Posts by Bella15

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Please explain God's wisdom in Judges19;22-30

by jam in

the just of the account, two people enter a city and can not .

find lodging.

an old man invite them to stay with him (levite).. this is so weird, all the men of the city come to have sex with.

Bella15

Once bitten, twice shy ... you may don't like this, but when I was helping my niece who had been sexually abused by a JW, the psychologist treating her asked about her spirituality, of course we both jumped at her, we both were blaming God for it, she explained to us the difference, relion vs spirituality, a Higher Power, and through some sessions and afterward I came to the realization that she was right at least in my case and my niece case that our reactions and feelings toward god, spirituality, etc. was a symptom of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder ... now that I understand how the brain works in regards to PTSD I see how some of my symptoms as atheist (yes I was once) was actually PTSD. I used to curse at God like you. In one occassion when I yelled at him demanding him to explain to me what had happened to my niece, blaming him for it (after coming back from the pshychiatric hospital where my niece had tried to cut her wrists with her own nails - so much was her pain) a voice spoke in my heart telling me "SHE WILL BE WHOLE AGAIN". I was on the floor crying for my niece when this happened, I opened my eyes, looked around and I had this great peace inside me, and the words keep resounding, SHE WILL BE WHOLE AGAIN. The word WHOLE had a great significance, because the doctors at the hospital had used the word BROKEN for her that afternoon, they told me she was broken! My Lord said she will be WHOLE again. My niece is now WHOLE and more than WHOLE she is ALIVE and FREE INDEED!

Yes, there is a god of the bible, and then there is GOD! The personal experience, God within!

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Please explain God's wisdom in Judges19;22-30

by jam in

the just of the account, two people enter a city and can not .

find lodging.

an old man invite them to stay with him (levite).. this is so weird, all the men of the city come to have sex with.

Bella15

Forgot to tell you, always reserach what the Jewish take is on these stories. The Jewish Encycloepedia is a good source to start, from there you can research the bibliography.

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Please explain God's wisdom in Judges19;22-30

by jam in

the just of the account, two people enter a city and can not .

find lodging.

an old man invite them to stay with him (levite).. this is so weird, all the men of the city come to have sex with.

Bella15

A recurring theme in Judges is that “In those days Israel had no King and everyone did what was right in his own sight.” so the nation quickly sank into one of the most morally and spiritually corrupt states in its history,yeap believe it or not and all of this after having seen what God had done for them,I think they forgot about everything in one generation. I think the real lesson of Judges and some stories therein is the moral disaster that ensues when people abandon God and everyone decides for himself what’s right. When I read the OT and I see how the israelites behaved I am like "que burros." Perhaps in the future someone will read about us and say the same ... LOL!!!

Remember the past has no future ... read those stories for what they are, stories that were lived by and affected the Israelites ... I am sure you are not even related to them ... reminds me of my mother who keeps on watching the news and saying how bad things are in the world, I always say to her, mother not that you are not going to care but the earthquake happened in Chile, you are fine. Yes, 6 people got killed overnight in Houston, but 7 millions woke up alive, including you and the rest of the family. Just because 6 people died she is wishing Armageddon on 7 billion people ... LOL

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Evidence of Jesus being Married?

by cantleave in

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/jesus-wife-fragment-is-not-a-fake-scientists-claim-9253395.html.

a harvard professor is claiming a fragment of papyrus seemingly mentioning that jesus had a wife is an ancient document and not a forgery, following a series of tests.. the text is written in coptic and contains a dialogue in which jesus refers to "my wife.

"karen king, a professor at the harvard divinity school, writes in the harvard theological review that the papyrus is almost certainly a product of ancient christians and probably dates to eighth-century egypt, based on carbon dating and chemical tests on the ink.. none of the testing has produced any evidence that the fragment is a modern fabrication or forgery, prof king and her team concluded.. the fragment, which has some legible lines on the front and on the back, contains the words: jesus said to them, my wife .... she will also be my disciple.. james yardley from columbia university, and alexis hagadorn from columbia university libraries, used a technique called micro-raman spectroscopy to determine that the carbon character of the ink matched samples of other papyri that date from the first to eighth centuries ce.. malcolm choat from macquarie university examined the fragment at hds and offered an independent assessment of the handwriting.. prof king first announced the existence of the fragment in september 2012, at the international coptic congress in rome, where she dubbed it "the gospel of jesus's wife.".

