just noticed that in the february 2010 study edition of the watchtower, they refer to the "millions now living will never die" talk in 1918, but they have changed the title to "millions now living may never die".
only problem, they included the picture of the invitation to the talk, which says 'will'.. ooops.
it's on page 16. enjoy.. .
Funny... But I do have to say that this "word play" has been totally lost in the Norwegian translation. Here the public talk has been translated with the word for "shall" (there's really no easy translation of "may" in this context).
So if this was really a deliberate "so that it can't be said that we were totally wrong" replacement of this word, it may very well be totally lost in translation...
ok, so out of boredom and curiosity, i have unleashed the new.
dvd "the wonders of creation reveal god's glory" on the.
unsuspecting public!.
Thank you!
But it seems to me as if part 4 should have been part 12? And the end of part 5 is the same as the beginning of part 9... or am I totally confused here?
I've seen the first three parts, and I must say that this was surely made for them who are already convinced.
And what normal 12-year-old (or something), when telling his father what he remembered from last year's vacation, would say "the sunsets"???
2008 keep yourselves in god's love--pdf!
bookmarked searchable reduced to 2.4-mb from (anonymous-5) please note the "appendix" of this book!
click the link at the bottom of the next page.
are jw's allowed to have blood drawn for testing purposes?
it would seem hypocritical to me if they think blood should be poured out on the ground and they allow someone to draw blood from their body.
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Are JW's allowed to have blood drawn for testing purposes? It would seem hypocritical to me if they think blood should be poured out on the ground and they allow someone to draw blood from their body.
A few weeks ago, I would say "of course"!
But then someone uploaded a scan from the appendix of the new book "Keep Yourselves in God's Love" (page 216-217):
When making decisions about these procedures, ask yourself: 'If some of my blood will be diverted outside my body and the flow might even be interrupted for a time, will my conscience allow me to view this blood as still part of me, thus not requiring that i be "[poured] out upon the ground"? (Deuteronomy 12:23, 24) Would my Bible-trained conscience be troubled if during a medical procedure some of my own blood was withdrawn, modified, and directed back into my body? Am I aware that refusing all medical procedures involving the use of my own blood means that I would not accept a blood test, hemodialysis, or a heart-lung bypass machine?'
So, now I'm not sure anymore. It's suddenly a conscience matter?
Sorry for the double posting there...
Thank you Aurelius. So it appears as if their "mechanical skilled" people got rid of absolutely all the brackets. Even the legitimate one(s).
Funny.
But in some time, a few years from now, I guess that all witnesses have forgotten about the brackets, and also the somewhat missing brackets from other translations. And they will read "other" as if it has always been a part of the original scripture (Satan's people have taken the word out of the other translations!).
And never again will there be any questions about what the brackets mean.
Problem solved...
Doupting Bro: FYI - I have one of the 2006 paperback printing NWTs and it has removed all the brackets including the scripture in question. I leafed through it yesterday and I don't see anything notifying the reader of the change. Actually, I'm suprised they didn't do that a long time ago. So much for being "the most well respected translation".
I started a thread a while ago about the missing brackets in the Norwegian NWT: http://www.jehovahs-witness.com/10/153243/1.ashx
In this post i found brackets in Mathew 23:5.
Will you please check the same scripture in your new English 2006 printing?
i've mentioned this before but recent events make it's repetition relevant: what we are witnessing in the organization is a world-wide repeat.
of history, specifically, the story of the "half way covenant".
you see, once upon a time, you had a bunch of obnoxious religious fanatics who ate turkey with the 'injuns' , wore funny hats with buckles.
