jesus was a jew who apparently thought he was the messiah, however, after dying, his disciples began to propagate the lie that he would return from heaven during his generation.
but, his generation passed away, and it was clear that it was a false prophecy, then a dishonest christian wrote the second letter of peter so as to condemn those who realised that the prophecy was a fiasco.
interestingly, and sadly, this religion survived,....why????
I think that if we have "a God" who was the indirect cause of our existence, we can conclude the following :
1) He had nothing to do with the composition of the Bible. Unless He wants to mock us.
2) He wants us for living only a limit period of time (as human beings at least).
3) He knows that evil will always emerge in our social environment.
4) In general (or may be always), He is sleeping when we are in danger.
jesus was a jew who apparently thought he was the messiah, however, after dying, his disciples began to propagate the lie that he would return from heaven during his generation.
but, his generation passed away, and it was clear that it was a false prophecy, then a dishonest christian wrote the second letter of peter so as to condemn those who realised that the prophecy was a fiasco.
interestingly, and sadly, this religion survived,....why????
Village Idiot:
The Christian religion is the most deceptive because it is hypocrite. It says "we have to love our enemies". On the other hand, Islam says: "we have to kill our enemies". It's more sincere.
http://www.jw.org/en/publications/books/jesus/.
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For an indian in the Amazon Jungle those words are senseless. Even for those who lived in America before it was discovered.
jesus was a jew who apparently thought he was the messiah, however, after dying, his disciples began to propagate the lie that he would return from heaven during his generation.
but, his generation passed away, and it was clear that it was a false prophecy, then a dishonest christian wrote the second letter of peter so as to condemn those who realised that the prophecy was a fiasco.
interestingly, and sadly, this religion survived,....why????
I was a preterist after leaving the Watchtower Society, so I thought that the prophecies given in Luke 21 and Matthew 24 only could make sense for the facts of the destruction in 70 A.D. However, the prophecy clearly said that
"then shall appear the sign of the Son of man in heaven: and then shall all the tribes of the earth mourn, and they shall see the Son of man coming in the clouds of heaven with power and great glory.".
but, this did not happen after Jerusalem's destruction. No one saw Jesus coming in the clouds of heaven with power. On the contrary, Jesus was and is absent in many of crimes committed by his representatives on earth. Jesus can't be the head of any church.
jesus was a jew who apparently thought he was the messiah, however, after dying, his disciples began to propagate the lie that he would return from heaven during his generation.
but, his generation passed away, and it was clear that it was a false prophecy, then a dishonest christian wrote the second letter of peter so as to condemn those who realised that the prophecy was a fiasco.
interestingly, and sadly, this religion survived,....why????
Phyzy: Why did it appeal so ? I think it was Paul's "There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor freeman, there is neither male nor female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus" that struck a chord with the common person.
Yes, indeed, Paul's rhetoric was attractive for the masses. It was indeed attractive for me for many years. However, even Paul was deceived by the idea of the return of Jesus, which did not happen. In fact, Paul's thinking was revolutionary for that time, when people were wasting time and money in pagan cults. Without Paul, christianity could not have improved. Today, we know the fiasco of the christian religion, but it was an interesting phenomena in the first century.
jesus was a jew who apparently thought he was the messiah, however, after dying, his disciples began to propagate the lie that he would return from heaven during his generation.
but, his generation passed away, and it was clear that it was a false prophecy, then a dishonest christian wrote the second letter of peter so as to condemn those who realised that the prophecy was a fiasco.
interestingly, and sadly, this religion survived,....why????
Jesus was a Jew who apparently thought he was the Messiah, however, after dying, his disciples began to propagate the lie that he would return from heaven during his generation. But, his generation passed away, and it was clear that it was a false prophecy, then a dishonest christian wrote the Second Letter of Peter so as to condemn those who realised that the prophecy was a fiasco.
Interestingly, and sadly, this religion survived,....why?????
by alexandra james.
http://jwvictims.org/2015/05/17/jehovahs-witnesses-recognize-that-people-have-the-right-to-change-religions-just-not-their-religion/.
jehovahs witnesses say that people have the right to change religions and that they deserve respect when it comes to that right, but this is not something that they offer to those who leave their religion.
Here is an interesting article (in Spanish) on that point:
this is what the second president of the watchtower society, the channel of god appointed in 1919, wrote about the mother's day:.
satan would turn the people away from this beautiful symbol, and therefore from god, and cause them to disregard the word of the lord.
this he does in a very subtle way by organizing what in england and in america, the chief countries of christendom, is called "mother's day".
this is what the second president of the watchtower society, the channel of god appointed in 1919, wrote about the mother's day:.
satan would turn the people away from this beautiful symbol, and therefore from god, and cause them to disregard the word of the lord.
this he does in a very subtle way by organizing what in england and in america, the chief countries of christendom, is called "mother's day".
this is what the second president of the watchtower society, the channel of god appointed in 1919, wrote about the mother's day:.
satan would turn the people away from this beautiful symbol, and therefore from god, and cause them to disregard the word of the lord.
this he does in a very subtle way by organizing what in england and in america, the chief countries of christendom, is called "mother's day".
There is more on that Watchtower's book:
The women make monkeys or dupes of men. The men have become effeminate, soft and easily influenced,
and have lost their real manhood and sturdiness in the affairs of state and home. For instance, when
men are sitting at a table and a woman approaches, all the men arise and pay her homage and thereby
elevate her to a place above men. The men remove their hats upon entering an elevator, if a woman is
present; and these things are said to be acts of respect and to show that a man is a gentleman. But it
is subtle, and the real meaning is much different from that. It is a scheme of Satan to turn men away from
God and from his announced rule of the proper position of man and woman. The Lord has declared that
no effeminate man shall inherit the kingdom of heaven. (Vindication, pages 156-157)
