in 1. samuel 15:2-3 we read jehovah's order to kill "all" amalekites.
it says "you are to put them to death, man as well as woman, child as well as infant...".
in deuteronomy 2:32-34 the israelites say about sihon.
I remember a comment in a bible study magazin. It was explained that the it was a oriental praxis to exaggerate the achievments after a war. So it could even be more true that there was nobody killed at all, but it was only written down in the book of kings / chronicles as a propanda as chiling.
The historicity of the wars that are mentioned in the Bible books of kings are also discussed. Do you know more?
Perhaps you can reserach more detail to this subject.
Greetings
TWOY
they key to free yourself from the organization is having mental clarity of what is happening in relation to the watchtower, inside and out.
their basic concept is that they are god's sole organization on earth.
there really is no basis for anyone to make that statement.
Reading books.
i am inactive for about 10 years now..
Since 24 years away. Only the elder elders remember me. And they only know whether they excommunictaed me or if i left myself.
Sometimes I even dont remember exactly. But I think it was so. I didnt go to the meetings anymore because I was disappointed, perhaps disillusioned or depressed. Then I met a girl, my first love, she was from another country, i invited her to come visit me. So lately after asking a sister, where she could live, I decided that she should live with me, but we didnt have sex, only after marriage. But in the meantime I was excommunicated.
i've always wondered that.
recently i asked that question on another thread and didn't really get ananswer.
cofty made an excellent point that we often hear what it isn't, but that really isn't useful.. so, what is it?
Dear, Vivian, what is now discussed, spirit as "source of life"?
i've always wondered that.
recently i asked that question on another thread and didn't really get ananswer.
cofty made an excellent point that we often hear what it isn't, but that really isn't useful.. so, what is it?
Man thinks, God directs
The spirit gives wings to our imagination
i've always wondered that.
recently i asked that question on another thread and didn't really get ananswer.
cofty made an excellent point that we often hear what it isn't, but that really isn't useful.. so, what is it?
Hi, sorry cant find time to write my entry. Made already about 30 notes, they are laying around in my loft everywhere between pages of encyclopedias,
bibles, books.
Joke: Anyway whe should be aware of the bad spirit that survive in magical toys like the warrior wizard and we should findn out if a bad spirit exits and how to identify it.
i've always wondered that.
recently i asked that question on another thread and didn't really get ananswer.
cofty made an excellent point that we often hear what it isn't, but that really isn't useful.. so, what is it?
Hi, I will be glad to answer after a break, a meal and coffee. :-) TWOY
i've always wondered that.
recently i asked that question on another thread and didn't really get ananswer.
cofty made an excellent point that we often hear what it isn't, but that really isn't useful.. so, what is it?
It was always my hope to that the spirit of God opens the hearts of people, when I was in the field services. Why should it not be so in reality. To believe in a divine spirit without allowing him to do this would be not logical.
1.The spirit is unlimited and thus the christian church has to be unlimited, open for all.
2. God does not hold back his spirit for those who do not know Jesus Christ or the Bible, as the bible shows God is working in each human being and in all religions.
3. At the moment of accepting Jesus, by entering into the church community, you come into a closer relationship than all other people have with the spirit.
To the church Jesus has a special relationship. All christians form one "body"like entity, each member is a "limb" of that body. Thus from this time onwards the spirit makes you the gift of a new life.
4. Jesus said that you than become beloved by him like a bride is loved by the bridgegroom. But like in a marriage you must allows try to speak with each other and intensify that intimate love.
5. Holy spirit is asssiting us on our way of faith. We will only feel and understand the spirit, the new life, if we begin to walk on this way, cause faith and love you can only experience by doing not by thinking about, its a matter of heart, a loving type of spirituality of walking hand in hand, a marriage.
6 But all other human on earth which are not in the marriage between Christ and Church are blessed by the benefits of the church. The whole creation
is waiting for the revelation of the sons of god. These sons of god are those who lead a spirit-full life and thus are a blessing for others.
Greetings.
TWOY
well there you have it folks.
they have passed around pieces of paper for each publisher to write.
down how much they are willing to give the society every month for their entire lives!.
Why the hell they need the hey so instantly ?
Would not WAITING like in Scully's post be humid, faithful & secreeeeet?
so we all know of the parable / illustration at matt 7:13.
"go in through the narrow gate, because broad and spacious is the road leading off into destruction, and many are the ones finding it, or going in through it".
here is a brain snapping thought that hit me!:.
I wasnt better than those. and on the narrow way to the gate , am I really having a relation to god ? am i praying yet? what is my treasure for what i live , for what things my time invested
