Posts by pleaseresearch

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God of the Old Testament

by unsure in

to those on these forums who are christian and or to those who believe in the god of the old testament; how does one overcome many of the questionable actions god took or allowed to happen in the old testament?.

many if not most of us have heard of criticisms of the god of the old testament.

you can find these criticisms on many websites.. how do you explain to an honest hearted person why god acted the way they did?.

pleaseresearch

Had God said to the Israelites don't look because I've given these people a chance time and time again and so have to punish them. But come back in an hour and the disabled, young children and the very very old will be hear for you to pick up and look after. Had I read something like that in the bible, I may be open to "God is love" But when I read kill everyone, blah, blah, except those young untouched virgins. Then you know were dealing with sick and twisted men.

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This really does not end well for God.

by pleaseresearch in

to say this whole creation thing has been or will be a success at the end is absurd.

not only did one third of the angels jump ship to satans side.

but adam and eve screwed up so quickly.

pleaseresearch

Yeah I never thought about that before. Everyone will question eventually. I just think how hes handled it is so cruel. Why take us on this trip just to prove a point. Why not rid Adam and Eve, put his hand up and say "My bad" they screwed up. Let me try this again. I'm sure people and the Angels would love and respect God that much more. But no, billions of lives have to be lost.

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This really does not end well for God.

by pleaseresearch in

to say this whole creation thing has been or will be a success at the end is absurd.

not only did one third of the angels jump ship to satans side.

but adam and eve screwed up so quickly.

pleaseresearch

To say this whole creation thing has been or will be a success at the end is absurd. Not only did one third of the angels jump ship to Satans side. But Adam and Eve screwed up so quickly. Even before Adam and Eve sinned. Satan had turned on God. So it's really not gone well for him so far.

Ok we get to Armageddon and billions are killed. Let's not forget all the people who died during Noah's time. Then after the 1000 year reign of Jesus it says Satan will be let out, and the people who Satan will get to turn from God and go to attack his people will be as the sands of the earth. So we can pretty much imagine, billions again if not trillions if that's possible. So then they are all dead.

Then God wont bring to mind the former things. Yeah because what an embarrassment and a total failure its been for God. The angels that will live with God and have seen all this, must have face palmed themselves so hard, so many times. For God after all this, feel it's ok to put his feet up, relax and feel proud of any of this, is Nuts!

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Toilet noises

by pleaseresearch in

when growing up as a child i would go to the toilet, and now as an adult i know what those noises were.. they were tugging and jerking sounds, along with heavy breathing.

i had no idea what was going on.

i remember too telling my mum about it.. but i now know.

pleaseresearch

Haha yeah I bet that's what he took in with him.

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Toilet noises

by pleaseresearch in

when growing up as a child i would go to the toilet, and now as an adult i know what those noises were.. they were tugging and jerking sounds, along with heavy breathing.

i had no idea what was going on.

i remember too telling my mum about it.. but i now know.

pleaseresearch

I was so innocent though hahaha. I didn't have the internet and knew people did this.

But it was wrong to do it in the hall. I wanted to look under sometimes to see what the noise was. I'm happy now I didn't.

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Toilet noises

by pleaseresearch in

when growing up as a child i would go to the toilet, and now as an adult i know what those noises were.. they were tugging and jerking sounds, along with heavy breathing.

i had no idea what was going on.

i remember too telling my mum about it.. but i now know.

pleaseresearch

When growing up as a child I would go to the toilet, and now as an adult I know what those noises were.

They were tugging and jerking sounds, along with heavy breathing. I had no idea what was going on. I remember too telling my mum about it.

But I now know. We had no phones or tablets back then. So maybe it was a Watchtower or Awake magazine. Or something stored in the memory bank. But why couldn't they wait until home.

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Would you give up one year at the end of your life if you could relive any one day in the past?

by Esse quam videri in

like the question asks: if you could relive any one day of your life, any age, any place and remember everything about it afterwards, would you be willing to live one year shorter at the end of your life?

one day for one year?.

i realize that someone well on in years would think twice about it, but, what about you younger ones?

pleaseresearch

Great question I would relive any day when I was 16, thus I could go back 20 years and live my life from that moment again, learn from my mistakes, never get baptised, not go down certain roads I did etc... then lose a year at the end of my life, I'll take that.

Or be given this question again and when I'm 70, go back to 16 again. Just keep doing it again and again.

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Great way to show the world your not extremists.

by pleaseresearch in

i really don't know what to expect of this.

they are being labelled extremists in russia and are close to being banned.

so the show that they aren't extremists they encourage all jw's worldwide to bombard the kremlin and court with millions on letters..

pleaseresearch

I really don't know what to expect of this. They are being labelled extremists in Russia and are close to being banned. So the show that they aren't extremists they encourage all JW's worldwide to bombard the Kremlin and Court with millions on letters.

WTF!!!

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here's a great jw brain stumper about noah

by nowwhat? in

so noah was a preacher of righteousness.

than how did he warn other pockets of civilizations that were hundreds or thousands of miles away?

and if they were destroyed anyway i thought jehovah only acts after he gives clear warning.. and if there were no other civilzations why the need to destroy the entire earth of every living creature?

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All the floods, Armageddons and whatever God does in the future to rid evil will never work. We only need to read the bible and see the evil carried out under Gods direction. So we may all be the most perfect and righteous people in the future. There is still one that isn't.

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River flowing from the garden of Eden

by joey jojo in

hey there.. if this point has been covered before please forgive me.. i have had the principles of noahs flood used by jw's to encourage me to attend meetings recently and this has got me musing about the flood....again.. genesis states that a river flowed from eden and branched out into four rivers, two of which being the tigris and the euphrates.. heres the baffling part; if it had never rained before, how is it that rivers existed before the flood?!!?.

a brief google search tells us that the euphrates begins its journey as snow melt and rain ( as most rivers do) in mountains in turkey.. ecc chapter 1 mentions the water cycle and describes the rivers flowing into the sea but the sea not becoming full.

how did it work pre-flood?

pleaseresearch

Your going to absolutely hate me for this I'm sure. What I've been reading is fascinating and has made me think. But could the rivers have been formed by the underwater fountains as the bible states. Not sure but we know there are vast pockets of fresh water under the world. When I worked in Libya we they were sitting on one of the biggest underwater reservoirs. Yet above land is desert. Just throwing it out there.