Topics Started by rick_here

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Has your relationship with Jesus changed?
by Honesty in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
since you either left the organisation or started to objectively examine wts doctrine.
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Jehovah's Witnesses and Born-Again Christians are too much alike its scary
by booker-t in
1. watchtower
2. bible
ever since i left the jw's i visited a few born-again christian churches and i felt like i was sitting in a kingdom hall of jw's.

because born-agains are more like jw's then they want to admit.

both jw's and ba's think they know everything.
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Need online link for "The Testament of Moses" (or Assumption of Moses)
by rick_here in
1. watchtower
2. bible
kirby's "early christian writings" (link) no longer works, at least in my browser (firefox).

i can't find anything online (via goooogle).

thanx in advance, .
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If you could create a new canon - what books/ writings would you include?
by Qcmbr in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
ok so the bible is a work of the early roman church - if you could add any books to a new canon of 'scripture' what would you add - would you take anything out?

my starter for ten: .

i think i'd take out song of soloman.
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The effects of exiting a cult
by Sirona in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
i consider jehovahs witnesses to be a cult, or at least a high control group (cult-like).. i recognise within myself some side effects of having been a jw.

here is an interesting article dealing with cults (it does list some extreme cult tactics).

i'm going to quote just part of the article regarding the effects on someone who has left a cult.
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Early Christology question
by M.J. in
1. watchtower
2. bible
my knowledge about this is limited to some quotes of what various early church fathers taught and what they said about "heresies", in addition to the nt.

could some of the more knowledgeable folks on this board give their input as to what schools of thought were out there in the 1st century regarding christ's nature, the worship of christ, etc.?

leolaia in another post mentioned how there were three principle factions around the question of salvation.
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Why were apocalyptic books included in the NT canon?
by logansrun in
1. jw
2. friends
all right folks -- especially you scholarly ones -- let me state a question i've been having: .

from my understanding of christian history the proto-catholic church selected the books to be included in the nt canon after the first century was concluded (nt canon finalized in mid 2nd century?).

included in this canon were books which include some apocalyptic sayings of jesus (especially in mark) that obviously were not fulfilled, such as mark 9:1 "truly i say to you, there are some standing here who will not taste death before they see that the kingdom of god has come with power.
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recommend some new music
by tijkmo in
1. jw
2. friends
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have you found some new band or artist that you would reccomend we listen to...for this to work we would need to know what style of music you normally listen to and then we can know if its what we would enjoy...eg.

i like pink floyd...genesis...yes...etc.....................and have just found mercury rev......brill
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Matthew 1:18-25..."the virgin birth"...(seeking exegetical help)
by rick_here in
1. watchtower
2. bible
i've been @ jwdf before, having been "referred" by an ex-jw i met at beliefnet.com.

this person said i'd find some folks here who are interested in the stuff i am.

namely, the "historical-critical studies of the bible" (not to be confused with theological liberalism, per se, which is a specific "movement" within the history of christianity).
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Enoch - Transferred so as not to see death
by nowino in
1. watchtower
2. bible
wanted to know what anyone here thinks or has studied on enoch and him being "transferred so as not to see death" and whether or not anyone believes john the baptist might have been him reincarnated or sent back in.

also if he was the only one in the bible not to see death.