Just telling you that you WERE wrong then in thinking that only your religion would be saved and that you are wrong now in your denial of Christ. That's all. No anger. Just stating a fact.
I don't think that word means what you think it means.
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The Watchtower and the Occult
by brotherdan incame across this interesting expose' on some of the occultic influences that took place during the watchtowers creation.
the implications are very interesting.. .
i had never heard about their use of phrenology...but apparently they believed it to be true.
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The Watchtower and the Occult
by brotherdan incame across this interesting expose' on some of the occultic influences that took place during the watchtowers creation.
the implications are very interesting.. .
i had never heard about their use of phrenology...but apparently they believed it to be true.
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Christians are saved, not only Baptists or Methodists. Those that believe differently...they're wrong. :-)
Christians CAN be saved, they just have to cast off the invisibly sky daddy delusion first.
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The Watchtower and the Occult
by brotherdan incame across this interesting expose' on some of the occultic influences that took place during the watchtowers creation.
the implications are very interesting.. .
i had never heard about their use of phrenology...but apparently they believed it to be true.
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I don't think that any Christian claims that the dead talk to them and give them information from God.
Getting info from spirits that were one humans that dies pretty much means ALL of Christianity thinks this, they just apply special pleading and say "well, this doesn't apply to that ONE guy"
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Soldiers of Jah
by cofty ini would like to propose an ethical dilemma for those who believe in the divine inspiration of the bible.. in the following scenarios i am not asking you what you would have done but rather, what you hope you would have had the courage to do.. scenario 1. you are camped on the east side of the jordan waiting for orders to cross into the promised land.
moses is nearing the end of his life but he has some unfinished business to take care of before he hands over to joshua.
he announces that he has had an instruction from god to take revenge on the midianites before he dies.
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Again, I am speaking about the universal moral of "I know I want to do this, but I know I ought to do that", that difference between doing what we can and doing what we should, just the very nature of asking that question of ourselves, "should we"?
Understood, but there no such moral code that is universal.
Christianity is unique NOT because it has the code, ALL religions tend to have it, but because of how it is apllied and to whom: To all and with love, not for recompense.
If there were such a code, it would be completely independent of religion since the code would be instilled in US, not in a religious system.
But going back to what you said, I think that every cililization, big or small, has shared that moral code, and regardless of how they applied it to others, they would ALWAY wanted it applied to themselves.
Certainly they have not :)
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The Watchtower and the Occult
by brotherdan incame across this interesting expose' on some of the occultic influences that took place during the watchtowers creation.
the implications are very interesting.. .
i had never heard about their use of phrenology...but apparently they believed it to be true.
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When Rutherford claimed that the dead and ressurected C.T Russel was still communicating new light to him...that's called necrology. It's occultic.
Kinda like when people claim the dead will be resurrected and do stuff, like rule in heaven, talk to god or claim that a dead and resurrected Jesus talks to them?
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ELDERS want to meet with me?
by Smoky inits been about 5 years since i've talked to the elders in the my old congregation.
now the elders from my parents congregation, want to come by and talk with me (sheperding call?).
i know one of them, i believe they feel obligated since i llive in there territory.
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"No thanks, I'm good right now. I'll let you know if I need anything. Have a nice day."
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Soldiers of Jah
by cofty ini would like to propose an ethical dilemma for those who believe in the divine inspiration of the bible.. in the following scenarios i am not asking you what you would have done but rather, what you hope you would have had the courage to do.. scenario 1. you are camped on the east side of the jordan waiting for orders to cross into the promised land.
moses is nearing the end of his life but he has some unfinished business to take care of before he hands over to joshua.
he announces that he has had an instruction from god to take revenge on the midianites before he dies.
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That an interesting angle. It would seem, however, for a moral code it would have to be universal. I certainly don't know a a universal moral code that has always existed.
I would think for it to meet the criteria of "universal" it would have to be demonstrable in the sense that the larger populations of the larger amount of cultures and civilizations would have to share it.
Morals and ethics regarding sex, life, stealing, torture, etc., seem to have been very fluid throughout the years.
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Soldiers of Jah
by cofty ini would like to propose an ethical dilemma for those who believe in the divine inspiration of the bible.. in the following scenarios i am not asking you what you would have done but rather, what you hope you would have had the courage to do.. scenario 1. you are camped on the east side of the jordan waiting for orders to cross into the promised land.
moses is nearing the end of his life but he has some unfinished business to take care of before he hands over to joshua.
he announces that he has had an instruction from god to take revenge on the midianites before he dies.
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YET, I know that when I read the horrific things attributed to God, I KNOW there were NOT right because the very morals given to US by God, tell me they are not right.
How do you know, thought? If we are all imperfect how do we know that our current sense of morals are what is right? Basically, how do we know that the OT stories aren't the right one?
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From Richard Dawkins' Preface to "The God Delusion"
by AK - Jeff inhttp://www.infoamerica.org/documentos_pdf/dawkins10.pdf.
the word delusion in my title has disquieted some psychiatrists who regard it as a technical term, not to be bandied about.
three of them wrote to me to propose a special technical term for religious delusion: relusion.. .
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Yes, just like believing everything came from nothing is totally rational - sheesh....
If you are suggesting I beleive in that then you are mistaken. As usual.
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Soldiers of Jah
by cofty ini would like to propose an ethical dilemma for those who believe in the divine inspiration of the bible.. in the following scenarios i am not asking you what you would have done but rather, what you hope you would have had the courage to do.. scenario 1. you are camped on the east side of the jordan waiting for orders to cross into the promised land.
moses is nearing the end of his life but he has some unfinished business to take care of before he hands over to joshua.
he announces that he has had an instruction from god to take revenge on the midianites before he dies.
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These things were always important - the people just chose to focus on the law rather than the love or mercy that were the more important matters of the law.
They didn't have much choice. Jesus message can be summed up in a few paragraphs at most. The law had truckloads of rules and regulations. Every facet of their life was governed by the law, including the sacrifices they were required to make.
Jesus preached destruction of the wicked, he taught a ritual, in his lifetime he concentrated on saving mostly the Jews not gentiles. True, he did not teach his disciples to form an army and go kill, he left that to himself and his Father.
Jesus preached destruction, not from God as it was issued in the OT, but from failure to listen and take action. That's a far cry from OT where people were killed for the same things the Israelites were doing. He didn't leave it to his father, after Job, the father never speaks again in the Bible and the NT is entirely focused on a completely different message.
Not ALL of the OT is inspired or accurate nor is it all to be taken as literal.
There is no reason to think all or any of the NT is inspired either, my friend.
Jesus was correcting the view that God wanted the enemies to be killed and showed NO mercy, Jesus correct that view even in regards to oursevles ( God wants mercy not sacrifice) and Paul correct the view that God is jealous in Corinthians.
How do you know that Jesus wasn't misrepresenting the correct view?