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  Is this our fate?

  by paul from cleveland in

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  is there fate?

  if so, are we fated to be the bad evil slave?.

  if the bible prophecies that there will be an 'evil slave that falls away and beats his fellow slaves because the master is delaying' doesn't that mean that someone has to fulfill that prophecy otherwise the prophecy would be false?

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  paul from cleveland

  Void Eater, thanks for the point by point reply.

  Mouthy, I'm going tomorrow at 2:30
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  Is this our fate?

  by paul from cleveland in

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  is there fate?

  if so, are we fated to be the bad evil slave?.

  if the bible prophecies that there will be an 'evil slave that falls away and beats his fellow slaves because the master is delaying' doesn't that mean that someone has to fulfill that prophecy otherwise the prophecy would be false?

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  paul from cleveland

  to think that we are evil and fated for evil is just an easy way out of excusing ourselves when we do what is wrong KNOWING it is wrong.

  This makes sense. Maybe I was just rationalizing behavior by saying it's destined to be this way. That way, in my mind, I was making God the bad one, not me.
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  Is this our fate?

  by paul from cleveland in

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  is there fate?

  if so, are we fated to be the bad evil slave?.

  if the bible prophecies that there will be an 'evil slave that falls away and beats his fellow slaves because the master is delaying' doesn't that mean that someone has to fulfill that prophecy otherwise the prophecy would be false?

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  paul from cleveland

  I know I'll be ridiculed for these thoughts but they're directed toward those who still believe the Bible is God's word.
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  Is this our fate?

  by paul from cleveland in

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  is there fate?

  if so, are we fated to be the bad evil slave?.

  if the bible prophecies that there will be an 'evil slave that falls away and beats his fellow slaves because the master is delaying' doesn't that mean that someone has to fulfill that prophecy otherwise the prophecy would be false?

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  paul from cleveland

  Wow, I don't want to live in your reality.

  Onthewayout: I don't want to live in my reality either.

  Ynot: Didn't Jesus say that it would have been better if Judas had never been born? Doesn't that mean that some are destined for destruction regardless of what they want?

  maybe what binds us is our heart condition and our daily application of Jesus teachings to our lives so that should he arrive at a time when we have not taken notice he will still find us living according to what he set forth.

  Also, I can't live according to what he set forth. I can't even come close. Do you feel that you are able to do it? Do you feel that you have God's spirit? If the witnesses aren't true, and there aren't two classes of Christians, why can't I have God's spirit and be born again too? Is that something reserved only for those of God's choosing? If so, doesn't that mean that if God doesn't choose me I'm doomed, regardless of the fact that I would like to be saved? Perhaps I'm group similar to the group Judas was in and it would have been better if I hadn't been born. I know I don't have God's spirit... if I had it I would know it, right?
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  WT, November 15, 2009 (uncut text) for CharlieBrownsLovelyDaughter

  by possible-san in

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  the watchtower, november 15, 2009 (uncut text).

  http://www.mediafire.com/?nmx2zuzmtam.

  (click on "click here to start download ..").

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  paul from cleveland

  Thank you for these links!
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  Is this our fate?

  by paul from cleveland in

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  is there fate?

  if so, are we fated to be the bad evil slave?.

  if the bible prophecies that there will be an 'evil slave that falls away and beats his fellow slaves because the master is delaying' doesn't that mean that someone has to fulfill that prophecy otherwise the prophecy would be false?

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  paul from cleveland

  I'm just thinking because I've always known from childhood that I would be the bad one... I wanted to be the good one but I wasn't. I always felt like Cain...
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  Any Buddhists here?

  by John Doe in

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  what do you believe?.

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  paul from cleveland

  Ha ha ha
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  Is this our fate?

  by paul from cleveland in

  1. social
  2. current

  is there fate?

  if so, are we fated to be the bad evil slave?.

  if the bible prophecies that there will be an 'evil slave that falls away and beats his fellow slaves because the master is delaying' doesn't that mean that someone has to fulfill that prophecy otherwise the prophecy would be false?

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  paul from cleveland

  Is there fate? If so, are we fated to be the bad evil slave?

  If the bible prophecies that there will be an 'evil slave that falls away and beats his fellow slaves because the master is delaying' doesn't that mean that someone has to fulfill that prophecy otherwise the prophecy would be false? In other words, some one or a group of people have no choice but to be the 'evil slave'. Just like it was prophesied that someone would betray Jesus... so no matter what, one of the apostles had to betray him... they couldn't just all have chosen to be loyal. Couldn't it be that most every one on earth doesn't have a choice but to reject God because if it were any other way prophecy wouldn't be fulfilled? Is it our fate to be the bad one? Do most people have no choice but be bad because of all the prophecies, that were made before they were even born, said they'd be bad? (Broad road to destruction, etc, etc)
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  Any Buddhists here?

  by John Doe in

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  what do you believe?.

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  paul from cleveland

  I believe that most trouble man makes for himself through an over-active mind.

  That makes sense but how do you turn your brain off? Mine just keeps going in over-drive.
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  New light: Generation

  by 5thGeneration in

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  got some info from the annual meeting.. unofficially, the 'generation' is now categorized as 2 groups.

  the first is 'the 1914 group' and the second is the younger anointed 'contemporaries' who 'actually work for a period of time with those anointed ones'.. the 'generation' is now 'the lifespan of those who actually saw the beginning of the sign and then the lifespan of those who worked with those who saw the beginning of the sign'.. here we go again....

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  paul from cleveland

  An elder once told me that since the Society is right on so many issues (soul, hellfire, trinity, etc.) that we basically "give it to them" (meaning the benefit of the doubt on the generation issue)