Vidiot, my Mom was the same. She felt Jesus' example was sound, waiting to be an adult to make such an enormously important decision.
Another gem from my Dad on the CO... Dad told me "He comes to stir up trouble." :0/
so i've been pretty good at not going to meetings lately.
yesterday i went for the co's last talks.
older co. his last talk was absolutely shocking.
Vidiot, my Mom was the same. She felt Jesus' example was sound, waiting to be an adult to make such an enormously important decision.
Another gem from my Dad on the CO... Dad told me "He comes to stir up trouble." :0/
so i've been pretty good at not going to meetings lately.
yesterday i went for the co's last talks.
older co. his last talk was absolutely shocking.
In 2010, my Dad's CO told him "The young ones are leaving in droves." This is probably one of the reasons why they want to get them signed up so young.
there are plenty of scriptures pointing to the idea that the end was near according to the scriptures way back then.
example at act chapter 2 peter states were in the last days, at 1john chapter 2 in the last hour.
jesus stated he would be back before some of that generation died and of course the famous quote 'this generation'.
Interestingly enough, there are people on this Earth today, who have never read the Bible. Some are even believers. If you never read the Bible, would your life be any less for it? There are many who can attest to their lives being lived just fine without it. There are also people for hundreds of thousands of years in the past who never read it and there will be many, many more to come.
There seems to be this segment of the homo sapien species that loves to believe in made up ideas as factual and real, who, for some reason, do not wish to use logic, reason,and critical thinking. Fantasy can be fun (although end times ideas I would not classify that way) but it is not real. The other rather disturbing thing is that these 'believers' continue believing even when their fantasies fail. This is part of psychosis.
' i am the door: by me if any man enter in, he shall be saved, and shall go in and out, and find pasture.
does anyone have information on this door?
it is a wood door with book-matched veneer.
* Snicker* I'm-a go with a Hobbit door.
way to early on a saturday morning we got a ring on our doorbell.
someone else answered the door.
after they left i walked by our entry way and gagged from the smell!
a friend on facebook posted this.
this is how news should be reported!.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p979hai5qlk.
LOL! Love them. Hey, at least he's inside in the 2nd vid.
you see ive started dating this girl and her family is of strong jehova belief.
now i am not i do see certain things in there studie that is true in my opinion but ive never really been a religion type of person.
i think i want to marry her but i am not a jehovas witness and am not looking to be anytime at all she says that is ok and we can still get married but i dont know how its possible or where we would even do it please i need advice
RobertT18, that's pretty much the same thing that happened with my parents.
i've read the bible as many of you have.
a lot of it makes sense.
i just can't believe.
runForever, the Jesus story is largely, if not all, myth. Everything ever written about Jesus came from people who never even met him decades after his supposed death. Jesus himself wrote nothing down. If you have the time, a comparative study of the 4 Gospels will show they do not corroborate, but in fact, contradict each other. Here's a little taste on it from Bart Ehrman:
recently i saw a link to an article from the st. petersburg times (one of these links on the side of this forum to sometimes old articles).
it was an article about jws and their preaching work.
imo, middle to favorable.. but the one thing was from a door where the jws are saying they're not here to convert anyone, they just want to share a scripture.. what sort of bs is this?
in this video the popular saudi cleric sheik yahya al-jana discusses the joys of paradise, saying that men will have the strength of a hundred men in paradise and will be busy tearing hymens, while the virgins of paradise, whose breasts are like pomegranates, become virgins every time again.. the cleric also explains it is mostly men who enter paradise noting that women in general are bad because they refuse to wear the veil, they wear tight clothes in shopping malls, put on perfume and jewelry, and use filthy social media platforms.
source.... this is what young men from conservative muslim families are raised on.
is it any wonder islamic countries treat women appallingly?.