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Active posters: What education have you had, what degrees do you possess?
by EndofMysteries in
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from so many posts and conversations on here, you'd think over 1/2 the posters here possess doctorates in theology, physics, biology, etc.

i'm curious aside from the books and research people have done here, what degrees they have.

to start, i just got an aa and going straight through full time to an mba.
TTWSYF

adjusted knowledge: Though I think credentials are important and add weight to a person's argument, I also think a well read person with life experience is just as qualified
I disagree. Although it can be true. The problem is that where are they getting their reading material? Is it an accredited source of information? Matt Damon was well read in that movie {good will hunting], in that rare case, Matt was just as qualified [or perhaps more so] than his Harvard U neighbors. Usually being well read in things like WTS biblical history does not qualify a person as being well read. Sorry, a degrees in any particular field by a legit source is the best way to go if you really want to know.
imho
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Bible Group in Boston
by Agape.Love in
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happy easter!

my husband and i who are former jws are starting a new bible discussion group on sundays @1pm, south of boston.

we will begin the group on sunday may 3rd.
TTWSYF

Keep the agenda to yourself would be my advice. Read the books of the bible in a complete way as opposed to using specific scriptures to convey a particular point would be paramount to having a legit bible study in my 100% unsolicited opinion.
signed
The Truth Will Set You Free
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Some Questions About Jesus
by Coded Logic in
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why didn't jesus ever write anything?

why are there no letters to jesus?

no painting of jesus from that time?
TTWSYF

It is as unlikely as anything else for a man to claim to be God..... [sorry, but Jesus not only claimed to be God,but he also never disputed anyone else's claim either] ,,,,that aside.
I have to think that a myth would have been weeded out during the first torture sessions.
Instead, 2000 years later people are still believing that a man claiming to be God died for the forgiveness of our sins. Right this second there are Christians being killed for worshiping Jesus.
How is this belief still alive I ponder aloud.
just pondering
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In a nutshell, what is the wackiest jw thing?
by stuckinarut2 in
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what is the wackiest...strangest....most unusual jw teaching or practice?
TTWSYF

Sofia and star make comments about youngsters getting baptized.
Then whole JW baptism is another wacky thing to me. Nothing like a Catholic baptism which is at least scriptural.
Really, you must study for a baptism?
Really, you are NOT baptized in the name of the Father, the Son and the Holy Ghost?
But you're true Christians?
Weird
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In a nutshell, what is the wackiest jw thing?
by stuckinarut2 in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
what is the wackiest...strangest....most unusual jw teaching or practice?
TTWSYF

Finkel nailed the biggest one to me or any other bible believer. And that is that Jesus's 2nd coming has already arrived. He arrived over 100 years ago.
Scripture is quite clear that EVERY EYE WILL SEE.
Weird
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One Scripture To Trash the Org: 1st John 4:18
by freemindfade in
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1st john 4:18 .

18 there is no fear in love,+ but perfect love casts* fear out, because fear restrains us.

indeed, the one who is fearful has not been made perfect in love.+.
TTWSYF

Proverbs says that the fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom. I think it reflects more of an awe of his embodiment rather than a fear of wrath.
just mho
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In a nutshell, what is the wackiest jw thing?
by stuckinarut2 in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
what is the wackiest...strangest....most unusual jw teaching or practice?
TTWSYF

That Jesus came for 144000 and everyone else should be a JW to be forgiven of their sins.
Also that these same 144000 do NOT need to be Jewish, Male or VIrgins.
The good book says otherwise
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One Scripture To Trash the Org: 1st John 4:18
by freemindfade in
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2. bible
1st john 4:18 .

18 there is no fear in love,+ but perfect love casts* fear out, because fear restrains us.

indeed, the one who is fearful has not been made perfect in love.+.
TTWSYF

A lot more than ONE scripture trashes the WTS . A comprehensive listing is quite overwhelming proof texts to contradict most all of their teachings.
There are I believe in revelation verses stating Jesus as [all three] alpha and omega, the 1st and last and Jesus is the beginning and the ending.
I do believe all three verses are in revelation.
just saying
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'Theocratic Warfare' - Do you know when and where it started?
by EdenOne in
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we all hear this notion of "theocratic warfare", and how it is used to justify jehovah's witnesses to lie or withhold the truth even under oath, based on the reasoning that we don't owe the truth to those who aren't entitled to it.

but, can we put our finger on where this doctrine started?

well, brace yourselves, here it is.
TTWSYF

Lying for the TRUTH tm.
Lying to people who they try to recruit. They are not worthy of the truth.
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Removal of Tetragrammaton from Early Greek Manuscripts
by jhine in
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2. bible
a while ago i posted on another thread that i had been told by some witnesses that the tetragrammaton had been in the original christian greek scriptures but had been removed when apostacy came into the church .

i did not know where this came from at the time .however while looking something else up i came across this .as i could not find the original thread i have started a new one .here is a quote from nwt reference edition 1984 :-.

" matthew made more than a hundred quotations from the inspired hebrew scriptures.
TTWSYF

I agree with Smiddy in so much as
If there was a great apostasy in the early church, then how could you trust the bible to be God's word when the final collection of biblical books were confirmed around 393ad?
Makes no sense at all