Fear no truth,
It seems as you are preaching to the converted.
There are many kinds of beliefs on this board
Society just doesnt know for sure as no one else.does either.
So why do they teach it as the only truth, and punish whoever dares doubt? Wouldn't honestly saying we don't know the answer work better?
You read my post above. read some older wt publications linked from this site and read how foolish they sound now and how convinced as you are at that old light era.
I know. They don't have new lights. They are flickering lights that change according to the political correctness of the times.
Sure, God can do waht he wants and is doing it.
If the god of the bible really existed, I wouldn't trust him. I would expect him not to change his mind but he is inconsistant.
Mysterious speaks reasonably because allowing your kids to suufer having the power to stop it cannot be reasonably justified. Soverighty doesnt makesense to me anymore. I had never thought about it I jus accepted explanationit before.
Yes, JWs say that this is because J wanted to prove that man cannot govern himself. I would say a couple thousand years after the flood would've been enough. He kills most of mankind with a flood, and then he repents. Abraham's parents and grandparents worshipped other gods. Moses didn't seem to know who he was, but then all of the ensaved Israelis knew him and were spared having their firsborn murdered. Faraoh wants to repent, but J does not allow him to do that. This is a god with a dire need of a lobotomy.
Humans are innocent bystanders here, only guilty of being born. If the God of the Bible is as good as he says he is he will have alot of explaining to do to the human family one day. Billions and billions having no idea what you are talking about and many that cried out to him for help withy no salvation but were tortured suffered unimaginable cruelty and horrors not only the human creation but the animal creation they feel pain too. What sin tdi they do? yet they are killed and tortured as dung. A book of riddles which is the Bible cannot be understood with certainty.
A feeling shared by most thinking people
REad some of the WT old literature and you will se that the patter of change of change might one day be appled to the univerasal soverignty as you see it oday.
Hey, it sells books and magazines. It is the Capitalist American way of life.
Buyer Beware.