when you stop believing the bible to be the word of god the motives behind the actions of gods prophets and followers come across rather differently.
in fact much like fundlmentlists today.you have joshua comiting genocide , and paul moving in and tacking control of the christians and changing the religion to his own beliefs.
which other characters actions can be interpreted differenly when you see them just as ordinary humans with more selfish motives?
The angels.
I mean the good angels kill more people than any demon. Infact some angels are so violent in the case of david and the plague spirit that God regrets he sent that angel. That is a true bad A* when you kill 70k in mofos in three days. The plague angel was so good at killing that God said he would have killed all the isrealites in jerusalem before the end of the 3 days. I did reasearch and if you see an angel run because most likely they they are going to kill you.
i resisted it for years.
i was dragged kicking and screaming into the evolution theory camp.. i would rather have had my arm lopped off at the elbow;but, facts are facts.
i had to be intellectually honest.
Who created every thing God?
Who created every thing Evolution?
If you awnser yes to both does that mean Evolution is God?
Humans historically have worshiped natural processes such as the summer and winter solstice. Not because it was extremely mysterious. In fact many things humans worshiped were very predictable. So today can we get back to normal and worship evolution? It is common sense. THat way we can stop fighting over this stupid arguement. I mean I am sure if the pagans discovered evolution they would worship it too.
the following article was made known to me recently on another forum, it's on the practice of sharia in canada.
"can tolerant canada tolerate sharia?
the article examines the application of the religious arbritration act of 1991 which allows religious leaders to handle certain civil matters legally within the family so to speak.. .
Interesting wouldn't it be something if the West in separqation of church and state decide to outlaw religious tribunals. I mean there is no need for them and they mostly impose on the civil rights of the person being punished by having a paragovernmental entity rule over civilians. I mean vijilante justice is illegal and it works on the same pricipal. If you cant lynche a person how come you can judge them.
lately i have been reading alot about those who cease the dub life, and though they are not officially dfed or daed, are treated as though they are by dub family and friends.
when i was a dub , i remember viewing those who did not come to meeting's anymore nor field service......as simply "weak" or inactive.
never do i remember shunning or snubbing those who seemed to fade away.
According to the watchtower the offical stance is to re-love bomb them like when they first became interested in JWs. I had it happen to me it is eerie. What is worse I wonder being shunned, or having a brand new speacial friend calling you to go out to lunch after feild service EVERY FREAKING SUNDAY when you dont even know their name?
i resisted it for years.
i was dragged kicking and screaming into the evolution theory camp.. i would rather have had my arm lopped off at the elbow;but, facts are facts.
i had to be intellectually honest.
Magic evaporates in the laboratory.
Not really the magic that does not evaporate they call a discovery.
i resisted it for years.
i was dragged kicking and screaming into the evolution theory camp.. i would rather have had my arm lopped off at the elbow;but, facts are facts.
i had to be intellectually honest.
There are more asexual speices than sexual ones.
Sexual reproduction speeds up evolution because you make more mistakes combining genetic material. Bacteria which is in general asexual repruduces at such a fast rate it can out fox more complexe asexual organisms. So the more complexe you are the more likely you would have to be sexual.
As for the genitals I think the penis is like one of the oldest organs on the planet. I have no idea how the sex drive was created. Because first you have to recognize your species. Then figure out how to have sex with it. It is one of those things that can't be explained well.
i resisted it for years.
i was dragged kicking and screaming into the evolution theory camp.. i would rather have had my arm lopped off at the elbow;but, facts are facts.
i had to be intellectually honest.
This is a cop-out. Of course scientific theory is based on observation. Isn't this better than religious doctrine, which is based on arbitrary pronouncement?
I did not say it is better. I says it has a problem.
Lets say you have two bottles of water. Both are identicle in every way. You take one out side in the cold where it is constantly about 0* C. You put the other in a refrigerator that is at 0*C. You take them both to a scientist and ask him to figure which one froze from natutral causes and which one was forzen using a refrigerator. I am not saying the scientist could not figure it out I am saying that it would be difficult. And in the case of evolution vs creation even more difficult.
i resisted it for years.
i was dragged kicking and screaming into the evolution theory camp.. i would rather have had my arm lopped off at the elbow;but, facts are facts.
i had to be intellectually honest.
THe problem i have with evolution is it is a scientific theory. Which is based on observation. Humans are terribly limited by what they can observe espeacially when it is something that happend millions of years ago. Ceationism is an argument of cause. Evolution does not address the cause. A created thing has no mechanism to keep it from evolving any more than a evolved creature.
In all reality evolution is only useful for musems to classify bones. And genetic algorythems are created by scientist and engineers so they dont count as a tool derived from the evolution theory. I am not trying to sound like a luddite, but people over rate evolution. If evolution is a blind process and creation is a blind process (both use trail and error) you can't tell them apart. A
lso spontaniously forming animals from dirt is an inefficient process and seems to only be done after humans were created (either adam and eve were mortal, or because human have short attention spans). If you are God and have all the in the world it is simpler to cull animals with undisirable traits. Considering the life and death is at your command natural selection is a good away as any to do it. Because scientist can't observe the reason things happen then this debate will never be solved unless a major break through in physics occurs.
according to the bibles account of creation, there seems to be a contridiction as to when man was created.
the theory accepted by most people i've spoken to is that, according to gen 2:7, 7 and jehovah god proceeded to form the man out of dust from the ground and to blow into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man came to be a living soul, stating that man was created on the seventh creative day.. however, genesis 1:27 states that on the 6th creative day, 27 and god proceeded to create the man in his image, in god?s image he created him; male and female he created them.. so were man created on the 6th or 7th creative day?
and if god created man on the 7th day, then later created woman from man why does the bible state that he created man and woman at the same time on the 6th day?
JWs have discarded a day equals 1000 years. And the Awake seems to teach evolution by quoting scientist and not refuting them. Infact the watchtower has totally discarded the genesis account as being non literal. Even thought officially they attack evolution. It seems that they think God created man litterally ans some animals (ones after man )from dirt and woman from a rib. The rest they no longer defend.
has anyone heard of a jw being disfellowshipped for taking up martial arts?
i know it's not allowed for jw's.
Anyone noticed the promoted activites in the picture like organized sports instead of yoga. It is funny how jws have a heirarchy of acceptable activities.
One thing is that yoga allows you to do super human stunts. SO demons must be involved. THe problem is normal people that have never taken yoga can do these things. I mean thats like saying gymnastics is not for christians because it allows people to engage in super human feats suck as doing back flips on a wooden beam with out falling.
