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  What was Pastor Russell really like?

  by Doug Mason in

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  2. bible

  what was charles taze russell really like?

  he is often held in contrast to his brusque, domineering, and rude successor, j f rutherford.

  was ctr, the philanthropist who poured his fortune into the movement he founded, the pure democrat, a contrast to the dictatorial jfr?.

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  What did 539 AD mean to Russell?

  by glenster in

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  2. beliefs

  i've been writing down russell's chronology (no, i don't believe a word of it).

  he had 539 ad to 1799 ad as 1,260 "days.

  " 1799 ad (the pope had to go to napolean; the ability for the papacy to persecute was waning) to 1914 ad was the end times period.

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  ?? WTF** New BBC show to air claims Jesus tomb has been found

  by skyking in

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  2. scandals

  a new bbc documentary, producer cameron and his director, simcha jacobovici, make the starting claim that jesus wasn't resurrected they found ten tombs with the inscriptions names jesua, son of joseph, mary, mary, mathew, jofa and judah, son of jesua.

  plus evidence through dna tests prove the tombs are jesus and his extended family.

  the show will soon air and no doubt cause a s### storm.. here is the link when you get to the page scroll down to the third article http://time-blog.com/middle_east/.

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  We do not disfellowship someone who disapproves of the WTS

  by onacruse in

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  2. beliefs

  if others see it in a different way, that is their privilege.

  certainly no fair-minded person would deny that they had the privilege thus to do.

  would not that privilege be theirs?

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  Wikipedia objectivity objected to by a Charles Taze Russell fan

  by glenster in

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  2. scandals

  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/wikipedia:requests_for_comment/pastorrussell.

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  trumpet blasts of Revelation

  by Cellist in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  when they did the "corrections" to the revelation - grand climax book, did they straighten out the order of the trumpets?

  i actually never noticed while we were studying the book that a few of the trumpeters were antsy and sounded their trumpets prematurely.

  it was a qfr that alerted us to another thing wrong with their interpretation.

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  What is Gnosticism and why do Christians dislike it ?

  by 5go in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  aside from the fact that gnosis is greek for knowledge.

  two things christians seem to dislike greeks(think animal house) and knowledge (other than knowledge of the christ of course).

  seeing as they practice a form of it anyway.. gnostics believe that they have secret knowledge about god, humanity and the rest of the universe of which the general population was unaware.

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  JW "gods" and Isaiah/John

  by glenster in

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  2. beliefs

  does anyone have some information about the view of there being only one god and no "gods" to the jewish people of the 2nd temple period?

  one part of the article i'm working on compares the mainstream historical and jw views of jesus and the holy spirit.

  part of it so far, in one section, has this for the jw view:.

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  Holy healing hankies

  by glenster in

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  2. bible

  i'm sorry if this has been covered before--i'm new here.. does anyone have anything to corroborate the claim that russell used healing handkerchiefs?

  (i read the page in which he basically implies that if you donate money to him you're less likely to get sick.).

  i'm researching jw history for some articles i want to put on my freewebs site.

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  To: Barbara Anderson -- Re: First WatchTower President

  by West70 in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i am primarily posting this to barbara anderson, but obviously everyone is welcome to correct or comment on my remarks as they see fit.

  mrs. anderson, i realize that trying to cover all bases in your pending russell bio would be impossible, but i do hope that you will be able to include a section on the first president of the watch tower society, william h. conley.

  i hope that you have had a chance to research conley with some degree of thoroughness, so as to dispel some of the half-truths that some bible students and jws try to promote (such as that conley's age and health caused his inactivity with russell after 1881).

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