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  Why did Satan tempt Eve with a talking snake when he could have materialised as another human to tempt her ?

  by smiddy in

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  2. bible

  since the angels that followed satan could take on human form and even have sex and bear offspring to females of earth why would satan not have used this avenue instead of talking through a snake .?

  which really makes no common sense ?.

  why wouldnt eve question how a snake could talk?

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  smiddy

  StudyBuddy , you do have an imagination I`ll give you that

  .However you fall into the same trap that all believers do ,instead of taking the scriptures on face value for what it actually states you endeavour to interpret what the scriptures mean according to your own understanding of things .

  In other words you dont believe GOD can convey with words what he really means You have to decipher his meaning for us,

  Is your GOD that stupid he cant say in words what he really means ? or do you think he doesnt mean what he actually says.?

  Which is it ?

  Welcome to the forum Studybuddy and dont take offence at my response to your post.
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  4000 places of Abuse says the Australian Royal Commission on track to deliver its final report on Dec.15

  by smiddy in

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  2. child-abuse

  according to an article in the herald sun tues.march 28 2017 ,australian children were abused in more than 4000 institutions new data by the child abuse royal commission has revealed.. male clergy were most commonly perpertrators of the abuse followed by teachers and residential care workers while boys aged 10-14 were the most common victims.. the arc started its 57th and final case study yesterday ,chair justice peter mcclellan confirmed that after four years the $500 million commission was on track to deliver its final report on december the 15th (2017).

  "survivors have waited too long for an effective response to their suffering and the future protection of australian children must be given the highest priority "he said.. end of article..

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  According to an Article in the Herald Sun Tues.March 28 2017 ,Australian children were abused in more than 4000 institutions new data by the child abuse royal commission has revealed.

  Male clergy were most commonly perpertrators of the abuse followed by teachers and residential care workers while boys aged 10-14 were the most common victims.

  The ARC started its 57th and final case study yesterday ,chair justice Peter McClellan confirmed that after four years the $500 million commission was on track to deliver its final report on December the 15th (2017)

  "Survivors have waited too long for an effective response to their suffering and the future protection of Australian children must be given the highest priority "he said.

  End of article.
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  Aren't you a bit amazed that the WTS/JWS is still around ?

  by Finkelstein in

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  2. beliefs

  i know i am, to me its a bit of a peculiar anomaly that the wts is still around and functioning in reflection of its decades and now complete century that the wts has been bullshitting to people .

  organizations like the church of god have shrunk dramatically from its heyday of the 1980's, this too was another organization that spread and grew by publishing its own magazine proclaiming a armageddon soon doctrine and its main publication was called " the truth " .

  i'm guessing some of this has to do with the fact that people who get lured into this cult aren't aware of its past, its doctrines, the people who started it and so forth.

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  No i`m not because of the many reasons already noted about the WWCOG ,Adventism ,Mormons ,even the Berean Bible Institute Inc. that a then P.O told me in the early 1960`s that they were an offshoot of C.T Russell`s teachings with their HQ in Rosanna Vic.Australia they still advertise in the Readers Digest.( how true or not what he said I dont know)

  E.G. : "Israel and the Middle East" "After Armageddon Gods Kingdom" Free booklet and DVD is offered .

  The very fact that the JW leadership can re-write their own history and the R&F dont give a stuff doesnt say much for their integrity for the truth does it .
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  Watchtower today

  by Gorbatchov in

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  2. friends

  today a main point in the wt was a guess game.. the study elder asked: .

  what's wrong on the picture?.

  before i share the local conclusions here, i would like to hear the comments made in your congregation 😎.

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  Tight pants and haicuts that are worldly on the two bros.on the right.And the two righteous bros on the left dont want anything to do with those on the right they are weak and bad associations,
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  Atheism would not appeared if …

  by venus in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  · if religions were immune to division.

  · if scriptures were immune to scientific errors.

  · if religious leaders were immune to hypocrisy.

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  Atheism has appeared simply because no GOD has ever come out to defend himself/herself against unbelievers.

