Posts by opusdei1972

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People should learn more about the Bible flaws

by opusdei1972 in

i have noted that the main problem for those who are seduced by the watchtower society is their ignorance about the bible itself.

people who believe that the bible is the word of god usually ignore the studies on textual criticism and how scientific criteria forbid absurd stories like that of the global flood.

so, i strongly believe that students in schools need at least an obligatory course on "the bible" through the point of view of science and the textual criticism.

The first time I heard about the Documentary Hypothesis was when I was receiving obligatory lectures in Theolofy I ( in the Catholic University of Peru). However, the course was not well given.

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People should learn more about the Bible flaws

by opusdei1972 in

i have noted that the main problem for those who are seduced by the watchtower society is their ignorance about the bible itself.

people who believe that the bible is the word of god usually ignore the studies on textual criticism and how scientific criteria forbid absurd stories like that of the global flood.

so, i strongly believe that students in schools need at least an obligatory course on "the bible" through the point of view of science and the textual criticism.

opusdei1972

"I am a huge critic of what's in the bible and how dangerous it's ideas cab be"

Of course, the Bible is dangerous when one considers it as the word of God.

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How much damage has internet done against the The Watchtower Society ?

by opusdei1972 in

in the beginning of internet the society was worried about the information published exposing its falsehood.

so, i wonder how many people lost the society on account of forums and web sites like this.

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opusdei1972

Humans have an inbuilt curiosity in them, and the WTS can do nothing to change that.

My first curiosity was to investigate about the Church Fathers of the second century, because I wanted to verify if the early church had the same doctrines of the Watchtower Society. For instance, I wanted to find the soul-sleep doctrine, but I found the contrary. The same happened with the issue of the cross. I found strong evidences pointing that Christ died on a t-shape crux, and so on.

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People should learn more about the Bible flaws

by opusdei1972 in

i have noted that the main problem for those who are seduced by the watchtower society is their ignorance about the bible itself.

people who believe that the bible is the word of god usually ignore the studies on textual criticism and how scientific criteria forbid absurd stories like that of the global flood.

so, i strongly believe that students in schools need at least an obligatory course on "the bible" through the point of view of science and the textual criticism.

opusdei1972

I have noted that the main problem for those who are seduced by the Watchtower Society is their ignorance about the Bible itself. People who believe that the Bible is the word of God usually ignore the studies on textual criticism and how scientific criteria forbid absurd stories like that of the Global Flood. So, I strongly believe that students in schools need at least an obligatory course on "the Bible" through the point of view of science and the textual criticism. I don't know about a book enclosing a summary of all these issues. Of course, Dawkins has done a contribution, and other ones. But we need a book of a high school level in order to show to the students the flaws of the Bible. It could help many people to avoid dangerous sects like the Watchtower Society. Secular governments should propagate this information so as to create a better thinking society of humans.

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Do we have a "spiritual need"?

by LexIsFree in

so this is only my second post but its about something that has been on my mind for awhile now.

have any of you ever felt the need to pray or speak to a higher power?

do any of you beleive that we were created or have evolved with a "spiritual need"?

opusdei1972

We have the natural question about how and why we exist. However, if a superior being exist (hypothesis), I don't think that we must pray Him, because that being has never revealed His identity until now. In the past dishonest religious leaders emerged by inventing legalistic policies that supposedly came from "God". For instance, the jewish priests invented that a god called YHWH liked to receive the blood of sacrificed animals and demanded his people to abstain from swine. We now know that these are human inventions. So, we were forced to believe that we must worship a non-existent being created in the mind of scribes.

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How much damage has internet done against the The Watchtower Society ?

by opusdei1972 in

in the beginning of internet the society was worried about the information published exposing its falsehood.

so, i wonder how many people lost the society on account of forums and web sites like this.

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opusdei1972

I remember a talk in 1999 in the kingdom hall in which the elder said that we should avoid to read web pages because are very dangerous against the spirituality.

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How much damage has internet done against the The Watchtower Society ?

by opusdei1972 in

in the beginning of internet the society was worried about the information published exposing its falsehood.

so, i wonder how many people lost the society on account of forums and web sites like this.

.

opusdei1972

In the beginning of internet the Society was worried about the information published exposing its falsehood. So, I wonder how many people lost the Society on account of forums and web sites like this.

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What if Satan repent

by James Mixon in

satan, god i'm sorry for my misdeed, will you forgive me.

tell satan.

satan comes.

opusdei1972

Satan does not exist, but according to the Jews, he obeys Yahweh as one of his sons.

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My sister is being harassed by the elders

by opusdei1972 in

sometime ago i wrote here in this forum about the case of my sister, who decided to stop attending the meetings because she realised that the watchtower society is an evil organization.

this happened more than one year ago.

i am not living in the same country of my sister, so i learn about her case when she calls me or when she write me through whatsapp.

opusdei1972

A letter was sent through a notary public in order to notify the elders of the congregation, "who orally accused her of apostasy, that they must specify in a letter the date of the judicial meeting so as to attend that meeting in the presence of her lawyer to protect her constitutional rights".

Let's see what will they do.

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Why did Jesus have to die?

by Crazyguy in

let's think about this for a bit.

adam was tempted and sinned by eating of the fruit.

he missed out on immortality by being denied the tree of life.

opusdei1972

Also, if Jesus passed the test and died for us for our sins, why we still die for our sins after 2000 years?. Why do we see too many divisions in the Christian religion? ....So, the Christian doctrine doesn't work, it is a fraud as any other religion. Note that the following is one of the main principles in the Christian religion:

Who is the liar? Whoever denies that Jesus is the Christ ( 1 John 2:22)

So, this religion is accusing whoever denies that Jesus is the Savior of all humans. However, Jesus wrote nothing for us, and his followers gave us a contradictory set of books,