Keep your faith/ relationship with God and His Son
Why?
Better to pursue a life based on evidence. Faith is not a valid basis for determining what is true. Losing your faith is a disconcerting process but I have never regretted it.
Posts by cofty
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26I feel like I'm losing my religion/faith
by christina1111 ini'm a baptized jw...been baptized for 8 years...and throughout the years i've been baptized i see "hypocrisy" so to speak in the religion...when you're new and not baptized that's when the jws want to invite you to every gathering they have, they want to appear like they're your best friend...they want to help you out when needed and so forth...however, once you're baptized you go to the elders for help they don't help you....all they do is gather you around the office...have bibles in hand and so forth...they give you articles as well, instead of physically helping you out....but yet when you weren't baptized they would physically help you out and not throw scriptures and articles in your face.
also when you ask for help and so forth with the bros/sisters they want to throw the "each one must carry his/her own load" scripture at you.....but yet what happened to the scripture of taking care of widows and people who are orphans?.
it's not just one congregation...throughout the 8 years i've been baptized i've been through many kingdom halls...many towns...many states...when i was inactive for awhile i even pretended to not be baptized and just play dumb when the witnesses came to my door...they're much nicer to you when you're not baptized then when you are baptized...why is that?.
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cofty
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Cooked food and the evolution of man.
by Crazyguy ini was watching a documentary on the development of man and they were indicating that the eating of high protein diet was helping man to grow a bigger brain and then went on to say that cooking the food was the breakthrough on how our brain became bigger then other animals that ate a lot of protein.
does this make any sense to you and what science if any shows cooked protein is better in any way over raw?
your thoughts..
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cofty
you often hear the exact opposite and that cooking food kills off many of the good qualities of the food?
The subject of nutrition attracts more pseudoscience than most topics. Some raw veg might lose some micronutrients if they are overcooked but your OP refers to macronutrients. The discovery of cooking was a huge step forward. I wonder if somebody dropped a lump of meat in the fire by accident?
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Cooked food and the evolution of man.
by Crazyguy ini was watching a documentary on the development of man and they were indicating that the eating of high protein diet was helping man to grow a bigger brain and then went on to say that cooking the food was the breakthrough on how our brain became bigger then other animals that ate a lot of protein.
does this make any sense to you and what science if any shows cooked protein is better in any way over raw?
your thoughts..
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cofty
I was in North Shields yesterday. There is a little grocers on the quayside that has been supplying the fishermen for over a century. They cure their bacon in the backshop. I had a huge roll with 3 slices of thick bacon, no butter, tomato sauce. I'm only just starting to get hungry again now!
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Cooked food and the evolution of man.
by Crazyguy ini was watching a documentary on the development of man and they were indicating that the eating of high protein diet was helping man to grow a bigger brain and then went on to say that cooking the food was the breakthrough on how our brain became bigger then other animals that ate a lot of protein.
does this make any sense to you and what science if any shows cooked protein is better in any way over raw?
your thoughts..
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cofty
The digestive system absorbs far more nutrients from cooked meat and veg than from raw.
Cooking was like free calories!
For example it used to be fashionable for bodybuilders to eat raw eggs. It is now known that your body can only absorb 50% of the available protein in raw egg. Cooking it boosts that to 98%
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Does Paul preach a fundamentally different religion than Jesus?
by Yesu Kristo Bwana Wangu incontroversy has arisen regarding jesus versus paul as scholars debate the different emphases and messages of jesus and paul.1 jesus preached the kingdom of heaven.
paul did not.
paul preached justification by faith alone.
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cofty
I disagree that Jesus was lax about the sabbath. He kept the Law meticulously but refused to bow a legalistic application of it.
Christians can't have it both ways. Either Jesus is one with father in which case he approves of slavery and infanticide, or he is not one with the father and he is not the christ.
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Does Paul preach a fundamentally different religion than Jesus?
by Yesu Kristo Bwana Wangu incontroversy has arisen regarding jesus versus paul as scholars debate the different emphases and messages of jesus and paul.1 jesus preached the kingdom of heaven.
paul did not.
paul preached justification by faith alone.
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cofty
Jesus did indeed contradict YHWH. The two couldn't be more different.
When faced with awkward questions about the morality of god many christians respond by distancing themselves from the Old Testament and focusing on "gentle Jesus meek and mild" of the New Testament.
For bible-believing christians this is intellectually dishonest.
According to christian dogma Jesus was the god of Abraham Isaac and Jacob. The Logos, the Alpha and Omega who is "the same yesterday, today, and forever."
He claimed that "he that has seen me has seen the Father" and that "I and the Father are one".
In short, christians assert that Jesus is Almighty God from all eternity.
It therefore follows that Jesus was the god who ordered the nation of Israel to take slaves as inheritable possessions. Jesus instructed the armies of Joshua to commit genocide, to murder women and babies in cold blood and to kidnap virgins for sex-slaves.
Jesus of the gospels is like a Nazi leader with a new identity living like a harmless, friendly old man in South America.
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OTQ 43
by jaydee inmy scan of old theology quarterly no 43. the bible vs the evolution theory.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0b2ndok8xmmt-r0m3a0taunb3nmc/view?usp=sharing.
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cofty
Thanks. I have downloaded it to browse later.
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200,000 evacuated last night in Northern California.
by compound complex inwhere a few of us here on the forum live is in an emergency situation.
the main spillway on oroville dam -- the tallest dam in the usa -- is damaged.
the emergency spillway, never used before in the 48 years the dam has operated, is eroding.. major confusion and panic occurred when the order went out sunday, late afternoon: this is not a drill!.
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cofty
I was hearing about this on BBC news today. It's incredible that this can happen. Was the dam not being properly maintained?
I hope you are well CC and the evacuation is not too traumatic. Please stay safe and let us know how you are.
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Does Paul preach a fundamentally different religion than Jesus?
by Yesu Kristo Bwana Wangu incontroversy has arisen regarding jesus versus paul as scholars debate the different emphases and messages of jesus and paul.1 jesus preached the kingdom of heaven.
paul did not.
paul preached justification by faith alone.
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cofty
Jesus contradicts Yahweh
I'm not convinced about that.
Yes I think the differences between Paul and Jesus of the gospels are profound. Jesus was a Jewish Rabbi. He was absolutely wedded to the centrality of keeping the Law. His genius was to grasp the principles behind the Law.
Paul's assertion that Jew and Gentile were saved by faith alone, apart from Law, is not of Jesus of the gospels.
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Through legalism, has the WTBT$ and their followers lost their moral compass?
by LarryCope inin december, i lunched with someone who was at one time quite close and is still a jw.
the topic of the arc ( australian royal commission ) and pedophilia came up.
the two things that was immediately voiced by this person was the two witness rule and that it was homosexuals molesting witness boys parroting the plastic faced stephen lett.this person is not online and has not seen the arc videos or know anything about the silent lambs movement.
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cofty
JWs focus on relatively trivial displays of good behavior, sexual repression and politeness and confuse that with morality.
In things that really matter they betray a woeful lack of genuine ethics.