Christendom DOESNT support the bible!!JWs have examined many of their doctrines and they fall short with bible truths.The bible says to remove the wicked one from among you.The Catholic religeon turned the other way for yrs about this with all the sexual scandals.
The fallacy in your understanding is that you believe that the Bible is the ONLY source of truth and then you (i.e. your church, not you personally) manipulate so many of the verses taken out of context to support doctrines that have no rational basis in the Bible as a whole itself. The Bible is not the sole source of truth. It is part of a larger understanding - including the institution of the Eucharist. So to address your point above = Christianity certainly does not support your limited conclusions of what the Bible does or doesn't say. In that frame of understanding, your point about Christianity not supporting your misperceptions about the bible is 100% true.Also, every time you reference the Catholic Church and the sex scandals, you realize that you are spitting in the face of Matthew 7:3, right? Humans are imperfect and sinful. The Church that Jesus created, i.e. the Catholic Church (just as EVERY other church in the history of the world) is run by imperfect and sinful human beings. The sins of man don't invalidate the fact that the Catholic Church was instituted by Jesus Christ. Just so we are clear here, I am stating this for the benefit of other people who read your hatred spewed against Catholics and other Christians rather than in effort to change
your mind. I know that ship has sailed.
I absolutely guarantee and promise you that if taken proportionally, the number of Catholic priests who have been involved in sexual immorality is roughly equal in proportion to the number of Jewish rabbis, or Methodist ministers, or Presbyterian pastors, or non-denominational church leaders, or yes even JW leaders who have committed the same horrific and detestable sins against innocent victims in their own church congregations. NONE of it is excusable and ALL should be punished to the fullest extent of the law. But when people like you and the news media who have an agenda against Catholics use that as a weapon to attack the Church as a whole you are absolutely saying and big collective F U to the Matthew 7:3 verse referenced above.
Are the leaders of my Church perfect and sinless? Hell no! Is the Catholic Church itself perfect? Well, it was started by Jesus Christ - the true God - when he walked the earth... not by some mortal man with an axe to grind. I certainly like those odds.
You think you will die and go to heaven?If you do hopefully by then you will know Gods name.LOL!!But i seriously doubt you are 1 of the 144000.
By saying you don't think I am going to be one of the 144,000 isn't that passing judgment on me? But even though passing judgment on others is something that the Bible says we aren't supposed to do,
that part of the Bible isn't something that you have to follow. I am very confused by the inconsistencies that are inherent in your loose interpretation of the things prohibited by the Bible yet excusing other literal prohibitions.
I have no idea if I will go to heaven, but I sure do hope so. I have no interest in any misunderstood belief in the 144,000 elect or whatever literalist belief your church uses to conclude that some limited number of the billions upon billions upon billions of people who ever walked the earth will be saved. I think that science and math experts estimate that roughly 110 billion people have ever lived lived on earth from the dawn of time to 2022. 144,000 out of 110 Billion... That comes down to roughly 0.0001309% and that percentage is necessarily decreasing each and every day. (This also doesn't factor into consideration the millions of babies who are murdered every single year through abortion). Are you serious that the cutoff point of righteous people in all of history is that small? If those are the odds, I would venture to say that
you have very little chance of being in that top 144,000 yourself! What happens to number 144,001 who is just a tiny bit less worthy than #143,999? Too bad 144,001! You missed the magic number cutoff!
Let's go back to those millions upon millions of murdered babies. None of them ever even had the opportunity to call out to Jehovah or to God or to Jesus or Allah or whomever they choose to call the Supreme Creator. But they've also never had the opportunity to sin or to behave despicably by donating blood or praying to the Holy Spirit. So inside their mothers' womb, they have lived the most pure sinless lives possible. Even if the 144,000 saved souls came
exclusively from that club of aborted babies with the shortest, but most pure lives ever lived = if only limited to 144,000 how many of those millions and millions of murdered innocents are just out of luck by the sheer numbers?
I really don't mean to sound like I am bashing you here, but do you not see how cold that sounds? And add on top of that - somebody that has done every kindness imaginable and has committed every selfless act possible - but he made the grave and unforgivable sin of giving up his own blood to save the life of another person and/or failed to call God by the name Jehovah and he is immediately withdrawn from consideration of being a part of the chosen 144,000 people? Yet another man who lived a life just as pure as he did, and dutifully refused to donate blood when the medical need arose and always stepped in form by calling God by a specific name is so much more righteous and deserving of admission into this limited exclusive club?
Please, donnamarg323, I am truly asking you to
explain to me how that in any way makes sense!
Lent is described in one of the links i put up.
Correction. A
completely incorrect and ill-informed untruth about Lent is described in one of the links you put up.
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