i`ll list a few things and welcome any input, comments you may have .. 1.when adam & eve "sinned" disobeyed him, surely god could have handled it better than to condemn all future generations to disease and death ?.
2.his handling of satan who supposedly seduced eve to disobey god could also have been done a lot differently with a finality to it.. 3.i find little if anything in his dealings with the patriarchs that suggests a loving god protecting them.?.
4.taking on the nation of israel and leading them as his chosen people does not inspire confidence or trust as a god of love.. 5.throughout the hebrew scriptures / old testament his chosen people were constantly at war with other nations which of course would have meant many deaths of the israelite`s during these battles .and the grief that comes with family members in those times.
In this regard, it is not a matter of what I mean by LOVE and it doesn't matter in your belief in evolution...it only matters what LOVE means to smiddy and if he feels he possesses that LOVE and where does he feel he got it from...the LOVE that he feels he has that Jehovah doesn't.
Also to add to this is where did he get the info for his 6 points he listed?
i`ll list a few things and welcome any input, comments you may have .. 1.when adam & eve "sinned" disobeyed him, surely god could have handled it better than to condemn all future generations to disease and death ?.
2.his handling of satan who supposedly seduced eve to disobey god could also have been done a lot differently with a finality to it.. 3.i find little if anything in his dealings with the patriarchs that suggests a loving god protecting them.?.
4.taking on the nation of israel and leading them as his chosen people does not inspire confidence or trust as a god of love.. 5.throughout the hebrew scriptures / old testament his chosen people were constantly at war with other nations which of course would have meant many deaths of the israelite`s during these battles .and the grief that comes with family members in those times.
smiddy,
Do you believe that you possess the quality of LOVE?
If YES, where did you get such quality?
memorial talk from australia - .
https://www.jw.org/en/library/videos/#en/mediaitems/vodmemorialtalk2020/pub-mo-tk20r_16_video.
at 23 minutes 00 seconds, the speaker says who are god's sons/christ's brothers.. according to the bible, he's got it wrong:.
In regards to who are God's sons and Jesus' brothers, am I wrong in thinking that all JW's believe/refer to Jehovah as their heavenly father...
If Jehovah is Jesus' heavenly father and JW's believe Jehovah is their heavenly father, doesn't that make them all sons (& daughters) of God and brothers (& sisters) of Jesus...
[12-1-57 WT - Joseph the
carpenter of Nazareth, who acted as an earthly father to Jesus, did not give
him this organization of followers. God his heavenly Father
was the one that gave him the organization. Jesus himself acknowledged that
fact. He said: “No man can come to me unless the Father, who sent me, draws
him.” (John 6:44)
“What my Father has given me is something greater than all other things, and no
one can snatch them out of the hand of the Father.” (John 10:29)
To his heavenly Father Jesus said in prayer: “I have made your name manifest to the men you
gave me out of the world. They were yours, and you gave them to me.” (John 17:6)]
[7-1-12 WT - “FATHER” was the term that Jesus often used when talking to and about God.* When teaching his followers to pray, Jesus said: “Whenever you pray, say, Father.” (Luke 11:2) But what kind of father is Jehovah? The answer to this question is vitally important. Why? The better we comprehend the kind of father Jehovah is, the closer we will draw to him and the more we will love him.
No one is better qualified to tell us about our heavenly Father than Jesus himself. He enjoyed a close relationship with his Father. Jesus stated: “No one fully knows the Son but the Father, neither does anyone fully know the Father but the Son and anyone to whom the Son is willing to reveal him.” (Matthew 11:27) Thus, the best way to know the Father is through the Son.]
goodfellas.
one flew over the cuckoos nest.
casino.
Airplane
Top Secret
Caddyshack
“parents train your children to love jehovah “.
the title says it all really, but par 6 has this piece of advice.. “jesus likened our time to “the days of noah,” and there is no doubt that we are living in “critical times hard to deal with.” (matt.
24:37; 2 tim.
