Posts by Sea Breeze

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I Visited Auschwitz Two Days Ago

by Sea Breeze in

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auschwitz concentration camp in poland may not seem like a very happy vacation spot to visit.

but, if you have a home, a family and your freedom - you will be far less likely to take these things for granted after visiting.

we made the sobering decision to make the 2.5 hr.

Sea Breeze

Auschwitz Concentration Camp in Poland may not seem like a very happy vacation spot to visit. But, if you have a home, a family and your freedom - you will be far less likely to take these things for granted after visiting.

We made the sobering decision to make the 2.5 hr. drive to see this place where 1.1 million people were lied to, tricked & coerced into traveling to - only to meet their end.

Previously, I viewed a Watchtower as a structure to protect people from an invading enemy. Like so many things, there is another meaning of the word. A Watchtower can also be used to prevent people from escaping.

Standing there looking at the vastness of this camp with its system of Watchtowers, I was flabberghasted that I had never made this connection before - until this moment.

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Re-activate me?

by punkofnice in

there was a knock at my door and i thought it was my take-away being delivered.. long story short, it was 2 elders calling to see me.

i guess to re-activate me.

once they said who they were i recognised them.

Sea Breeze

Good job PofN

"Re-activate" - Sounds so mechanical. Like a drone has been dormant and needs reactivation.

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How Did You Do It?

by KerryKing in

have any of you here successfully woken up pimi family members or friends and got them out?.

if so, how did you manage to do that, what was the information that made them jolt up out of their hypnotism?.

Sea Breeze

After I got saved, I prayed for a fairly long time and asked the Lord to allow me at least one close realitive to have a relationship with from my old life and family. I told the Lord that I really didn't know if I could make it the rest of my life without a least one old family member in my life just to help feel intergrated psychologically. My old life didn't seem real at times... more like a movie. I didn't like that feeling. Was very destabilizing.

I met a young man on the internet and shared the real word of God with him here and there. I met with him and led him to the Lord within a two hour lunch. Turns out my brother was one of the elders at the Hall he grew up in. His dad was also an elder there. He knew my nephew well.

I asked him to contact my nephew and share his experience. He did and a few months later my nephew and I met for lunch and he accepted the Lord's offer within a two hour lunch as well. A couple of years later he ended up moving to the same town as me.

The gospel message conquored the world's largest empire. There is power in the blood.

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August WT: DF'ing renamed "Removed." AKA: GB re-arranging the deck chairs on the Titanic

by WingCommander in

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so: the mystery has been clarified as to more "new light" / clarifications of decades old doctrine and procedure.

august watchtower has finally been leaked.

disfellowshipping?

Sea Breeze

If you know it is a road to nowhere. Why do you still go to the meetings?

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Who told the first lie?

by nicolaou in

this is a continuation of the discussion which sprang from an unrelated topic.. so according to genesis, who told the first lie?

god told eve that if she ate from the tree of knowledge she would die that very same day.

in response to that statement the devil told her she would not die.. eve ate from the tree and did not die.

Sea Breeze

@joey jojo

It amazes me that 6000 years later we are arguing about it and people still base their lives on this incomplete, confusing fairytale.

There certainly is no shortage of confusing fairytales in the world. Just looks at the myths some people choose to base their lives on. Truly irresponsible in my opinion.

1. Origin of the Universe

Materialists (Atheists) once tried to believe that the universe was eternal, to erase the question of where it came from. The famous British Atheist Bertrand Russell, for example, took this position. However, this is not tenable. The progress of scientific knowledge about thermodynamics, for example, means that virtually everyone has been forced to acknowledge that the universe had a beginning, somewhere, sometime—the big bang idea acknowledges this.

But now that the James Webb Space Telescope has proven fully formed, spiral, "third generation" stars near the beginning of time. Science has once again left atheists with literally nothing to believe in except miracles.

2. Origin of Life

Astrobiologist Professor Paul Davies said,

“How did stupid atoms spontaneously write their own software … ? Nobody knows … there is no known law of physics able to create information from nothing.”

Embeded coding is different for different purposes. If you want to build a race car for speed, embedded design characterists are different than if a vehicle is designed to carry many passengers like an SUV.

DNA is full of embedded coding that differs from life form to life form. This shows a top-down design rather than a bottom up creation.

3. Origin of the Diversity of Life

In July 2008, 16 high profile evolutionists met, by invitation, in Altenburg, Austria. They had come because they realized that mutations and natural selection did not explain the diversity of life, and they had come together to discuss this crisis in evolutionary biology. The only consensus was that there is a major problem, a crisis. Since then things have only gotten worse for evolutionists.

One world famous geneticist with inventions on display at Smithsonian has proven that it would take longer than the 13.8 billion alleged years the universe has been here to produce a small 8 letter genetic word through natural selection.

4. Origin of the Mind and Morality.

The famous (and reluctant) convert from Atheism to Christianity, C.S. Lewis, put it well when he wrote:

“If the solar system was brought about by an accidental collision, then the appearance of organic life on this planet was also an accident, and the whole evolution of Man was an accident too. If so, then all our present thoughts are mere accidents—the accidental by-product of the movement of atoms. And this holds for the thoughts of the materialists and astronomers as well as for anyone else’s. But if their thoughts—i.e. of materialism and astronomy—are merely accidental by-products, why should we believe them to be true? I see no reason for believing that one accident should be able to give me a correct account of all the other accidents.

