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Did God create man to live forever?
by shotgun indubs always point back to genisis as a last resort and say ....well he created them to live forever, it was his original purpose.. where does it say that?.
genisis says that they were to multiply and fill the earth not that they would live forever.
if they were to live forever what was the tree of life for?.
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Are the days of the week Pagan?
by shotgun insomeone posted that the wt should discard the calendar and the days of the week as pagan because of their origins.
actually they did and tried to replace it with their own.
didn't last but it shows the mindset of those who were telling everyone god was directing them at the time and still today.
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Fireworks to be avoided at all birthday parties and Bethel dedications!
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taken from the feb 4 2004 almost awake mag.
so it's ok for nominal christians but not ones who want to keep free from practises with pagan origins.
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Slaves of the Society.
by shotgun ini'm reading the demon haunted world by carl sagan.
in it he quotes fredrick baily a slave from maryland in the 1820's.
baily wrote after escaping to maine these words :.
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The three wise men and their gifts!
by shotgun indoes the wt comment on this occasion?.
the gifts could be considered birthday presents couldn't they?.
if they were gifts to a future king why would his parents who knew his origins and his future accept gifts from pagan's for their son who's kingdom was to be no part of this world?
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How many charges have been laid?
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does anyone one know how many seperate charges have been levelled against the wtbts or elders over the last year regarding child molestation?.
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King James Version discarded by WTBTS
by shotgun indoes anyone remember what verse the wt blamed in the kjv for messing up the dating of the 6000 yrs since man's creation to the year 1874. .
which they later changed to 1974 / 75. .
seems to me in was in 1kings or 2 kings?
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Was alternative service an option in Malawi
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not sure from reading coc.. was alternative service an option available to jw's in malawi instead of purchasing a political party card or was this only an issue in countries where military service was mandatory?.
wondering if countries like korea offer alternative service to jail time seeing it is now considered a conscience matter?
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Awake on taxes asleep on chronology.
by shotgun inif you have a copy of the december awake magazine dealing with taxes note the first page of the article.. the wt uses two quotes to show taxes have been a concern for thousands of years.. the first quote is from a babylonian artifact dated to 2300 bce.
the problem that presents is that only 69 years previous the world had been destroyed by a global flood according to wt chronology.
which means that in a mere 69 years noah and his three sons have produced a nation with sufficient infrastructure to require taxation.
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Were Daniel and Jeremiah contemporaries?
by shotgun ini've recently read who wrote the gospels, it mentioned on a side note from the gospels that daniel was probably written around 200 bce not during nebuchadnezzars reign.. in daniel chapter 9 he mentions reading the phophetic words of jeremiah about the 70 years of servitude.
jeremiah lived in a different land (judah) while daniel was in babylon.
how would daniel have been able to get jeremiahs scrolls seeing they had just been written and also the position daniel was in as chief of nebuchadnezzars magic practising priests would not have bode well for real jewish worshippers to think about making any saturday morning placements with him.. the book i read states that jeremiah, daniel and most of the other books seperate from the talmud were not canonized until around 200 bce.. any thoughts on this or have you done or read anything on this subject.