“Jesus likened our time to “the days of Noah,” and there is no doubt that we are living in “critical times hard to deal with.” (Matt. 24:37; 2 Tim. 3:1) With that reality in mind, some couples have concluded that they would like to postpone having children so that they can devote more time to sharing in the Christian ministry.“
we are living in those times but in 2022 we are going to start a building project for more movie studios and housing and it will be finished in 2026. we are doing this so that we can produce more videos on jw dot org in order to continue to make disciples. oh...and the fact that we say the following...pay no attention to that if the thought crosses your mind on why would we bother to build that if it is just going to be taken away.
[Restored At Last! p. 187-188 - The nations will “devise an evil plan.” They will seek to vent their long-standing rage and hatred on Jehovah’s worshippers, who will seem vulnerable, as if “living in settlements unprotected by walls, bars, or gates.” The nations will also be eager to “take much spoil and plunder” from those “who are accumulating wealth.” (Ezek. 38:10-12)… The nations may try to disrupt our way of life and stop us from carrying out our worship. To that end, perhaps they will try to interrupt the flow of spiritual food, prevent us from meeting together, break up the unity we enjoy, and stop us from zealously proclaiming God’s message.]
[Quote from “What the Future Holds” talk; speaking
about Gog’s attack – “What’s the point? Brothers, we should expect them to
despoil us of our human rights. We should expect them to confiscate all of
Jehovah’s belongings and close down and take possession of all our branches,
factories, depots, kingdom halls, assembly halls, everything. Don’t make any
mistake about it. We are all in this together. We have a common enemy.”]
have you ever been told that humility requires waiting on jehovah?i have.
lots of times.
for decades.
Ezekiel 13:1 And the word of Jehovah continued
to occur to me, saying: 2 “Son of man,
prophesy concerning the prophets of Israel who are prophesying,+ and you must say to those prophesying out of their own heart,+ ‘Hear the word of Jehovah.+ 3
This is what
the Sovereign Lord Jehovah has said: “Woe to the stupid+ prophets, who are walking after their own spirit,*+ when there is nothing that they have seen!+ 4
Like foxes in
the devastated places are what your own prophets have become, O Israel.+ 5 YOU men will certainly not go up into the
gaps,+ neither will YOU build
up a stone wall+ in behalf of the house of Israel, in order to
stand in the battle* in the day of Jehovah.”+ 6 “They have
visioned what is untrue and a lying divination,+ those who are saying, ‘The utterance of Jehovah is,’ when Jehovah
himself has not sent them, and they have waited to have a word come true.+ 7 Is it not an
untrue vision that YOU men have visioned, and a lying
divination that YOU have said, when saying, ‘The utterance
of Jehovah is,’ when I myself have spoken nothing?”’+
8 “‘Therefore this is what the Sovereign Lord Jehovah has said: “‘For the reason that YOU men have spoken untruth and YOU have visioned a lie, therefore here I am against YOU,’+ is the utterance of the Sovereign Lord Jehovah.” 9 And my hand has come to be against the prophets that are visioning untruth and that are divining a lie.+ In the intimate+ group of my people they will not continue on, and in the register* of the house of Israel they will not be written,+ and to the soil of Israel they will not come;+ and YOU people* will have to know that I am the Sovereign Lord Jehovah,+ 10 for the reason, yes, for the reason that they have led my people astray, saying, “There is peace!” when there is no peace,+ and there is one that is building a partition wall, but in vain+ there are those plastering it with whitewash.’+
11 “Say to those plastering with whitewash that it will fall. A flooding downpour will certainly occur, and YOU, O hailstones, will fall,* and a blast* of windstorms itself will cause a splitting.+ 12 And, look! the wall must fall. Will it not be said to YOU men, ‘Where is the coating* with which YOU did the plastering?’+
13 “Therefore this is what the Sovereign Lord Jehovah has said, ‘I will also cause a blast of windstorms to burst forth in my rage, and in my anger there will occur a flooding downpour, and in rage there will be hailstones for an extermination.+ 14 And I will tear down the wall that YOU men have plastered with whitewash and bring it into contact with the earth, and its foundation must be exposed.+ And she* will certainly fall, and YOU must come to an end in the midst of her; and YOU will have to know that I am Jehovah.’+
15 “‘And I will
bring my rage to its finish upon the wall and upon those plastering it with
whitewash, and I shall say to YOU men:
“The wall is no more, and those plastering it are no more,+ 16 the prophets of
Israel that are prophesying to Jerusalem and that are visioning for her a
vision of peace,+ when there is no peace,”’ is the utterance of
the Sovereign Lord Jehovah.+
as much as i enjoy you and pete's company, you also know our understanding of how much we want you to be reunited with jehovah and his people.. .
we did not set the standards for what jehovah says about our associations with those who choose to not serve him.
so we will always be there for you and pete, but it is in your hands as to how we can enjoy your friendship.. .
