i have heard that "paradise" will be achieved gradually; that it will take all of the thousand years to reach that state of perfection.. .
now, while you may be convinced that it will take all that time to bring the earth back to it's pristine state....suppose it applies to humans as well?.
imagine this scenerio: wounds and broken bones heal slowly and gradually; your bags and sags are still there, but since you have seen results of other people, you hang on that the promise will be for you, too.
"I wonder if Jehovah led man to stem cells to rejuvinate our bodies, they are claiming to cure so many illnesses with stem cells, maybe grow new tissue, skin, hair... ."
I would say, according to the WTS, yes.
I remember reading something from the 40's where Jehovah would use "injections" as part of the path to perfection in the 1000 year reign.
It's funny to me that the WTS thinks God is bound by his own creation. Bound by space and time and the "laws" of nature.
Silly thinking.
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i thought i would enjoy a few hours cathing up on events on the board.. i purchased a kebab pizza and opend a cold beer.
unfortunately i put my cigarette butt out in the newly opend beer can-.
okay by my standards thats not dumb...but has anyone done a dumer thing whilst on this board?.
I pulled up to the gas pump, opened my car door just missing the large metal pump guard post, stepped out of the car and because I had not put the car in 'park', the car rolled back as the guard post folded my door forward while I watched. By the time I got back in the car a hit the breaks, my uninsured car was junk.
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i have my jw bible but also have the good news bible that was used at the lutheran church i went to for about 8 yrs back in the 80's.. one (jw)is hard to read and understand some of the books and the (good news)other is to easy and leaves somethings out, well the jw one does to.. .
o.n..
I read them all but find using an interlinear really helps.
Here's a free one. http://www.scripture4all.org/
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i was just "removed" for this site.
i asked to many pointed questions.
at one point i left the most vocal jw with nothing to say.. in the end the moderator ask why i was there (on their website).. my reply was to ask what she was doing at the homeowners door.i'm not sure she understood what i meant.
I didn't invite Eric over here. I wish I had. Now I can't.
I think Eric might just find this an interesting place.
He is strugling with all the flip-flops.
If anyone is still on the facebook site, please invite Eric over.
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i was just "removed" for this site.
i asked to many pointed questions.
at one point i left the most vocal jw with nothing to say.. in the end the moderator ask why i was there (on their website).. my reply was to ask what she was doing at the homeowners door.i'm not sure she understood what i meant.
middleman, that is the group that just kicked me out.
Rebecca was real nice, at first. Even when she would delete my posts she would say in an email "the JWs made her do it".
Kimberly is just a WTS puppet. She has no mind of her own.
Then there's Colin. Real stubborn without any understanding of the bible.
At the end James came on board. He freely admits the "mistakes" of the GB but still believes the JW is the only turth. James is very full of himself. He can babble on for pages and never really say anything.
Eric is the one having big doubts ever since the 1995 generation change.
I think Eric represents a lot of JWs these days.
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i was just "removed" for this site.
i asked to many pointed questions.
at one point i left the most vocal jw with nothing to say.. in the end the moderator ask why i was there (on their website).. my reply was to ask what she was doing at the homeowners door.i'm not sure she understood what i meant.
Nathan, thanks for the kind words. I thought about signing up again and I just might do that.
BTW I should not have said "I" left the most vocal JW with nothing to say. It was God's Word, not me.
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i was just "removed" for this site.
i asked to many pointed questions.
at one point i left the most vocal jw with nothing to say.. in the end the moderator ask why i was there (on their website).. my reply was to ask what she was doing at the homeowners door.i'm not sure she understood what i meant.
I was just "removed" for this site. I asked to many pointed questions. At one point I left the most vocal JW with nothing to say.
In the end the moderator ask why I was there (on their website).
My reply was to ask what she was doing at the homeowners door.I'm not sure she understood what I meant. Oh well.
When trying to study the bible with a JW it's very hard to keep them on point.
I have no regrets as it was an interesting exercise for me.
I will say one thing. JWs are single minded and stuborn. Those are not always bad things.
But I would think, in the face of all the "mistakes" of the GB over the years, they would be open to at least thinking. Even if just a little. But no.
Too bad, so sad.
Peace
russell was to inherit a clothing store franchise....he could have been as big as k-mart today!
instead he created an organisation known around the world as "the watchtower society" which has enslaved 7 million people with it's rules and lies.
this organisation owns half of new york and millions of dollars worth of properties, so was it a good or bad investment?
"Russell sold his businesses and used some of the money, about $250,000 (not millions) to finance his pet religion."
Not to argue but that would be millions in today's money.
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for many years, i had serious issues with alot of scriptures.
the creation account, the flood, jonah in the whale, etc.
scriptures that are scientifically falsifiable.
"Also about half the Bible translations commonly available (including KJ and ASV) have "kill", not "murder""
But the word used in the Hebrew is murder. I'm not arguing good, bad or whatever. I'm just talking about this one word.
Why would I care how it's mis-translated, why would you care?
IF, and I said IF, a person wants to know what the bible says, he needs to know what the Hebrew (in this case, Greek for the NT) word is. Not some translation. You find out the Hebrew word, do a word study and then you will know what the real transalation should be.
Again, I'm not trying to start a fight but all the translations that say "kill" are wrong.
According to the bible, it is not against Mosiac Law to kill in self defence. (just as an example)
Now you may not like that and you may argue that that make the bible and God ....whatever...but please get the facts straight. Thanks.
To Simon, there the hell is the spell checker!
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for many years, i had serious issues with alot of scriptures.
the creation account, the flood, jonah in the whale, etc.
scriptures that are scientifically falsifiable.
Not to start an argument but just to set the record straight, it's "Thou shalt not murder".
Peace
