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.
Also, this was not God approved. There are many "sins" that happened before the Mosaic law went into effect where God did not punish the person. There was not as of yet a written code.
But the point is, Genesis is a history book. It isn't a theological book for the most part. Because something is recorded there, that doesn't mean that God approved of it. Lot's daughters schemed to get Lot drunk and to have sex with him. If anyone was to be punished, then it would have been them.
i finally got around to joining jwn.
it's a nice place.
i just wanted to brighten your day with an infamous video i made a while back.. www.youtube.com/watch?v=wawaw-xvz0m.
Here you go, dude.
for so many reasons.
not the truth, liars for hundreds of years, such a lack of love, cruelty to those who do not believe any longer and to those still in, waste of a life, willful murder of children by not taking life saving blood transfusions, hyprocrisy, favortism, child abuse....etc....i hate it!!!!!
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How could you hate these sexy beasts?
i remember when i was a witless, i spouted the words "it's the most accurate translation".... i'm sure you did too :).
i've been researching the topic of just how badly the nwt is mistranslated.
i keep finding more and more examples of blatant mutilation of scriptures in the nwt.. for the record, i love to know just where are they finding these "scholars" to prop up their assertions that their joke of a bible is the "most accurate"?
Here's a review of Jason BeDuhn and his qualifications:
i remember when i was a witless, i spouted the words "it's the most accurate translation".... i'm sure you did too :).
i've been researching the topic of just how badly the nwt is mistranslated.
i keep finding more and more examples of blatant mutilation of scriptures in the nwt.. for the record, i love to know just where are they finding these "scholars" to prop up their assertions that their joke of a bible is the "most accurate"?
Jason BeDuhn...and was totally wrong and unqualified to say so due to his lack of training in any biblical language.
i was recently talking with my good friend ding via pm on jwn, and the subject of legalism in prayer came up.
ding has much experience with jehovah's witnesses.
he was never one himself, so i get to teach him some things about the organization that he occasionally does not know.
Also, isn't it sad that we are not allowed to express appreciation for Jesus' sacrifice? How could I ever feel close to Jesus? And if we are to honor the Son just as we honor the Father, then wouldn't that include us being able to talk to Him as well? (John 5:23) - that all may honor the Son just as they honor the Father. He who does not honor the Son does not honor the Father, who sent him.
for so many reasons.
not the truth, liars for hundreds of years, such a lack of love, cruelty to those who do not believe any longer and to those still in, waste of a life, willful murder of children by not taking life saving blood transfusions, hyprocrisy, favortism, child abuse....etc....i hate it!!!!!
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trust me if you've wasted so much of your life and lost too much and too many loved ones it can only be hate.
I totally understand. I wasn't trying to condemn anyone. I've wasted my entire life in it. I was born-in. But listen to the divine words of Yoda:
“Fear is the path to the dark side. Fear leads to anger. Anger leads to hate. Hate leads to suffering.”
i was recently talking with my good friend ding via pm on jwn, and the subject of legalism in prayer came up.
ding has much experience with jehovah's witnesses.
he was never one himself, so i get to teach him some things about the organization that he occasionally does not know.
I think the meaningless and quick way they say "pray in Jesus name amen" like it is one long word is interesting. I've heard people say it is like putting a stamp on a letter. But I don't think that is really the poin that Jesus meant when he said that we must come to the Father through Him.
That reminds me of an interesting point. How do we go THROUGH Jesus? If I was going to go THROUGH a door, wouldn't I have to go TO the door first? Then I could go through it. But JWs are NOT allowed to speak to Jesus. Although even Stephen and Paul both spoke to the resurrected Jesus, JWs are forbidden. I'd like to see ONE single scripture that tells me that I cannot tell Jesus how much I love Him for what He did for me.
i was recently talking with my good friend ding via pm on jwn, and the subject of legalism in prayer came up.
ding has much experience with jehovah's witnesses.
he was never one himself, so i get to teach him some things about the organization that he occasionally does not know.
I almost forgot their justification of this. Note the next paragraph:
Did not the apostle Paul say, though, that we should approach Jehovah “with freeness of speech”? (Hebrews 4:16; compare 1 John 3:21, 22.) Does that not give us the freedom to speak as we see fit? Not really. Paul’s expression referred to the fact that because of Jesus’ sacrifice we can approach Jehovah in spite of our sinful condition. We can approach him in prayer at any time and on any subject. But even while praying with freeness of speech, we must humbly recognize our own insignificance. Thus, Jehovah said: “To this one, then, I shall look, to the one afflicted and contrite in spirit and trembling at my word.”—Isaiah 66:2.
some here know, i am a firm believer in 12/21/12.
so i asked, can you deny it?
it started in 2007, comes to a height in 2012 and ends in 2018. enjoy the ride, your screwed.
You're supposed to say, "What the hell is a jiggawatt?!?"