Bella15

My take on this is that no prophecy foretold Jesus would married or have children with a woman.

I wonder if Jesus as a human being had both set of chromosones. What if just like the angels that produced nephilim, Jesus would have produced abnormal human.

Anyway, but year 2016 97% of earth population will have access to the bible and the message of Jesus. Praise The Lord! The Kingdom of Heaven is breaking forth like dynamite and individuals are finding liberty and freedom!

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The watchtowers biggest mistake

by Truthexplorer in

the moment the leadership of the wt (a publishing company whose purpose was originally to produce pamphlets and books to edify christians) first made the claim to be gods sole channel of communication for dispensing biblical truth here on earth.

that not so discreet assumption has now left them wide open to 'everything they teach as truth'.

as a result, every time an error is exposed or a teaching is changed, their credibility will continue to be affected.

Bella15

@truthexplorer ...I agree with your comment. there are a lot of Christian "ministries" that publish stuff to edify, encourage, spread the gospel, etc, but they don't claim to be God's channel of communication ...

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The watchtowers biggest mistake

by Truthexplorer in

the moment the leadership of the wt (a publishing company whose purpose was originally to produce pamphlets and books to edify christians) first made the claim to be gods sole channel of communication for dispensing biblical truth here on earth.

that not so discreet assumption has now left them wide open to 'everything they teach as truth'.

as a result, every time an error is exposed or a teaching is changed, their credibility will continue to be affected.

Bella15

@truthexplorer ...I agree with your comment. there are a lot of Christian "ministries" that publish stuff to edify, encourage, spread the gospel, etc, but they don't claim to be God's channel of communication ...

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Is this new donation arrangement for real?

by nugget in

just read a post on jwsurvey about the new donation arrangement.

congregations are to pledge a monthly amount to be sent to the society to fund the building of assembly halls and kingdom halls.

congregations who already have a loan from the society will no longer have to pay back the loan but the amount pledged should not be less than the current monthly repayments to the society.

Bella15

Can't believe how they have dared to criticize other denominations over money collections, etc. I attend 2 different big churches here in Houston and trust me their giving is not as structured as JWs want to do it, and unlike JWs we have charitable ministries around the world, bringing free medical aid to less fortunate nations, water wells, housing, school supplies, community centers to impact whole communities with self sustain projects and help people get out of poverty, gosh the work in India is awesome trying to help the Dalits (untouchables) lowest cast. This WT Corporation are really voracious wolves. It is all about buildings=real estate.

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I made my daughters cry last night.....

by Ugottabefresh in

...when i told them i didn't believe anymore.

they cried like i'd never seen before.

my oldest, 10, pleaded with me that she'd do anything to get me to keep going to meetings ("i'll get a's on my report card!").

Bella15

Wow, I am really surprised at this and not at the same time really, it shows how their brains are wired up at such early age. No child at this age should react like this I think, the Gospel is so different, it is for mature people, yes you get to love God and Jesus at this age but to feel like that wow, I really feel for you and your children. It is fear what they are experiencing too. Sad, but be strong, and show them how to practice real love for each other and mankind.

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Is this new donation arrangement for real?

by nugget in

just read a post on jwsurvey about the new donation arrangement.

congregations are to pledge a monthly amount to be sent to the society to fund the building of assembly halls and kingdom halls.

congregations who already have a loan from the society will no longer have to pay back the loan but the amount pledged should not be less than the current monthly repayments to the society.

Bella15

Thanks for the heads up. Wow! What a"false prophet" voracious wolves this corporation turns out to be ...

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Is this new donation arrangement for real?

by nugget in

just read a post on jwsurvey about the new donation arrangement.

congregations are to pledge a monthly amount to be sent to the society to fund the building of assembly halls and kingdom halls.

congregations who already have a loan from the society will no longer have to pay back the loan but the amount pledged should not be less than the current monthly repayments to the society.

Bella15

Is the form shown in page 2 true?