Military Service - Unacceptable?

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  Focus

  Military Service - Unacceptable?

  1898 - No scriptural command against it - 1898WTWR 08 01 231
  1903 - Acceptable, may even be a duty - 1903WTWR 04 15 120
  1918 - Unacceptable, but alternative service and war bonds acceptable - 1918WTWR 06 01 6268repr
  1951 - Even alternative service unacceptable - 1951WTWR 02 01 077, 1974AWAK 12 08 22-3, 1978AWAK 01 22 09-11, 1983UWTG 167, 1986WTWR 09 01 20
  1996 - Alternative service acceptable - 1996WTWR 05 01 18

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  Focus
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  Yerusalyim

  Of Course military service is acceptable, why else would Peter have baptized the Centurion Cornelius. One more example of NON SCRIPTURAL doctrine by the WTBTS. I think the boys in Brooklyn are just yellow.

  YERUSALYIM
  There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, Than are dreamt of in your philosophy.
  Shakespere: Hamlet