I had a Jehova's witness come to my house today. I was kinda on edge at first when I saw him, he looked like he could be working for law enforcement. But I opened the door and he was nice. He wanted to show me some things in the bible, and instead of shooing him away like alot of people I know have, I decided I would try to talk to him. So I talked to him, he's 51. He said it was nice to have a young man that thought so deeply. Anyways, I asked him questions and some he answered, and some it sounded like he was trying to avoid answering. Then I finally asked him about Marijuana, and the use of it, and various sections in the bible where it talks about it. And I brought up the quote, that I don't know exactly, but it's something along the lines of "and god saw everything he made and behold it was very good" and I asked him if it meant Cannabis was very good, because god had made it, and it was a plant. And he said that god made gunpowder, and I said "you could say he made LSD, but that's more of a combined mixture of chemicals (i think) whereas Cannabis was brought into the earth by god. He said "Well we have obviously reached a point where we don't agree on this" I'm an atheist just fyi. He left me with 2 little magazine things, one is called "The Watchtower: Announcing Jehova's Kingdom; Is the end near?" and the second one is called "Awake!: Jehova's Witnesses, Who are they?" Then as he was about to leave, he said "Can I come back to talk to you sometime?" and I told him anytime, then he said he'll have to read up more on cannabis. I need GC's help. I know theirs quite a few places in the bible where cannabis is mentioned. If anyone has info on it, it would be appreciated.
like j cole recentely said... but anyway back on topic Genesis 1.29: "God said, "See, I give you every seed-bearing plant that is upon all the earth, and every tree that has seed-bearing fruit; they shall be yours for food." "He causeth the grass to grow for the cattle and herb for the service of man: that he may bring forth food out of the earth; And wine that maketh glad the heart of man and oil to make his face to shineth." (Psalm 104:14-15) "The Lord said unto me, "I will take my rest and I will consider in my dwelling place like a clear heat upon herbs, and like a cloud of dew in the heat of harvest. For afore the harvest, when the bud is perfect and the sour grape is ripening in the flower, he shall cut off the sprigs with pruning hooks and take away and cut down the branches." (Is. 18:4-5) "And I will raise up for them a plant of renown, and they shall be no more consumed with hunger in the land, neither bear the shame of the heathen any more." (Ezekiel 34:29) "One believeth that he may eat all things. Another...eateth herbs. ... Let us not, therefore judge one another any more: but judge this rather, that no man put a stumbling block or an occasion to fall in his brother's way. I know, and am persuaded by the Lord Jesus, that there is nothing unclean of itself: but to him that esteemeth anything to be unclean, to him it is unclean. For the kingdom of God is not meat and drink; but righteousness and peace and joy in the Holy Ghost." (Epistle of St. Paul: Romans 14: 2,3,13,14,17) "And he showed me a pure river of water of life, clear as crystal, proceeding out of the throne of God and of the Lamb. In the midst of the street of it, and on either side of the river, was there the tree of life, which bare twelve manner of fruits, and yielding her fruit every month; and the leaves of the tree were for the healing of the nations." (Rev. 22:1-2) and lastly another good read http://hightimes.com/news/ht_admin/139
^??? Don't really believe the source and what they say there. OP, very polite of you to respect his opinion and listen to him. That's important to see his perspective compared to your own.
It is said in thousands of places that the holy anointing oil contained kaneh bosm which is a cannabis extract....it is what jesus rubbed on the guys eyes to make him better..... Its fucking ridiculous that they say cannabis was never used functionally when im sure versions of the bible were written on hemp and the like..... Ancient china fucking pounded down tons of cannabis for various shit. Jesus could turn fucking water into wine and we have 100,000 plus deaths a year related to alcohol and its side-effects, but a plant that doesnt do shit is NOT OK!!!! lol i bet the guy who worked on the original bible and his amigos were all fucking high as a god damn kite
um not true, theologists go to the original text constantly. anyhow i hate to discriminate against others but imo just like how people think religion is crap and are freely allowed to say it on gc, i personally think mormons and JW's are straight up perversions of the original text, they are wrong along with their beliefs, they completely skew the bible, to their retarded ass preference.
I was going to say doesnt the vatican in its endless amounts of vaults have most of the original scriptures and shit..... course no one can read them unless they are all up gods butt so no one can prove it all wrong lol
I'm an atheist too, but if someone wants a logical religion, sun worship. A lot of the major religions like christianity were stories based on astronomy.
true. not only we don't have the "original" copy, also many books/writings have been excluded from the bible along the way. The Apocrypha Index http://www.bibletopics.com/biblestudy/23.htm
um not perse. depends on a few factors really. the original old testament , in almonst every translation is 101% accurate, beause the jews followed very,very,very strict provisions in making copies of the torah. im talking super intensely strict guidelines. the new testament however is the issue. they are not just at the vatican, the records and scripts are at various churches, mainly the greek orthodox, and other eastern orthodox churches. that however is not the point, because the nkjv bible is about as accurate as it gets in english,.
yeah alot of people say apocrypha is legit, including me. but thats old testament. the other books are crap however, like the book of thomas, or mary. of it contradicts any of the original books of the bible then they are not legit. and no jesus never had a brother, or a child, etc.
the bible, is fucking nonsense either way. And has caused more deaths than pretty much anything else ever
No lie but they Came today to my House too.They gave me the same Magazine type of thing.It was 2 Hispanic Women around their 40's. Se acerca el fin del Mundo? & La verdad sobre los testigos de Jehova. Same Thing But in Spanish.
Ok? So you have to be "all up god's butt" to be able to read different languages? I can read Greek and Latin, yet am an atheist. It probably would not be very hard to learn Hebrew or Aramaic either. You don't have to be all up god's butt to read.
wow he did not mean that. he meant that you have to hold some high rank in the catholic church to have access, tot he texts. seriously man?