Posts by Sea Breeze

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would you be more happy not knowing what you now know?

by ExBethelitenowPIMA in

a good question is would you be more happy not knowing what you now know?.

were you more happy pimi?

are all the pimis more happy than the the pimos or the pomos?.

Sea Breeze

cofty may be an example of what we are talking about here. Maybe not as happy and content but feeling very aggressive in keeping their beliefs that they are so sure they have found the truth?

People do not like to give up long held beliefs. When we all used to go to the doors, we were so sure that we had the truth. We were agressive, dismissive, and arrogantly impressed that our "good works" of going door to door set us apart from others, especially the most prominent part of the whore of Babylon - Christians who accepted the free gift of salvation like children.

Then we found out that Jesus is not our mediator, we found out that we were not justified. We found out that without being justified we cannot escape the wrath of God . In a nutshell, our beliefs were not consistent with scripture.

The..."other sheep...are...not even justified". - WT 1938 pg. 104-105

Romans 5: 1 states that we have peace with God by being justified (declared righteous) by our faith.

Romans 5: 9 states : "being now justified by his blood, we shall be saved from wrath through him."

Some people are willing to live with an inconsistent wordview, others are not. An inconsistent worldview is something I could never go back to. It is a huge red flag that something is wrong and requires more attention.

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God and Unicorns

by Sea Breeze in

atheist scientists now agree that "elasmotherium sibiricu" lived with humans.

all they had to do was read their bible to know that.

job 39:9 “will the unicorn be willing to serve thee, or abide by thy crib?”.

Sea Breeze

@ LoveUniHateExams,

For example, scientists state that gravity exists. <---- you take their word for it, don't you?

Gravity is not an untestable conclusion, but a demonstratable fact. We all have the same facts but draw sometimes completely different conclusions based on our worldview.

For instance, when dinosaur soft tissues, blood cells and DNA fragments were discovered to be quite common, "millions of years" proponents believed that there must be some unseen agent causing them to be preserved longer than it takes mountain ranges to wear down from erosion and rise up again.

Others with a different worldview believe this "saving device" is absurd and that the facts support a young earth in line with a literal biblical interpretation.

Same facts.... different conclusions. It's the way it is.

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would you be more happy not knowing what you now know?

by ExBethelitenowPIMA in

a good question is would you be more happy not knowing what you now know?.

were you more happy pimi?

are all the pimis more happy than the the pimos or the pomos?.

Sea Breeze

It is ultimately more satisfying to accept reality for what it is and find value and purpose in life.

Cofty,

That is a truth statement that assumes that YOU know what reality is. Why would you assume that? ...especially since your world view is that everyone including yourself is an accident? It makes no sense.

There is no 'TRUTH' there are only 'truths' or facts and data.

If there is no God (TRUTH) why do you put trust in facts and data that are just artifacts of explosions, unguided chaos and chemical accidents? What makes you think you can rely on them for stability (truth) ? Where does the information come from like DNA. DNA isn't just one code, but several codes. It is codes within codes and codes on top of codes like "epigenetics".

Says Dr. Georgia Purdom who has a Phd. in molecular genetics - "DNA is like discovering a coded message that means one thing when you read it in English, but if you pull out every third letter, it means something completely different in French".

How do you get this out of an unguided explosion? Please explain how unguided copying mistakes can form themselves into multilangualge codes at the same time. Do you have any other examples of codes (or any information for that matter) coming from anything other than a mind?

You seem confident that you have arrived at a place where you can put trust in accidental data and facts. But why should one chemical accident believe (or care) what another chemical accident chooses or believes if what you believe is true?

The atheist worldview is inconsistent. That is a fact. It is a demonstratable truth. Will you accept this fact and truth along with the others you have supposedly embraced?

If a person asks too many questions, they will soon find themselves outside of the WT organization. I believe the same thing can rob a person of their slumber in atheism.

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would you be more happy not knowing what you now know?

by ExBethelitenowPIMA in

a good question is would you be more happy not knowing what you now know?.

were you more happy pimi?

are all the pimis more happy than the the pimos or the pomos?.

Sea Breeze

There's no way we can cheat death. We all die. But all religion and cultures throughout time have spoken and speculated about an afterlife.

Buddah is dead. Muhammed is dead. Zeus is dead. Lao Zhu is dead. Krishna is dead. Confucious is dead. But Jesus is alive forevermore. Death couldn't hold him. That's hard to ignore.

Without that, they're all about the same. The people who follow these dead religious leaders are destined to die themselves. The almost dead following a person who is dead.

Why would anyone want to follow some dead guy?

BTTT : No way. It's always better to be in reality regardless of whether or not it is expedient, popular or not.

