RE: Ask one of Jehovah's Witnesses
June 4, 2015 at 8:14 pm
(This post was last modified: June 4, 2015 at 8:18 pm by Won2blv.)
(June 3, 2015 at 11:32 pm)bennyboy Wrote: I'm new to this thread. My question is this: if you believe in God and Jesus, then why do you think the existing texts and churches were insufficient? Why do Jehovah's Witnesses need to exist?
Well I would like to remind you first that I am agnostic myself and I'm trying to hash out some personal beliefs. I am not sure it'll end with me believing in god or JW's in particular. I don't understand your first question so I'd like to see if you could rephrase it. But as far the second... From a JW perspective, Jesus used an illustration about a wheat field that would be oversewn by an enemy with weeds. Long story short, false christendom are the weeds. The master of the field allows the weeds to grow along side the wheat so that the wheat doesn't get torn up with the weeds and blah blah blah in the end when the difference is clear, the weeds are thrown in the furnace. JW's believe that there were always true christians throughout history but in the critical point of the worlds history, right before the end times, true christianity would have a chance to shine. So we like to believe that JW's believe that they practice the bible closest to the truth than any other religion. And JW's have the largest preaching work worldwide. SO in a nutshell, they need to exist for truth and spreading truth
(June 4, 2015 at 12:06 pm)Minimalist Wrote:Quote:Your post implied that the religion starting in 1880 had some bearing on its truthfulness.
Right. Just like all of these other offshoot protestant sects which grew up like weeds in the 19th century because some guy claimed to have had a "revelation" from "fucking god." I don't give a shit if you don't like it, pal. But what you were trying to do was set up a false equivalency between the Theory of Evolution and your silly-ass religion. Evolution has been tested many times by scientists all over the world. The problem with all religions is that they are not verifiable. And if you think I'm going to take on "faith" some silly shit invented in 1880 you have another think coming.
Believe it if you like. But don't expect to come to an Atheist Forum and not hear about it.
Again you're wrong. My point was that your assertion that the religion coming from the 19th century had any backing to whether it was true or not. A claim cannot be dismissed simply by the era it came from. I am not even saying that it isn't horseshit, but you're another example of how atheist are full of bullshit fallacies and bad reasoning just like everyone else.
