EverApostate

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  Please explain the Watchtower's "Ransom" for me

  by Doug Mason in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  according to the watchtower:.

  who received the ransom payment?.

  why did the ransomer need to be paid?.

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  EverApostate

  Disclaimer - I am not defending this idea as either rational or moral.

  I like that.
  
  
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  1975... the year that keeps on giving.

  by silentbuddha in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  so i recently moved back to my really really really small hometown in the south.

  it was the place that my parents moved to from a major city up north in the early 1970's.

  when we lived here times were very tough financially and i was always told that the reason we did not attend meetings was due to the fact that we had no car / no gas for the car / could not afford repairs for the years we were there.

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  EverApostate

  I was growing up as a high school boy in 1975 in a major city in India but never heard of this "Armageddon" or JW at all.

  So much of this "Good news would be preached in all the inhabited earth" thing.
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  Please explain the Watchtower's "Ransom" for me

  by Doug Mason in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  according to the watchtower:.

  who received the ransom payment?.

  why did the ransomer need to be paid?.

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  EverApostate

  No matter how hard I try to understand this "Jesus died for our sins", I couldn’t comprehend that. Sorry.

  
  
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  Please explain the Watchtower's "Ransom" for me

  by Doug Mason in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  according to the watchtower:.

  who received the ransom payment?.

  why did the ransomer need to be paid?.

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  EverApostate

  Ask any christian about why Jesus had to die and they will talk about how Jesus suffered the punishment for their sins

  So what was the outcome of Jesus death. Tangible things please.
  
  
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  Please explain the Watchtower's "Ransom" for me

  by Doug Mason in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  according to the watchtower:.

  who received the ransom payment?.

  why did the ransomer need to be paid?.

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  EverApostate

  A father had 2 sons. Eldest was wicked and youngest innocent. In order to Forgive the Eldest, he commands him to kill his younger brother in a gruesome manner. What a Dad.

  Despite the killing, the eldest son is not forgiven yet.

  That's Christianity.
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  So, is it the publicity, or act itself that "brings reproach on Jehovah's name"?

  by stuckinarut2 in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  as we all sadly know, a common expression used by the society and elders in cases of abuse, or scandals, is "if you talk about this, you will bring reproach on jehovah's name!".

  this is uttered in order to deter making something known.. but really, if it is a case of abuse, is not the act itself the thing that brings "reproach on jehovah"?.

  making it known is not the problem.. rather hiding it, or not disclosing it to authorities is the thing that brings reproach!.

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  EverApostate

  Famous car Company cover ups on failures are good Examples. They cover up until the body count rises and someone files a suit.
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  Watchtower Writings vs Christian Philosophers

  by Boredposter in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  watchtower writings used to have some meat to them.

  they have been increasingly watered down and simplified.

  i think we all recognize that.

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  EverApostate

  Watchtower writings used to have some meat to them

  After 11 years, I found out it was all spoiled meat. Lucky me, I survived
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  BLUE PLANET2- A Designer?

  by ScottyRex in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  ha well- kind of.. i have read lots of cofty's post on evolution and tbh am so interested at his intelligent and thought proving threads.

  they are all factual, unemotional and point to may scientific sources.

  they cut through so may per-concieved ideas about life and do have that ring of truth.. but i feel empty and a little uncomfortable.

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  EverApostate

  Is emotion to be confused with stupidness?

  Many times the above has proven to be true in my life. That is why they say "Think with your mind and not your heart"
  
  
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  Where in the bible does it say that the governments will turn on the religions. Like the Dubs always say this will happen

  by goingthruthemotions in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  i have not been here in a while, just trying to move on with my life all the while dealing with a very pimi brainwashed wife.. so the other day she started saying that we will have to go our own ways when things get worse with this world.

  she has said this before because she believes that the government will turn on religion and the great and powerful wizards (guardians of doctrine g.o.d.

  ) will call everyone and tell them where to go.. thank god, (no pun intended) i have been out of the loop for such a long time.

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  EverApostate

  The multi horned beast that arises from the sea will destroy the Prostitute. This is what Jws interpret from the Bible

  Beast = United Nations

  Prostitute = World religions.

  Believe me, I'm dead serious.
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  It Might Have Hit The Fan

  by VW.org in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i haven't associated with the jws for at least 6 months.

  they do not know that i am an apostate.

  maybe till just now becaue i was browsing reddit and stumbled upon a story from a paper about $4000 a day fine imposed upon watchtower.

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  EverApostate

  VW.org

  DONT YOU WORRY. The worst they can do is to mark you and advise other JWs not to have close associations with you. Nothing to fear. Its not worth. Its after all a Corporation.