Sea breeze
No answer was the loud reply
the watchtower tries to make the christian faith about what you are doing.
but, the christian faith is about what jesus already did.
any questions?.
Sea breeze
No answer was the loud reply
we are constantly being attacked by scam marketers who create a perceived need , not a real one, and hence create within us a want.
if we fill our desire for that thing or things by buying in to it, we then end up with totally unnecessary expense.
we have been scammed.. whether that be something to do with the latest fashions and trends, the latest 'phone, car or something similar.. the longest running, and most lucrative marketing scam in all human history has been religion.
Like the emperor's new clothes, which most people praise or seem to believe something that is false or of no value because they are afraid to go against the general opinion.
Our ancestors didn't understand the natural elements and explained them as gods and then science has explained these things.
Today we can read and write and have the internet to fact check almost everything especially regarding the origin of religious beliefs and religion in general and discover that the origins are man made, but because of fear of going against the general opinion and that we have been and people are still being lied too ,but people are now seeing through the controlling influence of religion and are breaking free and we are now becoming a more secular society.
the watchtower tries to make the christian faith about what you are doing.
but, the christian faith is about what jesus already did.
any questions?.
What independently verified evidence can you provide that the jesus you believe in did the things that the bible claims he did ?
The four gospels were written by unknown authors many decades after the so called events so not eyewitnes accounts.
this is just a quick summary that might be useful regarding the threads about the trinity currently on the board.. in 325 ce, the nicene council was called by constantine to settle schisms within the christian church.
the argument about the nature of jesus in relation to god was one of the big problems that needed resolution.
at first, constantine told the 2 main players, alexander and arius to sort it out between themselves, as he, constantine didnt see it as overly important.
Peacefulpete
Absolutely,
While people wear god glasses they will fail to recognize that fact ,once you take the god glasses off it's so obvious ,hopefully someone will take them off and see that the bible is a book of fiction but interesting how it evolved to what we have today.
this is just a quick summary that might be useful regarding the threads about the trinity currently on the board.. in 325 ce, the nicene council was called by constantine to settle schisms within the christian church.
the argument about the nature of jesus in relation to god was one of the big problems that needed resolution.
at first, constantine told the 2 main players, alexander and arius to sort it out between themselves, as he, constantine didnt see it as overly important.
https://godhasason.com/pagan-trinities
Funny how the pagans came up with the trinity beliefs first well before the Christians. So it's not a new belief the Christian just copied their pagan cousins.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=umnhg0a9dlu.
evolutionists can change their model, and invent stories whenever they want to accomodate data.
biblical literalists are stuck with just one model, one account, and are unable to change it.
So why did a all knowing loving kind god create more than 4000 genetic diseases?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=umnhg0a9dlu.
evolutionists can change their model, and invent stories whenever they want to accomodate data.
biblical literalists are stuck with just one model, one account, and are unable to change it.
https://creation.com/cfk-noahs-ark
Is this the same creation Com. That claims that noah took dinosaurs onto the ark ?
hear the word "apostles" and immediately the mind thinks of the contradictory lists of 12 men in the gospels.
however, the word (apĆ³stolos) had a much broader usage in the greek speaking world, pagan, jewish and christian.
for simplicity i'd copy a few definitions.. the word apĆ³stolos occurs only in the lxx in 1 kings 14:6, where it is used in a non-technical sense to represent the heb.
Peacefulpete & phizzy
Enjoy your post and the references you provide.
It's like paul and his followers started Christianity and the later gospels filled in the jesus story ,because Paul hardly mentioned much about him .
those who say they are christians or follow christianity needs .
1. father .
2. jesus .
https://www.biblicalunitarian.com/articles/pagan-roots-of-the-trinity-doctrine-ed-torrence-2002
Interesting article about the evolution of the trinity doctrine and its pagan roots.
i would like to start a thread on lies that the watchtower and their reps have told.
surely we all have one or two that truly sticks out in our memories, no matter how much we would like to forget.
my favorite wt lie: the reason they don't want to release the name of the "scholars" who worked on the new world translation is because they do not want to accept "glory and honor" from others.
That the greatest man who ever lived was a fictional character called jesus.