i have recently come to fully appreciate what is stated at 2timothy 3:16, 17 (nwt).
it clearly declares that nothing is needed outside of the bible in order for a person be be "fully competent" and "completely equipped" for "every good work".
how can anyone, especially the wts, claim that the bible alone is not enough after reading these scriptures?
sorry, but i dont read the scripture as you do - but very very similar. for me it only says that the scripture is the perfect base. it doesnt say ppl MUST use it alone. other books are possible, when they doesnt twist scriptures (what most jws falsely believe is true when it comes to wt books)
but, youre absolutely right, it doesnt say by FAR, that one MUST use other books as well to have a benefit.
clearly the wt library 2007 is wasted ressources ;-)
the future earthly paradise is supposed to be a calm, peaceful place where people can live forever in harmony with each other and nature, a place where nothing bad will happen, and suffering, death and destruction does not exist.. there is a problem here (well, there are several, but here's another).
what about natural disasters?
easy-peasy to answer; jehovah will make it so those never happen, right?.
awakened07:
"you dont have faith!"
forget reasoning. god made it this way so its the best way. we are humans - were too dumb to understand. just believe.
i think most people are ignorant of what being a satanist is.
this questions for the christians, what do you think it is?
i'm just curious and am not looking for a heated debate, just curious if people even know what it means.
as far as i know satanists doesnt worship satan. most of 'em doesnt even believe he exist! satanists believe in humans being able and having the right to be their own "god".
of course there are also ppl who "worship" satan somehow, but those arent the satanists that are common.
when i was more into dubby-nation i thought satanists are those who actively worship satan and of course they know we have the truth and they hate us for having it, because they know they will die soon.
now that they have adjusted the generation again , if you were still a braindead, what date would you be thinking of ?.
and for those still attending, what is the word going around ?.
2020?
i wouldnt bet on it, but it sounds far away enough to make it possible. like i though "not later then 2010" in the 90s. no specific date, but a help to keep the faith alive.
i guess thats what i would think.
jesus said at luke 19:40 "if these remained silent the stones would cry out" .
my question is why don't the stones cry out in areas where the preaching work is banned or has very few witnesses?
both india and china have populations in excess of 1 billion people, but very very few dubs to spread the "good news".
why didnt the stones cry out when no jw was around for so many centuries?
i'm not a big fan of huge ^c^v (cut and paste) posts but here goes..... i found this when i googled 'jehovahs witness landmark forum' - thats another post why i was doing that... http://www.ex-cult.org/general/identifying-a-cult takes about 3 minutes to read.... my question is 'could a jw read this and not even think 'is that us?''.
identifying a cult
there has been much confusion about cults and how to 'pickem'.
the texts reads like some christian guy wrote this about the jws. is this really a neutral text? the catholic/protestant church is a cult by this standards too, but seems to be sorted out for no reason. even their doctrines are mentioned as a sign of a non-cult. it smells somehow in my eyes (nose).
for me it was the fact that god is allowing all these innocent people to get killed to prove a point ,i mean it was a big bet he had with satan.. i explained it to my wife this way if i had our children killed in the most horriable way just to show they couldn't live without me how does that make me look?.
its not a specific teaching who is the biggest problem, but the way the WTS imitates the pharisees by pounding on the last word of the scriptures in their understanding and create new laws too...
i've seen plenty of global-flood bashing websites, but somehow i missed this one:.
http://www.fsteiger.com/flood-report.html.
what i like about it is it's light-hearted,easy reading but still deadly to the idea of: .
Regardless of YOUR problems with how plants survived or how certain animals got to
certain isolated places after the flood or regardless of how many billions of insect species
there are or regardless of how there is a need to separate salt and fresh water animals,
regardless of all of that- it happened. God took care of the details. Genesis was written
from what Moses could understand of God's information. Moses couldn't understand the
miracles of protecting the plants and water animals and the other logistical problems.
It is faith.
thats what my wife told me when i talked to her about the topic.
the problem is that all the stuff god had to do to make it happen is in my view contradictionary to the bible. he might even recreate some animals noah wasnt able to save.
the funny thing is she told me that god didnt do anything more than the stuff in the bible. so the plants survived the water and all animals including the galapagos ones and the kangaroos were on the arch. have faith!
(she literally told me that and got angry that i dont have the faith to believe it)
i've seen plenty of global-flood bashing websites, but somehow i missed this one:.
http://www.fsteiger.com/flood-report.html.
what i like about it is it's light-hearted,easy reading but still deadly to the idea of: .
the writer of the flood story didnt know about the world at all. if there was a flood in his area he assumed the "world" was drowned... his world...
but since god tells us it happened it must have happened. and everything that seems impossible from a human viewpoint was possible because god cared for it.
actually he had to do the following (at least):
- save all the animals and species noah forgot and teleport some noah wasnt able to reach (polarbears! and where did noah store the galapagos animals?)
- save all the plants and seeds of them.
- clean the soil after the flood and repopulate all the plants fast.
- teleport the animals back
- do the birds and insect work for a lot of years until the birds and insects repopulated the earth again. or clone the animals.
- caring for the fish while the flood, especially the fresh water ones
- and much more i guess
while visiting some bible students sites, i wondered what the official jw view on these organizations is.
are they part of babylon the great simply because of refuting the post-1916 developments and the governing body?
as far as i know, they do not adhere to any of the false teachings jw like to refer to in debunking the rcc and traditional protestantism, such as hellfire, trinity, immortal soul.
bibelstudents are the evil slave, part of babylon the great. wrong religion, nothing better than voodoo magic. funny if you think that ppl who believed the same thing 1914 were once the one true channel to god xD
most jws doesnt know they exist though. some know not everyone who was a biblestudent became a jw, but they think it were just a couple of apostates who hate jesus and jehovah who left. biblestudents arent existing anymore in the jw mind. and if they know the biblestudents they think they are evil ones who stole the old name of the true religion.
