look what an ex-bethelite has to say about the spirit channeling he saw first hand up at wallkill:.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cfmqnzbyrko.
now i believe rayven's story of horror at brooklyn bethel:.
knowsnothing,
I would also like to suggest that you do some extensive research/reading about DISSOCIATIVE STATES OF CONSCIOUSNESS - a university library would be a good resource for such research.
Also of interest in this regard, is the work done by Felicitas Goodman which includes her books: "How About Demons"; "Trance, Healing, and Hallucination: Three Field Studies in Religious Experience" and more.
Kind regards.
look what an ex-bethelite has to say about the spirit channeling he saw first hand up at wallkill:.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cfmqnzbyrko.
now i believe rayven's story of horror at brooklyn bethel:.
knowsnothing,
Did you carefully read the actual study itself:
http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0049360
AS WELL AS
ALL of the authors' viewpoints and readers' comments in ALL of the articles which I posted?
look what an ex-bethelite has to say about the spirit channeling he saw first hand up at wallkill:.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cfmqnzbyrko.
now i believe rayven's story of horror at brooklyn bethel:.
What I can tell you is that spirits are real, from personal experience ~ knowsnothing
It doesn't seem that your view is supported by the brain scans which have been done of people who are channellers, spirit mediums etc:
http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0049360
http://www.andrewnewberg.com/in-the-news/channeling-spirits-shuts-down-parts-of-brain
https://www.theatlantic.com/amp/article/361882/
https://www.google.ca/amp/s/amp.livescience.com/25055-medium-brain-trance-writing.html
https://www.seeker.com/amphtml/channeling-spirits-shuts-down-parts-of-brain-1766310573.html
http://channel.nationalgeographic.com/brain-games/articles/your-brain-on-god/
https://www.the-scientist.com/?articles.amp/articleNo/33312/title/Brain-Waves-from-the-Beyond/
hi everybody.i am new to this forum.i have grown up as a christian in a christian family, but i recognized that jehovahs are more positive about peace on earth.
i believe in peace on earth too.
i believe in god and jesus and angels.
🎵🎵 "Oh I miss Daniel, oh I miss him so much". 🎵🎵
look what an ex-bethelite has to say about the spirit channeling he saw first hand up at wallkill:.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cfmqnzbyrko.
now i believe rayven's story of horror at brooklyn bethel:.
How, exactly, does an immaterial spirit interact with a brain and body of matter?
What force or causal influence does it exert, and by what mechanism?
hi all,i have been studying with the witnesses for more than 6 months and regularly attend both midweek & weekend meetings, and i am nearly at the end of the "bible teach" book.
my boss is adamant i attend team christmas functions.
she knows about my studying and potential baptism next year, and has suggested that i attend and just not participate in activities like kris kringle.
value the family unit.......she has already stated she wont be attending her brothers birthday party ~ jookbeard
I wonder if there is something going on in rulehayl's family life which is causing him/her not to see the importance of valuing his/her family members and seeing the importance of the family as a support system?
Poor family life is one of the factors which makes people susceptible to the utopian promises of cults.
hi everybody.i am new to this forum.i have grown up as a christian in a christian family, but i recognized that jehovahs are more positive about peace on earth.
i believe in peace on earth too.
i believe in god and jesus and angels.
Welcome Daniel,
I am just wondering what your family life and upbringing has been like?
I am wondering if this might have something to do with why you find the JW utopian promises to be attractive?
wednesday, november 22 .
draw close to god, and he will draw close to you.—jas.
by continuing to ponder over spiritual things, we will maintain our enthusiasm for the truth.
How I knew that I was not actually drawing close to God when I engaged in deep prayer and meditation?
I experienced a form of what has been called "Meditation-Induced Psychosis". There is something in biology which predisposes me to this.
For some persons, engaging in deep, strong, intense spiritual practices like deep, strong, intense prayer, meditation and fasting can induce psychosis, hallucinations - GOOGLE: "Can meditation be bad for you?"
Deep, strong, intense meditation acts as a stressor on the brain for some persons causing them psychosis, hallucinations.
according to the watchtower:.
who received the ransom payment?.
why did the ransomer need to be paid?.
4.) He contradicts jesus and himself often------ _Morpheus
http://www.ebonmusings.org/atheism/holding2.html
discusses some of Paul's contradictions:
- Should Christians Obey Human Laws?
- What Will Happen to the Jews?
- On Divorce
- On Calling Men Master
according to the watchtower:.
who received the ransom payment?.
why did the ransomer need to be paid?.
3.) ABOUT THE EFFECTIVENESS OF THE MYTH:
Was there any other way to explain mankind's evil nature, the cause of sickness and death etc. without blaming God?
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Ellen Pagels: Adam, Eve and the serpent:
Augustine’s novel doctrine of original sin became the new orthodoxy because the Church found this doctrine useful in a Christian Empire.
A doctrine of man’s freedom and autonomy was useful against a pagan Empire.
A doctrine that man was imperfect, weak, fallible, and unable to govern himself was more useful to a Roman Empire and a Catholic Church that both wanted obedience.
