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assuming the bible true:.
thinking of the story of the way that jehovah, through samuel and saul, dealt with the amalekites; with the discovery of the criminal gene, could this justify the god of the bibles actions against these nations, when he put out the order to not have compassion for them, and the israelites were ordered to put to death, man as well as woman, child as well as suckling...??
Question for Psacramento:
You appear to be christian from the posts I have read. You state in an early post on this topic that
I do NOT believe that ALL of the OT is the word of God, No.
As I do NOT believe that ALL of the NT is the word of Jesus and God.
My question - What is your criteria for deciding which parts are inspired and which not? It would seem that the parts which you find morally unpalatable are those which you ignore.
i've been lurking here for many months.
i served as an elder for many years, and regular pioneer for much longer until recently.
i'm also a mts grad and was used extensively on the circuit and district level.
All the best with that. It's not easy, but doing what you know and feel to be right is so very empowering.
if god is outside of nature and therefore cannot be proved or disproved by science, is atheism a form of blind faith?
after all, it cannot be defended on the basis of pure reason.. steven jay gould said;.
"science simply cannot by its legitimate methods adjudicate the issue of god's possible superintendence of nature.
This may be pearls before swine, but here goes:
were you spanked?.
is spanking "wrong"?
(they say your iq might be affected adversely from being spanked)..
I credit my dog to have enough intelligence, and have enough belief in my own training abilities, not to hit my dog. If my dog misbehaves, it's my fault.
My child is more intelligent than my dog.
google is not my friend anymore, it seems, i cant find a thing.. i was searching for the audio file where john may, the elder from dublin, tells his story when he traveled to brooklyn to find out the truth about the ray franz incident.
i do not mean the talk of his that you can find on 4jehovah.org or 4witness.org, this was a different audio testimony where he just basically tells what happened to him and to his irish elder friend merriman when they wanted to discuss the rf issue with the gb.
i had this file once but cant find it anymore.
wantarevolution, you have a pm
the latest flip-flop (allbeit a minor one.).
the "wise instruction" (as described by the society) given is that sisters now have to wear head coverings when interpreting sign language public talks.. differs from the previous instructions that sisters didn't need to do so.. .
w02 7/15p.27 questions from readers.
i guess it's going to happen to all of us sooner or later.
one of our relatives will need surgery and possibly blood.
has anyone got experience of talking to jw relatives about blood?
I guess it's going to happen to all of us sooner or later. One of our relatives will need surgery and possibly blood.
Has anyone got experience of talking to JW relatives about blood?
My father views any discussion of the WTBTS as a personal attack on his faith. Do I bring up the blood thing now and risk driving a wedge between us, or do I leave it?
who was it written by and why or in other words who, what, when, where, why.. wanted to know for the upcoming wt recital.. another question was just what was happening in and around jerusalem from 45 ce up to its destruction.
how was everday life?
what factions were vieing for dominance etc.. .
When I was on my way out, I had read The God Delusion. To get a balanced view of things I also read Alister McGrath's "The Dawkins Delusion" (an attempt at a rebuttal). I wanted to see what McGrath had to say about Dawkins' criticism of the Bible.
To my surprise, he made no attempt at defending the Bible. About all he said on the subject was (this is from memory now) - "You know how bad things are getting when Dawkins says that Hebrews was written by Saint Paul."
It was around this time that I realised just how wrong the WT had got stuff. If even the defenders of Christianity disagree with them...
my head is still ringing from all the delicious spiritual food that i received today so i won't have my review up for at least another day or so.
suffice it to say that the dvd is extremely well designed(for the society, that is).
you can tell right away that they put a lot of money into cg planetoids.
bttt
my head is still ringing from all the delicious spiritual food that i received today so i won't have my review up for at least another day or so.
suffice it to say that the dvd is extremely well designed(for the society, that is).
you can tell right away that they put a lot of money into cg planetoids.
Any download available yet?
