by 5go 25 Replies latest watchtower bible
I am starting this in hopes other will help out too. Yes it is just a rip off of Blondie's idea.
My plan write what should of been in the daily text for today, and others will add their comments too. You a kind this is really how Bethel should start their morning thing with a real open discussion on the text.
Jan-01-2008
Hebrews 4: 16 Let us, therefore, approach with freeness of speech to the throne of undeserved kindness, that we may obtain mercy and find undeserved kindness for help at the right time.
Jan-02-2008
Job 29: 2 “O that I were as in the lunar months of long ago,
As in the days when God was guarding me;
We must remember is this time of Satan's media attacks that there was some good that we Jehovah's people did long ago. That we are just like Job we didn't do anything to deserve this. Well maybe pledging allegiance to the UN, and hiding Pedophiles that is beside the point. We like Job are not being punished like we deserved to be. We all inherited Adam' sin and there we should just be glad that Jehovah had his son commit suicide by cop for us. So we may live in paradise like the garden of Eden only this time Jehovah will get it right.
Jan-03-2008
1 Pet 2: 23 When he was being reviled, he did not go reviling in return. When he was suffering, he did not go threatening, but kept on committing himself to the one who judges righteously.
Remember we should not be like this loving brother who embarrassed us before the US Supreme court.
Chaplinsky v. State of New Hampshire, 315 U.S. 568 (1942) was a case decided by the Supreme Court of the United States, in which the Court articulated the fighting words doctrine, a limitation of the First Amendment's guarantee of freedom of speech.
In late November 1941, Walter Chaplinsky, a Jehovah's Witness was using the public sidewalk as a pulpit in downtown Rochester, passing out pamphlets and calling organized religion a "racket." After a large crowd had begun blocking the roads and generally causing a scene, a police officer removed Chaplinsky to take him to police headquarters. Along the way he met the town marshal, who had earlier warned Chaplinsky to keep it down and avoid causing a commotion. Upon meeting the marshal for the second time, Chaplinsky attacked him verbally. The complaint against Chaplinsky charged that he had shouted: "You are a God-damned racketeer" and "a damned Fascist" and was arrested. Chaplinsky admitted that he said the words charged in the complaint, with the exception of the name of the Deity.
For this, he was arrested under a New Hampshire statute preventing intentionally offensive speech being directed at others in a public place. Under NH.'s Offensive Conduct law (chap. 378, para. 2 of the NH. Public Laws) it is illegal for anyone to address another person with "any offensive, derisive or annoying word to anyone who is lawfully in any street or public place...or to call him by an offensive or derisive name."
Chaplinsky was fined, but he appealed, claiming the law was "vague" and infringed upon his First and Fourteenth Amendment rights to free speech.
The Court, in an unanimous decision, upheld the arrest. Writing the decision for the Court, Justice Frank Murphy advanced a “two-tier theory” of the First Amendment. Certain “well-defined and narrowly limited” categories of speech fall outside the bounds of constitutional protection. Thus, “the lewd and obscene, the profane, the libelous,” and (in this case) insulting or “fighting” words neither contributed to the expression of ideas nor possessed any “social value” in the search for truth.
Jan-04-2008
Rev 20: 6 Happy and holy is anyone having part in the first resurrection; over these the second death has no authority, but they will be priests of God and of the Christ, and will rule as kings with him for the thousand years.
How can this be the first resurrection? The bible recorded several before this one. Let us just for a second go with it. The second thing that is mentioned is that these ones don't have to worry about a second death aka permadeath in the gaming community. So I guess they can lead a second rebellion with no worries then. Which would give credence to the last part. They will rule as kings immortal undead kings of the own domain.
I better write Saturdays while I have it in my head.
Jan-05-2008
Matt 28: 19 ,20 =19 Go therefore and make disciples of people of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the holy spirit, 20 teaching them to observe all the things I have commanded YOU . And, look! I am with YOU all the days until the conclusion of the system of things.”
This is one where the juicy parts were in the watchtower comments.
I can agree the bible is the most widely available books, like most other holy books. Also many of people have painstakingly translated it into just about every tongue out there. Though to say Jehovah's Witnesses are the only ones holding to their claim of following the bible is a joke.
The Watchtower Bible and Tract Society of Pennsylvania, and New York follows the money, not the bible. Where are the JW charities at least the ones that don't make you money. Don't get me wrong the people the JW's control are very charitable but that does not cover the WBTSoPNY responsibility to help the needy.
Why doesn't the WBTS start by founding a real school of higher learning like the Mormons have. So their followers can finally get decent jobs and help pay WBTS bills better. Also maybe WBTS might actually have literature that actual makes you think, rather than making you stop thinking.
5go,
Can you also type in the comments from the "exhuming examining the scriptures daily" daytext book? That way we could see the spin the WTS puts on it, and comment on what the JW's are reading that day. Well some JW's (most don't bother).
Jan-04-2008
Rev 20: 6 Happy and holy is anyone having part in the first resurrection; over these the second death has no authority, but they will be priests of God and of the Christ, and will rule as kings with him for the thousand years.
The Watchtower Society teaches that most of the New Testament was written for a minority of Christians, the "little flock" class now comprised of 8000 or 9000 Jehovah's Witnesses. This verse only applies to the "little flock". We're the future KINGS, we're HOLY, we're gonna ROCK and RULE over you! Nyaa nyaa nyaa nyaa nyaa nyaa!