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  It's been a long 9 years Lloyd Evans / John Cedars

  by Newly Enlightened in

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  original reddit post (removed).

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  smiddy3

  Vintage ,

  Do you, smiddy3, believe that what Evans has done is morally unacceptable?

  Yes of course I do ,it just amazes me that at 609 pages it doesnt look like its going to close anytime soon.
  
  
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  Judgment Day

  by Fisherman in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  a specific “day,” or period, when particular groups, nations, or mankind in general are called to account by god.

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  “i solemnly charge you before god and christ jesus, who is to judge the living and the dead,”- 2 tim 4:1. seems like sins are not paid by dying or the ransom if there is a judgment in-spite of it.

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  S.B.

  If I don`t beleive in a GOD as the Bible / JW describe how could I beleive he/she it , punishes evil ?
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  Judgment Day

  by Fisherman in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  a specific “day,” or period, when particular groups, nations, or mankind in general are called to account by god.

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  “i solemnly charge you before god and christ jesus, who is to judge the living and the dead,”- 2 tim 4:1. seems like sins are not paid by dying or the ransom if there is a judgment in-spite of it.

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  " just for the record could you explain once and for all if you are for or against the judging of sin/evil by God?"

  No wonder I don`t beleive in a GOD or the Bible anymore ?

  What is it about that statement you don`t understand Sea breeze ?
  
  

  
  
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  Who is GOD Favouring in this Time of the End ?

  by smiddy3 in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  jehovah`s witnesses , seventh day adventists , church of jesus christ of the latter day saints.. these 3 are probably the more influenthal in the last 200 or so years ago.. if membership is a sign of god`s blessing on who he favours then @ the year 2021.. jehovah`s witnesses membership 8.5 million.

  church of jesus christ of latter day saint`s membership.16.8 million.

  seventh day adventist`s membership.21 million.

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  A list of a couple of years back :

  Catholicism , 1.345 Billion members

  Protestant`s , 900 million to 1 Billion

  Anglicans , 110 million

  Jehovah`s Witnesses are way down on the list even the Mormons and the 7th Day Adventists far out number the 8.5 million Jehovah`s Witnesses.

  Especially the Catholics are most favoured because they have been around for centuries so GOD must be favouring them .
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  The question`s GOD beleiver / Creationists ignore or don`t / won`t / can`t answer ?

  by smiddy3 in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  the common thread of beleivers / creationists of a god creating life is design .. and if something / anything is designed it must have a designer ?.

  however this reasoning is discarded when talking about the existence of god.. and if such a being as god somehow existed without a designer why not all forms of life itself as existing on earth ?.

  coming into existence without a designer ?.

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  " fashioned/built/made a man out of dirt, built a woman from a rib bone, "

  In my lifetime I have known a few dirty people male and female both morally and physically but c`mon ,he made a man out of dirt ?

  And built a beautiful woman ? from a rib bone ? What was she a skeleton ?

  The book of Genesis belongs in the science fiction section of any library .
  
  
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  Judgment Day

  by Fisherman in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  a specific “day,” or period, when particular groups, nations, or mankind in general are called to account by god.

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  “i solemnly charge you before god and christ jesus, who is to judge the living and the dead,”- 2 tim 4:1. seems like sins are not paid by dying or the ransom if there is a judgment in-spite of it.

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  No wonder I don`t beleive in a GOD or the Bible anymore ?

  Proof enough in the above .
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  Jehovah's New Light

  by Vanderhoven7 in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  what new light from jehovah did you find hard to swallow?.

  the conversations in the attached video are enlightening.

  the graphic is hilarious.. https://youtu.be/byj3zrpbuvg.

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  Sometimes when new light is revealed to the faithful it takes a few years for it to really sink in .

  That was my experience when the 1975 fiasco occured ,I was well and truly in then but it took another few years before I actually left the religion .

  Some of us are a little slow I`m afraid.
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  The question`s GOD beleiver / Creationists ignore or don`t / won`t / can`t answer ?

  by smiddy3 in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  the common thread of beleivers / creationists of a god creating life is design .. and if something / anything is designed it must have a designer ?.

  however this reasoning is discarded when talking about the existence of god.. and if such a being as god somehow existed without a designer why not all forms of life itself as existing on earth ?.

  coming into existence without a designer ?.

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  smiddy3

  Sea Breeze ,

  This is one person who claims many others are eye witness accounts of what Jesus said and done .

  It is not many others who claim they are eye witnesses of what Jesus said and done .

  Big difference.
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  The question`s GOD beleiver / Creationists ignore or don`t / won`t / can`t answer ?

  by smiddy3 in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  the common thread of beleivers / creationists of a god creating life is design .. and if something / anything is designed it must have a designer ?.

  however this reasoning is discarded when talking about the existence of god.. and if such a being as god somehow existed without a designer why not all forms of life itself as existing on earth ?.

  coming into existence without a designer ?.

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  I welcome beleivers in a personal GOD to respond as I would like to hear what you have to say.

  I am still waiting ? Anybody ?

  This is not meant to be an attack on your beleifs but a genuine question as to how you can beleive without having a satisfactory answer to the questions I ask ?

  And if you do have a satisfactory answer please reply ?
  
  
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  Kingdom Hall Bomb

  by Dr Jekyll in

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  2. friends

  old news but uncle bruce wanted it dug up.... the guardian.

  22nd july 1985.. man killed in blast.

  at sydney service.. from richard yallop in melbourne.. one man was killed and 70 people were taken to hospital after a bomb exploded yesterday during a jehovah's witnesses service in a kingdom hall in the sydney suburb of lurnea.. the explosion occurred close to the speaker's dais just as mr. david winder, a visiting elder from the sydney suburb of prospect, had begun his address on loyalty to god and the family.

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  I was stil a JW when I first heard of this while living in Brisbane and wondered ?

  While nothing prophetic happened as far as JW `s concerned it`s not something you would wish on anybody .

  I`m glad they caught and prosecuted the guy.

  I wonder how these same people in that congregation then, are now going nowadays. ?

  That could be interesting.