Hello:
This will be my last post on this website. Not that THAT is important, or that I am important enough to inform anyone of my decision to leave. I just need to post this message. It will be healthy for me to do so. So please indulge me. I was excited when I first stumbled across this site...
What if GOd were one of us? Just a slob like one of us? Just a stranger on a bus....trying to make his way home...like a holy rollin' stone.....Did anyone ever think of that???
Another point to note:
Jesus said:" Just as in the days of Noah....So the presence of the son of man will be..Men eating and drinking, women marrying and being given in marriage...AND THEY TOOK NO NOTE...UNTIL THE FLOOD CAME AND SWEPT THEM ALL AWAY!"
The apathy on so many peoples part today...
it wasnt personal. Yours just happened to be the last post I had read in that thread.So I guess I was being lazy and posted by way of reply rather than going to :"QUICK REPLY"
I was not directing that comment to any individual. It was an observation that I have made when discussing the topic with different ones. Fact and reason get swept aside for emotionalism, and intellectualism.
You know your in for a losing battle when you present facts to support your side and...
The problem with TRUTH is it is TOO SIMPLE for some people! To believe that GOD, JESUS, and the HOLY SPIRIT are 3 distinct, seperate and unequal....why that is just not "INTELLECTUAL" enough for some ELITEISTS. I guess a subject has to be completely impossible to explain....and then the really...
Thats very sad.
I am sure you love your famiy very much and it must hurt somewhat to hear them talk this way. Perhaps you can at least take some solice in the fact that i'm sure their intent is pure(if somewhat misguided in my humble opinion).
I agree with your example. There would be "HELL to pay" if a child wrecked the car.....but the punishment meted out not only would fit the crime. (I.E. Grounded, or not using the family car for a period of time) but the punishment must also have an ending time. If not, then the child cannot...
Amazing how Ex-This or Ex-that become so bitter toward the institution they once belonged to. There have been references made to JW's use of disfellowshipping as some type of spiritual witch hunt.
Thats just more bitter talk.
The use of that tool is misunderstood by some.
It is a means of last...