taking care of the son of god.
mark creates a story in which mary thinks that jesus is out of his mind, and must be taken charge of (mark 3:14-21, 31).
next to god himself, the last person one would expect to reject jesus' divinity would be his mother.
. The author of the gospel is John Mark, the son of Mary from Jerusalem and an associate of Peter. He received his information about Jesus from Peter, the founder of the church and the disciple of Jesus. He obviously wrote his Gospel to spread the news of Jesus by recounting the history he heard from Peter.
Wow, this is a pretty specific claim. Is there any evidence to back this or is this simply Church tradition?
rem
"We all do no end of feeling, and we mistake it for thinking." - Mark Twain
well we now have another ray of new light that has flashed forth.
it is a new teaching regarding earthquakes.
for close to eighty-five years now the core believe of jehovahs witnesses has been the last days teaching that earthquakes have increased in intensity and frequency since 1914. no longer, now it seems it has gone the way of the generation that would not die who were alive in 1914. now we have the great new discovery that there were not more or stronger earthquakes since 1914, almost 40 years after experts and many good men were disfellowshipped for saying otherwise.
Note, though, that the fulfillment of Jesus' prophecy does' not require an increase in the number or power of earthquakes. All Jesus said was that there would be great earthquakes in one-place' after another.
What kind of a sign is that? It's not much of a sign when you say that things will continue as normal. How are Christians supposed recognize the end times if there is no change in frequency or magnitude of earthquakes? Jesus might as well have said that "in those days the sky will be blue in one place after another". It's meaningless outside of the context of there being something *different* about earthquakes.
rem
"We all do no end of feeling, and we mistake it for thinking." - Mark Twain
i found this spoof site about a non-existant subway in dayton, ohio.
if you check out the faq section they have a little something to say about jw's.
it even has a link to an apostate site!
I found this spoof site about a non-existant subway in Dayton, Ohio. If you check out the FAQ section they have a little something to say about JW's. It even has a link to an apostate site! I thought it was pretty funny:
Why don't you have the Mehaffie's Pie vending machines on the platforms anymore?remWe used to offer Mehaffie's Pies at some of our stations as a service to our riders so they could have a delicious pie for dessert without having to stop off at the grocery store on the way home at night. Unfortunately, some slobs would eat the pies right there on the platform or on the train making a big mess. Even worse, teenagers and transvestite pie fetishists would throw them in the station making an even bigger mess. The final straw was when an old lady passing out Watchtower slipped on some coconut cream pie filling, bashed her head open and later died because she refused a blood transfusion. Her non-Jehovah's Witness family sued us and the hospital blind. Sorry, no more pies. If you're in a hurry, try Heather-Amber Sizemore's Aunt Juanita's recipe for Impossible Pie.
"We all do no end of feeling, and we mistake it for thinking." - Mark Twain
we have a thread that asks why we became jw's, so i became curious as to why some of us have left.
what was the last straw for you?.
mine was the treatment of my wife.
Wow, Prisca - your last straw was almost exactly the same as mine!
I remember conducting the bookstudy out of the Greatest Man book. I could see the similarities between the pharisees and the WBTS. I started doing a lot of outside research and bringing it into the discussions. Those bookstudies were fun! I was also doing research on 607/1914 and the 144,000 among other things and that was it for me. I knew that this religion was a sham.
My first and last public talk was the "You Will Reap What You Sow" outline and I went into how we should not be like the Judiazers who made so many rules. I went into beards, blood trasfusions, voting. I had a couple meetings with the elders afterward because my talk upset a few of them - they thought it sounded apostate. Well that's funny, because many people were telling me and my family that it was one of the best talks they had heard because it was different somehow.
They tried to steal my outline by tricking my wife, but she knew what they were up to. I did finally give them a copy of my outline and they went over it as a body. Good thing I was able to support everything I said with carefully picked WBTS publications! lol
I remember crying myself to sleep one night after reading a chapter of COC that was posted on the net. It was the chapter about 1914 and 607. I just broke down because I knew my faith was based on lies. It all happened pretty quickly for me - probably a matter of a couple weeks at most. That was about three years ago now.
rem
"We all do no end of feeling, and we mistake it for thinking." - Mark Twain
prehistoric man discovers fire and beyond!.
i think that is a nice title.. just try to think back to the time he(man) learned to make it.. was that the time he was given a higher consciousness?.
i wonder if that is true?.
