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All Evangelical Leaders Will Soon Be Doing Gay Weddings
by irondork intheology has always been about institutional survival.
it still is and evangelical leaders may not be able to think clearly but they always have known how to count the money.. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/frank-schaeffer/all-evangelical-leaders-w_b_2963490.html?ncid=edlinkusaolp00000003&ir=gay%20voices.
frank schaeffernew york times best-selling author.
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Trinity, Immortality of the soul, Hell fire... Homosexuality
by irondork inmost people here who have spent any amount of time studying the bible will agree that the bible allows for more than one interpretation of these topics.
well, the first three topics, anyways.. reading the gay marriage discussions on this board i see a common thread weaving its way through: no acknowledgement whatsoever that there is an equally valid interpretation of the bible that does not condemn homosexuality.. once in a while i will see the word trinity mentioned on this forum and no big deal is made of it (for the most part).
trinitarian and non-trinitarian teachings are accepted as variations of the christian understanding of the bible without any judgment being made regarding the genuineness of that person's christian identity or relationship with god.. mention the word homosexuality, and there is a huge difference in attitude.
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An offer from the Governing Body
by irondork in.
the governing body took us along to an unusually high mountain, and showed us all the friends and family members that had been ripped away and they said to us.... .
all these people we will give back to you if you fall down and do an act of worship to us.
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How to motivate your local newspaper - I spoke to a reporter
by irondork inreading jwleak's thread about the age newspaper article, victoria, australia, i was thinking how we could motivate our local newspapers to cover such a story.
i emailed an old friend of mine from wash., d.c. who used to write for the associated press and now hosts a news show in colorado, and asked him how a person could motivated one's local newspaper to take an interest in a story like this.. .
he answered:.
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Well, the WTS got at least ONE end-time prophesy right
by irondork inthey participated in the fulfillment of prophesy at luke 21:8:.
and he said, see that you are not led astray.
and, the time is at hand!
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We just laughed and laughed
by irondork inan experience was told buy one of our congregation's uber pioneer sisters regarding a bible study she brought to the memorial last year.
a good study.
smart.
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Conversation Baiting
by irondork ini assume most of us here participate in other discussion forums of various genres.
on those forums, where there may be jw participants, what would be some thread topic ideas for baiting them into a conversation, for the purpose of asking them questions that might help wake them up?.
i realize that's a pretty broad question.
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WT wisdom - Same sex attraction does not mean you are gay
by irondork ingiven the confusion faced by gay youth in trying to navigate through a larger, hetero culture, the last thing these kids need is for a religious "authority" to come along and tell them they don't really exist.
that is exactly what the wt has done with this article at jw.org:.
http://www.jw.org/en/bible-teachings/family/teenagers/ask/pressure-to-be-gay/.
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The Faithful Slave to be appointed... WHEN?
by irondork ini was reading over mathew 24:36-45 and began dissecting it scripture by scripture.
there are several similar references like: that day and hour, what day your lord is coming, at an hour you do not think it to be, and so forth.. .
24:36 - concerning that day and hour nobody knows, neither the angels of the heavens nor the son, but only the father.. 24:42 - keep on the watch, therefore, because you do not know on what day your lord is coming.. 24:43 - but know one thing, that if the householder had known in what watch the thief was coming, he would have kept awake and not allowed his house to be broken into.. 24:44 - on this account you too prove yourselves ready, because at an hour that you do not think to be it, the son of man is coming.. .
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I placed my first set of magazines here
by irondork insanger, california, usa.
during the summer of 1972. i was five years old.
i actually remember the neighborhood, the lady at the door - the entire historic event with reasonable clarity.