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  BANE......

  by Quentin in

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  2. beliefs

  bane said, on another thread:.

  quentin, you haven t moved on!

  that is my whole point!

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  Let's compile the 10 most...

  by MrFreeze in

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  2. beliefs

  let's compile the 10 most most flawed teachings of jehovah's witnesses and provide sound reasoning and references as to why they are so flawed.

  this way we can all have this thread as a reference when it comes to disputing what jehovah's witnesses believe.

  we can make this a community project.

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  JW replies on my Shunning article

  by besty in

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  2. beliefs

  i have a google article on shunning -.

  http://knol.google.com/k/why-jehovah-s-witnesses-practice-religious-shunning#.

  its had almost 15,000 page views :-).

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  Adam, Eve and their children

  by alfmel in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  so jws teach that if adam and eve hadn't disobeyed we would live in the garden of eden.

  based on the telling of the story, adam and eve were so quick to disobey they didn't have time to have any children in the garden.

  so what would have happened if adam and eve had not partaken, but some of their children had?

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  Do other religions change doctrine?

  by serenitynow! in

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  after visiting with a couple of jws over the weekend; and for the first time talking about my true feelings about the org with active jws other than immediate fam, one of them mentioned something interesting.

  when i talked about how with the constant changes to beliefs that i find it impossible to believe that the gb can be guided by the hs.

  so one of the jws said, "other religions change doctrines around too.

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  Is having "Faith" believing in something without proof? Definitions?

  by Witness 007 in

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  2. bible

  yes have faith in god brothers!

  he will answer your prayers......if it's "his will.

  " you need to have "faith" that he is there watching over us...even if it seems like he isn't.

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  Fear of being shunned

  by alfmel in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  for those who have been jws and left,.

  1. how much did you delay your departure due to the fear of being shunned?.

  2. what percentage of the congregation would you estimate remains active due to the fear of being shuned if they were to leave?.

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  The Bible, Why not Reliable?

  by sayitsnotso in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  okay here is my thread to discuss this.

  i believe the bible is inspired by god and reliable.

  many argue it's neither.

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  Proverbs 3:6 – Logically Impossible to Follow as a Jehovah's Witness

  by sabastious in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

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  Twisting Scripture vs A Literal Reading

  by AllTimeJeff in

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  2. bible

  knowing that passions run deep on this matter, i have what i believe to be a very simple premise for a discussion of how to read the bible.. terry has labored over the last couple of months to demonstrate (in my view, conclusively) that the bible is far from unaltered, and often mistranslated.

  these facts, inconvenient as they might be for believers, are nonetheless, a problem for those who claim that the bible is the word of god.. this is not what i wish to discuss... rather..... jehovah's witnesses come from a tradition of "reading in" or "adding meaning" to the scriptures.

  no one jw outside of the governing body is allowed to do this.. but why is it necesarry?.

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