JW teaching of Issue of Sovereignty is more than poison because it reduces God into a slave going after Satan into any extreme till Satan is satisfactorily pleased.
Posts by venus
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13Bible Teach Book points the finger at JW's themselves!
by The Fall Guy inone of my all-time favourite illustrations:.
bible teach, chap.
16 p. 154 pars.
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Can someone please explain James 5:14 for me
by preymanchis ini cant seem to understand this text actually, can someone please explain it to me.
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venus
A change in the mental disposition can produce positive or negative changes in the body as shown by the Placebo Effect and we all know that a placebo could be anything with no active therapeutic effect—yet in some people it has curing effect and in some people it doesn’t have. It means prayer can work as a placebo—curing some and not curing others. Thus James 5:14 can have both applications—literal and figurative.
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God and even nature are against all practices of mind control
by Ireneus inmost of the people with skin problems have something in common.
they feel their individuality is being threatened somehow and others have power over them as though they are feeling thin-skinned or things as tending to get under their skin.
it is under the skin that our nerves function, and skin is the largest sense-organ which is like a blanket over the whole body, hence is a symbol of protection.
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Everyone knows what is right and wrong which makes religious organizations not a necessity (Mathew 7:3, 4; 21-23) and sends a double NO + NO to cults.
Work of guiding people belongs to Government. That is why it is called “minister of God” (Romans 13:1, 4, 7; Compare Daniel 2:21)
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Another flip flop
by blownaway inhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j8hzakyfazc this is a talk this year about how to stay loyal to the cult.
it talks about not blaming yourself when your child is dfed.
but wait, when i was in the cult the elders told the parents of dfed children that it was their fault.
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Primary factor is parental care:
"According to American SPCC, children who grow up in households with loving, supportive parents have a much better chance at becoming healthy, successful adults."
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What makes you---YOU?
by eyeuse2badub inof course this is an open ended question but have you ever really thought about what makes you who you are?.
is it our looks, our personality, our physique, our intelligence, our experiences and subsequent memories, our beliefs?
is it a combination of all these things and even more?
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When I was following the crowd, I believed I was this body. But after my encounter with Past Regression (my own and of others) I would say: I am the builder of this body which means there is a platform that serves as precondition for this body and even for my thinking to arrive at. Even the subconscious and super-conscious states relate more to the mind than pure consciousness which is beyond the limitations of body-mind. For this to know, you don’t need endorsement from an external source. If we unlearn everything we have heard about who we are and view our very make-up objectively, we would realize that first we are conscious before we perceive, act, know, think or feel.
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Most illogical verse in the Bible
by Ireneus inin exodus 20:3-5 god is depicted as saying: “you should have no other gods” and worshipping them would bring ‘punishment for three to four generation’ and worshipping me would bring blessings for “a thousand generations.”.
the sentiments behind this command is same as the one that was displayed by othello who punished his wife desdemona all because of a handkerchief (given to her by othello on their honeymoon) that was happened to be found with someone else.. if it were the real god, he would have said something like this: “you are my children, and you should not worship me.
how can father accept worship from his children?
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smiddy3,
Isaiah has already declared account of sacrifice of Abel is not an inspired one when he wrote: "He who kills an ox is like one who slays a man" (Isaiah 66:3). Account is surely someone's wild imagination.
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Most illogical verse in the Bible
by Ireneus inin exodus 20:3-5 god is depicted as saying: “you should have no other gods” and worshipping them would bring ‘punishment for three to four generation’ and worshipping me would bring blessings for “a thousand generations.”.
the sentiments behind this command is same as the one that was displayed by othello who punished his wife desdemona all because of a handkerchief (given to her by othello on their honeymoon) that was happened to be found with someone else.. if it were the real god, he would have said something like this: “you are my children, and you should not worship me.
how can father accept worship from his children?
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venus
waton Nice Point
Would the Americans ever forget their Founding Fathers? Never. Yet Exodus says God made Joseph “father to Pharaoh.” (Genesis 45:8); and Egyptians “mourned the death of Joseph’s Father for seventy days” (Genesis 50:3).
Then in the next chapter we read: “Then a new king, who did not know about Joseph, came to power in Egypt.” (Exodus 1:8) Impossible for a king to forget such a great leader like Joseph who saved the whole empire from famine of 7 years!”
Exodus is full of God-dishonoring verses such as 3:22; 4:11 …etc …proof of things written without the knowledge of God.
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How does mankind know what happen before we were created??
by James Mixon infor example, "and god said, let there be light: and there was light.
"a personal and vocal god said, "let there be light.
"so god saw the light, and thought it good, but how did the priestly scribe know that he did?
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Here is one out of hundreds of treasures from Lao Tzu:
"At the center of your being you have the answer; you know who you are and you know what you want."
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How does mankind know what happen before we were created??
by James Mixon infor example, "and god said, let there be light: and there was light.
"a personal and vocal god said, "let there be light.
"so god saw the light, and thought it good, but how did the priestly scribe know that he did?
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venus
All scriptures are imagination of human beings which can be proved by looking at the main theme they have all come out with:
a) Eternal life in heaven or in hell on the basis of just one birth which means even premature death of children, or
b) Eternal merging with God.
Both these concepts make no sense at all. Regarding the first option, what Bernard Shaw said is very true: “Nobody could stand an eternity of Heaven.”
Regarding the second option, we can ask: If we come here on to earth to purify ourselves through many births as some religions teach and then to be merged with God, why such a need arose in the first place when we were in God who is the source of all purity. That means second option also not logical.
Each one has to find himself the purpose of life as we are able to bounce back to the now [being in the now itself is like being in heaven], to introspect, to discriminate essence from details, to judge what is beneficial from what is wasteful, to cooperate and to adjust. For example, look at the sayings of Lao Tzu—what a profound wisdom which many religious leaders may have been influenced by. How did he get it? By himself. If he could discern truth thousands of years before, anyone can also do so at anytime, anywhere if he wants to.
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Active witnesses? Please help?
by Ahava inhi,i'm lost and a little sad.
i actually like the jw faith.
some might call this faith cold, strict, dogmatic but they're just trying to follow rules and give back to god.
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venus
Yes, punkofnice
True, I was on a holiday for three weeks.