Since neither the believer nor the unbeliever of today were present when all this came about, and since God chooses not to reveal Himself physically to mankind, then there's no absolute definitive proof one way or another.
Mary, you reveal yourself immediately by stating "God chooses" and by starting "God and Himself with capital letters." I can fully understand how one can look all around us and say "This couldn’t all have come about by chance!" I, too, have difficulty in believing in "chance" as it is beyond my comprehension -- so I just accept everything is here but cannot prove whether God exists or he doesn’t!
The difference between us though, Mary, is that you, and AAF, take the Bible as being the absolute word of God. But Mary and AAF, it isn’t the absolute word of God and one can prove it if one is prepared to research. We know, for example, that the Bible was originally never considered inspired and that many books that it originally contained have been removed and many that were originally considered spurious are now in it!
Most people feel they must believe in something – and I must confess to having an empty feeling on occasion after finding all my earlier beliefs have gone right out the window! Nevertheless, I have to be honest with MYSELF – and blind faith is just as dangerous, in my opinion, as being an ardent JW.
With reference to Adam and Eve and Creation, AAF said:
Something terrible happened: They both sinned against Jehovah God. They lost the perfect bond of union they enjoyed with their Creator. Their sin was acquired through disobedience. As a result of their sin, all mankind inherited imperfection: We, humans, are all imperfect. Our human bodies are full of anomalies: congenital malformations and mental disorders are examples of these. Our bodies and minds deteriorate, age and die.
(AAF are you still a JW as you still use ‘Jehovah God’?)
OK, AAF, so something terrible happened because Adam and Eve sinned – so why did God destroy all the dinosaurs (in fact, what were they here for)? Why do cats, dogs, budgerigars, rabbits, guinea pigs, etc., also die of tumours and other painfully debilitating diseases? Did they sin, too?
What kind of a benevolent God, our so-called Creator, would have animals suffer so terribly if THEY haven’t sinned? What kind of God would allow women to take hold of their children’s hands as they go to be gassed? Do you know that recent reports have, not 20,000,000 Russians being killed in WWII, but 27,000,000. Why did God allow it to happen?
AAF also stated:
It is Jehovah God's promise to restore mankind to perfection, as well He gives the gift of everlasting life to those who love HIM and His Son Jesus Christ.
AAF, it is a F-A-C-T that YHWH, Yahweh, Jehovah God have NEVER existed except in the minds of groups of people searching for a national identity and/or mind control. Therefore, if Jehovah God can be PROVEN to have never existed then don’t you see what that does to the rest of your statement about his son?
If you people want to believe in God, that’s fine. But to quote scripture as though it is the infallible word of God and sacrosanct is demeaning and an insult to those of us who have high morals but do not share your misguided dogma. Can you not realise that if you were born a Muslim or a Buddhist or a Taoist or into some other non-Christian religion you would NOT be so passionate about expressing the Bible as God’s word? That if you were born a Jew you wouldn’t accept the Christian Greek scriptures? What makes your Bible better than the books of the religions mentioned?
I seriously question if some of you people have really left the JW mind-set! Please believe me when I say I’m not knocking your faith in God, but to come here and state the likes of "John 3:16 says this, it’s in the Bible so it must be true" is no different to going around knocking on doors and stating that if it’s in the Watchtower it’s true!
I think
U.G. Krishnamurti was absolutely right when he said: "A messiah is the one who leaves a mess behind him in this world"
Dansk
