Bible Studies these days in the Borg

l p

Hey I just read on another thread that they dont study the truth book or the paradise book anymore.

Omg when i was a dub i was always trying to get studies with the paradise book.

why?

So what do they study with these days?

lp

wannaexit

Study Books:

From paradise lost to paradise restored ----1959 through the sixties

The truth that leads to eterna life -1968-seventies

Live forever in a paradise earth --through the 1980's

The knowledge that leads to everlasting life -thorugh the 1990's

What does the bible really teach--Present

extractor

Study Books:
From paradise lost to paradise restored ----1959 through the sixties
The truth that leads to eterna life -1968-seventies
Live forever in a paradise earth --through the 1980's
The knowledge that leads to everlasting life -thorugh the 1990's
What does the bible really teach--Present

Bible --- Never

cobaltcupcake

I hated lugging that stupid Paradise book around in FS. It weighed down my book bag.

Let's state this plainly: Jehovah's Witnesses convince each other their beliefs are really pure bible teachings. But, for some peculiar reason, the bible doesn't present those teachings clearly or logically so that

anybody could do it on their own. Watchtower writings are superior in this regard!

The actual use of the bible is begrudging and ancillary.

So, the pretext for sitting down in somebody's home is cynical.

This is triangulation.

The publisher must demonstrate their personal efficacy by racking up hours or an elder will chew their tail.

The Society must move those books and magazines to make room for the endless flow of feckless drivel already in the pipleline.

The householder bears the burden of waking up to this ploy before getting sucked in to the indoctrination process.

Billy the Ex-Bethelite

And the Bible doesn't have pictures of kids petting pandas and drawings of rocks falling from the sky smashing people's heads open. You can't learn anything from the Bible without WT "visual aids."

wha happened?

I studied from the 2nd version of the Live Forever book

blondie

I wonder what "bible students" studied in the first century?

Since the Christian congregation was said to be established in 33 C.E. what did they use between then and 49 C.E.?

Darby List

Galatians (A. D. 49)

James (A. D. 50)

1 Thessalonians (A. D. 51)

2 Thessalonians (A. D. 52)

1 Corinthians (A. D. 55)

2 Corinthians (A. D. 57)

Romans (A. D. 57)

Mark (late 50s - early 60s)

Matthew (late 50s - early 60s)

Luke (A. D. 60-61)

Colossians (A. D. 61)

Philemon (A. D. 61)

Ephesians (A. D. 61)

Philippians (A. D. 62)

I Tim othy (A. D. 63)

Acts (A. D. 63)

Hebrews (A. D. 64)

Titus (A. D. 65)

John (A. D. 65)

1 John (A. D. 65)

2 John (A. D. 65)

3 John (A. D. 65)

1 Peter (A. D. 65)

2 Tim othy (A. D. 67)

2 Peter (A. D. 67)

Jude (A. D. 68)

Revelation (A.D. 70)

Another list

N.T. Book	Author	Earliest	Latest	Most Likely
Galatians	Apostle Paul	A.D. 48	A.D. 50	A.D. 48
1 Thessalonians	Apostle Paul	A.D. 50	A.D. 52	A.D. 51
2 Thessalonians	Apostle Paul	A.D. 50	A.D. 52	A.D. 51
Mark	Mark	A.D. 45 John Wenham / John A. T. Robinson	A.D. 60 A. Harnack	A.D. 48-55
1 Corinthians	Apostle Paul	A.D. 55	A.D. 55	A.D. 55
2 Corinthians	Apostle Paul	A.D. 56	A.D. 56	A.D. 56
Romans	Apostle Paul	A.D. 57	A.D. 57	A.D. 57
James	James (half-brother of Jesus)	A.D. 38	A.D. 62	A.D. 50-60
Luke	Luke	A.D. 57-62	A.D. 57-62	A.D. 57-62
Ephesians	Apostle Paul	A.D. 60-62	A.D. 60-62	A.D. 60-62
Philippians	Apostle Paul	A.D. 60-62	A.D. 60-62	A.D. 60-62
Colossians	Apostle Paul	A.D. 60-62	A.D. 60-62	A.D. 60-62
Philemon	Apostle Paul	A.D. 60-62	A.D. 60-62	A.D. 60-62
Acts	Luke	A.D. 62-63	A.D. 62-63	A.D. 62-63
Titus	Apostle Paul	A.D. 62	A.D. 63	A.D. 63
1 Timothy	Apostle Paul	A.D. 62	A.D. 64	A.D. 63
2 Timothy	Apostle Paul	A.D. 64	A.D. 64	A.D. 64
1 Peter	Apostle Peter	A.D. 63	A.D. 68	A.D. 64-67
2 Peter	Apostle Peter	A.D. 64	A.D. 68	A.D. 65-68
Hebrews	Unknown	A.D. 40	A.D. 69	A.D. 50-68
Matthew	Apostle Matthew	A.D. 40 John Wenham / John A. T. Robinson	A.D. 110 Paul Minear	A.D. 65-70
Jude	Jude (half-brother of Jesus)	A.D. 60	A.D. 85	A.D. 65-80
John	Apostle John	A.D. 60's F. Lamar Cribbs	A.D. 90's	A.D. 90's
1 John	Apostle John	Unknown	A.D. 98	A.D. 90's
2 John	Apostle John	Unknown	A.D. 98	A.D 90's
3 John	Apostle John	Unknown	A.D. 98	A.D. 90's
Revelation	Apostle John	A.D. 68	A.D. 97	A.D. 95-97

l p

thanks guys... ive been out for a few years now and have just lost touch with it all...

goes to show they have changed everything in the short time ive been out....

so not 'the truth'

lp

Juan Viejo2

In 1951 my mother and I started with the green cover "Let God Be True" book (replaced with a maroon cover and changed a bit in 1952). The "The Truth Shall Set You Free" book was supposed to be the second book you studied before baptism, but as far as I know, not a single person ever got that far. They either got baptized or slammed the door by the time they got through the LGBT (OMG!!!! do you see what those letters stand for?!?) book.

"Let God Be True" was, in my opinion, probably the best first study book ever published. It sure brought a lot of people into the "truth" and was cheap at 25 cents a copy.

I remember being severely reprimanded by my mother after one study we had when I asked the lady we were studying with ("Sister Kelly") when we were going to "study the Bible"? I was no longer included in any more "Bible" studies with my mother after that - apparently because I "asked too many questions."

I was 8 years old.

JV