Topics Started by VM44
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France taxing The Watchtower, what became of that?
by VM44 inyears ago it was announced that france was going to tax the watchtower.. i believe the watchtower took out a full page newspaper ad in the new york times (?
) protesting this action on the part of france.. the watchtower in france appealed this decision to the courts.. so, after all these years, what happened?.
did the watchtower (france division) have to pay taxes or not?.
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Water Bill Disproves Noah's Ark Story
by VM44 ini received my water bill today.
last month's water usage was 24 ccf.. what is a ccf?
i looked it up and found that 1 ccf equals 100 cubic feet of water which is equivalent to 748 gallons.. multiply that by 24 gives the amount of water used in one month, 2400 cubic feet of water or 17,952 gallons!
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untitled
by VM44 ini just ordered this book after hearing the author speak a few nights ago on the coast to coast radio program.. jesus, interrupted: revealing the hidden contradictions in the bible (and why we don't know about them) (hardcover)http://www.amazon.com/jesus-interrupted-revealing-hidden-contradictions/dp/0061173932/.
review.
"ehrman's ability to translate scholarship for a popular audience has made the james a. gray distinguished professor and chair of the department of religious studies at the university of north carolina at chapel hill a superstar in the publishing world" (indyweek ).
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Jesus' First Resurrection, from spirit realm to earthly realm
by VM44 injesus was put to death on the tree and was resurrected after three days into a spirit body according to the bible.. but it appears that this is really jesus' second resurrection!
jesus had a pre-human existence in a spiritual body.. something that defined jesus was transferrred from this spiritual body to an earthly body.. the question is now, what happened to jesus' prehuman body?
it could not be functioning because then there would a spiritual jesus and an earthly jesus existing at the same time.
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We predicted World War I - How would you answer?
by VM44 insome old timer jws (and probably some newer ones as well) say that they (the watchotwer) predicted world war i which broke out in 1914.. they apparently truly believe that statement.. how would you answer?.
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Easy Money Puzzle, Charles Russell sued over this cartoon!
by VM44 inin the thread,.
http://www.jehovahs-witness.net/watchtower/scandals/173903/1/brooklyn-eagle-scans.
is a dowload link to a file containing clippings from the brooklyn daily eagle.. the eagle publised a cartoon of charles t. russell which did not set well with him.
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Did Jehovahs have to Destroy Jesus?
by VM44 ini posted this in another thread, but i believe that the question is very important and deserves discussion in its own thread.. ****.
here is a question i have never seen asked, let alone answered.. it is claimed that jesus died and then god (three days later) resurrected him in a new spiritual body (according to the watchtower).. what about jesus before he came to earth?.
i would appear that god would have to destroy jesus, in effect killing him, beforing transferring the memories to an earthly body.. otherwise there would be two beings each calling themself "jesus", one in heaven, and the other on earth.. the above is not speculation, it follows directly from what the watchtower teaches.. .
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Did Noah's Ark have a Bilge Pump?
by VM44 inall wooden ships leak to some extent, so what did noah do about the accumulation of water?.
a bilge pump would have been essential.. did the noah's ark writer really know or have any experience about the construction of large wooden ships?.
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Why was the story of Noah plagarized?
by VM44 inwhy did the writer(s) of genesis feel they need to plagarize the babylonian story of gilgemesh by rewriting it as the story of noah?.
did the story of noah exist before the babylonian captivity?.