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digderidoo
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The Jesus Sutras
by digderidoo inis anyone familiar with these writings?.
i've just been looking them up after i was talking to someone about them.
as christianity took hold in the west, the east developed their own form of christianity.
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Nobody??
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The Jesus Sutras
by digderidoo inis anyone familiar with these writings?.
i've just been looking them up after i was talking to someone about them.
as christianity took hold in the west, the east developed their own form of christianity.
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Is anyone familiar with these writings?
I've just been looking them up after i was talking to someone about them. As Christianity took hold in the West, the East developed their own form of Christianity. This was fused with Buddhism and Toaism, mucht he same way as Roman Western Christianity was fused with pagan celebrations (Christmas/Saturnalia. etc). These ancient writings were found in the begining of the 20th century.
The theology presents Jesus as a way to freedom from the inevitable round of reincarnation and suffering which dominated that society. This Christianity is vegetarian, anti-slavery and killing in any way, gives equality to male and female and tells people that they are basically good. And it lives contended alongside other faiths.
Compare this with the Christianity of the same time in England. The original ideas in the life of Jesus are expressed through Greek and Roman culture, Christian symbols fuse with strange beasts and designs of Celtic art as can be seen in the Lindisfarne gospels. This Christianity accepts the warfare, slavery and male dominance of western society. It tells people that they are basically bad because of Adam and Eve and "original sin". And it seeks to be the only religion.
At the time of the Jesus Sutras Christianity was an eastern religion; there were more Christians east of the Holy Land than there were to the west. But there had been a theological argument over the nature of Christ so that the west disconnected itself from the eastern Christians and labelled them Nestorian heretics. There was also the political split between the western idea of Christianity run as the Roman Empire had been and the east where different areas (Indian, Persia, Tibet, China) had always been politically independent.
As somebody who has an interest in Buddhism and Eastern philosophy, i'm definately going to order myself a copy as it looks a good read. -
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Examining Scripture to see if Jesus was, and is, God.
by jonathan dough ini'll start with john 14:8-10. .
scriptural support for the triune nature of god, and the gradual recognition that jesus christ, the word incarnate (john 1:1), was and is god, can be found throughout the bible.
the evidence is abundant and unfolds like a flower, foreshadowed in the old testament and revealed in the new testament.
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digderidoo
As a JW i was never able to get my head around Isaiah 9:6
For to us a child is born,
to us a son is given,
and the government will be on his shoulders.
And he will be called
Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God,
Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.Paul
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The Story of Megan, a JW teen from the BBC
by boyzone inhave a look at this video, its about megan, a 13 year old brought up by strict jw parents.. http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00p4dyl.
waddya think?.
i had to admire the parents and how they realised the damage they were doing to their daughter by the amount of control they subjected her to.
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digderidoo
Looks good. The parents seem quite laid back JW's.
Paul
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question for theMadJW and other Wt apologists
by isaacaustin inon what basis do you make the claim that the leadership of the jw's, aka governing body, is the organization god is and has been working through continuously since 1919?.
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digderidoo
Is the MadJW here? ... he gets booted off other forums, including pro JW ones.
Paul
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Do you belive in UFO's?
by highdose inas jw's we were meant to say no, but as free thinking people, i wonder what your opionion is?.
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digderidoo
I've seen a UFO with my daughter, orange lights suspended in the sky at night. I was driving and when i saw it i couldn't believe an aeroplane was flying so low, banking and turning showing it's underside....but couldn't understand why the lights were orange and i couldn't understand why it appeared to be moving slowly. I couldn't see any shape to it, just the lights. As i continued driving and subsequently turned away from it round a bend in the road and down a hill i didn't give it much after thought apart from me and my daughter saying it looked strange.
The next day in the local paper there were many reported sightings of the same event, but for those who stopped to watch it, it was suspended there for 15 minutes before it went.
Paul
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Trying to find a bible verse about slavery - The bible condemns anyone who speaks against slavery
by Elsewhere ini seem to recall reading a bible verse many years ago that basically said that anyone who speaks against slavery is evil and condemned by god.. i have spent a lot of time digging around the internet looking for it but can't seem to find it.
to be honest i'm starting to doubt my memory as to whether or not the verse even exists!
would anyone happen to know this verse or if my memory is wrong?.
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digderidoo
Are you refering to Canaan and his descendents. This scripture was used to justify slavery over the centuries as it was said the black race came through Ham and subsequently Canaan.
20 Noah, a man of the soil, proceeded [a] to plant a vineyard. 21 When he drank some of its wine, he became drunk and lay uncovered inside his tent. 22 Ham, the father of Canaan, saw his father's nakedness and told his two brothers outside. 23 But Shem and Japheth took a garment and laid it across their shoulders; then they walked in backward and covered their father's nakedness. Their faces were turned the other way so that they would not see their father's nakedness.
24 When Noah awoke from his wine and found out what his youngest son had done to him, 25 he said,
"Cursed be Canaan!
The lowest of slaves
will he be to his brothers."26 He also said,
"Blessed be the LORD, the God of Shem!
May Canaan be the slave of Shem. [b]27 May God extend the territory of Japheth [c] ;
may Japheth live in the tents of Shem,
and may Canaan be his [d] slave."Paul
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digderidoo
I saw someone on there, who i also saw on another dating site so asked her what was going on....the outcome was we met up, she was fading, had a brief relationship but it didn't work out, so hey ho, JWmatch got me laid.
creativhoney, i've just seen your profile!! lol
Wolvo
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14 year old JW boy, dies after refusing blood transfusion
by digderidoo ina very sad story.. http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/health/2004041765_transfusion29m.html.
excerpt.... a 14-year-old boy who refused blood transfusions in his fight against leukemia -- based on religious beliefs -- died wednesday night in seattle, hours after a skagit county judge affirmed his right to reject the treatment.. dennis lindberg, of mount vernon, died around 6 p.m. at children's hospital & regional medical center in seattle, according to king-5 television.
as a jehovah's witness, lindberg objected to receiving blood.
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digderidoo
welcome to the forum lostgeneration.
Paul