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I'm afraid I agree with steve2. I could be set in any religion! It's basically "hero seeks out villian" just in a religious setting. It's an overused plotline and Dan brown is top of his market with a lot of poor copycats not making much off it.
Especially If I suspect in your case that a lot of book content and plot will be sidelined to emphasise You anti-witness views.
there was a strange statement in last week's study article.
well, let's be honest: there were plenty of strange statements!
but one in particular bothered me.
Bear in mind that Jesus was the son of Mary a human and imperfect woman and inherited no imperfection off her. So the principle is there in the Bible that if he went on to marry his children would inherit his perfection despite having an imperfect mother.
People get so focussed on heaven they forget that what we have as Humans is seen as "good". Indeed enough to tempt angels to come down to earth and take wifes, making nethilim children. As an actual flesh and blood perfect man on earth. Jesus could have asked to continue living as a perfect man and create his own nation of perfect human children to populate the earth. Instead he give up his chance of being on earth as a man forever. Thankfully for us.
You are all assuming perfection or imperfection is genetic material? But if it is something more? That if you have perfection in you, it can "cure" imperfection it wouldn't matter which of the parents carried the "perfection" the imperfection would always be cured by it. Literally a situation were you couldn't have both and one always trumps the other. Perfection always overides imperfection. As long as you get it from one of your parents
Genetically we often see the scenario that to get a damaging genetic illness both parents have to be the carriers.
Bear in mind that Perfection being passed on, is based on One man's sacrifice and thus passed on to us and so the principle that perfection from one person can overide imperfection in others is already there. This could also cover passing on perfection to a wife if he married her.
$79 million tax demand on jehovahs witnesses threatens freedom of religionstrasbourgon september 21, 2010, the european court of human rights (echr) ruled unanimously that the complaint filed by jehovahs witnesses in france is admissible regarding alleged interference with their freedom of religion.. the government of france had imposed a retroactive 60-percent tax on all religious offerings donated to association les temoins de jehovah(also referred to as the christian association of jehovahs witnesses of france) over a period of four years from 1993 to 1996. the government initially demanded a total payment of about 45 million euros.
the amount demanded is now more than 57 million euros (more than $79,000,000 usd), which far exceeds the assets of the association.the echr took note of the fact that throughout the court proceedings within france, jehovahs witnesses had consistently maintained that the contested tax was a direct attack on their religious freedom.
in fact, it had been imposed on them within the context of the france governments fight against so-called sects.
Well done Jehovah's witnesses.
France in it's greed and bias has overeached itself.
according to jws, evolution is false.
so how do they explain these human-like fossils?.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/human_evolution.
Hi Xchange
I have no problem with Science Just the mythology of darwinism stuck on it as supposed fact.
If we have only got 10% of the fossil record (as someone mentioned above), how can we say anything is definitive by it? since it just too small a percentage to judge anyhting by and thats if we haven't put it in the wrong places. Which can often happen when we are puting a jigsaw together without a picture.
My thoughts are that neanderthals are pre-flood which would allow for a greater DNA difference.
according to jws, evolution is false.
so how do they explain these human-like fossils?.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/human_evolution.
Evolution is just another word for "adaption" within species with extreme amounts time used to get over the difficult bits.
Science may build on knowedge but it is constantly destroying the previous theories as it goes along and just sticks the new theories in a frame called evolution (hense why darwins original theory is forgotten but the title is kept). Content is unimportant as long as it can be called Evolution and they can reject a designer.
hi xxxx,.
to tell you the truth, i feel very deceived from the way the organization has been acting in the last years.. .
----- original message ----- from: xxxxxsent: wednesday, august 18, 2010 1:04 amsubject: fw: there are no words to describe this!!!!!......
Hi Nicki
I am a Jehovah's witness and saddened by your story.
But I fully support the Blood position, it simply did not end with the other dietary Laws which takes it beyond eating as a principle. Then if you read the scriptures involved in both the hebrew and greek, it is an explained law for our understanding "life is in the blood" and it "belongs to Jehovah" for me this takes us fully into avoiding transfusions. Fractions is just medicine creating a grey area and the society have made them a conscience decision. If there is doubt (as with fractions as to whether they can be said to be fully life blood) it is down to the individual to decide.
A recent change is...
People suffering from Myalgic Encephalomyelitis would not be allowed to donate blood in the UK.
Adding to the ever growing list of deseases that stop people giving blood because they may get past the screening process.
There is nothing this world can do (inc blood transfusions) that save lifes they can only prolong life. Only Jehovah can literally save Life.
