by PSacramento 34 Replies latest watchtower bible
PSacramento
Thank you for taking the time to reply.
I have tried to understand the logic of your testimony which contradicts other statements you have made on this very thread.
Such as:
The bible is NOT the Word of God, it is the writings of inspired writers, of Men.
To be honest I will have to leave it there.
Trying to get inside your head has left me a little dizzy.
Gladiator,
I didn't mean to confuse you or to make, what seem to you, as contridictory statements.
I apologise for my lack of writing skills.
Darwin should have killed God, but people like to hold to ignorance, so the death of god is painfully protracted.
cantleave,
Did you watch the videos?
PSacramento
You have now apologised to me three times. There really is no need.
You are entitled to hold your own views and express them in your own way; or to have no fixed views but just follow your feelings.
What ever gets you through the night - it's fine by me.
You are entitled to hold your own views and express them in your own way; or to have no fixed views but just follow your feelings.
Same to you my friend :)
Leolaia has written extensively on the origins of the Genesis mythforms, tracing their origins to earlier writings. It's hard to credit Genesis as being an original work inspired by God when it contains recurring themes of earlier "pagan" belief.
OK - PSac, my previous comments were written before I watched the programme. Fascinating stuff. So far my views have based on the polarised viewpoints of JW fundamentalist christian stance against the Dawkin's style fundamentalist pro atheism, so they have been VERY black and white.
This has really got me thinking. Life was so simple when my beliefs were spoon fed to me by the WTS.
This has really got me thinking. Life was so simple when my beliefs were spoon fed to me by the WTS.
WHen the answers are given to you, yes life tends to be easier even if you don't liek the answers, that is why fundamentalist religions "work" so well for some.
When it becomes OUR responsibility to find God and to cultivate a personal realtionship with God, it is more intense because all the "blame" falls on us, we just can't say, "I was told it was this way", there are no excuses.
Dinesh D'souza's debates are also quite interesting.
I thought the video was insightful. I think we are often likely to forget the context in which Darwin formed his theory and that at the time God was still present in his life. It is over time that the followers of each viewpoint insist on the exclusion of the other.
I will watch again as I missed some of the points.
