BarefootServant
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Is Third Heaven a Near Death Experience?
by cameo-d in2 corinthians 12:2. i know a man in christ who fourteen years ago was caught up to the third heaven.
whether it was in the body or out of the body i do not knowgod knows.. .
is it astral projection?
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Critique of the October 1 Watchtower article"When Was Ancient Jerusalem Destroyed?"
by Doug Mason inmy critique of the october 1, 2011 watchtower article "when was ancient jerusalem destroyed?
http://www.jwstudies.com/critique_of_when_was_ancient_jerusalem_destroyed.pdf .
i am looking forward to hearing of correction or omissions.. please note that this is a large file (almost 7 meg) which takes a while to download and a while to format in a web browser.. the design of the critique allows a single major topic to be individually printed, so that those pages may be handed to an apologist for the watchtower society.
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What do you feel is the reason the WTS succeeds in retaining its members?
by RULES & REGULATIONS inmost of my family have been members since the early 1970's.they attend 3 meetings per week,fly or drive to summer assemblies,preach the average 10 hours per month,and read the same boring watchtower magazine week after week.
the congregation has lost nearly all the young teens,many have quit attending all the meetings,some divorced,and some members just going thru the motions.
i'm never going to question them on why they still remain members but shouldn't all the promises of "this generation never dying" make them question the wts.... just a little?
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Waters above the Firmament as the source of rain
by VM44 infrom the king james bible.
god said, "let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters.
and god made the firmament, and divided the waters which were under the firmament from the waters which were above the firmament: and it was so.
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"He Causes to Become"
by megs ini'm reading the public edition of watchtower for september and it says that "jehovah" means "he causes to become".
i've never seen this before... is this the jw's definition of the tetragrammaton?
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Did Joseph and Mary leave town because....
by cameo-d inthey were trying to avoid the census????.
does anyone have any historical research on exactly how the census was performed duing those days?.
were people really expected to travel for days to go "turn themselves in"?.
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looking for opinions....would this have ANY success?
by The Oracle inlooking to try something a little different with my ongoing campaigns to free minds from the wt.. .
if this was sent to a few thousand jw's do you think any would respond?
i'll check back in tonight and see if anyone has any thoughts on this.. .
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'After sundown'
by The Nothing Man incould anybody please shed light on this for me.
why did the jews always celebrate 'after sundown'.
why did everything happen 'after sundown'... is it based on the torah alone, or on tradition?
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Jehovah's Witnesses - the antitypical Pharisees
by processor inthe following comparison of pharisees and jehovah's witnesses was included in my letter of disassociation.
it will also be featured in the next witchtower issue.
but since it is a serious topic, i wanted to post it here:.
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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:.