I don't know about you, but when I was a witness, I thought I always had to have the answers, and if I didn't, I'd get them from the Elders. You were a JW right?
Yes, I was a JW and felt exactly like you do. The WTS provides or at least tries to provide answers to EVERYTHING. When I left the org, that was one of the arguments my parents gave me... "well, you won't be happy because you won't have answers to everything any more!" lol
and you can at some point 'become like god'
So Satan's big lie in the Garden of Eden is not a lie after all... ?
They won't argue doctrine. If you try, they say "Pray to God and ask him, he'll let you know the truth". How do you fight with something like that?? Haha, it's all very funny if you think about it. I hate that JWs will argue till death, and it drives me nuts the LDS won't argue at all. There needs to be a happy medium.
Heh... that explains why I was never successful when "arguing" with LDS missionaries when they came to my door. (I was still a JW at this point.) Yeah, how can you possibly counter the "pray to god and he'll give you a feeling" argument.
I don't know what their view on this one is, but I would guess faith. If we had solid proof it'd be too easy for us.
And that's what JWs teach about Noah's Ark. "If humans actually found the ark then we wouldn't need faith!" That is a really lame cop-out. I always hated that line of reasoning even as a JW. It's just way too convenient of an explanation.
I know more about that religion than most of them do
No doubt! I think it sometimes ruins it though. It's easier to be involved in a religion when you're "blissfully ignorant." But after leaving the JWs I won't ever let that happen again.
his was written in Revelations, and the writer was speaking of the book of revelations in itself. not God's word in it's entirety. How do I know this? Because Revelations wasn't the last book written :)
Yeah, that's basically how I've had Mormons refute that argument. Actually the quote is not from Revelation but from Galations 1:8. Also, I think the argument is flawed. The bible doesn't say "declare something AFTER this" but it says "declare something BEYOND this". I think that's different. The BoM goes way beyond the bible as far as what reward humans will receive for being good Christians. The books of the bible written after Galations still talk about the same reward.
Interesting discussion...
