Sarah Smiles
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Christianity..... do you have to believe...
by yknot indo you have to believe in trinity, arianism, or other christ based concept etc to be saved?.
is believing jesus to be the messiah and following the model set forth in scripture enough?
or does one have to understand accurately the 'nature,essence, etc" of things..... if so why?
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Tennyshoes: fish heads...
by White Dove inmy friend from the eastern us said that tennyshoes with rubber covering the toe part were very unpopular and made fun of by calling them fish heads.
this never happened in the northwest.. have you ever heard of this?
in the northwestern us, they were very common at school, but nike had them beat.
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Dispelling JW Myths: Great Crowd on Earth
by AuldSoul inin revelation 7:15, the nwt says that a great crowd who had just come out of the great tribulation would be rendering sacred service to god "day and night in his temple.
" in the book, revelationits grand climax at hand!, the explanation of this verse is given as follows:.
this temple does not refer to the inner sanctuary, the most holy.
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How do you confront someone abusing their daughter?
by Paralipomenon inseeing how child abuse has affected many people here, i am hoping for some advice.
we have friends of our family that have it on good authority that a father is abusing his four year old daughter.
he's always seemed rather creepy to me, which is a bit of the problem.
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Feb. Thread about UN association
by Muney insorry to bring up an old dead thread found here http://www.jehovahs-witness.com/11/152761/1.ashx .
website: http://www.jehovahsjudgment.co.uk/watchtower-un-ngo/.
i was just wondering if anything that the guy located in the link has to say is true.
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Diary of a thinking to return ex-Jw
by reniaa ini thought long and hard about posting this but the mis-information on this site finally persuaded me, i already accept many may not accept what i say on face value and get their appologist pens ready for making sure no pro-witness propaganda slips through the net on this site but here goes....... i've been on this forum for a few months my first post was about how i was thinking of returning to jw's and at my sisters recommendation to look at this site for both sides of the story before taking that step.. i faded from jw's 10/11 years ago now i left my hubby at the time divorced him to going on to have more relationships and kids, i was definately given the impression after asking on this site and with what i read that if i tried to return i might face df or at least a jc but definately a couple of elders questioning me over what i've been upto these last few years - none of these have happened.
i talked with an old jw friend (yes i do have then and she never shunned me quite happily accepted an offer of coffee from me and my asking for a chat) i told her i was interested in going back and was very frank about what i done in the last 10 years but not sure how returning was done now, she quite happily said she go ask for me to find out.. result!
she came back this week and said "all i had to do was goto meetings again" and an offer of a study was there for me if i wanted it to explore the open doubts that i had expressed i now had.. not quite the fire and brimstone welcome this site led me to believe would happen.. i will keep you posted with further updates if i feel the need to put them in future.. .
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The United Nations, the Scarlet Colored Beast and the Watchtower
by jgnat inthis week, the watchtower society set about vilifying the united nations as the scarlet colored beast.
i learned from the revelation book, chapter 34, that it was knorr who started the trend with his public talk in 1942. the revelation book suggests that the league of nations and then the united nations that followed, are direct fulfillments of the prophecy in revelation 17:8. here's an excerpt from the book:.
"the un is actually a blasphemous counterfeit of god's messianic kingdom by his prince of peace, jeus christ - to whose princely rule there will be no end.
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What Christ taught versus what JWs teach
by Brother Apostate in40for my father's will is that everyone who looks to the son and believes in him shall have eternal life, and i will raise him up at the last day.
48i am the bread of life.
58this is the bread that came down from heaven.
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Preceding weeks' WT articles?
by nbernat inthey are pretty much glorifying themselves (the gb and anointed that is) and putting unto themselves the names of a prophet and only source for interpretation of the bible.
whatever the hell they decide to make of the bible is law and should be accepted good willingly!.
because they were named by the master jesus christ.
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What is the scriptural basis for restrictions?
by digderidoo inok heres the scenario.. mom is still a jw.
her best friend and also neighbour (jw-elders wife) has a daughter who is "courting" (unofficially) someone who has just come back into the "truth", he has gone through his usual judicial process and repented from his wicked ways and has been publicly reproved.. now what puzzles me about this?.
he is on restrictions as he is not classed as being in "good standing" within the congregation.