News Release: Special Awake! Campaign

by betterdaze 37 Replies latest watchtower bible

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  WTWizard

  More spam. I have seen this topic before in the Puketower and Asleep! Can you trust the Bible?

  This is yet another attempt to push the Witlesses to doing more. Special campaigns are designed to get those out that are inactive, reach everyone in the world whether or not they want to be bothered with the scam, and get people to stay out all damn day instead of just the morning or to come out when they had other things to do. This is not a good time of the year, with fallen leaves and winterizing of houses, to tell the God machines that they cannot do anything all month but place this crap.

  The topic itself is more crap. No, you cannot trust the Bible--and especially the New World Translation. First, the Bible had its first pruning by the early Catholic church and its contemporaries. They hand-picked the 66 books that would best suit their doctrine. After that, the Watchtower Society further tampered with it. Finally, when you literally interpret the Bible, it is full of non-sequitors. Things are going to happen this way because they happened that way in an earlier time. There is no way I am going to trust, with my life, such a book.

  It looks like another article for the shredder.
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  LtCmd.Lore

  "See! Pontius Pilate really existed! Therefore, we KNOW everything else the Bible said is true!"

  That's truly pathetic...

  If they wish to argue that the Bible is archaeologicaly accurate, then how about:

  • The skeletal remains of an entire army in the red sea?

  • A worldwide correlation of eyewitness accounts of the sun standing still for a whole day on the same day?

  • The entire Egyptian empire being totally decimated for centuries after the loss of all their food, livestock, army, leaders, slaves, money, crops, water and children after a Series of Unfortunate Events?

  Any of THOSE should be pretty easy to prove, if they actually uccured, plus they would lend a bit more credence to the Bible then: "Hey, Pontius Pilot DID exist! What more evidence do you need?"

  Lore - W.W.S.D?
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  avengers

  Awake! is made available by Jehovah’s Witnesses without charge to all who wish to read it.

  Except to the Apostates! No Awakes for them!

  --VM44

  Apostates don't need the Awake. You know why? They are already awake!
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  sacrebleu

  When I took General Psychology and Critical Thinking in college I learned that this type of thing is how the society keeps the rank and file pumped and working.

  It's called Mass Behavior Modification. Sure opened my eyes. The teacher in Gen Psych. was talking about how these "campaigns" are used in factories or businesses and sales meetings to get and people enthused and slaving. This huge light went on in my head. What a moment. It was another reason why they witnesses "shouldn't" get a higher education.

  sacrebleu
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  Mary

  Witnesses uphold the Bible as worthy of investigation in special issue of Awake!

  Ya. Just don't investigate it without one of our 'bible study aids', or you'll find yourself sitting in front of a Judicial Committee being charged with "apostasy".

  What a bunch of idiots.
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  BONEZZ

  Jehovah’s Witnesses remain staunch advocates of careful study of its content.

  You beat me to the punch Mary. ..."careful study" of the Bible ...but not in small independent groups...only groups with Mother watching, using Mother's cult-guides.

  -BONEZZ
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  truthsetsonefree

  And to think that I was actually proud to give the talk "Why You Can Trust the Bible?" Just one of the arguments in this thread decimates the entire lecture. Shame on me. Isaac
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  bobld

  I can trust the Bible,but NOT the NWT.Look at the WBTS "the Kingdom Interlinear Translation of the Greek Scriptures" and the changes they made ie LORD/Jehovah in the NT.

  In the Nov. 2007 Awake page 5 "It would be hard to trust a book that is found to contain inaccuracies.Image reading a modern history book that dated the second world war to the 1800's or that called the presidents of the United States a king. Would such inaccuracies not raise questions in your mind about the overall reliablity of the book?Try reading some past WBTS publications(books) and look at ALL the inaccuracies.For example the book "Revelation-Its Grand Climax At Hand" It was printed and copyright in 1988.They printed a 1988 copyright edition in 2006.However the do not, again they do not say anything about all the changes in the 2006 printing of the same copyright book of 1988.Now if I was to place this 2006 printing of this book with the public they would not see all the inaccuracies and changes from the 1988 original book.YOU CANNOT TRUST THE WBTS.Let alone their inaccurate translation of the Bible that they call NWT.

  Why a news release,isn't the policy of the WBTS,to go from door to door the best way of informing the people,besides it's the most effective.Also it creates a lot of jobs for the Gas/tire/car mtce etc.You get 4 people to a car times 250,000 cars driving 50miles a day for 10 days in Nov=125,000,000 miles or 6,500,000 gals of gasx$3.00=19,500,000 dollars.Use that money and advertise on T.V./Oprah save the environment.This in just in the U.S.A.

  OK enough bullshit bob
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  hillary_step

  "In an age when it has become increasingly popular to criticize and denigrate the Bible".

  The data in (Table 3) tell a similar tale: Americans were among the most likely of peoples to believe that "The Bible is the actual word of God and it is to be taken literally word for word" - three times more likely than the Norwegians and nearly five times more likely than the British. They were also the least likely of any people surveyed to believe that "The Bible is an ancient book of fables, legends, history, and moral precepts recorded by man" (14.6% ) - a belief that was much more common in other nations, such as Israel, Hungary, Russia, and Great Britain. These beliefs, particularly biblical literalism, as we will see, turn out to be among the most useful predictors of the persistence of a "pre-scientific" worldview in American society.

  At a time when the public display and discourse about matters of faith have been under attack, a new poll indicates most Americans – 63 percent – believe the Bible is literally true and the Word of God.

  Must be a member of the Writing Team in Europe who wrote the article. ;)

  HS
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  seattleniceguy

  it has become increasingly popular to criticize and denigrate the Bible

  Yeah, just the other day all my friends were like high-fiving and stuff because we saw this way cool guy whose Bible denigration skill was just off the charts! He's going to run for President on a platform of Bible denigration for everyone.

  SNG