Kosonen:
Covid passes are imposed in even more countries.
This clearly is tied to Revelation 13:2
🤦♂️ No. Just… no.
Posts by Jeffro
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36Could end of November be special?
by Kosonen indid you know that noah entered the ark in the end part of november and also that jesus' followers flead jerusalem around 25th of november 66ce?.
could it be that a significant group of jehovah's witnesses would begin to flee to the "wilderness" in the end of november?
revelation 12 speaks about a flight of a symbolic woman to a wilderness.
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Could end of November be special?
by Kosonen indid you know that noah entered the ark in the end part of november and also that jesus' followers flead jerusalem around 25th of november 66ce?.
could it be that a significant group of jehovah's witnesses would begin to flee to the "wilderness" in the end of november?
revelation 12 speaks about a flight of a symbolic woman to a wilderness.
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Jeffro
Kosonen:
The second month is November, because the first month by then was October. So the the flood begun the 17th of November. Give or take a few days because we don't know how exactly days in the ancient calendar corresponds with today's.
The story of Noah’s ark is a myth so no precise dating can be established for that ‘event’, but it’s derived from a Babylonian myth and their calendar had about 354 or 384 days per year (plus or minus a day in various years) depending on the place in the cycle, at the time based on astronomical observations. The myth was most likely introduced to the Jews during the Babylonian captivity. The second month in the Babylonian calendar (Aru) was Iyar in the Hebrew calendar (basically corresponding to May but generally starting in late April) and there is no basis for asserting the story uses the Hebrew civil calendar (in the earlier Hebrew calendar, the “second month” was Ziv, also equivalent to Iyar), which would place the start of the fictitious flood in the second or third week of May. Relevance to November this year is zero. -
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Anyone have an obvious gay or lesbian in the congregation?
by mickbobcat inwhen i was a kid we had a kh with a basement and this guy joe winestien lived in it.
he has passed away i believe.
he was about 24 and used to hang around the young boys.
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mickbobcat:
I asked my GF who was an elder at the time
Huh?
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Ezekiel's Temple Vision Changed
by IWant2Leave init was nauseating to listen to the book study the past week on zoom.
old timers, and elders who have served for decades took the change of the vision in ezekiel chapter 40 thru 48 without blinking an eye.
just drank it down.
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Those members who passed away
by Gorb inwho of those passed away jwd/jwn members, do we think of??.
oompah and the lady from australia, are there more??.
g..
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Black Sheep:
I forget her user name. As she got older she was forgetting her password and needed our help logging in, so I hope she will forgive me for forgetting her user name.
Do you mean "mouthy"?
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JWs are bigger and more successful than the Mormon church
by joe134cd injust saw the following you tube video.
it’s 3 hours long, but thoroughly interesting.
if you want to save yourself 3 hours, basically the active mormon church is about 3 million.
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Jeffro
LV101:
It's impressive but as far as I know some strange beliefs - probably not more so than WT but I don't know. I'd assumed they were similar to JW religion
JWs is an offshoot from Adventism (parallel development to the SDAs in the late 19th century, both based on Millerism). Though their beliefs have diverged in various areas, their core eschatology, including their interpretations of Daniel, is Adventism.
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JWs are bigger and more successful than the Mormon church
by joe134cd injust saw the following you tube video.
it’s 3 hours long, but thoroughly interesting.
if you want to save yourself 3 hours, basically the active mormon church is about 3 million.
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Jeffro
LV101:
SDA's have been leading the pack for few yrs. now.
More than a few. The memberships were similar until something happened to the JW membership around 1975. I wonder what that could have been? 😂
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JWs are bigger and more successful than the Mormon church
by joe134cd injust saw the following you tube video.
it’s 3 hours long, but thoroughly interesting.
if you want to save yourself 3 hours, basically the active mormon church is about 3 million.
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Jeffro
Slimboyfat:
Even with that, JW Memorial attendance is similar to Adventist membership numbers at around the 20 million mark, which may be a fairer comparison than the stricter JW “publisher” count.
JW memorial attendance includes people who go along to be polite, to avoid being shunned, or to otherwise keep the peace, so I’m not sure it’s necessarily a great comparison with the ostensibly similar figures for SDAs, where the 20 million refers to baptised members.
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JWs are bigger and more successful than the Mormon church
by joe134cd injust saw the following you tube video.
it’s 3 hours long, but thoroughly interesting.
if you want to save yourself 3 hours, basically the active mormon church is about 3 million.
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Jeffro
And JWs are significantly smaller than Seventh day Adventists
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New Approach to Discussing Deity of Christ with JW's
by Sea Breeze in5:27; 9:59; 18:22; jn.
9:48; [21:8]; 24:47; jn.
21:12, 17;] jn.
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Jeffro
Scholarly consensus around the life of Jesus is fairly thin, and the only strong scholarly agreement is that he was baptised by John, was an itinerant preacher of some description, and was executed by the Romans. There is no broad scholarly agreement for the 'resurrection' or any other of the anecdotes about Jesus in the 'gospels'.
Proponents of stories about Jesus (and other biblical tales) like to cite things like 'the criterion of embarrassment' - the idea that stories that include negative details are more likely to be true because invented stories would (supposedly) paint characters in the best possible light. However, this fails because it is readily apparent that a writer could include such details in their stories for exactly that reason.