Posts by Nambo

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"Jesus did not die on the cross" (Gunnar Samuelsson)

by Titus in

"jesus did not die on the cross" .

a new doctoral dissertation in theology from gothenburg university claims that the bible has been misinterpreted when it comes to how jesus died.

gunnar samuelsson who wrote the dissertation has studied the original texts and sees no explicit references to crucifiction.

Nambo

Now Ive seen in the British Museum a moderate sized cross with a circle that I belive is called a Celtic Cross, this artifact predated Christs execution by some considerable number of years, so I do feel both the society, and Hislop have some legitamate reason to associate the cross with Tammuz the Sun god worship, the circle being the sun and the cross being the sacred "T" of Tammuz.

And why therefore would Jehovah have his son associated with such a pagan religious image?

Having said that, is it not conceiveable that as this was Satans finest hour, the brusing of the heel, that the implement of Christs suffering could indeed be a symbal or identifying mark of the false god, Satan, who arranged such? That Satan could use his device to take the life of the son of God and to be perpetually worshipped for it afterwards?

My point being that even if the Romans did use the cross, this doesnt make the cross a "Christian" image as it was indeed Satans tool and one that was previously associated with sun worship.

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She's trying to make her a publisher...

by MsGrowingGirl20 in

soooo, i've been sudying the bible with a 10 year old girl for two years now...her mother recently got baptised.

since i've been having doubts about the org i've centered our discussions on god and the bible and less on pleasing the org...i was doing fine.... until i invited an older pioneer sister to accompany me on the study....heeeeeeesh...she changed the topic from having manners to becoming an unbaptised publisher....she went onnnnn and onnnnn about "don't you want to please jehovah and jesus, wouldn't you like to put in a form every month and you do love jehovah and want to tell others about him,right?

" i was so upset.. i treat and love this girl as if she was my little sister and i do not want her to nose dive into this religion...she's a child for god's sake!.

Nambo

At that young age, her views of God might be shaped for life, as positive or negative.

It sounds like you are doing the right thing GrowingGirl, just concentrate on teaching her God and Jesus and the Bible as positive things with their Love given to her as grace and with no pressure on her, maybe it will give her a solid foundation that will withstand the bad things that will be taught to her, and it sound like you are the only one who will do this, if you give up, her Mother will just get some other Witness like this Pioneer who will put the poor girl off God for life!

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Will you ever go back to the Jehovah's Witnesses?

by XPeterX in

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discuss..

Nambo

I would go back tommorow if they would have me for I miss many of the Brothers and sisters so much, going through the triaks and tribiulations of the truth bonds people together in the way war does, I find it just isnt as real in the world, life and people are easy and shallow.

However, they would not have me, I cannot lie to others and it would be even harder to lie to myself to admit to believing in thier doctrines of men, though I do think the trurh would actually be easier to endure as you would now be able to ignore all the propogander such as "Jehovah is going to kill you any day now because you dont do enough hours in order to earn your salvation".

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Human suffering as a result of sin / Angelic suffering ? being the instigator of human sin ?

by smiddy in

according to the bible adam & eve were created perfect and because they sinned,disobeyeyed god they, and their offspring have suffered death disease and unimaginable consequences these past 6000 years.they also needed a redeemer,a saviour,to rid themselves of this curse and once again, enjoy perfection,in a paradise earth,according to the wtb&ts.

( we wont even touch upon why the rest of creation needed to go through such suffering not only land animals but the creatures of the sea ) one species preys on another for survival .. so my question is : why wasn`t their some sort of paralell penalty dished out to satan and any of his followers,satan being the instigator,deceiving eve in the first place.. shouldent satan be more culpable than adam or eve ?

what is his pain,suffering,these past 6000 years ,or his followers for that matter.. dont we read in job`s day he still had access to the heavens and appeared b4 jehovah ?.

Nambo

I know it seems like Jehovah personally goes around murdering babies and puppies as punishment for what we did in Eden, but Iam more inclined to think these "punishments of God" are more likely just the concesquences and results of our leaving Gods care than any deliberate action by God.

The Angels, being self-sufficent, will naturally appear to suffer less than mankind as we are so much more vunerable.

I belive the God proactively punishing part is carried out by Jesus, and occurs at the end of the 1000 years.

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Do you have a favourite scripture?

by Ucantnome in

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i have two.. luke 4.

16 he went to nazareth, where he had been brought up, and on the sabbath day he went into the synagogue, as was his custom.

he stood up to read, 17 and the scroll of the prophet isaiah was handed to him.

Nambo

Cannot remember where it is, a prophesy about Jesus.

"No broken reed will he crush"

Seems the org does the opposite and drives us broken people away, but when Jesus himself comes, he wont destroy us just because we are not JW perfect.

