because their are so many different god`s worshiped in the world today and none of them have made themselves known to us in this 21st century for all of mankind to see and verify .. all of the gods worshiped today are from hundreds and even thousands of years ago derived from ancient writings and texts in languages that are no longer in use today.. that of course brings up problems of another sort translating an ancient language into its modern day equivalent.. and nobody is in total agreement that such translations are accurate or correct anyway.. and their is no god coming to the rescue of translators to say which is the right interpretation.
they are mute.. i`m not just talking about christianity/ judaism either, the same goes for all non christian religions too.. its a total cop out to say one must have faith to believe in god .
"faith, belief in religious doctrines divine truth without proof" and no verification from any god christian/islam/judaism or otherwise ..
In my OP I`m speaking primarily about belief in the God of the Bible ,Jewish ,Christian ,Islam seeing they all have roots from the same tree.
My OP is not talking about a concept of a "God" outside of those parameters just so their is no misunderstanding.
time to revive this well known, and often used jw illustration!.
"if you are in desperate need of a drink of water, and the glass in front of you is 99% clean, but contains just 1% poison, would you drink it??".
how often we heard this trotted out from the platform.. recently though, i have heard many examples of still-in jws sharing their observations about things that don't seem quite right with the current activities, direction and culture of the organization.
How many poisons are their in a single cigarette yet people smoke them into their 80`s and 90`s and die with no ill effects apart from a lack of breath .
Lets face it one drop of poison in a glass of water is not going to kill you,lets be realistic.
jeremiah 7:31 says, "they have built the high places of toʹpheth, which is in the valley of the son of hinʹnom, in order to burn their sons and their daughters in the fire, something that i had not commanded and that had never even come into my heart.’".
according to this scripture it's unthinkable for jehovah to be pleased with child sacrifices.
but yet he sent his son to be killed as a sacrifice for all?.
Sorry Whynot if I seem to be pedantic but "children" are not mentioned in the scripture you quote and Jesus when he was sacrificed was 30 years old and not a child.
However having said that Jehovah`s Witnesses don`t seem to have any qualms about sacrificing adults and children to Jehovah with their doctrine/policy of no blood transfusions to save a life.
Any reputable Bible scholar knows that the blood ban is a diet restriction of not eating/consuming blood in this way.
And a blood transfusion is not eating blood ,if a person was only given blood and no food he/she would die of starvation .
Correct me if I am wrong but wasn`t King David `s men excused from this law when they fell to eating meat that wasn`t bled according to the law because they were starving ?
In other words their life was in danger so it was O.K. to disobey that law.
And isnt that why Jesus on occasion broke the sabbath law to save a life ? even if it was a sheep ?
How many lives have needlessly been lost in sacrifice , both children and adults because Jehovah`s Witnesses /Governing Body adopted this policy only since the 1940`s .
while searching for some jw related stuff online, i stumbled across this page created by a pimi.
his name is steve mcdowell and a watered down version of his story was published in the watchtower https://www.jw.org/en/publications/magazines/wp20150701/bad-to-worse-life-story/.
however, this version, he says, is the full version.
I went through about 3 quarters of the way through his testimony and I just couldnt go any more .
Can someone please tell me the end result ?
can anyone remember or point me to a quote in either the watchtower or awake where they spoke adversely about some of the violent scenes in the original blade runner film.
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thanks.
So they talk about movies LONG after they come out? How is that supposed to warn anybody
Good point jws
That reminds me of a direction given in the 1980`s that the only "News" worth reading was "Watching The World " at the inside back cover of the "Awake" magazine
The only trouble was that it was biased and about 3 months behind the times
Caleb and Sophia went over to the dark side they handed in their D.A. letters and became born again Christians in a Unitarian Universalist Church
i think this is a well developed discussion, of ian stevenson's work in investigating people's past lives claims.
it's a little long.. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0attm9hgcdw.
Good one eyes
https://www.tmz.com/2018/07/11/prince-auction-bible-suit-purple-rain/.
what's cooler than your copy of "purple rain" on vinyl?
try owning one of prince's personal copies on vinyl!!
Their wont be any shortages of J.W.`s that will be bidding for that Bible owned by Prince himself.
Mark my words.
Such is the Cult of celebrity`s among Jehovah`s Witnesses
because their are so many different god`s worshiped in the world today and none of them have made themselves known to us in this 21st century for all of mankind to see and verify .. all of the gods worshiped today are from hundreds and even thousands of years ago derived from ancient writings and texts in languages that are no longer in use today.. that of course brings up problems of another sort translating an ancient language into its modern day equivalent.. and nobody is in total agreement that such translations are accurate or correct anyway.. and their is no god coming to the rescue of translators to say which is the right interpretation.
they are mute.. i`m not just talking about christianity/ judaism either, the same goes for all non christian religions too.. its a total cop out to say one must have faith to believe in god .
"faith, belief in religious doctrines divine truth without proof" and no verification from any god christian/islam/judaism or otherwise ..
people want to do what they like. Citizens of each country know what are crimes and what are their punishments, and this knowledge has no influence on many people. Most people worship greed which would mean provisions for enjoyment of life would get depleted/destroyed at some point in time.
I don`t think any body would argue too much about that as being what human nature can be about.
.But to quote a scripture out of the book of Revelation to rationalize that ?
Do you agree with every scripture in Revelation as a word of God that has relevance in the world today ? or not ?
Or is this just a cherry pick in this instance that suits your agenda .?
Would you quote the book of Revelation in other instances ?
I`m just trying to see where your coming from venus.
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basically the same as prohibiting house to house preaching?.
https://europe.easybranches.com/finland/european-court-of-justice-rules-jehovah’s-witnesses-illegally-gather-personal-data-455622.
I don`t see how you come to the conclusion that this will impact on D2D preaching ?
It just means if anything not to takes notes on the householders personal circumstances and keep a record of it .
