Jehovah's Witnesses Straight Talk - Forum/Blog

“Life is a war within us, and without, but it's not the gold at the end of a rainbow that we keep hoping for in some wisdom we gain from our bibles or we teach others, but rather the gold is found in our overcoming this life in our precious faith in the next world.”

1John.5:19 We know that we are of God, and the whole world lies in the power of the evil one. 5:20 We know that the Son of God has come, and has given us an understanding, that we know him who is true, and we are in him who is true, in his Son Jesus Christ. This is the true God, and eternal life. 5:21 Little children, keep yourselves from idols.

1 John 5:4 For whatever is born of God overcomes the world. This is the victory that has overcome the world: your faith.
1 John 5:5 Who is he who overcomes the world, but he who believes that Jesus is the Son of God?

1 John 3:13 Don't be surprised, my brothers, if the world hates you.

1 John 2:17 The world is passing away with its lusts, but he who does God's will remains forever.

Matthew 16:26 For what will it profit a man, if he gains the whole world, and forfeits his life? Or what will a man give in exchange for his life?

Facts: Materialism and its theories can be traced as far back as the poem The Nature of Things, written in the first century B.C. by Lucretius. Other defining works include The System of Nature by Paul d'Holbach, Force and Matter by Ludwig Buchner, and the more recent research done by Richard Vitzthum, An Affirmative History and Definition (1996).

Materialism as a philosophy is held by those who maintain that existence is explainable solely in material terms, with no accounting of spirit or consciousness. Individuals who hold to this belief see the universe as a huge device held together by pieces of matter functioning in subjection to naturalistic laws. Since materialism denies all concepts of Special Creation, it relies on the Theory of Evolution to explain itself, making beliefs in materialism and evolution interdependent.

The first question this worldview should cause most of us to ask is, "If all that exists is matter only, where did the natural laws that govern it come from?" New scientific discoveries in the areas of biological complexity, cosmological design, quantum physics, and information theory bring these materialistic assumptions into doubt. A massive quantity of evidence demonstrates that the universe and its material aspects are connected by a network of energy, design and information. We now see much more than matter - we see the result of conscious creation. Facts: by All About Philosophy
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