before you answer; .
think about how they could care less how many families are broken up just to retain their power.
how they could care less if members are driven to suicide because of the deep programming and severe depression or strained family situations.. how they would rather let members die in order to retain their power and refuse to acknowledge their faulty bible reasoning regarding blood.. i could go on and on and on.
I think I'd be paralysed into inaction by my conflicting feelings.
It's an old man getting beaten up, I'd have to help him.
He's evil though, if it was hitler getting beaten I'd join in.
Would I though? wouldn't I stop the beating so that they could face justice?
But they'll never face justice, they're too sneaky and they have highly paid lawyers, this could be the only justice they'll ever get.
But it's just an old man getting beaten up.
And round and round I'd go...
in the old testament, god was always full of anger and jealousy resulting in the murder of millions of people.
we’re told jesus perfectly reflects his fathers qualities.
why in the new testament does jesus show no hint of anger and jealousy and wanting to kill people?
The early Christian martyrs were not only believers of a faith that they would die for. They were witnesses. The apostles were witnesses of Jesus's resurrection and COULD not deny what they knew to be true. That is quite different from someone who has faith in their faith. Although both were martyrs, there's a major difference when you are a witness and know that it is false.
Yasir ibn Amir al-ʿAnsī (Arabic: ياسر بن عامر العنسي) (sixth/seventh century C.E.) was an early companion of the Islamic prophet Muhammad. He is the second martyr in Islam, with the first being his wife, Sumayyah.[1]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yasir_ibn_Amir#Death_and_legacy
Here's another quote from that page:
But Yasir and his wife had no one to defend them; they bore no arms, and they were the most defenseless of all the martyrs of Islam. By sacrificing their lives, they highlighted the truth of Islam, and they built strength into its structure.
Do you see that your evidence of the truth of Christianity is exactly the same type of evidence used to prove the truth of other religions? Obviously, this is cannot be evidence of either, or any, religion being true.
actually, i think i've discovered two issues.. the first is that there are too many soft reboots, remakes and re-imaginings.
don't get me wrong, hollywood has always done remakes and some remakes work very well.
the fly (1986) and the thing (1982) are actually remakes/re-imaginings of the original 50s films.
I really enjoyed The Ballad of Buster Skruggs too. Not only was it proper story telling, but it was a whole bunch of top notch stories!
in the old testament, god was always full of anger and jealousy resulting in the murder of millions of people.
we’re told jesus perfectly reflects his fathers qualities.
why in the new testament does jesus show no hint of anger and jealousy and wanting to kill people?
TTWSYF:
Respectfully, although you are right as far as each of us are not witness to personal and profound intimate communication / revelation with God, there is still a large amount of evidence.
One example of evidence could be the way the apostles and 90% of the early Christians leaders were tortured to death is evidence. Why die for a lie? To what end?
While it is possible for men to die for a lie, it is not possible for the lot of sinners that made up the apostles to go thru what they went through and not fold up if it were a lie in my opinion.If they KNEW it was a lie, they would have recounted when the blade started to peel their skin off of their bodies. It's common sense.
Thank you for your response, but I'm sorry you are wrong to say that there is evidence for the existence of the biblical god. If there was any evidence then there would be only two types of people in the world: people who accepted the evidence and people who would rather die.
Your example of the early Christian leaders being tortured to death is clearly wrong because we know that people have been martyred for beliefs which are contradictory to those of Christians. The Jews who accepted death by burning at the stake rather than convert to Christianity during the inquisition for example. Even to the point of refusing the final "mercy" from their Christian tormentors of being strangled before the fires were lit. Imagine the faith it would have taken to refuse a quick death and face the torment of the flames.
All that martyrdom shows is that people will die for their beliefs, it provides no evidence that those beliefs are true.
hi friends ,.
i just thought i should share with you my entry into the o.b.e.
club on this 5th of july.not everybody makes it and to tell you the truth ,i never thought i would.
The three beers and a cake suggest birthday, but what then the acronym?
I reckon the O is Old and the B is Bugger/Bastard/Badger, something like that, but what's the E? Enclave? Ensemble?
in the old testament, god was always full of anger and jealousy resulting in the murder of millions of people.
we’re told jesus perfectly reflects his fathers qualities.
why in the new testament does jesus show no hint of anger and jealousy and wanting to kill people?
There is no evidence that the god of the bible exists. So you believe without evidence and call this faith.
There is no knowledge about the god of the bible that does not come from other men. You either read books or listen to speakers to gain knowledge about god.
Therefore you do not have faith in god, but in men first. You have faith that what you have been told by these men is true.
This leads to a logical contradiction because the bible says: Psalm 146:3 - "Put not your trust in princes, nor in the son of man, in whom there is no help."
To believe in god you have to have faith in the men who wrote, translated, published and interpreted the bible for you, but the bible says not to trust them. So if you believe the bible, you can't believe the bible and if you believe in god it is because of your faith in men and nothing else.
hi friends ,.
i just thought i should share with you my entry into the o.b.e.
club on this 5th of july.not everybody makes it and to tell you the truth ,i never thought i would.
Order of the British Empire?
just before the last memorial, i finally had a witness call with an invite ( i say finally because i haven’t seen anyone in the d 2 d preaching work for going on 5 years!)..
i wasn’t particularly prepared ( it being early and me still in my nightie!
) but i managed to collect myself and said i didn’t think i wanted to go since i discovered the scandal around the un.....and i outlined the facts.. jw: oh no i don’t think so, where on earth did you read that?.
Believing in Evolution is what set's us apart from the animals...
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this was taken in london yesterday by a twitter user still managing his fade so i can't be more specific than that.
disgusting.
At least the guy on the floor is doing something constructive. Getting some shut-eye. The poor bastards by the carts are wasting their lives away in a trap that's harder to get out of than homelessness. If they did ignore him then they, unwittingly, did him the greatest favour they could.
I had tapes of the Goons radio show. Listened to them over and over. You may hear me say "Winds light to variable" to this day...
