if “tree of good and bad” were literal, it would mean adam and eve would know what is “good and bad” only after eating of that tree.
however, even before eating of it, they would think “it is good for us to eat of this tree” which means they are already endowed knowledge of “good and bad.” that means “tree of good and bad” is symbolic of something.. since religious organizations interpret this differently, each reader has to adopt his own conclusion.
for me it looks like this: one thinks of good and bad in relation to himself—if something is beneficial for him he would say it is good for him, and bad for him if it is not beneficial.
DID NOT ALERT ADAM & EVE TO ITS PRESENCE OR INSTRUCT THEM TO AVOID IT dg:
or instruct Abel & Cain to do any worship, nor inform Abel of the coming danger.
an non-interventionist creator up to that point.
Up to the point of the serpent speaking all was good, why even consider the knowledge of bad?
is good so boring we need the "bad ", to dominate the news even today?
kansas man who robbed a bank last september told police that he was hoping to get caught (he waited for the police) so he would get prison time to escape his wife, was sentenced tuesday 12th to six months of home confinement.
he had no prior criminal history...poor guy....
well there is always olive oil, the polygamist (the Lyle Jeffs topic) got away (from his many wives?) from FBI's home confined that way, just caught ~1 year on the lam, living in his pickup truck.
Home confinement ? unconstitutional, unusual and cruel punishment!
no wonder solomon tried to get disfellowshipped for apostasy to get away from it all.
i bleed for the poor souls caught in that.
no sprinkler system in that domestic building..!.
tragically the govts various of london learned nothing during the world war..
That is a very tragic way have your life disrupted, and have to live in a human warehouse like that to start with. do not copy the wt example (of their funeral talk) to use the event as an anti wt tirade please.
jws and other christians would often point to the handful of the bible verses that seem to be scientifically accurate as evidence of its divine inspiration.
but not surprisingly, they ignore the ones that are scientifically inaccurate, or when they address those verses they put a spin on it like saying the account is not a reflection of what the bible is teaching but what men at the time erroneously believed and which god allowed them to record in the bible.
would you believe a jw actually told me that!
My favorite is Genesis chapter one where god made.... Dk757;
made the Earth in the beginning.rather than after generations of stars that had to die. Made the flat Earth, so Satan could show all the kingdoms from a high mountain on a clear day at the 4 corners.
there are aspects to the resurrection story that seem unnecessary but make perfect sense if you consider them as patches to shore up the lie of jesus' resurrection.. (1) why did there have to be angels present at jesus' resurrection?
there is no other resurrection account in the bible that mentions the involvement of angels.. possible explanation: jesus' disciples really did steal jesus' body from the tomb.
two or three of them ambushed and knocked/drugged unconscious the guards on the scene before stealing the body.
never mind he was not resurrected, there was a poster here that claimed that "jesus" never died at that time, he merely passed out, and left later.
the time remaining is... elastic.. .
stash: /intesoft-inc.appspot.com/post/f0315d7a1cdf4d6498064881689ea032.html
the time on Earth remaining is shortest for the anointed, GB F&DS, because they will be gone before the great tribulation gets serious. seriously, contradicting the Lord no less.
why would watchtower sue stratton ohio, and then laud it over and over in their books?
the town doesn't even have 300 people, why would they pick on such a small town.
they are promoting it so much at this week's meeting.
small towns can't afford big attorneys. easy pickings.
wt also won a victory against Boisbriand Qc, that tried in spite of prior Canadian supreme court rulings to regulate "publishers" in it's territory. Victory celebrated by David Splaine playing a grand set up for him in the foyer of the kh.
looks like he joined the jw and about 16-17 and then went in to work at bethel.
does anyone know what level of education he had?
did he even finish high school?
He had a powerful presence. education? liked reading Time magazine (on going education, . better than awake college, wt magazine, that, edited by his contemporary Fred Franz advocated the blood mania. At an assembly in NY, Fred was advocating banning blood transfusion for pets. Knorr often was ambivalent about Franz's forays into shaky doctrinal territory.
if “tree of good and bad” were literal, it would mean adam and eve would know what is “good and bad” only after eating of that tree.
however, even before eating of it, they would think “it is good for us to eat of this tree” which means they are already endowed knowledge of “good and bad.” that means “tree of good and bad” is symbolic of something.. since religious organizations interpret this differently, each reader has to adopt his own conclusion.
for me it looks like this: one thinks of good and bad in relation to himself—if something is beneficial for him he would say it is good for him, and bad for him if it is not beneficial.
Common theme of writers that want to control. Prometheus, punished for advancing mankind with the gift of fire. Do not touch knowledge (eden). Avoid higher education; wt.
keep'em dumb to control them, knowledge only for the elite (they would become like one of us).
When "god said"" all is very good", A&E were actually mortal. that is why they had the un-forbidden tree of life to keep alive! They did not die because of knowledge, but because they were deprived of that one staple of their diet.
not endorsing.
there are aspects to the resurrection story that seem unnecessary but make perfect sense if you consider them as patches to shore up the lie of jesus' resurrection.. (1) why did there have to be angels present at jesus' resurrection?
there is no other resurrection account in the bible that mentions the involvement of angels.. possible explanation: jesus' disciples really did steal jesus' body from the tomb.
two or three of them ambushed and knocked/drugged unconscious the guards on the scene before stealing the body.
how about the simultaneous resurrection of others (rattling bones in the tombs), then walking and showing up in Jerusalem? A common event, not unique to "Jesus" to make it more believable?
