by dr. mark eastman.
" a proper understanding of this issue not only provides great insight into the nature of god, it ties together a comprehensive understanding to some of life's ultimate questions: the answers to my origin, meaning, morality and destiny!.
the christian worldview is an impractical, even phony, view of the cosmos because it embraces a god who is either incapable of stopping evil and suffering, and he is therefore not omnipotent, or is unwilling to do so and therefore a devil!.
When a person uses a book in this case The Bible to support their argument it is for believers of The Bible. And so, your logic which is based on your belief in The Bible fits as an answer to the question of evil.
Those who don't believe in the bible and consider it to be written by men and not from God need different answers other than the ones used in The Bible as an end to all ends to the question of evil.
Blueblades
as you know, blondie took a hiatus due to illness and she is still not at 100%.
watchtower scans are needed now since they are not easily available.. would anyone be interested in helping here?.
is the watchtower summary, as blondie has developed it, still of interest here??
Also, isn't " Announcing Jehovah's Kingdom" suppose to be the theme of the watchtower. When was the last time we saw a meatier edition on this theme?
It seems to me that all they write about now in the study articles has nothing to do with announcing Jehovah's Kingdom. With the special edition, for your eyes only rank and file studies, it seems to me that all they do is berate the friends into submission.
Do more, your not doing enough, stop missing meetings or else, the end is very ,very near , sooner than you think. We are not annoucing Jehovah's Kingdom anymore just get with the program type studies. No more meat, only pablum.
We have to sift through the pablum to bring out the meat of what is not being said. So, yes, let's keep it going.
Blueblades
as you know, blondie took a hiatus due to illness and she is still not at 100%.
watchtower scans are needed now since they are not easily available.. would anyone be interested in helping here?.
is the watchtower summary, as blondie has developed it, still of interest here??
Yes! I'm not computer savvy enough to be of any help, ( only by way of some responses I may make ). The way V and you did it was good enough. I think that there is much support with the responses that we get after "Comments" is posted that it should continue. Especially now that the society has a "For Your Eyes ( he rank and file ) Only Edition".
Blueblades
this week begins a very special feature of wt comments.. the visiting speakers.
check in on thanksgiving for this week's lesson, deliverance from the traps of the birdcatcher.
conducted by our very own minimus.. .
I thought the theme of the watchtower was and is,"The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah's Kingdom". When was the last time the watchtower included this theme? Its mostly been about keeping the rank and file in line. You can't and should not do this or that. Do more, do more, stop missing meetings! The end is near, very near, so very very near, nearer than you think.
Where are the meatier thought provoking watchtower articles on announcing Jehovah's Kingdom?
Blueblades
this was on our local news tonight: http://ydr.inyork.com/ci_7556263.
blaze burns windsor twp.
churchdaily record/sunday newsarticle last updated: 11/25/2007 04:33:59 pm est 4:33 pmnov 25, 2007 a fire destroyed a jehovah's witnesses church near red lion sunday morning.
Nvr. Thanks for the link to the video. There will be an investigation to determine if it was arson or accidental or poor work done.
Blueblades
this was on our local news tonight: http://ydr.inyork.com/ci_7556263.
blaze burns windsor twp.
churchdaily record/sunday newsarticle last updated: 11/25/2007 04:33:59 pm est 4:33 pmnov 25, 2007 a fire destroyed a jehovah's witnesses church near red lion sunday morning.
It is good that no one was in the building at the time. The society is in a win win situation. They will send the friends to another hall, which will inconvenience some and the elders and ministerial servants will sit back with no responsibilities in the other hall, unless the elders and servants want to share the work load. Then if the society wants to they will rebuild two day quick build, with the regional committee deciding the date to do it.The society will collect twice, one from insurance and one from the friends as they donate a sum of money to go to the world wide work fund and special money to go to the building work.
Or the society could just do nothing and the circuit overseer could ask to have the congregation split into two other congrgations and the society could sell off the property to christendom.
Am I missing something here? Or, is that about the way it will go?
Blueblades
id like to help metaspy and others out on helping them overcome the manipulative language of the society.
when it happens, we have no time to come back with a snappy answer.
but maybe we can help in the future how the manipulative language is wrong, and how to clear the destructive fog (fear obligation guilt) in our heads.. do you think my retorts would help?
Jgnat. Good conversation stoppers!
Blueblades
here's the latest cost-cutting move: the society is going to stop producing audio versions of its magazines on disk, and instead make them available as downloadable mp3 files from [somewhere, probably watchtower.org] on the internet.
i haven't seen the letter, but our po gave me a heads-up on it.
the letter will be read to the congregations this week.. so, thousands of good jws who were convinced "satan lives on the internet" will now be scrambling to get their dsl lines so they can be able to listen to the latest magazines.
Sir82 Thank you for that update information. I will be on ( the watch and awake ) for it.
Blueblades
deliverance from the traps of the birdcatcher.
"[jehovah] himself will deliver you from the trap of the birdcatcher.
the trap of personal differences.
MinimusImagine if you conducted the Watchtower in the past knowing what you know now. You have an art at getting to the real question at hand.
Blueblades
talk was about appreciating jehovah's provisions, something like that.... the po gave the talk.
apparently, after the last co visit, our congo got a letter from headquarters, informing us that our numbers are wayyyy down.
several inactive publishers, several more irregular, poor meeting attendance, and our hourly average is less than the national average (8.3 compared to 9.9).
The special needs talk needs to be given one on one not to those who are in attendence. However , there is nothing special about it. They want more numbers and more money, they could care less about you.