It just boggles the mind that with modern understanding and scientific research that people could believe in such outlandish miracles and reject a man who claimed he would resurrect himself from the dead - while he was dead, and then did it.

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Who told the first lie?

by nicolaou in

this is a continuation of the discussion which sprang from an unrelated topic.. so according to genesis, who told the first lie?

god told eve that if she ate from the tree of knowledge she would die that very same day.

in response to that statement the devil told her she would not die.. eve ate from the tree and did not die.

Sea Breeze

Questions that make me skeptical of a "time period" interpretation for the creative days:

Why does Jesus take Genesis 1–2 as teaching history (Matthew 19:4; Mark 10:6)?

Why does Paul take it as history (Romans 5:12; 1 Corinthians 11:8–9; 15:21–22; 15:45; 1 Timothy 2:12–14)?

Why does Ex 20: 9-ll compare our literal days and week to God's literal creative days and week? Why should I interpret one day literally and another day symbolically in the same verses?

Six days shalt thou labor, and do all thy work: but the seventh day is the Sabbath of the LORD thy God: in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates: for in six days the LORD made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested on the seventh day: wherefore the LORD blessed the Sabbath day, and hallowed it. (Ex. 20:9-11)

Why did the ancient, medieval, and modern church—until about 1800—have few commentators (if any) who believed in an ancient universe?

Why do all of the ancient translations and paraphrases, such as the Aramaic Targums, take the words at face value and translate them as “days,” with no hint that they might mean “ages” in Genesis 1?

Why is there little or no classical Rabbinic support for an ancient universe?

Why are there well-qualified PhD scientists who support physical data as consistent with a young-earth view?

Why is The coupling of the word “day” (yom) with an ordinal number (e.g., “second day,” “third day,” etc.) consistently employed throughout the history of the Hebrew Bible as the conventional way to designate a literal day in a literal seven-day week? (Gen. 7:4; 17:12).

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Who told the first lie?

by nicolaou in

this is a continuation of the discussion which sprang from an unrelated topic.. so according to genesis, who told the first lie?

god told eve that if she ate from the tree of knowledge she would die that very same day.

in response to that statement the devil told her she would not die.. eve ate from the tree and did not die.

Sea Breeze

How could they sin when they didn't know what evil was and until they knew what it was?

Eve, didn't act confused at all when she restated what God said. She knew what the law was. She simply chose to believe someone else. And this is the core issue of our entire existence.

You claim sin entered the world through them eating the fruit

The fruit is just a manifestation of the core issue: each person must personally decide whether or not to believe God. The sin resides in the unbelief, just as life eternal resides in believing God.

"He that believeth on the Son hath everlasting life: and he that

believeth not the Son shall not see life" - God

Things haven't changed since Eden, it's still about belief, and we still have a choice.

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Who told the first lie?

by nicolaou in

this is a continuation of the discussion which sprang from an unrelated topic.. so according to genesis, who told the first lie?

god told eve that if she ate from the tree of knowledge she would die that very same day.

in response to that statement the devil told her she would not die.. eve ate from the tree and did not die.

Sea Breeze

We are all under a death sentence.... the whole species and planet is too for that matter. It's a lot worse than just children dying. I am particularly turned off by my personal death should the Lord tarry.

This is why I have chosen to believe God.

Isn't it interesting how two people can look at the same data and decide on opposite courses of action?

I am very grateful that since Calvary, people actually have a choice.

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Who told the first lie?

by nicolaou in

this is a continuation of the discussion which sprang from an unrelated topic.. so according to genesis, who told the first lie?

god told eve that if she ate from the tree of knowledge she would die that very same day.

in response to that statement the devil told her she would not die.. eve ate from the tree and did not die.

Sea Breeze

A five year-old child would be better prepared for life's challenges than Adam and Eve were. So, when faced with an obedience test is it any wonder that they failed at the first attempt?

@Nicolau

I think these are some fair speculations on why Eve chose not to initially believe God.

Why have you chosen not to believe God?

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Who told the first lie?

by nicolaou in

this is a continuation of the discussion which sprang from an unrelated topic.. so according to genesis, who told the first lie?

god told eve that if she ate from the tree of knowledge she would die that very same day.

in response to that statement the devil told her she would not die.. eve ate from the tree and did not die.

Sea Breeze

First of all, neither Adam nor Eve were innocent. They were guilty as sin. So, they died, in accordance with the Law.

Adam and Eve's pitiful attempt at covering their sin was by sewing fig leaves together. Our attempts at covering our sins through our own works are just as insufficient and pitiful as well. God had mercy on them and provided an appropriate covering (animal skins) that required the shedding of Blood, which forshadowwed the day when God would become a man and shed his own blood, in their stead but not theirs only; but for all who wanted it.

Sin and death entered the world because a decision was made NOT to believe God. When God offered the whole world the opportunity to allow him to pay your sin debt in your stead, he recreated the opportunity Eve had to choose whether or not to believe God.

Adam and Eve are definitely saved. They accepted the blood covering God offered and likely believed God thereafter, especially the prophecy in Gen. 3: 15.

Everyone has the choice Eve had. Eve initially didn't believe God. Later, I'm quite sure she changed her mind and decided it was better to believe God. Which is why I look forward to meeting her.

It just makes sense to believe God, and live. Sin is not just wrong. It is stupid and illogical.