Is there any hope for mankind?

Originally posted by checkbaiter
None whatsoever, unless they receive Jesus Christ, the world will eventually be destroyed.

Sure, but we'll colonize other worlds.

Originally posted by checkbaiter
None whatsoever, unless they receive Jesus Christ, the world will eventually be destroyed.

What is the scriptural basis for that? and what do you mean 'world?'

Originally posted by robbie carrobie
This good and bad is making the issue a moral one, tis a construct of the mind.

No - "good" and "bad" are not used in the ethical sense here.

Originally posted by Suzianne
I wonder why those who were paid to rewrite the Bible for the JWs decided to also prune it of almost all of its glory to God.

Noone was paid to bring the Bible up to date according to the latest finds by

Biblical archaeologists and scholars.

JW s are the only ones who truly praise our Universal Sovereign by holding sacred His

Name as Jesus said we should do.

Originally posted by FMF
I think roigam's hope for mankind ~ which is one of living in the flesh forever - having been raised from the dead - on an earth turned into a paradise after all non-JW humans have been slaughtered and destroyed - is "deluded" and, as a recruitment tool to bring weak minded people into his organization, also "self-serving".

How can my expressed hope for mankind seriously be described as either "deluded" or "self-serving" in any remotely comparable way?

The hope that Jehovah God has given us is simple so it can be understood

by all people no matter how educated or uneducated they are.

(Matthew 18:3-6) and said: “Truly I say to you, unless you turn around and become as young children, you will by no means enter into the Kingdom of the heavens. 4 Therefore, whoever will humble himself like this young child is the one who is the greatest in the Kingdom of the heavens; 5 and whoever receives one such young child on the basis of my name receives me also. 6 But whoever stumbles one of these little ones who have faith in me, it would be better for him to have hung around his neck a millstone that is turned by a donkey and to be sunk in the open sea.

What JW s teach from the Bible follows in the footsteps of the Apostles:

(Acts 4:13) Now when they saw the outspokenness of Peter and John, and perceived that they were uneducated and ordinary men, they were astonished. And they began to realize that they had been with Jesus.

Originally posted by roigam
What JW s teach from the Bible follows in the footsteps of the Apostles.

Unfortunately for you, this is not the case.

Originally posted by Ghost of a Duke
Sure, but we'll colonize other worlds.

If we get the Enterprise built in time... But I think those worlds will be destroyed as well.

Originally posted by robbie carrobie
What is the scriptural basis for that? and what do you mean 'world?'

Well "world" could also mean worldly systems. But I probably should have said mankind will be destroyed.

Originally posted by checkbaiter
Well "world" could also mean worldly systems. But I probably should have said mankind will be destroyed.

yes.

Originally posted by Ghost of a Duke
Sure, but we'll colonize other worlds.

We will not escape that way:

(Amos 9:1, 2) I saw Jehovah stationed above the altar, and he said: “Strike the head of the pillar, and the thresholds will shake. Cut them off at the head, and I will kill the last of them with the sword. No one who flees will get away, and no one trying to escape will succeed.  2 If they dig down into the Grave, From there my hand will take them; And if they go up to the heavens, From there I will bring them down.

Why would God let the mess we make here on Earth go out to any other world?

It would just contaminate them too.

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Call it "womankind" as far as I'm concerned.

I agree it should be "humankind", but I find it such a non-issue in terms of feminism, that I fail yo see why you would bring it up here, a thread about something else.

Why don't you start your own thread about sexism in the church, or some such.
Then your view(s) would gain more traction

Oh, and I am a feminist

Originally posted by Ghost of a Duke
Let us call them 'truths' rather than 'beliefs' (so as not to befuddle you) but not 'absolute truths.'

So for example, I hold to the truth that the world we live on is a sphere. I base this 'truth' on evidence that has convinced me that the Earth is indeed spherical (Images from outer space showing the curvature of the planet etc). However, as no ...[text shortened]... e and are open to modification and replacement. (And in this context, my atheism is irrelevant).

However, as no truth is absolute

Apart from the absolute truth that there is no absolute truth?

Originally posted by Fetchmyjunk
[b]However, as no truth is absolute

Apart from the absolute truth that there is no absolute truth?[/b]

No.