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June 1st watchtower new light from watchtower legal.
by XQsThaiPoes innew policy.. pg17 "young ones, if you live in a land where the laws permits it, do you give god glory by witnessing in school, or do you allow fear of man to hold you back?.
begs the question since public preaching is banned in many places in the east does this mean that there is a whole class of non preaching jws?
pg19 "remember, though, that preaching is just one way in which we bring glory to jehovah.
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Undaunted Danny's final clicher of WT's best blaspheme
by Undaunted Danny injust my 2 cents but if i was to post what i would consider to be the single most convincing arrogant blunder of the wt(for me in my time) it would have to be below.
: when i heard this 'proclamation' i, (and many others at my cong) were convinced that this had to finally be it.
because there just was no way the wt could possibly say no babies again and not have it be the final,real ready rapture.
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Comments You Will Not Hear at the 7-18-04 WT Study
by blondie in(not christians or witnesses of jesus).
.and it was first in antioch that the disciples were by divine providence called christians.
and then when other nations began to study with us, we were called international bible students.
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Promises From the Dead
by Farkel incharles taze russell promised us we would never die.
he's dead.. joseph franklin rutherford promised us we would never die.
he's dead.. nathan homer knorr promised us we would never die.
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Do you believe the Bible is the inspired word of God?
by desib77 indo you believe the bible is the inspired word of god?
have you somehow attempted to prove this to yourself or have you just accepted it?
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UN Ban On Religion
by laurelin in.
does anyone here know anything about the supposed resolution that the un have about banning all religion?.
i've done a google search but can't find anything and i'd be grateful for any help on this.. thanks.
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Gentile Times - When did they end?
by Justin inrecently a poster commented that pastor russell may have clapped his hands two days too soon because the gentile tiems were not supposed to end until october 4/5, 1914. i guess october 4/5 is the date now given (though i haven't seen it in print, being unfamiliar with the newer publications), whereas russell was satisfied to have passed october 1.. one would assume that, as the downfall of the judean kingdom (supposedly in 607 bce) was the beginning of the gentile times, that whenever they ended in 1914 would be the date that would correspond to the overthrow in 607 bce.
(it would, given all the society's presuppositions, be difficult to come up with an exact date, as the hebrew calendar is a lunar calendar and must be periodically adjusted to keep it in synch with the solar year.
) after all, god's words to zedekiah (the last judean king) are usually quoted to support the idea that the gentile times began when that king lost his crown and the kingdom authority would be held in abeyance until "he comes whose right it is" - understood to be christ jesus at the parousia.
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JWs are boxing their hobbies
by ezekiel3 inmuch entertainment in the watchtower, 15 august 2004, pg 24. see the picture for the full text to learn that we can "put off every unecessary weight" by boxing up our "hobbies and non-essential personal projects.
" i wonder what's in the box.... it is interesting to see how jws are encouraged to have hobbies:.
*** g91 11/22 pp.
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Demons and Inanimate Objects
by VM44 inthe watchtower has published articles telling people not to shop at thrift stores, salvation army stores, etc, because the items purchased might have demons attached!.
experiences have been published by the wt, and particularly the awake!,where people are reported to have been bothered after bringing the used items home.
to only relief was after the objects were taken out and burned, usually after several attempts when the object would not catch fire!.