God is good and his commandments are good because they reflect this "goodness."
if you believe in god, then i'll make the assumption that you think god is a force of "good", and his commandments reflect this "goodness.
based on that assumption, would you say that god's commandments are good because: god commanding them makes them good?
orgod has knowledge of the inherent goodness of certain commandments, and selects them because of this goodness?.
God is good and his commandments are good because they reflect this "goodness."
this is an article i dug up on the ayn rand institute website, written by peter schwartz that i found to be logical and timely, and felt some could benefit upon reading it.
enjoy!
reason vs. faith by peter schwartz.
http://www.catholic-pages.com/dir/link.asp?ref=17533
a link to faith and reason.
When I read the article I thought this isn't about the "faith and reason" i read, so i reread it and realized, the author has an agenda and is not being truthful with his comments. read it for your self.
"Shroud of Turin was not the burial cloth of Christ, faith requires that you believe anyway."
No. I have faith, I am universal Christian, I believe the shroud is not the burial cloth of Jesus. The church doesn't require me to believe it, or any other private devotion.
hi, i'm 17 and i've just recently become a member of this website and i want you to know what has happened to me over the past months.back in sep/oct 2001 i started chatting to a 20 year old bloke via the internet and we developed a great friendship over the net.we would talk online for ages,text and phone each other loads,we sent each other photos of ourselves and he would often put his webcam on for me to see.before i knew it he played a great part in my everyday life...and i spent so much time chatting to him that my college work suffered a lot & i wasn't doing my coursework (i eventually got told to leave as i hadn't done loads of the assignments and stuff & had fallen behind).
after about 6 months we arranged to meet up (i made sure my parents were at home coz i know it's dodgy to meet people from the internet).anyway,he came round my house one evening in march and we got along soo well...he lives quite locally too which was good.our friendship then grew into a relationship and we started dating and going out together,i was sooo happy and i fell for him in a massive way & he said he felt the same way too.to me,he was a girls dream come true...he was kind,caring,fit,good-looking & gentle and i loved him to bits!,i still do,and i thought we'd be together forever.
something that i did find a bit strange though was i hadn't met his family yet or heard my boyfriend talk much about them.i would question him about his family but he seemed to get a bit funny about it and when i mentioned about meeting his family he said something along the lines of ''they're a bit strange,you might not like them'' (or something like that anyway).that got me thinking and i though prehaps they lived in a run-down place or something,or they wern't very nice people and i thought my b/f could be ashamed to let me meet them.i thought to myself to give him time & he'll see that i'm an understanding & nice person and hoped that he would soon come out and tell me what the problem was (thinking it was about what i've just mentioned).
Hi,
I'm sorry your in this situation, it a tight spot for sure. Your 17 and he's 20? when I was 20 I would never consider going out with a 17 year old girl. To my thinking something is not right there. I would advise getting out. When he comes back with his answer in a month, he'll probably try to string you along playing both sides.
Good luck
Bill
would someone who was a jw all his life (24 years) know he's not suppose to be giving/receiving oral sex?
is it possible he might not have heard about this rule?
does it not apply if the person is disfellowshipped?
Yes he knows, it would impossible for him not to know at his age.
Yes, it still applies even if he's disfellowshipped.
Edited by - willy_think on 7 July 2002 22:37:13
another one of god's wonderous creatures has taken her life, another j.w.
sucide, how sad!.
there will be those (mostly jw's) that say the borg had nothing to do with it & they may be right, but i doubt it.. her name, leah turnbull, formaly leah malik, of omaha nebraska, anyone know her?
I can't help but think that if these Witness found places like JW.com some would be alive today. Yes, there is a lot of bickering and some of us are shunned even here, but there is more compassion and understanding here then can be found in any hall.
To the people who held up JW.com or silent lamb signs at the conventions, thank you, you may have saved a life.
http://www.observer.co.uk/international/story/0 ,6903,750783,00.html .
earth 'will expire by 2050' .
our planet is running out of room and resources.
The title is Earth will expire in 2050, but the story is the earth will be fine, some people will expire. It's like a God d@m title of a WT article.
what vanity man has that he thinks he can cause the death of a world. The earth will find balance with or without us.
god has been patient with evil in the world since the days of adam and eve.
his day is not tarrying but is right on schedule.
god, however, is presently showing patience and self-control, not only with the world of unbelievers but also with the congregation of his faithful witnesses.
They have many things to work on to try and get things right before the day of wrath.
I'm curious, can you tell me what things the Witness have wrong, that may be made right?
i've been wondering, what makes jesus so different from the rest of creation that he is granted the title "son of god".
if there was nothing before jehovah, all things are his creation and therefore should be on equal footing.
for jesus to truly be his son, jehovah, would have had to have created a goddess to copulate with, thereby creating a proper male/female relationship from which to form an offspring.
3 special things about Jesus:
1. Jesus is begotten, not made.
2. Jesus is God.
3. Jesus is the redeemer.
Edited by - willy_think on 6 July 2002 13:39:15
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Nice addition to the bible. No wonder it doesn't bother you to add gods.
sometimes political orientation is described through a left-right axis only, which is obviously inadequate as it tends to associate gandhi and stalin, and make pol pot a radical and hitler a conservative.. this is a good, short test that asks you a number of questions and places you on a two-dimensional axis.. take it here: http://www.digitalronin.f2s.com/politicalcompass/.
i took the test and got the following result:.
your political compass:economic left/right: -1.12. authoritarian/libertarian: -6.21. that is, centrist with a slight leftist bent, strongly libertarian.
Authoritarian | |||
Left | Right | ||
Libertarian |