Doug Mason
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Chagas in blood supply
by Hortensia inhas anyone heard about this?
a friend told me about it this morning and i googled it and found articles like this:.
deadly parasite threat to blood supply.
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"Did not defile themselves with women"
by Legolas inso the 144000, wouldn't you say then are all men?.
i can't remember what crap excuse they gave for that one to get out of it not only being men....but all the writer had to say was 'they were virgins' if it was both sexes.. what do you think?.
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Who is the Slave?
by jeshurun inwho is the faithful and wise servant of matthew 24:45-47 ?
in his end time discourse jesus stressed his unexpected arrival for judgment.
by telling a range of parables, he impressed that teaching on the mind of his disciples.
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Why was instruction given to "abstain...from things strangled?"
by M.J. inwhat was the reasoning behind that instruction in acts 15:20,29?.
was it simply due to the fact that an animal dying by strangulation would retain more blood than various forms of slaughter?.
was it in reaction to a ritual or practice that had connections to idolatry at the time?.
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WTS's two 'classes' of Christians is completely artificial
by yaddayadda inplease read the below excerpt from a 1996 questions from readers on the difference between the little flock and other sheep.
the article makes it very clear that both classes receive the holy spirit and there is absolutely no discernible difference whatsoever between the 'anointed' and the 'other sheep'.
the society is well aware there is no practical difference at all between these two so-called 'classes' of jw christians.
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WTS misrepresented what CTR wrote
by Doug Mason init is bad to make a false and misleading prophecy.
it is worse to later infer that the prophecies were correct.
in 1973, at the height of the frenzied anticipation for the imminent start of the millennium in 1975, the wtbts published gods kingdom of a thousand years has approached.
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Is the end really coming?
by themonster123 inwell, as anyone on this board knows i"m a newbie....and witnesses kind of are scaring me with their "end is coming" business.
basically, cuz of three things:.
1) the last convention was called "jehovah's day at hand!
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Blood Transfusion "matter of choice" for JWs
by dozy inhttp://www.utvlive.com/newsroom/indepth.asp?id=80831&pt=n.
richard parker, a member of the jehovah`s witnesses, says that the refusal of transfusions is one of their fundamental beliefs.
based on what is written in the bible.it is not forbidden by their faith but is a matter of choice for the individual, he said.. who is richard parker - branch committee?
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LESSONS FROM HISTORY
by Doug Mason inlessons from history .
i have a few reasons for providing the information that follows: .
* a very recent posting mentioned eschatologists of the 19th century (1800s) who provided ctr with his ideas on the interpretation of last-day prophecies.
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How many Christians were there in the 1st century?
by yaddayadda injust been reading former long-time brooklyn bethelite tom cabeen's very encouraging article entitled "where is the body of christ?".
(can be found at http://divinetruth.homestead.com/bodyofchrist.pdf) .
in his article, tom says: "when john received the revelation around the end of the first century, there were hundreds of thousands of christians, even by conservative estimates.