(matthew 28:18) jesus approached and spoke to them, saying: “all authority has been given me in heaven and on the earth.. (1 corinthians 15:27) for god “subjected all things under his feet.”.
according to the washtowel, jesus is not going to have all of jehovah's power & authority, because he'll [jesus] need 144,000 dead/resurrected humans to help him run the earth: .
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just pointing out that all religions develop their own terminology
Not really. When you leave the WT, you start to find out that there is a whole set of language terms most everyone else knows....but you don't. Terms that are in widespread use among Christians of different flavors.
click the image to enlarge.. sister carrying microphone at kingdom hall in pants!.
https://postimg.cc/jdjysmgt.
brother in blue jeans out in service.. https://postimg.cc/z36bj89h .
Brother in blue jeans out in service
---Gasp---
(matthew 28:18) jesus approached and spoke to them, saying: “all authority has been given me in heaven and on the earth.. (1 corinthians 15:27) for god “subjected all things under his feet.”.
according to the washtowel, jesus is not going to have all of jehovah's power & authority, because he'll [jesus] need 144,000 dead/resurrected humans to help him run the earth: .
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isn`t 144000 human helpers a bit over the top ?
Not when you consider there are 22 million people working in government jobs in the US. This is around 14% of the labor force and 7% of the total population.
The reality is that the 144K are not part of the church age at all.The church isn't spoken of in the book of Revelation after chapter 3.
The 144k are male Jewish virgins that appear to evangelize the world AFTER the rapture.
The church is in heaven with Jesus at this point.
15 years ago there were 5 congregations now there is only one and it is still struggling.
congregations closing their doors doesn’t mean business is good.
it looks like this last one to fold had no young witnesses, they either left the religion or moved.
Some publishers drive over an hour to the meeting.
That's not important. The important thing is that the GB has indoor swimming pools, tennis courts, basketball courts, and doctors on staff in the infirmary within their lakeside resort. They also just purchased an additional 249 acres so they can play dress-up like ancients while video taping their delusions.
Wash those toilets and windows you people of the great crowd; we need your money to prepare to run the world! You don't want to prove unfaithful do you? Hah, Hah, Hah, ha, ha, ha,
We are the rightful rulers of the world!
Get over it.
sometimes jws wonder if the wt/jw is not the truth, 'then where else are we to go?
' i say 'why not atheistic/scientific philosophical naturalism and why not a secular philosophy which teaches a way of life?
' what do you folks say?.
DJW,
Here is a science paper that not been refuted. It is by Dr. Sanford, a world renowned Cornell geneticist. In it he lays out the impossibility of mutations and natural selection to account for anything other than destruction.
He had to have extremely liberal parameters (like population sizes and number of offspring) to get the evolution model to produce even one genetic word of 8 characters. His research shows that it takes 18 billion years (longer that the supposed age of the universe) to get even one 8 letter word from an unintelligent, naturally selected process.
Of course, proteins require many, many genetic words to create a new protein. So, here we have real science by a world-renowned geneticist that shows the impossibility of mutations and natural selection to account for hardly any useful information from a scientific naturalism point of view.
Dr. Sanford addressed the prestigious National Institutes of Health and presented his research in the video below. Time Stamp 20:00 is about where he delivers the conclusions. But, the whole video is very informative and explains why evolution cannot work from a genetic point of view..... which is what evolution is all about.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Mfn2upw-O8&ab_channel=StandingForTruth
For comparison, if you go to the SETI (Search for Extra Terrestrial Intelligence) website you'll find the following question:
How do you know if you’ve detected an intelligent, extraterrestrial signal?
Answer? "the existence of coded information on the signal"
So, on one hand, scientific naturalists accept an intelligent source if they detect even one small coded message from radio waves emitting from space, But when confronted with the 1,206,980 printed pages of coded DNA information in the human genome, they say this is formed by an unintelligent combination of chance and natural selection, which has already been scientifically demonstrated to be impossible.
So, how are regular people supposed to react when they see this breath-taking level of hypocrisy among scientific naturalists?
Why would anyone who cares about truth want to adopt this kind of worldview that displays these kinds of thought regulations?
i want to impart some advice from my life experience that i hope will help others in a similar situation and prevent them from making the same mistakes i did, ruining my life.
to begin with, i’m a 52-year-old single woman, i’ve been a devout jw since i was a little girl.
i had an abusive dad who left my mom, my two sisters and me when we were fairly young.
"He was married and had a couple of kids."
This is where the story should have ended. But, you kept it going. You wrote:
My point is that I should’ve done something about this a LONG time ago. I should’ve made the move. I should’ve told him I was truly in love with him.
No, you should not have. You are incredibly selfish to not even consider the kids, much less his wife who probably worked her butt off creating a family. Marriage is hard work. I'm sure she put up with a lot of his failings at great personal distress at times. (all married people do) Who knows what kind of trauma she experienced because of the fantasy you helped promote in his mind?
