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  a question for experts on disfellowshipping

  by poor places in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  can you be df'd for atheism?

  if you only tell the elders that you don't believe in god, and as a result will be decreasing your activity, will they reprove you and/or df you if you aren't repentant over time?

  pretend that you aren't telling them anything about your feelings regarding the organization or governing body.

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  Honest Question..........

  by thraxer68 in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  well, first off, iam new to the forum here, i registered maybe a week ago???

  sometime around there, but anyway, i do have an honest question.

  i guess a little background about me might be helpful and if not, at least therapeutic.

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  A few questions about Adam and Eve, Death, and the Resurrection

  by alfmel in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  i am not a jw, but they often come to my door.

  i listen to them, formulate questions, but they can never answer them to my satisfaction.

  that's why i've never become a jw.

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  "The Vincible Ignorance of Atheism"

  by leavingwt in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  one evangelical's perspective on atheism, and 'red meat' for all.

  the vincible ignorance of atheism.

  david harts recent essay on the new atheists has been receiving a great deal of attentionand criticism.

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  Did Jehovah create the world to last forever?

  by maputo95 in

  1. social
  2. relationships

  your jws do seem to read from the same hymn book, oops, kingdom song sheets or whatever different term they may employ to separate them sheep from us goats.

  and like sheep, they certainly are!

  reading from prepared scripts like mindless telesalesmen.

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  Are the JWs a dangerous cult?

  by cyberjesus in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  is it a matter of just biblical interpretation?

  are they just a little lost?

  or are they really a dangerous cult?

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  The Bible: God's Word or Man's?

  by Doug Mason in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  my jw visitor left me a copy of the 2006 print of the book "the bible: god's word or man's?

  ", and i intend to provide him with my analysis of it.. i notice that the book was written in 1989, and the dates of the references suggest the book has not been updated since then.

  am i correct?.

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  Jehovah's Witnesses and Calvinistic Predestination

  by AllTimeJeff in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  this is a complex question, and i just want to get a discussion started on the message of jehovah's witnesses and how it relates to their adventist roots, and esp calvinism.. bear with me, i will try to be concise.. we all know that while jehovah's witnesses like to deny adventist roots, that it is clear that according to them, the man jesus selected to get the whole thing started, c t russell, was heavily influenced by adventist ideas, esp the (adventist) idea that has really never left them; the idea that somehow, a time date or period can be inferred from the bible if you read certain scriptures through an adventist lens.

  (thus, the 2520 years, 7 gentile times, etc.).

  so while this is relatively well known, there is a concept that jehovah's witnesses teach against, yet practice.

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