Posts by paradisebeauty

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have you been moved by something you have read.

by Sabin in

i found this book by carmel reilly, it`s called dear god.

childrens letters to god from around the world.

i promise you that if you are having a bad day this book what ever your believes will lift your spirits.

paradisebeauty

Yes, by this book:

The Coming Kingdom of the Messiah
A Solution to the Riddle of the New Testament
by Anthony Buzzard

I asked permission from the author to translate it into my native language, and I started translating it.

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"--want to survive Armageddon?-- the start partaking--

by prologos in

jesus: the gt will be cut short for the sake of the "chosen ones" the sealed anointed).

unless those days are cut short no flesh will be saved.

how can you be saved without being a chosen one, be a chosen one without partaking?.

paradisebeauty

Agree! This is the real hope of the christians. All over new testament.

To live in the kingdom of God as a flesh and blood human being is what the unjust ones will receive - as a second chance to know God and decide. They will not live eternally. Read Isaiah 65:20 - there will be old people in the kingdom.

After the second judgment at the end of 1000 years the flash and blood people who will be judged favorable will also be transformed into the new creation - immortal beings.

Being the new creation, is the christian hope, they are not angels, they have bodies - incorruptible and indestructible bodies and they can live both on earth and in heavens - as Jesus did after resurrection.

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Jesus is not Michael the Archangel here is why

by paradisebeauty in

one of the biggest missunderstanding and unbiblical teaching of the jw's is that jesus is michael the archangel.

here is what proffessor anthony buzzard has to say about this:.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=puqzffyxno0.

paradisebeauty

Deuteronomy 18:15
The LORD your God will raise up for you a prophet like me from among you, from your fellow Israelites. You must listen to him.

Deuteronomy 18:18
I will raise up for them a prophet like you from among their fellow Israelites, and I will put my words in his mouth. He will tell them everything I command him.

Plus in the prophesy of Genesis, the one who destroys Satan must be the seed of the woman.

In an angel the seed of a woman?

And if Jesus was in reality an angel, were the universal controversies really answered?

The idea that Jesus was an angel, a spirit creature is as mystic and as Gnostic as the trinity.

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Brother who works on JW Broadcasting gave a 20 minute talk, said something big is coming next month.

by wifibandit in

via /r/exjw.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lc7vhu8l88k.

paradisebeauty

they did such a lame job with the Jesus videos at this year's convention.

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4 versions of Jesus resurrection- all different

by purrpurr in

i've been reading more and studying about the bible .

it was brought to my notice that out of the four different versions of jesus resurrection they do not back each other up.

instead they contradict each other a lot.

paradisebeauty

a series of 4 videos, explains everything, including what the word about Mary grasping to Jesus means in greek.

This is the video about after the resurrection

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f5j_ZDwJSwE

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Jehovah's Witness Leader: There's a 'Spiritual Dilemma' in Reporting Sexual Abuse

by defender of truth in

the article is a good summary to show people who are too busy to read the transcript.

the main points are covered, without jackson's waffling... this is my favourite quote:.

jackson also testified that while there havent been any particular discussion among church leadership about apologizing to victims of sexual abuse, its perceivable that they might consider doing so.

paradisebeauty

The Gb is bringing reproach on God's name.

I wonder how long will God stand them any more....

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Jesus is not Michael the Archangel here is why

by paradisebeauty in

one of the biggest missunderstanding and unbiblical teaching of the jw's is that jesus is michael the archangel.

here is what proffessor anthony buzzard has to say about this:.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=puqzffyxno0.

paradisebeauty

@ Vidqun

But even if he did hold the rank of angel at one time, that has changed. He has received a promotion and now holds the rank of king.

This is another flaw in jw doctrine - the Bible clearly stated that after the sacrifice and resurrection Jesus was elevated to a higher rank, received a "promotion".

But if Jesus was the first creation of God, in fact a co-creator, since all things were created through him, and after resurrection he turned back to life in heaven a became chef angel, what kind of promotion did he really receive. In jw view he already participated in the creation of the angels, he was already the first being created even before coming to earth.

