before i begin, i want to say that i really don't want to start yet another creation vs evolution debate so please don't go down that road with this thread.
that debate has been done many times aleady!.
i know there are many christians and other religious people on here who believe in god or gods and yet do accept evolution as the way we all came about.
So, St Ann, are you saying that God intervenes at each and every person's conception? That there's a couple of undifferentiated cells looking for a uterus to attach to yet it has a soul? Does that mean that the huge number of embroyos that don't make it to birth have souls that go on and exist afterwards?
I think this question matters hugely. It's one of the blocks I have to believing in God so I guess that potentially my everlasting salvation is at stake!
before i begin, i want to say that i really don't want to start yet another creation vs evolution debate so please don't go down that road with this thread.
that debate has been done many times aleady!.
i know there are many christians and other religious people on here who believe in god or gods and yet do accept evolution as the way we all came about.
So God intervened at some point to create the soul? Roughly how long ago do you think that happened?
And was this a sudden change? By that I mean, one generation of human's ancestors did not have a soul and therefore was not worthy/able to live on imoratally but the next generation was? Persumably it was a sudden change if it was created and didn't evolve.
Not being sarky, just wondering if that's how it is for you.
before i begin, i want to say that i really don't want to start yet another creation vs evolution debate so please don't go down that road with this thread.
that debate has been done many times aleady!.
i know there are many christians and other religious people on here who believe in god or gods and yet do accept evolution as the way we all came about.
Before I begin, I want to say that I really don't want to start yet another creation vs evolution debate so please don't go down that road with this thread. That debate has been done many times aleady!
I know there are many Christians and other religious people on here who believe in God or gods and yet do accept evolution as the way we all came about. So my question is at what point did the soul/spirit* evolve? Or do we have one? At what point did we seperate from being just another form of animals?
*What I mean by soul or spirit is the bit that has the chance of living on whether that be going to heaven or whatever.
Am
i hope all reading this will consider the following a commentary.
i have no one in mind, but a few posts have got me thinking about my own jw experience.
also, reading of the bad experiences and pain of others here gives me much room to pause.. clearly, most of us, with good reason, hate jehovah's witnesses (the religion, and sometimes, the people).
Here, here Jeff!
I don't think I've ever got in to a tangle with any of the pro-jws who post on here. The more responses/attention they get, the more they beliefs are entrenched.
I feel sorry for the average jw who just don't know any better but I do have a hard time understanding those who do know what the gb have done and continue to do and yet they still don't wake up. I wonder if there is any hope for those people.
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does anyone remember the scandal that rocked fiji in appx early 1992?
i have searched this site and found no reference to it.
so, hoping someone here might remember the finer details and whatever happened to the guilty culprits....... my best mate was in the australian bethel at the time, and on a trip back home to melbourne he caught up with me and told me most of the details.
Yet another case of Jehovah cleansing his organisation!
(tongue firmly in cheek btw )
this is the first part of my visit from my brother who is an elder and the p.o.
of my old congregation.. billed as a shepherding visit for our benefit , it eventually results in both of these elders testifying against me in a judicial committee.. the webpage is called deathorobedience.blogspot.com.
you can hear all the audio from the first visit also.. the link to the audio is below.. http://media.libsyn.com/media/tartanpodcast/doro_5.mp3.
Thanks Iknowall558
So he wasn't one of the elders? I thought his brother was there in that role.
Mind you, what you say is almost worse!
this is the first part of my visit from my brother who is an elder and the p.o.
of my old congregation.. billed as a shepherding visit for our benefit , it eventually results in both of these elders testifying against me in a judicial committee.. the webpage is called deathorobedience.blogspot.com.
you can hear all the audio from the first visit also.. the link to the audio is below.. http://media.libsyn.com/media/tartanpodcast/doro_5.mp3.
How can they bring your brother to it? I thought family member elders had to stay out of those kinds of matters...seems odd to me.
i'm updating a website to joomla at the moment.
i'm getting on pretty well with it and am almost finished.
only one job left really.
Ok, so I went back to the drawing board and got it working!
Happy days!
I miss it too. I've got all the mags but no scanner!
I usually use my in FIL's scanner but don't think he'd like me using it for that purpose! LOL
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jihgyjcji1g.
are you sorry you knocked door to door?
are you sorry you converted new members?
That's why I don't do it anymore!
