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  Defence of watchtower society Links

  by reniaa in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i thought long and hard before making this thread, that many will not agree with it but i think there needs to be balance and people to realise there are alternate viewpoints out there on many of these subjects, the ones that are most spoke about on this forum.

  i was recently sent a full message containing mary's book and these links give the rebuttal to many of her points.

  those that are still open-minded enough feel free to look over them even if in the end you still don't agree at least you have heard both the defence as well as the attack as they are on the internet.

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  Brilliant stuff. Thanks reniaa.
  
  Can you do one for Scientology, too?
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  Is the Bible the word of God?

  by Number1Anarchist in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  this is a question that has racked my brain.

  how do we know it is from god?

  we have heard this since we were born that the bible was the word of god!

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  No, the bible is not the word of God.
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  1984 Survival Into a New Earth--PDF!

  by Atlantis in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  1984 survival into a new earth--pdf!

  bookmarked searchable reduced front cover?

  click here: http://www.imagger.com/view/664586_scan-10001.jpg.html click the link at the bottom of the next page.

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  Thanks Atlantis.
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  Latest United Nations-End of Religion-End of World alert

  by Questions1 in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  it has been awhile since i've posted anything, but i got this e-mail from someone who is on the edge of falling out of the borg due to mental stress.

  i've attempted to verify the information, even called the united nations, but haven't gotten to a person who can say if this meeting happened.

  my gut says this is a contrived experience with many details just not adding up...but you never know.

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  Yep. Heard a variant of this about 8 years ago.
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  My brain worked yesterday at the WT study

  by BonaFide in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  so paragraph 11-13 yesterday discussed how lepers in jesus' day were outcasts.

  they were required to call out "leper, leper" so people would stay away from them.

  the next paragraph says that according to rabbinical sources, a religious leader even threw rocks at a leper to keep him away.

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  Things like that had always occurred to me. (Like Jehovah would allow his perfect son to be killed by a disease when he hadn't yet been tested sacrificed.) Still swallowed, though.
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  Will Atheists be Targeted as "The Anti-Christ"?

  by cameo-d in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  will lack of religious affiliation with a church be the determining factor in declaring one as an "anti-christ"?

  if you are not a baptised, signed up, tithing church member somewhere....will this be the dividing line?.

  will church membership be the sole criteria of "godliness" in this battle of armageddon?.

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  The end is (still) nigh.
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  WE NEVER SPOKE IN JAH'S NAME vs WE SPEAK IN JAH'S NAME

  by still_in74 in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  scriptural foundation:(1 john 4:1) .

  .beloved ones, do not believe every inspired expression, but test the inspired expressions to see whether they originate with god, because many false prophets have gone forth into the world.. (deuteronomy 18:22) 22 when the prophet speaks in the name of jehovah and the word does not occur or come true, that is the word that jehovah did not speak.

  with presumptuousness the prophet spoke it.

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  Excellent thread. Thanks.
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  Is it the JW's or the God of the bible you no longer believe?

  by reniaa in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i have a question for the ex-jw's on this forum after months of reading the forum..... many say how good it is to be free of the oppressiveness of the jw's that they can now enjoy the freedom to... have sex, celebrate christmas, gamble, embrace politics etc.

  there are still biblical scriptures and principles in place that if you still followed the bible would mean you avoid these things and yet these are now embraced as one of the perks of no longer being a jw so in my confusion i ask.... if these are what you want, isn't it more correct to say you no longer follow the bible as apposed to just the jw's?.

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  How about living and believing what you think is right without being dependent on and controlled by any of the organised religions?
  
  Who says your faith has to belong to "a faith"?
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  I need some help & suggestions

  by Nosferatu in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  as many of you know, i've got a new job.

  quitting my old one is proving to be difficult.

  i gave my boss two weeks notice.

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  "There's nothing I can do." In three weeks you won't care anymore.
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  When Debating With Witnesses- Is Arguing Doctrine Beneficial ? Steve Hassan

  by flipper in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  my wife and i have been reading " releasing the bonds " by steve hassan and it makes some interesting points about assisting people to get out of any cult.

  notice this excerpt from chapter 6 from the book.

  hassan states, " it is also important to understand that in most bible -based cults, although the member is aggressively taught doctrine, it is not the doctrine that holds him in the group.

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  Thanks for the reminder Mr. Flipper.