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  Are Jehovah's Witnesses Damned For Their Beliefs?

  by Cold Steel in

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  2. beliefs

  obviously this is for people who believe in an afterlife.. are jehovah's witnesses damned because of their beliefs?

  please elaborate.. .

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  How do we identify the true Born Again Christyian's?

  by wannabe in

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  2. beliefs

  note his words on this: "most truly i say to you, unless anyone is born from water and spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of god.

  look again, at what jesus said about being born again: "most truly i say to you, unless anyone is born again, he cannot see the kingdom of god.

  " unless anyone is born from water and spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of god.

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  They accepted my DA letter without a fight

  by carpediem in

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  2. friends

  gits!

  didn't even fight to keep me lol!

  told hubby i had disassociated before he went to the meeting and found out from the elders.

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  Did you ever do something for this religion that now makes you shudder ?

  by man in black in

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  2. friends

  back in the early 80's right after i was married the main driving point i kept hearing at the meetings was "do more,,, pioneer ".. well being the young impressionable jw couple that we were, .

  my wife is a speech therapist, so working pt was no problem, but i ended up working construction, cleaning carpets, and shoveling snow at all hours with the brothers, and i worked like a d*** fool at all hours.. funny how there was so much support for me to work with the witnesses, but once the decision was made work could be very iffy at times.. and the main thing that just causes me to cringe now is how so many of the witnesses in charge of the congregation thought that we did not need insurance, my wife had a policy with her school district, but my son and i did not.

  granted medical expenses were not as bad then, but just the idea of thinking that we did not need it that god would watch over us just embarasses me to no end now.

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  God's biggest mistake

  by bobld in

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  2. friends

  created his son 1st,instead of wife/mother for adam/eve.antitypical father produced a/e than took off to galaxy eso513-13 and left the kids to fend for themselves.no guidance and unattended.if they had a mother..she would of provided care,protection,love,understanding watch over them,wisdom,insight.mother is full of forgiveness.his son was to baby sit,but could not be seen.. today when to have a mother and a father you can raise a child on the straight and narrow.even with satan and all of his demons.drugs,porn,immortality,money etc.yet a/e were in a perfect setting but no mother for guidance kids fell be the wayside.. b.

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  Today I seized the day...and disassociated myself

  by carpediem in

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  2. friends

  and i feel good!

  it was a long time coming.

  i stopped going to meetings june 09. the reason i left it so long is because my husband is still in and for this reason i see witnesses from time to time.

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  How do Jehovah's Witnesses Explain This Fossil Record?

  by sabastious in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  according to jws, evolution is false.

  so how do they explain these human-like fossils?.

  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/human_evolution.

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  Whats the weirdest thing a JW ever said to you?

  by chukky 594 in

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  2. experiences

  i remember a 'sister' coming up to me and telling me off for being on the atkins diet, as it was satanic and designed by satan.. chukky.

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  Straight from the September Watchtower. How can they print this without blushing?

  by nicolaou in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  the watchtower september 1, 2010 11. .

  the dangers of being deceived (page 10/11).

  to deceive, says one dictionary, means to cause to accept as true or valid what is false or invalid.

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  If the bible is god's handbook for man, why is it such gobbledegook?

  by Aussie Oz in

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  2. bible

  i don't mean the basic moral code of behavior (that many non biblical lands also just happen to have) that people use to model their lives, but the 'deeper' stuff.... assuming that god has had his divine plan for vindicating himself etc ever since he figured that adam may screw up, and he needed to let faithful mankind know the 'plan' and how to survive it all.... why is the important stuff all gobbledegook?.

  the time frame, prophecy, signs and so on are all so obscure that even the cleverest theologians can't understand it or agree on it.

  the 'truth' is so muddled and juggled up that every understanding can be logically challenged with an equally challengable one.

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