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  if an atheist does something good...

  by DannyBloem in

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  if an atheist leads good life with high moral standards, because he choice to do so and thinks for logic it is a good thing, does it not mean much more then when a theist does the same, because his gods tells him to do it?

  what's your thoughs on this?

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  Excommunication is good!!!!

  by I-follow-the-narrow-path in

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  while talking to my teacher today we talked about excommunication.

  i told her i thought it was mean to not talk to those members which have been excommunicated.

  she told me; however, that those who leave the church should be punished.

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  Governing Body and The Pope

  by SickofLies in

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  i have found this a good line of reasoning to use with jw's to really get them thinking, are there any differences between the governing body and the pope?

  i can think of a lot of similarities, and the wtbts officially condemns the practice of having a 'pope' like figure in charge.

  http://www.popechart.com/faq.htm

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  Who here is not former Jehovah's Witness?

  by omerp in

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  2. beliefs

  just wondering who else is lurking besides me?

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  So what about Lent and Easter??

  by Super_Becka in

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  2. beliefs

  ok, so today is the first day of lent (which is painfully obvious to me because i've chosen to give up my favourite snacks for lent and right now, i have a really bad craving for doritos), and it got me to thinking, once again, about wts doctrine and the whole banning of holidays thing that they have going on.. i've read the reasons behind banning things like birthdays, christmas, halloween, mother's and father's day and national holidays like canada day and independence day, but i have yet to read anything about lent and easter.. so, what's the line of reasoning behind the banning of lent and easter??

  and i don't mean easter as in chocolate bunnies and easter eggs and all of that, i mean easter as a religious celebration of the resurrection of christ.

  after all, jws have the memorial of the crucifixion, don't they??

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  JWs, why God's organisation and not His church?

  by greendawn in

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  the jws call themselves an organisation and not a church except perhaps very rarely.

  but is there something untoward hiding behind this choice?

  to me it is objectionable because it ties in with the fds concept as god's sole channel on earth serving his supposed people.

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  Do you know of gross mistranslations in the JW Bible (NWT)

  by greendawn in

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  for all you that have studied the subject what are some big distortions of the original scriptures hebrew and greek, that are to be found in the jw bible (nwt)?

  i found that at 1 thessalonians 4:15-17 it says that the living christians in the final days will be snatched up as soon as the dead ones get resurrected.

  that blows up the jw belief that the said resurrection occured in 1918 because they weren't taken up at the same time.

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  Why did Jehovah give the job of writing the BIBLE to the Catholics?

  by gumby in

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  2. beliefs

  this is a thread which was inspired by our own hot little mary.. jehovahs witnesses claim that since pentecost of 33 c.e., there has been a faithful and discreet slave class that was appointed by jesus himself and that this slave class was "entrusted" with all of jesus belongings ( dispensing spiritual food to his followers and the rest of mankind).

  oddly, when it came to gods own word to mankind being compiled ( the bible), ......jehovah chose the catholic church to dispense, audit, compile his message!

  imagine that!

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  Call someone who shuns you and tell them you love them.

  by joelbear in

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  fight shunning with real heartfelt love.. i think it would be cool to let as many people as possible know that their behavior has not.

  stopped us from loving them.

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  Does God make Mistakes or Bad Decisions?

  by gumby in

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  2. bible

  genesis 6:5-7, 8:21. god decides to send a great flood to kill all humans, save noah and his family, because man's heart is evil.

  "and god saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.... and the lord said, i will destroy man whom i have created from the face of the earth.".

  later, after the flood waters recede, god promises never to do it again because man's heart is evil.

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