you have your bethel watchtower study on a monday evening, as i understand it.therefore, prepare your hearts and your bible trained consciences to "test the inspired expressions" being presented as bible truth in the next study article - especially this one;w14 11/15 p. 26 par.
"acts 1:8 - "you will be witnesses of me...." [jesus]john 1:15 - "john bore witness about him..." [jesus]john 5:37 - "the father who sent me has himself borne witness about me.
"revelation 12:17 - ".......and have the work of bearing witness to jesus.
@ Mille, the answer is ”from books” often in the British Museum Library but the conclusions here are of my making. I always ask the questions “How and why did any idea get started. Even as a JW I puzzled at the obstinate lack of clarity in the Father- Son relationship of the Greek texts.
It is a grave mistake to think that the Bible is holy!
jw.org is the fastest growing media outlet in the world, our local cobe said we are going to take the media from satan's wicked world!
repent before it's too late and come back to the kingdom hall with all your loving brothers and sisters!
you won't find happiness without jehovah's organization and you know it!
jw.org is the fastest growing media outlet in the world, our local cobe said we are going to take the media from satan's wicked world!
repent before it's too late and come back to the kingdom hall with all your loving brothers and sisters!
you won't find happiness without jehovah's organization and you know it!
jw.org is the fastest growing media outlet in the world, our local cobe said we are going to take the media from satan's wicked world!
repent before it's too late and come back to the kingdom hall with all your loving brothers and sisters!
you won't find happiness without jehovah's organization and you know it!
Thank you for posting 1975cart. Your message is so delusional that you should learn how to disentangle yourself from the dire JW propaganda which you don’t even realise you are suffering from. The WTBTSociety has a complete and unbroken 100% failure rate of its predictions over its whole one hundred and thirty five years history, what a triumph of ignorance! It has no credibility left. How many times can you cry “armageddon” and still be believed?
Why did the Watchtower org join the UN? You will not have been told the real reason because you are a victim of JW org mind control.
“Millions now living will never die”... Millions of JWs now dead never even got a life!
What happened to the seventy odd years of “the 1914 generation” hope? This deception made the Watchtower rich and increased its membership, but it was false wasn’t it?
Go back to the curse of the governing body?...I would rather boil my head ...but surprisingly when you learn The Truth About The Truth and once you have recovered from the trauma, life is very good... I strongly recommend it! (But you can only achieve this if you understand how to think critically).
one cant help but notice all of the dramatic changes thathave been happening to the organization.
this is not the religion that i grewup in.
im not saying that the religion that i grew up in was better, justdifferent.
The image of the Watchtower was for decades truly dull and unappetising. The new public relations makeover has done wonders for this malign, self interested and heartless cult. But what is their overall objective? You ask.
I’d say that there is, and ever was, only one consideration which exercises the mind of the holy leaders of this religious corporation: “Will this decision advance the financial interests of the sacred Watchtower organisation?“ Expediency is brought to bear on any doctrine which is failing and is revised in the exciting aura of "new light". It has one purpose; to perpetuate the power of the leadership by the financial security of the organisation. There is total absurdity in deciding new doctrine under these circumstances...it is truly something to ponder.
How possibly could “truth” ever be a matter of policy decision by a financially driven committee?
you have your bethel watchtower study on a monday evening, as i understand it.therefore, prepare your hearts and your bible trained consciences to "test the inspired expressions" being presented as bible truth in the next study article - especially this one;w14 11/15 p. 26 par.
"acts 1:8 - "you will be witnesses of me...." [jesus]john 1:15 - "john bore witness about him..." [jesus]john 5:37 - "the father who sent me has himself borne witness about me.
"revelation 12:17 - ".......and have the work of bearing witness to jesus.
The reason that there is always ambiguity about the nature of Christ in relation to his Father is that the source idea stems from a pagan myth of solar deities. The Jewish concept of God had already grown out of worship of the polytheistic Yahweh as one of the seventy sons of El in the Canaanite pantheon. However with the christ myth of the Greek texts, the early church leaders needed to secure their own role in society by bringing together all the differing pagan beliefs for the sake of acceptability to all comers. (The attempts and reasons and success in doing this are another whole story.)
The root belief, retold from time immemorial as part of the meaning of life that had been passed down through the generations, was all described in the starry night sky. The Bible which in many parts of the world replaced the astrological ordinances was not yet thought of.
How would late Stone Age peoples have viewed the reason for the marked changing of light intensity between midwinter and high summer? What would account for it? It was because the Sun God was born every year on the first day that the rising sun started to move north again from its most southerly position on the horizon three days after the shortest day of the year. How else could it have been explained? There was no Wikipedia back then!
The Sun god was born at midwinter, (Christmas) he died at the spring equinox (Easter) as a sacrificial saviour deity and went his way to his heavenly solar father who was also a Sun God. That is why the sun shines so brightly after the spring equinox.
It was on the basis of this belief that the course of the life of the solar hero was elaborated. It was re-told from time immemorial under different names which formed the saviour plays and beliefs of antiquity. They centred around a “superman” half god half human, born of a virgin in a cave with animals present (reference to the zodiacal virgin, taurus etc) who had twelve disciples (reference the twelve divisions of the zodiac) who healed the sick, performed miracles, walked on water (like the morning sun does) he resurrected the dead (Lazarus=aserus=Osiris) he died and overcame death. This pagan tale was retold in the Greek scriptures, embroidered and re-labelled using a name “Jesus” (for the sake of Jewish punters) and asserted them as if they are holy truths.
And the poor people believed... and the Church grew rich...and we fell for it too...
do we obsess about the jw org?
i admit i do.
the reason is that two of my offspring are still held hostages by the beliefs of the cult..
Do we obsess about the JW org? I admit I do. The reason is that two of my offspring are still held hostages by the beliefs of the cult.
What though, if and when the good ship Watchtower sinks below the waves and the passengers and crew escape (I trust the captains will honourably go down with the ship) that still leaves about forty thousand other cults deluding their true believers.
Do we have a responsibility to expose all cultic religious behaviour or is it just JWs?
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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/earth/wildlife/6187320/snake-with-foot-found-in-china.html.
what does this tells us about evolution?.
I did mention that snakes do have embryonic legs which are not normally expressed even in the young but looking at the photo it is possible to see the shape of the whole reptile inside the snake. Of course I could be wrong, there have been humans with four legs for that matter.
I live in crop circle territory and people come from far and wide imagining they are the work of aliens but the students who make them celebrate their hoaxes with much beery enjoyment next evening in the pub.
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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/earth/wildlife/6187320/snake-with-foot-found-in-china.html.
what does this tells us about evolution?.
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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/earth/wildlife/6187320/snake-with-foot-found-in-china.html.
what does this tells us about evolution?.
True, creationists would ask that if things evolved there must be transitional animals but then again so would non-believers and scientists ask for that same evidence. That is why I mentioned skinks which demonstrate the plasticity needed in evolution (as found in the genera of the family scincidae).
So I can’t agree with you Simon that it springs entirely from the minds of creationists. ‘Transitional’ in this context doesn’t mean on a planned upward journey, it means changing from one thing to another, something which Darwin needed to demonstrate for credibility to his theorem. Thanks to palaeontology we do have the fossil evidence which Darwin would have loved to have shown back in 1859.
Come on people, the reason that photo was taken was because it made the snake, stuffed with its last meal, look like it had a leg...not because it actually had one!
Btw did you know that boas have a pelvis? Very good to constrict with. Also that most genera of snakes develop ‘limb buds’ during early embryonic stages but which remain undeveloped? Damning for creationism but hard evidence for evolution.