That is because we do not "shun" anyone.
https://wol.jw.org/en/wol/d/r1/lp-e/202017329?q=%22shun%22&p=par
although not a new concept by the watchtower, particularly in public talks and at assemblies, they have now put this prophecy in writing.watchtower oct 2019 page 8 -13 study no.40 titled -keep busy during the last of "the last days".
the first paragraph asks '1.
what convinces us that we are living in “the last days”?
Because so much time has passed since 1914, we must now be living in the last of “the last days.” Since the end is so near, we need to know the answers to some important questions: What events will occur at the end of “the last days”? And what does Jehovah expect us to do while we wait for those events?
a new facility to be constructed in Ramapo, New York... to begin construction in 2022 and complete it by December 2026.
2020 memorial talk outline.. https://docdro.id/73bh2yg.
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petra!.
When Jesus “comes” during the great tribulation, he will gather his remaining “chosen ones” to heaven,
When will they understand that Jesus does not come 'during' the GT, he comes AFTER it is cut short. Also, he doesn't gather his 'remaining' chosen ones at his coming, NO instead he gathers ALL of them (dead and living) at that time.
[Matt 24:21 for then there will be great tribulation such as has not occurred since the world’s beginning until now, no, nor will occur again. 22 In fact, unless those days were cut short, no flesh would be saved; but on account of the chosen ones those days will be cut short...29 “Immediately after the tribulation of those days the sun will be darkened, and the moon will not give its light, and the stars will fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens will be shaken. 30 And then the sign of the Son of man will appear in heaven, and then all the tribes of the earth will beat themselves in lamentation, and they will see the Son of man coming on the clouds of heaven with power and great glory. 31 And he will send forth his angels with a great trumpet sound, and they will gather his chosen ones together from the four winds, from one extremity of the heavens to their other extremity.]
[1 Thessalonians 4:15-17…the Lord himself will descend from heaven with a commanding call, with an archangel’s voice and with God’s trumpet, and those who are dead in union with Christ will rise first. Then we the living who are surviving will, at the same time with them, be caught away in clouds to meet the Lord in the air; and thus we shall always be with the Lord.]
[1 Corinthians 15:52 in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For
the trumpet will sound, and the dead will be
raised up incorruptible, and we shall be changed.]
i ask the question on the title because there a quite a number of statements the apostle paul made about the coming of jesus and resurrection of the holy ones that never fulfilled.
1 corinthians 15: 51, 52 (nwt) : .
i tell you a sacred secret: we will not all fall asleep in death, but we will all be changed, 52 in a moment, in the blink of an eye, during the last trumpet.
So I ask when they made such statements expressing strong hopes in their ascension to heaven, where they opinions or inspired words?
I would say that it is both, opinion and inspired. Don't be confused between what Jesus/angels/holy spirit directly taught them with being inspired of what to record in their writings of which now is the Bible books we have.
Along with what they were inspired to write of prophecy that was/is to be fulfilled, they were also inspired to write down their interactions, expectations, etc.. negative or not.
As I said, surely all first century Christians were under the impression that Jesus would return in their lifetime as all have been the past 2,000 1,986 years later. So while Paul may have been divinely taught about a prophecy, or what have you, and was inspired to write it down, it does not mean that all he was inspired to write down was divinely taught.
I know I am doing a poor job of explaining what I am trying to say. But take for instance Daniel, he was divinely taught (shown/told) things and he said that he heard but did not understand. Likewise, he wrote when he felt frighten, or weak, etc. So he was inspired to write these kinds of details but it does not mean it is all divinely given information.
