God is just and will judge and condemn us unless we choose His free gift of atonement.
Atonement for what? Sin that his own creation is responsible for bringing upon humanity? Can't you see how completely unbalanced this thinking is?
what i have noticed since pulling away from group thinking, mindsets, rules and superstitions, that i am open to a broader range of loving people.. i am not sure i can blame all this on the jw expericance.
as children we are taught from our tribe, (family and enviroment, church, school, extended family, neighborhood..........who to love and who not to love.
i used to believe as the witnesses taught, you have to "beat" the evil out of children.. have you ever watched a group of small children unattended?
God is just and will judge and condemn us unless we choose His free gift of atonement.
Atonement for what? Sin that his own creation is responsible for bringing upon humanity? Can't you see how completely unbalanced this thinking is?
what i have noticed since pulling away from group thinking, mindsets, rules and superstitions, that i am open to a broader range of loving people.. i am not sure i can blame all this on the jw expericance.
as children we are taught from our tribe, (family and enviroment, church, school, extended family, neighborhood..........who to love and who not to love.
i used to believe as the witnesses taught, you have to "beat" the evil out of children.. have you ever watched a group of small children unattended?
My advise if you have trouble reading the Old Testament then just stick with the New Testament for a while.
I've read that as well. Revelation is especially heartwarming.
what i have noticed since pulling away from group thinking, mindsets, rules and superstitions, that i am open to a broader range of loving people.. i am not sure i can blame all this on the jw expericance.
as children we are taught from our tribe, (family and enviroment, church, school, extended family, neighborhood..........who to love and who not to love.
i used to believe as the witnesses taught, you have to "beat" the evil out of children.. have you ever watched a group of small children unattended?
Wonderful post Purps. I too have learned to view people in a far more loving way since leaving the borg. As for TLK and Jehovah saves, no book in history has promoted more hatred and been responsible for more bloodshed than the bible. You can quote all the scriptures you want that talk about love, but the overall theme is entirely differen't. Can the god of the old testament truly be called loving? How do you expect his worshippers to be?
dinosaurs are a bit of an embarrassment for the watchtower.
what did you hear about them?.
- were they a 'creative' experiment by god?.
I knew some who didn't believe they even existed. Those who did,believed that god used them to eat away the vegetation to make the planet inhabitable for humans. Once this was accomplished, god had no more use for them and wiped them out.
ok this is the summer of rain here in texas.
we have 30 inches of rain in months we don't normaly get rain.
so even if it misses us we are screwed because we really do not need the the rain.. view all web results for hurricane dean texas.
Don't worry. If anything happens, FEMA is on the case.
rat 11:29. then rat opened a bottle of beer and said, "god is good" .
Keysersis 2:25 -"And both of them proceeded to be naked, Keyser and Jennifer Connelly, and yet she did not scream, nor file a restraining order."
i don't know about you but i don't think i'll ever be able to forget all those melodies that have been repeated over and over for 30yrs.
and they're so catchy, sort of like christmas songs, i find myself humming them when i least expect it, or there's always a sound or song i hear that sparks a melody in my head.
i guess thats another form of crazy programming almost impossible to delete.
I even have a collection of them on my hard disk
I have the heavy metal and hip-hop versions.
i just thought i would start a thread wherein we could get some background info on jcanon without any of the end times predictions.
just want to get a feel for who this person is, what type of environment helped mold his world view, and what his likes and dislikes are.
whatever your opinion of him you have to admit that he's a character.
I have far more advanced knowledge than the WTS.
I have never agreed with you more. Great story as well. But how can you love yourself while defending a book that promotes hatred of homosexuals? I agree with Terry. It's such a waste of talent and intelligence.
someone posted this on my site...thought it was funny.. in 1986, mike hogan was on holiday in kenya after graduating from.
northwestern university.
on a hike through the bush, he came across a. young bull elephant standing with one leg raised in the air.
A man playing golf hits his ball into a deep ditch. He goes down into the ditch carrying his club. After searching through the high grass for nearly a half hour, he notices a shiny object in the distance. Upon closer examination he sees that it is a human skeleton, grasping onto an eight-iron.
He calls up to his caddy, "I'm in some trouble down here!"
"What's the problem?", the caddy replies.
"I need my sand wedge. I'll never make it out of here with my eight-iron."
someone posted this on my site...thought it was funny.. in 1986, mike hogan was on holiday in kenya after graduating from.
northwestern university.
on a hike through the bush, he came across a. young bull elephant standing with one leg raised in the air.
A man is driving along a country road when he notices another man standing motionless in the middle of a meadow. He pulls the car over to talk to the man.
"Excuse me sir, may I ask what you're doing?"
The man replies, "Why, I'm trying to win the nobel prize."
Perplexed, the other man asks, "How do you suppose you're going to do that?"
The man answers back, "I hear they give it to those who are outstanding in their field."