i have a new poll at jwfacts.mobi/pollsarchive/ as i am very interested to see what people have moved on to believe.
as this is considered sensitive by some, you can answer anonymously at the jwfacts.mobi/pollsarchive/, or answer on this thread.
this is what i have created in the list, but feel free to add comments, corrections, or options i have missed.. .
The church says the earth is flat, but I know that it is round, for I have seen the shadow on the moon, and I have more faith in a shadow than in the church. — Ferdinand Magellan
Magellan never said that.
Lighthouses are more helpful then churches. — Benjamin Franklin
Benjamin Franklin never said that.
think you've sorted out the mess that christianity has become?.
ever wonder why the other 2/3 of the planet doesn't believe the utter nonsense of "resurrection"??.
chew on this, christians:.
Here you go Prodigal Son. Origen on reincarnation:
He shoots it down. Here's the money quote:
...lest I should fall into the dogma of transmigration, which is foreign to the church of God, and not handed down by the Apostles, nor anywhere set forth in the Scriptures.
think you've sorted out the mess that christianity has become?.
ever wonder why the other 2/3 of the planet doesn't believe the utter nonsense of "resurrection"??.
chew on this, christians:.
Sorry again, but that isn't true either.
http://www.near-death.com/experiences/origen06.html
No, sorry, you get it wrong. Origen never taught reincarnation.
If you think Origen taught reincarnation, you are free to provide a sample from his writings to back it up. Not some unsourced quote, by the way, as on that webpage you linked (there are fake Origen quotes there). A quote WITH a verifiable source.
why do i refer to them as such?.
1) they refuse to partake of the bread and the wine ; those who partake are said to be mentally diseased.
2) jehovah's witnesses are the enemies of the cross ( phillipians 3:18 ) they shun what represents christianity.
think you've sorted out the mess that christianity has become?.
ever wonder why the other 2/3 of the planet doesn't believe the utter nonsense of "resurrection"??.
chew on this, christians:.
Here's Tertullian, also 2nd Century:
http://www.tertullian.org/articles/reeve_apology.htm
CHAPTER XLVIII.
CONCERNING THE RESURRECTION OF THE BODY.
LET us now consider a little the different treatment of a philosopher
and a Christian. If a philosopher affirms, as Laberius from Pytha-
goras has done, that after death the soul of a man departs into a
mule, and that of a woman into a serpent, and turns all the sails
of eloquence to carry this absurd point, shall not he find credit,
and harangue some of you into abstinence even from the flesh of
animals ? And will not many scruple to eat a piece of beef, for
fear of eating a piece of their ancestors ?
think you've sorted out the mess that christianity has become?.
ever wonder why the other 2/3 of the planet doesn't believe the utter nonsense of "resurrection"??.
chew on this, christians:.
Here's Irenaeus. 2nd Century AD:
http://www.columbia.edu/cu/augustine/arch/irenaeus/advhaer2.txt
CHAP. XXXIII.--ABSURDITY OF THE DOCTRINE OF THE TRANSMIGRATION OF SOULS.
think you've sorted out the mess that christianity has become?.
ever wonder why the other 2/3 of the planet doesn't believe the utter nonsense of "resurrection"??.
chew on this, christians:.
The Church never taught reincarnation, although some groups, gnostics, manicheans, etc, did.
http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Hebrews+9%3A27&version=NIV
Just as people are destined to die once, and after that to face judgment...
i have a new poll at jwfacts.mobi/pollsarchive/ as i am very interested to see what people have moved on to believe.
as this is considered sensitive by some, you can answer anonymously at the jwfacts.mobi/pollsarchive/, or answer on this thread.
this is what i have created in the list, but feel free to add comments, corrections, or options i have missed.. .
Who let all the arrogant condescending assholes out all of a sudden?
the new wt 2013 june tells kids that they might get to study with a pirate someday!
perhaps johnny depp will be resurrected for just that purpose?.
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Next: Girls Pioneering with Disney Princesses!
Some of those princesses can be a real handful.
Fortunately, unlike men in Jehovah's New System, the women get to keep their facial hair.
the new wt 2013 june tells kids that they might get to study with a pirate someday!
perhaps johnny depp will be resurrected for just that purpose?.
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Did they force the pirate to shave his beard before he got a Bible Study? Or will people be resurrected with their beards already shaved off? Who knew that resurrection would be such a, um, depilatory process?
Sometime around 1925, Jehovah totally changed his mind about facial hair, and apparently there are no Pirate exceptions.
