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OK..Seriously..Has GOD ever answered your prayers????
by DATA-DOG in
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2. beliefs
look...i am not an atheist.

even so, i have never had one prayer answered my entire life.

the only thing that would even come close was learning ttatt.
defender of truth

Vanderhoven, please take a minute to think about these stories, I know that I have been..

" As she walked along under the tall elm trees, Diane asked "God" to keep her safe from harm and danger. When she reached the alley, which was a short cut to her house, she decided to take it. However, halfway down the alley she noticed a man standing at the end as though he were waiting for her. She became uneasy and began to pray, asking for God's protection. Instantly a comforting feeling of quietness and security wrapped around her, she felt as though someone was walking with her. When she reached the end of the alley, she walked right past the man and arrived home safety.
The following day, she read in the paper that a young girl had been raped in the same alley, just twenty minutes after she had been there. Feeling overwhelmed by this tragedy and the fact that it could have been her, she began to weep. Thanking the Lord for her safety.. "

http://www.snopes.com/glurge/rapestop.asp
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the subject of resurrection
by Crazyguy in
1. watchtower
2. bible
were the earliest believers of a resurrection the egyptians, i have yet to find an earlier culture believing in this idea?.
defender of truth

Ecclesiastes 3:21
New Living Translation
"For who can prove that the human spirit goes up and the spirit of animals goes down into the earth?"
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the subject of resurrection
by Crazyguy in
1. watchtower
2. bible
were the earliest believers of a resurrection the egyptians, i have yet to find an earlier culture believing in this idea?.
defender of truth

http://bibviz.com/are-the-dead-resurrected-evil-bible.html
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There Was No First Human
by cofty in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
this excellent 4 minute video will help to clear up a few common misunderstandings regarding evolution.. ....
defender of truth

(sorry to interrupt, but this may be relevant/entertaining)

http://jwtalk.net/forums/topic/14659-human-missing-link-fossils-may-be-jumble-of-species/
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The Bible agrees with the Big bang theory, so does the Watchtower
by defender of truth in
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2. beliefs
http://jwtalk.net/forums/topic/14359-satan-improves-big-bang/.
defender of truth

^^ From the above thread:
"..That idea, which is now quite obvious, was not so much evident sixty years ago, when the "absolute truth" in the scientific community was the Steady State theory, which said that the universe had always existed. That is what Einstein and his colleagues believed. Cosmologists back then mocked the Bible as ludicrous and ignorant because it says the universe had a beginning, while science had proved beyond doubt that it had always existed."
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The Bible agrees with the Big bang theory, so does the Watchtower
by defender of truth in
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2. beliefs
http://jwtalk.net/forums/topic/14359-satan-improves-big-bang/.
defender of truth

http://jwtalk.net/forums/topic/14359-satan-improves-big-bang/
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Authority in the Witnesses
by Band on the Run in
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2. friends
now that pastor russell is persona non grata, i was wondering how this movement ever started.

i always find it surprising that educated people refuse to read the bible.

they will just follow someone.
defender of truth

http://www.jehovahs-witness.net/watchtower/bible/240456/1/A-closer-look-at-the-origins-and-times-of-Pastor-C-T-Russell
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Is Deuteronomy 18:20 being overlooked re the JW org being a false prophet.
by Island Man in
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2. beliefs
note what deuteronomy 18:20 says:.

however, the prophet who presumes to speak in my name a word that i have not commanded him to speak .

that prophet must die.".
defender of truth

The term Prophet certainly isn't limited to making predictions, quite true. You might find this commentary on Deuteronomy 18 interesting..
"Pulpit Commentary
"A Prophet. The Hebrew word so rendered (נָבִיא) is a derivative from a verb (נָבָא), which signifies to tell, to announce; hence the primary concept of the word is that of announcer, or forth-speaker; and to this the word "prophet" (Greek προφήτης from πρόφημι, I speak before or in place of) closely corresponds; the prophet is one who speaks in the place of God, who conveys God's word to men, who is an interpreter of God to men. (As illustrative of the meaning of the word, cf. Exodus 7:1; Exodus 4:16.)
Hence Abraham is called a prophet ( Genesis 20:7), and the term is applied to the patriarchs generally (Psalm105:15); God conveyed his mind to them, and they spoke it forth to others. "

http://biblehub.com/commentaries/deuteronomy/18-15.htm
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Theists, why does God allow suffering..
by The Quiet One in
1. watchtower
2. bible
..specifically, the suffering of animals.

you can talk about free will/sin/people choosing to not listen to god etc to explain human suffering being allowed.. but how can you love a god that allows animals, that haven't sinned or chosen to not have anything to do with god, to have their short lives ended in often long, drawn out, painful ways.

i could list stories i've read that would probably make you feel ill, but i'm not looking to shock anyone or start an emotional debate.
defender of truth

"So I'll just list the times that God killed or commanded others to kill animals."
http://dwindlinginunbelief.blogspot.co.uk/2009/01/how-many-animals-has-god-killed.html
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WT response to artificial blood
by cookiemaster in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
hey guys !

here's an interesting piece of news.

apparently there's an israeli company out there that has managed to produce universally accepted artificial blood with the help of stem cells.
defender of truth

http://jwtalk.net/forums/topic/14809-manufactured-blood-from-adult-stem-cells-close-to-human-testing/#entry211560