David:Quote By Cubes:  If every righteous person took the attitude of no-defense so that tyrants ruled and enslaved the peoples of every nation, how would that have facilitated the preaching of the gospel?  by DAVID:  Well, we are currently preaching in 235 lands and hundreds of languages.  You will have great difficulty hiding from Jehovah's Wit…[Read more]

Hi David:Quote By Cubes: How did Jesus rebuke the Centurion and or advise him for being in the army? By DAVID: This scripture comes to mind:“Why is it that YOUR teacher eats with tax collectors and sinners?” Hearing , he said: “Persons in health do not need a physician, but the ailing do. Go, then, and learn what this means, ‘I want mercy,…[Read more]

David:Quote By Cubes:  “he said that his servants would fight for him plus the more than 12 legions of his Father's angels and you could rest assure he would have not been taken.” By DAVID:  This isn't what he said.  He said: Put your sword away.”Or do you think that I cannot appeal to my Father to supply me at this moment more than twelve le…[Read more]

Hi David:Quote Quote There was no point at that stage in delaying what HAD TO BE DONE anymore because the time had arrived;Right, and this is one reason I believe that the two swords were to teach a lesson.  They were not to be used as Peter used it.They were not to be used at that specific time and for that specific occasion.  After all, if God w…[Read more]

If every righteous person took the attitude of no-defense so that tyrants ruled and enslaved the peoples of every nation, how would that have facilitated the preaching of the gospel?  How would that have advanced your mission with you all dead or enslaved because no one cared to stand up and defend?  By this I do not mean that the gospel is to b…[Read more]

Hello David:Quote I didn't say my position in the highly unlikely train scenario was to not act.  If I only had a second to decide, I feel I would probably act, unless frozen in shock. I shall likely freeze too.  I can't articulate why but there is a difference to me between the two paradoxes.  In the first instance, all the children are on the tr…[Read more]

Quote (david @ May 05 2006,03:47)Have any of you had a parent that was killed in the war?  A grandfather or great grandfather perhaps?  An uncle?  A brother?  A cousin?  Rest assured it wasn't one of Jehovah's Witnesses who killed them.Chances are if one of your relatives got saved through defense and protection in time of trouble, it was prob…[Read more]

So again, what use have the disciples with a sword?  Was it not Jesus himself who asked them to buy swords?Luke 22:35 And He said to them, “When I sent you without money bag, knapsack, and sandals, did you lack anything?”So they said, “Nothing.”36 Then He said to them, “But now, he who has a money bag, let him take it, and likewise a knapsack;…[Read more]

Quote (Cubes @ May 05 2006,04:00)Quote (david @ May 05 2006,03:41)If God revealed it, it would have to be in a way that I was extremely certain it was God who was doing the revealing.  I have a question that is a little off topic.  It is a paradox I read. You are standing next to the train switch and a train is on the tracks heading for what a…[Read more]

Quote (malcolm ferris @ May 05 2006,03:58)True, trueRev 22 is often used to support the idea that Jesus is co-equal, supposedly the Throne of God and the Lamb is proof of this.I would venture to say that it is a joint throne but not co-equality.If Trinitarians could only grasp that as the Father exalts Jesus for being faithful, so too does Jesus…[Read more]

Quote (david @ May 05 2006,03:41)If God revealed it, it would have to be in a way that I was extremely certain it was God who was doing the revealing.  I have a question that is a little off topic.  It is a paradox I read. You are standing next to the train switch and a train is on the tracks heading for what appears to be 10 children playing on t…[Read more]

Quote (Nick Hassan @ May 05 2006,02:59)Yes cubes, Are their lives dominated by the rules of men?Hi Nick, if such things are true, then JWs whether they recognize it or not, have to a good extent missed Galatians 5:1 entangling the people again. Stand fast therefore in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free, and be not entangled again with…[Read more]

Hi David, Shall we talk about some of the other differences between JWs and other Christians?Is it true that JWs do not dance because of this verse?Mar 6:22 And when the daughter of the said Herodias came in, and danced, and pleased Herod and them that sat with him, the king said unto the damsel, Ask of me whatsoever thou wilt, and I will give…[Read more]

Quote So if you were there, let's say you were a Hutu.  What would you have done?Or if you were a Tutsi, what would you have done?Here's a thought:Image you are a Jew.When you see the Roman armies coming, and surround Jerusalem, WHAT DO YOU DO?  Do you defend your city?  What did Jesus say:LUKE 21:20-21““Then let those in Ju·de´a begin fleeing…[Read more]

Amen, Nick.Ferris had a similarly good way of explaining it in one of the threads also…maybe the Trinity thread.

Amen, Nick.Ferris had a similarly good way of explaining it in one of the threads also…maybe the Trinity thread.

PUT ANOTHER WAY:1.  Many hymns were sung by various people great and small unto the Father, YHWH the Almighty.   I have often cited Rev 15:3f which tells of the Song of Moses and of Lamb in worship of the Father.  Below is a song by David unto the Father. 1 Chronicles 16:7 On that day David first delivered this psalm into the hand of Asaph and hi…[Read more]

Quote (david @ May 04 2006,07:19)Quote King David while escaping from Absalom sent out a couple of spies who had to hide in a well for their protection.  A dear woman had to tell a lie for their protection.So I would say that motive counts as much as anything.  Why does one want to go to war?  to take what isn't his/hers and assert control over ot…[Read more]

Quote 1 JOHN 3:10-12“The children of God and the children of the Devil are evident by this fact: Everyone who does not carry on righteousness does not originate with God, neither does he who does not love his brother. For this is the message which you have heard from the beginning, that we should have love for one another; not like Cain, who o…[Read more]

During the days of Moses, the Hebrew midwives had to lie to Pharoah about the children that were being born.I can't remember whether or not Jesus himself had to be protected from Herod through something similar… I know he had to be sheltered in Egypt for a time.King David and his men had to eat of the showbread, which was unlawful for most…[Read more]