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Way Your JW Parents Embarrass You
by Pig inwhat did your parent do that really embarrassed you while you were in school?.
i think the thing i always hated is when my parents had to preach to my teachers.. in grade 6 we were going to watch jamanji but needed consent form because the film was pg13+ and we were 12. my mum sent me to school with a huge letter about spritism.
i was the only one out of about 45 kids who had to sit out.. .
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Jacob's name change to Israel -- happens twice?
by srd inthere was a thread here months ago about the 2 jacob-to-israel stories -- can't find it.
anyway, thought this might be of interest:.
http://contradictionsinthebible.com/penuel-or-bethel/.
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The deuterocanonical book of Wisdom
by Pterist inhaving done a little research on the book of wisdom, i decided to read it very morning as part of my daily spiritual reading.
the greek period and it's influence tested the jewish community and yet after many objections the people of god acquired a new awareness of their own path.. at first i felt a little uneasy as the wisdom of god is presented in the feminine gender.
however the recognised book of proverbs (chapter 8) does the same.
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"We the people" to make this wold better?
by supernerdboy in[url]https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/we-would-immediate-change-installed-tax-exempt-status-churches/06ccgmzm[/url].
[url]https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/replace-god-official-us-money-mottos-and-slogans/x8clzn8c[/url].
i voted for these hoping we can get a change and stop the leaches from making this a "christian nation" and not a nation for all people.
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N.T. Wright, Michael F. Byrd, Scott McKnight, E.P. Saunders, Etc.
by Aaron Eldridge inthese are some of my favorite new testament scholars.
all of these guys and many others fall within the "jesus is the restoration of israel" court of new testament studies.
obviously these are not the only ones, there are many others but these are my favorite thus far.
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John 2:19-22 and the bodily resurrection of Christ
by booker-t ini must admit after talking about this subject with evangelical christians i am still not sure why do they hold onto this false doctrine that blaspemes jehovah god and jesus christ and just cannot be proven from the bible.
i have talked to christians for years regarding this doctrine and while i try not to debate anymore like i used to do i still have christians trying to read john 2:19-22 to fit their doctrine.
i always like to take the verse piece by piece to show christians their errors.
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To Whom It May Concern: Avoid The Spirit Of Rehoboam
by JWB in"however, he [king rehoboam] left the counsel of the older men with which they had advised him, and he began to take counsel with the young men that had grown up with him, who were the ones attending upon him.
9 and he went on to say to them: 'what is it that you are offering in counsel that we may reply to this people who have spoken to me, saying, "make the yoke that your father put upon us lighter"?
' 10 in turn the young men that had grown up with him spoke to him, saying: 'this is what you should say to this people who have spoken to you, saying, "your father, for his part, made our yoke heavy, but, as for you, make it lighter upon us"; this is what you should speak to them, "my little finger itself will certainly be thicker than my father's hips.
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Are Americans awakening to the difference between Religious and Spiritual?
by Fernando inwritten by by george h. gallup jr in 2003:.
as described in the next american spirituality, which tim jones and i wrote, the pendulum may be swinging away from what is beyond us to what is within us.
in the 1999 survey, we asked, "do you think of spirituality more in a personal and individual sense or more in terms of organized religion and church doctrine?
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vaguelyinteresting - catholic youth festival -spain
by wantarevolution invisiting madrid this week, heard an intersiting bit of "theocratic warfare" that'll be going on this summer during the popes visit for the youth festival.. .
witnesses from various halls, both english and spanish are being trained to infultrate the youth conventions to ask "what's going on" and then offer watchtowers/awakes about jesus.. .
there are training sessions at the bethel in torrejon - i have heard this first hand.
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Perfectly incorrect statements
by Sulla innoted a couple comments recently that seemed reasonable, but are really these nearly perfect examples of exactly untrue statements.
curious.
people harkening for an idealized past: one of the roots of totalitarianism.. any basic thinking on some of the totalitarian revolutions gives this game away: they always say they are fighting the past, that they are innovators, which is why they need to be totalitarian.