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  Marriage In The New World

  by Cold Steel in

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  okay, here's the issue.

  some people, even some jws, believe that in the new world they will be reunited with their spouses.

  jesus, however, said that in the resurrection there would be no marriage or giving in marriage.

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  Resurrected

  My view of Eve has changed. Let me know if I'm missing something.

  1) Note Eve’s optimism in these two renderings:

  Gn 4:1 "And the human [Adam] knows Eve, his wife, and pregnant is she and is bearing Cain. And saying is she, "I acquire a man, Yahweh!" (joy) CLV

  • cf. Gn 4:1 "Now Adam had sexual relations with his wife, Eve, and she became pregnant. When she gave birth to Cain, she said, "With the LORD's help, I have produced a man!" (joy) NLT

  Why is Eve happy that “Yahweh” gave her Cain (“a man”)? IMO, she’s remorseful for being deceived (used) by Satan and thinks she’s the “woman” in Gen 3:15 and hopes Cain is “her seed” to crush Satan.

  • Ge 3:15 "And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; he shall crush thy head, and thou shalt crush his heel." Darby

  2) Eve is remorseful (note how distraught she is over Abel’s murder):

  • Gn 4:25 she gave birth to a son…Seth… [then says] "God granted me another offspring to replace Abel, since Cain murdered him." ISV

  She is partial to Abel, and sees Cain the way John and Paul see him:

  • 1Jn 3:12 "Not like Cain who was from The Evil One [Satan] and murdered his brother; and why did he murder him? Only because his works were evil and those of his brother were righteous." ABPE

  • Jn 8:44 "You are of your father the Devil, and you want to carry out your father's desires. He was a murderer from the beginning and has not stood in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he tells a lie, he speaks from his own nature, because he is a liar and the father of liars." Hol

  • Hb 11:4 "By faith Abel brought God a better offering than Cain did. By faith he was commended as righteous, when God spoke well of his offerings. And by faith Abel still speaks, even though he is dead." NIV

  IMO, Cain adds to her grief and shame. So, with Seth replacing the death of Abel, she continues to feel she possibly is giving birth to the “seed” promised to crush Satan taking away the shame and remorse she got from being deceived.

  We hear nothing from Adam. Her remarks recorded, alongside Adam’s silence, tell me a lot about their status with God. It seems Eve, mother of mankind, is on the side of the resurrected righteous.

  • Gn 3:20 "And Adam called his wife's name Eve; because she was the mother of all living." AV
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  Do you believe in a literal Christ?

  by Monsieur in

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  do you believe in a literal christ?.

  someone that walked the earth and did the things the bible states he did?

  (miracles, etc.).

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  Thanks Ismael, well said.

  Jesus was a big splash, modernity still sees the ripples.
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  Infinity and god - why wait to create the universe?

  by Simon in

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  2. beliefs

  here's the problem with infinity ... we can't comprehend it.. it's bad enough when it's space, but when it's time as well and then we throw in some all powerful creature supposedly existing forever ... well, it just doesn't make sense and raises questions.. such as why wait?

  why didn't god create the universe the day before he did?

  or the day before that?

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  Mr Fool: Why did he wait forever to create the universe?

  I have a thread on this here and here
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  Design or Non-Design, finally we know, Darwin's Doubt

  by QC in

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  if you want to read the definitive explanation on fossils and how life arrived its covered in darwins doubt, by s.c. meyer.

  this is a game changer.

  the bomb!.

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  Why did he wait forever to create the universe?

  (Cont'd: God never has “wait time” or latency or delay or procrastination)

  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jt2lueTLHF4 (8 min)

  So, there are TWO ways to view time.

  A time: Time according to an Earth orientation

  • Past, present, future

  B time: Time according to the Einstein Relativity orientation, God’s and physicist view of time

  • NO past, present or future

  JW leadership’s obsession with God's “delay” (a misunderstanding) led to their shenanigans of fraud and parishioner abuse.
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  Stand For Pure Worship, what convinces you that the governing body is being used by Jehovah? Thanks.

  by The Quiet One in

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  i struggled with this question before i got baptised.

  what helped you to overcome any doubts?.

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  Design or Non-Design, finally we know, Darwin's Doubt

  by QC in

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  if you want to read the definitive explanation on fossils and how life arrived its covered in darwins doubt, by s.c. meyer.

  this is a game changer.

  the bomb!.

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  (cant bohm)

  I love the contrast you guys provide.

  Thanks
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  Design or Non-Design, finally we know, Darwin's Doubt

  by QC in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  if you want to read the definitive explanation on fossils and how life arrived its covered in darwins doubt, by s.c. meyer.

  this is a game changer.

  the bomb!.

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  Why didn't god create the universe the day before he did? Or the day before that?

  (I digress a bit)

  God is outside of our universe. He is not impacted by our 4th dimension of time. It's similar to photons traveling at the speed of light, time stops. Whenever they arrive (at any destination) it’s in zero (0) time. So photons never age, they operate outside of the time dimension. Similarly God is timeless, he operates outside of time.

