littlebird, nice comments.
Happy guy, you are very arrogant and just want to argue. How dare you tell me to educate myself just because I do not agree with your opinions about God.
Just for the record;
I have a degree in Business Management, as well as one in Nursing, which is the field I am currently working in. I have been a student of the Bible for many years and am currently attending college for another degree and that one is is in biblical studies. I've been studying Greek also for the past year and I have done extensive research on the topic of God, the Bible, the history of the church, etc. since leaving the WT 7 years ago.
I have written many articles on biblical topics, some of which have been used in part or fully in bible magazines around the country and one of which you can read here www.freeminds.org
I also run a ministry from my home that is focused on providing both spiritual and emotional support to elderly people in the Boston MA area. And I volunteer my time, money and resources to help many who are in need of food, shelter, clean water, etc around the globe.
I have an extensive library of books on the bible, some of which you will be surprised are books that actually argue against belief in the Bible, and yes I have read them. And my spiritual library includes the Tanakh and the Koran, both of which I have also read.
Don't you think for even one minute that I am either uneducated or uninformed of what is going on in the world because I am out in the world helping people every day both physically, and spiritually. So how dare you! What have you accomplished in your life since leaving the WT? What are you doing to help people in this world? Have you done any study yourself into mainstream Christianity so that you can even give an opinion on what we believe?
Are you really concerned about the parasites in the water? well then what are you doing to help the situation? Instead of blaming God because he made the parasite, why don't you try to figure out a way to get rid of it. And don't you tell me for one second that it is not man's fault the water is not cleaned in some countries because that is total hogwash. There are enough financial resources in this world so that ALL PEOPLE should have clean water filtration systems but the fact is that Man does not share his resources equally becuase he is too concerned with himself.
Why should some countries posess all the wealth while others are still not developed due to lack of money? If man applied God's standards then some monetary value of all people would go to the poor, remember the gleaning of the fields in the OT and how some of the wheat had to stay in the field so the poor can eat it? Also, how many poor lived under King Solomon's rule?
Any fool can sit back and blame God for all the ills of the world and cry that he is not doing anything. You are the same as the fools in the WT who blame Satan for all their personal ills yet refuse to take any power upon themselves to change their lives. Why don't you get out in the world and find solutions to the problems. Or maybe educate yourself in the bible and God properly and not rely on what you learned in the WT cult, because you really have NO CLUE what is truthful concerning God or what mainstream Christians really believe about God or the Bible.
You are just a bully on the playground that calls the other kids names to demean them when they don't want to play the same game he wants them to play.
