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  Heads Up: Special Day Assembly with Anthony Morris III Tomorrow in San Diego county, CA

  by Piercingtheveil81 in

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  just a heads up to anyone interested in hearing this jerky.

  anthony morris iii will be the guest speaker for tomorrow's spanish assembly at the escondido assembly hall.

  just google the address to get directions.. i was thinking of bringing a copy of my sparlok video for a autograph ;).

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  Apostate Symposium 2013 San Diego District Convention

  by problemaddict in

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  sorry i did not get audio.

  too much going on around me that would give me away anyways.

  i think someone posted audio, but it is different from what i heard on some levels.

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  Blood Transfusion Increases Mortality in Heart Attacks

  by Earnest in

  1. watchtower
  2. medical

  i understand that the objection to blood transfusions by jehovah's witnesses is purely a scriptural one.

  whether or not there are medical benefits to avoiding blood transfusions is, or should be, irrelevant.

  however, for those who are not convinced by jw understanding of the scriptures in this regard, and those who don't believe either in the bible and/or in god, the fact that blood transfusion is associated with increased mortality in heart attacks may be of interest.. a systematic search of studies published between january 1, 1966, and march 31, 2012, was conducted using medline, embase, cinahl, scopus, web of science, and cochrane central register of controlled trials databases.

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  worn out ministerial servant!

  by El_Guapo in

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  Who did Paul pray to:

  by fulltimestudent in

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  2. bible

  i recently bought geza vermes new book, christian beginnings-from nazareth to nicaea, ad 30-325, i thought it may useful for a study unit i want to take next year, on the topic of early christian writings.

  these documents, such as the shepherd of hermas, help us to appreciate what early christians really believed and also provide details of their behaviour(s).. vermes*, as well as being extremely knowledgeable on the subject of the dead sea scrolls, is regarded scholastically, as one of the world's leading jesus scholars.. so to the point of this thread: on page 106 of my hardcover, allen lane/penguin, 2012 edition of this book, vermes commences analysing the status of christ in the pauline religion, and under that sub-heading he concludes that in (authentic) pauline theology, the son always occupies an inferior position, and draws on paul's writings to support his position.

  on pages 111,112 he lists texts to demonstrate that paul directed his prayers to god alone, and "never to jesus!

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  Am I on thin ice with my friend?

  by cedars in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  i'm a former mts graduate, and it's a long story but i recently became inactive after realising it was all nonsense.

  the problem is, i've noticed that my mts background makes it almost impossible for people to accept my new status as an "inactive" one.

  people think that, given the amount of knowledge i have, there is surely no excuse for me to reach this preposterous decision.. a friend from my mts recently began emailing me to find out my reasons.

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  Why I didn’t left JW an don’t plan to do so

  by Lazarus in

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  2. experiences

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  in another thread i wrote: i didn't left the jw's and don't plan to do so.

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  Cyrus the Great was the Jewish Messiah?

  by sabastious in

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  2. bible

  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/history_of_ancient_israel_and_judah.

  the biblical historythe hebrew bible contains "myths, legends and folktales, sagas, heroic epics, oral traditions, annals, biographies, narrative histories, novellae, belles lettres, proverbs and wisdom-sayings, poetry (including erotic poems ...), prophecy, apocalyptic, and much more ... the whole finally woven into a composite, highly complex literary fabric sometime in the hellenistic era.

  "[2] although tradition ascribes them to times and authors contemporaneous with events, they were in fact written in many cases considerably after the times they describe and by authors with a clear religious and nationalist agenda, and it is therefore critical to treat them with circumspection.[3].

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  A former CO elder wants to speak with me. What do you guys make of this?

  by Piercingtheveil81 in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  a former co elder visited my grandmother, who studied years ago with jws, and said he wanted to speak with me.

  i da'd myself about two years ago from the org after 11 years.

  i was an ms and pioneer for 8 years and the whole bit.

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  Paul, leading authority on Christianity, does NOT quote Jesus!

  by Terry in

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  2. bible

  paul's letters practically invent christianity.. the gospels trickled in after him.. paul never walked with jesus and yet explains him.. never a quote from the master at all.. yet, paul is such a maven.. if jesus couldn't be bothered to actually reveal what he was all about to his apostles with whom he ate, drank, spoke and slept---why this persecutor, saul?.

  the apostles heard every word jesus spoke and were willing to die for him.. paul didn't--yet--miraculously explained every detail of the entire history of god's purpose including his messiah.. .

  can anybody provide a non-gimmick answer?.

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