Posts by found-my-way

i was listening to richard dawkin's talk at lynchburg va and he was tlaking about how horrible the god of the old testament was- and he mentioned this: .

that when jeptha's daughter came out (and jeptha had promised god he'd sacrifice the first thing out of his house) that he had to sacrifice her as a burnt offering.

found-my-way

Not even mentioned??? Not in the verses you quoted no, but then again you left out this very important verse? (Maybe you missed it, but methinks you deliberately chose to leave it out 'cause you didn't want to deal with it.)
[30-31: Then Jeph´thah made a vow to Jehovah and said: "If you without fail give the sons of Am´mon into my hand, it must also occur that the one coming out, who comes out of the doors of my house to meet me when I return in peace from the sons of Am´mon, must also become Jehovah’s, and I must offer that one up as a burnt offering."]
That's pretty straightforward: "O did I say 'burnt offering'? silly me, I acctually meant that I would send her away to work for you..."
Heck, then why was Abraham so disturbed when god said: "Take, please, your son, your only son whom you love, Isaac, and make a trip to the land or Mo-ri'ah and there offer him up as a burnt offering on one of the mountains that I shall designate to you." I guess that whole burnt offering = something else, was just a common mistake back then.

OOOPPPPS, my bad!

that was a BIG oversight on my part, not a deliberate omission....

I was basing my conclusion on the scriptures quoted...

I am totally open to either conclusion, that she was killed in a burnt sacrifice or that she was spared and had to live out her life in servitude.

I am not a JW apologist, and never will be...just to clarify...

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What was the biggest secret that you kept from everyone

by TheCoolerKing in

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friends

what was the biggest "secret" that you kept from everyone when you were a witness?.

i thought would could have some fun with this topic on a friday afternoon.. back when i was an active witness i started "secretly" dating a "worldy" girl.

there was a shortage of single sisters at my hall.

As a baptized teenager, I knew about other teenagers having sex with their JW boyfriend/girlfriends, but I never told a single person that I knew....my friends told me their dirty little secrets because they knew I would keep it confedential. Not one of my friends was a virgin, including myself...only I had to appear in a JC about it.....got privately reproved.

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WHAT SILLY/STUPID THINGS DID YOU BELIEVE WHILE IN JWS?

by badboy in

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friends

any takers?

found-my-way

I believed that the Great Tribulation / Big A was going to be here within a few years of 1994.

I believed that angels were with us in FS.

I believed in demons.

I believed that there would be a paradise and a resurrection of the dead.

That's just off the top of my head....