I am sorry you have suffered at the hands of imperfection of men. From what you have said being accused of crimes you are innocent of, unfortunately this can happen but it is no reason to leave a Religion for. The shepherds are chosen to do a job but this in no way stops them making mistakes or being imperfect it is an unreasonable expectation of them this side of Armageddon.
Although bitterness has made you turn on your former Faith this is not a healthy way to be. Apostasy has no rewards at the end of it.
Acts 5:38-39 (New International Version)
38 Therefore, in the present case I advise you: Leave these men alone! Let them go! For if their purpose or activity is of human origin, it will fail. 39 But if it is from God, you will not be able to stop these men; you will only find yourselves fighting against God."
i thought it would be an interesting exercise to ask everybody on here what their 'top 10 reasons why jws don't have the truth' actually were.
maybe we can see some correlating views/patterns/ideas that may help us de-programme the newbies that come on this site.
if eventually most people have an outstanding gripe/concern it'll help everybody understand the ex-jw mindset a little better.
Hi Freydo
Yes lets look at hebrews 10 starting with the first verse.
Hebrews 10 :1
1 The law is only a shadow of the good things that are coming—not the realities themselves. For this reason it can never, by the same sacrifices repeated endlessly year after year, make perfect those who draw near to worship
The law foreshadowed Jesus who could do what all that animal sacrifice couldn't he fulfilled the law. He gave us the covering we couldn't get through the law but we still live by the principles of the law indeed but not the parts of the law which covered the jews until Jesus's sacrifice for us they have been fulfilled once and for all time. I have no problem quoting the passages you mention and we do use them a lot, ask any ex-JW on here. Hebrews 10: 23 Let us hold unswervingly to the hope we profess, for he who promised is faithful. 24 And let us consider how we may spur one another on toward love and good deeds. 25 Let us not give up meeting together, as some are in the habit of doing, but let us encourage one another—and all the more as you see the Day approaching.
26 If we deliberately keep on sinning after we have received the knowledge of the truth, no sacrifice for sins is left, 27 but only a fearful expectation of judgment and of raging fire that will consume the enemies of God. 28 Anyone who rejected the law of Moses died without mercy on the testimony of two or three witnesses. 29 How much more severely do you think a man deserves to be punished who has trampled the Son of God under foot, who has treated as an unholy thing the blood of the covenant that sanctified him, and who has insulted the Spirit of grace?
It's understanding that we are actually under Greater personal commitment now than ever before when jews lived under the Mosaic law. They did what they were told to do but as Christians we fully understand why we do what we do. We are no longer children as Jews were and are still waiting for a messiah they rejected to take the yoke of the sacrifices off them.
We understand sin now as Christians and why we must avoid it and how Jesus's sacrifice covers our imperfection. If we turn to sin now rejecting Jesus's sacrifice after this knowledge we can only have fearful expectation of God's wrath.
according to jws, evolution is false.
so how do they explain these human-like fossils?.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/human_evolution.
Hi Xchange
The problem about debating Evolution is you are arguing the process and you get into circular arguments.
It's like looking at how a car engine works and saying it made itself, intelligent design says there was a maker.
Calling someone a Darwinist is pegging them down to their belief that we came from some kind of random survival of the fittest type process (despite the fact few of Darwins explanations have suvived they have been replaced by a multitude of apparently reasonable theories of how you can get from sludge to man in a billion years without intervention from another source)
For me Darwinism fails because it uses time as a plaster to solve the problem that things (while adapting) basically still remain true to type from current observation from the world around us.
Genesis 1:21 (New International Version)
21 So God created the great creatures of the sea and every living and moving thing with which the water teems, according to their kinds, and every winged bird according to its kind. And God saw that it was good.
freud said:.
"if it were really a matter of indifference what we belive, then we might just as well build our bridges of cardboard as of stone, or inject a tenth of a gram of morphine into a patient instead of a hundredth, or take teargas as a narcotic instead of ether; but the intellectual anarchists themselves would strongly repudiate any such practical applications of their theory.".
intellectual honesty requires a match between the real world, the practical world where things either work or do not work at all.....and the state of mind inside your head.. if there is any mismatch at all the blurred line fuzzes out into failure to recognize what is real and what isn't.. jehovah's witnesses replace the real world with an artificially constructed one.
Titus 1:15
To the pure, all things are pure, but to those who are corrupted and do not believe, nothing is pure. In fact, both their minds and consciences are corrupted.
Once People start looking at everything through a cloud of mistrust and scepticism I think they lose the ability to see pure truths anymore. Everything just appears as contradictions IMO.
according to jws, evolution is false.
so how do they explain these human-like fossils?.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/human_evolution.
Haeckel's theory on embryo gils has been rejected by modern scientists.
"No cleanly defined and functional "fish", "reptile" and "mammal" stages of human embryonal development can be discerned."
