Great doctrinal misquotes on Trinity:
http://www.macgregorministries.org/jehovahs_witnesses/examtrin/examintrinity.html
I even ordered the full page scans from them. Got about a dozen scans emailed to me for about $5.
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Blatantly deceitful use of secular sources
by AuldSoul ini am looking good repository of instances where the watchtower or awake!
have quoted secular sources in such a way to make it appear the source supports their argument when it is blatantly obvious that the secular source disagreed with them.
if it doesn't exist, i am about to make one.
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Hey.... I am a.....
by Legolas in.
lmao...i don't know what it is going to say...but i think i will be something!
so do all your congrats!!!!
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Congrats Legolas ...
(I'm nearing 1000 myself .... )
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Welcome ...
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Big Ryan Adams fan here .... never seen him live either ... just on late night TV.
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To all who have left or question the WTS
by IP_SEC inleaving the wts is very difficult.
this is probably something few people can understand.
"you left a church, so what, people do that every day".
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I agree 100%. I fear that I would have lived a life blaming myself and feeling guilty of my doubts, had I been my age 25 years earlier. Probably would have alot of depression problems.
A big thank you to all of you.
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SECRECY, Pros and Cons...UBM's, I'm asking you
by jgnat in"unbelieving mates" (ubm's), this is for you.
i'm compiling a tips sheet for brand-new ubm's to help them deal with the stresses and strains of being in a religiously mixed marriage.
help me out by giving me your experience, both good and bad, about secrecy.
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He is not aware of what 6,000 posts means about my level of involvement.
Ahem ... 7000+ posts ....
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Any one catch the trading spouses christain/new age episode tonight?
by candidlynuts inoh my goodness!
to view a cilp: http://www.uselessjunk.com/modules....rticle&sid=2586[url.
at this link : http://forums.prospero.com/foxspous...ges/?msg=6483.1 .
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The best line for the upcoming episode was:
"Get the f*ck out of my house, in Jesus name AMEN!"
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What was your favorite thing about being a witness?
by dezpbem inwhile i didn't like being a jw there were 1 or 2 good points.
what was your favorite thing about being a jw?.
mine was all the parties and social gatherings we had.
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I liked thinking I had all the answers.
Yes, I enjoyed a brief amount of blissful ignorance.
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Do any jw pubs say "Due time has approached" ala Luke 21:8?
by Check_Your_Premises inluke 21:8.
8 he said: "look out that you are not misled; for many will come on the basis of my name, saying, i am he, and, the due time has approached.
just curious.
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Was looking through my posting history ... this was a great thread ... just had to BTTT it ...
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FINDING THE CORRECT TRANSLATION of Holy writings
by Terry inthis is an important topic.
which means, of course, it will be largely ignored!
mostly it will be ingored because it is deep.
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I have begun a little journey into the history of the scriptures, and have begun noticing many similar things to Terry - though I am not sure how to form what I am learning into text quite yet.
I guess the biggest thing I am learning is how many fragments of writings were put together and labeled as canoninical. (sp?)
The other thing I have been learning is that many OT books and NT books were not written by the names ascribed to them. For instance, the gospel accounts of Matthew, Mark, Luke and John were NOT written by Matthew Mark Luke & John. These names were added to these previously anonymous accounts because the church fathers figured this would give credence and authority to these accounts. On top of that, these conclusions regarding authorship are not guesswork - scholars and even many church scholars regard this as fact.
What is also interesting is other books of the bible that were considered canoninical clear up to the 3rd & 4th centuries and then were removed by the church fathers for a variety of reasons. What reasons? Some books gave way to much authority to women - and many of the early church fathers had a problem with women in positions of authority - even though Jesus never displayed sexist tendancies. There is substantial evidence that Pauls writings about "let a woman learn in silence with full submissiveness" was added to Paul's writings after the fact ... even "cut-and-pasted", as many of the ancient writings have these verses in different places than the current bible does, and in some places was added to documents later. There are other books that were removed for similar reasons - reasons that threatened their authority.
There are many writings by early church fathers (and others) from the 1st-3rd centuries that document in detail the formation of what is now known as the Bible. The politics of what was finally considered "orthodox" is both amazing & horrifying.
There is much the Society simply chooses to ignore - they prefer we think "the bible MUST be inspired!"
I am not much of a scholarly type, so some of the books from Bart Ehrman that explain it simply enough. He also provides pretty detailed bibliographies if you are the type that likes to research further.
Lost Scriptures: Books That Did Not Make It into the New Testament (Hardcover)
The Lost Christianities: The Battles for Scripture and the Faiths We Never Knew
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