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Thank you for redirecting me to the right organization!
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thank you, jw.net and cofty, for redirecting me to the right organization!.

when i posted why did god permit scriptures to be corrupted?

then i thought, if there is an organization that believes all scriptures are corrupted (which obviously makes it enemy of all religions), that organization is not ordinary, but gutsy, lionhearted, and worthy of close examination!
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Why did God permit Scriptures to be corrupted?
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if someone informs you that your shop caught fire, and firefighters are on the job, you will run to the spot.

however, if you had already sold that property on the previous day (which this messenger is ignorant of), you are likely to respond, saying: shop is not mine..

situation is same with god.
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Paranormal activity in a room at Ohio University
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why this room (no 428), located at ohio university, is unavailable to students?.

it has been boarded up and closed off because of various paranormal reports regarding the room.

poltergeist activity has been felt: objects flying across the room, doors that open and shut by themselves, and dark shadows appearing and disappearing without explanation.
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A rarest of rare inventions made—it is better to remain open-minded!
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it seems even the famous scientific laws such as the law of conservation of energy (and lenz's law, which forms the basis of mechanics and thermodynamics laws that suggests machines cannot attain over a 100% efficiency) are all not ultimate.

someone has already succeeded in developing a space generator, a super high-efficiency machine that produces power from vacuum.

the thing is going commercial now with a famous electric company purchasing its the patent.
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What does God really convey through Jesus?
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bible shows that jesus was passionate about people receiving `life in all its fullness' in the here and now, he loved fiercely, challenged corruption and hypocrisy of religious authority, feasted with the marginalized, chastised the holier-than-thou types, healed the sick, fed the hungry, restored broken lives, taught through stories and offered a drastically new kingdom where the last would be first and those that served would be known as greatest..... so good a personality, and a supreme ideal indeed to be imitated..

yet what was his finality?

rejection by people (and even by his own disciples who witnessed all supernatural miraclesincluding his resurrecting the dead) and a cruel and torturous death..
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Memorial Invitation campaign—A bitter experience
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last year when i went to distribute memorial invitation, i had a bad time talking to a house-holder who happened to be an ex-nun.

she said: you are wasting your time.

jesus had no idea that his death would have a sin-atoning value (which is of course a later invention by later theologians.
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Book of Job can help despite its absurdities!
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we are incapable of grasping stories that do not follow rational sequence of cause and effect.

one such typical example is book of job:.

1) it presents a god who tries to please his adversary at the cost of great suffering to his beloved ones..
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Creator dependent on His creatures?
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jws teach that god created personsspirit beings and physical beings.

at some point in time, some of them defamed his name and challenged his sovereignty.

as a resultant, creator changed his status into a beggar (proverbs 27:11).
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Why does the Almighty need a mediator?
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god is alike to all of his children, hence cannot elevate one child above all others just because one was brought into existence before others.

(ezekiel 18:4) someone has to be first-born which does not give him any superiority over others!

interestingly, jesus simply dismissed the whole idea of one being placed over the others as pagan.
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Confusion over the parable of the prodigal son
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though parable of prodigal son is superlative in quality as it graphically picturizes the scientific law of cause and consequence, its conclusion defames god.

when the prodigal son returned repentant, his father showed his delight saying: let us celebrate this by killing a fattened calf.

(luke 15:23) such a concept (let us rejoice by giving maximum pain to another innocent living being) seems to be interpolation for the following reason:.