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Who will be resurrected according to the WTS?
by M.J. in
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2. beliefs
i was wondering what the wts's stand is on who will be resurrected into the "new system".

because of the assertion that people have been "freed from sin" upon their death, shouldn't just about all people who ever lived deserve a resurrection?.

the only ones who won't be resurrected, according to the wts, are those who commit the unforgiveable sin:*** g75 10/22 p. 12 how can you benefit from this hope?
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Revelation 12:1
by Honesty in
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2. bible
who is this woman?.

rev 12:1-5 a great sign appeared in heaven: a woman clothed with the sun, with the moon under her feet, and a crown of 12 stars on her head.

she was pregnant and cried out in labor and agony to give birth.
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Pre Armageddon Preparation.
by Clam in
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2. beliefs
are there jws who prepare for the tribulations they assume are around the corner?

when i visted the us once in 1999 i met a few guys who were expecting a global meltdown due to the millenium bug.. as a consequence they had generators, guns, ammo, tins of food, bottled water, fuel, all kinds of stuff to help them through a civil disorder situation.

does anyone know or remember any jws who have prepared like this?
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Who was Jesus really?
by Spectrum in
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2. bible
1. was he the son of god and some kind of god himself?

2. was he an extremely intelligent man that manipulated people and made himself appear to be fullfilling the prophecies about the messiah?

3. was he a dellusional nutter?
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Building Kingdom Halls; Destroying Lives
by freedomfu in
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2. beliefs
this church wasn't built in a day ...

it took almost a weekby rich brown.

globe staff writer1/7/06.
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If you were God, would you want to be worshipped?
by rebel8 in
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2. beliefs
if i was the god of the bible, i think my priorities would be to set the ground rules of life and manage the planet, ensuring life is good.

i cannot envision any reason to desire worship.

appreciation, yes.
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I'm new here and have lots of questions
by jaada in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
hello, i am new to this board, i am not a jehovahs witness however i studied with them for years, i went out into service a couple of times, but i havent done anything in 4 years.

i am so confused.

i always have been scared of the last days thing, but i could never accept the fact that while i was in the meetings, my husband and parents were all at home and the witnesses would tell me that unless they changed and started coming to the meetings that they would be killed!
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When kingdom come
by Jake99 in
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2. beliefs
christ will have been among this world, and yet not of this world, under a veil of secrecy, in a world of hypocricy.

a child like no other, in a bubble, with a suit of armor, direct from the mountain and born in its peaks.

rich beyond belief from the start, as if armed for bear, in the body of a lion in a world of lesser men.
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Does God care for people in India and China?
by JH in
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2. friends
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if only witnesses have the truth and only them will be saved, i guess that god doesn't care much for people in india and china (who represent together about half of the world's population).. out of the 2.5 billion people in both countries combined, how many witnesses can there be?.

a rough guess: 1 witness per 100,000 population
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In "The Truth"?
by rockhound in
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2. beliefs
while at assemblies we would often see friends" in the truth", and one of the questions they would almost always ask is, are your kids still "in the truth"?

it seemed the thing to ask, with so many falling away from" the truth".

reflecting on that expression "in the truth" i think that most witneses feel as i did, that the watchtower had pretty much cornered the market on "truth" from god's word, hence the feeling that if we stayed close the the watchtower organization, we without doubt had,or were in, or were closely associated with "the truth" .