"Do you not know that to whom you present yourselves slaves to obey, you are that one’s slaves whom you obey"
The former slaves, were not such by choice. Most of us willingly submitted to our slavery from our own volition.
Posts by Perry
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23Kingdom Hall Built on Site of Former Slave Market
by Wild_Thing inin mississippi, there is a historical site called forks of the road.
before the civil war, it was one of the most active slave trading markets in the south.
it was a triangular piece of land formed by ... you guessed it ... a fork in the road.
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Happy Resurrection Sunday
by Perry in.
wishing everyone a happy resurrection sunday.... from my family to yours!.
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I rarely wear a tie to church. I think this was the first time the boys did. That's one of the reasons I wanted to grab photo yesterday.
Steve, thank you. My avatar hasn't been changed since I started posting here some 15 years ago.
Best wishes to all.
- Perry
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Happy Resurrection Sunday
by Perry in.
wishing everyone a happy resurrection sunday.... from my family to yours!.
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Wages of sin is death Cofty.
But, the gift God gives is everlasting life. That's the way the universe is set up..... all based on choice.
Eve had a choice. She was told beforehand the price. Essentially, she chose to not believe God is what really happened. Her real problem was lack of belief of the consequences, while at the same time believing that he was withholding something good. Both, false beliefs as the last several thousand years has borne out.
Belief is what moves the hand of God, and triggers blessings. It gets results when done through the office of Christ alone. Sometimes God takes something from us, sometimes he gives gifts. All based on trust. I was a fool to put my trust in men.
"Thus saith the LORD; Cursed be the man that trusteth in man"
After I did that with the WT, I did little better trusting in my own devices.
"He that trusteth in his own heart is a fool"
God honors our choices. That was perhaps the hardest lesson I had to learn. The whole free moral agency system of governance is set up on choice. We can do one of three things in life, and get one of three results.
1. We can put our trust in others. If we do, then they are responsible for the results.
2. We can put our trust in ourselves. Then, we are responsible for the results.
3. We can put our trust in Christ alone, then God is responsible for the results.
I am 53. I have spent a considerable amount of time in each of those categories. My experience is that option three gets FAR more relatively immediate positive results, not to mention the eternal ones that go with inheriting the things that go along with being a member of God's family.
Out of everything I have learned so far in life, the role of belief is by far the most valuable fact I've discovered.
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Happy Resurrection Sunday
by Perry in.
wishing everyone a happy resurrection sunday.... from my family to yours!.
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Magnum,
Wife was an atheist.... or at least strong agnostic. We both came to Christ at approximately the same time.... within a few months of each other.
The lack of love, the moral failings of congregation leaders, and my own powerlessness in dealing with sin is what woke me up to the uselessness of working for righteousness.
"There remaineth therefore a rest to the people of God. For he that is entered into his rest, he also hath ceased from his own works, as God did from his."
Jesus paid it ALL.
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Happy Resurrection Sunday
by Perry in.
wishing everyone a happy resurrection sunday.... from my family to yours!.
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Hi Sparky,
It's not luck. I spent 10 years after leaving the org trying to get my life together. It never happened. Just ended up still single, depressed, & with more baggage than I had as a witness. After I accepted Christ, he did it for me, as a gift.
The Watchtower is a thief.
Jesus said:
"The thief cometh not, but for to steal, and to kill, and to destroy: I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly."
Faye,
He is risen indeed! The John Ankerberg show had an excellent piece on the parts of the resurrection that believers and non-believer alike are agreed upon. Worth a watch. Here's the teaser:
Did Jesus rise from the dead?
In this continuing series with Dr. William Lane Craig, we will examine the question, “Did Jesus rise from the dead?” Dr. Craig shares four historical facts accepted by the majority of New Testament and secular scholars today, including the honorable burial of Jesus, His empty tomb, His post-mortem appearances, and the origin of the disciples’ belief in God.
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Happy Resurrection Sunday
by Perry in.
wishing everyone a happy resurrection sunday.... from my family to yours!.
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Thank you. I am enjoying it ....beard and all!
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Happy Resurrection Sunday
by Perry in.
wishing everyone a happy resurrection sunday.... from my family to yours!.
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Wishing everyone a happy Resurrection Sunday.... from my family to yours!
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For those of us creationists who don't know anything about evolution
by truth doubter incofty- perhaps you would like to teach us the "first thing about evolution".. truth doubter .
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Evil Bible
by Simon inhadn't seen this site before, i thought i'd share it:.
http://www.evilbible.com/.
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The mind sees what it wants to see.
Yes it does. And what we "see" determines what we sow.
We will not only reap what we sow, but we will daily eat of that which we have previously sown.
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Again: Where is Jesus?
by Wonderment inthe watchtower of december 2015 reports the following reaction of a family with four teenagers in the country of rwanda with the publication of the nwt, and how grateful they were for it.
the wt magazine said: .
things changed when the new world translation in their language became available.
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Assuming for a moment that Jesus was an actual, real person, then where he is ... is dead ... and has been for a very long time.
Heaven,That tomb was EMPTY. Many people have been converted to Christianity just by examining the facts surrounding the resurrection alone.
But aside from the logical conclusions. there is the experiential knowledge that believers get when they are "born again". When a person asks God "to come into their heart", they are giving permission for God to "posses" them by means of the Holy Spirit, who is God and who specifically bears witness to the deity of Jesus as well.Shortly after being "born again" I had an encounter with the Holy Spirit around 4am one morning while studying and praying. I had direct and intimate knowledge that I had just met Jesus. Quite outside of my cognition or "will" but certainly voluntarily, I audibly confessed these words, "He's alive". At that moment, I had passed over from believing that Jesus was resurrected, to knowing that Jesus is alive. I remember that incident quite well...some ten years ago now.
Born again Christians know Jesus, primarily because he lives inside of them:
"But when the Comforter is come, whom I will send unto you from the Father, even the Spirit of truth, which proceedeth from the Father, he shall testify of me.“And I will pray the Father, and he shall give you another COMFORTER, that he may abide with you for ever; Even the Spirit of truth; whom the world cannot receive, because it seeth him not, neither knoweth him: but ye know him; for he dwelleth with you, and shall be in you” (John 14: 15-17)
The Spirit Himself bears witness with our spirit that we are children of God - Romans 8: 16I can tell you from experience that knowing God the way a person does after he is born again is WAY better that the logical induction/deduction methods we are stuck with without this intimacy and knowing.