You can use out-of-context scriptures and warped logic to prove anything

by ballistic 17 Replies latest jw friends

  • Mad Sweeney
    Mad Sweeney

    Here's one for you.

    Prove to us that places of worship with windows are inferior to places of worship without windows, ESPECIALLY if the windows have colored glass.

    (Great, fun idea for a thread ballistic!)

  • still thinking
    still thinking

    That cat one is brilliant. The spelling thing stood out (even to me and I'm not the best speller). But the rest of it was so well done I reakon if you handed it out at a kingdom hall and told them all it was new light everyone would be getting rid of their cats asap. (please don't do that, I wouldn't want to see any cats harmed in the making of that article)

  • ballistic
    ballistic

    The world is at the centre of the universe for NomadSoul:

    It is apparent from the book of Isaiah that the universe is at the centre of all God's creation and at the centre of the entire universe. God even describes the earth as his "footstool" which would be central to God's throne and not on the periphery.

    Isaiah 66:1

    "Thus saith Jehovah, Heaven is my throne, and the earth is my footstool: what manner of house will ye build unto me? and what place shall be my rest?"

    Just to make it abundently clear, Isaiah also points out that the heavens stretch out FROM the earth like a canopy and not vice versa...

    Isaiah 40:22

    He sits enthroned above the circle of the earth, and its people are like grasshoppers. He stretches out the heavens like a canopy, and spreads them out like a tent to live in.

    So as we can see, the bible makes it abundantly clear that the earth is at the centre of the universe...

  • mynameislame
    mynameislame

    OK, well I don't know if the flat earth society use scripture but here goes...

    Don't forget the one when Jesus saw all the kingdoms of the earth from an unusually high mountain.

    Although are these out of context? And if we didn't know the earth was a globe would the logic be warped?

    I think the Flat Earth Society does a better job at using the bible to prove that the earth is flat than the JWs do at using it to show that the writers knew that the earth is a globe.

  • NomadSoul
    NomadSoul

    Ballistic... Well.... Maybe.... lol

    Check this guy out:

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Sungenis

    Sungenis has become known for his advocacy of geocentrism. He believes that physics and the Bible prove that the sun and all the planets orbit the Earth and that the Earth does not rotate. In support of his beliefs, Sungenis published the book Galileo Was Wrong in the hope that people will "give Scripture its due place and show that science is not all it's cracked up to be." The theory is dismissed by mainstream scientists. [ 15 ]

  • RADHESYAM
    RADHESYAM

    Geocentric theory is still accepted by millions of people.

    Personally, after all doing my own research over a decade on the subject - I cannot fault it.

    Heres a great video demonstrating it:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0yzH2n7MLM8

    Oh and YES this is all based on scripture- the Hindu Srimad Bhagavatam.

  • ballistic
    ballistic

    Actually, after I posted why the earth is at the centre of the universe, I suddenly realised how compelling this is, "He sits enthroned above the circle of the earth", firstly because god must be at the centre of the universe and secondly if you believe that the earth circles the sun, then god has to be whizzing round the sun on some kind of orbiting throne??? :O

  • ballistic
    ballistic

    NomadSoul, this, I admit is difficult and I'm not sure if this is too much of a time consuming game but here goes...

    It is clear in the bible that we must stay focused on the kingdom of god and as Paul heeded, to keep our eyes on the prize (Philippians 3.7-14). Avoiding all outside distractions to put first the king and his kingdom, we also strive to keep our lamp lit as Jesus admonished in Matthew 25, thus also in our houses of worship we have lamps to illuminate and no distracting windows which lead to wordly thoughts.

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