Doug Mason
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Question for JW Lurkers: Did Jesus Pray Using the Name "Jehovah"?
by cabasilas ina listing of prayers by jesus in the new testament can be found at this site:.
http://www.praylikethis.org.uk/theprayersofjesus.html.
(i can't say that the list is exhaustive, but i think it is at least representative.).
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40 Years (a Generation) Past 1874, That's All it Was!
by OnTheWayOut inhere's the real simple version of the complicated doctrine of when jesus supposedly returned and the last days arrived/ended/started.
william miller said that jesus' return would be in 1844.
(see the great disappointment at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/great_disappointment ) people who believed what he said were known as "millerites.
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The Kingdom of God - when in Heaven ? -- according to Jesus
by wantingtruth injohn said "...the truth came through jesus christ" ?
--------the kingdom of god---------- .
"the kingdom of god is near.
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Who worshiped Jehovah's wife?
by Doug Mason inwhen leolaia responded to me in a recent post, she generated a question in my mind.
firstly, i provide parts of her post, and then i pose my question.. ----------------.
leolaia wrote (in part):.
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Anybody remember a QFR on JW nurses tattling on blood transfusions?
by Open mind ini've looked on jwn (first) and watchtower library (second) and can't find a questions from readers that i thought i remembered from the 70s or 80s.
maybe it wasn't actually a qfr.
anyway, the gist of the question was, what does a conscientious jw nurse do when, in the course of her duties, she becomes aware of a fellow jw who is accepting a blood transfusion or getting an abortion.
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To a Witness, JW doctrines are like the law of gravity
by BonaFide indo you ever get together and bring up the subject of whether or not the law of gravity is true or not?.
neither do i.. and that's how most witnesses view their doctrines.
there is no discussion to be had, there's nothing to talk about.
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CTR and the "zero year"
by Doug Mason incharles taze russell (ctr) was aware of difficulties with his dates.
while he was not prepared to move his babylonian dates of 538 (babylons fall), 536 (jews return), and 606 (destruction of jerusalem), he was quite prepared to move the 1914 terminus by a full year to 1915.. later, with its fixation at maintaining the new significance being given to 1914, the wts shifted ctrs babylonian dates back by one year, to 537 and 607 respectively.
but russell was not so concerned with the accuracy of 1914 and was quite prepared to move the terminus to 1915. he wrote the following in 1912:.
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The WT blood doctrine versus the teachings of Christ...
by undercover ini posted a similar thought about this on another thread a couple of weeks ago but i thought i would expand on it and start its on thread.... .
the watchtower society, as leaders of the jehovah's witness religion, claim to accept the bible as the divine word of jehovah god and jesus christ as his only begotten son sent to earth as a ransom sacrifice.
though it can be argued that jesus is demoted in jw doctrine compared to jehovah, jesus teachings are the basis for what they call the "true christian congregation".. if we compare the society's ban on blood with jesus' view of mercy versus sacrifice, it can be shown that the society's view on blood is actually against the teachings of christ and against the principles of mercy as he shows in the scriptures.. there is only one scripture in the new testament (greek scriptures) that the society can offer as evidence that god prohibits the ingestion of blood (forgetting the sidebar argument of eating vs transfusing).... acts 15:29 - ...to keep abstaining from things sacrificed to idols and from blood and from things strangled and from fornication.
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The Great Tree - 7 Times of Daniel = 1914?
by UnDisfellowshipped inthe 7 times of daniel = jesus returning invisibly in 1914 and being enthroned in heaven?.
daniel 4:23-33 (new world translation):.
23 and because the king beheld a watcher, even a holy one, coming down from the heavens, who was also saying: chop the tree down, and ruin it.
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The Governing Body's REAL critical date
by Doug Mason inrussell taught that 1914 ce would bring in an unprecedented era of peace.
in 1930, rutherford moved russells date of the parousia from 1874 to 1914. .
thus until 1930 not one follower had recognised the currently ascribed significance in heaven to the time that corresponds to 1914 on our earth.