  God observes the time array in our material universe. He is INSTANTLY aware of all incidents past, present and future (including trends) in their sequence and significance. He has control of our time.

  So God’s doesn’t have “wait times”; He’s on time, anytime, like photons.

  We might think otherwise, that's a mistake (e.g. JW leadership).
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  An Elder Reads CoC !!

  by TTATTelder in

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  2. beliefs

  i have recently joined the site.

  i was just appointed an elder this summer.

  i started discovering the ttatt (the truth about the truth) last year after putting a few things together myself concerning the leadership and then doing some research online.. i really enjoyed jwfacts.com, jwsurvey, and others.

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  Welcome,

  CoC really opened my eyes.

  Looking forward to hearing your take on things.

  JWN is the crossroad that connects a lot of good info.
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  Design or Non-Design, finally we know, Darwin's Doubt

  by QC in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  if you want to read the definitive explanation on fossils and how life arrived its covered in darwins doubt, by s.c. meyer.

  this is a game changer.

  the bomb!.

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  (cofty bohm)

  Hey Guys,

  This is quite a lineup. We've got the ENCODE consortium, Steve Meyer, Sean B. Carroll and Wikipedia.

  Which is the more trustworthy ?

  Time will tell.

  Perfect!

  Thanks for sharing a great marker.
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  Design or Non-Design, finally we know, Darwin's Doubt

  by QC in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  if you want to read the definitive explanation on fossils and how life arrived its covered in darwins doubt, by s.c. meyer.

  this is a game changer.

  the bomb!.

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  Let's get a read on a sampling of a typical cofty post (2/2/2013) :

  1.5% codes for proteins

  4% is regulatory DNA

  10% is structural DNA - centromeres and telomers which compensate for a substandard copying mechanism

  All of the above 15.5% is essential.

  However......

  21% are LINEs Long Interspersed Nuclear Elements (parasitic)

  13% are SINEs Short Interspersed Nuclear Elements (parasitic)

  8% are ERVs Endogenous RetroViruses (parasitic)

  3% are DNA Transposons (jumping genes, also parasitic)

  All of this 45% of our genome arose in our ancestors through various types of copying errors....So is it OK to call this 45% junk?....The remaining 40% is currently unknown.

  This "45% junk DNA [ parasitic, etc] and 40% unknown" distortion of reality is typical cofty drive-by snark verbal bullying seen in the JWN neighborhood. It’s offensive and a gross mischaracterization.

  A consortium of SCIENTIST experts used on the ENCODE Project published a report (a comprehensive update of the genome and DNA complexity, Published on Sep 6, 2012). This report disagrees with cofty's characterization.

  Cofty is aware that EXPERT scientists don't agree with his assessment. But cofty doesn't care, he persists.

  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y3V2thsJ1Wc (4 MIN)

  Here are excerpts from the lead scientist Ewan Birney of the ENCODE consortium:

  · “The whole genome is alive with switches, you can’t move for switches. There’s switches everywhere, there’s not a single place in the genome that doesn’t have something that you might think could be controlling something else.” — Ewan Birney, ENCODE Project lead scientist

  · “ENCODE has only just begun to deliver, which will take decades to complete....There’s 2,000 binding proteins in the genome. ENCODE looked at 100-116 of those, so there is a long ways to go yet, a lot more of these guys to study.” —Ewan Birney, ENCODE Project lead scientist

  · “If we use the phrase 'biochemical activity'… we find that the different parts of the genome, 80% have some specific biochemical event…. I was often asked whether that 80% goes to 100%, and that’s what I believe it will do…. That number is much more about the coverage of what we’ve assayed over the entire genome.” —BBC interview with Ewan Birney, lead ENCODE Project scientist, April 1st, 2013

  So, the genome is alive with switches everywhere; something is controlling something else; ENCODE "has only begun to deliver, which will take decades to complete;" and, it's likely 80% genome "biochemical activity" will become 100% as this vast complexity gets sorted out, they've only scratched the surface of activity.

  

  Bottom line: The new genome and DNA evidence does not support Evolution. There's no such thing as "junk DNA" (evolution debris) in the genome. Just like there's no such thing as a common ancestry tree fossil record.

  And, there’s no time for millions and millions of mutation graduations (in pair minimums, one woud be a dysfunctional reject by Evolution's "survival of the fittest" standard) to produce all living things. The probability of time for this would be staggering, way beyond Earth’s current existence time.

  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HBDtpnBeya0 (26 MIN)

  cofty: So why are you listening to Meyer?

  Everthing Meyer says checks out. He is the first to explain how DNA ATCG digital code software can only come by way of intelligence. Bingo!

  Cofty and Dawkins believe in fraud. JW GB believe in fraud. Why would any x-dub buy into more fraud? Very odd.

  I accept Meyer's work because it's correct. Even though we disagree on 4 th century Christian theology. Just like I accept algebra without Muslim theology.