when faced with awkward questions about the morality of god many christians respond by distancing themselves from the old testament and focusing on "gentle jesus meek and mild" of the new testament.. for bible-believing christians this is intellectually dishonest.. according to christian dogma jesus was the god of abraham isaac and jacob.
the logos, the alpha and omega who is "the same yesterday, today, and forever.".
he claimed that "he that has seen me has seen the father" and that "i and the father are one".. in short, christians assert that jesus is almighty god from all eternity.. it therefore follows that jesus was the god who ordered the nation of israel to take slaves as inheritable possessions.
RIDICULOUS. One day every knee will bend and every tongue will confess that Jesus is the Christ. And when that day comes, I want you to remember this in all vividness -- that you thought you were good enough to judge Him.
You counter what you call ridiculous, with pure fantasy.
One day, everyone who has ever lived will meet their eternal end, death. When that day arrives for you, I want you to remember this in all its vividness, that you will die like every other living thing that ever was.
thursday, march 3. they were uneducated and ordinary men.—acts 4:13.. in recent years, the spiritual instruction provided by jehovah’s organization has reflected an increased emphasis on simplicity and clarity.
consider three examples.
first, there is the simplified edition of the watchtower.
Family heads are finding that their children are now more involved in the study of this journal, the main channel of our spiritual feeding program.
What a loving provision, the propaganda is now easier for young kids to absorb.
Now there is no excuse for not having your pre-teen children dedicated to the WTS!
for me, the dead giveaway is this.
jesus wrote nothing.. stop and think about that.. if jesus were the authentic messiah, his ministry would not simply be local.. his instructions, his mission, the details of his teachings would be too precious to risk leaving it in the hands of "men unlettered (illiterate) and ordinary (blue-collar yokels).".
jesus, were he the one and only hope of mankind, would be absolutely certain to write down with great simplicity and specificity the exact owner's manual necessary to rescue mankind.. never happened!.
I choose to believe that Jesus saves people from this place that was meant for satan and his angels.
That's your problem right there.
love 2+2
the bible does connect egypt and israel (including judah), but does not tell the truth about the connection.. an exhibition at the israel museum tells a clearer story.. it tells of two periods of connection;.
the first connection around 1800 to 1550 bce when canaanites settled in the eastern section of the nile river delta.
it seems this is the era that saw the development of stories like the joseph story and the mose's story.
where, exactly, does the bible say that government(s) will turn on religion?
i mean, other than interpreting some crazy visions/dreams from revelation as such?.
with one megalomaniac leading the gop race for nomination to vie for president of the usa, i've noticed that paranoia has ratcheted up a notch or three.
Say anything negative about Trump and you will have your comment disliked.
Everything that comes out his mouth is verbal diarrhea, and the U.S media is his toilet bowl. Enjoy.
ever wondered how your post might read to someone who's new to this site?.
(may take you a sec to get the real acronyms that are being used).
well i've noticed a pattern where a lot of ostentatious peoples that talk about their tough ass tax troubles only relate it to it as a problem that's being perpetrated by the federal & democratic states.
those of you fading- with the memorial approaching are you going to appease family?
not going and making up an excuse?
acting like your going but not really?.
fading for 8 years and never missed a memorial due to the family relation reason.
Ouch.
I won't be attending for the 3rd consecutive year.
My absence comes at a price though, my JW family treat me like a corpse.
i was just reading through some posts and had a startling realization.. the comment that sparked this went something like this: why oh why when i started into this in 1989 did i not research the history of the wtbts?
etc....... i too was studying and moving towards baptism around that same time.
i got dunked in dec of 1990.. my thought.
this is once in a life time work never to be repeated.
by all those who have died and the 100k if not millions of elderly.
about to sleep for ever..
Was it not Billy Shakespeare who wrote,
"Feel the sky blanket you, in gems and rhinestones. See the path cut by the moon, for you to walk on.....
I had false belief, I thought we came here to stay. We are all just visiting, just breaking like waves"..
I am perhaps paraphrasing a little yes, but I am sure I've made my point.
i buy into the theory of evolution.. where does it's "mission" to do what it does (programming) come from?.
