John Aquila

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  Paul said NOT to be "Harsh" in Shunning

  by FusionTheism in

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  the apostle paul warned the corinthians not to be too harsh in their shunning of a man who was guilty of sexual immortality / adultery:.

  2 co 2:5-11: now if anyone has caused sadness, he has saddened, not me, but all of you to an extentnot to be too harsh in what i say.

  this rebuke given by the majority is sufficient for such a man; now you should instead kindly forgive and comfort him, so that he may not be overwhelmed by excessive sadness.

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  This rebuke given by the majority is sufficient

  Not everyone in the congregation was to shun him.
  
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  this weeks bible highlights: Jehovah slaughters his own people to teach David a lesson

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  from 2 samuel 24. i am so mad at myself for not making a comment how could anyone explain this away?

  then after he slaughters 70,000 he then feels regret?

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  JA, essentially correct except you've got a couple of things out of order. David knocked up Bathsheba first,

  Oubliette

  Shame on me. How could I forget? David saw her bathing.
  

  

  Ha punkofnice, I hadn't seen that one before.
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  this weeks bible highlights: Jehovah slaughters his own people to teach David a lesson

  by nowwhat? in

  1. watchtower
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  from 2 samuel 24. i am so mad at myself for not making a comment how could anyone explain this away?

  then after he slaughters 70,000 he then feels regret?

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  Finkelstein 7 hours ago

  Let it be correctly acknowledged that the ancient Hebrews embellished stories about their god into creating its power and relevance, much like the majority of ancient civilizations.
  

  In other words these stories are of fiction and that should be an accepted fact.

  What if these stories are really true. What if there is a God and he is a maniac. That would explain all the crazy shi** in the world.
  

  
  
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  this weeks bible highlights: Jehovah slaughters his own people to teach David a lesson

  by nowwhat? in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  from 2 samuel 24. i am so mad at myself for not making a comment how could anyone explain this away?

  then after he slaughters 70,000 he then feels regret?

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  Hold Me-Thrill Me

  They don't really believe in God do they.

  No they don't. They should post here. Hey, maybe they do!!!!!
  
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  this weeks bible highlights: Jehovah slaughters his own people to teach David a lesson

  by nowwhat? in

  1. watchtower
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  from 2 samuel 24. i am so mad at myself for not making a comment how could anyone explain this away?

  then after he slaughters 70,000 he then feels regret?

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  Ok, let me see if I got this right because I want to be a good example and follow the Bible.

  David has someone kill Uriah, (sort of like something the mob would do) then he steals his wife Bathsheba. She becomes pregnant and her first son dies, (poor bastard) the second son is named Solomon and he is given the Kingdom, Godly Wisdom, Gold in abundance and 1000 wives and concubines. Bathsheba becomes part of the linage of Jesus Christ. So everyone is blessed

  Next example; David counts people and Jehovah kills 70,000 people who had no idea that they were dying because David counted them.

  Moral of the story; find some good looking sister, get her pregnant, hire a hit man to kill her husband and you will be blessed.

  And whatever you do, “Don’t count anyone”
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  Convention Invites are Idiotic

  by cookiemaster in

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  so, like every year, there's a campaign going on about giving people convention invites and urging them to attend the convention.

  what an utterly moronic waste of time.

  we live 500+ kilometers away from the convention hall.

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  So, why do they keep this idiotic practice going year after year?

  For the same reason they keep teaching that 1914 was the beginning of the last days!!!
  
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  Why Do The Demons Love Mexico?

  by minimus in

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  the mexicans must be pretty bad, right?

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  Why Do The Demons Love Mexico?

  
  

  Why do you think? I can testify!!

  
  

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CbARujCq7lw

  
  
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  No end to JW logic, Oranges can make you gay

  by James Mixon in

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  i was told that today by a jw...no more to say.

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  What if I just lick the orange??????
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  VIEWS ON RACE (My own)

  by TerryWalstrom in

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  my views on race.

  my grandmother and mother came from new orleans without any perceivable sense of superiority toward people of color.

  the infamous n-word was never uttered in my household.

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  Terry, you've had a very interesting life. You could write a book. Oh wait you did write a book, I mean two. But it's not the same as being inside your head and feeling all the emotions and thoughts that went though your mind- real time.
  
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  My Story of Waking Up - in retrospect

  by cappytan in

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  so, many of y'all know bits and pieces of my story of waking up, but i thought it might be nice to have it all in one place.. i was baptized at 11, auxiliary pioneered every summer, regular pioneer at 17, ministerial servant by 19, then went to bethel for a year.. i always had minor doubts from time to time, but nothing serious.

  always dismissed doubts and decided to "just have faith.".

  after leaving bethel, i was never really firing on all cylinders "spiritually speaking.

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  Yep, 587 did it for me to. Everything else was like water on a duck. It didn't phase me. It seems like the 607 vs 587 is a big shaker. If you don't wake up after thoroughly researching the information without bias, you will never wake up.