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  What kind of errors in the Bible?

  by TheWonderofYou in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  the new testament specialist daniel wallace notes that although there are about 300,000 individual variations of the text of the new testament, this number is very misleading.

  most of the differences are completely inconsequential--spelling errors, inverted phrases and the like.

  a side by side comparison between the two main text families (the majority text and the modern critical text) shows agreement a full 98% of the time.[18].

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  Here's the difference, I don't need any of recorded History to be true, I'm not basing my current life around a belief system where-in any particular piece of history HAS to be true in order for my belief to hold, I'm not threatened when they find counter evidence to History as we know it, I'm not required to defend Platos existence, I don't need him to have existed.

  All of these things are a preresiquite for Biblical belief, it HAS to be true to believers, it HAS to be accurate, believers feel threatened by counter evidence, they HAVE to defend the Bible lest their belief system crumble to ashes, their very way of life depends on these things.

  It's quite sad/pathetic really, to have faith you HAVE to be ignorant of so much.
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  Faced with plummeting ratings JWbroadcasting tries a spin off combo show with 'Shark Week'

  by Watchtower-Free in

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  Lett: "Did you know... a great white shark has 1,914 teeth? This is more amazing evidence of our prophecy!"

  "Next week Anthony Morris will cover 'Hipster Hippos,' and their evil tight pants/spanx tirade that's sweeping across the Sahara."
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  How do you know Satan didn't inspire the Bible?

  by Coded Logic in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  jws believe that satan knows things about the natural world (like how it was formed).. they also believe that satan can influence events (even fulfill prophecies).. the bible is the source of great confusion and the vast majority of christians (2.2 billion people) believe it but do not have "accurate knowledgetm".. from the jw point of view, wouldn't it be more likely that satan inspired the bible than an all loving god?.

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  @Pete Zahut If it was Satan that wrote the Bible he casted himself in better light by comparison to the way in which Jehovah is presented.

  Jehovah completely owns Satan when it comes to death in the Bible, especially OT Jehovah. Jehovah is a Stalin-esque genocidal maniac, by comparison Satan is just a run of the mill serial killer. Granted, not the best light, but between the two Satan is a saint.

  Jehovah didn't want us to think for ourselves, Satan promoted free-thinking. Jehovah demanded exclusive devotion, Satan required nothing. Jehovah had his own son killed so that he could be able to forgive (wut?), Satan tried to give Jesus the world. As a side note, the fact that Jesus supposedly HAD to be given so that Jehovah could forgive implies that there are things outside of Jehovah's control/power, why couldn't he just forgive without sacrifice? Just go, "I forgive humanity for Adam's sin," boom, done. How hard is that?

  Again, by comparison, Satan comes off looking more like a saint than Jehovah does with his totalitarian dic(k)tator methods found throughout the Bible.
  
  
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  How do you know Satan didn't inspire the Bible?

  by Coded Logic in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  jws believe that satan knows things about the natural world (like how it was formed).. they also believe that satan can influence events (even fulfill prophecies).. the bible is the source of great confusion and the vast majority of christians (2.2 billion people) believe it but do not have "accurate knowledgetm".. from the jw point of view, wouldn't it be more likely that satan inspired the bible than an all loving god?.

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  I'm surprised the borg hasn't posited that Satan planted all of the malicious killings assigned to God, or that it was in fact Satan who killed the people and ascribed it to Jehovah.

  Under this assumption it'd just be:

  Everything good = Jehovah

  Everything bad or that we don't particularly like because we're picky like that = Satan

  Granted, they basically do this now, however you can reach some of them with the stoning commands and other barbaric practices found in the OT. However, if these acts were contributed to Satan instead, there'd be no recourse to rebut their beliefs. They'd be completely stuck in a God = Good, Satan = Bad cycle.
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  GB Permits Texas Two-Step on Kingdom Hall Stage, etc.

  by TakeOffTheCrown in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  the governing body not writing their own articles is on this thread: http://www.jehovahs-witness.com/topic/370640004/gb-providing-food-helpers-write-articles?size=10&page=1.

  but, something more sinister, more serious is taking place in the congregations.

  the governing body have allowed very disturbing activities to take place in the kingdom halls and during the conventions.

