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The most successful teaching of Jehovah's Witnesses and an amazing new book on the divine name
by slimboyfat injehovah's witnesses have had to revise their chronology and various doctrinal interpretations due to events and scholarly corrections.
but the one teaching where they have been consistently ahead of the curve is the importance of jehovah's name.. .
i'm going to run through a (necessarily selective) timeline of jw events and scholarly publications that demonstrate the phenomenal success of this teaching in the last days.
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Question for those who chose to be JW
by pc ini was born into the borg, i was wondering what made you join.
my mother who is now deceased use to say she did all this research.
my brother keeps stating that as this great fact to me.
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John 1:1 and God being "with" God.
by hooberus inthe watchtower says regarding john 1:1: "someone who is "with" another person cannot also be that other person" .
this argument is used by them againist the trinity.
while trinitarians believe that there is only one god, they also believe that there are distinct persons within the one god and that each person is god.
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Governing Buzzards - Part 7 - Did Rutherford have a Mistress?
by Amazing ingoverning buzzards ?
changes in religious doctrine, dogma, cannon, practices, liturgy and ritual are common and almost all christians have witnessed this in their denominations ?
including fringe groups like jehovah?s witnesses.
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Johannes Greber -Spirit Medium's translation used in NWT-john1:1
by wednesday inhttp://www.premier1.net/~raines/greber.html
http://www.premier1.net/~raines/wtgreber.html
i called the why 1914 line yesterday and talked with them, they gave me some excellent inffo about johannes greber, a spiritual medium who the wts used to back up john 1:1. i was appalled.
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What Is The Stupidest Rule You've Encountered As a Witness?
by minimus inone rule that i never could understand is that if you were studying with an unbelieving husband, you could associate with him, even as couples, but if a person was considered a "weak" witness, it was best to avoid any association until that person changed......what dumb rule or belief comes to your mind??
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Michael Jackson's Mom/Firpo Carr/William's Sister
by ExpandedMind inhow can "active" jws such as mj's mom, firpo carr and the william's sister who attended mjs support party, openly support him (because he is an exjw) without getting reproved or disfellowshipped by the organization?
i know that we don't see what goes on behind the scenes, perhaps the do get a "talking to" by the elders, but it seems lately that certain active jws are more bold about associating openly with exjws.. has anyone ever read anything about mjs mom's justification of her on-going relationship with mj?
i realize that situations like this (jws associating with exjws) go on all the time in the organization; it is nothing new.
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A Curiosity
by ozziepost inback in 1972 the wtb&ts published a new translation of the bible, "the bible in living english", otherwise known as byington's translation.. who was byington?.
the publisher's note tells us that steven t byington was born in 1868 and studied languages at a university and a theological seminary.
he was a member of the congregational church in massachusetts, usa and the translation was almost his lifetime's work.
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Basketball and JW's
by lastcall inwhen i was a jw it was pretty much a weekly thing in the cold weather months for different congregations(actually someone within the congregation) to rent a gym for th bros to play ball.
i really like playing ball.
when i left, that as something i actually missed.