posted here:.
https://docs.zoho.com/sheet/published.do?rid=740aq85115d1a04174c4d867e056351ad6836.
biggest changes:.
That means JWs are also following the spirit of worldly governments (whom they describe as tools of Satan) who thrive on deficit budget setting a harmful example for the followers: "Spend more than income, and get into the spree of borrowing."
Look at the shocking number of governments:
here is an article talking about william miller's great disappointment and a utopian settlement established by one of his followers, peter armstrong.
the author's statements reveal several similarities between the millerites and their successors, the watchtower bible and tract society:.
founded in pennsylvania.
That is the fate of all those who take Bible as a basis of prediction. During the American Civil War the North used the Bible to attack slavery while the South used the Bible to promote slavery. Many are not aware that the opposite positions can be both promoted and attacked using the Bible.
i cant seem to understand this text actually, can someone please explain it to me.
Cold Steel,
Greatest enemy of miracles is Bible itself. While it reports about miracles such as curing the blind, resurrecting the dead ... it also gives weightier reasons to doubt those reporting because recipients of those miracles do not respond befitting the recipients. None of them came in defense of Jesus while he was falsely being tried in the royal court, nor they came for preaching activity even after Jesus left the stage. Why people come to die for terrorist leaders while Lazarus did not come forward for Jesus? Because as Cofty says they are all myths.
You also said: "Even today there are miraculous healings that take place because of the faith of those being healed."
If you lose one of your legs or hands, why faithhealers of today are unable to cure it? This is because miracles happen "always in the past, in the forgotten history, not in present tense."
one of my all-time favourite illustrations:.
bible teach, chap.
16 p. 154 pars.
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.
i cant seem to understand this text actually, can someone please explain it to me.
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.
most 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.
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)
https://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.
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."
of 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?
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.
in 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?
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.
in 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?
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.
