this is not a new story.
the japanese military in ww2 were barbaric in the way they treated captured servicemen.
i was about ten when my father's best friend came home from a japanese prison camp.
How is this for a story I'm Vietnam Vet. Years later working with a
Ex South Vietnamese veteran living here in the US. In a conversation
one day he mention that the people of America are lazy, immoral, down
right disgusting. My mouth dropped. I told him I was in your country and
I saw first hand the moral state of your home, hell I may be your father.
http://www.balidiscovery.com/messages/message.asp?id=11719.
dismantling the watchtower .
five jehovah witnesses deported from bali for conducting door-to-door religious ministry .
from so many posts and conversations on here, you'd think over 1/2 the posters here possess doctorates in theology, physics, biology, etc.
i'm curious aside from the books and research people have done here, what degrees they have.
to start, i just got an aa and going straight through full time to an mba.
The graduate with a science degree ask, "why does it work?.
The graduate with an engineering degree ask "how does it work"?
The graduate with a management degree ask "how much will it cost"?
I was lucky to get a theology degree from the WT, so what will I ask "Do
you want fries with that"?
why didn't jesus ever write anything?
why are there no letters to jesus?
no painting of jesus from that time?
Come on, Jesus may have walked on water with a thin layer of ice,
healed the sick and the person was on his way to recovery or
raised the dead and the person was in a coma, but the one that
get me is the soldier that get his ear cut off, completely removed.
Ok that's a tough one. If I saw that I would be a believer, I wouldn't care if
he was Satan, Jesus or from out of space. What the hell you are going to do,
this man have a lot of power.
why didn't jesus ever write anything?
why are there no letters to jesus?
no painting of jesus from that time?
Jesus a man turned legend. If we look at the Roman empire in Jesus day.
They had vast system of business and finance dominated by international
trade, an enforced system of taxation. Sociological, had a assortment of ethnic
people. High government officials, merchants, small business people.
Roman had literature,sculpture,philosophy,art and architecture.
Now all of a sudden a man come on the scene who heal the sick, raised the dead,
reattach a Roman soldier ear and walk on water.
Don't you think the Roman Senate would have had Jesus standing before court
and questioning him about his powers. Instead we have them questioning him
about if he is the king of the Jews.
Forget about being king of some small group of sheep herders, tell us how can we
get your powers.
why didn't jesus ever write anything?
why are there no letters to jesus?
no painting of jesus from that time?
I view the bible as four books, the OT, Gospels, Paul and Rev.
Making it difficult to understand. OT damn right nuts, Gospels ok, Paul
seeking power (the first JW) and Rev. nothing to do with the other three books.
when i was an elder we had a sister who was known for providing oral pleasures to some people in the congo.
i was on the committee.
this girl for some odd reason was put on public reproof 4 times for the same thing.
I have the heavenly call brother.
Brother: how do you know sister.
Sister: Soon after I stopped taking my meds.
Brother: what were you taking meds for?
Sister:I saw things that wasn't there. But when I went against the advice
of my doctor it became clear. One night while I was lying in bed alone and
making myself relaxed.
Brother: making yourself relaxed.
Sister: yes, I was tense, but lets not get into that. So out of no where appeared
this man and he told me to drink the wine. You see brother, Satan used the doctor
and his meds to stop me from partaking. What I was seeing all alone was for real.
Brother:WTF
matthew 27:50-54new international version (niv).
50 and when jesus had cried out again in a loud voice, he gave up his spirit.. 51 at that moment the curtain of the temple was torn in two from top to bottom.
the earth shook, the rocks split 52 and the tombs broke open.
I don't know the accuracy or how precise Roman history doing
that time, but don't you think that may have been mention.
My God if the Pope died and came back along with other Popes that had
died and walked the streets of Roman, that is something you will never forget.
i remember studying this book years ago and how it impacted my belief system.
i no longer believe the bible is god's word.
however i do have a couple of lingering questions on this subject.
