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  Comments please?

  by irishayes in

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  2. beliefs

  i am still having an ongoing conversation with a couple of jw's on my medical message board and when i commented about the requirement of a number of hours of witnessing, this is the response i got.

  is she being truthful?.

  "in all the years that i have been a jehovah's witness,never once has anyone put any pressure on me to do a required amount of time in the preaching work.any time i spend speaking to people about the bible is spent because i want to do it' because i want to try my best to follow the example of jesus and his early followers-acts.5.42, acts 20.20,i believe that jehovah god wants me to be a part of this preaching work mathew 24.14, ".

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  KVJ discouraged?

  by irishayes in

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  2. bible

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  ok, i'm going to try this question under another heading.. i thought i had read on here that the organization discourages the use of the kjv because it may lead to different conclusions about who christ was upon reading it.. did i dream this?

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  Watchtower quotes needed

  by irishayes in

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  2. beliefs

  i seem to remember reading on this board a few different quotes regarding errors in the bible and also an instruction to members to not read the kjv of the bible because it would tend to support the belief that jesus is god.

  would someone please point me in the right direction to find these?

  i looked on "quotes" website, but couldn't find them.. also would like the quote that tells members that they can't understand the bible without the watchtower organization telling them what the bible says.. thanks!

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  Need Suggestions

  by irishayes in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  a jw spammer just jumped onto a medical message board that i belong to.

  i would like to have some suggestions for posting to her.. her topic was (i'm sure you can almost guess what her topic was) "you can live forever in paradise.".

  i need to be respectful of her because the board is moderated very closely and putdowns will not be tolerated, but i'd like some suggestions for questions i can ask her.. okay?

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  Another question, please?

  by irishayes in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  in reading a lot of the posts, and in trying to digest all the teachings and then changes in teachings, it makes me wonder, does the church have preachers who have gone to a school and studied scripture?

  or do they just study the wbts publications?

  there are lots of seminaries where christian preachers study but are there wbts seminaries?

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  Hi and a question

  by irishayes in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i have been lurking for a few days and wanted to ask a question.

  i stumbled on this website because i have an aquaintance who is a jw and i wanted to learn more about this religion.. first off, let me say that i am a christian.. my question is this: in reading a lot of posts, i see that many of you have left the religion because you believe the wbts has not been truthful in their interpretation of scriptures and because of their incorrect prophecies.

  but it seems many of you still believe that they were correct in their belief that the trinity is totally a wrong teaching.

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