jaffacake
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How could Jehovah alter his musical taste so much?
by jaffacake insomeone told me that not so long ago it was to some extent unacceptable to listen to beatles music.
but now it is rap and heavy metal that is distasteful to jehovah.
i suppose it used to be rock&roll in the 1950s, and before that were bing crosby or glen miller the ones singing and playing the devil's music?
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Had study with witness today
by jaffacake intoday was probably about our seventh meeting.
he never got a quarter way through his agenda because of my questions & digressions.
i kept an open mind on doctrines.
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Why are there four gospels?
by jaffacake infor believers, if god uses the bible to communicate factual information, then why four gospels?
and why are they not in harmony with each other?
why not send down one record of the life of jesus as it really happened?
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One of the most important books I have read
by jaffacake inuntil about 4 years ago i could count on two hands the number of books i had read, i have never been a reader, i got enough of that at work!
i have read a lot since then, but for me personally, the most influential ones (you remember where you were when you first read them, and had to go back to them) were:
the bible
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What do JWs make of John 5:24?
by jaffacake inhow do they reconcile this with watchtower doctrine?
any thoughts?
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Plausible creation to salvation?
by jaffacake inthe genesis of a complex world of persons, by successive stages of emergence from blind primal energy, through the development of stable atomic compounds, self-replicating complex molecules, the development of cells within highly structured organisms, the formation of central nervous systems, culminating in conscious, free and responsible life-forms, seems to be a miracle of elegant design.
its beauty is breathtaking and its final purpose, revealed in christ - the transfiguration of all humanity into god, eventually, would be of absolutely overwhelming value.
(see ephesians 3:11 & 1:5)
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My daughters prayer to the holy spirit
by jaffacake inmy 11 year old daughter goes to a catholic school.
although i no longer despise that religion as the anti-christ, as i believed it was when i was a young aventist many years ago, i still do not participate.
i will let my kids make up their own minds.
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No paradise Earth?
by jaffacake ini was on the beth sarim jw reform site today and read some interesting threads from all sorts of folks, including some bible students (you know, of the ones that started off the watchtower but refused to follow the apostate rutherford when he succeeded in his legal coup for control when russell died).
i never could understand the doctrine of the paradise earth hope, which the jws seem to confuse with the millennial kingdom.
anyway, i stole a bit of someones post which i found interesting:there is not one scripture that relegates the hope for those who follow jesus in the narrow way to anything but heaven?
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A disturbing phone call
by jaffacake ini took a call from my best friends son tonight.
i am his godfather and watched him grow but i am his dads friend (calls me uncle) and thats the first time he ever phoned me.
he has just been offered a job where i work.
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If they weren't so worldly, then I might...
by jaffacake inafter a roman catholic childhood, i spent my teenage years becoming a seventh day adventist, being baptised by immersion at about 16 years old.
whatever i now think of their doctrine, i worshipped with lovely people who were truly christians.
if i need to find a congregation, even just to pay a one-off visit, it could be my local adventist hall, you never know.