click downloads > digital magazines and download the latest september 2010 watchtower.... look at the last study article, the last picture.
is that barack obama that jesus is destroying???!!!!
it sure looks a lot like him to me.
No problem - Here's the full pic non-zoomed so we can really get a feeling for it how awesome it will be to be one of the few chosen ones on the windswept plains of the New World while everyone else is bashed by the Almighty. (for those who can't get the PDF at work or w/e)
Feels good.
click downloads > digital magazines and download the latest september 2010 watchtower.... look at the last study article, the last picture.
is that barack obama that jesus is destroying???!!!!
it sure looks a lot like him to me.
There seems to be alot of wind in the New System, as well - our dear sister might want to re-think her choice in skirts.
click downloads > digital magazines and download the latest september 2010 watchtower.... look at the last study article, the last picture.
is that barack obama that jesus is destroying???!!!!
it sure looks a lot like him to me.
Looks like he's also destroying Glenn Beck
Sorry, Mormons. You picked wrong.
click downloads > digital magazines and download the latest september 2010 watchtower.... look at the last study article, the last picture.
is that barack obama that jesus is destroying???!!!!
it sure looks a lot like him to me.
lol it could be any black politician.
It's just another great JW rendering of Jesus smacking the crap out of all non Dubs.
with the new definition of a "generation", i wonder how jws would answer this question.
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pseudo.
Jesus - the foremost false prophet.
born in, what difference does it make?.
i was thinking about this one a lot over the last few weeks.
what difference does it make whether you were born into a cult or were brought in as a teen or adult?
Magnificent post, WLG and Scully too.
what made some of jesus' followers believe that jesus rose from the dead?
my best guess--and as e.p.
sanders says, we really don't know--is that jesus' followers--distraught, sad, and disillusioned--had visions in what we now call altered states of consciousness, a condition that can be induced by fasting, sleep deprivation, and fatigue.
It was having to admit that God had matched my inability to suspend critical thinking skill with a chain of circumstances that I was not able to deny without denying my ability to think and know anything at all.
Sheesh that was hard to follow. So God gave you irrefutable proof, which negated your skepticism? Interesting that in this case proof preceded belief. Lots of contradictory ideas being presented in this thread.
what made some of jesus' followers believe that jesus rose from the dead?
my best guess--and as e.p.
sanders says, we really don't know--is that jesus' followers--distraught, sad, and disillusioned--had visions in what we now call altered states of consciousness, a condition that can be induced by fasting, sleep deprivation, and fatigue.
And still others, nothing except absolute proof is enough - but then those people would not have faith, not technically, because proof would turn faith into fact.
That's an incredibly interesting thing to say. And what's more, it's true, and was basically what I was saying earlier. Once proof enters the equation, it's no longer faith. Faith is, of necessity, based on nothing. Otherwise it's not faith.
She is in a quandry since she has found that her church has no recognition of the difference that knowing God is truly is the first part of faith. And doctrine doesn't produce that ever so hard you study.
The proof is in the pudding.
The Born Again Experience, I guess? Do you give credence to all faiths that experience such things? For isntance when Muslims experience Allah, do you think it is legitimate based on your knowledge of God?
Do you find it odd that God would bless us with intense cognitive abilities and then make it IMPOSSIBLE to understand him unless we FIRST suspend our critical thinking abilities - and put faith before proof? That seems antagonistic.
this is how the wt characterizes "anointed" christians who died faithful to wt doctrine.. a careful reading of matthew 24 (a trumpet blast from an angel will gather the chosen ones), 1 corinthians 15 (ditto), 1 thessalonians 4 (ditto), will reveal that all the dead will remain dead until that event occurs.. it takes a lot of twisting and turning of scripture for the wt to conclude that the dead in christ began to arise after 1918, and that those who died after that time experienced an instantaneous resurrection.. i tremble for them!.
syl.
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It's actually pretty simple and straightforward how they arrive at it, if you're willing to attach futuristic fulfillment to OT "prophecies" and play the 3 and a half times game.
Or if Jerusalem had actually fallen when they say it did.
But like John Doe said....if you're willing to believe that some Pied-Piper angel is going to blast his horn and raise the dead, I really can't see why you object to anyone assigning it a specific year. Their guess is just as good as the next guy's.
what made some of jesus' followers believe that jesus rose from the dead?
my best guess--and as e.p.
sanders says, we really don't know--is that jesus' followers--distraught, sad, and disillusioned--had visions in what we now call altered states of consciousness, a condition that can be induced by fasting, sleep deprivation, and fatigue.
I hope one day you'll allow yourself to believe
Belief first...proof never?
