Like HOW MANY feasts and special days did ancient ISRAEL have? Bunches.
Traditions are cool and add much spice to drearydom.
Posts by Perry
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6Ive got the Christmas spirit--its killing me
by DS211 intonight we watched home alone 2, last nghr we watched home alone...i hear the christmas music and i have started to....feel again.
its hard to describe this feeling...its overjoyed, peaceful, hopeful, at the beauty ive missed around this time.
and at the same time it kills me because my children dont know it...its just another day, no special time, no holidays...my daughter asked me the other night if she could have a birthday.
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Why Evolution Is True--something that scares me
by DS211 inso im reading "why evokution is true" by coyne and the page im on is talking about darwin and natural selection:.
"but natural selection was also the part of evolutionary theory con- sidered most revolutionary in darwins time, and it is still unsettling to many.
selection is both revolutionary and disturbing for the same reason: it explains apparent design in nature by a purely materialistic process that doesnt require creation or guidance by supernatural forces.
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Perry
The bible predicted the UNIFORMITARIANISM in later times ... the foudation of evolution.
"There shall come in the last days scoffers, walking after their own lusts, and saying, 'Where is the promise of his coming? for since the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of the creation. For this they willingly are ignorant of... the world that then was, being overflowed with water, perished" (2 Pet. 3:3-6).
It's hard for me not to quote Mark Twian here:
("Life on the Mississippi," chap. 17): "Now, if I wanted to be one of those ponderous scientific people, and 'let on' to prove what had occurred in the remote past by what had occurred in a given time in the recent past... In the space of 176 years the Lower Mississippi has shortened itself 242 miles. That is an average of a trifle over 1 1/3 miles per year. Therefore, any calm person, who is not blind or idiotic, can see that in the Old Oolitic Silurian Period, just a million years ago next November, the Lower Mississippi River was upwards of 1,300,000 miles long... There is something fascinating about science. One gets such wholesale returns of conjecture out of such a trifling investment of fact."
But seriously there are mountains of evidence to blast holes through the standard evolutionary naturalistic worldview paradign.
Get right with God through the blood of Jesus and he'll take you places and show your things you NEVER DREAMED of. He did it for me.
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My brother died yesterday
by satinka in"albert" was 55 years old, and the fifth-born of seven children.
i am the second oldest and babysat him often while he was growing up --- and while i was still at home.. yesterday, albert was out taking his usual morning stroll around his small town, when he collapsed on the sidewalk.
the doctors said it was a heart attack.
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Perry
That is terrible. So sorry for your loss. This life is wayyyy too short.
Praying for you.
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Acts 20:28
by never a jw inacts 20:28 nwt.
pay attention to yourselves+ and to all the flock, among which the holy spirit has appointed you overseers,+ to shepherd the congregation of god,+ which he purchased with the blood of his own son.
king james and other translations.
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Perry
Here's another WHOPPER:
Hebrews 1:8
(See Ps. 45:6)But unto the Son he saith, Thy throne, O God, is for ever and ever But of the Son He says, YOUR THRONE, O GOD, IS FOREVER But about the Son he says, "Your throne, O God, will last for ever But with reference to the Son: “God is your throne forever (Even the passage in Psalms was perverted to support this one!) -
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Acts 20:28
by never a jw inacts 20:28 nwt.
pay attention to yourselves+ and to all the flock, among which the holy spirit has appointed you overseers,+ to shepherd the congregation of god,+ which he purchased with the blood of his own son.
king james and other translations.
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Perry
Yes....the Christian God bleeds
Jehovah prophetically also said this about himself:
SCRIPTURE KJV NASB NIV NWT Zech 12: 9,10
(Jehovah is speaking)and they shall look upon me whom they have pierced, and they shall mourn for him, as one mourneth for his only son so that they will look on Me whom they have pierced; and they will mourn for Him, as one mourns for an only son They will look on me, the one they have pierced, and they will mourn for him as one mourns for an only child and they will certainly look to the One whom they pierced through, and they will certainly wail over Him as in the wailing over an only [son]; Lots more examples here
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Quite an interesting first meeting with my Therapist.
by truthseekeriam inthe moment i mentioned jehovah's witnesses he headed over to his file cabinet and handed me this print out.. .
dear beloved one, .
i see your loneliness and fears.
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Perry
That's awesome!
I think its just what is needed.... Learning to love yourself the way God loves us. It is the polar opposite of "do more, run faster, jump higher".
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The Watchtower Denies Substitutionary Atonement
by Perry infor 30 years i never heard one time that christ died for me personally.
i always heard that he died to pay back what adam lost.
that never made alot of sense to me, but i just went along with it as a kid and young adult.. then, after i left... it hit me just how simple the whole thing was.
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Perry
John 3 cited above sums up what I believe on the matter. Admittedly, there is much theological speculation on this beyond that statement.
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DECEPTIVE CROSS-REFERENCING IN NWT
by The Searcher inin order to "scripturally justify" j.f.
rutherford's rebranding of the bible students by the creation of a designer name which made them stand out from other bible students, the nwt deceptively misuses a verse to perpetuate the falsehood of the unscriptural name, "jehovah's" witnesses!.
(james 2:7) "they blaspheme the fine name by which you were called,* do they not?".
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Perry
Oh no..... my head is spinning again!
I NEED TO SIT DOWN.
Now, that's better. Sitting down makes remembering my WT lobotomy a little easier.
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The Watchtower Denies Substitutionary Atonement
by Perry infor 30 years i never heard one time that christ died for me personally.
i always heard that he died to pay back what adam lost.
that never made alot of sense to me, but i just went along with it as a kid and young adult.. then, after i left... it hit me just how simple the whole thing was.
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Perry
He died for "Whosoever".
For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. 17 For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved. 18 He that believeth on him is not condemned: but he that believeth not is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God. - John 3
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The Watchtower Denies Substitutionary Atonement
by Perry infor 30 years i never heard one time that christ died for me personally.
i always heard that he died to pay back what adam lost.
that never made alot of sense to me, but i just went along with it as a kid and young adult.. then, after i left... it hit me just how simple the whole thing was.
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Perry
Moggy Lover : Brilliant.
Thanks for fleshing that out.
In fact as one can detect when we study Wt material on the matter, that the Wt presses this concept, not so much as a variant on the Atonement, but rather than as an attack, warranted or otherwise, on the Deity of Christ. Since Jesus was exactly the equivalent of Adam, then how could He be God, no?
Good catch. Their logic actually builds on the false premise of the so-called exchange with Adam. In so doing, they can then attack the diety of Christ that is so carefully laid out in Hebrews Chapter 1 ...which BTW the WT tries to botch with strange punctuation.