i saw a similar post on this board once.
but i wonder if anyone can use only the bible and answer the following questions:.
why do trees and animals die, since they didn't sin?.
I'm sure there I could find more nonsense if I tried.
So are you asking because you want to "show up" people, or are you sincerely interested in the answers? The reason I ask is that your above statement causes me to doubt your sincerity. FWIW, I hope that I am wrong.
the 6th and final season of lost has been jam-packed with "reveals"!.
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what is the secret of the island?.
Just watched Across the Sea. I feel like Alison Janney's character was speaking to me, when she told the pregnant woman that asking questions would only lead to more questions.
it is so strange how you look at things so differently when your eyes are open.
i recently went to a witness wedding and listening to the talk with the constant emphasis on the bride having a 'head' and being submissive to her head was painful to listen to.
and how the bride has to say 'deeply respect' while the groom does not, is the epitome of misogyny.
I believe that the reason for the emphasis on the wife's submission to her husband is systemic of the Borg's need for the submission of the R&F to the GB. The reason is simple, they ignore Eph. 5:25, which tells husbands to love their wives in the same way that Christ loved the church, up to and including giving His life for her. There is no display of Christ's love within the JWs (this is not surprising). They are only about subjection, not submission. Subjection is the abandonment of one's full freedom by force (submission is that same abandonment by choice as the result of love).
after my mom died, my aunts and i were going through her personal belongings for my dad.
late that night, in one of the last boxes we went through, i found a mother's day card that i had made for her when i was in first grade.
even though mother's day was a forbidden holiday, she kept that card for all those years.. i wonder, in spite of their surface indifference, how many jw mothers wish that they could participate in mothers day, at best, or resent it, at worst?.
After my mom died, my aunts and I were going through her personal belongings for my dad. Late that night, in one of the last boxes we went through, I found a Mother's Day card that I had made for her when I was in first grade. Even though Mother's Day was a forbidden holiday, she kept that card for all those years.
I wonder, in spite of their surface indifference, how many JW mothers wish that they could participate in Mothers Day, at best, or resent it, at worst?
please note that this list is intended to apply to the fundies alone.
not to all nonbelievers.
so let's turn the mirror and grab some popcorn:.
B-Rock: I only get pissed off when Christians want to use the law to force me into their mold. That's authoritarian.
However, no atheist has ever had the temerity to do this to Christians, have they?
Madeline Murray-O'Hair or Michael Newdow anyone?
i have been watching the discovery channel's, 'into the universe with stephen hawking' and it occurred to me that professor hawking knows more about heaven (which is just part of entire universe) than jesus did.
maybe jesus knew about black holes, alien life, other worlds, the origin of the universe, etc.
jesus could have told us something so remarkable about our universe that it would have taken us 2000 years to confirm jesus' divine knowledge and prove he was the son of g-d, but he instead decided to tell us that heaven "has many rooms"- whoop-dee-doo.. i don't think jesus had a clue that there was anything out the in the physical universe beyond what he could see with his own eyes.
Since he didn't talk about physics, there is no cake to be had and since they didn't understand what he was saying about whatever it was he was talking about most of the time anyway, you get to eat no cake either.
This is precisely why this sort of argument is nothing but a red herring. We can only address WHAT Jesus talked about.
Secondly, Jesus should not be faulted for not addressing every single topic imaginable. He had a specific mission, and the things that were written about Him were the things related to that specific mission (John 21:25).
However, my point, which is based on Romans 1:18, is simple, even if Jesus had done what the OP wanted Him to do, the OP would still suppress it.
In that case, he wasn't orginal in anything he taught (other than the son of god part). He was a good re-packager at best.
That statement was a great belly laugh for me. Jesus' message was utterly revolutionary for His time. It was so revolutionary that it pissed off the Jewish religious leaders enough to have Him killed. Jesus' message was that trust in God was what is need in order to be declared righteous by God, and not feeble human works. This meesage was so revolutionary that within one generation Christianity had transformed the known world at that time, and still transforms people today.
i have been watching the discovery channel's, 'into the universe with stephen hawking' and it occurred to me that professor hawking knows more about heaven (which is just part of entire universe) than jesus did.
maybe jesus knew about black holes, alien life, other worlds, the origin of the universe, etc.
jesus could have told us something so remarkable about our universe that it would have taken us 2000 years to confirm jesus' divine knowledge and prove he was the son of g-d, but he instead decided to tell us that heaven "has many rooms"- whoop-dee-doo.. i don't think jesus had a clue that there was anything out the in the physical universe beyond what he could see with his own eyes.
From notverylikely: So using your logic, you have no cake and you don't get to eat a cake either...
Really? How so? Tell me how you get to this conclusion? Oh, and please use little words, after all, I'm not as smart as you.
i have been watching the discovery channel's, 'into the universe with stephen hawking' and it occurred to me that professor hawking knows more about heaven (which is just part of entire universe) than jesus did.
maybe jesus knew about black holes, alien life, other worlds, the origin of the universe, etc.
jesus could have told us something so remarkable about our universe that it would have taken us 2000 years to confirm jesus' divine knowledge and prove he was the son of g-d, but he instead decided to tell us that heaven "has many rooms"- whoop-dee-doo.. i don't think jesus had a clue that there was anything out the in the physical universe beyond what he could see with his own eyes.
@ Moshe: I'm curious, what is your definition of "hearsay", and how did you come to that conclusion?
i have been watching the discovery channel's, 'into the universe with stephen hawking' and it occurred to me that professor hawking knows more about heaven (which is just part of entire universe) than jesus did.
maybe jesus knew about black holes, alien life, other worlds, the origin of the universe, etc.
jesus could have told us something so remarkable about our universe that it would have taken us 2000 years to confirm jesus' divine knowledge and prove he was the son of g-d, but he instead decided to tell us that heaven "has many rooms"- whoop-dee-doo.. i don't think jesus had a clue that there was anything out the in the physical universe beyond what he could see with his own eyes.
The funny thing about statements like the OP made is that even if Jesus had spoken about quantum physics, they would discount that too. After all, they would say, how could those illiterate fishermen, even comprehend a science that had not been discovered.
You can' t have your cake and eat it too.
initial analysis of the times square bombing attempt.
and so it is with target new york.
it is entirely possible, nay likely, that the recent times square car bomb was placed at the doorstep of the viacom building's main northeast entrance because of the south park controversy.
@ Hemp Lover Correct, the initial reports were of a white male. However, historically what segment of the world's population has been responsible for the terrorist acts committed in recent history? Couple this with the apparent dejection by Contessa Brewer over the fact that the perp was indeed a Muslim, and not some white, racist "tea bagger" and you have the real issue.
Bloomberg said in an interview with Katie Curic, that he would bet that it was someone who was unhappy with helathcare. Of course Curic did not follow up with the next logical question, which should have been, "Mayor Bloomberg, homegrown terrorists in America do not target the media but government buildings in this country. What makes you think that this instance is a form of homegrown terroism rather than foreign?" Instead she just nodded her head in agreement. Why? Because she thinks that the right in this country are dangerous.
Regarding Hasan, the Ft. Hood Muslim terrorist, Chris Matthews was still broadcasting that it was uncertain as to whether or not the shootings were Muslim terroism or not. So there appears to be a hesitancy by the media to take a terrorist event and say that it may be Islamis in origin.
