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  Why are the 2 newly appointed Governing Body Members from Bethel, when there are anointed ones all over the world? they could have used.

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  enjoy life forever!—an interactive bible course.

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  I would like to see Japanese and Korean brothers in the Governing Body. Some Asians and some French and African.
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  Encouraging scriptures for the day

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  hello my friends,.

  here are some encouraging scriptures for the day:.

  revelation 21:2 i also saw the holy city, new jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from god and prepared as a bride adorned for her husband.. hebrews 11:10 for he (abraham) was awaiting the city having real foundations, whose designer and builder is god.. revelation 21:24 and the nations will walk by means of its light, and the kings of the earth will bring their glory into it.. revelation 22:1 and he showed me a river of water of life, clear as crystal, flowing out from the throne of god and of the lamb 2 down the middle of its main street (of the holy city).

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  Sorry to hear your frustration, PioneerSchmioneer, I read your posts and thought a bit if I could write you a reply, but I don't feel any force to do that. The task would be too burdensome. So I suggest that we concentrate on nice and timely beneficial scriptures. I could just post such scriptures without comments so that there would be less to complain about. I actually did that for a while, but then some complained that the scriptures has no comments, so I started to add some comments to them.

  When I posted just scriptures I hoped that while people read them God's holy spirit would help them to see the value in them. That would be better than if I had to try to explain something about them. But I think some people experienced that too, because not everyone complained that I just posted a few new scriptures everyday. I tried to find mobile numbers to JW brothers and sisters and JW relatives and I found about 100 and I just posted them scriptures the WT literature seemingly have ignored for years or even decades. But that did not go well either. I got many angry demands that I stop posting them scriptures and they often misunderstood me in my view on Jesus. They deemed that I appreciated Jesus excessively much, when in fact it is themselves who don't appreciate Jesus enough, mostly because the organization and the Governing Body steals the spot light from Jesus Christ our Savior, and also because they are excessively jealous for Jehovah God. Quite similar to the jews who opposed Jesus because they said they were disciples of Moses and accused Jesus to be a blasphemer of God.
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  Encouraging scriptures for the day

  by Kosonen in

  1. jw
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  hello my friends,.

  here are some encouraging scriptures for the day:.

  revelation 21:2 i also saw the holy city, new jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from god and prepared as a bride adorned for her husband.. hebrews 11:10 for he (abraham) was awaiting the city having real foundations, whose designer and builder is god.. revelation 21:24 and the nations will walk by means of its light, and the kings of the earth will bring their glory into it.. revelation 22:1 and he showed me a river of water of life, clear as crystal, flowing out from the throne of god and of the lamb 2 down the middle of its main street (of the holy city).

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  Nice and comforting to know why God sent his unique Son Jesus Christ to earth. It was because God loved mankind. The scripture is again very clear on that. So we can be confident that Jehovah God loves us. And He has granted his Son Jesus to be the Savior of the world.

  1 John 4:7 Beloved ones, let us continue loving one another, because love is from God, and everyone who loves has been born from God and knows God. 8 Whoever does not love has not come to know God, because God is love. 9 By this the love of God was revealed in our case, that God sent his only-begotten Son into the world so that we might gain life through him. 10 The love is in this respect, not that we have loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as a propitiatory sacrifice for our sins. 11 Beloved ones, if this is how God loved us, then we are also under obligation to love one another. 12 No one has seen God at any time. If we continue loving one another, God remains in us and his love is made perfect in us. 13 By this we know that we are remaining in union with him and he in union with us, because he has given his spirit to us. 14 In addition, we ourselves have seen and are bearing witness that the Father has sent his Son as savior of the world.

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  Encouraging scriptures for the day

  by Kosonen in

  1. jw
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  hello my friends,.

  here are some encouraging scriptures for the day:.

  revelation 21:2 i also saw the holy city, new jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from god and prepared as a bride adorned for her husband.. hebrews 11:10 for he (abraham) was awaiting the city having real foundations, whose designer and builder is god.. revelation 21:24 and the nations will walk by means of its light, and the kings of the earth will bring their glory into it.. revelation 22:1 and he showed me a river of water of life, clear as crystal, flowing out from the throne of god and of the lamb 2 down the middle of its main street (of the holy city).

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  As a congregation member of the Watchtower society my understanding of John 3:16 was blurred. It reads in the Amplified Bible, Classic Edition (AMPC):

  “For God so greatly loved and dearly prized the world that He [even] gave up His only begotten (unique) Son, so that whoever believes in (trusts in, clings to, relies on) Him shall not perish (come to destruction, be lost) but have eternal (everlasting) life.”

  Some doctrines of the WT organization claim that God’s love for mankind was not his primary motivation to save mankind. But we should trust John 3:16.

