there are many "proof" texts that people (including jws) use to justify their rejection of anyone that is gay.
there are a few scriptures that you can pull up and try to make a case for show homosexuals why they are evil and wrong.. i've been researching more of these scriptures and i'm coming to some very different conclusions than many other christians hold, especially jws.
i wanted to talk about the first text used by many people to condemn homosexual behaviour.
The mention of Rahab raises the point does god condemn prostitution?
Did you even read the previous posts? The point is that even though they were sinners and doing things that God didn't approve of, they were GRACIOUSLY (try to understand the word) declared righteous. Do you want all of your sins brought up and have people say, "Well acolytes commited these sins and God did not reject acolytes, so it must be ok to..."insert sin here".
if you were on a hiring panel for a new chair of the federal reserve board, would either a neatly trimmed beard or a bow tie even register on your dress and grooming "radar"?.
i'm talking ben bernanke, (current chairman of the fed).
richard abrahamson, secretary/treasurer of the wtb&ts of pennsylvania since 2000. i looked all over and couldn't find a picture of him, but he's famous for his bow ties.
Hmmm...beard and a bowtie...it sure doesn't work on Steven Wright....
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called to be free - dissolution of the worldwide church of god.
[note: this presentation is over an hour long and is very well done, but i have marked key time slots from the video so if you are in a hurry you can watch the key highlites.].
They stopped getting all tithes. They had to shut down their university, their tv studios, and lost most of their members because they realized they were in error. This was a beautiful film!
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called to be free - dissolution of the worldwide church of god.
[note: this presentation is over an hour long and is very well done, but i have marked key time slots from the video so if you are in a hurry you can watch the key highlites.].
Uh oh....look closely at the upper left hand corner during this interview. See a familiar book?!?!? I hope he just uses it for apologetics...
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called to be free - dissolution of the worldwide church of god.
[note: this presentation is over an hour long and is very well done, but i have marked key time slots from the video so if you are in a hurry you can watch the key highlites.].
I like how on 32:20 or so, the guy talks about how they were almost "grace phobic". Isn't that the Watchtower? They are so afraid of loosening the rules. They have no trust of the "brotherhood".
[the time links work on my website, not good here].
called to be free - dissolution of the worldwide church of god.
[note: this presentation is over an hour long and is very well done, but i have marked key time slots from the video so if you are in a hurry you can watch the key highlites.].
It's taking quite a while to load up on freeminds...so here is a direct link to youtube.
in the public edition of the april 1 wt, the questions from readers twists scriptures, meanings, and language to come to the conclusion that hell is not a place.. whether you believe in hell or not, you have to agree that their methods of arguing this point are dishonest.
note this quote:.
"jesus knew that the very thought of burning.
OBVES, if you go and learn hermeneutics you will be able to discern when to take accounts as allegory, metephor, or literal. You need to educate yourself in these areas. They are absolutely necessary. We cannot just haphazardly take an account and decide that it's allegorical or metephorical just because we want it to be.
in the public edition of the april 1 wt, the questions from readers twists scriptures, meanings, and language to come to the conclusion that hell is not a place.. whether you believe in hell or not, you have to agree that their methods of arguing this point are dishonest.
note this quote:.
"jesus knew that the very thought of burning.
You might try reading a bit of the Mishnah....you might be surprised how "pharisaic" Jesus really was.
I have read many Jewish texts including the complete restatement of oral law (Mishneh Talmud).
Jesus was not ANTI-Jew. But the Jews allowed man-made thinking to encroach in on their theology (see the...MISHNEH!)
(like another group that I know).
The became legalistic. Jesus was NOT pharisaic. Not in any way.
I'm not anti-jew either. But I realize that there are a lot of things that the Jews have wrong, one of them being their rejection of Jesus. But I believe that they are God's people for eternity and will have an opportunity to come back to God once Jesus returns.
But that's a HUGE topic...and not one to be talked about in a thread about the Watchtowers dishonesty in arguing against hell.
in the public edition of the april 1 wt, the questions from readers twists scriptures, meanings, and language to come to the conclusion that hell is not a place.. whether you believe in hell or not, you have to agree that their methods of arguing this point are dishonest.
note this quote:.
"jesus knew that the very thought of burning.
It's also possible that Abraham KNEW that God would not allow him to go through with the sacrifice. Notice what he says to Isaac when asked why they were building the alter and no lamb was present at Genesis 22:8-12 -
Abraham answered, "God himself will provide the lamb for the burnt offering, my son." And the two of them went on together.
When they reached the place God had told him about, Abraham built an altar there and arranged the wood on it. He bound his son Isaac and laid him on the altar, on top of the wood. Then he reached out his hand and took the knife to slay his son. But the angel of the LORD called out to him from heaven, "Abraham! Abraham!"
"Here I am," he replied.
"Do not lay a hand on the boy," he said. "Do not do anything to him. Now I know that you fear God, because you have not withheld from me your son, your only son."
in the public edition of the april 1 wt, the questions from readers twists scriptures, meanings, and language to come to the conclusion that hell is not a place.. whether you believe in hell or not, you have to agree that their methods of arguing this point are dishonest.
note this quote:.
"jesus knew that the very thought of burning.
God had no intention of letting Abraham sacrifice his son.
Isaac was the only son of Abraham and Sarah, and the heir to God’s promise of a great nation (Genesis 12:1-3), so how else would God test Abraham’s loyalty to Him than by asking Abraham to give up what was perhaps his greatest possession (cf. Hebrews 11:17-19). God, by keeping Abraham from completing the sacrifice, never intended for Isaac to be killed, but merely wished to see if Abraham would obey.
