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  Question re "I AM" in the gospels

  by BlackSwan of Memphis in

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  hey there:.

  the other day i was discussing the topic of the verse where jesus apparently uses the term i am in reference to himself.. this claim obviously referring to his being god.. i could swear that i have read somewhere that this term ego emi (sp) was used elsewhere in the nt by someone other than jesus.. i am wondering if anyone here would have any information on this topic.. thx in advance..

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  Thinking of becoming a Witness again and my reasons for doing so :(

  by reniaa in

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  2. experiences

  i've been a faded jw for 10 years i left because of my failed first marriage, i'm no hypocrite and realised i had left completely so i embraced the world and dived in, only christmas and birthdays i could not get into, they were too foreign to me having never celebrated them, like if i suddenly tried to do ramadan or something like that.. 1/ all the criticisms of the people in the truth you say on here, i've found in the world, warts and all only in the world nothing holds them back from being utterly horrible to you.. 2/ i got stabbed by a worldly boyfriend, i got married 2 times of my own choosing to men outside the truth, the first smoked and was an alcoholic, the second gambled every penny we had and defrauded me out of money after we separated, 2 divorces later i am currently pregnant and a single mum since current boyfriend decided kids was to much of a responsibility and he needed his freedom and i was 'too selfish to expect him to give up his life'.. 3/ parents-in-law!

  i have been shunned by them as equal to anything you accuse witness families of and for the silliest of reasons, i had a disabled son and his grandparents said they wanted nothing to do with him because they didn't want to become attached in case he died.. 4/ i miss the honest friendships of the truth, i had friends of all ages from 14 to 80 years old and they genuinely cared for me, many trying to keep me in the faith a long time after i left but i was determined to fade so moved away completely, but i find friendships in the world so shallow in comparison and very hard to sustain :( i've never been a drinker and sometimes thats what friendship means you being a companion for them to goto pub with.. 5/ my recent boyfriend was in a christian religion, i thought why not find out about it, harvest churches if you ever heard of them, unfortunately it still hasn't stop him leaving me pregnant and alone and when i said to him how does he clear that with god, he replies "as long as i repent it doesn't matter" it's like he has a "get out of jail free card" for any wrong-doing in the bible, this is so alien to me and my witness trained conscience.. 6/ i recently out of frustration tried looking into atheism and joined their forums, it wasn't fun, they are as bombastic and arrogant as their religious counterparts can be from any religion, they make a religion out of not believing in god, it's very weird they talk of saving people from believing in god and offer nothing to replace it.

  they said to me "be happy you are in reality now and enjoy it" and i thought "well if this is reality i've had enough of it".

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  Are JWs chronic liars?

  by Kristofer in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  it's been about a year since i've been on this board.

  and what brought me here was me (a non-jw) seeing a jw girl.

  i've been out of this situation for a while now.

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  Maybe There's a Heaven...

  by LittleToe in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i don't often open up discussions on my beliefs or experiences in life, but i feel a need, so please excuse me if you feel it untoward.

  neither is this a poxy swan-song, i'm just opening up my heart a little.. today i had cause to reflect on a conversation i had with my [now ex-]wife shortly after my epithany.

  everything was so new and unknown.

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  Christian Love

  by youcanhaveago in

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  2. beliefs

  ok this is the first thread i have ever started.. .

  i have decided to live my life on one premise .

  basically that jesus christ said that he had one commandment - love one another .. .

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  If the Apostles "expected" Jesus to return in the first century is that fp?

  by booker-t in

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  2. friends

  what is the "difference" between what early christians and biblical prophets did in expecting jesus to return in the 1st century and what jw's have done for over 100 years of false expectations?

  i am in no way trying to excuse jw's and their false prophecies but why is it so different when born-agains and other christians set a date for something but when it fails no body says one word about it.

  but when jw's and mormons do the same thing all hell breaks loose.

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  NWT inserting Jehovah in the NT (discussing the "J" references)

  by AuldSoul in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  i wrote most of this in response to drew sagan, in a thread that wasn't really about this issue.

  when i read back over it, i figured it need a thread of its own.. the first part of the puzzle is in appendix 1d of the nwt reference bible.

  they list all "237 places where the name jehovah occurs in the main text of the new world translation of the christian greek scriptures.

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  Is their a religion that matches our biblical knowledge and experience?

  by JH in

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  2. friends

  after spending years with the witnesses, and the knowledge we have now, is there a religion that matches our biblical knowledge and experience?.

  i think that we are way beyond any religion that exists, and that's why we stay out of religion today..

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  Italian Nun Murdered; Possible Link to Pope's Remarks

  by Kenneson in

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  in somalia, gunmen shot to death an italian nun, who worked in a hospital which serves mothers and children.

  this came only hours after a leading cleric condemned pope benedict for his remarks on islam and violence.

  some think there may be a connection.

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  Hi!

  by sarahbear76 in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  so i just registered and i thought i should say something about myself instead of just lurking about.

  i'm 21 years old and i left the the jw's when i was 18. i was born into the religion so it's been really hard getting use to things.

  my story is pretty complicated and for some safety reasons i can't say to much.

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