Aluminum is the devils metal. Although aluminum has been linked to parkinsons or alsheimers disease, I believe lead would be a more logical choice. Since lead is stored in the body and is hard to chealate. I also remember playing with mercury as a child. It is deadly. Not sure where the bible reference is to aluminum, or if it's just one of those nutty Witness claims.(sorry about any spelling errors)
Please point me to the most horrible logical fallacy from the watchtower...
by DeusMauzzim 34 Replies latest jw friends
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Awakened07
I think this is a nice one:
- If you as a JW decided to live and teach what the JWs (Bible Students) did around 1919 (and many years after that) today, you would be corrected, and if you didn't change you'd be disfellowshiped. Even so, they claim Jesus searched for His true followers around that time, and chose the WTS. How could Jesus be OK with what they taught back then (and choose them over other religions), when He evidently today would condemn you for teaching those same things? In biblical times, did God give the Israelites a few years to "adjust their course" when they had started worshiping the golden calf? Did He slowly give them snippets of "new light" that eventually led them to stop worshiping the golden calf? No - in fact, had it been solely up to God, He'd have killed them all on the spot. Moses persuaded Him otherwise. Why should it be any different today, in what (to JWs) must be the most important time in mankind's history? For many years, the Bible Students celebrated Christmas and birthdays - things that today would be considered "idol worship" by the JWs. Why didn't Jesus immediately stop them from doing that when he chose them?
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betterdaze
Daniel 4, the interpretation of King Nebuchadnezzar's dream about the great tree that was chopped down and its rootstock banded.
20 “‘The tree that you beheld, that grew great and became strong and the height of which finally reached the heavens and which was visible to all the earth, 21 and the foliage of which was fair, and the fruit of which was abundant, and on which there was food for all; under which the beasts of the field would dwell, and on the boughs of which the birds of the heavens would reside, 22 it is you, O king, because you have grown great and become strong, and your grandeur has grown great and reached to the heavens, and your rulership to the extremity of the earth.
Note: "THE TREE THAT YOU BEHELD... IT IS YOU, O KING..."
Yet the Watchtower twists and insists that this tree represents Jehovah's Kingdom established in 1914 under Jesus Christ in a "secondary fulfillment" which no prophet, much less Daniel, ever indicated.
• Knowledge Book, page 97
• Pay Attention to Daniel's Prophecy!, chapter 6, "Unraveling the Mystery of the Great Tree"
• Bible Teach book, page 217 in the appendix.
~Sue
P.S.: There are plenty of other "initial fulfillments" of prophecies that supposedly happened in biblical times and then conveeeeniently re-happened in the 20th century with the Bible Students/Jehovah's Witnesses. -
Gopher
You are supposed to pray to Jehovah "in the name of Jesus", yet Jesus is not your mediator unless you are of their anointed class.
The faithful slave class (providing the "spiritual food") is made up of the same people as the domestics who receive the "food". How non-anointed people receive their food must be like how dogs wait by the table for their masters to drop them a morsel.
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heathen
That molested children need 2 witnesses before the congregation can take action . You can never question any dogma in print . Everything that comes from the WTBTS comes from God. Women have to engage in the d2d ministry to be saved. The bible says they are saved thru faith ,child bearing and sanctification , provided they have soundness of mind.
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Narkissos
Obsolete one but resulted in thousands of prison years:
You can do civil service for a government, not military service. But you can't do civil service if it is substitutive of military service...
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Narkissos
Double post, sorry.
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RebelWife
Jesus' returning invisibly. The incomparable stupidity of this blows me away.
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changeling
The Bible says to "abstain" from blood.
To abstain means to avoid all forms of ingesting blood and all types of blood and it's components. (WT's reasoning, not mine).
Blood fractions are derived from whole blood.
To be in complience with the command to "abstain" from blood (as understood by the WT), one must abstain from blood fractions.
In their own words, they are breaking the command to abstain from blood if they allow blood fractions. They have obviously never taken a Logic course.
changeling
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Paralipomenon
Changeling, it also says to abstain from idols. Can we assume that idol-fractions are okay then? :D