Posts by Hummingbird001

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The Pastor of my Old Church Tried to Re-Convert Me Yesterday

by cofty in

yesterday evening my wife and i were invited to friends house for new year's eve.

we met them when i was a christian and we have kept in touch.

they had a few other friends there as well, including the new church pastor and his wife.

The Pastor of my Old Church Tried to Re-Convert Me Yesterday

by cofty in

yesterday evening my wife and i were invited to friends house for new year's eve.

we met them when i was a christian and we have kept in touch.

they had a few other friends there as well, including the new church pastor and his wife.

As near as I can figure out from wading through the vast amount of verbiage: at some point, God will KNOW that out of all the millions of babies born each year, NONE of them will belong to him. And then he will intervene?

"Yes" or "No" or "I don't know" would suffice.

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The Pastor of my Old Church Tried to Re-Convert Me Yesterday

by cofty in

yesterday evening my wife and i were invited to friends house for new year's eve.

we met them when i was a christian and we have kept in touch.

they had a few other friends there as well, including the new church pastor and his wife.

Hummingbird001

Is this the same Strypes from tec's voice hearers forum? I'm thinking it is.

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The Pastor of my Old Church Tried to Re-Convert Me Yesterday

by cofty in

yesterday evening my wife and i were invited to friends house for new year's eve.

we met them when i was a christian and we have kept in touch.

they had a few other friends there as well, including the new church pastor and his wife.

Hummingbird001

No, tec. Your explanation doesn't "help" at all. You didn't answer the question. You just repeated your original claim that God is waiting to act until all are called. Once again, you tore apart a post phrase by phrase and because of that, you again missed the point.

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The Pastor of my Old Church Tried to Re-Convert Me Yesterday

by cofty in

yesterday evening my wife and i were invited to friends house for new year's eve.

we met them when i was a christian and we have kept in touch.

they had a few other friends there as well, including the new church pastor and his wife.

Hummingbird001

If God is waiting to intervene in human affairs until every person is "called by Christ" (or whatever)....where does it end? More and more humans are born every day. It would seem that waiting would just be an endless cycle, as soon as everyone has "heard Christ" there would be millions more with the same potential.

This is why tec's explanation doesn't make sense to me. One of the reasons, anyways.

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The Pastor of my Old Church Tried to Re-Convert Me Yesterday

by cofty in

yesterday evening my wife and i were invited to friends house for new year's eve.

we met them when i was a christian and we have kept in touch.

they had a few other friends there as well, including the new church pastor and his wife.

Hummingbird001

If God held up the waters of the Red Sea, surely he could have done the same with the tsunami? If he wanted to...

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The Pastor of my Old Church Tried to Re-Convert Me Yesterday

by cofty in

yesterday evening my wife and i were invited to friends house for new year's eve.

we met them when i was a christian and we have kept in touch.

they had a few other friends there as well, including the new church pastor and his wife.

Hummingbird001

I've never seen anyone so completely miss the main point of EVERY post, as tec. It's the only thing she's consistent on.

You know that saying about people who don't listen with a view to understand, but they listen with a view to reply? It seems tec doesn't READ with a view to understand, she reads with a view to replying.

That's why her posts take everyone's thoughts apart, piece by piece, arguing minutae, and completely miss the point.

"Can't see the forest for the trees" seems to apply a bit here, too.

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Contradictory Timelines - Do they REALLY think we are this stupid?

by piztjw in

so in today's wt, as brought out in another thread, it is the nations that make the declaration of "peace and security.

" yet just a few paragraphs later they claim, in answer to their own question of who declares "peace and security", that the bible doesn't say.. in the very next paragraph they say that angels are holding back the destructive winds of the great tribulation.

to answer their next question as to what those angels are waiting for they say the wait is for the "annointed" to receive their second sealing, referring to a 2007 q/r which says the second sealing is finished only when the "annointed" (including the gb) are in heaven.

Hummingbird001

Remember when the UN declared 1986 "International Year of Peace and Security"? The WT said THAT was the start of the cry for Peace.....that was almost 30 years ago now.

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Jesus' Teachings - Helpful or Harmful?

by jgnat in

spinning off from another thread, have jesus' teachings been less than universally helpful to mankind?

how do we measure if a particular philosophy is helpful or harmful?.

i am going to use the "universal morals" listed here.

Hummingbird001

LOL Thank you, jgnat. I will arrange for a hearing assessment right away.

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Jesus' Teachings - Helpful or Harmful?

by jgnat in

spinning off from another thread, have jesus' teachings been less than universally helpful to mankind?

how do we measure if a particular philosophy is helpful or harmful?.

i am going to use the "universal morals" listed here.

Hummingbird001

Humbled: Jesus' teachings have been helpful--if you have ears to hear.

See, that is the part that always sticks me like a knife in the gut. Either I agree that Jesus' teachings are helpful or......what? I'm a bad person? I'm stupid? I'm ungrateful? I'm immoral?

What exactly are you saying?