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  1958 New World Translation of the Hebrew Scriptures-PDF-Vol.4

  by Atlantis in

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  bookmarked and searchable.

  1958 new world translation of the hebrew scriptures-pdf-vol.4.

  http://www.sendspace.com/file/dxadmv atlantis!

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  Thanks, Atlantis! That's a brilliant job you're doing with these early NW releases!
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  1958 New World Translation of the Hebrew Scriptures-PDF-Vol.4

  by Atlantis in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  bookmarked and searchable.

  1958 new world translation of the hebrew scriptures-pdf-vol.4.

  http://www.sendspace.com/file/dxadmv atlantis!

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  Thanks, Atlantis! That's a brilliant job you're doing with these early NW releases!
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  Does the Watchtower contain photo's of the Devil

  by jwfacts in

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  2. beliefs

  i have not been able to find any photo's of satan the devil in the watchtower.

  there are photo's of the serpent with eve, satan's hand offering kingdoms to jesus and a shadowy cloaked figure speaking to jesus on the mountain.

  apart from that i cannot locate any of a proper looking devil.

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  Lol, Mary. Indeed, that's one creepy and devilish photo of Judge Rutherford!
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  Does the Watchtower contain photo's of the Devil

  by jwfacts in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i have not been able to find any photo's of satan the devil in the watchtower.

  there are photo's of the serpent with eve, satan's hand offering kingdoms to jesus and a shadowy cloaked figure speaking to jesus on the mountain.

  apart from that i cannot locate any of a proper looking devil.

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  InquiryMan, that's it: page 51 in True Peace and Security—How Can You Find It? Here's a scan too (from the Hungarian edition of the book):

  
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  Does the Watchtower contain photo's of the Devil

  by jwfacts in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i have not been able to find any photo's of satan the devil in the watchtower.

  there are photo's of the serpent with eve, satan's hand offering kingdoms to jesus and a shadowy cloaked figure speaking to jesus on the mountain.

  apart from that i cannot locate any of a proper looking devil.

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  The fastest I recall of is on page 29 of the Trinity brochure, but it's black and white. That illustration is reproduced in color in another publication, and you can clearly see Satan as a beardless, angry, blonde angel.
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  Are Sisters Allowed to Typeset The Watchtower?

  by VM44 in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  does anyone know if sisters are allowed to typset (or today's electronic equivalent) the watchtower magazine in order to compose articles for the printing presses?.

  i have heard of sisters typesetting the awake magazine, but i would like to know if they are permitted to perform the same work for the watchtower magazine.. this question comes from the letter sent to elders forbidding sisters from spiral binding the new elder's manual, while it is ok for a brother to do so.. .

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  The Branch Organization manual says that only in writing the articles should be kept in mind that it's not proper for sister to write material that involves certain spiritual things. But typesetting is not a problem I guess. It's just importing some marked up text in Word documents into MEPS Composition, that renders .ps files that are sent to printing branches to be transfered to film, plates and then paper.

  Sisters *do* write articles for Awake. It's nothing appropriate about that.
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  Should it be BC or BCE ?

  by james_woods in

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  an interesting topic came up on my ferrari board today: bc or bce - which is right (or more right)?.

  interesting debate running in world archeology magazine the last 2 issues - all over.

  we's editorial stance is to always use bc/ad when.

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  BCE and CE are also religion-independent terms for expressing dates. That's the main reason WTS publications use them, to not discriminate against non-Christian religions, i.e. against people professing not to be Christians.
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  Another 144,000 Question

  by Cold Steel in

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  okay, based on my reading, you're clearly better off being one of the 144,000. first, you get to reside in heaven, while everyone else is consigned to living on earth.

  second, a spirit (in wts eschatology) is much better than being a flesh and bone human.

  they can fly, read in a darkened room and they get to be with god for eternity.. but what of everyone else?

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  Black Sheep: They evidently came to earth because they couldn't satisfy their unnatural sexual desires in heaven. Angels weren't created with the capability to reproduce, so I imagine they can't have sex either. They must have found out that married mates experience a special kind of pleasure while engaging into sexual relations and expressed a selfish desire to taste that one too.

  Cold Steel: Fly, read in a darkened room? I'm not sure that applies to heaven. Note that form of existence in heaven is completely different than in our material universe (if it were, it could physically interact by a way or another with it). As to the annoiting, I'm not even sure that one professing to be an anointed can tell for sure whether the thing they feel is genuinely the impact of the Holy Spirit, or it's a purely human emotional sensation (since emotions are also expressed by the spirit component of the self). As to skills gained after reaching perfection in Paradise earth, I agree with DanaBug's statement: "[They leave ] a lot of possibilities. Who knows what the mind is capable of when it can be used at full capacity?"
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  How Much Power Does an Elder Have?

  by Cold Steel in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i keep seeing references to them and couldn't help but wonder.. how many elders does a kingdom hall have?

  what is the extent of their powers and authority?

  can they speak to someone who's been dfed?

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  Usually elders should not express personal viewpoints as if they were Scriptural teachings. They should teach only on what's based on recent published material, issued by the "faithful and discreet slave".—Matthew 24:45.

  All meeting parts where teaching is involved are being conducted by elders. There is no Sunday School (in the generally accepted sense) in Jehovah's Witnesses' congregations. Everything being taught is based on printed material approved by the Governing Body, as representative of the "slave" (public talk outlines, Watchtower study articles, Our Kingdom Ministry etc.)
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  How Much Power Does an Elder Have?

  by Cold Steel in

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  i keep seeing references to them and couldn't help but wonder.. how many elders does a kingdom hall have?

  what is the extent of their powers and authority?

  can they speak to someone who's been dfed?

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  Yes, Cold Steel. The Greek term translated "overseer" is e·pi′sko·pos, which of course is the word the English bishop roots to. See Chapter 3 of In Search for Christian Freedom for an explanation of how the term got the connotation it currently has in Catholicism and Eastern Orthodoxy.