before the flood it is said by the jws that people did not eat meat and the animals did not eat each other.
consider the following two points:.
god provided adam and eve clothing made of animal skins.
Animals were being killed before the Flood, but not eaten. Why?
Seems like a waste to me.
Jehovah did not say you can not eat flesh. (I think) He just said you can eat vegetation.
Why did Jehovah give permision to eat flesh after the flood ? I think it was because flesh was being eaten anyway.
Animals were not in fear of man before the flood, after the flood they were.
Jehovah gave animals some instinct to survive from all the hungry humans, and now he figured the animals had a fair chance.
i thought of this topic when i was looking at the new memorial invitation.. jesus is pictured, as usual as a caucasian, and there are good reasons for him to be portrayed as such.. angels or other spirit beings however, are also portrayed as only caucasian in the ivory tower literature .. i don't remember seeing any other races portrayed as angels .i threw away all my litterature.. do you ?.
if i'm not wrong, the watchtower is a racist orginazation.. .
Thanks for the replies.
I guess I'm showing my faded age. I never seen that picture is it real ?
Why would they show an angel as a female?
I thought angels always manifested themselves as male.
This now makes me wonder were there female nephilim? oooooo la la !
i thought of this topic when i was looking at the new memorial invitation.. jesus is pictured, as usual as a caucasian, and there are good reasons for him to be portrayed as such.. angels or other spirit beings however, are also portrayed as only caucasian in the ivory tower literature .. i don't remember seeing any other races portrayed as angels .i threw away all my litterature.. do you ?.
if i'm not wrong, the watchtower is a racist orginazation.. .
I Thought of this topic when I was looking at the new memorial invitation.
Jesus is pictured, as usual as a caucasian, and there are good reasons for him to be portrayed as such.
Angels or other spirit beings however, are also portrayed as only caucasian in the ivory tower literature .
I don't remember seeing any other races portrayed as angels .I threw away all my litterature.
Do you ?
If I'm not wrong, the Watchtower is a racist orginazation.
17) Can you imagine the feeling of confidence that the Israelites must have had as they thought back on that pillar of cloud by day and the pillar of fire by night? It was evidence that "the angel of the true God" was guiding their journey. (Exodus 13: 21, 22; 14:19) Today, we can have confidence that Jehovah is with his people to guide, protect, and deliver them.
We to can look back with feelings of confidence in the organization that Jehovah is using on earth today !
Let us examine the past direction, guidance and date setting they have used, and in this way we can be sure our delverance is at hand.
Why you ask? Because they say so that's why ! Now shut up and do as you're told.
looking at the questions to go over for the blood video, it looks like and i have heard in the past how the wts expounds about the medical positives of not taking blood, and rails against blood for all the problems, diseases, and the fact that it does not always work........... the real question is....... why do they even waste time on that if the issue is supposed to be a biblical/scriptural restriction.?.
even if taking blood was the best thing in the world for you , the wts stance is that the bible and jehovah forbid it, end of story.
there is really no need to try to convince people who want to supposedly follow jehovah's command to abstain from blood.
the WTS expounds about the medical positives of not taking blood, and rails against blood for all the problems, diseases, and the fact that it does not always work
I find this funny, they trust the medical experts with anything negative about blood,
however they don't trust the same people if they say anything positive about blood.
Has anyone seen this on the Jehovah's Witnesses Official Web Site under the blood section.
When doctors transplant a heart, a liver, or another organ, the recipient's immune system may sense the foreign tissue and reject it. Yet, a transfusion is a tissue transplant. Even blood that has been "properly" cross matched can suppress the immune system.
They admit that blood is a tissue transplant.
i'm a baptized member considered ''inactive.
'' i don't hand in ''service reports'',attend maybe 3 meetings a month,ain't signed up for the ministry school and will never attend any convention or the ''book study.
'' always make the ''memorial.
Baptized, inactive for about 10 years. Shunned by everyone except mom and dad.
The elders said it was OK for mom and dad to talk to me, they need me to help them since they are aged.
Way to go Honesty !!
my first post was a few days ago now, and finally my heart has stopped pounding whenever i log on.. :-).
so, i have been in the truth all my life, 3rd generation witness, never left, never been in trouble, pioneered for years, and am a respected member of my congregation.
at the moment.
If anyone can see a flaw in my logic, please tell me... I'm really interested in hearing other ideas on this...
No flaw.
It's hard to trust your own instincts, when you have been taught all your life to trust someone elses.
Jesus had an idea that I like:
Mark 7: 14
Again Jesus called the crowd to him and said, "Listen to me, everyone, and understand this. 15 Nothing outside a man can make him 'unclean' by going into him. Rather, it is what comes out of a man that makes him 'unclean.' "
17 After he had left the crowd and entered the house, his disciples asked him about this parable. 18 "Are you so dull?" he asked. "Don't you see that nothing that enters a man from the outside can make him 'unclean'? 19 For it doesn't go into his heart but into his stomach, and then out of his body." (In saying this, Jesus declared all foods "clean.")
during the time of the israelites, non-israelites with no connection to the nation could have a relationship with jehovah; for example, job.. there also appears no lasting benefit to being an israelite, as all people will receive a resurrection.. the watchtower uses the israelites as evidence that jehovah needs an earthly organization.
however, the only real purpose of the israelite nation that i can see was it led to christ.
is the nation of isreal really an indication jehovah requires an earthly organization?.
Good question, to me it seemed like being an Israelite was nothing but trouble.
There also appears no lasting benefit to being an Israelite, as all people will receive a resurrection..
Seems unfair, but then again maybe the 144,000 are chosen from the 12 tribes of Israel like the bible says.
Was there any benefit to being an Israelite?
No benefit after Christ. No benefit in world war II. History remembers them as killing Jesus!
...in all fiction:jealous and proud of it; petty, unjust, unforgiving, control freak; a vindictive, bloodthirsty, ethnic cleanser; a misogynistic, homophobic, racist, infanticidal, genocidal, filicidal, pestilential, megalomaniacal, sadomasochistic, capriciously malevent bully.
", says richard dawkins in the god delusion p51.
he goes on to say, "those of us schooled from infancy in his ways can become desensitized to their horror".. would you agree?.
I want a God on my side who will kick some ass.
Who wants a pussy God ?
they receive a ressurection like christ's don't they?
why don't their bodies dematerialize like christ's did?.
i've been out of jw land so long, i forget when does the 144,000 ressurection start?.
This was something my father-in law (now deceased) always would bring up, he was disfellowshipped and I was still a dub.
He would say "until I see their bodies disappear I don't believe they went to heaven".
1918 huh, 90 years in heaven preparing to rule, what's that all about ?
