if his message was to be followed like a rule book, wouldn't he have written down some things with his own hand?.
Only God knows the day and hour. No one else knows, not even the Son.
Those who consider themselves "wise" are supposed to be confused. Good for filtering out 'false prophets'.
Plus it apparently wasn't in the plan for him to be a novelist. Teachers speak and students take notes.
if his message was to be followed like a rule book, wouldn't he have written down some things with his own hand?.
The Jewish tradition was to teach orally and pass down teachings orally.
They had written scrolls. Jesus opened the scroll and read a verse from it. If he could read, he could write.
if his message was to be followed like a rule book, wouldn't he have written down some things with his own hand?.
That's what disciples (students) are for.
the thing is, a lot of us thought we'd never die.
do you comprehend what a truly massive mind-fuck that is?
when i was embroiled in doubts and knew i was heading 'out of the truth' i remember waves of nausea hitting me.
Fine with me.
I figured it would have been easier to gain 'the prize' had I been chased by crazy mobs, sawed in half, or eaten by lions ... for JWs, the words "undeserved kindness" are completely lost and who ever is made to feel good enough?
In my dreams (even when young) I was always looking down at the earth, not on it playing with critters and such. Strange.
I realized what is most important is what is in my heart, how I treat others, and how I live my life.
the official wt stance is that these horsemen began their ride in 1914.. at the time i began my "bible study" with the jw's, i bought into that with all the zeal of an old testament prophet.. however, i submit if those horsemen set out in 1914, they either lost their way and vanished, or the horses ditched their riders and returned to their stables.. what say you?.
sylvia.
I always figured it was much earlier like beubonic (sp?) plague days.
I never had much fath in numerology, so the dates pretty much mean nothing to me.
will it happen at once the world over?.
will jw's be told to be at certain areas during that 'hour'?.
what about the df'd who might happen to be among jw's?.
I'm not sure if it will start all at once. I DO know, however, (from actual pictures in The Orange Book) that all children who fidgeted at the Kingdom Hall and pinched their little brother making him cry out disturbing the entire congregation will be swallowed up by a humongous crack that will open up in the ground. This will be just the start of Armageddon.
Haaaa! OMG! You remember that 50's type propoganda spread too! To think, its takes a sick mind to draw such.
"As a thief in the night".
NT - Rev has "fire" as the source of destruction but the WTS has always shown pictures of people being sucked up by earthquakes. Kinda like a Sodom and Gomorrah type deal but world-wide.
romans 10:9,10.
"...if you confess with your mouth jesus as lord, and believe in your heart that god raised jesus from the dead, you shall be saved; for with the heart man believes, resulting in righteousness, and with the mouth he confesses, resulting in salvation.".
in my ten years as a jw, there was absolutely no emphases to the importance of this scripture.
In my ten years as a JW, there was absolutely no emphases to the importance of this scripture. What did this scripture mean to the average JW?
Um, nothing.
You could even loudly exclaim that "Jesus is Lord to the Glory of Jehovah" and they'd freak the hell out. Oh no !, you mentioned Jesus!
Notice how they can't even mention Jesus? He's always "the Lamb","the Word", "the Greatest Man", etc ... like he doesn't have a name except at the end of a prayer.
I want to see a WT or a Book that simply says Jesus on the front.
from what i can tell, there was some discussion out here on this article about a month ago, but at that time few folks had their copy to look at (we just received it last week at our hall).
now that most jw's have their copy, there has been a lot of discussion about it - at least here, that is.
as was mentioned already, this is definitely a follow up to the 5/1/07 qfr "when does the callling of christians to a heavenly hope cease?
Apparently, they missed the entire Chapter 1 of Galations.
The assertions are ludicrous.
from: http://www.enduringvision.com/news/us_042809.php.
as more and more cases of swine flu are confirmed across the united states, experts throughout the nation have become increasingly certain that most likely, you will die from it really soon.. "swine flu has the potential to become a pandemic," said dr. alan lepow, an infectious disease specialist at the cleveland clinic, implying that eventually, we will all get the swine flu and then die.. what is swine flu?
nobody seems to be able to provide an answer that doesn't take expensive recording time to explain, but many experts seem to agree on one thing: swine flu is similar to the normal human influenza virus, except that instead of causing a runny nose and muscle aches, it causes painful, horrifying death.. one official from the center for disease control (cdc) likened the flu to a [zombie] "virus", something that will spread insidiously and relentlessly, until you'll try and seek help in a hospital, but the hospital will be dark and scary, because everyone inside will be dead from swine flu.. "for example," said jeffrey spalding, a man who was standing outside the cdc, "a child contracts swine flu, and passes it on to another child by attacking and biting the other child.
I take it some folks here did not notice the article was a funny?
I for one, thought it was hilarious.
I'm on my way to CA this summer ... that is if they'll let anyone coming from the US in.
No sé.
when you look back, were you considered a "good" jw?
?.
Kinda. Then, I never pretended to be someone I was not. [Who needs all that false pretense and sneaking around?]
They always seemed like they were scared of me.
