i really can't wrap my head around how people can still consider god loving with such atrocious biblical accounts such as, 1 samuel 15, (god ordering the slaughter of amelikite baby's and children) 2nd kings 2, forgot the verses (god sending bears to maul 42 children) and many others.have you ever asked a witness or anyone elsewhat they think about these accounts?
what was their response?
i'd love to ask one, but unfortunately i'm still physically in the cult and i wouldn't want to raise any suspicions.
Oh the morality issue.
Here is one for you then!
You are good because there is a God who will eith 'chastize you', send you to hell, kill you at Armagedden... take you pick. You also need a book to tell you to be moral.
Amazing.
Athiest are good because they WANT to be good.
It is the believer that is shallow.
and that jehovah's witnesses are proud to use that name?.
Actually it does matter. Knowing the name of 'God' is YHWH means we can search for him in arceology and find out for instance:
He was a regional God
He was Married to Asherah (Sacred Pole)
He replaced El... the previous Canaanite/Israelite head God
He came from the Shashu tribe south of Edom in Midian area.
Knowing that 'God' has a name it the first step to proving he doesn't exist
i really can't wrap my head around how people can still consider god loving with such atrocious biblical accounts such as, 1 samuel 15, (god ordering the slaughter of amelikite baby's and children) 2nd kings 2, forgot the verses (god sending bears to maul 42 children) and many others.have you ever asked a witness or anyone elsewhat they think about these accounts?
what was their response?
i'd love to ask one, but unfortunately i'm still physically in the cult and i wouldn't want to raise any suspicions.
The writer of Hebrews said he was a man of faith. lol Hebrews 11:32. Along with hims is Gideom who beat rhe $hit out of people with thorn of the wilderness.
David... do I need to mention... slaughtering 2 lines of Moabites
Japthah... child killer
Barak.. Wimp
Hebrew author found some gems along with Samson lol
nice guy i worked with him for about a year.
he is mormon but every time we were in a place to talk he brought up religion, cult thinking.... he needs to come clean i think.... ripe for the vine of non cult thinking but not an ex-jw so i don't have the upper hand?
is there a coc for mormons?
never mide the Sabbath... Crack his Book of Mormon.
He believe this book was translated from Gold plates that date back at least 1600 years and were translated 150 years ago into 17th centery english
The book of 2 Nephi contians long major sections of quotes from Isaiah.
Ask him how come you can get a King James Bible and open it to Isaiah and read the same passage in 2 Nephi WORD PER WORD 100%.
Sorry translation doesn't work like that!
Joseph Smith used the KJV as a source not imaginary Gold plates that weighed 200 lbs that be ran miles carrying.
as a jw i always believed that dinosaurs at one point existed.
my whole family did, almost all the jws i knew did.
one time i was out for dinner, and one of the people with us was convinced that they never existed.
The WTs idea for dinosaurs is not very creative. Even Kent Hovind can beat them with creatures from Job.
How does the WT explain the DNA map of evolution. Are they going to deny that DNA exists next?
and that jehovah's witnesses are proud to use that name?.
You cannot change the W to a V in hebrew!!!
found in 2000 with a group of antiquity smugglers this bible contains the gospel of barnabas according to the report in the national turk.. written in aramaic this gospel account was omitted by the church during the period of the council of nicea.. the text maintains a story similar to islam regarding jesus being a great prophet.. is has a reported value of $28million and is said to be in the museum of ankara.. http://moorishharem.com/culture-detail/1500-year-old-bible-that-jesus-christ-was-not-crucified-vatican-in-awe/.
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Daniel was the work of cowards in the 160s BCE.
Chapter one talks of food issues. Compare to 2 Macc 6
Chapter 2 is where the Aramaic starts and matches chapter 7, 8. however you list matches the WT list and is wrong.
There is NO HISTORIAN that will claim Daniel was talking about anything beyond 165BCE The 'Kingdoms divided' were the Seludicds and the Ptolomys.
Chapter 3 speaks of Idolary and should be compared to 2 Maccabees 7
Futher chapter 4 might indeed speak of a legend from ancient Babylon however it is greatly disorted and propaganda toward Antoichus.
chapter 5 has 4 major historical inaccuracies.
Chapter 6 is comcerning prayer and is related to the final chapter os 2 Macabees
Chapter 9 is messinic and for the point of this review lets just say there is no way the book of Jeremiah would be considered canon had Daniel lived then! (Back to Hebrew)
10,11,12 are a interesting history that is maybe 70% accurate up until chapter 11 vs 33 and 34. These verses are the KEY TO UNLOCKING THE BOOK! 33 tells us whoever wrote this were Rabbis. vs 34 referances the Macabees with a passing glance indicating the time of date. It also show the writers as cowards.
After that this 'history' falls apart and becomes a battle God ends. Daniel in chapter 12 it told to 'seal up the book for the time of the end'. Yeah ...lol... right... This book was amazingly 'found' in the second centery BCE LOL.... The end never came and the 'little help' rules for 100 years.
The writers of Danile likely fled to the Dead Sea region and started a cult ... welll that another story...
yes the bible is quite a moral book jws say.
see how it teaches all these good values...... (all quotes from the 2013 nwt with editation).
lets look at exodus 22: 29 you must not hesitate to make offerings from your abundant produce and the overflow of your presses.
One thing I might mention is the WT seems to practice child sacrifice..aka child baptisms
an acquaintance in canada is making a serious attempt at ending children being forced, or coerced, to attend a judicial meeting.. are there any here who had to attend such a meeting, and would be willing to contribute their feelings?.
likewise, any who were baptized as minors, but felt later that at the time of their baptism, they were not old enough to have made that decision..
There is no Malachi 6:8 lol... I think you mean Micah
an acquaintance in canada is making a serious attempt at ending children being forced, or coerced, to attend a judicial meeting.. are there any here who had to attend such a meeting, and would be willing to contribute their feelings?.
likewise, any who were baptized as minors, but felt later that at the time of their baptism, they were not old enough to have made that decision..
If this works the walkout of those baptized before 18 or 19 in Canada will be enormous.
