in john 8:44 jesus is quoted as saying that the devil is a "liar and the father of the lie.
" an obvious reference to the serpent story in genesis chapter 3.
(the johannine community, responsible for the gospel of john, the epistles of 1, 2, 3 john and revelation, was among the first to equate the serpent of genesis with satan, see rev.
The serpent told them they would be like God in knowing good and bad, the God confirmed afterwards that 'man has become like one of us in knowing good and bad', so the serpent was right.
God told that 'the day' they would eat they would die, but that didn't happen. They died almost thousand years later.
(According to the Bible, of course.)
symbolism of columns.
maybe i'm reading into it a bit, but i just found this odd.
of all the things to decorate your holy stage with, and you pick something iconic of temples of an ancient religion and world power that you claim was evil.
How to prove that Jehovah's Witnesses are Freemasons
i was doing some reading up on the wtbts former belief that the annointed would go and be with jehovah and jesus on "alcyone" when they died.
(alcyone is a star system in the constellation taurus.
it is the brightest star in the pleiades open cluster, which is a young cluster, aged at less than 50 million years.
Anyway, Alcyone as God's residence explains why the 'brighter light' takes so long:
http://www.svhelden.info/witchtower/2012/05/jehovahs-word-keeps-moving-speedily/
page 1page 2page 3page 4page 5page 6page 7. .
if you open each page and hit ctrl+++ the pages are clearly readable!.
somebody with more patience than me can copy and paste the images if they like.. facinating look at how bellicose the jw's were under rutherford.. .
The pictures are stored in a forum where only members have access. You should download them and upload them anywhere else, if legal.
i wake up this mornign to find this on my facebook page... instant deletion.
if 1000 years is as one day...the following is true....if 1000 years is as one day...the following is true..... .
someone did the math, of the 1000 years = one day equation.
Hey, if one day is thousand years to Jehovah, then maybe the 1000-year reign has been from October 1 1914 to October 2 1914?
i wake up this mornign to find this on my facebook page... instant deletion.
if 1000 years is as one day...the following is true....if 1000 years is as one day...the following is true..... .
someone did the math, of the 1000 years = one day equation.
If "one day is like thousand years" for Jehovah, the "generation" can be "70 to 80 years" again, which would then be 25,550 to 29,200 real years
i am not dyslexic, though it is in the family, and i am kinda referring to the joke about the agnostic dyslexic wondering if there really is a dog.. my question is sincere though.
there are kind of "top" dogs, some are bigger than others, some are stronger, and yet really they are all dogs, and there is not really an almighty dog, a canine supreme being.. so, there may be other beings in the physical universe, superior or inferior to us, or just differnt, who knows.. but let us assume there is a "spirit world" not part of the physical universe, and it is peopled by "beings".. is it philosophically necessary that there be a supreme being ?.
in the early 80's when i was just a teen, i was out in field circus one day when i overheard our cobe (called president at the time?
) telling another elder that, if armageddon were to come tomorrow, less than 1/3 of the congregation would survive.
this was actually in a bakery as we were just finishing up and they didn't even notice me standing in line as they were too busy drooling over the pastries and talking trash about a ministerial servant who decided not to go to field circus that day for whatever reason.
Our Presiding Overseer once said: "If those who could pioneer and don't do it will survive Armageddon, then I don't know ..."
in recent weeks the jw’s here in the uk have been setting up their new portable watchtower literature displays in my local town square on a saturday morning.
as they hadn’t knocked on my door for at least five years, and consequently feeling somewhat neglected, i thought that i would pay them a visit instead.. .
the first thing i needed to do was arrange my literature.
Reminds me of my own experience. Few weeks before I finally left, I talked to an elder who was really a friend of mine, and told him a bit about my thoughts. When I mentioned 1975, he immediately replied: "Have you read something? Something that you should not read?" I then told him: "I don't need apostates to read about 1975. It's on our own Watchtower Library CD!"
Looks like father and son, chip off the old block
Indeed, I noticed the same thing. Maybe they selected him because of that ;)
Still I like this picture more, where I have inserted Karl Ranseier:
