my dad came into the jw's because someone studied the "creation" book with him.
it pains me deeply that he sent me an e-mail recently saying that to keep the peace with my mom, he will stop communicating with me as much as possible.
i should communicate with him only if i have an emergency.. it upsets me to no end, but i cannot do anything or much about it.
To clarify I have heard the same exact arguments fro the creation book in Kent Hovind's videos (which are comedy lol)
This means they used the same creationist source. The WT was using creationist propoganda when they made the creation book.
To top it off the editor who inserted comments (Franz?) was extremly uneducated because he felt natural selction = chance. Dawkins debunks this publication in his book "The God Delution"
i have scanned daniel chapter 9 as it is rendered in english by the hebrew tanakh (masoretic text - mt) and by the greek septuagint (lxx).. http://www.jwstudies.com/daniel_9_in_mt_and_in_lxx.pdf.
read verses 24 to 27 carefully.. doug.
This of course is refering to a time around 160s BCE ... important to know
just saying , my 2 cents worth .
if they have an agenda it will be revealed in a short time , let them play it out .. however , some genuine first posters can be put off by somebody jumping the gun and attacking them .. please give the first posters time to get to know this site.. smiddy.
Some here might get the idea that i'm promoting my channel on youtube or my book im writing. Not true. I post here because from observation most people here are decent and have been wronged by LIARS. We can mostly agree the WT are liars even if you still belive in God.
I post more bible stuff because not many others do if any... I want people to think...
i think we are already living in the age where there can be no new religions.
we have access to information like never before and anyone claiming revelations of something new and starting a whole new religion can easily be discredited.. christianity and islam may continue to subdivide but i think we've pretty much seen the end of anything new in terms of a new belief system.. .
what are your thoughts on this?.
Prince Phillip is worshipped by a cargo cult... cargo cults will dissapear!
i think we are already living in the age where there can be no new religions.
we have access to information like never before and anyone claiming revelations of something new and starting a whole new religion can easily be discredited.. christianity and islam may continue to subdivide but i think we've pretty much seen the end of anything new in terms of a new belief system.. .
what are your thoughts on this?.
Hell no.
Kopimism is a very new religion for instance
There are many MANY new religons however they end to be either:
Gnostic
Spritual
Pagan revised
Universalism
Christianity is on the way down because not as many new age christian based religions have started in the last ten years.
i have seen many witnesses with 4,5,6,7 kids.
no problem with that.
they are mostly loving families but today i experianced the birth of my son.. the emotions of my wife... the pain... the fear... the hope combined with the joy of the birth and seeing my wife reaction when she held the baby was well balanced.. .
Thank you all.
Villige girl- I am constanly awed by mountains and oceans and trees (I live in British Columbia) That doesn't prove there is a God. I can be spritual without being religious.
While I agree modern medicine can help and in the case of baby #1 this was the option we chose a home birth can be easier and often better.
Actually from an evolutionary standpoint a birth in water is probably the best but I'll save that topic for another day.
they have writes hundreds of other repetitive books, but no bible commentary.
is it because an actually commentary would destroy their doctrine and prevent them from being able to cherry pick scriptures?.
The Gospels- Greatest Man
Acts- Benifit Book
1 + 2 Peter- Choosing Best Way of Life
James - Commentary on James
Revelation- The Red Revelation book and also the old Babylon Book
BTW
The prophets are all coverned
Isiaiah - Two Books
Jeremiah and Lamentations - Jeremiah Book
Ezekiel - The Nations shall know that I am Jehovah
Daniel - Daniel Book
the 12 minor prophets are covered in a small book called Living with Jehovah's Day in Mind.
Actuall it's Genesis to The Song of Solomon as well as 'Pauls Letters that are in need of JW commentary.
on one hand, he's enlightnened many to the internal circle jerk that is the governing body (circa the 70s).. but if there's one reason that can be pointed to for the jws becoming full on cult, it's ray franz.
without him leaving in the manner he did, and stirring the pot, they might not have change the rule (retroatively i might add) on shunning of disassociated ones.
they specifically changed that so they could remove him and eliminate his influence.. his actions single handedly have created the situation where we have to fade, evade, leave marriages, say goodbye to family, just because we don't buy the jw bullsh!t anymore.
His reacding of the Gsoepl of John in th earky JW tapes are soft and inviting. While I am an athiest Ray Franz stood for whathe belive and there is no shame in it
i have seen many witnesses with 4,5,6,7 kids.
no problem with that.
they are mostly loving families but today i experianced the birth of my son.. the emotions of my wife... the pain... the fear... the hope combined with the joy of the birth and seeing my wife reaction when she held the baby was well balanced.. .
Thank you
having just past 50 i have been reflecting on my childhood with the witnesses.
the people i grew up with who are the same age with elderly parents some still alive.
i tend to have a positive attitude but i realise that for me this is it.
You will all laugh. Im 35. I have acepted that the following years are DOWN and not UP lol.
However I will never let my son belive this. In fact I DO plan to read some parts of the book of bibles stories. With Mother goose too..
