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Apostasy or Immorality?
by jwfacts inthe watchtower used to say that most people got disfellowshipped for immorality.
do you think this is still the case?
it seems to me that i am hearing of as many people leaving over apostasy as over immorality, or am i just hanging out in the wrong circles?.
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What does Acts 15 mean, people "called by my name"? Help needed!
by jwfacts inis this referring to jehovah or jesus?
i am in discussion with someone and need an answer that would satisfy a thick skulled jw.. in the nwt it says .
(acts 15:15-18) 15 and with this the words of the prophets agree, just as it is written, 16 after these things i shall return and rebuild the booth of david that is fallen down; and i shall rebuild its ruins and erect it again, 17 in order that those who remain of the men may earnestly seek jehovah, together with people of all the nations, people who are called by my name, says jehovah, who is doing these things, 18 known from of old.
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As a JW how do/did you feel about 6 billion people being destroyed?
by jwfacts inhow else can a person justify that jehovah will destroy 6 billion people, innocent children included?
i could never accept that i deserved salvation whereas almost no one else did.
it put me on permanent spiritual edge because i thought the slave is right so the doctrine of destruction must be, but my heart always knew it was wrong.
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Do not Disassociate, Anull your baptism
by jwfacts ini am now a jedi, so trust me on this.. .
why dis-associate, you are just playing by the wts rules?
how can you dis-associate anyway, you never thought you were baptised as a watchtower society member, you thought your dedication was to god, so why formally disassociate from something you did not formally join?
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What is spirituality?
by jwfacts inwhat does it mean to be spiritual?
jws do not seem to have very much of it.
they talk reguarly about god, but they can not have a real relationship with jesus, can only approach jehovah through jesus, with the wts somewhere in between and do not believe in the holy spirit as a person.
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? for Barry. How do Seven Day Adventists compare to JW's
by jwfacts inhi barry, .
noticed you are online, so i wanted to grab you and find out how you perceive seven day adventists compare to jws: .
1 - equally cult like .
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Great prophecy about false prophets, lets hope it come true soon
by jwfacts inmiller used the idea that the 7 times of daniel 4 was a prophecy and made it fit to end in 1843, and then 1844. .
in 1840 john dowling predicted that millers prophecy would not come true in "an exposition of the prophecies, supposed by william miller to predict the second coming of christ, in 1843".
what he wrote is insightful and equally applicable to the watchtower society.
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I am hurt, my wife had a miscarriage and still my family didn't contact me
by jwfacts intwo weeks ago my wife had a miscarriage at 11 weeks.
it is very sad as it was to be my first child and my wife is already 39. what hurt the most though is that none of my immediate family contacted me.
i was d/f in january and did not expect to hear regularly from my parents and sister.
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The earthly great crowd was NOT introduced because the 144,000 was full!
by jwfacts inthere have been numerous threads devoted to showing that the great crowd will be in heaven, and rightfully so.
however, it is often stated that because there were too many jws rutherford introduced the idea of the great crowd.
there were only about 30,000 jws at the time.
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This generation to end in 2007 - so say the Mormons
by jwfacts inreading http://www.mormonbeliefs.com/god-jesus-trinity-virgin_birth.htm is like reading a watchtower, i never was aware how simliar mormons and jws are in so many areas.. one thing that struck me was that 'the generation' will end in 2007, and so jesus will possibly return then.
however the official site http://www.mormon.org/ and http://www.lds.org/ do not seem to make mention of it.
does anyone know if this is still the teaching?