so i've asked this question to witnesses in the past (super no no question to ask by the way but hilarious responses) to bosses and coworkers, and random people of different faiths and i'm curious to know how mixed of a response this community will give.
bible believers or not your oppinion is very welcome.
technically according to scripture we are gods sons.
For me, I think that it's all fiction. when we die, that's it. We cease to be. No heaven and no hell. No God and no Devil.
All we have is ourselves and we waste too much time on fiction. Be it the News media, it's all fiction. Be it religion, it's all fiction.
We're being conned on a grand scale. Life isn't fair.
There is no purpose. We like to think there is but there really can't be if you look at it all.
wt claims that satan was thrown out of heaven in october 1914 precipitating ww!
and the end times.
a small problem with that is ww1 started on july 28th 1914 whilst satan was still in heaven picking his nose.. how did we not see this and waste years of precious life?
If that drunken paedophile protecting despot, TOMO the turd says it is so, then it is so, whether it makes sense or not.
Yes. It's Orwellian but that's how the GovBod (Piss be upon them), roll.
https://apnews.com/article/baptist-religion-sexual-abuse-by-clergy-southern-convention-bfdbe64389790630488f854c3dae3fd5"leaders of the southern baptist convention, america’s largest protestant denomination, stonewalled and denigrated survivors of clergy sex abuse over almost two decades while seeking to protect their own reputations, according to a scathing 288-page investigative report issued sunday.. these survivors, and other concerned southern baptists, repeatedly shared allegations with the sbc’s executive committee, “only to be met, time and time again, with resistance, stonewalling, and even outright hostility from some within the ec,” said the report.. the seven-month investigation was conducted by guidepost solutions, an independent firm contracted by the executive committee after delegates to last year’s national meeting pressed for a probe by outsiders.. “our investigation revealed that, for many years, a few senior ec leaders, along with outside counsel, largely controlled the ec’s response to these reports of abuse ... and were singularly focused on avoiding liability for the sbc,” the report said.
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I used to go to a Baptist church when I was a believer.
I reckon the British Baptists are nothing like the mentally unstable, heavily medicated American ones.
w85 7/1 p. 21 par.
16 - an increasing “great crowd...out of all nations” are flocking to the org jehovah’s worship.
the brooklyn pharisees assured the sheeple for decades that isaiah 2:2, micah 4:1-3, & haggai 2:7 were prophetically.
Booster - An increasing “great crowd...out of all nations” are flocking tothe orgJehovah’s worship.
I know they're not flocking to the cult, you know, in fact, everyone knows except the Jobots.
They'll believe anything that drunken sot TOMO 3rd and his paedo protecting boys will tell them.
watchtower 1954 p.511 "why do watchtower publications now show jesus with short hair and no beard?
because he is shown that way in older representations of him that are older then the traditional effeminate looking pictures.".
watchtower 1968 p.286 "bible evidence and a recent review shows that jesus did have a beard..." charles russell style of beard was popular at bethel...till rutherford took over.
It's probably a metric to see who's loyal to the drunken paedo lovers AKA Governing Body(TM).
only jesus has the power and authority to defeat satan and kick him out of heaven:.
“now have come to pass the salvation and the power and the kingdom of our god and the authority of his christ, because the accuser of our brothers has been hurled down, who accuses them day and night before our god.”.
Y'see, this is what makes me think the Bible is not all it's cracked up to be.
All this to-ing and fro-ing about who is correct and who isn't.
Shouldn't a book from the 'Divine' be stating things in an obvious way?
only jesus has the power and authority to defeat satan and kick him out of heaven:.
“now have come to pass the salvation and the power and the kingdom of our god and the authority of his christ, because the accuser of our brothers has been hurled down, who accuses them day and night before our god.”.
Why doesn't the Bible just say so?
box on page 24 of the july 15th titled :"if ever the evil slave....".
jesus has placed the weightiest of responsibilities on the faithful and discreet slave-namely,overseeing the domestics and giving out spiritual food atthe proper time.
jesus knew that those with greater responsibility have greater accountability.
he concluded his illustration about....
Yep. 'Illustration'. They said it, not me.
'The Faithful Slave' isn't a real thing. Neither is the 'Evil slave'. (TM) after the lot.
Amazing how they take some parables to be literal and others not. I wonder why? Something about money and power? Hmmmm!
well, i haven't been here in about 5 months.
ever since my ex-pioneer partner and bethel roommate roy baty died.
looks like i've have missed out on some fun.
It's one of those threads I haven't bothered with.
Mr Evans is not a celebrity in my eyes. (I don't do celebrities, it's fake adulation. they're no better than the next person).
I'm more focused on my family.
My days of 'activism(tm)' are behind me. If people want to stay in a dangerous cult, that's their business. In a 1000 years time, they'll all be long forgotten like the rest of us.
