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Calling all bible experts !!!
by thinker inquestion:.
genesis says that on the first day god creates lightand divides the light from the dark.
then on day four he creates the sun, moon, and stars to divide the light from the dark.
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NEED HELP !!! 7000 yrs. ??
by thinker inthe wt claims that each "day" in genesis (chap.1) is really 7000 yrs.
can anyone provide an explaination of this belief?
please list references from wt literature or scripture that backs up this idea.. personally, i can find nothing; which is interesting since so much jw doctrine and teaching hinges on this number "7000".. thinker
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No Special Relationship
by thinker inthe following case illustrates, in legal terms, how the wt feels about it's members:.
http://www.courts.state.me.us/99me144r.htm.
maine supreme judicial court .
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Forgive me, I'm imperfect...
by thinker inwhen confronted with the false prophesies, strange teachings, and outright lies of the gb; many active witnesses explain it away by saying, "they are just imperfect men.
wait on jehovah and he will make it right.
" the unconditional forgiveness expressed by these r&f witnesses is admirable.
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Goddess of love
by thinker inplease tell me the "goddess" red horse woman isn't involved in this:.
http://www.teleport.com/~dkossy/tmc+a.html.
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Why hide it ???
by thinker insome active witnesses have learned some of the history of the wt teachings.
yet, they continue to believe in "jehovah's perfect organization".
they say "we have 'new light' now.
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HELL !!!??? NO....
by thinker insomething my wife said to an active relative a while back made me think that the watchtower really missed an opportunity.
she told him "i don't believe it's the truth, and if it is at ammagedon i'll just be dead.
but, at least i'll have enjoyed my life.".
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thinker's thoughts on the Bible...
by thinker inthomas jefferson said of jesus's teachings:.
"they have been still more disfigured by the corruptions of schismatizing followers, who have found an interest in sophisticating and perverting the simple doctrines he taught, by engrafting on them the mysticisms of a grecian sophist, frittering them into subtleties, and obscuring them with jargon, until they have caused good men to reject the whole in disgust, and to view jesus himself as an impostor.
" (from jefferson's syllabus of an estimate of the.
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Time Travelers ?
by thinker inif you think about it time is really just a way for humans to organize things.
memories are stored in the "computer" that sits between our ears and then labeled in an orderly fashion according to whatever calendar system we happen to be using.
it's not really real.
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God's will or free will?
by thinker ini've heard many people tell me about bible prophesy.
if the bible can predict future events then it stands to reason that those events are predetermined and man has no choices in this world.
think about all the choices you've made in your life and how different life for you would be if you had done things differently.