i am having a discussion at work with the jw's.
should you spank a child to make them understand or do you reason with them.
they both agree with spanking.
Spanking is the lazy parents option.
If your boss spanked you whenever you did not do as he said you would call the police. So why is it considered acceptable to hit a small defenseless child? (Funny how parents stop spanking their children once they get large enough to defend themselves and hit back.)
People are concerned about domestic violence, yet train that behavior into their children by showing that hitting someone is the way to get them to do what you want.
i guess there are many, but what would be the strangest teaching, or "wackiest" ?.
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To never die. Not only is it an insane concept, but it dramatically affects the choices a person makes in how they live their life, mostly in a negative way.
recently there have been several claims made regarding prophecies that came true.
i've not personally seen a prophecy that i would consider as having come true.
i would consider the following as the requirements to say something is a prophecy and evaluate whether or not it came true:.
Read Is. 19:2 Civil war. 9, 10, 15 Economic problems. 11 Foolish leaders. Sums up with what is going on in Egypt and the world.
Vidqun, you seem to be missing the point. Is sums up what was happening in Egypt and the world at the time. And at every point in time, including our time. And it will happening in another 500 years. So it is not a prophecy. If I say that Vidqun will eat food, it is not a prophecy today, and it will not be a prophecy in 10 years, despite you eating food. It is simply stating the obvious.
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/ashya-kings-father-says-hell-4256798.
we've been following this story.
how can someone openly defy the governing body and yet avoid being disfellowshipped?
I think the Watchtower sees this as great publicity and will keep clear of disassociating him. He has not authorised a tranfusion, so does not really need to be disassociated. By not reacting, this will give the public the wrong impression that JWs can choose their own actions and that the Watchtower is not a radical, hard core cult, which is what the Watchtower wants in this new era where they are presenting a dishonest public figure.
recently there have been several claims made regarding prophecies that came true.
i've not personally seen a prophecy that i would consider as having come true.
i would consider the following as the requirements to say something is a prophecy and evaluate whether or not it came true:.
Syria, the country where the original King of the North was based, would be plunged into a vicious civil war during the latter part of the days.
How it that a prophecy? At the time of Daniel, the entire area was constantly in war.
Daniel 8 proves Daniel is not and is also part of much evidence that Daniel was not completed till about 200BC. Daniel discusses four world powers, agreed upon as Babylon, Medo Persia and Greece and Rome. However, only the first three are named in Daniel. The forth (Rome) that belongs to a time after Daniel was finalised was not named because Daniel is not prophetic.
recently there have been several claims made regarding prophecies that came true.
i've not personally seen a prophecy that i would consider as having come true.
i would consider the following as the requirements to say something is a prophecy and evaluate whether or not it came true:.
The first point to prove before claiming a prophecy is:
Obviously it is not a prophecy if it was written after the event, and there is no proof that any detailed events in the Bible were written prior to the event. Therefore, there is nothing in the Bible to indicate inspiration.
https://www.newsday.co.zw/2014/09/11/came-saw-made-zim-richer/.
if this subject was already considered i apologize for that.
it was sent to me this afternoon regarding the international convention recently held; august 22-24 in zimbabwe.
Is Loraini of Islander decent? She looks like she is. Interesting, since he spent many years with his wife as a Special Pioneer in the South Pacific.
according to both christian and jewish eschatology, the messiah will come to jerusalem, where he will deliver the jews from hostile nations "round about.
"since the jehovah's witnesses and other adventists don't believe his coming will be literally fulfilled, but figuratively fulfilled, they simply believe he will return to the earth, where he will slay the wicked and the righteous will be caught up to meet him in the air.. first we have a christian declaration:.
and when [jesus] had spoken these things, while [the apostles] beheld, he was taken up; and a cloud received him out of their sight.
Prologos - princes house was not good enough anyway.
Do you mean Prince's house, or the House of Princes? I hear Prince's house is quite nice, fit for a King.
what specifically made you stop believing in god and the bible?
was it a steady road of doubts or it was reading one book or one major event that made you realize the bible was not what it's claimed to be?.
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A friend of mine was serving where the need was great in Ecuador. He read Joseph's Campbell's The Hero with a Thousand Faces. That book made him realise on the spot that the Bible is just another book that follows the standard script of mythology.
what specifically made you stop believing in god and the bible?
was it a steady road of doubts or it was reading one book or one major event that made you realize the bible was not what it's claimed to be?.
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Regarding the Bible, eventually I felt that the only water tight prophecy was the prophecy of the 70 weeks from Daniel, which had accurately foretold the coming of Jesus. That was the final pillar of my faith in the inspiration of the Bible. Once I found out that the prophecy did not originally apply to Jesus, and was reworked with such an explanation after his death, I realised that there was nothing about the Bible that made it any more than just a book, with the Old Testament being particularly offensive and barbaric.
