Dunsscot,
am not trying to impress anyone on this forum. To the contrary, I am aware of my manifest ignorance. Why, I cannot even spark ideas in one of my fellow rational agents: I am only a midwife who tries to assist other subjects to produce ideas with their own cognitive powers while I stand by helping in any way that I can.
Do you talk this way to the dubs in the Kingdoom Hell or in the street during field service?
If you are aware of your manifest ignorance, why do you then try to assist other subjects to produce ideas? Is it because you want them to become manifestly ignorant like you?
If you cannot even spark ideas in one of your fellow rational agents, it may be because s/he is rational. Try doing it to an irrational agent.
In short, I am simply being myself and staying true to the name I have lifted from the stalwart metaphysical champion of the Middle Ages, namely, Dr. Duns (the subtle doctor).
Shame on you. Does your mommy organization know that your hero delves in metaphysics?
God evidently has a universal organization and an earthly one. When I speak of "God's Organization," I am referring to God's earthly organization composed of the remaining ones of the heavenly woman's seed and those who loyally associate with this remnant.
Where is this evidence?
If this god has a universal organization and an earthly one, does it mean that they are separate organizations and the earthly organization does not belong to the universal organization?
Which god? Jupiter, Tlaloc, Ra, Thor, Yaweh, Jesús, Venus, Huitzilopochtli?
If this heavenly woman produced a seed: Is the seed in heaven, or on Earth? If in heaven; is this the same heaven that, according to the bible, the gods created between the two layers of water around the earth? The bible claims that his heaven is located between the lower layer and the top layer and that it contains all the stars?
In His holy Word, God Himself tells us that when we bless His worshipers, we are in effect blessing Him. Conversely, cursing God's servants is akin to "cursing" Him. So leaving God's organization is comparable to apostatizing from Him. The NT never promotes the notion of "Lone Ranger" Christians.
Good point. That proves that the JWs are cursed, since they call all kinds of names to people not in their kult but who still worship the same god as JWs.
I am a true apostate. I don’t believe in the god of the bible, but there are others who still follow the teachings of the apostles after leaving the Borg. By definition, they are not apostates. They still worship Jehovah, and yet are humiliated and their families broken for not following immediately all the teachings of the two-thirds majority of the GB.
The “Lone Ranger” was not alone. He had a Native American companion. The Watchtower itself is a “Lone Ranger” it has no companion. It has seceded from Christianity.
Prove to me that “God’s Organization” is anywhere close to the WTS. You may do it awake or on your sleep.
I think that clear biblical teachings should be "enforced," as you say. But we must also allow room for the "fact" that certain forms of conduct that are evidently undesirable from God's standpoint, are not explicitly disallowed in Scripture. For example, I do not believe that Christians should smoke cigarettes. There seem to be a number of Bible principles that indicate true Christians should refrain from this practice. I am also of the mindset that the Christian ecclesia should discipline toward who smoke. Hopefully, this information will clear up any confusion.
There was a letter circulated about this subject a while ago.
Yaweh made it explicitly clear that someone working on a Saturday must be murdered. This is a biblical teaching. By this law, most JWs must be murdered since they preach on Saturdays and this is considered work. If this was a law made by a just god and not a murdering nut, How come Jesus changed it?
What makes the Witchtower a cult is that they want to regulate all aspects of your life Jessie did not impose so many regulations. He did not say to have 5 meetings per week, to freeze your buns selling materials, to beat up your child because she is not still during those meetings, to reject all those who rejected him. As a matter of fact: He talked obscurely on purpose, like you, so that people would not understand him.
On matters involving life and death, I can only say that God does not allow any evil occurrence that cannot be rectified in God's own due time. We have the hope of the resurrection. Furthermore, those leading God's flock will render an account to Him.
You mean to tell me he is going to resurrect all those murdered for working on a Saturday? Ooops! No wait a minute. It cannot be an act of evil to murder someone for working overtime on a Saturday because J ordered it. But then Jesus said it was OK, as a matter of fact, He worked on Saturdays too, and Said that J was wrong: that people could work on a Saturday. Maybe we should write to have this published for Questions for the Readers. Do you think that the WT wants to lose all this book/magazine money and say that Jehovah was right and Jesus was wrong?
Not only those leading the flocks will render an account to god, but those who propagate the wrong doctrine. Jesús did not say that it would be better for only the
leaders of the Pharisees to tie a stone to their necks and jump in the water.
One more note on doctrine in the process of development. While I think it is a mistake to enforce a provisional UNDERSTANDING of Scripture, there are times when we must act in accordance with the Zeitgeist that obtains. God will show mercy where mercy is proper; but He will show severity (I believe) where the evidence indicates that an overseer has acted abusively.
Zeitgeist \Zeit"geist`\, n. [G.; zeit time + geist spirit. See Tide, n.; Ghost, n.] The spirit of the time; the general intellectual and moral state or temper characteristic of any period of time.
Sorry, this was the only dictionary entry that I found. I cannot understand how we must act in accordance with the general intellectual and moral state or temper characteristic of any period of time that obtains. Obtains what?
Sorry too tired to keep going.
May you receive blessings from Tlaloc, Aztec God.
JRP
If I wanted your opinion, I would beat it out of you (seen in a bumper sticker)