  Also Jesus’ love for mankind is not enough taught within the WT organization. But apostle Paul taught it:

  Galatians 2:20 Indeed, the life that I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and handed himself over for me.

  Jesus himself assures about his love for those who believe him. John 15:9 ASV:

  “As the Father has loved me, so have I loved you. Abide in my love.”

  Apostle Paul again refers to Jesus Christ’s love for those who believe him.

  Ephesians 5:25 Jubilee Bible 2000 (JUB): “Husbands, love your wives even as the Christ also loved the congregation {Gr. ekklesia – called out ones} and gave himself for her,”

  Some interesting facts about the origin of the Greek word ekklesia that is mostly translated as church.

  https://biblehub.com/greek/1577.htm

  Strong's Concordance

  ekklésia: an assembly, a (religious) congregation

  Original Word: ἐκκλησία, ας, ἡ

  Part of Speech: Noun, Feminine

  Transliteration: ekklésia

  Phonetic Spelling: (ek-klay-see'-ah)

  Definition: an assembly, a (religious) congregation

  Usage: an assembly, congregation, church; the Church, the whole body of Christian believers.

  Thayer's Greek Lexicon

  STRONGS NT 1577: ἐκκλησία

  ἐκκλησία, ἐκκλεσιας, ἡ (from ἔκκλητος called out or forth, and this from ἐκκαλέω); properly, a gathering of citizens called out from their homes into some public place; an assembly; so used

  1. among the Greeks from Thucydides (cf. Herodotus 3, 142) down, an assembly of the people convened at the public place of council for the purpose of deliberating: Acts 19:39.

  2. in the Sept. often equivalent to קָהָל, the assembly of the Israelites, Judges 21:8; 1 Chronicles 29:1, etc., especially when gathered for sacred purposes, Deuteronomy 31:30 (Deuteronomy 32:1); Joshua 8:35 (Joshua 9:8), etc.; in the N. T. thus in Acts 7:38; Hebrews 2:12.
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  Encouraging scriptures for the day

  by Kosonen in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  hello my friends,.

  here are some encouraging scriptures for the day:.

  revelation 21:2 i also saw the holy city, new jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from god and prepared as a bride adorned for her husband.. hebrews 11:10 for he (abraham) was awaiting the city having real foundations, whose designer and builder is god.. revelation 21:24 and the nations will walk by means of its light, and the kings of the earth will bring their glory into it.. revelation 22:1 and he showed me a river of water of life, clear as crystal, flowing out from the throne of god and of the lamb 2 down the middle of its main street (of the holy city).

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  Maybe there are some brothers or sisters who appreciate the scriptures I post on this thread? But if there are not, which I am unable to know, I could well stop posting. But I still hope someone is encouraged by the scriptures I post.
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  Encouraging scriptures for the day

  by Kosonen in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  hello my friends,.

  here are some encouraging scriptures for the day:.

  revelation 21:2 i also saw the holy city, new jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from god and prepared as a bride adorned for her husband.. hebrews 11:10 for he (abraham) was awaiting the city having real foundations, whose designer and builder is god.. revelation 21:24 and the nations will walk by means of its light, and the kings of the earth will bring their glory into it.. revelation 22:1 and he showed me a river of water of life, clear as crystal, flowing out from the throne of god and of the lamb 2 down the middle of its main street (of the holy city).

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  PioneerSchmioneer:

  "why am I always able to give you answers saturated with references, Bible verses, and information--but all you can do is give me is cut and paste information from a religion you don't agree with, whose religious leaders disfellowed you."

  The simple answer might be, because it is the easiest and quickest way for me to respond. I think that could be described as pragmatism.

  Because there is a lot I don't like in the WT library, but there are also things that are useful for me.
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  Encouraging scriptures for the day

  by Kosonen in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  hello my friends,.

  here are some encouraging scriptures for the day:.

  revelation 21:2 i also saw the holy city, new jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from god and prepared as a bride adorned for her husband.. hebrews 11:10 for he (abraham) was awaiting the city having real foundations, whose designer and builder is god.. revelation 21:24 and the nations will walk by means of its light, and the kings of the earth will bring their glory into it.. revelation 22:1 and he showed me a river of water of life, clear as crystal, flowing out from the throne of god and of the lamb 2 down the middle of its main street (of the holy city).

