MrM
This is where Witness Theocracy is very similar to Catholicism, top down and teaching remains in the domain of the 'Church', whereas Protestantism introduced the 'everyman' approach.
What questions JW's can't answer?
by XPeterX 38 Replies latest watchtower beliefs
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finallysomepride
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TTWSYF
Who created the world, forgives sins and gives eternal life?
Common sense answer= God
JW answer= Michael the Arch Angel [of course]
Wouldn't get too far with a mark on intial contact with that question.
dc
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Chalam
Genesis 1 (English Standard Version)
1 In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.
John 1 (English Standard Version)
1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. 2 He was in the beginning with God. 3 All things were made through him, and without him was not any thing made that was made.
Question 1:
Genesis says "in the beginning God."
John says "in the beginning was the Word."
Surely the Word was God, as the text here concurs "and the Word was God"?
Question 2:
Genesis says God created the heavens and the earth.
John says the Word created all things?
Once again, surely the Word is God?
Blessings,
Stephen
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designs
Well of course there are other philosophical and technical solutions but the early Bishops and the later Popes and Protestant Church Leaders of the Reformation had those with other ideas Murdered, throats slit, and burned humans alive.
What were they afraid of.
The human mind seeks Freedom from tyranny. The Age of Enlightenment was 3 centuries ago, time to catch up.
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EndofMysteries
They CAN'T answer MOST questions! You see, EVERYONE as they are raised and taught are only shown probably less then 5% of the actual bible. Things are 'read over' and 'brushed past', so JW's included only on a very few things.
When scriptures catch your interest, type it in the watchtower library, and when there 'might' be an article from prior to 1950, or less then 1 reference to it, and you see that for most of the scriptures you have questions about, it's safe to say there will be no answers to your questions. When they run home to type it in the WT to parrot an article, there won't be any, because the only material would be 'apostate' since it's pre 1950. See if YOU use old material, it's apostate, but as you can see in some recent WT's, they are quoting 1930's WT's, even though you can't look it up yourself.
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EndofMysteries
O and the person who brought out the 1874 thing.....if they didn't try to 'hide' that was the prediction and the END was 1914, vs the presense 'beginning' in 1914, they could THEN use the 1975 (date because they were off by 100 years with the 1874 so they thought), then adding 40 years (generation) like Russell did to 1874 to get to 1914, to have 2014 at the 'start' of the end, buying another 80+ years. But at the same time, that would mess up the 144,000 stuff.
Here is another interesting line of thought, if the 144,000 started after Christs death, and there were EVENLY divided throughout the 2000 years, we would have only 72 PER YEAR annointed.
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designs
Russell, Rutherford, and F.Franz brought an amalgamation of ideas to their respective religions. Its easy to see the traces of their religious upbringing and influences, Russell (Presbyterian), Rutherford (Baptist), F.Franz (Presbyterian). Russell was clearly in the mode of the Protestant reformers who stressed self reliance and Rutherford, oddly enough because he hated Catholicism, developed his version of the Doctrine of Communion of Souls. Fred was taken in by Septemmillenarianism and worked at his formula till it all blew up in his face with the 1975 fiasco.
If Russell had lived longer he probably would have completely gone over to radical Dispensationalism.
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slimboyfat
How come Witnesses can accept all sorts of blood fractions and products but they can't donate any?
If everyone refused to donate blood as JWs do there would be none available for JWs to benefit from.