Posts by Perry

“If there was one thing in which I was completely secure, it was that I would never adhere to any religion – especially to evangelical Christianity, which I held in particular contempt,”

“I tried to write off the experience as misfiring synapses, but I couldn’t shake it. When I returned to New York a few days later, I was lost. I suddenly felt God everywhere and it was terrifying."

In a Fox News Channel interview with Howard Kurtz, Powers explained the revelation to her “wasn’t a one-moment-kind-of-thing. It was something that over a year probably of going to church and studying the Bible and a lot of different things".

What Kirsten began to "see" after her encounter with Jesus Christ personally, was God working in her life..... "a lot of different things"; as she puts it. New believers, those on their way to being believers, and eventually old-time believes are all alike in their astonishment at God's attention to detail in their lives. I've personally noticed that when God's moves in my life, he'll always tell me at least twice. If it's really important, he'll tell me thrice.

The fact that when she called to tell her boyfriend about her encounter with God, it was at that moment BEFORE she cold tell him, that he related how he had been praying and felt led to break up with her because of the uneven yoking thingy....is just exactly the way God works. Bam, Bam ... right in a row to try and get your attention.

“In even describing when I became a Christian, I just gave in. It wasn’t courageous. I didn’t have any choice. I kept trying to not believe and I kept just couldn’t avoid it. If I could have avoided it, I would have. There’s nothing convenient about it in my life in the world that I live in. It’s not like living in the South or living somewhere where everybody’s Christian. I live in a world where nobody’s a believer.”

That is EXACTLY what happened to me. Irrestible Grace. We are saved by grace, through faith. One is the work of God, the other is the work of man. It is the "work" authorized by Jesus for Salvation.

He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved; but he that believeth not shall be damned. - Mark 16:16

Acts16: “Sirs, what must I do to be saved?”31 So they said, “Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and you will be saved, you and your household.”

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: 18

Once a person surrenders to Jesus, the Holy Spirit takes up residence within the believer and bears an internal permanent witness to the believer:

The Holy Spirit bears witness with our spirit that we are the children of God.

This is a precious knowing that the believer receives as a gift that comforts him throughout his/her life. It is totally different than the conclusion that an unbeliever may reach based on selective reasoning that "there is no God".

Faith is not a conclusion as atheists judge it to be based on their own experience. It is a knowing. I believe this knowing irritates atheists and unsaved religionists alike.

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Fallacies about Faith

by tec in

jw
friends

peace to you!.

this thread is about false things (some) atheists think theists believe.

this is not a thread about false things that atheists think about theists.

Perry

"Former atheist Kirsten Powers is now a Bible-believing Christian champion"

When a person encounters God.... it changes them permanently. Kirsten Powers was an uber-liberal atheist top news reporter. Her testimony mirrors my own in many respects. When I encountered God I had just finished my education in Sociology. My interest in Social Work to help and comfort the poor was very high.

Perhaps her testimony will shed some light on the kind of dynamic, interactive faith that Christians have . It is sometimes hard to explain except to describe the kinds of things that God does with it . Kirsten's story is pretty typical when God happens.

http://www.wnd.com/2013/12/fox-news-atheist-democrat-i-met-jesus/

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Fallacies about Faith

by tec in

jw
friends

peace to you!.

this thread is about false things (some) atheists think theists believe.

this is not a thread about false things that atheists think about theists.

Perry

I thought you wanted to be left alone?

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Fallacies about Faith

by tec in

jw
friends

peace to you!.

this thread is about false things (some) atheists think theists believe.

this is not a thread about false things that atheists think about theists.

Perry

The Nations Worship the King

Zech. 14:16 And it shall come to pass that everyone who is left of all the nations which came against Jerusalem shall go up from year to year to worship the King, the Lord of hosts, and to keep the Feast of Tabernacles. 17 And it shall be that whichever of the families of the earth do not come up to Jerusalem to worship the King, the Lord of hosts, on them there will be no rain. 18 If the family of Egypt will not come up and enter in, they shall have no rain; they shall receive the plague with which the Lord strikes the nations who do not come up to keep the Feast of Tabernacles. 19 This shall be the punishment of Egypt and the punishment of all the nations that do not come up to keep the Feast of Tabernacles.

