Are the Adventists looking to attract downtrodden JW's?

by donny 34 Replies latest watchtower bible

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  steve2

  Walter Martin - from a very different time and age. At one time this spiritual egghead of a man had the virtual "power" to declare a religion either a "cult" or "christianity" - and boy did he whip the poor of SDAs into a lather of total overkill. SDA typewriters never moved so fast and noisily producing overblown defences of their peculiar worldview. Looking back it all seems insanely serious and vain.

  Total madness that only a mindset that insists on "divine truth" can generate.

  It's like a stupid pumpkin "accusing" another vegetable of daring to be a carrot or a parsnip. So? They're still vegetables man!
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  wannabefree

  As someone else has already noticed, the New World Translation in English does not read as is stated in the OP, and does not use the word 'Saturday' there in Acts 20:7. The newspaper ad referred to must be a misprint and is referring to another translation.

  The New English Bible published in 1961 renders Acts 20:7: “On the Saturday night, in our assembly for the breaking of bread, Paul, who was to leave the next day, addressed them, and went on speaking until midnight.”

  Here is the source with the misquote ....

  http://eternalgospelherald.com/full%20page%20ad%202.pdf
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  designs

  All of my cousins who are SDA were encouraged to get a university education, which they did.
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  steve2

  For what it's worth, in the small community where I was raised, there was a SDA church at the end of our street well attended and shiny new (by contrast, our Kingdom Hall was miles away in a remote location that you could easily miss). I revisited my old town a couple of years ago; the SDA church looked disused and in a state of disrepair. The kingdom hall was still standing, still small and nondescript, but barricaded looking like a mini-fort knox.

  One of my very best school friends was raised in a SDA family; like many raised in that church, he left when he was older (SDAs seem to have the same problem as JWs in retaining their youth). Anyway, we had many ,many discussions pitting the doctrines of one against the other. He introduced me to the SDA defence literature and I was impressed with its thorough-going nature (I've since realized how obsessive it now all seems).

  I developed a very strong crush on him when he and I were 14. I tried to hide it from him but what does a 14 year old know about restraint? Sadly my feeble advances spelt the end of our friendship - it must have freaked him out big time (hell, it freaked me out as well now that I think about it).
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  donny

  Thanks for the update and the point on the ad misquoting the NWT. Since the ad had made the effort to quote it, I did not even look to verify its accuracy. However someone who wrote the ad must have had one lying around as this version is rarely quoted for support of anything outside of JW circles.