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Is the JW version of The Lord's Supper really a Parody?
by Sea Breeze in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
a black mass is a ceremony celebrated by various satanic groups.

it ... is intentionally a sacrilegious and blasphemous parody of a catholic mass.

- wikipedia.
slimboyfat

nicolaou, I don’t know what the answer is why the God of the Bible is depicted killing children, it doesn’t seem there can be a justification for that. Perhaps those passages misrepresent God? Because there are certainly parts of the Bible that say God wants everyone to live. One of my favourite verses is 2 Peter 3.9
Jehovah is not slow concerning his promise, as some people consider slowness, but he is patient with you because he does not desire anyone to be destroyed but desires all to attain to repentance.
If that’s true, then perhaps everyone will be saved in the end because why can’t God do what he wishes to do?
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Is the JW version of The Lord's Supper really a Parody?
by Sea Breeze in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
a black mass is a ceremony celebrated by various satanic groups.

it ... is intentionally a sacrilegious and blasphemous parody of a catholic mass.

- wikipedia.
slimboyfat

I’m saying it’s the blood of the covenant that saves from sins, isn’t that what the verse says?
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Is the JW version of The Lord's Supper really a Parody?
by Sea Breeze in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
a black mass is a ceremony celebrated by various satanic groups.

it ... is intentionally a sacrilegious and blasphemous parody of a catholic mass.

- wikipedia.
slimboyfat

The verse says it’s the blood of the new covenant that’s for the forgiveness of sins.
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Does maths prove the bible is wrong?
by joey jojo in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
there might be a few that find this post boring, because, you know - its maths.. i like maths but im not a mathematician or condsider myself any type of expert on the subject.. there is a branch of maths called propositional logic that is used widely in computers and computer programming that allows computers to make decisions based on certain conditions.

for example: if a condition exists, then do something.

like: if the a button is pressed, then the letter a will appear on the screen.
slimboyfat

I don’t know, but again isn’t it safe to assume that ancient people also realised that light comes from the sun and stars? Even if they didn’t know as much about the sun and stars as we do, they surely knew that’s where light comes from. The only other sources they may have been familiar with were perhaps fire and some living things that glow in the dark. Are there any other natural sources of light? I can’t think. So on the hypothesis that Genesis is the work of ancient people without inspiration from God, what did they think they were saying by putting the creation of light before the creation of the sun and stars?
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Does maths prove the bible is wrong?
by joey jojo in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
there might be a few that find this post boring, because, you know - its maths.. i like maths but im not a mathematician or condsider myself any type of expert on the subject.. there is a branch of maths called propositional logic that is used widely in computers and computer programming that allows computers to make decisions based on certain conditions.

for example: if a condition exists, then do something.

like: if the a button is pressed, then the letter a will appear on the screen.
slimboyfat

Depends how long a day was, or how near the end of the third day God created plants, because plants could presumably have survived a few initial hours without sunlight. Maybe it’s even in some sense better for the plants to install them first then turn on the sunlight rather than the other way round, again, providing there isn’t a long period in between.

It’s also worth considering that ancient people in general knew that plants need sunlight too, as did presumably the people who wrote, selected, and preserved the words of Genesis as scripture. It’s unlikely that they did so in ignorance of the fact that plants need sunlight. So whatever the reason is for the text being ordered the way it is, an explanation that presumes ancient people made some kind of stupid scientific mistake here is pretty unlikely.
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Why I dislike eschatology
by Riley in
1. watchtower
2. bible
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ouye3e0fypc&t=183s&pp=yguzd2h5igkgzglzbglrzsblc2noyxrvbg9neq%3d%3d.

please take the time to watch.

i am not good with words but i have heard someone so eloquently explain how i feel about something.
slimboyfat

You stole my point, kind of.
And at least you believe Jesus existed, ha!
According to reports, some of Jesus’s statements related to the end-times might have been misinterpreted. (John 21.23)
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Is the JW version of The Lord's Supper really a Parody?
by Sea Breeze in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
a black mass is a ceremony celebrated by various satanic groups.

it ... is intentionally a sacrilegious and blasphemous parody of a catholic mass.

- wikipedia.
slimboyfat

I recognise the rhetorical terms as a throw back and I think I have an idea of the argument you’re making, but I’m not sure. Could you explain what the argument is first. Who exactly is a child murderer and why?
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Is the JW version of The Lord's Supper really a Parody?
by Sea Breeze in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
a black mass is a ceremony celebrated by various satanic groups.

it ... is intentionally a sacrilegious and blasphemous parody of a catholic mass.

- wikipedia.
slimboyfat

nicolaou, 2010 called and it wants its New Atheist talking point back
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And they say this with a straight face!!!
by BoogerMan in
1. social
2. humour
uw chap.

15 p. 121 par.

9 how does jehovah direct his organization?.
slimboyfat

At the moment they’ve got an Australian, a Canadian, and an Austrian member, and in the past they’ve had members from Greece, Germany, and the UK. I don’t know any other “lands” represented. They’ve not exactly gone out of their way to try to be representative in terms of nationalities.
They probably do genuinely think they are not conducting themselves as “masters over your faith”. Whether that’s a reasonable perception many others would dispute.
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Why I dislike eschatology
by Riley in
1. watchtower
2. bible
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ouye3e0fypc&t=183s&pp=yguzd2h5igkgzglzbglrzsblc2noyxrvbg9neq%3d%3d.

please take the time to watch.

i am not good with words but i have heard someone so eloquently explain how i feel about something.
slimboyfat

Did Jesus dislike eschatology? Or people that couldn’t define academic terms, for that matter?