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  To those who previously complained that I don't respond to all posts and questions and arguments. I am sorry for that. But I just lack motivation to respond to many statements. That's just what I am. So I hope you will accept that, even though that disappoints you.
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  Encouraging scriptures for the day

  by Kosonen in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  hello my friends,.

  here are some encouraging scriptures for the day:.

  revelation 21:2 i also saw the holy city, new jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from god and prepared as a bride adorned for her husband.. hebrews 11:10 for he (abraham) was awaiting the city having real foundations, whose designer and builder is god.. revelation 21:24 and the nations will walk by means of its light, and the kings of the earth will bring their glory into it.. revelation 22:1 and he showed me a river of water of life, clear as crystal, flowing out from the throne of god and of the lamb 2 down the middle of its main street (of the holy city).

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  Hi PioneerSchmioneer, thank you for putting great effort to write down your thoughts for me. I read it through and decided to see why all Bibles have not the Apocrypha books.

  Under this link there is a lot of information. I copied two paragraphs from that article for those who don’t want to read all the article:

  https://wol.jw.org/en/wol/d/r1/lp-e/1200000305

  Evidence Against Canonicity. While in some cases they have certain historical value, any claim for canonicity on the part of these writings is without any solid foundation. The evidence points to a closing of the Hebrew canon following the writing of the books of Ezra, Nehemiah, and Malachi in the fifth century B.C.E. The Apocryphal writings were never included in the Jewish canon of inspired Scriptures and do not form part of it today.

  The first-century Jewish historian Josephus shows the recognition given only to those few books (of the Hebrew canon) viewed as sacred, stating: “We do not possess myriads of inconsistent books, conflicting with each other. Our books, those which are justly accredited, are but two and twenty [the equivalent of the 39 books of the Hebrew Scriptures according to modern division], and contain the record of all time.” He thereafter clearly shows an awareness of the existence of Apocryphal books and their exclusion from the Hebrew canon by adding: “From Artaxerxes to our own time the complete history has been written, but has not been deemed worthy of equal credit with the earlier records, because of the failure of the exact succession of the prophets.”​—Against Apion, I, 38, 41 (8).
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  Encouraging scriptures for the day

  by Kosonen in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  hello my friends,.

  here are some encouraging scriptures for the day:.

  revelation 21:2 i also saw the holy city, new jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from god and prepared as a bride adorned for her husband.. hebrews 11:10 for he (abraham) was awaiting the city having real foundations, whose designer and builder is god.. revelation 21:24 and the nations will walk by means of its light, and the kings of the earth will bring their glory into it.. revelation 22:1 and he showed me a river of water of life, clear as crystal, flowing out from the throne of god and of the lamb 2 down the middle of its main street (of the holy city).

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  "PioneerSchmioneer: Kosonen’s above posting is not correct. As usual it is just a rerun of Watchtower teaching which takes no account of the context of the writing in which the verse appears or any methodology, such as having a basic knowledge of Pauline theology."

  I think there is a huge difference between me and WT in this instance. WT labels all other Christian organizations who preach about salvation through Jesus as part of the utterly wicked Babylon the Great. But I don't judge them to that extent. I don't belive Babylon the Great applies to any Christian organization which preaches salvation through Jesus Christ.

  But I acknowledge that there is hostility among Christian organizations, but I applaud that they all preach salvation through Jesus Christ. After all every person will do an account for himself before Jesus who will judge as he taught in the parabel about sheep and goats.
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  Encouraging scriptures for the day

  by Kosonen in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  hello my friends,.

  here are some encouraging scriptures for the day:.

  revelation 21:2 i also saw the holy city, new jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from god and prepared as a bride adorned for her husband.. hebrews 11:10 for he (abraham) was awaiting the city having real foundations, whose designer and builder is god.. revelation 21:24 and the nations will walk by means of its light, and the kings of the earth will bring their glory into it.. revelation 22:1 and he showed me a river of water of life, clear as crystal, flowing out from the throne of god and of the lamb 2 down the middle of its main street (of the holy city).

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  Just for clarification I want to provide here what Malachi 4 foretold about Elijah so we can compare that with what is written in Wisdom of Sirach 48.

  Malachi 4:1 (ASV) For, behold, the day cometh, it burneth as a furnace; and all the proud, and all that work wickedness, shall be stubble; and the day that cometh shall burn them up, saith Jehovah of hosts, that it shall leave them neither root nor branch. 2 But unto you that fear my name shall the sun of righteousness arise with healing in its [a]wings; and ye shall go forth, and gambol as calves of the stall. 3 And ye shall tread down the wicked; for they shall be ashes under the soles of your feet in the day that I [b]make, saith Jehovah of hosts.

  4 Remember ye the law of Moses my servant, which I commanded unto him in Horeb for all Israel, even statutes and ordinances. 5 Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the great and terrible day of Jehovah come. 6 And he shall turn the heart of the fathers [c]to the children, and the heart of the children [d]to their fathers; lest I come and smite the [e]earth with a [f]curse.