Just expanding on a part of tec openig post, the Millenium will be characterized by the earth having many nations and Jesus Christ ruling as The LORD in Jerusalem. When I first read this scripture I was amazed at what a far cry this picture was from the simplistic picture the WT sold me as a youth.

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Church Tax Petition

by metatron in

jw
friends

http://petitions.moveon.org/sign/close-tax-loopholes-on.

new petition on move on !

metatron.

Perry

I know this is a side note, but were you all aware that many European and South American Countries actually pay the Church out of the taxes they collect? I just found this a couple years ago and it floored me.

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abortion vs holocaust

by unstopableravens in

Perry

J. Hofer,

What is your position on Gender abortions?

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'Evolution' of the Creative Days length

by Syme in

we all know that wts likes to distance itself from the young earth creationists, who believe in the literal 6-day creation.. so are we supposed to be something fundamentally different from the yecs?

not so much.... i did some research some time ago about what the society believes abouth the length of the creative days.

this is what i found:.

Perry

There is little difference between JW's and a Godless Naturalism worldview.

The 10 Best Evidences from Science that Confirm a Young Earth

#1 Very Little Sediment on the Seafloor

For Additional Information:

The Sands of Time: A Biblical Model of Deep Sea-Floor Sedimentation
The Sands of Time: A Biblical Model of Deep Sea-Floor Sedimentation (pdf)
“ Sea Salt, Erosion, and Sediments ” from Earth’s Catastrophic Past 1 (pdf)

#2 Bent Rock Layers

For Additional Information:

Rock Layers Folded, Not Fractured
“Soft-Sediment Deformation Features” from Earth’s Catastrophic Past 1 (pdf)
“Megasequences of North America” from Earth’s Catastrophic Past 1 (pdf)

#3 Soft Tissue in Fossils

For Additional Information:

#4 Faint Sun Paradox

For Additional Information:

The Young Faint Sun Paradox and the Age of the Solar System

#5 Rapidly Decaying Magnetic Field

For Additional Information:

The Earth’s Magnetic Field Is Young
The Earth’s Magnetic Field and the Age of the Earth
“The Earth’s Magnetic Field” from Earth’s Catastrophic Past 1 (pdf)

#6 Helium in Radioactive Rocks

For Additional Information:

Helium Diffusion Rates Support Accelerated Nuclear Decay
Young Helium Diffusion Age of Zircons Supports Accelerated Nuclear Decay
The Age of the Earth’s Atmosphere Estimated by its Helium Content
“Helium in Rocks and in the Atmosphere” from Earth’s Catastrophic Past 1 (pdf)

#7 Carbon-14 in Fossils, Coal, and Diamonds

For Additional Information:

Carbon-14 in Fossils and Diamonds
Carbon-14 Evidence for a Recent Global Flood and a Young Earth
Measurable 14C in Fossilized Organic Materials: Confirming the Young Earth Creation-Flood Model
“The Pitfalls in the Radioactive Dating Methods—The Radiocarbon Dating Method” from Earth’s Catastrophic Past 1 (pdf)
“Carbon-14 Dating” from Thousands . . . not Billions 2 (pdf)

#8 Short-Lived Comets

For Additional Information:

#9 Very Little Salt in the Sea

For Additional Information:

The Sea’s Missing Salt: A Dilemma for Evolutionists

Sea Salt, Erosion, and Sediments

” from

Earth’s Catastrophic Past 1

(pdf)

#10 DNA in “Ancient” Bacteria

For Additional Information:

Bacterial Life in Ancient Salt

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I AM CONFUSED WITH THE JAN STUDY EDITION?? Help me

by Sittingstraight1212 in

2 jehovah will use the kingdom to unify his family in heav- en and on earth.

that divine purpose will be realized.

(isa.

Perry

the Bible has Jesus ruling since about 33 CE. And his rule extending 'until all his enemies have been subdued.' It is the ones raised up in Rev 20:4 that "rule as kings with the Christ for a thousand years."

Good point.

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It's the year 5774 according to the Jewish/bible calendar. So the year 2239 is the thousand year reign...

by EndofMysteries in

even though the bible says nobody knows the day or the hour, if this world is still around around the 2200's, i bet the year 2239 will have many people awaiting something big, since that will be the year 6000 on the jewish calander.

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Perry

Hooooray, I'll only be 276 by then.

I'll start a new cliche': "Stay alive till thirty-nine"

Now if anyone ever says this ... remember I said it first here.