opusdei1972
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Bible Christianity is Holy baloney
by Half banana inunderpinning all the claims of the jw org is a belief in the sanctity of the bible as gods word.
this holy assumption is certainly never challenged by the watchtower and neither does the believer dare to use critical thinking to evaluate the source of his or her beliefs.
the watchtower org, for obvious reasons would not do this as they would need to sell up and hand back the money were they to admit that the bible is just a piece of literature and not divine in origin.
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Source material: "144,000" and "anointed" in The Watchtower, 2000-2015
by Doug Mason ina collation of statements made in the watchtower from 2000 to 2015 of "144,000" and "anointed".
http://www.jwstudies.com/wt_magazines_from_2000_to_2015_on_144000_and_the_anointed.pdf .
doug.
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opusdei1972
Thank you Steve2. I am writing that web page, and some times I adds a new article. This creates great peace for me, because I love to expose the Bible and the Watchtower lies. Because I don't believe that the Bible lies were written as mere allegories, but for deceiving the unlearned masses. -
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Bible Christianity is Holy baloney
by Half banana inunderpinning all the claims of the jw org is a belief in the sanctity of the bible as gods word.
this holy assumption is certainly never challenged by the watchtower and neither does the believer dare to use critical thinking to evaluate the source of his or her beliefs.
the watchtower org, for obvious reasons would not do this as they would need to sell up and hand back the money were they to admit that the bible is just a piece of literature and not divine in origin.
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opusdei1972
I agree that the Bible is collection of books containing many myths, but with some distorted historical facts behind them. I don't believe that Jesus was 100% an invention, though Moses probably was. May be Josephus mentioned Jesus, but as a mere religious leader of a sect, or may be he simply wrote "he was regarded as the Christ" (as a manuscript says). Nevertheless, christian writers tampered Josephus' report. It is dificult to know for sure what realy happened, but in fact, there are many lies in the Gospels. -
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Source material: "144,000" and "anointed" in The Watchtower, 2000-2015
by Doug Mason ina collation of statements made in the watchtower from 2000 to 2015 of "144,000" and "anointed".
http://www.jwstudies.com/wt_magazines_from_2000_to_2015_on_144000_and_the_anointed.pdf .
doug.
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opusdei1972
I know that Paul did not write the experience narrated in the book of Acts. But I believe that Paul and Jesus existed. However, I think that 90% of what the Gospels tell is invention. But I do believe that there was a Jew called Jesus who was killed by the Romans, then his disciples started to justify his death by using passages of the OT. I think that after Paul and Peter's death the virginity of Mary was also included by pagan christians and so on. Here my thoughts in my webpage against The Bible and The Society:
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Neanderthal man
by scary21 inmy ex husband and father of my daughter was never baptized but is still a believer in the wt.. a couple years ago we were talking about evolution ( which he does not believe in ) i brought up the subject of the neanderthals and how we all have their dna except africans ( the ones that never left africa ).
he said neanderthals are apes and not humans and jw's do not teach that they are humans.
i said i believe they do.. in the life- how did it get here book, under the sub heading " the human family "is says " neanderthal man....... was undoubtedly human.. his response was " they are just talking about what other people believe " ahhhhh .
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Cofty: as I see, the human skull is that which has the greatest volume. It is the lowest on the right. This is why I don't see the Neanthertal's skull as a human one. -
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Neanderthal man
by scary21 inmy ex husband and father of my daughter was never baptized but is still a believer in the wt.. a couple years ago we were talking about evolution ( which he does not believe in ) i brought up the subject of the neanderthals and how we all have their dna except africans ( the ones that never left africa ).
he said neanderthals are apes and not humans and jw's do not teach that they are humans.
i said i believe they do.. in the life- how did it get here book, under the sub heading " the human family "is says " neanderthal man....... was undoubtedly human.. his response was " they are just talking about what other people believe " ahhhhh .
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opusdei1972
The photo that Perry showed above may be belongs to a man who has a deformed skull.
I tend to believe that Neanthertals were very close to us, but not of our specie.
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Source material: "144,000" and "anointed" in The Watchtower, 2000-2015
by Doug Mason ina collation of statements made in the watchtower from 2000 to 2015 of "144,000" and "anointed".
http://www.jwstudies.com/wt_magazines_from_2000_to_2015_on_144000_and_the_anointed.pdf .
doug.
