Why believe Revelation or Last Days?

by Seeker 38 Replies latest jw friends

  • Seeker
    Seeker
    So Seeker,
    You sound like a kid whistling his way through a graveyard, muttering to himself, "I don't believe in spooks".

    You've gotten my thought process and psychology wrong every single time you've attempted to analyze it. You are wrong again. I'm not whistling anything, for that would imply I'm trying to convince myself of something. I'm not. I'm already convinced. I have facts on my side -- that can't be shaken by your threats.

    Take your pick on the humongous disasters that we are ont he edge of. Do I have to name them for you?

    Blah, blah, blah. Every generation thinks the same thing. Just wait till you see the disastrous possibilities of the 22nd century! Boy, will we be in trouble then!

    But even if a disaster befalls us (hey, it happened once to the dinosaurs, so I'm not saying life couldn't be obliterated on earth again), it will have nothing to do with the Bible. All those fervernt believers will be wiped out along with the unbelievers.

    It took a miracle to bring Israel back to Palestine in '48.

    Which has nothing to do with anything. Stop thinking the Bible talks about Israel in the 20th and 21st centuries.

    It's only through the grace of God that we did not start shooting missles at each other in '62, '67 and '73. God really stuck the false prophets on that last one, eh?

    How insulting! Men display a level of restraint, and you give God the credit.

    WW, you and You Know share one thing: you will both someday lay on your death bed, having never seen any fulfillment you expected to see. Watch. Time is on my side.

  • logical
    logical

    Kes, I agree with you.

    However, something is going on.

  • Eric
    Eric

    Seeker,

    When we left the JWs, we did so because of their false teachings. We saw through their faulty reasoning about why we are in the last days. We saw through their absurd arguments about how Revelation is being fulfilled in our day.

    Not So! Some have left JW's because they saw only the futility of the door-to-door work, and bored by the droning meetings have sought something more charismatic. Religious fervor junkies.

    Others have left because they saw only the hypocrisy evident in the pecking order of their own congregation, the lack of loving, caring shepherds or the double standards that apply based on works. But they're still scared shitless of end times prophecy and seek shelter from their fear with other Adventists.

    Still others, some apparently posting on this board, remove their hat with the tin-foil lining that blocks out messages from Satan only when they are reading Revelations or the OT prophets of doom and forming their own masturbatory fantasies of grim destruction. Some of these, to my delight, remain JW's.

    There must be 50 ways to leave the JW's, and rational skepticism may not even be in the top ten.

    Eric

  • Seeker
    Seeker

    A very fair point, Eric. Yes, some who leave the WTS never realize how faulty some of those teachings are.

  • JT
    JT

    eric you are on the money- some are still scared to death of "Bible" prophecies-

    when you consider 2000yrs of nothing-- how long does it take to realize that maybe this GreyHound bus ain't coming

  • Jigrigger
    Jigrigger

    Hi Rex,

    Wow!

    You supported your reply to Seeker with 44 Bible verses.
    Thump, thump, thump!

    Jrig

  • Eric
    Eric

    Rex,

    You sound like a kid whistling his way through a graveyard, muttering to himself, "I don't believe in spooks".

    When you are certain that the cemetery is not haunted and is not in any way populated by 'spooks' you can jog, bike, blade, or bink a haki-sak through the graveyard w/o fear.

    Whistling is optional, depending on your mood.

    Eric

  • Pete
    Pete
    It took a miracle to bring Israel back to Palestine in '48.

    I don't think it was a miracle for the Palestinians.

    "One's view depends upon where one is looking from." -- Mao

    Pete

  • logical
    logical

    We are in the last days.

    Kent is going to eat one pie too many and he will explode obliterating every life form on this planet, including the tiniest micro organisms (thats O-R-G-A-N-I-S-M-S).

  • VeniceIT
    VeniceIT

    HAHHAHa Great thread Seeker!!! agree with your opening post 100%. Revalation was written in the mid 60's of the 1st Century. It was written in apocolptic language, and was fulfilled with the destruction of Jerusalem. That's it over NADDAAA no more done gone.

    Ok it really is that simple, 'The Truth shall set you free'

    Ven

    "The best way to convince a fool that he is wrong, is to let him have his own way."---Josh Billings

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