My understanding from exposure to JW teaching is:
That the Church ultimately is heavenly
Made up of 144,000
I'm going to take my nap now
You may wake me in case of an emergency
Tepid
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tepidpoultry
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How can the WTS call themselves Christians when they have no Christian church?
by TTWSYF inso was jesus a fool or a liar?
he said that his church would last all ages, didn't he?.
math 16:8and i say to thee: that thou art peter; and upon this rock i will build my church, and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it.
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Young People Ask: I’m Attracted to the Same Sex—Does That Mean I’m Gay?
by pale.emperor ineurgh!
more patronizing and uninformed reasoning from the "experts" at bethel.
this time tackling the sensitive subject of those attracted the the same sex.
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Old People Ask: I'm Attracted to Nobody- Does that Mean I'm Dead?
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Old people ask ... questions ... no answers
by Lostandfound injust random questions for the book questions old people ask.
when can i stop donating my last penny every month to the wt?.
when can i have sex with no guilty conscience due to wt teachings?.
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tepidpoultry
Simon:
Forget WTS
I want to leave my money to child eating bears
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Old people ask ... questions ... no answers
by Lostandfound injust random questions for the book questions old people ask.
when can i stop donating my last penny every month to the wt?.
when can i have sex with no guilty conscience due to wt teachings?.
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I'm tired where did everybody go?
Homer?
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Winnesses of ME (Jesus)...Acts 1:8...NOT Winnesses of Jehovah
by NikL inso jesus said in acts 1:8 .... you will receive power when the holy spirit comes upon you,+ and you will be witnesses+ of me in jerusalem,+ in all ju·deʹa and sa·marʹi·a,+ and to the most distant part* of the earth.. .
witnesses of jesus and not jehovah.
so i was a witness for years.
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tepidpoultry
Did you folks ever realize that Isaiah 43:10-12 applied to Spiritual
Israel only according to Rutherford's Theology
Where does Spiritual Israel go when they die?
Heaven
In 1931 everybody was confessing that designation
So, today, we have 8 million "Jehovah's Witnesses"
Really?
Are they Spiritual Israel?
A little confusing isn't it
The name is defunct except for under 20,000 good folks
Rutherford was a little short sighted I think
(I wonder who of 8 million "Witnesses" have thought about this :) )
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PS Don't you SARCASM love religion lol
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Actions and consequences of Lot’s wife vs. David
by Yesu Kristo Bwana Wangu inactions and consequences of lot’s wife vs. actions and consequences of david.
genesis 19 talks about how sodom and gomorrah were destroyed.
david under any law: yes, under the law of moses crime: adultery and murder consequence: nothing but blessings from god.
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What I'm getting from David_Jay's last comment is that it has historically
been a serious mistake to take accounts/stories from the Torah literally,
To some degree Catholicism agrees with you
Accounts such as the Noah-sian Deluge are generally treated as allegory
The suggestion was made to treat such stories much as one might with
Aesop's Fables,
I am in agreement
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Can you live with your self?
by The Rebel ini think if we are to fully delight in life we must live without detachment.
because when we become attached to a beliief we feel a desire that we are right.
the problem with being right, even if we are right is that our beliefs then try to attach themselfs to virgin snow, and change people to our thinking.
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David_Jay
I believe you're saying that theological process is of secondary
importance
It's positive results that count,
To paraphrase John "If I say I love God but am hating my brother I am a
lier"
Or in other words maybe "If you can't put up shut up!" Lol
Cheers,
Tepid
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Actions and consequences of Lot’s wife vs. David
by Yesu Kristo Bwana Wangu inactions and consequences of lot’s wife vs. actions and consequences of david.
genesis 19 talks about how sodom and gomorrah were destroyed.
david under any law: yes, under the law of moses crime: adultery and murder consequence: nothing but blessings from god.
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tepidpoultry
Hi Yesu
Regarding whether these men died from a divine act
As I recall from memory
(I could be making mistakes here)
David was given the choice of three punishments
And he chose the scourge because that way the deaths would
be from Yahweh
His thinking was somehow there might be less of a toll
Again I would encourage you to read over the chapter to get the correct
story
But indeed it was Yahweh (Jehovah ) that killed these men
for the sin of David
These men were innocent
Best Regards
Tepid
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Actions and consequences of Lot’s wife vs. David
by Yesu Kristo Bwana Wangu inactions and consequences of lot’s wife vs. actions and consequences of david.
genesis 19 talks about how sodom and gomorrah were destroyed.
david under any law: yes, under the law of moses crime: adultery and murder consequence: nothing but blessings from god.
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PS May I suggest looking into why Yahweh personally slaughtered
70,000 innocent men after David disobeyed him by taking a census
1 Chronicles 21
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Actions and consequences of Lot’s wife vs. David
by Yesu Kristo Bwana Wangu inactions and consequences of lot’s wife vs. actions and consequences of david.
genesis 19 talks about how sodom and gomorrah were destroyed.
david under any law: yes, under the law of moses crime: adultery and murder consequence: nothing but blessings from god.
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tepidpoultry
Your question of course can only be answered by someone who believes
in a God of justice
But primarily by someone who believes that the Bible is more than a
collection of fiction
I suggest that if you start to collect a number of these incongruities
You might want to revisit your position on points one and two
In the meantime, much success in your theological journey
The search for El Shaddai :)
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