why did jesus christ come to the earth?
the rebellion in the garden of eden brought a death sentence upon adam and eve and all their offspring, but god lovingly supplied hope.
he sent his son to the earth to provide what the bible calls a ransom.
Adam lived in a paradise and disobeyed Jehovah. He had everything given to him.
Jesus lived in an oppressed nation being ruled by pagan Rome. He had to let himself be wrongly accused, arrested, and tortured to death.
Yet he remained faithful to Jehovah until death. So yes Jesus succeeded where Adam failed.
i'm trying to find out the square footage of the selters printery which is the next largest after wallkill.
does anyone have any info on this?.
and how many books are being produced there each year now?
Hi fokyc!
thank you very much for the link! The printery is very large, although I cannot tell it's square footage. The one in Wallkill which is the largest of the wt printeries has 600,000 sq. ft. Looks like the Germany one is at least 500,000 sq. ft.
I appreciate your help fokyc!
Is there anyplace where the actual square footage is mentioned?
in 2009 annual meeting report, the report was given of these stats:.
u.s. 7/09 new peak in pubs and again in 8/09 land mark of 1,154,275 pubs.
making a 4% increase over last year.
A yearly report similar to what other companies do would be interesting.
Donations recieved
Expenses
cash on hand
value of properties
square feet of facilities
production reports for all literature, magazines, job printing, etc.
Number of presses, bindery lines. etc.
total bethelites
tons of paper and ink used
But they are not willing to release such information. I'd be very interested in it but I guess most other people would not. And I think they are trying to play down how large a publishing corporation they have in order to avoid taxation.
What does anyone else think?
in 2009 annual meeting report, the report was given of these stats:.
u.s. 7/09 new peak in pubs and again in 8/09 land mark of 1,154,275 pubs.
making a 4% increase over last year.
I just checked the Yearbooks and the increase was 165 more congregations in the US from 2008-2009, so if there were only 52 new ones last year it signifies the 2010 SY was not so great. Things seem back to normal, modest growth in the USA. Right?
in 2009 annual meeting report, the report was given of these stats:.
u.s. 7/09 new peak in pubs and again in 8/09 land mark of 1,154,275 pubs.
making a 4% increase over last year.
thank you antes8080!
if there were only 52 new congs formed in the USA this year, only 1 per week, the growth really did slow down alot.
Is the peak publisher figure available yet?
it's so striking now when i read the wt.. every single gd article mentions the governing body, or the elders, or the hierarchy -- its sickening the level of control, absolutely sickening.. these guys must be so fearful and so eager to validate their claim to power.. next weeks study lesson is drowning in it!.
Has anyone noticed that it's the gb members since 1995- the NEW gb that wants all the glory and attention?
so this is a serious question.
we are really nothing compared with the whole universe.
our physical bodies are really just made of simple components that are found everywhere on earth.
Why does God DEMAND that we worship him? Why is he so jealous? Why does he threaten us with destruction if we don't worship him? Why does he have such a huge ego?
so its my first and im feeling uncomfortable, i want to go ahead and do it,.
all the trimmings everything but i havnt done it in 20 years and it still feels weird,.
anyone else ever had this prob when they first left jws,.
I've never really had Christmas as my family are Jewish. But when I see all the Christmas decorations people have on their homes and the Christmas trees in their windows it looks so nice and cozy. Families getting together with friends, nice turkey dinners, opening gifts Christmas mornings- the whole thing seems so nice and cozy and I feel I missed out on all of it. Now I'm no longer a witness but it does not get celebrated here anyway.
there is a lot of information available about questions to ask jws.
it's a good thing to make them think a little more instead of being spoon fed all the time.. one question that could be posed is - where did the the 'new light' come from?
(answer) so where did the 'old light' come from?.
The gb is now teaching that those alive in 1914 will not live to see "all these things occur", with their new generation teaching.
So this means what I was taught in the TRUTH book is a lie, correct? It is not an old truth or old light, but a lie. But it came from Jehovah's spirit and was true up till now.
If something is true, it remains true. Truth cannot become a lie. Falsehood cannot become truth, can it?
It just goes round and round in circles discussing this with jws. They have to keep making up their new light/old light, new truth/old truth bs excuses, and then they say we are apostates and they do not have to answer our questions.
in 2009 annual meeting report, the report was given of these stats:.
u.s. 7/09 new peak in pubs and again in 8/09 land mark of 1,154,275 pubs.
making a 4% increase over last year.
The big increase for the 2009 SY, especially in the USA, was unusual. It's likely the increase this year was back to being a much more modest one. But the December or November KM highlights for the U.S. would be for July and August. Any new peak in Publishers for the U.S. would be mentioned there. Does anyone have the November KM yet?
I'd guess the fact that they gave no mention at the Annual Meeting of statistics for the US is that there was not much to brag about. This year's increase is likely a small one.
The WT for over 100 years published the chart in each Jan. 1 issue. More recently it was moved to the Feb. 1 issue then no longer published in the WT but the KM included the chart in a 4 page insert. Then that too was done away with.
But there was a big increase in the monthly figures for the magazines. The w went up from 39,600,000 to 42,162,000 and g went up from 38,451,000 to 39,919,000. Are there more pioneers? Why such a big jump?
Does anyone else find the figure for the w to me misleading? I say this because in the public w it says: Printing each issue: 42,162,000 . This makes you think it is for the public edition only and the study edition has an additional amount. the study edition gives no number printed. But the 42,162,000 is the TOTAL figure for the w for the month including the study edition. they should reword it to: Monthly printing, not EACH ISSUE.
I always thought the publisher figures were conservative because many publishers do not bother to report their fs and there are alot of countries where publishers can't report or only limited numbers of reports get through such as in China.
Does anyone remember when they used to print the edition figures in the books and update the number each year? then beginning in 2005 they did away with that and put instead 2010 printing, etc. Why do you think they want to keep the production numbers secret?
