by Shining One 23 Replies latest watchtower beliefs
Yet this is only the physical death as we are immortal souls who will live beyond this realm
Prove it. No-one has any idea what happens at death if anything at all. Hey you can have your faith but don't pawn it off as obsolute truth to others.
Such pious sanctimonious self-righteous people do as much to dissuade people from a belief system as does the stuff they spew as 'truth.'
Uzzah
A human being left to be raised with no morality nor compassion will not turn 'good'. He will always turn out bad. YOu don't have to teach a child to be selfish or lie. It happens no matter what society wants to believe. We are not 'good' in any way when left to our own resources.
And there is a basic assumption that is not necessarily true. However, since the premise has been hotly debated for centuries now... is the nature of man inherently "good" or inherently "bad", and further, who defines the terms, and even further, why?
If we can't agree on those, we will never agree on the rest.
Daystar,
What is the definition of 'bad' or 'evil'? Anything short of the perfection of God (which is 'good'), is 'bad'. You are comparing human beings to one another when none meet the standard, therefore none are good!
Rex
I think it's all a matter of perspective. Humans are incredibly concerned with themselves, naturally, so when something bad happens that affects a human, they see it as the universe conspiring against them. So when a tree happens to fall through someone's house, we wonder about the meaning of life and ask questions about why such things happen.
However, imagine you're watching an ant colony, and a dog runs up and knocks it over, destroying generations of work and killing scores of ants in the process. We may experience a moment of smiling compassion, but we don't regard the incident as particularly tragic in the grand scheme of things.
Why do we look for universal explanations when humans are affected, but not ants? The simple answer is that we care much more about humans than we do about ants, and in our hubris, we believe that bad things could never happen to humans without some great, evil reason behind it.
It takes humility to accept that we are not the center of the universe, and that "bad" things are simply things we didn't expect or didn't prepare for properly, which happened to affect our livelihoods negatively. There is no overarching reason per se, just as there is no reason our dog destroyed the ant colony. The ants just didn't know that would happen, or weren't prepared.
Or perhaps it's because they hadn't been to church the Sunday previous. :-)
SNG
