by BU2B 32 Replies latest jw friends
Somehow came across this subject with my wife the other evening. . . . I forget how. . .
. . . . and she said that she really doesn't believe there was a global flood, it was most likely local.
So I said, Then you really aren't a Jehovah's Witness!
She laughed!
She knows.
I don't know if logic will change something in her belief system. I also explained once all the logical flaws of the flood story with my wife. She says that probably the flood was local and not global. But who cares 'We will find out in the new system.'
It's however a good way to do it with questions.
On this thread we discussed about the flood too.http://www.jehovahs-witness.net/watchtower/bible/268118/1/Dr-Hans-Kristian-Kotlar-supports-creation
The only way logic will matter, is if the emotional wall has developed a crack, a hole, an opening. Otherwise, nothing logical will work on those who are by definition, illogical.
Four men and four women leave the Ark and WITHIN a hundred years they have populated a city and are well on the way to completing a tower up to the heavens ? No wonder they poo poo higher education .
If the almighty God was so afraid of that you must wonder about his silence and inactivity towards the International Space Station and the people living their.
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It is certainly worth a try, but don't expect much. I had to show my wife from a WT that the JW's teach that there was a global flood in 2370BC(E). She didn't believe it (that they would print such nonsense). I agreed it was nonsense and then explained how such nonsense would be an instant turn-off to anyone who showed even the slightest interest in discussing the bible with her. Once they heard that, they wouldn't hear anything else she was talking about. It was always extremely embarrasing to me.
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You never know what good you are doing by "planting seeds", and somethimes it is successful straight away.
My youngest son was offered a Bible Study by a keen young M.S when my son was in his mid-teens. When they covered the bit about the Flood, my boy asked so many awkward questions, bless him, that the M.S went away muttering , "Well if it is true, there had to be an awful lot of miracles to make it happen!".
After this debacle my son decided the JW religion was not for him. That M.S is still in I believe, but even he cannot believe in the W.T version of the Flood.
I tried that with the missus cos it seemed such an obvious point of attack but once again this proved pointless as the cognitive dissonance kicked in and she walked away without responding
Sorry, but even a highly educated witness can ignore glaring evidence against the flood. Case in point, my uncle has a phD in psychology but consistently dismissed any evidence I brought up against a global flood. The irony is he knows full well what cognitive dissonance is. My dad, too, is a smart man but his answer is always "wait on Jehovah." Sigh.
It is much easier to ask them why the hell animals need to die? One of the core beliefs is the fact that Death came into the world because of Sin. But how the hell can animals sin if they have no knowledge?
