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Documentary About The Flood and Noah's Ark
by Blue Grass inabout a week or two ago i watched a documentary about the flood in noah's day entitled "in search of noah's ark".
two things i found very interesting in this program is a theory that one person had about how they believed the flood was caused due to a meteor hitting the ocean creating a tsunami that flooded the entire earth.
scientist were unanimous in their view that this is a very plausible scenario and that there is no way to rule this possibility out.
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Imputation- do you agree?
by Lillith26 inimputation is the concept that we are all sinners because of the original sin of adam.
and our only redemption is found in the sacrifice of christ on the cross/stake.
imputation implies that guilt passes from person to person from generation to generation, and redemption is passed from christ to us.
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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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"Bearing Thorough Witness" book: New light about Governing Body
by kurtbethel inthey are not your leaders!.
here it is, in print, on page 110 above the picture of "the nine".. "the governing body relies on god's holy spirit for direction.
its members do not regard themselves as the leaders of jehovah's people.
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70 years = 607?
by allelsefails in70 years of captivity?.
i myself have always believed that when archaeology disagreed with the bible the bible must be right.
that is how i dismissed the idea that jerusalem was destroyed in 586/587 bce.
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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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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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Changes to the Kingdom Interlinear
by PanzerZauberei inin the 1969 kit the society used a book by bible scholar justus lipsius as source material for their upright stake "stauros" doctrine of the death of christ.
they used an image of a man hung on an upright stake with no crossbeam attached to it.
then they placed a caption under it saying that the illustration came from lipsius.
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Beat to Hell.......were you as a child as a JW?
by restrangled inthere was a scripture about a rod.......it seemed to be in every other watchtower.....it was an excuse to beat children.
i was a little girl.
i was beat with my pants down every time they could.
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Article: The Atheist's Dilemma
by BurnTheShips incampos: the atheist's dilemmaby paul camposwhy is stanley fish so much smarter than richard dawkins?
that question occurred to me last week, while attending a lecture at which fish, the well-known literary and legal theorist, did the thing he always does, which is to make the following point over and over again:.
"no believer will find his faith shaken by evidence that is evidence only in the light of assumptions he does not share and considers flatly wrong.".