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Child sex abuse Stratford upon Avon UK
by truthwillsetyoufree inthis appeared in the local paper 'stratford herald' october 2015. the guy was supported by his congregation and he has now been released from prison and is once again part of the same congregation.
allen (43) of evesham road, dodwell, stratford, was jailed for two years and eight months and ordered to register as a sex offender for life after he pleaded guilty to two charges of sexual activity with a child.. prosecutor andrew wallace said jehovah’s witness allen had met the girl in the mid-2000s through the church.. the girl, now a young woman in her 20s, said she began to fancy allen, who had started to pay her compliments.. then on one occasion when he gave her a lift, despite being fully aware she was only 15, allen put his hand down her trousers and penetrated her with his fingers.. she did not object or tell anyone what had happened, and there were further consensual incidents between them, including various types of sexual activity but not full intercourse.. someone who suspected what was going on between allen, a family man in his 30s, and the girl said something to her mother.. but when she challenged both her daughter and allen about what she had heard, they both denied it.. things stopped after the girl began to feel guilty about what was happening, and she eventually decided to come forward last year and contacted the police.. she said she had been dramatically affected by what had gone on, and that what happened with allen caused her to suffer a breakdown and still haunts her.. when allen was questioned by the police he accepted the incidents had taken place, but claimed it was the girl who had taken the lead, added mr wallace.. elizabeth power, defending, said allen, who has a son and a daughter who are now both in their 20s, had attended for a voluntary interview with the police and made admissions.. “he did not force himself on her; but he was the adult and she was a child.
he says he was weak and was attracted to her.
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Individual Duds absolutely cannot learn the "truth" on their own"???
by James Mixon inwhy is it that i understand the bible more clearly today then all my years in the organization (jw)???
?many religious people believe the average person cannot understand the bible..maybe the reasons (1) they may have tried to study the bible and found it difficult, so they gave up.
(2) maybe they believe truth is subjective;so whatever you believe,that is truth for you.
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Why Finding the One True Religion is Impossible
by Simon injws like to think they have found the one true religion.
but like so many other religious people, it's usually the religion they were born into, the only religion they know because it's the first one they found or, at the most, one of two or three (typically the second one after they left their first / born-in faith).. the trouble is, there simply isn't enough time to explore and investigate each and everyone of the many thousands of belief systems, religions and sects around the world.. think of it this way: which is the best neighbourhood to live in where you would be most happy and most successful?
not just in the city or even the country you are in, but the entire world.. how would you ever know?
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Early Bible Translations
by TheWonderofYou inthis is a story about the bishop of hippo, a scholarly man.
augustine.
we saw him in the hollywood film.. was he a scholarly man?
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The book of Jeremiah
by truthwillsetyoufree init occurred to me the other day that i don't actually know all that much about the bible.
dont get me wrong, i was a very dedicated and studious jehovah's witness and i studied the bible every day - or so i thought.
i have now realised that during the time i spent in that religion i didn't study the bible - i studied jehovah's witness theology.
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“The Jesus-followers’ first 200 years”
by Doug Mason inthe archaeologist digs and then sifts through remnants from the past, assembling the discoveries into patterns so that stories of the past may be brought back to life.. with almost 850 direct quotations from 50 books, my study sifts remnants from the first 200 years of christianity and sorts them into patterns that may help others to assemble a vessel that can hold ideas, or to form a skeleton where muscle and flesh, heart and mind, may be applied.
a comprehensive contents listing is provided at the rear of this study.. my study, “the jesus-followers’ first 200 years” is available at:.
http://www.jwstudies.com/the_jesus-followers__first_200_years.pdf .
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Hello
by TheAceInhibitor ini've been lurking here for a while, but i figured i should say hello and introduce myself.
i haven't been attending the meetings for a couple months now and i'm a graduate pharmacist.
i look forward to getting to know people.
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Jehovah in New Testament
by truthwillsetyoufree inhi guys.
conscienceguy started a topic regarding what to say to the elders about the name jehovah being in the new testament.
i wrote him a private message with my comments on the matter.
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The glaring inequity between the 144,000 & the Great Crowd
by deegee inthere is a glaring inequity between the 144,000 & the great crowd (gc):.
the gc will experience:.
1. the great tribulation - a gruelling/horrifying time which has never occurred before.. 2. armageddon.. 3. a thousand years of “loving” molding and refinement.. 4. a second armageddon at the end of the thousand years.. the 144,000 will experience none of these things.. isn't it strange that the gc has to prove themself so much but the 144,000 don't???!!!