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How does God communicate with Jehovah's Witnesses?

by Vanderhoven7 in

gilles gray writes:.

the short answer is, god communicates with jehovah’s witnesses very poorly indeed.. jehovah’s witnesses are the first to affirm that god doesn’t directly communicate with them at all.. however, this fact doesn’t stop them from making the baseless assertion that god communicates to them through reading the bible, through holy spirit and through their leaders (known as the governing body, or the faithful and discreet slave).. here is a claim made by one of the first leaders of the watchtower organisation:-.

communication through reading the bible.

Sea Breeze

"the remnant are instructed by the angels of the Lord"

Wow! That pretty much says everything a person needs to know. One of the angels of the Lord led Eve astray. Didn't work out so well.

Why did Jehovah instruct people with an audible voice from heaven at Jesus' baptism to listen to his Son instead of angels?

The WT does a lot of things God instructs them not to do.

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God and Unicorns

by Sea Breeze in

atheist scientists now agree that "elasmotherium sibiricu" lived with humans.

all they had to do was read their bible to know that.

job 39:9 “will the unicorn be willing to serve thee, or abide by thy crib?”.

Sea Breeze

@ Ernest

It's not quite clear which atheist scientists you are referring to.

I'm not sure it really matters all that much. They all think they are accidents but want you to believe them anyway, right?

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God and Unicorns

by Sea Breeze in

atheist scientists now agree that "elasmotherium sibiricu" lived with humans.

all they had to do was read their bible to know that.

job 39:9 “will the unicorn be willing to serve thee, or abide by thy crib?”.

Sea Breeze

Scientists try (or should try!) their utmost to put any personal bias or beliefs aside when doing science.
There are just 'scientists', that's all.

@ LoveUnoHateExamas - That is impossible. They are humans first, before they are scientists. Their assumptions and worldview will ALWAYS PRODUCE CONCLUSIONS consistant with their pre-suppositions. Just a fact of life.

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God and Unicorns

by Sea Breeze in

atheist scientists now agree that "elasmotherium sibiricu" lived with humans.

all they had to do was read their bible to know that.

job 39:9 “will the unicorn be willing to serve thee, or abide by thy crib?”.

Sea Breeze

The original Hebrew is the word re’em which bascially means “beast with a horn.” One possible interpretation is the rhinoceros. The Hebrew word : tow’apaha in Numbers 23: 22 refers to more than one horn, so it’s likely the translators intended to infer a wild, powerful, but recognizable animal with a single horn.

This word was translated monokeros in the Septuagint and unicornis in the Latin Vulgate. The animal shown in the OP is certainly an example of a powerful, untamable animal with a single horn. It looks similar to an ox and a rhino. Atheist scientists date it to exactly the same dates we get from dinosaur soft tissue when carbon dated - around 29,000 years ago. Carbon dating assumes conditions on earth have been the same for millions of years. When corrected to account for pre-flood conditions, you get dates in line with bible chronology.

The Indian Rhinoceros is a possibility, having a single horn and living with humans today. - Rhinoceros unicornis

But the beast in the OP has a much bigger "WOW" factor and is certainly not excluded. It is a truly magnificiant creature; superior to the Indian Rhinoceros Unicornis.

That simple observational fact makes me think that "Elasmotherium sibiricu" is the correct referenced animal.

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God and Unicorns

by Sea Breeze in

atheist scientists now agree that "elasmotherium sibiricu" lived with humans.

all they had to do was read their bible to know that.

job 39:9 “will the unicorn be willing to serve thee, or abide by thy crib?”.

Sea Breeze

Maybe it just shows that you can`t really believe everything you read in the Bible as being gospel ?

@smiddy - Maybe it shows that God is as real as unicorns after all.

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Justification

by Sea Breeze in

the..."other sheep...are...not even justified".

- wt 1938 pg.

jw's are internationally famous for rejecting the new covenant "for the forgiveness of sins" (mt.

Sea Breeze

@ Person,

Thanks Person. Yes, The WT tries to prop up their 2-class system (rebellion against the free gift of Justification or Salvation) by trying to establish:

* one salvation with the New Covenant (Justification) and another salvation without Justification

* one salvation for the limited number sons of God, and another salvation without being a child of God - but still recognized as "friends".

This does not line up with scripture at all. There is not one group named children (sons) who get a free gift and another group named "friends" who work for their salvation in scripture.

Gal_5:4 Christ is become of no effect unto you, whosoever of you are justified by the law; ye are fallen from grace.

Rom_8:14 For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God.

The apostles only taught one way to get saved - to willingly receive it. The apostles never taught some two-class system of getting saved; otherwise Christ is of "no effect".

The WT doctrine of "new light" is utterly destroyed in Gal. 2: 8-9:

8 though we, or an angel from heaven, preach any other gospel unto you than that which we (the apostles) have preached unto you, let him be accursed.

9 As we said before, so say I now again, if any man preach any other gospel unto you than that ye have received, let him be accursed.

The WT and JW's will admit that the apostles NEVER preached a two-class system of salvation.

Yet, JW's continue to preach it anyway. They have zero fear of God. It is astonishing.