imagine you somehow got ressurected in paradise.
oh hell no nooooo!
life is one long convention.
Proof that JWs aren't the people of God
1. Clean shavenness
2. Kingdom Songs are so trite, that I know if i were Jehovah, they would either make me sad or make me feel like sending a plague.
3. Higher Education Forbidden
4. Unbaptized Children denied life saving Medical Care
5. Disfellowshipping
anybody remember hearing this?.
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is that comment in print anywhere?.
It's like getting a lobotomy from a small North Korean Medical College!
one thing i have always felt even as a devout jws was that some of the bible characters were probably scandelous like anybody else.
how do we know there was not a good amount of adultery, homosexuality, fornacation, drunkardness, wife swapping,etc; religous people always try to make it seem that some of these people slipped up a few times and was "perfect" forevermore until they died.
how do we know peter was not in an adulterous affair, or that paul was not engaged in homosexuality.
The moral failings of the characters of the Bible are such that it seems as if everyone in the Bible would be disfellowshipped if they were alive today.
i know this has been dished over before, but when i was doing some research i discovered a couple of interesting points.
as far as i can find, there is only one wt article that implies that jw men should not have beards.
*** w75 8/15 pp.
If your dad doesn't have a beard you've got two mums.
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and using the term bubba to address him.
now in the southeastern united states .
This be hacka whack, a te watcho gabacho.
This is ridiculous, I'll be seeing you, white boy.
When Valspeak, Ebonics, and Spanglish are mixed together, California will finally be able to take her place among the nations as a country with its own language.
When my wife accused me of hating that these kids love being in the Truth as my motivation for wanting them to go to college, I said that if they are going to be Jehovah's Witnesses I want them to be JW lawyers so they can pimp the WT instead of the WT pimping them.
i have had requests to add an article about beards and jehovah's witnesses.
it is interesting that there is virtually no statement that says a witness cannot have a beard, yet universally they do not have beards.
i have scoured quotes from all the threads on jwn, all references to beard on the cd watchtower library, and copies of elders letters that i have.
Yes dubs can have beards provided they don't speak before the congregation. My gut feeling to "never trust a clean shaven salesman" has served me well my entire life.
If your Dad doesn't have a beard you've got two moms!
this is a question a sincere christian may agonize over after learning that some books of the bible were rejected by certain early christian groups,while other books that did not make the canon were accepted.
also,when one realizes that so called inspired writers of the greek scriptures quote from apocrypha,that most christians reject today,one wonders if these writings that include these quotes should even be in the bible.. it is true that when it comes to the christian greek scriptures the canon has been closed for many centuries.
also, these books have been accepted by christians ever since the second,perhaps first,century.
The Biblical Canon was directed by God IN ETHIOPIA.
When James Bruce returned to Scotland from Ethiopia with a copy of the complete Book of Enoch, it was the biggest news for Churchmen in ages! but it didn't change the Presbyterian Canon. A change in Canon necessarily involves an admission of not having had the whole truth. The biggest challenge for any Organized Religion is for it to admit it was wrong about anything. Who wants to pay their tithes to a Sorry Chirch?
"what was the actual significance of that year, then?".
if jw's were overly zealous, what was the exact amount of zeal encouraged by the wts for a non-event which took up.
over 7 years of every jw's time?.
If a prophet utters a prophecy, and that prophecy doesn't come to pass, that false prophet has spoken presumtuously and you have nothing to fear from that prophet!
this is what somebody has been telling me, trying to convince me aside from anything one can say or cause reason for doubt, as the evidence that they are the true religion and true people of god.
they are convinced because while 'all other' christian and other religions support war, troops, etc, jw's don't and they are the only one's who carry god's name and preach.
nothing else matters.
Bahais go door to door and discourage (but don't forbid) military service.
