Respectable People in Hell - A "How To" Guide

by Perry 78 Replies latest watchtower beliefs

  • Perry
    Perry

    designs,

    I hold in my hands the unchangeable word of God. It has read the same for two thousand years. It matters not one whit to me what any religions think or do not think about it. It is not my business. This is in part why I am a Fundamentalist as opposed to a demonationalist. Denomonations carry heiarchial baggage I don't need.

    God himself lives inside of me. You cannot change that or take that away. He has written his laws on my heart just as he long ago recorded that he would. I am in need of no instructor because the eternal Holy Spirit resides in me and guides me in all the ways of truth.

    No matter how bad you would like to, you simply cannot make God's presence leave me. God's laws are to love him and to love my neighbor as myself. Do you find this concept dangerous?

    God changed me from a drugged out mess of a person into a kind, gentle person, the kind of person that I always wanted to be. Nothing that you can ever do or say will ever change that.

    Groups that developed concepts of cruel gods were writing their own license for cruelty in their behavior, can you even see that connection. One object of this forum is to point out dangerous religions

    If God was never to punish evil, that would in fact make him evil....as an enabler of evil. Get it? A God who never punished evil would be the absolute cruelest of all.

    You seem like a very confused person...with all due respect.

  • Perry
    Perry

    Chalam,

    Excellent point about the Talents.

  • mindmelda
    mindmelda

    I really don't see the need to meld the Jewish God Yahweh with Christ overly much, seeing as how Christian belief is a departure.

    As in, Okay, we need a new God now, old one not working for some of us.

    There's a reason that there's lots of different versions of Christian belief. People just see and experience God differently. It's not that hard to figure out since spirituality is a subjective experience.

    If you need to be in terror of God, I'm glad that works for you and I'm not being a sarcastic ass saying that. I do understand that some people need a little fear push. I have to occasionally threaten my son with dire punishment to get him to take out the garbage. I don't actually ever harm him, but I do put the fear of Mom into him on occasion.

    It does kind of fit with the "parental" nature attributed to God, I suppose. Me, I was always the kind of kid you never had to threaten with dire consequences, but not my son. I was the kind of kid who sent myself to my room when I was bad. LOL

  • OnTheWayOut
    OnTheWayOut
    I hold in my hands the unchangeable word of God. It has read the same for two thousand years.

    Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha!!!!!!!!

    You need a disclaimer like the ones that follow the asterisk.

    *....depending on what was actually meant in the original languages and then meant in the translating and depending on which books men have deemed canonical, be they the book of Enoch or Jubilee, oh and depending on the evolution of the definition of the words and being able to see past that, not to mention the scribal errors that cannot be checked with the original manuscripts.

    So, are we talking about the Ethiopian Bible, the Jewish Bible, the Catholic Bible, or the Protestant Bible? I ask because I am confident you are not holding in your hands something that someone didn't "change." I suppose you have the Protestant Bible.

  • Chalam
    Chalam

    mindmelda I was the kind of kid who sent myself to my room when I was bad. LOL

    I could do with learning how to get my own kids to do that!

    Blessings,

    Stephen

  • Perry
    Perry

    OTWO,

    I think your ha ha got stuck.

  • designs
    designs

    Perry, you seem to have the same problem your buddy Mr. Miracle Frosty Flakes has, can't understand the Bible and misjudge people.

    Of course when you take a literalist view of literature that was written as allegory it is easy for all to see why this whoopsie occured.

    As an exercise try reading Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland or Mary Shelly's Frankenstein as literal works and see what you come up with, ya.............. its kinda like that.

    You'll get there, we won't give up on you, Hope

  • Perry
    Perry

    Ignoring the issue designs? What are you afraid of?

    If God was never to punish evil, that would in fact make him evil....as an enabler of evil. Get it? A God who never punished evil would be the absolute cruelest of all.

    Where am I going wrong with this statement?

  • HintOfLime
    HintOfLime

    Same kool-aid. Different flavor.

    Yum!

    - Lime

  • designs
    designs

    Perry do you see the craziness in your comment, you and DD revert to these school playground 'I'm gonna choose you off' phrases, Grow Up. This little myopic box is gonna suffocate you. Now, Open a casket, dig up some ancient cemetary and what do you find-

    REALITY.

    Now as for the god complex, I charge for those types of calls.

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