the watchtower september 1, 1951, in a wonderful article entitled “hated for his name”(pp518,519) describes the persecution and martyrdom of steadfast christians in the first 3 centuries ad.. by the year (a.d.) 64 christianity was.
prominent throughout much of the roman.
empire, including the capital city.
Van, the Bible, the Watchtower and Polycarp and co are or were in the business of tall stories. John Fox however, apart from partisan remarks against popery and getting carried away with the sentiments of the period, was an early user of original source material for the historicity of some of the public burnings he recorded.
We will remain naive and damaged with the gullibility and intellectual vulnerability of children all through our lives if we stick to the Bible as if it were true.
i'm curious if we will have eyewitness reporters at the stanley theater like we do every year....
The question always is "Will this new doctrine make more money than the old doctrine?"
would you agree:.
there are three main paths in life?.
secular, religious or spiritual?.
There exist endless different opportunities and paths for everyone.
since leaving the jws i have looked into many beliefs and have come to this conclusion.. paganism has a high regard for women, as they worship goddesses and respect the female for the ability to give birth to new life.
christianity puts females in second place to males and blames women for male temptations which goes back to eve eating the fruit and tempting adam with it.
they also created a devil with the appearance of the pagan god pan and built churches on pagan worship sites so that people would still go there to worship, but within a christian building.. i have come to the conclusion that paganism versus christianity is about a battle of the sexes.. the fear of demonic forces is taught by religions to deter you from straying.
Religion is about myth, identity and belonging.............. but once formalized by 'spiritual interpreters' it becomes slavery!
my wife is in the hospital.
complications of a ruptured appendix.
she had it removed around 1am friday morning.
Poor you Azor, I do hope that your wife's condition improves soon. Good on your Mum, ignore those who are ignoring you in your difficulty. All the best to you.
who starts the great tribulation - jehovah or satan?.
I agree with you Mr Flipper person; its a load of nonsense.
The Watchtower picture of reality is so far removed from truth... yet for JWs it is compulsory to keep these false boundaries and stupid predictions in mind. It is a time wasting distraction from getting on with a real worthwhile and enjoyable life.
It is interesting to see how far a person has come away from the cult by ignoring the Bible's fairy tales. This is not to make adverse comment on those who do, because when we are waking up, it's necessary to put what the Bible says in context with TTATT.
But its a great freedom to realize there is no such thing as Armageddon or "the great tribulation."
jws say they can go anywhere in the world and they " know" that they would be shown hospitality from their fellow brothers.
of all my years as a jw i found this wasn't the case.
i honestly believe that if i turned up at any of my fellow apostates on here house and said hi i'm chook can we have a coffee, the response would be how many sugars..
Its hardly surprising that when religious loonies meet they would greet fellow loonies who believe the same things.
the watchtower september 1, 1951, in a wonderful article entitled “hated for his name”(pp518,519) describes the persecution and martyrdom of steadfast christians in the first 3 centuries ad.. by the year (a.d.) 64 christianity was.
prominent throughout much of the roman.
empire, including the capital city.
Instead of thinking on the "unspeakable tortures" of martyrdom of religious fanatics:
Try real life for a change.......................it is very refreshing!
i am still having issues with my still in wife.
my two son's and i don't want anything to do with the cult.
our marriage is a battle ground all the time.
The Searcher I had exactly the same experience, even with those who had been close friends. Yes subtly provoke thinking and never condemn the org to an active JW.
since leaving the jws i have looked into many beliefs and have come to this conclusion.. paganism has a high regard for women, as they worship goddesses and respect the female for the ability to give birth to new life.
christianity puts females in second place to males and blames women for male temptations which goes back to eve eating the fruit and tempting adam with it.
they also created a devil with the appearance of the pagan god pan and built churches on pagan worship sites so that people would still go there to worship, but within a christian building.. i have come to the conclusion that paganism versus christianity is about a battle of the sexes.. the fear of demonic forces is taught by religions to deter you from straying.
Diss lady2, to adopt "pagan" beliefs is not that simple because it only implies believing folk tales. By no means is it the case that paganism places women on an equal footing with men. Most pagan ideas accept the male principle as being above the female. Try not to get carried away with idealistic assumptions like we did with the JW rubbish!
The ancient Egyptian religion is based on an unsubstantiated claim that all humans are always alive...a comforting thought but without the slightest evidence for its truthfulness. (As it happens I was just reading the Egyptian Book of the Dead this morning).
Religious belief, pagan or otherwise, is an attempt at an EXPLANATION for illiterate people in past times who had no chance of knowing the truth about the universe.
Nowadays we know about life, death and the universe.
.................................Why worship anything at all?
