Topics Started by adamah
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Question for believers: on which Heavenly "Day" did God create humans?
by adamah insimple question here on genesis chronology and how god counts heavenly days (jws seemingly believe in a conversion factor of 'one god day is equal to 1,000 human years', based on 2nd peter).. genesis 2:1-2 says this (niv):.
1 thus the heavens and the earth were completed in all their vast array.. 2 by the seventh day god had finished the work he had been doing; so on the seventh day he rested from all his work.
3 then god blessed the seventh day and made it holy, because on it he rested from all the work of creating that he had done.. day seven was the sabbath, the day of rest from all work, specifically from engaging in creative activities (jews observe the sabbath specifically because of the words found in genesis 2:2).. however, god's not quite done creating things, since genesis continues with this, on day eight (8), the day after the sabbath:.
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Movie coming out for Easter 2014 release: "Heaven Is For Real"
by adamah inwith a release date of easter 2014, coming soon to a theatre near you: hollywood (tristar pictures) is capitalizing on the near-death-experience theme with a movie starring greg kinnear.
here's a hd trailer:.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ih8hmfinsbg.
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Batkid saves the city of San Francisco! Make a Wish Foundation
by adamah inhere's a heart-warming story that really puts our problems into proper perspective, in which the city of san francisco lets a 5 yr old with leukemia (treated, and now in remission) live out his dream:.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3gagc8lgq4o.
this is happening today (friday), and video will be posted of him 'saving the city' later.. here's the web-page showing mile's planned day:.
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TED Talk: Coming Out of Your Closet
by adamah inalthough the speaker is referring to coming out of the closet as gay, here's a good reminder for those fading, as the dynamic is the same (and a point she makes in the video about not comparing the difficulty to others).. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ksr4xuu07sc.
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Are you Open-minded?
by adamah ingotta love these videos by qualiasoup:.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t69touqaqxi.
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Irony: JWs who refuse to answer their door on Halloween!
by adamah inwith halloween fast approaching, it struck me looking back how ironic it was when the worm turned every year on halloween, when jws turn off the porch light, draw the curtains, stumble around in the dark, etc.
when the worldlies come to knock on their door, lol!.
on the other hand, i remember the family escaping from the fortress at dusk to go to a movie, bowling, etc.
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Video: Is your religion like an abusive lover?
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=szeqb29z6au.
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Pew Research Center: only 32% of American Jews think of Judaism as their religion
by adamah inas the title says, in a newly-released pew research center survey of american jews, only 32% of american jews think of judaism as their religion.
fifty years ago, the figure was close to 70%.. one-in-five jews (22%) now describe themselves as having no religion.. the pew study also found that 71% of younger jews are "marrying out", whereas before 1970, the number of jews who'd marry a non-jew was 17%.. .
possibly of more interests to ex-jws (where jws are notorious wanna-be jews): twice as many white evangelical protestants as jews say that israel was given to the jewish people by god (82% vs. 40%).. adam.
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"Faithful and Discreet Servant" Changes in RNWT (Matt 24)
by adamah ini see the wts has now removed the reference to jesus' rendering punishment of death by sword, when the master returns and finds the evil servant abusing the other slaves; they've sanitized the reading of matt 24:51 as this:.
51 "and he will punish him with the greatest severity and will assign him his place with the hypocrites.
there is where his weeping and the gnashing of his teeth will be.".
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Revised NWT: Goodbye to Jesus and the Adultress (problematic for JW DF/shunning)
by adamah infunny that the "new light" comes in the form of a willingness to scuttle a problematic account which long has been accepted for millenia now, but suddenly is not up to snuff since the wtbts correctly perceives the account as being problematic for their dfing and shunning policies:.
granted, nt scholars have long known the account is a late addition (it likely appeared in the margin in earlier texts, but was included into the body as time went on, long-ago promoted into the book of john).
great, but scholars have also long-known that the epistle of 2nd peter is unquestionably a fraudulent work, written long after peter was dead: i wonder why it wasn't dropped from the revised nwt, as well?