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  What do you believe now?

  by NowImFree in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i have been out of the jws officially for over 3 years now, since disassociating.

  after researching the history of the organization and reading the bible (without) the watchtower, i am now a christian.

  i am just curious what happens to most ex-jws as far as their beliefs go, after they leave the organization.

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  LETTER I got from somebody who read my story on FREE MINDS

  by Terry in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  to: [email protected].

  sent: sat, 14 jan 2006 08:44:47 -0800 (pst).

  subject: your article on freeminds.

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  The other sheep: Looking for an apologist to offer an explanation

  by IP_SEC in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  a verse constantly plucked from context by witnesses is john 10:16. they use it to prove that there are two classes of christian.. and i have other sheep i have other sheep, which are not of this fold: those also i must bring and they will listen to my voice, and they will become one flock, one shepherd.. the this fold say witnesses are anointed christians and the other sheep are christians with an earthly hope.. read the text carefully and in context, and i challenge anyone to be able to prove that.. in chapter 9 jesus heals a man born blind.

  this infuriates the pharisees who then attack the healed man and threaten him with being expelled from the synagogue.

  the man will not recant and is thrown out.. jesus finds him and asks him to be his follower.

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  What does "born again" mean?

  by Country Girl in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  to most of the people on here, the term "born again" reminds them of fanatical christians who try to impose their beliefs on all other people, have an agenda (which is sometimes co-mixed with politics), and want to convert the rest of the world.

  to me, born again is of a different nature.

  it's different from my understanding of it as a jehovah's witness, and it's different from my understanding of it as a baptist.

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  BIG NEWS I recieved my pamphlet WOW

  by skyman in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  the baylor university has a potential time bomb for the society all i can say is wow i can see how now.

  you better get a copy.

  use this link and get you a copy http://www3.baylor.edu/church_state/ordering_publications.htm

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  a look to Isaiah.

  by mdb in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  thus says the lord [yhwh], the king of israel,.

  and his redeemer, the lord [yhwh] of hosts:.

  besides me there is no god.. isaiah 44:6. how many persons are speaking in isaiah 44:6?

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  "Misquoting Jesus" - New Book by Ehrman

  by sir82 in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  this book was just published in the last month or so, i'm about 1/2 of the way through it.. the author describes the difficulty in discerning what exactly really were the original, right-from-the-pen words of the original writers of the new testament.

  basically, the oldest surviving manuscripts were written decades, in some cases centuries, after the originals.

  all copies were made by hand by untrained amateur copyists for the first 3 centuries after the books were written (until professional scribes started copying).. by comparing the thousands of ancient hand-copied manuscripts that still exist, there have been found anywhere from 200,000 to 400,000 distinct errors in the copying process.

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  Death and Destruction

  by NowImFree in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  i'm new to this board, only my second time posting, and i have been out of the organization officially since i disassociated about 3 years ago.

  i have seen so many bad things in my time as a witness, my disfellowshipped oldest brother committed suicide, prior to that he was terribly shunned by my family, my other brother and sister didn't talk to him for probably 10 years.

  two children in my family have been molested by the sons of jw elders in two u.s. states and in both cases the parents were told to not go to the police.

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  Here it is: my da letter

  by BlackSwan of Memphis in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  i sent it out nov 14. my bday.

  thought that i would finally share it with you guys.

  in the end, that story is just not that important now.

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  Scriptures to make a JW think?

  by AlmostAtheist in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i'm looking for scriptures that you believe a doubting jw would read that would cause them to think a bit.

  i have four in mind now: .

  'do not go beyond the things that are written.

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