i’m not understanding that comment entirely. are you saying that @Cormoran is telling a lie? and the part about them not being true, to what part of his comment are you referring? i know for a fact that the council of nicea happened, and the apocrypha are books and parts of books that protestants removed from the bible.
back when i was into nature religions and was a practicing shinto, two jehovah’s witnesses came to the porch right after i had a joint. i almost converted one of them and found out that’s why they travel in pairs.
and don’t get me started on the bible being history or factual in any way, shape, or form. anyone who believes that is ignorant and does not know their bible.
And if you asked me i’d tell you it’s no different than screenwriters at Disney. They already took my ancestors gods and turned them into plush toys. Then 25 +/- years from now they will make a new version slightly adapted for the times. Multiple that by …
I was taught as a young person that the bible was the literal word of god and that if “he” didn’t write it “himself” then it was written by god through the people wro actually wrote it. It is sort of a fallacy because the history of the bible is not static at all. That’s why I posted St. George. Just as now the Pope is having dinner with transgender people and then making sure it is in the headlines, most of these cults have to adapt to the times or die out.
I definitely don’t know much about Jehovah’s Witnesses, you’re right about that. I have a friend who was a JW and he’s never opened up much about it, not that I’ve spent much time trying to get him to - as far as the ones who come to the door, they typically spend more of their time trying to convert me than talking about what it is they actually believe. As far as making false statements, I didn’t make any statements at all except about my interaction with those specific Jehovah’s Witnesses. They did come to the door, and they did not know about the Apocrypha or the Council of Nicaea. If your argument is with my question of how they believe in something without knowing about it and its history, maybe you could educate me rather than lashing out. Are the Apocrypha or the Council of Nicaea somehow irrelevant to Jehovah’s Witnesses? Do they believe in another version of the Bible altogether?
I should have kept my mouth shut. This is not a place to talk about religion. I’m sorry that I got upset or if I seem rude. I have my good days and I have my bad ones.
They get a bad rap no I’m not a Jehovah’s Witness. I did lash out at you. I was a little upset. There’s a lot of people that act like Jehovah witnesses. They go around and they try to act like there’s somebody they know nothing about the religion whatsoever. They are about 2 million Jehovah witnesses being held in captivity in Russia and concentration camps. They were one of the first Christian religions.
They were also persecuted during World War II.
Wrong. Sorry they are older that that. That is because they were labeled with the Mormons I’m sorry I went to school for all this. We’re really talking about things that I do not need to be talking about and I’m not upset with any of y’all. The Ethiopian Christians still call God Allah.
God has many names. Jehovah is one of them, and that is where you get the name witnesses. They have been around a long time. That is not my religion. I try and keep it simple. I do like the watchtower. Some of the books that they have for kids are pretty good. They are a little cultish. But look at the church of Christ. Look at some of the snake handler is in North Carolina.
Well, if nothing else you made me curious enough to go look them up… I guess the Council of Nicaea really is irrelevant to Jehovah’s Witnesses, since that’s when the holy trinity was officially estabished as doctrine; they classify themselves as a first-century doctrine and explicitly reject trinitarianism. Neat, learn something new every day. I guess I helped those particular JW’s learn precisely when mainstream Christians became heretics, according to their elders, so we all learned something. However, it’s definitely not something they believe in, so I take back my question. Thanks for setting me straight.
They are a little strange. They tend to stick to certain books. There’s a reason why they don’t vote there’s a reason why they don’t have birthdays and all that other stuff. The reasons why they don’t have birthdays. John the Baptist was sought by Jesus Christ. King Herod his daughter wanted to head of John the Baptist for her birthday. The reason they don’t believe in Christmas is because it is a pagan holiday. Plus, they don’t believe that was the time of the year he was born. They all do the same study so if you go to a meeting here today, everybody else is learning the same thing. I do like their Bible. It is very easy to read, but I also have several other Bibles. No they do not like it when you try to tell them that they’re wrong about certain things. I was born Nazarene.
@Cormoran I take medication, my friend I’m bipolar and manic depressant. Sometimes I do read things and I do jump to a conclusion and I was wrong. I’ve never had a problem with you. I think that you’re a good person for the community and I apologize for seeming like I was a dickhead, because sometimes I can be.
No worries… it was a rhetorical question loaded with sarcastic commentary, so you correctly called me on that. I was making assumptions about their beliefs and I was just flat-out wrong. I guess the old saying about what happens when you assume holds true every now and then - made an ass out of u and me. I actually find it kind of intriguing that they don’t celebrate Christmas either, and for exactly the right reasons. It was adopted on Dec 25th to coincide with the pagan festival of Saturnalia, as camouflage for the early Christians to avoid persecution, so the date is pretty much pure fiction. Might be worth getting a copy of their Bible just to know what it says, even though I’m not a believer in much of anything.
I believe but not what they’re pushing. That’s with all of them. if I could take a little bit of every religion and put it together and make one perfect religion, I guess you would call it that a happy place is what I try to say. I think everybody should have some type of happy harmony and something. That’s just say I’m not happy. lol I’m not, but I’m not happy with religion. Get back on the history…
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Thanks for setting me straight.
I actually find it kind of intriguing that they don’t celebrate Christmas either, and for exactly the right reasons. It was adopted on Dec 25th to coincide with the pagan festival of Saturnalia, as camouflage for the early Christians to avoid persecution, so the date is pretty much pure fiction. Might be worth getting a copy of their Bible just to know what it says, even though I’m not a believer in much of anything.
