by JanH 32 Replies latest jw friends
Great post, JanH!!!!
Clearly the answer to the question is Gospel of Hate. What really P*sses me Off about the JWs and other religions is that while they claim to preach love, they have no tolerance toward others and they give sh*tty excuses like:"We don't hate the person, we hate what the person does."
Well, I will just take joy in seeing all these cults (JWs are not the only ones) look like fools when Armageddon doesn't occur and never will.
Great thread, JanH!
and Blondie, thanks for the research you did.
I am embarrassed to say that I used to belong to such a narrow-minded, judgemental group of people. They can't even see beyond their self-rightoues, narrow-minded, judgemental attidues to know they are in a CULT.
(ohhhh, can you feel the love???? )
j2bf
Here is a rather graphic Watchtower description of what will happen to Christians and others, who refuse to join Watchtower's “theocratic warfare”. It is from one of Watchtower's children's books: :
"A flesh-eating plague will destroy many. . . . Eaten up will be the tongues of those who scoffed and laughed at the warning of Armageddon! Eaten up will be the eyes of those who refused to see the sign of the "time of the end"! Eaten up will be the flesh of those who would not learn that the living and true God is named Jehovah! Eaten up while they stand on their feet!" (From Paradise Lost to Paradise Regained, 1958, p. 209)
Christianity at its core is a Jekyll and Hyde affair. It was borne out of hostility and oppression. Hundreds of years of militant Jewish idealism followed by unspeakable horrors left an indelible mark of the new faith. Christians, like their Jewish predecessors, wished for peace and love but more often than not practiced intolerance and inflexibility. Peaceful Christians, if not an oxymoron, are an anomaly. Most all Christian faiths speak a good game about peace but harbor fantasies of hellfire or world destruction.
I think Charles Tase Russell was at heart a near universalist and that JWs should get back to their universalist roots. At one time it was Bible Student/JW understanding that millions of non believers would survive Armageddon and that even Adam had a chance in the resurrection. We should get back to that mentality, because God can do anything he wishes, and the Bible clearly states that God wishes all to attain to repentance and be saved.
We should get back to that mentality,......
Who are 'we'? Are you yet feigning being a JW?
the Bible clearly states that God wishes all to attain to repentance and be saved.
That phrase is lifted from a pseudonymously written epistle offering an excuse for the destruction of the world to not yet have happened as promised. It amounts to the very same thing as the WT overlapping generation drivel. The writer of 2 Peter wasn't renouncing the destruction of the world but by indefinitely delaying the promised destruction for the sake of a vaguely defined greater good rendered the original promise effectively meaningless.
Christianity at its core is a Jekyll and Hyde affair. It was borne out of hostility and oppression.
Wrong PP,
It was born when a man rose from the dead and presented himself to hundreds of people in the heart of Judaism - Jerusalem; after being publicly crucified and buried three days previously and after predicting that he would raise himself from the dead.
It is this event that radically changed the course of world history. God himself penetrated human history in a very dramatic way, pulling off a feat that ONLY God could do.
2 Peter is one of my favourite Bible books. Maybe it was written by Peter, maybe it wasn’t, it’s still great either way. It says God wants everyone to repent and live, but it’s not alone, there are plenty of other verses that say similar.
Most all Christian faiths speak a good game about peace but harbor fantasies of hellfire or world destruction.
It's not in human nature to desire suffering or destruction on others. Notice how non-believers question Godly punishment and how believers have difficulty with it too.
But tribalism is indeed part of human nature and it clearly permeated into religion a long time ago.
Delightedly we can observe that the FLESH that has actually been EATEN UP belonged to the nattering nabobs of negativism who dispensed this bilge, some almost literally so, dying of cancer.
C'mon, give me a smile! It is a good thing when these guys take their dirt naps. Let there be dancing in the streets!
PS - JanH was one of the GREAT apostates.
