It's true that JWs do not have a mentality of financial giving as other religions do.
Perhaps it's a result of all the boasting they used to do about never soliciting and fantastical stories about how god will provide.
Posts by cofty
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114the watchtower is starting to crumble
by pepperheart infor the december monthly broadcast instead of jws from around the world waving to you and items of how to shun people we will have to make do with repeats of of old gilead videos that have been on the jw website for a good while.
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What's destroying Watchtower!
by UnshackleTheChains infor me, beyond any shadow of a doubt, it's the extreme shunning policy.. at a recent sunday meeting, i listened to a complete brainwashed sister saying how important it was that we stick to the shunning policy even if it is a close relative.. i just thought.
wtf.
there is a big difference between the brainwashed and the awoken class!.
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cofty
The internet is the cult's greatest enemy.
Were it not for shunning and freedom of thought I could happily be JW - SBF
The core teaching of the Watchtower is that 99.9% of the men, women and children in the world must be destroyed in order to make way for a "Paradise".
This is an EVIL ideology. In thought, if not in action, it aligns the Watchtower with Stalin, Mao, Pol Pot and Hitler. All of them considered mass murder acceptable in pursuit of utopia.
Associating yourself with this ideology would be indefensible.
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What’s The Strangest Belief of Jehovah’s Witnesses?
by minimus inthere’s a lot.
i think one strange view is how only 144000 go to heaven.
since the number is mentioned in the symbolic book of revelation, you would expect that the number would be viewed as figurative, but jws say otherwise.
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cofty
Creationism.
Literal Noah's flood.
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cofty
Venus you are changing the topic because you are unable to support your position with evidence.
Jesus was a Jewish Rabbi who supported every word of the Old Testament (the scriptures of his time)
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Please explain the Watchtower's "Ransom" for me
by Doug Mason inaccording to the watchtower:.
who received the ransom payment?.
why did the ransomer need to be paid?.
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cofty
He ransomed his unborn children for Adam's unborn children
Jesus had no children. Metaphorically christians are brothers of Christ not children.
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cofty
In Mathew 15:11 Jesus flouted the law about what is to be eaten--Law says certain flesh as clean and certain as unclean. - Venus
No he didn't. The context was about eating without washing hands. There is no law about that. Jesus obviously knew nothing about germ theory but he did not encourage breaking the Law on unclean foods.
Again Jesus clearly flouted the law of Deuteronomy 24:16 (which says sins cannot be swapped) when he said he came to die for the sins of the world (Mathew 20:28; 26:28)
Vicarious punishment in the form of animal sacrifice was central to the Law. According to christian doctrine Jesus voluntarily gave his life in the place of penitent sinners. This in no way negates the Law at Deut.14 which forbids punishing a child for the sins of the parent or vice-versa.
Leviticus 10:9 also he violated in a whole sale
Leviticus 10 describes additional laws that applied only to the priests serving at the Tabernacle. The restriction against drinking alcohol was not binding on Israel in general. Jesus was not of a priestly tribe and never entered the naos - the Holy part of the temple - as opposed the the hieron which was open to all Jews.
I can give you many ....
So far you have not come up with any.
Jesus obeyed the Law of Moses meticulously and commanded his followers to do likewise. Jesus was a Jewish Rabbi, he was not a Christian.
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cofty
Not one word in your post lends any support to your false assertion about Jesus' view of the Law or any of the OT. -
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cofty
Dawkins is wrong about that. He should stick to biology.
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cofty
Venus - Jesus believed in the Law with a passion. He rejected not one jot or tittle of the Old Testament.
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And the capital of Israel was ...
by Doug Mason inthe capital of biblical israel was samaria.. jerusalem was the capital of judah/benjamin.. the modern state of israel is not named after the biblical nation of israel.
it is named after a man.
it is named after jacob, the lion of judah, who was later given the name of israel.
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cofty
Jerusalem was the capital before the division of the kingdom in the days of Rehoboam.