1st corinthians 15 12-17. but if it is preached that christ has been raised from the dead, how can some of you say that there is no resurrection of the dead?
if there is no resurrection of the dead, then not even christ has been raised.
and if christ has not been raised, your faith is futile... .
In nihilistic view life is absurd and hopeless.
In Christian view the Christ's Resurrection is indeed an All-in bet.
Ultimately we face this dichotomy: Nihilism or Christianity. There's no between.
If you embrace Nihilism you are embracing a hopeless absurd. So it's very strange to use absurdity as a derogatory term to Christianity.
apparently the spanish forum, extj.com, is being shut down coming december.it's pretty sad.
there is still so much work to do to help people in latin america and spain come out of this cult!.
What are the excuses of a sincere doubtful JW to not discover anything about the JW. org?
I really doubt that much more effort of Internet exposition need to be made.
I think the people inside the Watchtower now is made by more than 90 percent of people who WANTS to be a JW. True believers who knows the TTATT.
I left in 2006 and one thing that shocked me at the time was to discover people who had read the CoC and decided to remain a JW. I think this is already the main reality among them.
This new generation was born connected in the Internet and they know about the TTATT. Maybe some of them are just waiting to be financially independent to get out.
In the end it's not about facts and truth. It's about individual choice and some will always chose odd things.
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for other uses, see singularity (disambiguation).the technological singularity (also, simply, the singularity)[1][2] is the hypothesis that the invention of artificial superintelligence will abruptly trigger runaway technological growth, resulting in unfathomable changes to human civilization.
This getting near and near to be a cult.
The Singularity is near... soon... always 30 years ahead...
Oompa was a terrible loss.
what's the greatest advantage in becoming a roman catholic after leaving the jehovah's witnesses some 17 years ago?
why, it's the way it totally irritates people and really pushes their buttons...that is, if you are one of the unfortunate jehovah's witnesses who happens across my door during field service.
i have developed several techniques to make it very frustrating to the unwary witness who hopes to make headway at my house.
Yes I am.
what's the greatest advantage in becoming a roman catholic after leaving the jehovah's witnesses some 17 years ago?
why, it's the way it totally irritates people and really pushes their buttons...that is, if you are one of the unfortunate jehovah's witnesses who happens across my door during field service.
i have developed several techniques to make it very frustrating to the unwary witness who hopes to make headway at my house.
Anyway it's not wise to use Catholicism for humor.
Bad taste humor.
what's the greatest advantage in becoming a roman catholic after leaving the jehovah's witnesses some 17 years ago?
why, it's the way it totally irritates people and really pushes their buttons...that is, if you are one of the unfortunate jehovah's witnesses who happens across my door during field service.
i have developed several techniques to make it very frustrating to the unwary witness who hopes to make headway at my house.
The goal of Catholicism is not to irritate people.
The goal of Catholicism is the salvation of the soul. And you cannot achieve this by irritating but understanding.
in recent years significant progress has been made in solving the question of how life originated on our planet.. how do you think theists will respond when it finally happens?
as a former christian i know my reaction would have been something like "well that just goes to show that it takes intelligent life to make life", but for two reasons that defense doesn't work.. firstly it would prove that life is not an ethereal force that originates with god.
there is no 'ghost in the machine', no elan vital.
The origin of life is a very hard problem because it appeared so early on Earth (possibly less than 500 million years after the formation of Earth).
The other problem is life is only found on Earth and we can see a huge share of the universe and nothing... This fact threatens panspermia.
And if you add the very late origin of consciousness in just one specie the entire thing becomes a gigantic mystery.
in recent years significant progress has been made in solving the question of how life originated on our planet.. how do you think theists will respond when it finally happens?
as a former christian i know my reaction would have been something like "well that just goes to show that it takes intelligent life to make life", but for two reasons that defense doesn't work.. firstly it would prove that life is not an ethereal force that originates with god.
there is no 'ghost in the machine', no elan vital.
Would the resurrection of a dead body - dead, totally dead, brain dead, not frozen, really dead, dead for a week, stored in a drawer in the morgue - pose a theological challenge for JWs?
Yes.
JW theology is a mess.
They deny it but actually they believe in soul.
They believe in what is called in theology as the "sleeping soul". But they deny this. Worst of all they believe their sleeping soul are kept inside Jehovah.
They mentioned the spirit of Jehovah returning to Jehovah after death but this spirit is impersonal and can't be their souls. So they must accept something in them survives death.
Is astounding how someone can accept something so messed up with its own internal consistency.
So resurrection of a clinical dead body will be the equivalent to someone take something directly from the inside of Jehovah.
Such thing would not just challenge JW theology but every theology existent today.
while reading the magazines the other day it occurred to me that jws never really had a very good answer to that question.
because it was aimed at young people and it said something along the lines, "if you believe in god you have a purpose, but if you don't believe in god your life has no purpose or meaning".
i think that is a faulty analysis of the situation.
We discussed a lot about the problem of evil and here are some interesting links about the problem of consciousness :
https://aeon.co/essays/your-brain-does-not-process-information-and-it-is-not-a-computer
