AGUEST------
Both Marys are not the same.Since I don't trust anything that is written by the Watchtower,I fully trust the Holy Bible as,"Final Authority."And since scripture says,"All scriptures are inspired....."anything the NWTHS prints is a lie.
may you all have peace!.
based on the "insight" and "aid" books... mary, the sister of lazarus, and mary the magdalene are two different people.
according to the bible, however, they are one... and the same:.
AGUEST------
Both Marys are not the same.Since I don't trust anything that is written by the Watchtower,I fully trust the Holy Bible as,"Final Authority."And since scripture says,"All scriptures are inspired....."anything the NWTHS prints is a lie.
i am a catholic and am curious to know what jehovah's witnesses really believe.
i have heard many things but would rather recieve things right from the source.
i would like to know what differences you have with catholicism based on what you know or have heard.
elihab50...........what's this G-d,thing? now I'm not sure,but almost am positive that where you ever a muslem using another S/N?I think so.Now here's the reason...........
back in the 70's I was working for D.C. and studied analysus of hand writings.Plus understanding styles....Example......you have a special style in what you write and how you write it.It's in the person's thinking process.So if you ever try to change the style it's,almost,impossible.Sooner or later one goes back to the style in which they started out with.
An Atheist is just a person who hasen't been properly introduced to God yet.Now an atheist may not believe in God,but God sure believes in you.
i've read what joe alward wrote.if he's an atheist,i can see why he won't trust the bible.i mean after all,he has done the one major thing most folks why try to tear the bible apart to prove absolutely nothing.
by taking a verse out of content and not reading the next verse can mean anything for anyone.i mean the watchtower does it all the time.
example: ezekiel 20:25,"therefore i also gave them up to statutes that were not good,and judgments by which they could not live.
SixofNine...is it foolish to search out something that may resolve many unanswered questions or is it foolish just seeking it?Yet who's the fool to follow or being followed?
Many questions arise out of many answers,yet the answer may not be important as understanding the question.
The Bible.....that's interesting.Some may work for me and not work for others.Yet to be insulting by calling one a fool to believe...........So the question is back at you...what do you believe and why?
i've read what joe alward wrote.if he's an atheist,i can see why he won't trust the bible.i mean after all,he has done the one major thing most folks why try to tear the bible apart to prove absolutely nothing.
by taking a verse out of content and not reading the next verse can mean anything for anyone.i mean the watchtower does it all the time.
example: ezekiel 20:25,"therefore i also gave them up to statutes that were not good,and judgments by which they could not live.
Sounds good to me...as a realist,but as a minister....It matters not who did what or how,but what's important,to me,is who said it and why.
no teaching in the bible is clearer and more consistent than the one which holds women to be inferior to men.
below i show that it is taught that the woman was created from man, for man, that man--not woman--is the glory of god, and that women are not allowed to teach or control man because the woman, not the man, is the one who was deceived by the serpent.
" (1 corinthians 11:2-9) "for a man...is the image and glory of god: but the woman is the glory of the man.
Sounds just like my Wife's former Pastor.He felt the same way good ole` Joe felt.Guess what.That Pastor no longer minister's to anyone.
i've read what joe alward wrote.if he's an atheist,i can see why he won't trust the bible.i mean after all,he has done the one major thing most folks why try to tear the bible apart to prove absolutely nothing.
by taking a verse out of content and not reading the next verse can mean anything for anyone.i mean the watchtower does it all the time.
example: ezekiel 20:25,"therefore i also gave them up to statutes that were not good,and judgments by which they could not live.
Why not?
i refer to the post below about women, with which i and many others take great exception.
who is this guy, why is he saying these things, what is he getting at, am i missing something?.
francois
At the start Einstein was an atheist.Then as he moved on in life he began to study the universe as a whole.So at the out come of his life he realized that the universe in such a perfect order had to have a creator.
A house...it needed a designer......A car..it had it's creator.And to say,"man," had no creation is the foolishness of all.
Einstein went from atheist to a theoist.He knew there was someone out there more smarter them himself So this Joseph should go back to the book and re-read it.
i've read what joe alward wrote.if he's an atheist,i can see why he won't trust the bible.i mean after all,he has done the one major thing most folks why try to tear the bible apart to prove absolutely nothing.
by taking a verse out of content and not reading the next verse can mean anything for anyone.i mean the watchtower does it all the time.
example: ezekiel 20:25,"therefore i also gave them up to statutes that were not good,and judgments by which they could not live.
OK.
I've read what Joe Alward wrote.If he's an atheist,I can see why he won't trust the bible.I mean after all,he has done the one major thing most folks why try to tear the bible apart to prove absolutely nothing.
By taking a verse out of content and not reading the next verse can mean anything for anyone.I mean the Watchtower does it all the time.
Example: Ezekiel 20:25,"Therefore I also gave them up to statutes that were not good,and judgments by which they could not live."So in other words would that say God lies?Sure,if that all it says,but someone forgot to read the 24th verse,"because they had not executed My judgements,but had despied My Statutes,profaned My Sabbaths,and their eyes were fixed on their Father's idols."So does God lie?Read on.....
Numbers 23:19,"God is not a man that He should lie....."
Titus 1:2,"in hope of eternal life which God,who can not lie,promised before time began."
And as for a thought,"But the natural man does not receive the things of the Spirit of God,for they are foolishness to him;nor can he know them,because they are spiritually discerned."(1Cor2:14)
"For what man knows the things of a man except the spirit of the man which is in him?Even so no one knows the things of God except the Spirit of God."(1Coe2:11)
So,let God be true in all things and as I close,"For God does confound the foolish."
the bible says that god's word can be trusted: "every word of god is flawless; he is a shield to those who take refuge in him.
(proverbs 30:5) but, the verses below suggests the opposite is true:.
"so now the lord has put a lying spirit in the mouths of all these prophets of yours.
infidels I can feel sorry for;Mentally challenged..I can place pitty upon.but those who have the intellegence to see the full focus of the perfect universe,as Einstine did,are not worth their folly.As for Einstine,,he went from and atheist to theologist.He knew that the universe had a creator.
Now many of us doesn't have the mind if a genius,but then again there is God.For God does confound the foolish....
my mother in law went back into the maw after disassociating herself in 99. her elder husband had left her, and her kids and her grandkids wouldnt speak to her and it got to be too much.
i heard yesterday that she went back and he is moving back in.
and this just after she was here in june saying how she didnt believe in any of it, but tried to "force herself" and "convince herself" it was the "trooth" last spring so that her husband would come back, then came to her senses.
LovesDubs,.........I'm so sorry this happened.I'm always hurt,angered,and feel bad after what I've heard about you.So all I can do is to say,"I still love you."I'll always support you and I'm still praying for your family and you.
The Watchtower's main job is to make sure family is ruined and crushed and lost.Around here I don't see too much field service,but if I can find some,I live in a farming community in the Mid-West,and the Bible Belt,I'm going to go from Door-to-Door again as I use to in Los Angeles.That is follow up on the JWs
What the Witnesses go Door-to-Door talking about the Kingdom,I go Door-to-Door talking about the kingdom and the promise of Christ's Salvation.Witnesses don't talk about Christ's salvation.
So hang in there LovesDubs.......and keep your prayers going...Prayer Works......
RevFrank