Also, jw's fail to recognize a very important theme in Paul's letter - the new creation. The idea of new creation, new man, an eternal, indestructible being that never existed before and was new, new created by God and Jesus at the resurrection became the first born of this kind of being. In colossians 1:18 he is also named the beginning and the firstborn from among the dead, so that in everything he might have the supremacy.

Strangely, jw's admit that "anointed ones" will be a new creation. But there are so many verses that say the anointed ones will be made similar to or in the image of the resurrected Jesus. (2 cor 3:18, 1 cor 15:42-58, Romans 8:29, Romans 6:5). But still, jw's say Jesus was resurrected as an archangel, while the anointed ones will be a new creation.

This can not be, if Jesus is an angel, anointed ones will also be angels, and here you come in contradiction with Hebrews 2:5 that is analyzed by prof. buzzard in the video above. - the usual circle "logic" of the jw doctrine...

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Jesus is not Michael the Archangel here is why

by paradisebeauty in

one of the biggest missunderstanding and unbiblical teaching of the jw's is that jesus is michael the archangel.

here is what proffessor anthony buzzard has to say about this:.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=puqzffyxno0.

paradisebeauty

@ jhine

It depends on who you call the church fathers. Do you refer to the apostles or the "fathers of the church" that came after the apostles. If you refer to the apostles, they definitely have seen Jesus for what He was, a man not a God. They were Israelites and they believed in One God.

Jesus himself said the most important law was: Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, wthe Lord is one. 30 And you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength.’ - this is known of the "shema" and is the creed of the Jewish faith.

What Christianity today is failing is to see that the God of Christians is the same God the Israel has and Jesus is the Messiah that the Jewish people expect. Ask any Jew if they expect the Messiah to be God Himself or an incarnated angel.

As for the word "word" in John ch. 1, I wonder if you consider that "word" also refers to Jesus in the following verse:

Isaiah 55:11 - so is my word that goes out from my mouth: It will not return to me empty, but will accomplish what I desire and achieve the purpose for which I sent it.

Jesus was so clear, He referred to Himself as the Son of Man so many times, how much clear could he have been?

He also said He was the Son of God, and CalebInFlorida explained above what this expression means for a person of Jewish faith - a human son of God.

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"Mediator" not Mediator, "Judge" not Judge... Watchtower word games

by ILoveTTATT2 in

jw
friends

as much as jesus is not the mediator of mankind but the "mediator" (supposedly a legal term), the watchtower has a similar word game with the word "judge".seems like deborah judged in israel, which, for every one of you apostate or worldly scumbags who don't understand word games, does not mean debora was a judge.

you see, deborah was a "judge".why is that?

because she is not listed on a list of 12 judges.

paradisebeauty

The watchtower has other word games, too:

- the bad angels "took human bodies" before the flood, while Jesus' life was supposedly "transferred" in the womb of Marry

- the presence of Jesus is an invisible "presence"

As a general rule, everything they do not like in the bible, it becomes "invisible", it has a "spiritual fulfillment" (so, invisible) and the words just do not mean what they say, but what the gb say they mean.

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Jesus is not Michael the Archangel here is why

by paradisebeauty in

one of the biggest missunderstanding and unbiblical teaching of the jw's is that jesus is michael the archangel.

here is what proffessor anthony buzzard has to say about this:.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=puqzffyxno0.

paradisebeauty

Nicolau,

Of course it is all about reality.

If you take the Bible as the foundation of your faith, the reality is in Hebrews 2:5 it clearly says that God did not put angels in charge of the world to come.

Actually all chapter one and part of chapter 2, clearly says that Jesus is not an angel.

So the Bible clearly says that Jesus is not Michael the Archangel. - this is one of the biggest flaws in the jw doctrine.

As for the preexistence of Jesus, yes, indeed, there are verses that could be interpreted as pre human existence. But those verses can also mean a preexistence as the plan of God. There are also verses that can be interpreted as a preexistence of the anointed ones (christians).

How about the verses that clearly talk about eternal fire? We all agree that eternal fire means destruction. Not literal eternal fire.

The same with the preexistence of Jesus, it means preexistence as the plan of god.

some other arguments are my comments above

Some really good arguments are in the video of professor Anthony Buzzard, you can watch it if you didn't do it yet.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pUqzffyxno0