This topic was brought up in my hall recently. The elder presented a biblical verse that states if one's action were to affect a brothers perspective it would be a sin against the holy spirit, which is considered a significant sin. Though the JW are given the option to obtain blood fractions it would not be supported by the JW. Basically the blood fractions is a sin even though its an option given on the blood card.
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Blood Fractions and Your Conscience
by FairMind infor arguments sake lets assume that the wts teachings that the bibles prohibition against blood is valid with regard to accepting a transfusion.
jws are now being told that while they cannot accept whole blood or whole blood components such as red blood cells, white blood cells and blood plasma, they can if their conscience permits accept blood fractions.
i have thought quite a bit about how and why the accepting of some blood fractions and not others is supposedly a conscience matter.
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Faiths Ask of Quake: 'Why Did You Do This, God?'
by homme perdu inby peter graff
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it is one of the oldest, most profound questions, posed by some of the most learned minds of every faith throughout the course of human history.
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"It is a sign of the last days," she said.
JW are not the only ones that feel this way. All Christian denominations that use the rapture in their doctrine would think the same.
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to post your name at the end of every comment
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Faiths Ask of Quake: 'Why Did You Do This, God?'
by homme perdu inby peter graff
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it is one of the oldest, most profound questions, posed by some of the most learned minds of every faith throughout the course of human history.
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By Peter Graff
LONDON (Reuters) - It is one of the oldest, most profound questions, posed by some of the most learned minds of every faith throughout the course of human history.
It was put eloquently this week by an old woman in a devastated village in southern India's Tamil Nadu state. "Why did you do this to us, God?" she wailed. "What did we do to upset you?" Perhaps no event in living memory has confronted so many of the world's great religions with such a basic test of faith as this week's tsunami, which indiscriminately slaughtered Indonesian Muslims, Indian Hindus, Thai and Sri Lankan Buddhists and tourists who were Christians and Jews.
In temples, mosques, churches and synagogues across the globe, clerics are being called upon to explain: How could a benevolent god visit such horror on ordinary people?
Traditionalists of diverse faiths described the destruction as part of god's plan, proof of his power and punishment for human sins.
"This is an expression of God's great ire with the world," Israeli chief rabbi Shlomo Amar told Reuters. "The world is being punished for wrongdoing -- be it people's needless hatred of each other, lack of charity, moral turpitude."
Pandit Harikrishna Shastri, a priest of New Delhi's huge marble and sandstone Birla Hindu temple, told Reuters the disaster was caused by a "huge amount of pent-up man-made evil on earth" and driven by the positions of the planets.
Azizan Abdul Razak, a Muslim cleric and vice president of Malaysia's Islamic opposition party, Parti Islam se-Malaysia, said the disaster was a reminder from god that "he created the world and can destroy the world."
Sheikh Ibrahim Mogra, a leading British Muslim cleric from Leicester in England said: "We believe that God has ultimate controlling power over his entire creation. We have a responsibility to try and attract god's kindness and mercy and not do anything that would attract his anger."
END OF TIME?
Many faiths believe that disasters foretell the end of time or the coming of a Messiah. Some Christians expect chaos and destruction as foretold in the Bible's final book, Revelations.
Maria, a 32-year-old Jehovah's Witness in Cyprus who believes that the apocalypse is coming said people who once slammed the door in her face were stopping to listen.
"It is a sign of the last days," she said.
But for others, such calamities can prompt a repudiation of faith. Secularist Martin Kettle wrote in Britain's Guardian newspaper that the tsunamis should force people to "ask if the God can exist that can do such things?" -- or if there is no God, just nature.
"This poses no problem for the scientific belief system. Here, it says, was a mindless natural event which destroyed Muslim and Hindu alike," he wrote. "A non-scientific belief system, especially one that is based on any kind of notion of a divine order, has some explaining to do, however."
It is a question that clergy have to deal with nearly every day, not just at times of great catastrophe but when providing consolation for the daily sorrows of life, said U.S. Rabbi Daniel Isaak, of Congregation Neveh Shalom, in Portland, Oregon.
"It is really difficult to believe in a God that not only creates a tsunami that kills 50 or 60 thousand people, but that puts birth defects in children," he said. "Often the first question people ask on an individual basis is that question that that Indian woman asked. Why is God doing this to me?"
In one modern view, he said, God does not interfere in the affairs of his creation. Disasters like the tsunami occur for the natural reasons scientists say they do.
"This is not something that God has done. God hasn't picked out a certain group of people in a certain area of the world and said: 'I am going to punish them,"' he said.
"The world has certain imperfections built into the natural order, and we have to live with them. The issue isn't 'Why did God do this to us?' but 'How do we human beings care for one another?"'
Greek Orthodox Theologian Costas Kyriakides in Cyprus expressed a similar view.
"I personally don't attach any theological significance to this -- I listen to what the scientists say," he said. "God is always the fall guy. We incriminate Him completely unjustly."
(Additional reporting by Michele Kambas in Cyprus, Dan Williams in Jerusalem and Reuters correspondents in New Delhi and Kuala Lumpur
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Ladies and Gentlemen, Your True God, "El/Yah"
by ColdRedRain inhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/el_(god) .
in the tanakh ?elohim is the normal word for a god or the great god (or gods).
but the form ?el also appears, mostly in poetic passages and in the partiarchal narratives attributed to the p source according the documentary hypothesis.
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So this proves Judaism & Christianity are invalid?
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Unaffected by Holidays
by homme perdu inwho here are not affected by holidays?
i am not, perhaps because i was raised under the jw doctine but i do not view them as evil as the jw do.
for those that have not been informed i no longer believe in the jw doctrine.
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Who here are not affected by holidays? I am not, perhaps because I was raised under the JW doctine but I do not view them as evil as the JW do. For those that have not been informed I no longer believe in the JW doctrine. I dont view holidays as an important factor to my development as a human.
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The Rapture
by homme perdu in1859 british minister john nelson darby begins preaching in america.
he would create an ingenious theology known as premillennial dispensationalism, which remains the dominant eschatological system in christianity today.
"dispensationalism" refers to darby's belief that human history can be divided into a series of epochs, or dispensations, in which god has dealt with humanity in different ways.
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lv4fer you deny the fact that Darby created the belief of the rapture?
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What does the Watchtower gain...
by homme perdu in.
by recruiting new members,expanding.
is it money?
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by recruiting new members,expanding. Is it money?
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Earth Doomed
by homme perdu inhave any of you considered that what ever relationship humanity has with god, eventually the earth would be devoured by the sun.
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Have any of you considered that what ever relationship humanity has with god, eventually the earth would be devoured by the sun.
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The Rapture
by homme perdu in1859 british minister john nelson darby begins preaching in america.
he would create an ingenious theology known as premillennial dispensationalism, which remains the dominant eschatological system in christianity today.
"dispensationalism" refers to darby's belief that human history can be divided into a series of epochs, or dispensations, in which god has dealt with humanity in different ways.
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Deputy
i wanted to inform others of the origen of this "prophecy".