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  when a birthday is a birthday

  by winnie in

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  my sister had a baby recently and on the day she was born they whole jw community come to the hospital gave presents cards balloons flowers all on her real birthday i pointed this out to them they were celebrating the childs birthday and as usual they pointed the finger at me and my warped thinking my mother went so far as to say that i needed professional help.

  so is the day a child is born a birthday and as such should jws celebrate it.

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  barry

  If I remember correctly the chinese count from conception to get the birthday so at 3months the baby is already one year old.
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  This is the man who made it all happen!

  by Terry in

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  william miller.. do you know how important this man has been to your life?

  do you know your life would have been entirely different (without a doubt) had he not lived?.

  read on!.

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  Shure Miller had 15 proofs that Christ would come in 1843-4 but it was somehow beleived that 15 weak positions somehow = 1 strong position. There is a book going around around Adventist circles called 'The end of Historisism' by Kai Arisole an Adventist leader in finland. It is causing Adventists to rethink these old 19th century positions on exergesis.
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  Why I am not a Muslim

  by stillajwexelder in

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  just finished reading "why i am not a muslim" - fabulous read.

  i recommend it

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  I dont feel one incident is enough to judge a whole world wde religion but here in Australia a week doesnt go by without some sick problem in the Muslim religion. I was going to put on this post about the Muslim women being raped for reading the Bible but then its already posted here. Doesnt matter Ill just tell you about a sheik from Sydney made a series called the 'Death series' . As mentioned in this weeks newspaper he promotes Jihad and the killing of non Muslims and he also referres to Jews as pigs.

  My message to these sick people is to STOP THE HATE
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  Trinity?

  by BFD in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  i am reading the bible for the first time.

  i was df'd in 1976 and lived my whole life thinking the jws have the truth and i just could not live up to the standard and was doomed to die at the big a without question.

  until i found jwd 31 years later.

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  barry

  Greendawn, Our Lord became a servent and lower than the angels when he came to earth as a babe. Christians call it the incarnation, God became flesh and dwelt among us. Barry
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  Will Jehovah's Witnesses ever form a SECT?

  by Fisherman in

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  2. friends

  unlike all other religions including jews, mormons, and sda, there is only one jw movement.

  indivuduals that leave the wts cannot organize another jw like religion.

  i think that another jw religion would get the wts very angry.

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  barry

  A group of Jws breaking off and forming a sect would have little impact on the WT Society as a whole.

  What needs to happen is the sect needs to be formed among card holding JWs themselves. If IT was possible for Ray Franz to get a following inside the WT society so a large number of JWs would follow his opinions this would have the effect of forcing the WT society to accomodate their opinions or be faced with a large split in the JW religion.

  This is precicely how other churches work and is a good thing because it keeps everyone honest and tolerant of others. In the SDAs my own church there are traditional Adventists , Evengelical Adventists , Liberals just to name a few and all are accepted .

  The WT society will eventially evolve into a more reasonable institution.
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  Is speaking in tongues for Christians today, and what is it?

  by jwfacts in

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  2. bible

  the watchtower claims speaking in tongues was restricted to the first century, though it seems quite clear that this was something to be practiced in the last days.

  should christians today speak in tongues and what exactly is it?

  i am wondering about the reasoning as some christian religions practice it and others don't.

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  Gday again jwfacts,

  Im not an Ellen White fan I think I may have one of her books and that was given to me.

  It is widely known even in Adventist circles Ellen White plagurised from other writers most of which she claimed to write. In some ways this was a blessing because the result was that Adventism remained with the basic doctrins of the christian church because of the plagurism of other christian writers

  I remember a few years ago at an afternoon meeting by a high church official who was trying his best to put a good word in for Ellen White. The meeting was being recorded and when I piped up with some negative opinions of Ellen White and her ministry all hell broke loose. 'Stop the recording ', he yelled and then he went to advise me to talk to my minister.

  Ellen white did have an ability to hold the church together during its formative years and at the same time not become a cult leader as Josheph Smith has become in the Mormon Church. Her theme allways was to uphold Christ.at the same time She has made serious errors in judgement. Barry
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  Is speaking in tongues for Christians today, and what is it?

  by jwfacts in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  the watchtower claims speaking in tongues was restricted to the first century, though it seems quite clear that this was something to be practiced in the last days.

  should christians today speak in tongues and what exactly is it?

  i am wondering about the reasoning as some christian religions practice it and others don't.

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  Speaking in tongues from my reading of the bible seems to mean an unintelligable language or a heavanly language. Many Seventh Day Adventists in Africa also attend penticostal meetings to have the experiance of speaking in tongues. Barry
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  Do you think Jesus gave every Christian a personal commission to preach?

  by under_believer in

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  "go therefore and make disciples of people of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the father and of the son and of the holy spirit, teaching them to observe all the things i have commanded you.

  i am with you all the days until the conclusion of the system of things.

  " (matthew 28:19, 20 | nwt) .

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  Leolaia has the scripture and to make a point havent the JWs got it just as wrong as the various tongue speaking groups. MAny tongue speaking groups say every christian must speak in tongues to receive the holy spirit but the scripture says only some have that gift.

  Barry
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  144000, Where did Russell get his idea, and what do other religions believe

  by jwfacts in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  where did russell get the notion that the 144k are a literal number, and that they are the rulers in heaven?

  what do other religions believe this group to represent?.

  what did john really mean?.

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  barry

  Some SDAs used to beleive that only 144000 people would be saved and probably some still do beleive it. My Dad told me once about an SDA evangelist who beleived only 144000 would be saved until a person pointed out to him the small number 144000 is and how he was reducing his chance of being saved given the humber of christians in of the world ets. He changed his mind soon after that discussion.
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  The Cooling World

  by JW_Researcher in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  article also here click here.

  can't seem to post the jpg large enough to be read..

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  barry

  I remember reading somewhere that in Roman times England was warm enough to grow grapes and tahts 2 thousand years ago