Happy birthday stan may their be many more with friends and loved ones surrounding you and enjoying the occasion .
My hats off to Nida it sounds like food fit for a king,I`m envious.
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Smiddy`s Wedding Anniversary Today
by smiddy3 inhi friends one and all i just thought i would let you know it`s our 57th wedding anniversary today .
and we are setting off this morning for 3 nights in eden nsw i think it has more to offer than the one in genesis.. with a bit { or a lot } of luck we will make our fortune .
have a good day everybody.
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One thing I forgot to mention was that while I took a stroll through the town I came across an elderly couple tucked away in a vacant shops doorway manning a JW cart .
Their was no way you could see them walking along the pavement in either direction until you was right in front of the shop doorway they were that much obscured .
I looked at them but no eye contact was made and I walked on then stopped a few feet further on ,will I or wont I ?,I thought then thought better of it, naaahhh we are here to enjoy ourselves not spoil it with religious confrontations so I kept moving on.
And would you believe their were six people from our home town 3-4 hours drive away that we came across in the 3 days we were there .
Their are a number of towns in this region of S.E.NSW that are popular holiday destinations for Victorians and New South Welshman and as the saying goes "Don`t think you can carry on an affair here without being sprung" you will always run into someone who knows you.
Not that that`s our problem of course I`m just saying .
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Were These People “Demonized” or Simply Mentally Ill?
by minimus init seems that every congregation had a problem with people being affected by the demons.
looking back i have to wonder was it that more people were emotionally or mentally unbalanced?
or they simply off their medications or were they in need of meds?.
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As Simon says
Like all the demon-possessed people in the bible, they were ( all ) suffering from mental illness.
And I totally agree with that statement.
I knew of a couple of sisters in different congregations that claimed the Demons were having sex with them ..?
The demons if they existed at all are spiritual not physical so how could they have sex with a human ? According to the Bible that privilege (?) was taken away from them at the time of the flood so that they couldn`t produce hybrids such as the Nephilim any more.
it`s all in the mind that can play weird tricks on us when we are vulnerable
The bottom line is do not be afraid of Demon possession it ain`t gonna happen.
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Billy Graham played religion and politics to his own advantage and lived a comfortable if not luxurious lifestyle.
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Are Jehovahs Witnesses headed towards becoming one of the most controversial and talked about religions on YouTube
by UnshackleTheChains ingiven the numerous videos on youtube about all the scandals and controversies of the watchtower bible and tract society.
are they headed to becoming one of the most infamous religious groups in the world for all the wrong reasons?.
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Sorry, but nobody cares about Jehovah`s Witnesses and gives them a second thought except , ex Jehovah`s Witnesses
And that`s the truth
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Smiddy`s Wedding Anniversary Today
by smiddy3 inhi friends one and all i just thought i would let you know it`s our 57th wedding anniversary today .
and we are setting off this morning for 3 nights in eden nsw i think it has more to offer than the one in genesis.. with a bit { or a lot } of luck we will make our fortune .
have a good day everybody.
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Both the Smiddy`s here would like to thank you all for the best wishes and congratulations you have showered upon us for our wedding anniversary.
We had a wonderful 3 days though sadly we didn`t make our fortune, though we never lost a fortune either.
The whale museum their is really interesting with many exhibits and history of the whaling station that existed here many years ago when they used row boats before the use of technology was employed
Particularly of interest was the co-operation between killer whale and humans in herding other whales for the kill benefiting both man and whale in the process which apparently is well documented and attested to.
Something that is unique and never been recorded anywhere else in the world.
Google Eden NSW Whale Museum Australia if your interested.
Once again thank you my friends.
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Smiddy`s Wedding Anniversary Today
by smiddy3 inhi friends one and all i just thought i would let you know it`s our 57th wedding anniversary today .
and we are setting off this morning for 3 nights in eden nsw i think it has more to offer than the one in genesis.. with a bit { or a lot } of luck we will make our fortune .
have a good day everybody.
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Hi friends one and all I just thought I would let you know it`s our 57th wedding anniversary today
And we are setting off this morning for 3 nights in Eden NSW I think it has more to offer than the one in Genesis.
With a bit { or a lot } of luck we will make our fortune
Have a good day everybody
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God Cannot Lie, But God's Organization Can?
by AmABeliever inin the recently leaked bethel training videos, both speakers state that inappropriate flirting really amounts to lying, as if a person is misrepresenting either his interest or availability to another person romantically.. we are reminded that the bible is very plain in its expressions on lying such as proverbs 12:22 which states it is detestable to god.
so with the example given here, we must have a very high standard in separating what is truthful from what is not.. with that being the case, it shocks me that bethel would produce a video presented to all in attendance at the 2017 regional convention regarding the early 1970's, essentially rewriting history as to what actually happened.. is misrepresenting your past and misleading millions of followers not a much more extreme case of lying from those who claim to reject any form of lying no matter how small, such as flirting?
would anyone like to add more examples to this thread?.
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God told Adam that he wouldn`t die and if he was a loving partner of Eve he would have told her also.
However the point is GOD LIED
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God Cannot Lie, But God's Organization Can?
by AmABeliever inin the recently leaked bethel training videos, both speakers state that inappropriate flirting really amounts to lying, as if a person is misrepresenting either his interest or availability to another person romantically.. we are reminded that the bible is very plain in its expressions on lying such as proverbs 12:22 which states it is detestable to god.
so with the example given here, we must have a very high standard in separating what is truthful from what is not.. with that being the case, it shocks me that bethel would produce a video presented to all in attendance at the 2017 regional convention regarding the early 1970's, essentially rewriting history as to what actually happened.. is misrepresenting your past and misleading millions of followers not a much more extreme case of lying from those who claim to reject any form of lying no matter how small, such as flirting?
would anyone like to add more examples to this thread?.
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If you take the Bible to mean what it says and not what you interpret the words to mean then God does lie.
Gen.2;17 "But as for the tree of the knowledge of good and bad you must not eat from it ,for in the day you eat from it you will positively die."
They did not die in the day they ate from that tree like God said so he lied .
Adam and Eve would only have known what a day was from their experience just as we appreciate what a day is.
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Does praying really matter? Where is the evidence?
by RULES & REGULATIONS inmatthew 7:7 jesus says: ask, and it will be given you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you.
for every one who asks receives, and he who seeks finds, and to him who knocks it will be opened.
or what man of you, if his son asks him for bread, will give him a stone?
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Think of the Jews in Jerusalem praying to God at the wailing wall
The reality is they are just praying to a brick wall