John_Mann

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  Self-righteous Watchtower vs the pagan-inspired New Testament.

  by Island Man in

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  watchtower refuses to translate stauros as cross despite having no evidence to refute the long-standing ancient belief that jesus died on a cross; and in spite of evidence that the romans were in fact using crosses in executions by jesus' day.

  they shun the word simply because of the use of crosses in ancient pagan religions.. watchtower refuses to refer to their places of worship with the word church because of the word's supposed pagan origin or past usage to refer to pagan places of worship.. now contrast watchtower's self-righteous attitude of avoiding the use of all words having pagan religious usages, with the new testament verse of 2 peter 2:4:.

  certainly god did not refrain from punishing the angels who sinned, but threw them into tarʹta·rus, putting them in chains of dense darkness to be reserved for judgment.. tartarus is a word that had rich pagan mythological meaning when it was written in the nt.

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  It's strange Jesus using a parable about Hell too. Why Jesus would use a false doctrine as analogy? JW theology is pure nonsense.
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  Can you prove that our entire universe and existence is not a computer simulation?

  by EndofMysteries in

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  if you were a computer programmer and you were to create a simulated automated world, that would constantly evolve and self run after initial designs.

  first you would have to code the rules, laws, and core elements of this world.

  while this is being coded, the program is not run yet, so none of it exists.

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  Flashing pop-ups like "buy your own universe: just click here".
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  "Dont run too fast!"

  by stuckinarut2 in

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  has anyone else seen that "classic" music clip in the june broadcast yet??.

  "don't run too fast".

  if not, do yourself a favour and watch it!.

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  So mainstream and vague.

  Where's the eagles eating corpses? Or tongues rotting in the mouth? Jehovah needs blood.
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  Beards mentioned again in magazine!

  by neat blue dog in

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  aaaaaand .

  .. it offers absolutely nothing new.. from questions from readers in the december 2016 study edition watchtower:.

  "is it proper for a brother todayto have a beard?in some cultures, a neat beardmay be acceptable and may notdetract from the kingdom mes-sage.

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  https://youtu.be/07So_lJQyqw
  
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  Why Judaism and the Torah ?

  by Crazyguy in

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  so i have been studying early christianity a bit and noticed that before christianity really took off after 325 ce, there were a lot of religions.

  gnostics teachings , belief in all sorts of different gods from egypt to greece .

  the practice of emperor worship etc.

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  Same reason Buddhism took elements from Hinduism and not Mayan religion. So obvious...
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  "Mother" Teresa—a Fraud?

  by Saename in

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  i often comment in threads that interest me on this forum.

  moreover, some of you may know that i study the history of early christianity.

  i once wrote an extensive comment on the historicity of jesus' existence in one of the threads.

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  But it's not a norm. This can only be made if there's no man available, and can't be institutionalised.

  And baptism it's not the proper sacrament to a dying (adult) person but the unction of the sick that can only be performed by a priest.

  A catholic doing this is just the same as an entire congregation of non annointed JW's partaking the emblems everyday.
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  "Mother" Teresa—a Fraud?

  by Saename in

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  i often comment in threads that interest me on this forum.

  moreover, some of you may know that i study the history of early christianity.

  i once wrote an extensive comment on the historicity of jesus' existence in one of the threads.

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  http://www.firstthings.com/web-exclusives/2013/04/mother-teresa-and-her-critics
  
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  Cancer has been with us for a long time

  by Coded Logic in

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  a 2 million year old hominid has been discovered that had cancer in its foot - making it the oldest neoplasia found in the human lineage.

  now, as to why cancer predates original sin by nearly 2 million years, i'd love to hear christian apologists try and explain.. http://sajs.co.za/osteogenic-tumour-australopithecus-sediba-earliest-hominin-evidence-neoplastic-disease/patrick-s-randolph-quinney-scott-williams-maryna-steyn-marc-r-meyer-jacqueline-s-smilg-steven-e.

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  According to Catholicism the human body was formed through evolution.

  At one point God inserted a soul (directly created) in one humanoid and then he became the first man.

  Before the insertion of a soul, it was an animal subjected to physical death as any animal.
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  "Mother" Teresa—a Fraud?

  by Saename in

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  i often comment in threads that interest me on this forum.

  moreover, some of you may know that i study the history of early christianity.

  i once wrote an extensive comment on the historicity of jesus' existence in one of the threads.

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  I don't know anything about MT. I'm not trying to defend anyone but I see a total incongruence about things I know.

  It's like to say JW's performing blood transfusions or giving bread and wine to dying people to get a free pass to paradise.
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  "Mother" Teresa—a Fraud?

  by Saename in

  1. social
  2. current

  i often comment in threads that interest me on this forum.

  moreover, some of you may know that i study the history of early christianity.

  i once wrote an extensive comment on the historicity of jesus' existence in one of the threads.

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  I don't know about the info presented here but it's a blatant lie about sisters performing baptism. In the Catholic faith women cannot perform baptism. And baptism is not performed to sick or dying people because there's a specific sacrament to them.