I'm reading "Guns, Germs, and Steel" right now by Jared Diamond and it's facinating. It goes into human evolution and the progress of human civilization over the last 11,000 years on all of the inhabited continents. It even dables into how humans spread throughout the whole earth (baring a couple of places) from our humble ape-like beginings until around 11,000 years ago. It didn't really get into the discovery/invention of fire, but it does get into where and when plant and animal domestication started and why some humans never started agriculture (such as aboriginal Australians).
From then on it goes on to show reasons why certain populations of humans continued to spread and form more complex hierarchical societies, while others continued on with hunter-gatherer societies that were all but destroyed by the former. I wonder if his earlier book "The Third Chimpanzee" goes into early human evolution more and covers the taming of fire?
rem
PS: DW, when I saw you talk about campfires in the sky I was thinking, "Man, we've got another Carl Sagan here!" :)
"We all do no end of feeling, and we mistake it for thinking." - Mark Twain
why do i believe the bible is the inspired word of god anyway?
here are some answers i consider wrong .
1. it just fell out of the sky.
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"We all do no end of feeling, and we mistake it for thinking." - Mark Twain
there is abundant evidence that marks stories are fictional.
in this post, i will explain how marks story of jesus miraculous feeding of the five thousand (mark 6:32-42) was copied from scripture.. at the beginning of his story, mark wants his readers to believe that his jesus is just as compassionate as the lord, so he introduces him as a person who was just as concerned as the lord is for people who are like sheep without a shepherd.
the lord is my shepherd, i shall not be in want.
Wow, you are out there, dude. You sound like you are cookoo for cocoa puffs!
rem
"We all do no end of feeling, and we mistake it for thinking." - Mark Twain
why do i believe the bible is the inspired word of god anyway?
here are some answers i consider wrong .
1. it just fell out of the sky.
Elijah,
Your point is as clear as mud to me. Maybe I'm just a big dummy but I'm not understanding you at all. Perhaps you could be so kind as to spell it out for this dunce?
Laugh all you want. That doesn't change the fact that you are not an effective communicator.
rem
"We all do no end of feeling, and we mistake it for thinking." - Mark Twain
why do i believe the bible is the inspired word of god anyway?
here are some answers i consider wrong .
1. it just fell out of the sky.
Elijah,
I guess I am missing the point because I can't seem to understand what you are saying. Is there a way you can clearly explain what you mean? Apparently we are talking past each other because I thought I made myself quite clear, but you don't seem to have understood my point either.
I certainly wouldn't trust medical advice written by ancient, superstitious men. Why then would I trust the spiritual advice of these primitive tribal people? And then the question is WHICH primitive tribal people should I trust? The ancient Jews? The Babylonians? The Egyptians? Perhaps the ancient spiritual wisdom of the Far East? Are they all right?
rem
"We all do no end of feeling, and we mistake it for thinking." - Mark Twain
there is abundant evidence that marks stories are fictional.
in this post, i will explain how marks story of jesus miraculous feeding of the five thousand (mark 6:32-42) was copied from scripture.. at the beginning of his story, mark wants his readers to believe that his jesus is just as compassionate as the lord, so he introduces him as a person who was just as concerned as the lord is for people who are like sheep without a shepherd.
the lord is my shepherd, i shall not be in want.
RWC,
There is ample evidence of Jesus outside of the Gospels. These include references by Josephus, the Roman historian Tacitus, the Roman Pliny the Younger, and the Jewish Talmud.No, actually there is quite little. And if you care to look into these lines of 'evidence' in greater detail you will see that they are sorely lacking in authenticity, or are many times forcibly interpreted to imply existence of the Christ. None of these sources are contemporary with the life of Jesus, either. There is no contemporary evidence to verify later interpolations. That is the whole problem with trying to prove Jesus' existence.
rem
"We all do no end of feeling, and we mistake it for thinking." - Mark Twain