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Does this make more sense than 1914

by biometrics in

a non-jw friend (whom i thought was sane) sent me this video:.

http://119ministries.com/daniel-unsealed.

to summarise.

Nambo

There is a lot of recent "sightings" and "whistleblowing" to try and get us to belive we are to be invaded by "Aliens" and only a united World Government will be able to save us, I think Project Bluebeam is along these lines, so I belive the video might be part of this deciept.

As for the 2016 date, as I cannot be bothered to go through all that 119 ministries stuff, are you able to summarise how they arrive at this date please?

I have my own theory that if Babylon the Great took Jersualem in 1948 then if the 70 years of the original Babylon is a pattern, then the rulership of the Beast or New World Order will be 42 months that include when they destroy BTG in 2018, so 2016 comes in that time frame.

Also, when President Medvedev at a G8 summit a couple of years back, gave everyone a sample coin of a possible One World Global currency, the article said they where hoping to impliment such by 2016, (they just have to crash the individual currencies first).

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No can I get out of going in service?

by Captain Obvious in

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as some of you who read my previous thread know, my matrix moment has passed, and i am on my way out.

i am trying very hard to fade slowly in hopes that my wife will wake up, and maybe my family too.

the problem is, my conscience still works well, and i don't want to go out in if service and tell people things that i know aren't true.

Nambo

I used to feel Holy Spirit back in my better field Ministry days and wonder why if the organisation is wrong.

When I think about my field service however, I realise I was never trying to push the organisation onto people, I was trying to push God so maybe thats why?

The point being, if your concience wont let you lie, just relate the Biblical parts you belive are true.

Assuming that is you arnt throwing the baby, (Jesus) out with the dirty bathwater.

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Fun with the July 15th WT illustration

by undercover in

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yes, friends, it's that time once more... when we clip some wt art to a post and try to find all the subliminal wt propaganda messages hidden in the illustration.

(kinda like, "can you find the differences between these two drawings" for kids in the sunday comics).

here's the illustration:.

Nambo

This is too subtle for me, have the society stopped drawing demons faces and spelling out Satanic messages in the folds of clothing these days?

Is it "new light".

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9/11 Conspiracy nuts...60% of Americans are you KIDDING!!!!

by Witness 007 in

60% of americans in one servey think the government did it.....even though there is no sold evidence.

let me spell it out.....a huge airplane full of fuel hit the building plowing thru the steel supports, thousands of witnesses, and video fotage, it almost flew through the building with debris blowing out the other side.

although it appears in the footage there is alot of smoke but no fire, right?

Nambo

For some reason, I cannot copy and paste on this forum, otherwise I could have you all on page 40 by now with the material Ive gathered over the years, films of Police Witnesses to the Pentegon plane, in thier uniforms, by thier police car telling how they saw the Pentagon plane flying along a completly differant path than the path we were told.

Thing is, Iam bored now anyway, Ive done enough debating and showing people "material" to learn you can never change anybodies mind either way.

Iam somewhat suprised though that a bunch of folk who have had it drumbed into them for years that we are living in an age of Satanic deciept and that Babylon the Great decieves all the nations should find it so very difficult to belive that a Government that has started more wars than Hitler, would be anything but honest and moral and that every word they utter is to be belived by all but the "stupid" whilst we are seeing a Police State formed around us, and endless wars we are having to pay for as evidence they are not as democratic as we would like.

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9/11 Conspiracy nuts...60% of Americans are you KIDDING!!!!

by Witness 007 in

60% of americans in one servey think the government did it.....even though there is no sold evidence.

let me spell it out.....a huge airplane full of fuel hit the building plowing thru the steel supports, thousands of witnesses, and video fotage, it almost flew through the building with debris blowing out the other side.

although it appears in the footage there is alot of smoke but no fire, right?

Nambo

Witness 007,

You obviously didnt google some of the helpfull suggestions I posted.

You yourself said the pentagen pane was allmost flying at ground level, and how fast was it going?, 500 miles an hour or some such?

Try again, Google ground effect, its a physical impossibility the official story, its against all laws of physics, it cannot happen!

Google Pilots for truth, they are professional pilots who know these big planes and what they are not capable of, you might learn a thing or two.

Or in case you are not that interestedenough I will spell it out.

A cushion of air develops under a wing, when a wing gets too close to the ground, it cannot displace as fast as it is created depending on the speed of the wing through the air, that cushion of air therefore becomes a barrier that holds an aircraft off the ground, the faster it is, the higher the craft is heald up.

Its why you see birds flying so fast and effortlessly a short distance above calm water, Ground Effect!

Another rthing you probably dont know, those particular aircraft can reach the speeds we where told they where flying at, but only at high alltitude where the air is so thin, according to the manufacturers of those planes, they would break apart if they could even manage to fly as fast as we where told they did long before they hit any building.