I guess we will all have to wait and see, won't we? How confident are you? As confident as the Jews were about their position in Jesus' day?
If Jesus taught that the "good news of the kingdom" was to be preached "in all the inhabited earth as a witness" before "the end" was to come, (Matt...
LOL......What about the heresies of your own church masquerading as Christ's teachings? Amazing what you have to ignore to remain part of that institution and to support its teachings.
We all accept our own truth for our own reasons. God knows what they are.
Have a nice day.
I have no idea what you mean by this. What is your point? What confusion do you believe I am under?
Do you see yourself as the sole arbiter of what I post MC? Am I to answer to you or to bow before your superior knowledge perhaps? Or am I supposed express my gratitude for your concessions? o_O...
Are they? And this is the view of the Catholic Church is it. Hmmmm very interesting, coming from someone who belongs to an institution that was more corrupt and blood guilty than any other claiming to be "Christian" in all of human history. These very Church Councils introduced the blasphemy of...
God has many "sons" as the Bible clearly states. The angels and even Adam are called "sons of God", (Job 1:6; Luke 3:38) but they are unlike this unique "son of God" who is "only begotten".....a "begotten" son needs a 'begetter'. "The Word" (Logos) was "with God in the beginning", meaning the...
The three terms (Hebrew par·desʹ, Persian pairidaeza, and Greek pa·raʹdei·sos).....all convey the basic idea of a beautiful park or parklike garden. The first such park was that made by man’s Creator, Jehovah God, in Eden. (Ge 2:8, 9, 15) It is called a gan, or “garden,” in Hebrew but was...
And that is just what happened. The apostles had only the Hebrew Scriptures.....we have their writings and the Christian "traditions" handed down by them is in the Christian scriptures, not in the traditions of an apostate church system. Do you understand the difference?
The "wheat" were not...
Exactly. Free will was a gift, but once it was abused, it became a curse. Was God wrong in giving us a quality we could use in a wrong way? Remember that a knowledge of evil was not available when the gift was given. Without evil, there were no bad choices to be made. If the devil had not made...
:confused: I can't imagine.
Why isn't this a real case situation???? Are you serious?
The question didn't need "dumbing down".....it was already dumb to begin with. Your scenario is entirely based on what? Something real? Or an overactive imagination?
:confused: Good grief. Read your OP...
That is what he told his accusers. As "The Word" (Logos) who was "in the beginning" with his Father as his firstborn son, the spirit being who became the man Jesus, was definitely in existence before Abraham.
He is and always has been the "only begotten son" of his Father. He is a unique...
Since it was posted in the JW DIR it obviously has its target audience. It is meant to be a topic that applies to Christians, since I think that most who claim to be Christians couldn't argue with the Biblical definition...."what God has yoked together, let no man put apart"....but those words...
Not me. An eternal conscious punishment in fiery torment is against God's personality and justice. What purpose does it serve if there is no way to repent? How does the punishment fit the crime?
I was actually relieved to find out that I wasn't going to heaven. Only those who will rule with...
What you post is repetitive stuff I have noticed. Posting the same copied and pasted response in multiple threads or repeating it on the same thread is actually against the forum rules.
With your attitude, I am really not interested in your top ten opinions or in discussing anything further...
Two reasons as jaeger mentioned.....
1) the great apostasy that was foretold to take place before Christ's return. (2 Thess 2:3, 8-12)
2) the destruction of Babylon the great, the devil's world empire of religion based on the teachings of ancient Babylon. (Rev 18:4, 5)
ALL false religion...
Oh yes we can!!! :D Even Jesus was called a "Witness" of Jehovah. (Rev 3:14) Collectively, the nation of Israel was also called Jehovah's Witnesses. (Isa 43: 10). I rest my case. :)
Cannot see a video or a link, but you are correct...Lucifer was never a name given to the devil.
"The expression “shining one,” or “Lucifer,” is found in what Isaiah prophetically commanded the Israelites to pronounce as a “proverbial saying against the king of Babylon.” Thus, it is part of a...
It matters that they are not hypocrites. It doesn't matter that they are human, with faults. The apostles were personally chosen by the son of God, yet they exhibited all the human frailties that we do. If you are waiting for perfect people to pop up any time soon, don't hold your breath. If God...
It means that the final phase of satan's system had begun.
Rev 11:16-18...."And the 24 elders' who were seated before God on their thrones fell upon their faces and worshipped God, saying: “We thank you, Jehovah God, the Almighty, the one who is and who was, because you have taken your great...