sadly the wt failed to teach fundamental biblical doctrines.
i did never really understand the doctrine about ransom while i was still in the congregation.. i did not either understand what it really means that "god is love" as stated in the bible.
i did not either understand from the wt what is love.
The ransom was explained, paid on The Passover ( with the lamb) presented to the provider/ demander deity after the 40 days after the ascension into the clouds, , and acknowledged on the return trip, 10 days later at Pentecost when the spirit, like flames/shine was given. Wt added the twist that 2075+ 1000 years later the rest of the ransomed fallen humans will have the benefits of the purchase price too.
All that because of the talking snake. snake oil?. churches teach it too, with variations.
wt claims that satan was thrown out of heaven in october 1914 precipitating ww!
and the end times.
a small problem with that is ww1 started on july 28th 1914 whilst satan was still in heaven picking his nose.. how did we not see this and waste years of precious life?
any point within space can be described by coordinates, all of time exists as well and any events that have happened or will happen already exist, described by their own coordinates within the universe
DJW, yes, for example I expect to be in upstate NY on April8 2024, at 3 pm, together with the shadow of the Moon, but do you believe that all that already exists?
wt claims that satan was thrown out of heaven in october 1914 precipitating ww!
and the end times.
a small problem with that is ww1 started on july 28th 1914 whilst satan was still in heaven picking his nose.. how did we not see this and waste years of precious life?
--the idea that the past still exists, --- the idea that the past still exists-- DJW
Time as such always existed, stretching into the eternal past, and already extends into the eternal future, because
Energy can not be created or be destroyed, and it obviously needs time to exist in, eternally. but, we have travelled from our past into the present, toward our future time, so,
our past does not exist anymore nor does our particular future yet either. Lots of light and sound is still on the way from the past though, and we will continue to receive it from the now empty past, some of it 13 billion years old, -- all from an now empty past.
As for the eternal ESP domain, wait for a message.
enJoy.
to celebrate our wedding anniversary, i booked the best table i could get for me and the mrs., but she didn't appreciate my efforts.
i was sure she'd played snooker before.
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yeah, clinging / clicking the balls together.
for argument sake let’s assume that this verse should apply to 1914. what are your thoughts on generation?.
unrepeatable localized tribulation. ( bold added)
Vdh, good point, after the localized flood, the localized creation event ( including the Earth in the Big Bang Gen.1;1) the local high mountain that had all the kingdom of the Earth within the horizon, and on and on.
publicized by persons with reach in the western world, who believe they will govern the universe, trillions of light years in size.
for argument sake let’s assume that this verse should apply to 1914. what are your thoughts on generation?.
I don't believe that this generations applies to 1914 at all.
I second that. It is contradictory that Satan would be confined on the solid Earth, while since 1914, the whole world ( "that lies in the power of the wicked one" cited again at this week's meeting) is becoming more and more adapt at committing levitation, our sensing devices even having left the solar system.
If the deity ever shuts down the global destruction, i'll mark that date.
for argument sake let’s assume that this verse should apply to 1914. what are your thoughts on generation?.
The wording also means, that once all the events listed, like "the tribulation greater than the world has ever seen", have occurred during that special generation, it's members, will pass away, die.
The generation is not the anointed, wt's favoured, because they pass away at the onset, not after the end of the end times.
It can not be the wt's sheep either, because they are supposed to never pass away at all, even after the end generation has run out of time.
In our family, 4 generations have appeared, and generated since 1914, and counting.
wt's . core doctrine since 1914: In this generation, Millions now living will never die, is an empty promise, false prophecy, profitable may be, but patently false. pft.
all throughout history in greek, hebrew, and latin languages - there was no j sound!
no jay sound.. .
why did christians start using a non-hebrew name for the son of god?
BECAUSE IN GERMAN, J is pronounced like Y.
Terry, not so, the Y in the european languages is pronounced like in ueber,
the end of the alphabet : ex why zee (zet), sounds there : ex uebsilon* tzet. see also Ypres.
Important too that jesus never used the name when addressing the father. recording it would be of utmost importance if it mattered.
* umlaut u"
genesis 3:15 says that the woman’s seed would be in enmity with the serpent’s seed.
although the bible reveals that the woman’s seed is jesus and christians that go to heaven with christ, it does not identify the woman directly.
we at jw believe that the woman is symbolic.
the actual character from the story in Genesis. ‘Mitochondrial Eve’ : Jeffro
no misrepresentation here. I thought it was just fitting that the scientists would use the mystical ladies
of genesis in their nomenclature.
Good point about the single primitive male the "son of Adam" too, he was found to reside in the former Soviet Union territory, probably still is.
genesis 3:15 says that the woman’s seed would be in enmity with the serpent’s seed.
although the bible reveals that the woman’s seed is jesus and christians that go to heaven with christ, it does not identify the woman directly.
we at jw believe that the woman is symbolic.
Because Eve did not produce the seed, the Messiah, that would crush the serpent’s head.Also, a sinful imperfect woman cannot produce a perfect seed let alone any woman producing seed
Eve was to become the mother of all those humans living on Earth and she did. grand grandly.
All connected with the imaginary lady in the OP, where of the genetic pool of the first female. including noah, judah, david, Mary, jesus, Fr. Franz.
