No Tammy, picking and choosing is exactly what you are doing. You of course can pretend otherwise because after all you have to, to continue believing as you do.
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Do you REALLY believe Ezekiel laid seige to a brick 390 days?
by Terry inin ezekiel the 4th chapter one of the most ludicrous passages in the bible tells us god commanded his prophet ezekiel to lie on his left side in a mock seige against a.....brick!
for how long?
390 days!.
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The fundamental flaw with the WTBTS as "God's Organization"?
by Essan inthere are countless issues that people have with the society and which together have led to many people realizing that it is not what it claims and pretends to be.
these include things like the secret un affiliation, contradictory and hypocritical stances, (malawi vs mexico vs un/ngo), the ever changing blood policy and ever changing doctrine, failed predictions for armageddon etc, etc, etc.. but what is the consensus about what the fundamental flaw is?.
what i mean is, many jw's hear about these various issues and manage to make endless excuses for them, even though this involves gross hypocrisy and excusing the society for things they would never excuse in other religions and which the society itself has ruthless condemned other religions for over almost 100 years.
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startingover
You would enjoy this book
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Straight from the September Watchtower. How can they print this without blushing?
by nicolaou inthe watchtower september 1, 2010 11. .
the dangers of being deceived (page 10/11).
to deceive, says one dictionary, means to cause to accept as true or valid what is false or invalid.
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Unbelievable!
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Why would a 1st Century nobody want to believe a Jesus story?
by Terry infirst century.. rome.
jerusalem.
galilee.. low tech world.. roman armies marching always into battles.. sons and fathers conscripted to fight and die.. taxes.. morning to sundown scraping out a meager living.. .
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Exactly! I have a feeling that it's much the same today.
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Frail grasp on the big picture
by startingover indon henley's lyrics always impress me.
in the song "frail grasp of the big picture" from their latest double cd, the following lyrics really hit home with me, especially this part:.
and we pray to our lord.
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Don Henley's lyrics always impress me. In the song "Frail grasp of the big picture" from their latest double CD, the following lyrics really hit home with me, especially this part:
And we pray to our Lord
Who we know is American
He reigns from on high
He speaks to us through middlemen
And He shepherds His flock
We sing out and we praise His name
He supports us in war
He presides over football games
And the right will prevail
All our troubles shall be resolved
We hold faith above all
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Why have all predictions about END TIMES been proved false?
by Terry in) on gen. 15:13 (luther martin, date setters, guardian of truth, sept. 15, 1994).
(luther martin, date setters, guardian of truth, sept. 15, 1994).
(luther martin, date setters, guardian of truth, sept. 15, 1994).
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Wasn't there a poster that claimed sometime in early 2010 for the end, or was it 2009 (times goes by so fast)? I looked but can't find it now.
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The Master spoke to me this morning. . .
by Inkie inthis morning as i lay lying in bed i was listening to music on the radio station on my headset.
when i do this, i do this so as not to disturb the wife while she is sleeping.
only this morning, she had already risen and was downstairs getting ready to go to work and just about to walk out the door.
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Well Tec, I'm sure you'll be able to come up with something, but I think you should stick with a comment you made earlier (highlighted in red):
Perhaps the master (Christ and God) are capable of doing both (helping big and little things), but limited by the people engaging in those big/little things, who refuse to 'hear'.
I don't know.
I think one of the biggest things the WTS took from me is my belief in the power of prayer. Not the benefit of prayer - to oneself - but the power of receiving something asked for in prayer. (which, considering all the things I have received after asking, is pretty bad)
Tammy
And what the hell is Snowbird doing here, just when my blood pressure was getting down to normal.
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Believers, is this really the way it works?
by startingover inhttp://haha.nu/files/uploads/2009/forgiveness/forgiveness.jpg.
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How is the dead lady going to forgive him? What makes you think she wants to? If I was in her shoes I surely wouldn't. I find it interesting that believers can take statements made in the bible and extrapolate them to the extreme to make them fit what they want to believe. Why don't you do this with the rapist's words? How do you know he didn't repent?
And it seems to be real easy to talk about forgiving someone when you are not the one that has been murdered. Of course statistics are impossible in this situation, but do you really think if it was possible to poll people who were murdered that any of them would forgive? I seriously doubt it.
I personally think this is a simple cartoon that emphasizes the ridiculousness of "accepting christ". An eye for an eye makes much more sense.
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Believers, is this really the way it works?
by startingover inhttp://haha.nu/files/uploads/2009/forgiveness/forgiveness.jpg.
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Try this. If you wait until it loads the image is at the bottom of the page, it's the 2 cartoon angels. Or click full size image at the top.
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Believers, is this really the way it works?
by startingover inhttp://haha.nu/files/uploads/2009/forgiveness/forgiveness.jpg.
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