UNDECIDED - How do you live with that?
Well, I just keep going each day the best I can and maybe some day I will decide something.
Ken P.
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If there is a God - I'm REALLY PI$$ED at him
by AWAKE&WATCHING ini've got one post for the next 14 hours so i figure i'll make it count.. when i was 21 i began to really question the state of the world.
you know- "is this life all there is, yadda yadda.
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Can You Be Satisfied Just Having Faith
by Undecided ini seem to be overwhelmed with not being satisfied with not knowing the answers to life and the universe.
i can't seem to just accept some ancient writings of mankinds beginning.
to have faith do you just ignore all questions that may be contrary to what you believe?
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BA,
Thanks for your answer to my questions. It has some good points. I just have trouble when reading the bible when I see many contridictions. I guess many of the statements are just principles rather than rules of life, like Christ sayin to give to anyone asking, even selling your house and everything you have and follow him. I can't follow someone I can't see or ever had a conversation with. He said many things that were purposely to confuse people like me so that I couldn't get the sense of it. He also said few are the ones finding the path to everlasting life. I feel he really didn't want to forgive sinners since he tried to hide the truth to the really bad ones. I'm not really bad in a moral way, but maybe I have sinned against the holy spirit and he has kicked me out for good.
Ken P.
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Can You Be Satisfied Just Having Faith
by Undecided ini seem to be overwhelmed with not being satisfied with not knowing the answers to life and the universe.
i can't seem to just accept some ancient writings of mankinds beginning.
to have faith do you just ignore all questions that may be contrary to what you believe?
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Well, I guess I should deal with what's needed right now, like raking leaves. I don't know how I'm going to deal with all those leaves. I can tell a difference each year with my age, I'm gradually fading out, but so far I'm doing fine. I just don't have the endurance I did a few years ago. I'm sweating now from raking a few piles and carrying them to the street. I guess I'll just wait and see on those other issues.
Ken P.
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Can You Be Satisfied Just Having Faith
by Undecided ini seem to be overwhelmed with not being satisfied with not knowing the answers to life and the universe.
i can't seem to just accept some ancient writings of mankinds beginning.
to have faith do you just ignore all questions that may be contrary to what you believe?
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I seem to be overwhelmed with not being satisfied with not knowing the answers to life and the universe. I can't seem to just accept some ancient writings of mankinds beginning. To have faith do you just ignore all questions that may be contrary to what you believe? When you see contridictions of religions do you just ignore it and think it's just man's misunderstandings of it's bible?
I wonder what God thinks of his being alone for eternity and then creating a few creatures that turned out rebelious? Does he really know everything from beginning to end? To enjoy his existance, does he have to create things to play with like humans? He did say we were created in his image, didn't he?
Are men and angels his first creation, if so what did he do for eternity before that? Am I going nutty in my old age? I just can't stop thinking about these things. Maybe I should try getting saved at church and see what effect it has on my life, well maybe not, my wife is saved and she worries more about things in this life than I do.
Anyone have the answer? Well, maybe I shouldn't have asked that, so many religious nuts have posted about hearing God speak to them, knowing when the end is comming, etc.
Ken P.
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Holy misapplication of scripture Batman!
by Metamorphosis indon't know who else has to still suffer through meetings from time to time - but something struck me during last nights (thursday 12/6/07) final part from the km.
the part was on sharing our kingdom hope or something.
they list a scripture from hebrews 6 to start and end the km article and also one from ephesians 2. the whole context of those chapters in the bible is our hope in jesus and his ransom sacrifice and intervention as high priest.
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Well, about the only time Jesus was mentioned was at the end of prayer, in Jesus name, Amen. Jesus wasn't mentioned much except then, it was all Jehovah this and Jehovah that, after all he is the one who gets mad all the time and kills eyeryone.
Ken P.
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Holy misapplication of scripture Batman!
by Metamorphosis indon't know who else has to still suffer through meetings from time to time - but something struck me during last nights (thursday 12/6/07) final part from the km.
the part was on sharing our kingdom hope or something.
they list a scripture from hebrews 6 to start and end the km article and also one from ephesians 2. the whole context of those chapters in the bible is our hope in jesus and his ransom sacrifice and intervention as high priest.
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Jesus was just another one of God's pawns to get his way with his creation. Why is he so different from other faithful angels? Wasn't he created for some pleasure to God? Do you really think he wanted to die the way he did, or maybe was afraid if he didn't he would be considered unfaithful and be called a demon or devil or something? Just wondering what the real situation was after he was changed from some spirit creature to semen in Mary's womb. It's kind of strange how God can change us from one type of creature to another and back again.
It's all to mystical for me to understand.
Ken P.
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Tithe - giving 10% to the church
by LouBelle inthis subject came up at work and has got me thinking, is this really a requirement that god enforces?
a lot of churches say it is a mandate of the bible?
does it make a difference to your spirituality if you give or not?
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The church that I have been attending with my wife hasn't mentioned tithing. They pass the plates but sometimes the preacher has to be reminded to do it. I like the people there but still have so many issues with the bible and the interpretations of it. Is there really truth in any religion? I just can't seem to have faith in anything religious. I feel it would give people a sense of peace to believe in being saved and having a relationship with a God, but I can't seem to accept it as real. I'm not sure I really believed it when I was a JW and leading the congregation as PO. Who knows how I will end my days, I sure don't. I would like to believe all the BS but I can't seem to see any evidence of it being truth.
Ken P.
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Do you think religion is part of our genes?
by Undecided init seems religion has played a part in man's life through history.
it has been good and bad, but seems to control society in some way or another.
is there some brain function that causes humans to develope the need for a diety?
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It seems religion has played a part in man's life through history. It has been good and bad, but seems to control society in some way or another. Is there some brain function that causes humans to develope the need for a diety? Maybe we see the end comming and can't stand the idea of just dying and be done with life.
I went to church this morning and it just seems to me that all the philosophy is just myths, made up by men to explain some of the unexplainable things of existance. Sometimes I think maybe I'll just try the being saved idea and see what it does for me, but just can't seem to dismiss the questions in my mind.
The other night my wife went while I was gone to the coast to winterize the camper and the preacher told of this woman dying for not taking a blood tranfusion. She was the JW mother of the wife of a substitute preacher. He said she died twice for not using blood, one for not taking a transfusion and also for not drinking the blood of Christ. She is a lost forever.
Today the preacher was saying how loving God is to have given us his son so we could be saved. I was wondering what will happen to all those who died beore Christ was born? He never explains what happens to them.
Ken P.
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Time is the fire in which we all burn...
by zeroday ininteresting actually...time...we all live our lives in the stream of time.
we go to work raise our families pursue our careers and yet we all burn in the same stream of time...the fire is so short lived we long to discover the other side of our time what is out there what awaits us...i do not know i would like to think there is something else but until our fire burns out we will never know...
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I believe the oposite of this is true.
Enjoy every minute of your life. Then you don't feel bad when you die.
If you are enjoying it then you don't want it to leave you. At least that is how I feel.
Ken P.
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Armegeddon delayed?
by proandcon injw's continue to expand wt farm property with big $$$...despite the "end" being so close.
www.recordonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?aid=/20071129/news/711290360
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I'm having this feeling like armageddon is comming but it will be a natural disaster not some act of a God to destroy bad people. Watch out y'all, it's comming soon.
Ken P.