Posts by barry

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barry

The books of the bible were decided and we have the first list about 370ad at the time of the secound ecumenical council when the trinity doctrine was decided on.

The books of the bible were chosen Matthew to hebrews and revelation was the last to be accepted because some people didn't believe it was written by john. Some books were rejected such as 'the shepherd ' written by a man named Hermas a cousin to the pope.

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I FOUND RELIGION! Post your favorite spiritual/hymnal.

by watson in

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barry

www.youtube.com/watch?v=0P5r1Bj1Rgg

Irondork I can remember singing How great though art he was the choir master in a small town in NSW Australia. The choir was made up of all demonations in the town and they used to go to all different churches Barry

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Why A True Believing Governing Body Member Cannot Be Humble?

by frankiespeakin in

governing body admonish all their members to be humble christians repeatedly almost to the point of verbal beatings to keep them in line with the corporation and humbly do the work they are asigned.

they will use this scripture to examine whether or not a brother qualifies for being used as an elder:.

2:24"but a servant of our lord ought not to fight, but to be humble toward every person, instructive and long-suffering,".

barry

These type of people don't even think they just repeat the company line. I never beleive this type of person and JW is not the only religion that have this type of retoric

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Are you going to heaven?

by compound complex in

greetings:are you convinced (with all due humility, of course) of your future destination according to religious beliefs?

perhaps you'd simply like to journey through outer space, but return eventually to our beautiful planet, earth .

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barry

Jesus said he was going to prepare a place for us in heaven

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Challenge for JW's - how do you arrive at 1919 using the Bible alone?

by yadda yadda 2 in

any takers?

jw apologists or anyone, convince us why you are sure that jesus appointed the watchtower society in 1919 using the bible alone.

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barry

Gday yadda yaddda, Let me clarify the SDAs get 1844 from daniel 8.14 'Unto two thousand three hundred day then shall the sanctuary be cleansed 2300 days. That is converted to years from 457 bc the starting point for the seventy weeks in daniel 9 and the calculation comes to 1844.

the three and a half years is a separate prophecy spanning from 538 to 1798 and is 1260 days converted to years. this timespan is found as 42 months, time times and a dividing of time all in revelation. This prophecy is the reighn of the papacy when they persecuted the protestants and ended in 1798 when the papacy received a fatal blow the pope was arrested by general berther.

Of course this is the official historist view but theologians have different views suggesting a more futurist approach. To many SDAs the attack on the Pope as a product of the last century where most protestants had similar views that the Pope was the antichrist .

Barry

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Challenge for JW's - how do you arrive at 1919 using the Bible alone?

by yadda yadda 2 in

any takers?

jw apologists or anyone, convince us why you are sure that jesus appointed the watchtower society in 1919 using the bible alone.

.

barry

Why are the 7 prophetic years counted out to 2520 literal years and at the same time the 3 and a half years simply left literal. The SDA church does the reverse counting the 7 years as literal years and they convert the 3.5 years to 1260days -1260 years.

Such is the problem with the year day principle no one uses it consistently. When Jesus said he would be killed and in three days it will be rebuilt did he mean three years?

The texts in numbers and ezekiel don't teach any year day principle. Please read it again if you aren't sure. It doesn't say when interpreting prophetic prophecy substitute a year for a day. Barry

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Do other churches use the name Jehovah?

by barry in

i have seen on this site recordings of jw elders at tribunal meetings claim other churches hate the name jehovah.

one former baptist now jw elder said other churches hate the name and never use it.

please look at the following and there are many more hymns not included than these.

barry

Thanks Nevernew for those wonderful videos. Doesn't mime come from that french bloke? The two videos entitled 'For every mountain' are amazing. The reason the WT wouldn't accept them is because its not exclusively from their cult. Most churches have music from other churches we go to an Anglican church and many of the hymns are the same as from other churches.

Jgnet thanks for responding with Jehovah Jireh ive never heard that before.

The negro people do have a real sincerety and expression not found in other races. They are so talented.

I must mention the songs I picked were ones with Jehovah in their title many others have the name Jehovah in the body of the lyrics.