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  Was 587B.C. the first destruction of jerusalem?

  by compton in

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  all the footnotes in most bibles point to this date, as the final fall of jerusalem.

  if this is the correct,this date means this is when the 2,520 days of years commenced.

  in daniel chapter 4.the seven times.

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  what does the watchtower teach that is right.

  by jerome in

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  so you dont have to say it.

  could you please bear with me for a second here.. this organisation cant be all bad even though overall it is.. .

  most of you may reluctantly hold the opinion that every thing the watchtower currently teaches isnt all bad so could you please give your honest opinions as to what you think is good about the org.. so what is there that can be said about it and its teachings that is good.. especially about prophecy.

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  Why Do JW Leave and Want Nothing to Do With God

  by castlelover in

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  i find reading this information from different individuals that being a jw and then leaving has people not wanting anything to do with god.

  did god tell us to become members of a cult?

  i think it is a form of programming that is given over and over that we would be like a dog returning to its vomit.

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  Can you answer this please?

  by sleepy in

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  yesturday my wife bumped into one of our former friends from the hall.. she tried to discuss a few points with him but as she hasn't done much research herself was a bit stuck when he told her that the reason the society dates the fall of babylon to 607 was because the jews were in captivity for 70 years which working back from 537 you come to 607.. i tried to explain to her that the bible does not specifically say the jews would be in captivity for 70 years but that in daniel it talks of the devestaions of jerusalem ,which could mean it rulership by babylon which started before they were taken captive.. beside that isn't it true that people were left over in jerusalem and only the elite taken?.

  anyway at the end of 2 chronicals particually verse 21 it talks of the land laying desolate 70 years this would sujest that the 70 years maybe did refer to the desrution of jerusalem.. can anyone point me in the right direction on this?.

  by the way this has no bearing on what i think just my wife as i don't believe the bible to be the word of god anyway, and there are far bigger problems with the witnesses time prophecies , i just need to show from the bible it is wrong as that is the only source of authority for some people.

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  Is 1914 date flawed?

  by badboy in

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  reasoning from the scriptures says on pp95-97 that months consist of 30 days.. years therefore would be 360 days long.. i have calcaluted(sic)that for every year in the `western'calender such a 360 day calender would fall 4/5 days depending on whether it was a leapyear or not.

  now over a period of 2520 years,a 360 day calender would be 9,940 days behind a 364/5 day calender(25 years!

  ) therefore 2520 years according to book of daniel would fall in 1889!.

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  The new Jehovah's Witnesses

  by compton in

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  do you want to know who the new witnesses will be, they don't even know themselves yet ?.

  read all of chapter ezekiel 38 and psalm 83.

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  The "humble" man Rutherford

  by Norm in

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  the watchtower society must indeed suffer from a severe lack of humble people.. in their search for an example of humility and humbleness they actually name their second president, j. f. rutherford, a man still known for his complete lack of anything resembling humility.

  hoping for the usual total ignorance among the r&f the watchtower wrote this:.

  *** w93 2/1 19 what godly subjection requires of us ***.

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  Russell quotes

  by larc in

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  my local library has the studies in the scriptures by russell.

  here are a few quotes for vol.

  2, 1906 edition.. 1872. six thousand years from the creation of adam were complete in a.d. 1872, and hence that since a.d. 1872, we chronologically entered upon the seventh thousand or the millenium.".

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  Archaeology vs WBTS ( who build the pyramids?)

  by bj in

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  in my book of bible stories (1978), chapter 27, the wbts give the impression to readers, that israelites, participated in building egyptian pyramids.

  also, the watchtower - november 15, 1987, page 30, raises the two following questions: "do the pyramids of giza (near modern cairo) bring to mind abused slaves toiling under hot sun to drag huge stones into place?

  and do you imagine hebrew slaves among them?

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  Jacob fights with Jehovah for blessing!

  by AIRVIEW1 in

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  in genesis 32 jacob gets into a wrestling match with the angel of jehova.

  when the angel told jacob to let him go, jacob's response was, "i will let you if you will bless me".

  jacob decided to fight the angel for his blessing and they go at it all night!

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