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  All of them are probably now disfellowshipped lol

  JWs are trying their darndest to appear like a normal Christian religion, "Look we can haz fun, we just a normal religion that catches a bad wrap, can we haz your pity... and all your monies?"
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  Shunning Disfellowshipped & Apostate family Members. Scriptural?

  by objectivetruth in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  anyone who is a witness or was previously a witness, is aware of the written & un-written rules concerning association with disfellowshipped family members.. there are a multitude of quotes through out the watchtower publications, but these 2 will suffice.. "are you proving yourself holy by not associating with family members or others who are disfellowshipped?

  "the clear instruction in the bible is: avoid them.

  that means that we have to stay away from them... the bible says that apostates are mentally diseased and that they use their teachings to make others think like them... what must we do to avoid false teachers?

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  JWs will keep their disfellowshipping ways despite ample objection found within scripture. They'll continue this because the WTS is a cult, saw this short list earlier:

  How to identify a Cult:

  1) Exclusive. They may say, "We're the only ones with the truth; everyone else is wrong; and if you leave our group your salvation is in danger."
  

  2) Secretive. Certain teachings are not available to outsiders or they're presented only to certain members, sometimes after taking vows of confidentiality.

  3) Authoritarian. A human leader expects total loyalty and unquestioned obedience.

  The crazy thing is, WTS wrote an article in Awake Janurary 8, 1947 lambasting the Catholic Church for their ex-communication practice calling it, "a pagan practice," and saying, "the weapon of excommunication became the instrument by which the clergy attained a combination of ecclesiastical power and secular tyranny that finds no parallels in history." Then just 5 short years later what do you think the WTS approved as doctrine?

  Disfellowshipping. Bunch of hypocrites.
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  What started me on the path to waking up about the lies the WT teaches?

  by oppostate in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  it was a simple question: isn't jesus my "mediator" if i put faith in him like the scriptures say?

  the research to that answer, from the w79 4/1 p. 31, was mind blowing.

  how dare they deny me a belief firmly stated in the scriptures?

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  607 definitely was the kickstarter, it opened my mind up to the fact that the organization will willingly hold to false information because of held doctrine. This shook me to my core because before I found this out, I had believed that 607/1914 was our most firmly researched and valid beliefs.

  If they lost 1914/1919 then the GB wouldn't hold their claim atop Mount of All Lies, so of course they won't admit to being wrong, they have EVERYTHING to lose over it.

  Finding this out removed my previously held notion that I shouldn't question the GB, and replaced it with, I should question EVERYTHING!

  It only took me about 6 months or less to drop my belief in JW doctrine, it would take me another year to drop my faith in the Bible. I think I knew the Bible was wrong early on, but I wanted it to be right, so the internal struggle of wanting it to be true vs. my critical thinking raged on for about a year before I finally obliterated my faith completely.
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  The misuse of historical objects/text to prove the bible is divine

  by adjusted knowledge in

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  i had a former high school teacher post on facebook about the cyrus cylinder proving the narrative in the book of ezra and daniel.

  the article i clicked on was by some christian organization that states the cylinder proves that god moved cyrus to allow the jews to go home and worship.. but no where on this cylinder does it mention the jews.

  yet all these people are commenting as if it is fact.

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  Even a blind squirrel finds a nut every now and then, same goes for prophecies, there's tons of biblical whatevers odds are something will line up sooner or later to make some kind of superficial connection.

  But that just points to another problem with prophecy, they're NEVER really specific about timeframes so how prophetic is it anyway? It's always more coincedental than prophetical.
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  Belonging To The JW Club Makes JWs Feel Special!

  by minimus in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  honestly, they really have nothing going for them except that they are in an exclusive club.

  they are in a better place than anyone else.

  they have it over everyone else because of their superiority.

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  In da club, Hall full of dubs, join our sect if you wantin' Hovas love, I'm in here taking notes, so come gimme a hug, if ya into brotherly love.

  Go Yeezy its ya dooms day, we gonna study like its the last days, we gonna sip ya blood like we anointed, and you know we be at your door in the mornin'
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  Why Child Baptisms Are Invalid Using WT Logic

  by JW_Rogue in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  when i was baptized as a child i remember quite well that there were six steps that one must take before getting baptized.

  i recently looked up some articles on this subject on jw.org and the latest article says there are 9 steps.

  they now include field service and going to the meetings as steps.

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  I just go by the WTS' logic that they say getting baptized is the most important decision one can make. If it is the most important, getting married is most likely a close second, if a kid isn't old enough to contemplate marriage seriously, how can they be ready for baptism?