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opusdei1972
I have gone through some steps until arriving in agnosticism. I am surprised by my quick change. Five years ago I still believed that the organization had 80% of Truth. So, I was a stupid WT apologist as a member of a Witness Forum. Then, I noticed that this religion is stupid, evil, and very wrong in many aspects, even in its interpretation of the Bible. However, I still believed in the Bible as the Word of God. Then I entered and was active in a christian forum of ex-witnesses. Then, some of them, believed not in every Bible passage as inspired or historical. For instance, some of them believed not in the virginity of Mary, or in the historicity of the account of Adam and Eve. Firstly I was angry for them, because I believed in the Bible as the Word of God, so I had strong debates in which I defended the necessity of the literalness of some Bible passages because these were quoted as such by Jesus and Paul. But, some day, I started to use my brain without passion, then I noted that the priest Raymond Brown and Bart Ehrman were right about many issues in which they show that many NT passages can't be historical facts. Then I discovered how evil was the OT, so I ended up in agnosticism. Now I am happy to know the truth. The truth is that the Bible contains many falsehoods, and the story of Jesus' resurrection is not reliable through the contradictions of the Gospels. So, we can't know for sure what happens after the death.
Paul said that he saw a light of the resurrected Jesus, and he also heard his voice, but we are not obligated to believe that, because Jesus did nothing to comunicate truth to his Church. The Fact is that the christian religion was always a mess, and if Jesus resurrected, then he transgressed on account of his omission, because his disciples were, and are guilty of many absurdities and lies in his name. So I doubt that he is the head of any church.
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Neanderthal man
by scary21 inmy ex husband and father of my daughter was never baptized but is still a believer in the wt.. a couple years ago we were talking about evolution ( which he does not believe in ) i brought up the subject of the neanderthals and how we all have their dna except africans ( the ones that never left africa ).
he said neanderthals are apes and not humans and jw's do not teach that they are humans.
i said i believe they do.. in the life- how did it get here book, under the sub heading " the human family "is says " neanderthal man....... was undoubtedly human.. his response was " they are just talking about what other people believe " ahhhhh .
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I don't believe that current men can be found with a skull like that of a Neanthertal. Any thoughts? -
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Neanderthal man
by scary21 inmy ex husband and father of my daughter was never baptized but is still a believer in the wt.. a couple years ago we were talking about evolution ( which he does not believe in ) i brought up the subject of the neanderthals and how we all have their dna except africans ( the ones that never left africa ).
he said neanderthals are apes and not humans and jw's do not teach that they are humans.
i said i believe they do.. in the life- how did it get here book, under the sub heading " the human family "is says " neanderthal man....... was undoubtedly human.. his response was " they are just talking about what other people believe " ahhhhh .
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The Skeleton shown by LoveUniHateExams is interesting. The skull is not totally of a homo sapiens. It seems a transitional kind of homo erectus. What do you think? -
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The Gentile Times ended
by opusdei1972 inthey will fall by the sword and will be taken as prisoners to all the nations.
jerusalem will be trampled on by the gentiles until the times of the gentiles are fulfilled.
(luke 21:24)this is vaticinium ex eventu.
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opusdei1972
They will fall by the sword and will be taken as prisoners to all the nations. Jerusalem will be trampled on by the Gentiles until the times of the Gentiles are fulfilled. (Luke 21:24)
This is vaticinium ex eventu. So it practically proves that the author wrote this Gospel after 70 AD. He wanted Jesus to proclaim a prophecy in which Jerusalem will be destroyed and then after some gentile domain over the city, it would be restored, occupied and administered again by the Jews. And of course, it tells us that early christians of the first century, after 70 AD, were preaching a messianic early kingdom centered in Jerusalem rebuilt (Acts 1:6-7). This expectation was still in force until the end of the second century, because greek christians as justin and Irenaeus believed in it.
Jerusalem is now mostly occupied by Israel again, and the nation does not believe in Jesus as the Messiah. So, we should recognize that the Gentile Times, as defined in Luke 21, practically ended in 1948 (not in 1914), but the world continues as such.