Posts by opusdei1972

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How Has Turning Athiest/ Agnostic Affected You?

by minimus in

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many jws believed in god.

now many here, do not believe in a deity.

how has this affected you in your life?.

How Has Turning Athiest/ Agnostic Affected You?

by minimus in

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many jws believed in god.

now many here, do not believe in a deity.

how has this affected you in your life?.

I have observed something else under the sun. The fastest runner doesn't always win the race, and the strongest warrior doesn't always win the battle. The wise sometimes go hungry, and the skillful are not necessarily wealthy. And those who are educated don't always lead successful lives. It is all decided by chance, by being in the right place at the right time. (Ecclesiastes 9:11)

Althought I don't believe that the Bible was inspired by God, I admit that the above words are true due to a good experience and observation. So, no matter how much you believe in God "it is all decided by chance, by being in the right place at the right time". So, the believer and the unbeliever will die if both were unlucky and take a defective airplane. If so, do you still believe that God is concerned about you?

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Will Jehovah's Witnesses eventually become an African religion?

by LogCon in

are there any statistics to show that proportionally the jw's are growing at a greater rate outside of western countries and, in particular, the african continent?.

if so, anybody's guess ?.....

1] by what year would the organization be predominantly african in membership?.

opusdei1972

Witnesses grow where there is more ignorance and less information.

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The myth of persecution, early Christians weren't persecuted.

by jam in

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anyone read candida moss book how early christians invented.

a story of martydom.

the romans did not terget, hunt or.

opusdei1972

The persecution of christians is well documented. Good for Christianity that Constantine stopped the persecution by the Milan Edict.

The edict protected from religious persecution not only Christians but all religions, allowing anyone to worship whichever deity they chose.

As for the above statement, it was, in fact, partialy respected, because Constantine assumed a biased attitude against Arians after the Nicaea Council (325 AD). After this Council christians showed publicly their true face by fighting between them due to the contradictions of the New Testament. A dark age began when christians started to have power in the Roman Empire. Many books were burned by fanatic christian theologians, so we have lost too much information about the past. Of course, muslims contributed for this too.

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A few questions for believers

by keyser soze in

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when confronted with all of the inconsistencies and atrocities of the bible, many believers invariably claim that they don't base their faith in christ on what's written in the bible.

so what is the basis then, if not scripture?.

and please don't tell me "the lord has revealed himself to me".

opusdei1972

The Lord Yahweh has revealed his Word in the Old Testament. However, archaeologists, and scholars have noticed that there are pretty lies there. So, we can't trust in the Lord Yahweh, because if he exists, he is a liar.

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"Jehovah's Witnesses do better after surgery without transfusion" - Article (July 3, 2012)

by Da.Furious in

this article from 2012 published by the birmingham news showed up on my facebook page.. what i would have liked to see in the statistics is the inclusion of total jws refusing blood transfusion and their survival rate not only the ones taht surviced, taking about only survivors is not like for like comparison in my opinion with patients who take blood transfusion and then dont survive.. .

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opusdei1972

Of course, if you can avoid a blood transfusion, it is better to avoid it. However, if you have an accident and you lose a relevant quantity of blood, most problably you will die if you don't receive a blood transfusion, because your body needs oxigen quickly.

Note that the above case is "heart surgery", but no physician would consider to avoid a blood transfusion for a person who suffered an accident with great loss of blood.

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Did Jesus Christ Have A Messianic Superiority Complex?

by frankiespeakin in

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/messiah_complex.

a messiah complex (also known as the christ complex or savior complex ) is a state of mind in which an individual holds a belief that they are, or are destined to become, a savior .

the term "messiah complex" is not addressed in the diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders (dsm) , but symptoms of the disorder closely resemble those found in individuals suffering from grandiose delusions (gd) or delusions of grandeur.

opusdei1972

I believe Jesus existed and was crucified, but I agree with some scholars of the line of the spanish Antonio Piñero. According to this line, Jesus did believe that he was the Messiah and God would establish the earthly Jewish kingdom soon with him as the king, but he thought he would not die as it happened. So, after his death, his disciples had to find in the Old Testament an explanation for that fiasco and shameful death. Of course, most of those OT verses were taken out of context. Thus, many things that are written in the Gospels were not said by Jesus, only some colection of sayings.....but, surely, Jesus believed that he was the savior of the Jewish nation, so he did something politicaly wrong which caused his unexpected death.

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Closure of an Elder run JW forum

by CharlieBrownsLovelyDaughter in

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some of you may know of a longstanding jw owned and operated forum named "touchstone forum" (www.touchstoneforum.net/cgi-bin/yabb2/yabb.pl).

wrench, the elder who ran the board, closed its doors rather quickly a couple of weeks ago, and has refused to discuss the reasons for the closure.

no announcement of closing.

opusdei1972

This seems to be the only forum in which witnesses defend the Society, though they know that they are disobeying the GB.

http://www.truetheology.net/forum/

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Debunking the KCA

by Coded Logic in

for those who havent encountered it before, the kalam cosmological argument is a proof of gods existence and goes as follows:.

) anything that begins to exist has a cause..

) the universe began to exist.. c.) therefore the universe has a cause.. .

opusdei1972

Coded Logic Those familiar with the First Law of Thermodynamics know that energy can neither be created nor destroyed.

Viviane that's not what the First Law of Thermodynamics says

This is the first law of Thermodynamics: ΔU = W - Q , where ΔU is the change of the internal energy of a system, W is the work done by the system, and Q is the heat received by the system. If W were the work done to the system, then W < 0, and Q < 0, if the system loses heat. This law is a consequence of the principle of the conservation of energy. So, if you are familiar with this law, then you know (unless you don't understand the equation) that energy must be preserved in thermodynamic processes. This seems to be what Coded Logic meant, doesn't it?

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Books of "Babylon the Great" quoted by the Society

by opusdei1972 in

the watchtower says:.

true christians keep clear of false worship, rejecting false religious teachings.

this means that we avoid exposure to religious programs on radio and television as well as religious literature that promotes lies about god and his word.

opusdei1972

compound complex : The Society discouranges to study Greek and Hebrew too, but its writers quote frequently Scholars in Greek of "Babylon the Great". Search for names like "Bruce Metzger" and "A. T. Robertson" in the Watchtower Library and you will find that the Society quotes them to explain the greek grammar of some Bible sentences. However, those guys are trinitarians of the Protestant Churches. So, it would mean that Jehovah will destroy the members of the Christendom in Armageddon, but before it, He uses the wisdom of Christendom's scholars to teach His "Organization".