  Their are over 40,000 christian sects that claim to believe in GOD/JESUS many of which claim to be the truth

  Most of which contradict each other over doctrines and interpretations of what the scriptures actually say or mean.

  Apart from that their are thousands of non Christian religions that promote myriads of GODS to their believers from all over the world.

  And this is not something that has just sprung up in just this last Century it has been ongoing for many centuries past.Thousands of years.

  Where has GOD been all this time ? Why has he/she not stepped in to defend itself ? against all this negativity agaist its existence ?

  GOD -SILENCE

  This is why ATHEISM exists.
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  Women are a "stack of bones and a hank of hair" - J.F. Rutherford

  by krismalone in

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  2. bible

  i have heard rumors and anecdotes of j.f.

  rutherford calling women "a hank of hair and a stack of bones" but i never thought it was documented.

  well thanks to jwfacts i finally found the quote in print.. this j.f.

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  What amazes me is the amount of women who embraced this cult in those early years with statements like these .
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  JW.Org claims they have fullfilled Jesus command to preach in all the inhabited earth.Have they really done that ? I dont think so.

  by smiddy in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  apart from the fact that they have mainly followed in the footsteps of christendom before them what virgin territories have they ever gone to that christendom before them has not gone to .

  i would think none.. how many lands ,countrys ,are their that they have never made any significant inroads into ?.

  we are not talking about token service in any of these countrys in major cities , but a real door to door witness to every individual householder that gets it every few months as in western lands.. some that i can think of : north korea ,mainland china , bangladesh ,india , pakistan , jordan , israel , iran , syria ,burma ( sorry cant think of the new name ).

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  Apart from the fact that they have mainly followed in the footsteps of christendom before them what virgin territories have they ever gone to that Christendom before them has not gone to

  I would think none.

  How many lands ,countrys ,are their that they have never made any significant inroads into ?

  We are not talking about token service in any of these countrys in major cities , but a real door to door witness to every individual householder that gets it every few months as in Western lands.

  Some that I can think of : North Korea ,Mainland China , Bangladesh ,India , Pakistan , Jordan , Israel , Iran , Syria ,Burma ( sorry cant think of the new name )

  Maybe you can think of a few more lands that fit this catergory

  However even with this list it shows beyond reasonable doubt JW`s have not preached in all the inhabited earth .NO WAY,
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  Memorial Non-Attendance: The Single Most Impactful TTATT Witness to JW Friends & Family

  by AMNESIANO in

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  (original version posted 2014).

  notice: the following is submitted in full recognition of and with compassion and due respect for those who, due to personal circumstance, feel they are unable to employ this powerful strategy.. ---.

  anyone who has awakened to ttatt and has conscientiously left the organization--especially a once-prominent, highly-regarded, studious true-believer from a celebrated multi-generational tribe of jws-- after decades of devout, high-profile "serve-us," who continues to put in an annual appearance at the memorial thoroughly subverts and undermines, by this one act, any hope s/he may entertain that his/her departure will stir family or former friends to question the whole watchtower bamboozle.

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  My wife and I ,our two sons and their wives have never attended a memmorial since 1993 or a congregation meeting either .

  And none of us were ever DF
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  Amazing News!!

  by The Rebel in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  my boy is going to play for watford football club!

  and whilst i didn't take his revelation to seriously, i am was glad his " goal" isn't to pioneer.

  :-).

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  Thats good news ,I hope he is not baptised and goes on to better things in the football world Here in Australia Victoria ,we have a JW 23-5 year old not bapised playing for an AFL football team (professional level)

  While they are not baptised they can fly under the radar once their baptised its a different story as you probably are well aware of.

  I wish your son all the best for his future in football.
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  Were You Ever Disfellowshipped or Judicially Reproved?

  by minimus in

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  2. friends

  i never got into trouble with the elders.

  i served on judicial committees too many times.

  i am happy that i no longer have to "judge" whether someone is a "sinner" any longer!

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  No never ,however I did DF them about 15 years after fading and coming on this forum.