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  2008 Keep Yourselves In God's Love--PDF!

  by Atlantis in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  2008 keep yourselves in god's love--pdf!

  bookmarked searchable reduced to 2.4-mb from (anonymous-5) please note the "appendix" of this book!

  click the link at the bottom of the next page.

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  bennyk

  This is rich!

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  At times, we are called upon to withdraw our fellowship from one who has been a member of the congregation. This situation arises when an individual who unrepentantly violates God's law is disfellowshipped or when one rejects the faith by teaching false doctrine or by disassociating himself from the congregation. God's Word plainly tells us to "quit mixing in company" with such ones. * ( 1 Corinthians 5:11-13 ; 2 John 9-11 ) It may be a real challenge to avoid someone who had perhaps been a friend or who is related to us. Will we take a firm stand, thereby showing that we put loyalty to Jehovah and his righteous laws above all else? Remember that Jehovah places a high value on loyalty and obedience.

  Chapter 3

  Let's see now. I "quit mixing in company" with (i.e. 'withdrew fellowship' from) the Watch Tower Society when they were teaching that the Resurrection began in 1918, and the "heavenly calling" had closed in 1935, and the Governing Body serves as representative of the "Faithful and Discreet Slave Class" (supposedly appointed by Christ over all His earthly belongings).

  Whew. According to the Society's own most recent publication, it is they who'd rejected the faith. "I done good."
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  State Truthful Facts About JWs That Make Them Look Bad, Weird, Foolish

  by minimus in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  you don't need to exaggerate the foibles of jws to get the point across that they are not "the truth".

  can you state some facts that show that jehovah's witnesses are not "normal' and that their religion is weird and simply abnormal?.

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  bennyk

  How about the fact that they refer to their religion as "The TRUTH"...
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  News Flash !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  by TooBad TooSad in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  my wife excitedly told me that she talked to the wife of an elder that just came back from.

  the special training for elders in upper state new york and that the elders are being told .

  to go back to their congregations and to get them ready for the great tribulation.. i said to her that is great news !!!!

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  bennyk

  Please forgive me for shamelessly plugging my own old thread:

  http://www.jehovahs-witness.com/12/118225/1.ashx ("Deliverance at Hand!!!!!!!")
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  Letter to My Mother--FINAL!--After 2yrs3mos--Incomprehensibly Long...

  by Confession in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  [2 john 9 11, nwt].

  [john 14:6, nwt] .

  [john 14:6, nwt] .

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  bennyk

  Great letter! When you discuss the matter of idolizing the Organisation, you might find these useful to include:

  “As Christians, we face up to similar challenges today. We cannot take part in any modern version of idolatry-be it worshipful gestures toward an image or symbol or the imputing of salvation to a person or an organization. (WT 01.Nov. 1990, p.26)

  “But if we were to draw away from Jehovah’s organization, there would be no place else to go for salvation and true joy. (Compare John 6:66-69.)” (WT 15. Sept. 1993, p.22)
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  Should the Name Jehovah Appear in the New Testament?

  by hamilcarr in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  this is the title of an article from the august 1st issue of the watchtower (public edition).. it can be downloaded from http://www.jw.org/index.xjp?option=qryqzrqvnznt but is not yet available in print.. the absence of the divine name in nt manuscripts is vaguely described so as not to confuse the average jw reader.

  the opening paragraph even gives the uninformed reader the impression that some of those nasty non-jw translators deliberately chose to omit the divine name.

  bible scholars acknowledge that god's personal name appears in the old testament or hebrew scriptures.

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  bennyk

  narkissos writes:

  The NWT follows this (NT Greek) text for the OT quotations, except for the "divine name".

  (Largely, but not always true.)

  The Watch Tower Society admitted to altering the New Testament. The Foreword of the 1981 Englisch Edition of the New World Translation states on page 6:

  "An effort was put forth to bring about even greater consistency in the renderings of the related parts of the Holy Scriptures, such as in harmonizing with the original Hebrew readings the readings of quotations made in the Christian Greek Scriptures."

  The NWT policy exists despite the fact that such quotations are often demonstrably taken verbatim from the Septuaginta -- NOT from the Hebrew text of the Old Testament.
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  ARE YOU AN INTELLECTUAL? Why not?

  by Terry in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i think i heard the word "intellectual" for the first time when i was less than ten years old.. my grandmother said to me that the presidential candidate for the democratic party (adalai stevenson) was an "intellectual".. the way she said the word...the timbre of her voice...the look of admiration on her face...led me to believe this was a good thing indeed!.

  i think i may have asked her what the word meant, but, i don't recall exactly what she told me.

  perhaps enough to confirm that this fellow stevenson was a "thinker" of admirable stature.. fast forward.. by the time my teen years came along there was a kind of dichotomy in society between so-called "eggheads" and common folk.

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  bennyk

  HS

  Greetings!

  "Ich will einst bei Ja und Nein!
  Vor dem Zapfen sterben.
  Mit mir soll des Fasses Rest
  in der Gruft verderben.
  Engelschöre weihen dann
  mich zum Nektarerben:
  Diesem Trinker gnade Gott!
  Laß ihn nicht verderben!"
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  How Did You Deal With Weirdo Witnesses?

  by minimus in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i know that some believe all jws are "weird".

  but i'm not talking about that.. there are some real weird witnesses!

  you know, the ones everyone had in their hall that everyone talked about or laughed at.. we had one 25 year old man who was pioneering and he used to go out to literally every neighborhood in the city.

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  bennyk

  I really started thinking either he had a woman in there or a dead body.

  Or both!!! They're not mutually exclusive, y' know...
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  WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU?

  by V in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  just another interesting comment i have received on the watchtower comments youtube channel.

  feel free to deconstruct.... .

  what is wrong with you?

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  bennyk

  Unfortunately, V's e-friend seems not to have understood that (if the WTS' current doctrine be correct) the Society promulgated false doctrine (in God's name, no less) for the past seventy years...
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  Albert Schroeder Life Story - interesting read

  by still_in74 in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  i thought this was an interesting article, lots of rutherford and knorr quotes.

  life of albert schroeder in the org.

  i remember meeting albert schroeder about 15 years ago.

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  bennyk

  We began our pioneer service before we were baptized because at that time it was not clearly understood whether those with the earthly hope needed to be baptized or not. However, after I was baptized in Vandercook Lake, Michigan, July 24, 1932, it became evident that my hope had changed to that of an anointed one, which was confirmed by the ‘witness of the spirit.’—Romans 8:16.

  Hmmm.

  If memory serves, the WTS claimed in print that they didn't begin to baptize "Other Sheep" until 1934...
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  The anointed.

  by alexb123 in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  my friend was telling me that the generation of anointed alive in 1914 now includes their children.

  i thought that the anointed were not meant to have sex.

  am i right or wrong?

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  bennyk

  (Revelation is supposed to be totally symbolic.)

  Except, of course, for the number 144 000.