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Is Blind Obedience to group of men supported by Scripture?
by nugget ini have been pondering over the demands made by the governing body for absolute loyalty and unquestioning obedience to their interpretation of scripture.
is this a reasonable request and is it in line with scripture?
alternatively is there in fact a scriptural defence for taking personal responsibility for beliefs and having a questioning attitude when being told what is to be believed.. there are ample scriptural warnings about trusting in men psalm 146 v 3 warns us not to put our trust in nobles or earthly men and galatians 1 v 8 goes even further stating that even if an angel were to preach to us something contrary to the teachings of christ it should be ignored.
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"you will always have the poor with you" - John 12:8
by EdenOne in"you will always have the poor among you, but you will not always have me.
" - john 12:8. how is this compatible with the notion of a future paradise on earth, [end of history] where the poverty will be eliminated forever?.
comments, anyone?.
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Beware Independent Thought
by poess inis that for real?
i swear i read it in a magazine article directed towards teenagers.
it was a while back, maybe a year or two.
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Supernatural Or Coincidence? YOU Decide.
by Cold Steel inokay, this is pretty weird.
is it really supernatural?
or is it just my imagination?.
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Do Animals Have Souls?
by Cold Steel ini know most jehovah's witnesses believe in the soul sleeping doctrine.
by this, given that neither man nor beast has a spirit, but that they do possess souls (or "intelligences" unique to themselves).
where this intelligence resides between death and resurrection is more than a passing interest, but again, assuming that yehweh can recreate one's distict soul, does the society believe that animals have souls?
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Jesus: The latest Myth in the history of Sun-God Myths
by VivaVegas ini wanted to share with you all information that you may find helpful in your quest for real truth as it pertains to god and religion.
"jesus" is just the latest sun-god in mankind's long history of sun-gods.
a belief-system which in itself stems from mankinds first true religion, worship of the sun and stars.
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Believers and Non-Believers - What does this scripture mean?
by cantleave ingenesis 30:37-39english standard version (esv).
37 then jacob took fresh sticks of poplar and almond and plane trees, and peeled white streaks in them, exposing the white of the sticks.
38 he set the sticks that he had peeled in front of the flocks in the troughs, that is, the watering places, where the flocks came to drink.
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Do any of you know of a religion that does not believe in the Trinoity?
by orbison11 ini have such internal conflict on the trinity,,,i do not believe it,,,i dont know if it is jw brainwashing.
or if logically thinking applies here.
help :).
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What is faith?
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If you believe in Gods laws why dont you go live in Saudi Arabia ?
by mP ini think we all know that shariah law is basically mohammads copy of the torah, with minor edits.
slavery, womens inequality, anti homosexuality are obviously written in the same spirit.
so believers why dont you go live in saudi arabia if yo u believe gods law is perfect or at the last useful ?.