every day.
A lot of people being born each day, that's for sure. The other side of that is the approximately 6,000,000 that die every 3 weeks. That is 6,000,000 people like you and me. The pain and heartbreak is absolutely beyond understanding.
We are taught that that will all be made up by the resurection and paradise. Not sure how that works...
I have heard that if the elders catch you buying green bananas they disfellowship you for having a lack of faith that the end is really really near.
now THAT would be going BANANAS
