Was this a common teaching in the b'org: the Olympian Gods were actually those naughty half-breed Nephilim kids whose stories somehow survived the flood (I guess Noah used them to entertain and scare the grandkids) and later became a religion?
Were There Any Scriptures or Understandings That U Just Couldn't Comprehend
by minimus 48 Replies latest jw friends
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OICU8it2
John 5:28,29 Do not marvel at this, because the hour is coming in which all those in the memorial tombs will hear his voice and come out, those who did good things to a resurrection of life, those who practiced vile things to a resurrection of judgement. The Aid book's explanation was convoluted, I don't remember what the other references said. Just reading this looks like one is judged on this life, not what you do in the new system.
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JH
Jesus said to pray, and God would answer your prayers...... I never understoood why he didn't answer one....
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Euphemism
Merry... yeah, I heard that one too.
And regarding the sexless angels, the way I always figured it is that the angels didn't have sexual desire per se, but saw humans having sex and said: "That looks like a lot of fun, I wish I could that..." I mean, seriously, imagine that someone offered you the chance to become completely sexless... with no sexual desire or drive. Would you take them up on it? It sounds to me like the angels sure got a raw deal (which is also true by Blondie's interpretation, of course).
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DaCheech
Exodus 14:1 " Jehovah now spoke to Moses, saying: 2 "Speak to the sons of Israel, that they should turn back and encamp before Pi·ha·hi´roth between Mig´dol and the sea in view of Ba´al-ze´phon. In front of it YOU are to encamp by the sea. 3 Then Phar´aoh will certainly say respecting the sons of Israel, ?They are wandering in confusion in the land. The wilderness has closed in upon them.? 4 So I shall indeed let Phar´aoh?s heart become obstinate, and he will certainly chase after them and I shall get glory for myself by means of Phar´aoh and all his military forces; and the Egyptians will certainly know that I am Jehovah." Accordingly they did just that."
After many plagues not only did Pharoah let the Israelites go, but he gave them everything they asked for thus acknowledging Jehovah's grandior, Why did Jehovah purposely play cat and mouse to kill him?
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Panda
When Rachel took the teraphim (household gods) and Laban became worried and incensed because they were so important ---Whats up w/ that? pagan images in Rebeccas uncle's home? Isn't this supposed to be an abomination?
Also the homophobia of Jehovah really made me wonder where all this hate was coming from. I wondered why Jah needed to so tightly control reproduction?????
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DaCheech
We just learned these past weeks from the Bible reading that priests could not have sex a certain amount of time before serving "unclean"
Why don't elders today do this, since every one of their "principles" is based on the whole bible?!
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Farkel
What Blondie said.
(Sometimes I'm just out classed by more class)
I'm speechless. She said it all.
Farkel
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Undecided
Why did God require sacrifices in order to forgive humans?
Ken P.
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Blondie
Why an Israelite man could marry a non-Israelite woman as long as she wasn't a Canaanite
Oh come on, everyone knows what those Canaanite girls are like.
I could never understand how God could gamble with and allow all of Jobs family to be killed?
Why 52 kids could be killed by she bears for yelling "Go up you baldie" What if they had said "Hey shit head, is that your camel or your concubine" the whole town gets destroyed?
Why did God confine Satan and his Demons to earth where his children are when there are millions of other planets to stick them on?
Why was it ok for Daniel to be head of the magic practising priests?
What were they doing with that damn flamin sword in paradise while they were still nikkid?
Why did God hold two people that could not even cloth themselves responsible when they were tricked by one of his powerful spirit creatures which definetly knew better?