Dogpatch, a treat that you popped in my thread. I owe you some writing. It will be different than how I first intended. Now I want people to laugh.
Still Thinking, I am glad you liked it. I am totally hooked on TED now. I do try and link what matters. My dread is that I bore people to death.
JWOP, the point is that Jesus fully expected his disciples to run in to persecution the first time he sent them out. That it happened later might be called a self-fulfilling prophecy, sort of like Rutherford predicting persecution by Christendom.
You know, this time of questioning everything can be blamed on the Jehovah's Witnesses. I knew they were wrong. Finding out why forced me to re-evaluate my own firmly held beliefs.