hamilcarr
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God --- Artist or Engineer?
by hamilcarr ini've been wondering whether god should be seen as an artist or an engineer.
the hebrew verb commonly translated as 'created' in genesis 1:1 bears the meaning of 'to cut out', hinting at god being a sculptor.
in its endeavour to imitate scientific language, the intelligent design movement, on the other hand, wants us to believe that god is an engineer who consciously designed the entire universe.
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Objections To Evolution
by hamilcarr injust curious: are there any objections to evolutionary biology beside these refuted on wikipedia:.
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3objections to evolution's scientific acceptance3.1evolution is just a theory, not a fact3.2evolution is controversial or contested4objections to evolution's scientific status4.1evolution is a religion4.2evolution is unfalsifiable5objections to evolution's evidence5.1evolution has never been observed5.2past evidence for evolution has been overturned5.3evolution's evidence is unreliable or inconsistent6objections to evolution's plausibility6.1life is too unlikely to arise by chance6.2evolution does not explain certain human behaviors7objections to evolution's possibility7.1evolution cannot create complex structures7.2evolution cannot create information7.3evolution violates the second law of thermodynamics8objections to evolution's morality8.1evolution says that humans are animals8.2evolution leads to immorality and social ills8.3evolution leads to atheism .
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Christian Unity --- At What Cost?
by hamilcarr inmany leave the wts organisation because they are in search of christian freedom, while others stay within because they're proud of being a part of a group which displays christian unity, even though they often doubt some of the decisions of the gb.
i think it's hard to deny that jws demonstrate a remarkable unity in both doctrinal issues and everyday topics.. what do the concepts "christian unity" (1 cor 1:10) and "christian freedom" (ga 5:13) mean to you and how do they relate to one another?
are these terms not mutually exclusive, hence, is it possible to be really free if you are required to be "fitly united in the same mind and in the same line of thought' (nwt)?.
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Sirona's God and the Perspectivist Approach
by hamilcarr inour culturally biassed and contextual image of god is that of a male being, omnipotent, eternal, and existing outside the created world.
sirona introduced me to a new type of god (maybe one without caps, i'm not sure): a divinity who is human-like, framed within the human perspective, subject to suffering, growing and dying, like anything else in the visible universe.. isn't it time to face the fact that our western image of god is nothing more than our perspective on god with all its negative and positive aspects included?
why do we need to prove the existence of our god if it's only the perspective we feel comfortable with?
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What Does An Ultimately Cruel Universe Reveal About God?
by hamilcarr inan interesting unanswered question raised by inkling in my thread on creation and god, which i'd like to devote a separate thread to: i would love to hear from some of the resident fundamentalists on this one.... why did got create a achingly beautiful, but ultimately cruel and twisted universe?.
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What Does Creation Reveal About God?
by hamilcarr inthe latest wt issue has on its front page the question 'what does creation reveal about god'?
the articles contain 'evidence' that it's possible to learn more about god's invisible qualities by observing his visible creation, thereby refuting the agnostic argument 'seeing is believing'.
by the way, that's what biologists have been doing for the last couple of centuries but it hasn't brought them closer to theism.
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Governing Body as Jehovah God revealed in latest WT study
by hamilcarr inthe watchtower study of this week (15/2) is entitled 'jesus christ - the greatest missionary'.
compare the following phrases on the modern-day identity of jehovah and jesus:.
as one of jehovah's witnesses, however, you likely think of the missionaries sent out by the governing body to preach the food news in various lands around the earth.. concerning his heavenly father, though, jesus christ said: "i am a representative from him, and that one sent me forth.
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On Royal Priesthood, Faithful and Discreet Slave, Nietzsche and Babylon
by hamilcarr ina juxtaposition:.
man is not capable of knowing by himself what is good and evil, therefore god taught him his will.
moral: the priest does not lie; the question of true and untrue does not exist in the matters about which priests speak; these matters do not allow one to lie at all.
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what is the official JW view on bible students?
by hamilcarr inwhile visiting some bible students sites, i wondered what the official jw view on these organizations is.
are they part of babylon the great simply because of refuting the post-1916 developments and the governing body?
as far as i know, they do not adhere to any of the false teachings jw like to refer to in debunking the rcc and traditional protestantism, such as hellfire, trinity, immortal soul.
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Dynamic Energy
by hamilcarr inthe hebrew word 'onim' (gen. pl.
of root form 'own') is rendered as 'dynamic energy' in the nwt.
most other translations use words like 'strength', 'might' and 'force', and these are very close to the latin rendering 'fortitudinis'.