Posts by Touchofgrey

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Happy Easter!

by Sea Breeze in

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wishing everyone a happy easter!

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here’s to new beginnings 🥂.

Touchofgrey

Seabreeze

That's based on dogma and not factual evidence.

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Is anyone watching The Handmaid’s Tale on Hulu?

by Biahi in

after finishing season 6, episode 5, it occurred to me that, if the jws were right, (they’re not), the “new system” would end up being very much like this.

picture the commanders as the elders.. it’s a riveting series.

i wanted to see it, because i read the book when it first came out.

Touchofgrey

Enjoyed watching it ,not yet watched season 6 yet .

Oppressive controlling religious government especially the control of women .

The double standards of the commanders and the dominance of some of them over other commanders.

Certainly not limited to jws ,all religions exercise control over its followers.

The film heretic with hugh grant is worth the watch as well, involved two mormon girls but could include other religions as well.

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Happy Easter!

by Sea Breeze in

jw
friends

wishing everyone a happy easter!

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here’s to new beginnings 🥂.

Touchofgrey

Happy spring equinox to any pagans and their godesses Eostre who came up with the origins of this pagan celebration now adopted by Christian and others.

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Bible Study Approaching Its End

by Fallen_Winter in

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i have been engaging in bible study with my bible study conductor for the past two years.

i am on lesson 48 of enjoy life forever book and it is only a matter of time before i complete lesson 60 which is the final lesson.

my bible study conductor informed me today that once i complete lesson 60, i won’t be receiving any more studies as i have been given all of the information that i need to make a decision.

Touchofgrey

Fallen winter

Please do some independent research into the bible and the clear evidence is that the bible is the uninspired word of man.

Many of the events and individuals are fictional and often based on older legends and myths and adapted to fit the narrative of the author's of the particular story's.

Eg the Noah flood legend is very similar to the epic tales of galgermesh.

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Why worship a God that does not help!

by Witness 007 in

so god let 10 million people die in world war 2 but was too busy to help....what kind of diety does this!

if i was god i would have done something .

If you believe that the bible is true, god did intervene in human history, the flood story because man was wicked, the exodus story freeing his people from oppression of the Egyptians, and many other times to help his chosen people.

Then for some reason he stopped or these events are myths and fables made up by humans to make their god seem to be real .

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Why worship a God that does not help!

by Witness 007 in

so god let 10 million people die in world war 2 but was too busy to help....what kind of diety does this!

if i was god i would have done something .

Touchofgrey

Very true, I recently visited Auschwitz and birkenau, where more than 1.1 million men women and children were exterminated just because they were Jewish, gay, gypsies and even some jws and no god came to their assistance it was other humans who came to their assistance.

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The point of existence and how it refutes the Trinity

by slimboyfat in

rowan williams, the former archbishop of canterbury gave an interesting answer to the somewhat stark question, what’s the point of us existing?

as a christian, my starting point is that we exist because the most fundamental form of activity, energy, call it what you like, that is there, is love.

that is, it’s a willingness that the other should be.

Touchofgrey

Seabreeze

Existence comes from non-existence

2. Order comes from Chaos

3. Life comes from non-life

4. Personal comes from the non-personal

5. Reason comes from non-reason

6. Morality comes from matter.

If you take off your god glasses and do some independent research into these statements you will be able to find experts with PhDs in the the subjects that will fill in or give honest information and evidence, rather than relying on the god of the gaps excuses.

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The point of existence and how it refutes the Trinity

by slimboyfat in

rowan williams, the former archbishop of canterbury gave an interesting answer to the somewhat stark question, what’s the point of us existing?

as a christian, my starting point is that we exist because the most fundamental form of activity, energy, call it what you like, that is there, is love.

that is, it’s a willingness that the other should be.

Touchofgrey

Seabreeze

@Duran

Earlier in this thread I invited a poster to google non-biblical sources for the life of Jesus. Doing that will reveal over 100 sources from Romans, Jews, Greeks, and other Secular documents. Did you do that? Why not? Is it the fact that historians can completely reconstruct the primary events of Jesus' life including his death, and resurrection from these non-biblical sources?

Not sure if it was directed at me ,I did have a look but failed to find any independently verified eyewitness accounts of a miracle worker called jesus. Not even the gospels are eyewitness accounts written by unknown authors many decades after the so called events.

I also have asked you many times to provide independently verified evidence of a miracle worker called jesus and you keep avoiding providing any.

Why do religions and belief systems also worship or have trinity beliefs eg Hinduism, ancient Egyptian religion, buddhism, zoroastrianism, and others, some of which predates christianity?

Following the thread no one has provided any definite evidence that there version of jesus being part of a trinity or that he is a individual creation of a god, it's all seems to be upto personal interpretation ot scriptures and regarding which version of christianity they believe in.

Both beliefs can't be right ,but they both can be wrong.

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