Posts by berrygerry

in this broadcast anthony morris iii (who i affectionately call "the don") stresses to us the importance of studying - not one - but two of their publications in order to understand the bible.

berrygerry

ToMo is 100% correct.

The Bible Teach book is all carrot - pandas and paradise.

God's Love book is all stick - obey the Borg or die.

People that only want paradise, but who do not want to sacrifice their entire life to an unappreciative corporation, will indeed end up leaving.

Search the Bible Teach book for the following:

- faithful and discreet slave (or any variation)

- Governing Body

- disfellowship (ed) (ing)

These terms are withheld for a reason.

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only 90

by pepperheart in

shucks only 90 teaching books trashed last week still there is a new week starting lol

berrygerry

I completely agree with the efforts by OP.

There is a good reason that WT is going digital - paper and printing cost real money.

When litterature was sold door-to-door, WT made money.

Also, publishers are trained to ask for donations door-to-door. They are not allowed to ask for donations when cult-carting.

I applaud his efforts.

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Observation of Sam Heard at Regional Convention in Dayton, OH

by LevelThePlayingField in

heard gave 3 talks at the convention.

one thing i noticed rather quickly was how stuck he was to his notes.

he rarely looked up.

berrygerry

IMO Heard and Losch are the worst speakers in the Body. Both barely fit for even the #3 in the Theocratic (old) school.

Not IMO - very observable fact.

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Watchtower teaches that Jesus dying on the stake is no longer certain

by Listener in

the watchtower has held for many years that jesus died on a stake and held strongly to this teaching.

w 1951 3/15 the above agrees with the new world translation of the christian greek scriptures in its appendix, page 769, in saying that the instrument upon which jesus was nailed was a stake without a crossbeam, and not the religiously represented “cross”; and that the greek word used for that instrument in ancient time meant a “stake” and not the conventional religious cross.

they are no longer certain on this point.

berrygerry

I always felt the JWs differ just for the sake of being different in this and other things they teach.

This is the key to most of the practices introduced by Rutherford and Knorr. To be completely different from nominal Christianity, even if there is no basis for it.

As was mentioned, this awesome post was made 12 years ago.

https://www.jehovahs-witness.com/topic/92381/facts-on-crucifixion-stauros-torture-stake

JWfacts has good pages on the cross, especially the reference to the "ellipses" trick when "quoting" from the Imperial Bible Dictionary, which was used in the Reasoning book. https://www.jwfacts.com/watchtower/misquotes-deception-lies.php#Cross

Despite the Imperial Bible Dictionary being available for all to view in Google books, WT again pulled off the ellipses trick in the 2011 Watchtower.

https://wol.jw.org/en/wol/d/r1/lp-e/2011170?q=imperial+bible+dictionary&p=sen

Maybe they are going to ease off of this one.

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