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Must Read!
by Non-JW in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
as a jehovah's witness you have been taught from the bible and the watchtower organization.

instead, you must trust what it tells you about its own false prophecies.

the watchtower organization tells you what to think and what to do.
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TOTA
by ArtfulDodger in
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2. beliefs
what does "tota" mean .

and why should i "re-read the bible from the beginning" because of that word ?

i was told this by a jw visitor - but the word was never explained.
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Bible John 1:1
by ArtfulDodger in
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2. beliefs
why does the dubs bible change the words from other recognised translations ?

in the normal bibles john 1:1 says "in the beginning was the word, and the word was with god, and the word was god.

" .... but the dubs version says"... and the word was a god".
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And THIS is supposed to be a God worthy of worship?
by SeymourButts in
1. watchtower
2. bible
he created evil (lam.

3:38, jer.

26:3, 36:3, ezek.
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JOB's children celebrating birthdays
by eye 23 in
1. watchtower
2. bible
can anyone give me their view on why the bible says that after job's children celebrated 'their day' he went out and made sacrafices to god in case they had sinned and cursed god in their hearts ?.

the first part is a great talking part especially regarding job being a rightous man but the latter tends to counter act it some how by impling that job thoughts were that birthdays were wrong, in gods eyes.

especially as he did this after every birthday, so i can't really debate that it was one off event that might have encured some wrong doing at one particular party........if you understand what i mean.. thanks for any iput.
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Another example of a loving God.
by jula71 in
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2. beliefs
i was looking through the newest wt just to see what "new light" there is now.

i came across the questions from readers, and i was amazed by what i read.

from the may 15, 2005 wt, the question was "why were david and bath-sheba not put to death for committing adultery, whereas their newborn son died?
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Looking for history on how the bible was put together
by lilbit in
1. watchtower
2. bible
im on a research kick these days.

right now im trying to find info on who put the bible as we know it today together.

why some books were included and some were not.
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Why didn't jesus write the new testement
by Satanus in
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2. beliefs
questions, questions, and more questions.. did jesus (if he existed) have in mind starting a world religion such as has been created around him in his name?

if so, why did he not write the foundations for it, laying out it's laws and structure?

why did he only rebel and lead a rebellion against the old testement priesthood?
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Theological question: When did God create the Devil if...
by logansrun in
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2. beliefs
st. augustine speculated that god exists outside of time.

this viewpoint would seem to make sense in our modern understanding of physics since time is dependent upon space; time is not an absolute, and it is not linear.

god, according to augustine and other theologians, sees all of history as one eternal present moment.
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Too Strange to be a Coincidence?
by DevonMcBride in
1. watchtower
2. bible
according to the biblical account, pilate offerend the jews the release of just one prisoner and they chose barabbas rather than jesus.

(matthew 27:16-26).

but in the original text studied by origen (and in some recent ones) the chosen criminal was jesus barabbas - and bar abba in hebrew means "son of the father.".