Supposing transfusions became 100% safe tomorrow, how would they get around the fact that this should be irrelevant because they've always said they reject blood on religious and scriptural grounds and not for medical reasons?
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This is how the WTS can make BLOOD allowable and not loose members
by jwfacts ini was discussing with my auntie how in the 70's transplants were not allowed, and then in the 80's they were, and asked that since people died by not having a transplant what evidence this had of gods direction.
he answer enlightened me.
she said "transplants were dangerous in the 70's and so god was protecting his people from them.
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Why do JW's elders act like their failed predictions is no big deal?
by booker-t ini must admit after being an ex-jws for over 15 years now i still get fustrated at jw's elders when they act so non-chalant about the watchtower's prediction failures.
i was talking to a jw elder just the other day and he was trying to explain away that the society made errors in dates in the past but they are not "false prophets".
i was not even calling them false prophets he was the one that brought up the term.
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he told me that "false prophecies" (deut 18:20-22) is under the old testament law and christians are no longer under that law so JW's are not false prophets at all since they are not in old testament times
The part of that scripture that explains how to identify a false prophet isn't a law, it's just a fact - false prophets get things worng. That's the way it has always been and always will be. The law is the bit where it says what should be done with the false prophet. I would have agreed with him that the Old Testament law of throwing rocks at them is outdated, and asked if he had any objections to me following Jesus' advice to simply ignore them, found in the New Testament.
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The University of AWAKE
by stillajwexelder inthe university of awake
coldredrain must take all the credit for this phrase -it is a good one and deserves its own thread .
i have heard awake to the watchtower before.. are there any other good phrases you all can think of
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Feb KM - Jesus' ransom
by Bumble Bee inreflecting upon what the ransom means for us personally intensifies our heartfelt love for god and his son and motivates us to exert ourselves in doing god's will.gal.
gal 2:20 (nwt).
i am impaled along with christ.
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What do they mean by "a measure of faith"?????
It basically means "Okay that's a good start, but now to prove your faith properly you really need to be out there knocking on doors for us."
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Creatiolution. This could be the answer.
by Spectrum inthis is a continuation of a discussion i've had with abaddon.
we were at loggerheads in the beginning but i'm coming round to his way of thinking to a certain extent.
i still haven't given up my belief in an intelligent creator but at the same time there is evidence for evolution which cannot be discounted.
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I just watched an interesting video presentation by Dr. Bruce Lipton ("The New Biology") in which he shows how cells have the capability of selecting which of their genes will be put into action based on either their own perception of the outside environment or signals from the brain, and if necessary they are able to actually re-write their own DNA to suit the environment. The basic upshot was that genes and DNA are directly altered by perception, belief, and environmental factors - and that evolution (if indeed it happened that way) is anything other than a random process.
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Who's name are Christians persecuted for?
by NowImFree ini have had the following realization before, but it just hit me again last night.
i am reading this book called daughters of hope, it is about christians being persecuted around the world and their stories.
in reading this book last night, it hit me again, all these people were being persecuted and killed for the name of jesus, not jehovah.
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You're not the only one. I never really thought about that either, until you pointed it out just now. An interesting thought. If someone were out to persecute followers of Jesus, I wouldn't think JWs would be at the top of their hit list. Most people probably don't even realize that JWs are a Christian denomination to begin with.
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JUST HOW GULLIBLE ARE YOU? DO YOU LIKE IT THAT WAY?
by Terry infool me once; shame on you.... fool me twice; shame on me.. we've all heard that one before.
it implies that being fooled is everybody's susceptibility until more facts are presented which enable more critical thinking.. critical thinking is something you aren't born with.
it takes lots of practice.. and anything humans want to learn requires many tries.
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Yeah, I think I tend to be too trusting of others sometimes. When someone scams me though, I choose to see it as THEIR character flaw and not mine.
Like AlmostAtheist, I'm gradually learning to read between the lines and not confuse stated reasons with actual motivation.
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"Modern" Kingdom Melodies?
by drew sagan ini remember that in the km one month a while back there was mention of people who where recording kingdom melodies but making them sound more modern.
where can you find this stuff?
i'm sure it's a scream.
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"Life Without End, At Last" - http://www.latindimples.com/allenwagner/life_master.mp3
The Artist Formerly Known As Prince also did a version of this song, but it seems to have been removed from the site.
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Jesus condemns the wt
by Satanus injws always throw the challenge that no other religions preach door to door.
however, they forget what jesus said about feeding and clothing poor people.
many churches give away food, clothes, fridges, stoves, vouchers.
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Since the wt does not do this, discourages members from doing it, and criticises churches for doing it, what would jesus say to them?
But they do encourage it, very much so... as long as the phrase "the least of these my brothers" is taken as a reference to themselves.
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Hula-False Worship
by XBEHERE inwhen i was at bethel i had a co-worker who was from hawaii and we got into an argument once because i thought hula was false worship and he argued it was part of his culture.
i know i know.. i was mr. sr 15+ yrs ago.
anyway what do you think of this awake article, try to think like a jw while you read and note the highlighted areas.
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Yeah, it always amazed me how they could look at two similar modern customs with pagan origins and say that one ist verboten because it once had false reigious significance and isn't commanded in the Bible, and then declare the other to be okay because it no longer has false religious significance and the Bible doesn't forbid it specifically.
