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  Hidden implications of Genesis

  by losthobbit in

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  today when i read it, i see a completely different story.. the bible is completely true, or at least that's what many people believe.

  when asking them which translation is true, the person might pick their favourite translation.

  when asking about things that contradict, be logically incorrect, or refer to unscientific things like the four corners of the earth, one might get a response that some of it is symbolic, and not meant to be taken literally, but everything else is entirely true.. the same principle can be applied to any piece of writing.

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  julian

  If not for Adam you would not exist. Smarten up. You are to Adam, as what you say Adam is to God.

  Before you he is.
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  Hidden implications of Genesis

  by losthobbit in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  today when i read it, i see a completely different story.. the bible is completely true, or at least that's what many people believe.

  when asking them which translation is true, the person might pick their favourite translation.

  when asking about things that contradict, be logically incorrect, or refer to unscientific things like the four corners of the earth, one might get a response that some of it is symbolic, and not meant to be taken literally, but everything else is entirely true.. the same principle can be applied to any piece of writing.

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  julian

  It is a mix of the literal and the metaphoric. As you say, people will believe their own truths. But you can get the truth out of one word, or even no words at all. It is you who give the words meaning. It is the writer who gets your attention with making the meaning hard.

  Like a chicken house. The truth could be told about a chicken house.

  If you believe the earth revolves around the sun. It does. If you believe the sun revolves around the earth it does.

  If you believe you can light a room without a candle. You can.

  But who would believe in the truth?

  Those who can truly believe.
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  The Evolution of God

  by Spade in

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  2. bible

  http://www.watchtower21.org/2011/01/evolution-of-god.html.

  in the evolution of god, robert wright takes us on a sweeping journey through history, unveiling a discovery of crucial importance to the present moment: there is a pattern in the evolution of judaism, christianity, and islam, and a hidden code in their scriptures.

  straddling popular science, ancient history, and theology, this ambitious work sets out to resolve not only the clash of civilizations between the judeo-christian west and the muslim world but also the clash between science and religion.

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  julian

  God is a word. All words evolve. But the wind has always been the wind. A stone always a stone. Not much changes. But God is the most changing word of them all.

  We are just living and thinking. Applying our ideas to words.

  Waiting for the word, to give us definition, rather than us give definition to the word.
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  Eve's Choice

  by Frenchy in

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  okay, i'm interested in what you girls, especially, think of this:.

  eve's choice.

  ah, now i know of fair eve's plight.

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  julian

  History is what you believe.

  Adam is the first man. Eve is the first woman.

  Life evolved from there.

  And here we are.

  Now what shall we believe in today?

  Then we will do according to our beliefs.

  This is life.

  How shall you make life better for all mankind?

  Then do it.

  What use is the rest?
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  Crazy Is Flirting a Sin? Q & A

  by Iamallcool in

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  christianity -- christian living/is flirting a sinadvertisement.

  expert: phillip senn - 10/10/2008.

  question.

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  julian

  It also says in the bible that let no man be called teacher other than the one who is teacher.

  There are a thousand answers as per a thousand teachers.

  But my answer is this.

  Flirting is natural but we also have natural disasters. Forget flirting.

  You may do anything you wish so long as you know it leads to a greater love. Along that road you will make mistakes. If you make too many mistakes sometimes it is better to not do something at all until you can walk the road to higher ground.

  We have a war with traditional scripture and a war with our hearts and nature of today.

  This was makes neither the scripture wrong nor the heart of today wrong.

  If you begin each and everything in love, it will end in love.

  The bible also says, do not judge, but who can stop people from doing so when they do it by nature?

  Therefore, look to the sciptures not for the hard hearts, but the scriptures for the soft hearts.

  And realise, that moses said to do that or to do this in a time of hard hearts.

  Jesus said to do this or do that in a time of somewhat less harder hearts.

  He never told you not to flirt.

  He never told you not to obey the sabbath.

  He never told you to not love on the sabbath.

  If he said all he knew he would have been struck down on that day, such that people picked up stones and threw at him.

  So he said what could be said for the hearts of that time.

  He said, if you lust after another you have already committed adultery in your heart.

  Maybe he might have said afterward, therefore you may as well go do it, if only you love that person. But imagine the stones that would be thrown?

  He was pointing out the hypocrisy. Yet you take his word and live in loveless marriages in many occcasions, all the while lusting after the one you should be loving.

  He says, what love brings together, let know man divide.

  But he did not say, what love divides, let love divide.

  Like I said, it is hard to follow scripture from a time so long ago, when the time today is so different, the people of today so different, the ethics and morals so different.

  There is a middle ground. And I do not believe there needs to be a war.

  We take all the good that was said from this, and all the good that was said from that, and simply try to be the most loving person we can be.

  It was also said. There will be no marriage in heaven. I think we are a little closer to heaven today, than 2000 years ago.

  I hope this helps.
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  Does anyone out there understand how i feel?

  by TimothyT in

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  my name is tim, im 23, from the uk, and im currently a jw!.

  ok... to cut a long story short... i love serving jehovah but ive begun now to embrace my sexuality as a gay man.. although im still attending the meetings, praying to jehovah and trying my hardest, i can no longer lie to myself about my sexuality.. i have had enough of feeling depressed and confused now - its killing me!!!.

  does anyone else know what i feel like?

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  julian

  I know how you feel. But you choose how you feel. I cannot choose for you, but only tell you to feel as you wish to feel. But if you choose my answer, and choose to try to understand and apply it, you will recognise so many choices you do have.

  So choose then how you wish to feel, then feel as you have chosen. If upon, much time and much effort, you still feel bad, I can give you an answer for this time, which is; you made a bad choice.

  However, this answer only applies, if you cannot feel better within a reasonable time. Give it a reasonable time, to adjust to new feelings, and then determine whether that time was wasted or indeed worth while.