The WTS destructive image of God. (page 2)

FlyingHighNow

Everyone I think, unless horribly criminal and destructive towards his fellow man, will be resurrected for that second chance.

There are two spirits in this world. There is a good one and there is an EVIL one. I would think that only those individuals who are completely sane and who stubbornly cling to that EVIL murderous spirit, that only those people are unsalvageable and wouldn't be saved.

But perhaps time goes on for ions and ions until each soul goes over to the good spirit and the evil spirit exists on its own, safely and separately from the good spirit.

JamesThomas

Why continue manufacturing within our minds the idea of a god separate? Such mental wanderings and beliefs only steal away the vibrancy and aliveness of the present moment.

Why do we need to believe that what the word "God" points to, is some how absent from the reality and actuality of our own being? Perhaps if we looked deeper into the truth and actuality of this moment of existence we would find what religions have mistakenly shrunk and diminished to but a tiny thing far away.

j

greendawn

True the God image projected by the major monotheistic religions is not a very loving and positive one it probably gets mixed up with the image of one's human father and all his negative traits.

Dustin

I decided that I refuse to serve the god of the bible. I have no love of Christianity.

tetrapod.sapien

dropped the image.

it didn't help that he looked like santa claus and that jesus looked like osama bin laden.

DannyBloem

it didn't help that he looked like santa claus and that jesus looked like osama bin laden.

LMAO. Now you say it.....

jaffacake

If he did that in Noah's day, why wont he do it now?

With respect, if you believe in the Bible and Christianity, then this sort literal of interpretation of what the Bible says is wholly inadequate. Believing in a literal worldwide flood or that armageddon as an event in the so called last days, breaks all principles of proper Bible interpretation. For those that believe, there are many levels of meaning that even the authors did not understand, and I believe James Thomas' understanding and experience of 'God' is closer to what the Bible really teaches than just about any religion, especially the funamentalists.

Sunspot

After I left the WTS, I was still "conscious of my spiritual need" but didn't have a clue as to what to do with it! This board and another one on Beliefnet: JW Debate helped me to gain a foothold on my problem. The scriptures given and the posts on this topic were so helpful in actually picking up a bible and reading it for pleasure and not for any "meeting preparation", it made SUCH a difference to me.

I now see Jesus in an entirely new and different way than when I was a JW, and the "old God" , the one I call the "Watchtowergod" has no meaning or influence over me or my life now. All the Bugaboos that the WTS implanted in my brain are gone now (at last!) and a new appreciation has replaced the old (WTS) teachings.

Annie

Billygoat

Have you ever had someone gossip about you behind your back? Everything they said about you was to make THEM look smart, loving, and righteous. How did that make you feel? Did you ever confront them?

I've always considered this when I think of the JW version of God. They cast a light on Him to make THEM look better and special. I'd like to think that God is truly disgusted with that type of behavior. I believe that someday, like everyone else, they will have to answer for the behavior in their lives.

Farkel

The Bible says:

a) "God is a God of love."

b) "Love is not jealous."

c) "I, your God, am a jealous God."

If a and b are true, c is false or that "jealous God" is a false God. If c is true, a and b are false. By the simplest rules of logic, this syllogism is a logical fallacy.

Bottom line? The Bible is bullshit. Whatever it says about God must, by extension, be bullshit, too.

Farkel

The WTS destructive image of God.

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