Hehe I never ever accidentally find porn, I have it bookmarked
Blondie's Comments You Will Not Hear at the 01-01-2012 WT Study (OWN UNDERSTANDING)
by blondie 21 Replies latest jw friends
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Room 215
What is this obsession with pornogrqaphy? Most sociologists regards it as innocuous fantasizing. Why is it such a problem among people who devote so much of their conscious existence wrapped up in meeting attendance, Bible study and the public ministry?
I also love the advice in paragraphs 13 which exhorts the reader to "ask, ask ask" God (Bethel? the elders?) every single time he/she faces a recurrent challenge... who does one ask? The elders? I wish I had a nickel for every time I heard an elder bemoan the childish inability of the friends to base their decisions on clear-cut "Bible principles" rather than run to them for guidance.
By the way: just how does/did God communicate his answers to David, Hezekiah, Hannah, etc. anyway?
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WTWizard
This whole article is complete rubbish. (As they all are.) You are suffering, and so Jehovah puts out his worn-out, out of date stock examples of all the prayer answerings he ever will do. You are to read these in lieu of getting relief from your own problems. Yet, you are still supposed to praise that Almighty Lowlife Scumbag. When I have a problem, I don't give a fxxx what Jehovah Baghead did for Job, Tyrant David, Hezekiah, Moses, or anyone else in the Bible. Those stock examples only prove that Jehovah showed love (for selfish reasons) for those people at those times, and prove nothing for me and now.
And, if Jehovah doesn't provide me relief now, I rightfully assume he is absconding his duties on me. Showing me that he helped someone else some 3,000 years ago doesn't help me now. Nor does it assure that Jehovah is going to do onto me as he did onto them. The whole thing is the biggest scam since the whole Original Sin rubbish.
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wasblind
Pure Gold, that's what this is, Pure Gold
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wasblind
Pure Gold, that's what this is, Pure Gold
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wasblind
Pure Gold, that's what this is, Pure Gold
There I again with the multiple post
sorry folks
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Sayswho
thanks: Blondie...my Mom just Im me and said "the study really made her examine herself, and how one can sure put oneself above Jeh's thinking on situations. And how she was really going to pray to Jeh for help"---I feel so sad for her but she in in her late 70s and I don't know if she will benefit from the "real truth". Some things do bother her but she feels that this is Gods Org. To wake up and realize you wasted your whole life...not sure if that is even something that I would want at 78 years old.
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stillin
I liked reading how, when David prayed to God, each of the three times God "replied" or God "said." I never had that kind of a response to any of my prayers. It was always me trying to figure out what the hell I was supposed to do, according to God's "will." Why pray if it can only go one way...God's way? I was at the congregation study for this article and it so depressed me to hear people bragging about God answering their prayers all of the time, that I just couldn't bring myself to contribute to the discussion in any way.
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blondie
Thanks for the enlightening comments.
I too wondered about what was meant about God answering their prayers.
In David's day the high priest had the Urim and Thummim.
*** w09 6/1 p.27***
It appears that the Urim and the Thummim were used in ancient Israel to discern Jehovah’s will in matters that concerned the nation or its leaders. These objects were entrusted to the high priest and were kept in the pouch of the “breastpiece of judgment.” (Exodus 28:15, 16, 30) Although the Scriptures never describe these objects or their exact method of use, different passages seem to imply that they were employed as lots that would result in either a “yes” answer, a “no” answer, or no answer at all from God.
Jonah was a prophet (supposedly God spoke directly to them to pass on to others)
(Jonah 1:1-2) . . .And the word of Jehovah began to occur to Jo′nah the son of A·mit′tai, saying: 2 “Get up, go to Nin′e·veh the great city, and proclaim against her that their badness has come up before me.”
But what about Hannah? Supposedly the high priest Eli passed on God's answer
The anointed, WTS, GB, say they are not prophets in that sense, putting for new info from God just repeating what has already been said. They say they are not inspired.
Jesus is the high priest since 33 C.E.
So how did God communicate with humans.............
Here is the WTS weasel explanation.
*** g01 7/22 pp. 13-14 How Can Prayer Help Me? ***
How God Answers Prayers
In Bible times some men of faith did have direct—even miraculous—answers to their prayers. When King Hezekiah, for example, learned that he had a terminal illness, he supplicated God for deliverance. God responded: “I have heard your prayer. I have seen your tears. Here I am healing you.” (2 Kings 20:1-6) Other God-fearing men and women similarly experienced God’s intervention.—1 Samuel 1:1-20; Daniel 10:2-12; Acts 4:24-31; 10:1-7.
However, divine intervention was hardly the norm, even in Bible times. For the most part, God answered the prayers of his servants, not by miraculous intervention, but by helping them to “be filled with the accurate knowledge of his will in all wisdom and spiritual comprehension.” (Colossians 1:9, 10) Yes, God helped by strengthening his people spiritually and morally—giving them the wisdom and knowledge to make wise decisions. When Christians were in a difficult situation, God did not necessarily remove the trial. Rather, he provided them with “the power beyond what is normal” so that they could endure it!—2 Corinthians 4:7; 2 Timothy 4:17.
Likewise today, an answer to your prayer will probably not involve something dramatic. But as he did in the past, God can give you his holy spirit and strengthen you to handle whatever situations you face. (Galatians 5:22, 23)
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designs
I like how the Manna appears every morning to feed world's hungry especially the children.