Originally posted by RBHILLSo what's your point?
http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=vf1ydJP1llk
http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=wO1DgCacAkg
8 million JW's - 8 billion people on this planet?
If it were 7 million to 9 billion or 6 million to 10 billion or 1 against a zillion, what does that mean to you? We are loosing or wrong or something? Really? Where in the Bible can you ever find God's people out numbering those who were not his people?
Matt 7:13-14: “Go in through the narrow gate, because broad is the gate and spacious is the road leading off into destruction, and ( many ) are going in through it; 14 whereas narrow is the gate and cramped the road leading off into life, and ( few ) are finding it.
Originally posted by FMFNo it doesn't. Yes satan is making the world a very bad place day by day and the Bible says that unless God cuts the days short, NO flesh would be saved. That may not be literal but it brings home the point that satan is very powerful and knows his days are numbered and is using every tool he can to distract or even kill everyones faith in God.
Is the video clip worth watching? I rarely, if ever, look at linked videos offered in this forum, especially if the OP does not provide a summary.
Witnesses are humans too and we are imperfect and fall short everyday. If we allow ourselves to be drawn in by any of satans tricks including the internet and the filth on it, why wouldn't we fall pray to it?
Originally posted by galveston75Are you saying that RBHILL posting a link to that video clip on the internet is one of "Satan's tricks"?
Witnesses are humans too and we are imperfect and fall short everyday. If we allow ourselves to be drawn in by any of satans tricks including the internet and the filth on it, why wouldn't we fall pray to it?
Originally posted by galveston75I didn't go see the video, but just off the top of my head, I would think there's a huge difference between "God's people" and JWs.
Where in the Bible can you ever find God's people out numbering those who were not his people?
Matt 7:13-14: “Go in through the narrow gate, because broad is the gate and spacious is the road leading off into destruction, and ( many ) are going in through it; 14 whereas narrow is the gate and cramped the road leading off into life, and ( few ) are finding it.
Even your Matthew quote suggests that the narrow gate is for those who follow Christ, and not ONLY for the JWs.
Originally posted by galveston75blaming the boogie man Satan for making the world bad is a copout. It is mankind that created this mess. There is no biblical basis for Satan having the power to corrupt God's creation. Dualist theologies are heretical. Evil has no counter balancing power to good, and God and his plans cannot be affected by any power.
No it doesn't. Yes satan is making the world a very bad place day by day and the Bible says that unless God cuts the days short, NO flesh would be saved. That may not be literal but it brings home the point that satan is very powerful and knows his days are numbered and is using every tool he can to distract or even kill everyones faith in God.
Witness ...[text shortened]... ny of satans tricks including the internet and the filth on it, why wouldn't we fall pray to it?
Originally posted by DowardYeah, right, there is no evil.
blaming the boogie man Satan for making the world bad is a copout. It is mankind that created this mess. There is no biblical basis for Satan having the power to corrupt God's creation. Dualist theologies are heretical. Evil has no counter balancing power to good, and God and his plans cannot be affected by any power.
Sure.
"All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing." -- Edmund Burke
Dualism theologies are reality. Non-dualism deals in fantasy, the desire for man to somehow NOT be driven by a sin-nature.