i would like to call your attention to this recent article by karl giberson, ph.d., scholar of science & religion, and the former president of the biologos foundation.
his conclusion is that we need not dismiss all of the bible, just because some of it is not accurate.
.. but how do we decide which parts of the bible should be read literally?
gladiator: that is what i said the other day. i can type 100 words a minute and i'm human. could we atleast get one "book of jesus". you mean he couldn't wite 50,000 words a minute? the bible says if all his works and sayings were recorded, the whole earth could not contain them. well how bout just 1 book rather than the whole earth eh?
also on the ot, i just ordered the jefferson bible. should be here today, interested to see what he deemed useful from the scriptures.
i went to the last dc in amherst this summer.. on sunday the symposium part on appreciating the messianinc king's appealing personality.... the part on self-controlled opened up with an illustration that i kid you not repulsed me so much i had to get up and walk about in the concourse, go to the bathroom and splash cold water on my face.. the speaker opened up by saying a man grabbed a pig in a headlock and proceeded to punch its face, over and over as hard as he could.. just visualizing the illustration almost made me throw up.. there was no way i could sit through that talk.. the speaker went on as if the illustration was an excellent example of how some people lack self-control.. how about showing some self-control in choosing illustrations that don't make people cringe or gag, brother?.
was that really in the outline?.
was that illustration used in other dc's?.
LMAO "was the pig wearing leather"
i went to the last dc in amherst this summer.. on sunday the symposium part on appreciating the messianinc king's appealing personality.... the part on self-controlled opened up with an illustration that i kid you not repulsed me so much i had to get up and walk about in the concourse, go to the bathroom and splash cold water on my face.. the speaker opened up by saying a man grabbed a pig in a headlock and proceeded to punch its face, over and over as hard as he could.. just visualizing the illustration almost made me throw up.. there was no way i could sit through that talk.. the speaker went on as if the illustration was an excellent example of how some people lack self-control.. how about showing some self-control in choosing illustrations that don't make people cringe or gag, brother?.
was that really in the outline?.
was that illustration used in other dc's?.
that would of been my only reason for attending, just to hear that line.
waiting on a couple important phone calls, so figured may as well make some use of this time.
i'm going to try and catalogue every error in this book, hopefully can be done before the end of the day.
i'm sure a lot of folks have already disected this and nothing new to see.
"Scads of stuff is written in code." <---that is what i figured. you believe it's almost all code dont ya?
i'm not trying to make anyone believe anything. all i'm asking is: is it logical to believe this?
and if the answer is no. logic plays almost no part in our(your/religious humans) methods of understanding the scriptures (gnostic scriptures
included). then i want you people to know what you are actually saying. what you're actually saying is: you believe in anarchy. which again, is your
perogative.
but please understand this line of thinking will lead to the inevitable destruction of the human race entirely.
waiting on a couple important phone calls, so figured may as well make some use of this time.
i'm going to try and catalogue every error in this book, hopefully can be done before the end of the day.
i'm sure a lot of folks have already disected this and nothing new to see.
band: the notion that he was encoding his words out of fear seems pretty out of character for mr. sons of thunder. what precedent is there in the bible for writing in code? from the wts there is no precedent, which seems reasonable. seems hard enough to try and take seriously a 2,000 year old book about god, which condones every sort of murder, incest, hate crimes....to begin with, then on top of it all, you have to decode it. when are you people going to give up???
i just got off the phone with my mom and she told me my daughter had told her that the society has recently relaxed its rules on gambling.
she said something about some folks could be a card dealer and a jw.
has anyone heard anything in this regard?.
violia: you know what i would do if they said that to me? i'd buy the property across the street from the kh, and open a brothel there.
waiting on a couple important phone calls, so figured may as well make some use of this time.
i'm going to try and catalogue every error in this book, hopefully can be done before the end of the day.
i'm sure a lot of folks have already disected this and nothing new to see.
sacramento: "The imagery and such is typical Hebrew apocalyptic writing." <--you say that as if it means something. actually stanley kubrick's depiction of vietnam is very typical of 20th century vietnam film depictions. wtf does that mean? nothing. you say this stuff as if we dont know it already.
i just got off the phone with my mom and she told me my daughter had told her that the society has recently relaxed its rules on gambling.
she said something about some folks could be a card dealer and a jw.
has anyone heard anything in this regard?.
leavingwt: "a dont ask dont tell sort of thing" lmao. the bad boy jw club. they all make me sick.
for non jw's reading this, let me briefly explain which was already mentioned why i said "they make me sick". because if one guy goes and buys a $1 lottery ticket it's a federal case, but if 5 guys gamble together, it's harmless. they will say because you're taking the money of all the people who gambled in that lottery, as if the stock trade they gamble in is any different.
today was the last day of the co's visit, my husband stayed home from the meeting and we painted the house together which was good, but he wanted to tie into the meeting, i was ok with it as it allows me to point out the stupid parts of this religion.
there were many things that made no sense but one that truly stuck out.. in his talk the co went on about how there are so many things satan uses to distract us from jehovah and one of them was fear of our future and how some work all their lives for retirement, many at jobs they hate.
people do not enjoy the here and now all out of fear for what will happen when they grow old.
the cognitive dissonance will hit the fan eventually. i gotta figure there is going to be a massive exodus out of that religion soonish. i doubt it will be a complete crumbling of the foundation...you know what it will be? it will end up being a religion for people over 65+. all the congs will just be that, with a few scattered younger people from time to time. you will just walk into any random cong, and just all be 65+.
of course this comes as no surprise to those of us on this board- naturally, as we've informed ourselves.
however i felt it important to reveal the real dictionary definition of the word " generation " for newly exiting jehovah's witnesses so they can see for themselves how the wt society is twisting the real definition of this word to extend their faulty predictions of jesus prophecy about " this generation will by no means pass away.
so here is the actual definition of the word " generation " according to webster's newworld dictionary - .
wtbs's next move on correcting their generation errors:
