i am sure its a bit of all four.
do you think they are embarrassed by old doctrines as time goes by that become ludicrous?
(beth sarim 1925 resurrection).
Awake 4/22/1970.
“Tell me,” he asked, “how can I have confidence in anything? How can I believe in the Bible, in God, or have faith? Just ten years ago we Catholics had the absolute truth, we put all our faith in this. Now the pope and our priests are telling us this is not the way to believe any more, but we are to believe ‘new things.’
How do I know the ‘new things’ will be the truth in five years??"
answer to your request gatophreak!
now if you want the "fatboy" it will take me at least 2 hours to upload that file.
the archive below has those 6 bibles separated but the fatboy is all 6 combined.. go to this archive and click on nwt at the top publications list and you can get all 6 of the nwt..http://seekjehovah.org/watchtower/publications/....petra!
links cleaned up:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B2fYNzAbUpqFQmszZ25OT3lYdGc/view?usp=sharing
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B2fYNzAbUpqFR3lDRHkycHdkOTQ/view?usp=sharing
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B2fYNzAbUpqFYlQ2cUk5ekRSTVE/view?usp=sharing
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B2fYNzAbUpqFSGVDbTVnQjIxenc/view?usp=sharing
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B2fYNzAbUpqFNHFOM1EwUGs3ZHc/view?usp=sharing
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B2fYNzAbUpqFX2k0SU1KZXE5a3c/view?usp=sharing
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B2fYNzAbUpqFNE1wdkFRaE9sZnM/view?usp=sharing
http://www.hartlepoolmail.co.uk/news/crime/jehovah-s-witness-spared-jail-over-grooming-girl-1-7551106.
a jehovah's witness who groomed a girl has walked free from court.. .
richard ogilvie was given a suspended prison sentence after a judge ruled his conduct was 'bad, but not as bad as some cases we see before these courts'.. the victim's father said he 'understands and accepts' the sentence and hopes the sex offender treatment ogilvie receives will prevent another child and family suffering at his hands.. .
new to the board, first time posting a topic.
i just wanted to say how refreshing and sometimes funny it has been lurking here.
so much so that i decided to sign up to this message board.
i haven't found a scripture where it says that baptism is a dedication to god.
i have only found in the book of acts chapter 2 i believe where baptism is for forgiveness of sins.
am i wrong?
Many religions view dedication to God as a promise to do his will. Child dedications for example do not assume salvation but a promise to bring that child up "in the faith". Hannah was a barren wife who promised to dedicate her child to God if He would give her a son (1 Samuel 1:11). Luke 2:22 begins the account of Mary and Joseph taking Jesus to the temple after forty days in order to dedicate Him to the Lord. This was slightly more involved since it involved a sacrifice, but once again this ceremony did not indicate any level of salvation.
JWs view Baptism as the public display of the dedication they have previously made to serve Jehovah.
recently at a funeral for an active jw, death was sudden and tragic.
was surprised that that one of the disfellowshipped children of the deceased was comforted by the jw's at the funeral.
i would say the majority hugged and said a few short words to the disfellowshipped child on the recieving line to comfort the family.
well its that time again when the ghouls come out to play.
i personally think halloween is a bit irresponsible and inappropriate from a sociological perspective.. there's something about the intent of frightening young impressionable children minds with frightening objests.
and feeding them candy which most likely cause tooth decay and stomachs is irresponsible activity conducted by adults.
being raised a catholic we had lots of crosses around the house.
when my family converted to this cult they were all removed and destroyed in case they had demons in them lol but at this juncture in my life i do not even know if jesus as the way he is portrayed in the bible was real.
yes a man named jesus did live and die 2000 years ago and probably on a cross but he was definitely not the son of god.
today during the public talk the speaker said that satan was behind the new modern phones, which are like mini computers, so that the world would have easy access to pornography..
Speaker was telling on himself.
a friend of mine visited australia and to his surprise there were no jw carts on streets.. wonder if it was just a coincidence or is it due to media attention that arc has created?.