You did this to yourself....trapped by your own sin.
You have been in a destructive cult your whole life and have likely been "compartmentalizing" lots of other stuff too, like WT false prophecies, CSA deception, UN deception, Malawi / Mexico fiasco.... the list is much longer.
If you still believe in Jesus, he once said that even if you look at another with lust in your heart that you are guilty of adultery. Hebrews 9: 27 says that judgement awaits us after we die. You need to repent and start acting on what you already know to be right, not only with this fantasy, but with your soul as well.
Find a real bible-believing church where you won't be viewed as a two headed Martian if you decide to accept the the new covenant "for the forgiveness of sins" (Mt. 26: 27-28)
Once you are adopted in God's family, he is likely to give you peace about a great many things. You seem pretty stuck in the past. God has a plan for you if you'll trust him.
For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, says the Lord, thoughts of peace and not of evil, to give you a future and a hope. - Jer. 29: 11
a new space telescope launched a few days age that will supposedly be able to see to within 100 million years of the big bang.
wow... only 100 million years from the big bang.
that is pretty early given the 12 billion year age of the universe assigned by scholars who adhere to naturalism.
"So in the in the first four days after the Webb images were released, we wrote these papers, and we realized that GNZ11 wasn't unique — there were others of these very bright, very luminous galaxies, which we interpreted as being unusually massive. Then, within weeks, there was another one even further back in time, closer to the Big Bang, that was still very massive. That has really been a surprise.....
What we need to do now is go in and look at those objects in more detail, see if we can learn more about what's actually in that galaxy. What the stars are like, whether there's lots of smaller stars that contribute a lot of mass. Theorists are now wondering: how do you build a galaxy like this so quickly, and does it have a black hole that's been building extremely rapidly in there as well"?
how many jw's are aware they have "priests?".
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9 jehovah hates the course of treachery - "comparably, for more than a century now, the anointed brothers of christ, those with the heavenly hope, have served as “a holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices acceptable to god.”.
Well said Konagirl !
Preach it from the housetops until they put their kingdom up for sale.
sometimes jws wonder if the wt/jw is not the truth, 'then where else are we to go?
' i say 'why not atheistic/scientific philosophical naturalism and why not a secular philosophy which teaches a way of life?
' what do you folks say?.
Now that is the point, isn't it?
No, of course that is not the point. I suspect that you are merely pretending to not get the point.
Why not just explain how your new philosophy views where information comes from? It is a simple enough question that I'm sure you can see the importance of. But, I doubt you will attempt to address this.
All the same, if you and your top thinkers in scientific-naturalism can't find a suitable unguided and unintelligent information source, then:
Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the truth.
-Arthur Conan Doyle
So for me, this is the dock where I get off the scientific-naturalism boat. In your OP you asked the question; Why? The point is that the thought restrictions that your new philosophy dictates to you, are simply not acceptable to me. But, you are welcome to ride that boat all you want.
Not for Sea Breeze though. Thought freedom and truth matters to me. Setting sail for those shores.
sometimes jws wonder if the wt/jw is not the truth, 'then where else are we to go?
' i say 'why not atheistic/scientific philosophical naturalism and why not a secular philosophy which teaches a way of life?
' what do you folks say?.
DJW,
Newton had a practice of thinking outside of "settled" science (and theology). This helped him shape his three laws of gravity. However, Einstein (another believer in God) later proved Newton to be wrong about the laws of gravity.
So, Newton was wrong about a lot of stuff. He believed in alchemy and that you could create gold from other metals. So what? That's not the point is it?
The point is that like the Roman Catholic Church did in times past, the scientific materialists / naturalists attempt to STOP rational thoughts that don't confine themselves to their dogma.
They support their illogical belief systems by pretending to not to know a lot of things.... like where information comes from:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aA-FcnLsF1g&ab_channel=DiscoveryScience
Professor Richard Lewontin (1929–2021), a geneticist (and self-proclaimed Marxist), explains how this ideology restricts thought. He wrote this very revealing comment (the italics were in the original). It illustrates the implicit philosophical bias against Genesis creation—regardless of whether or not the facts support it.
‘Our willingness to accept scientific claims that are against common sense is the key to an understanding of the real struggle between science and the supernatural. We take the side of science in spite of the patent absurdity of some of its constructs, in spite of its failure to fulfill many of its extravagant promises of health and life, in spite of the tolerance of the scientific community for unsubstantiated just-so stories, because we have a prior commitment, a commitment to materialism.
It is not that the methods and institutions of science somehow compel us to accept a material explanation of the phenomenal world, but, on the contrary, that we are forced by our a priori adherence to material causes to create an apparatus of investigation and a set of concepts that produce material explanations, no matter how counter-intuitive, no matter how mystifying to the uninitiated. Moreover, that materialism is absolute, for we cannot allow a Divine Foot in the door.
Again, no thanks.
