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  JW’s are obsessed with persecution

  by life is to short in

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  over the weekend i was around a group of jw's.

  i have not been in such a setting for along time so it was sort of surreal.. so this one older jw woman started to talk about her neighbors and their little girls and how much she liked them.

  she said they were a nice family, etc, that they watch each other homes when they go away on vacation, etc.

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  Can you give specific examples of the WTBTS taking quotes out of context?

  by Chemical Emotions in

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  not just from the bible, but from secular writers and others.

  or other similar mistakes/lies regarding quotes and stories and things like that.. .

  i have noticed a few, but i can't remember most of them... oops.

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  The Trinity

  by The Quiet One in

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  i have a question, primarily for trinitarians, but anyone's more than welcome to comment.

  what scriptural basis is there for believing in the trinity?

  i can understand some having the view that jesus/jehovah both can be worshipped, and the view that jesus should be, but where in the bible is the holy spirit worshipped?

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  Does anybody on here TRULY believe in the Resurrection...and how?

  by itscrap&theyknowit! in

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  i really want to see my dad again!!!!

  i just wonder when this will occur.

  thousands of years have gone by.

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  Any Methodist in here?

  by onemore in

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  i have a few questionw.

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  Is immorality escalating?

  by jworld in

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  i got the convention update from my mom, who attended this past weekend.

  sounds like the society made the claim that immorality is escalating at a faster clip.

  is that true?

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  The JW's dependence on WT literature.

  by Knowsnothing in

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  The Screwtape Letters by C.S. Lewis

  by Band on the Run in

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  i never heard of c.s.

  lewis growing up (he also wrote science fiction christian books, such as the narnia chronicles, perlandra, a grief observed and mere christianity, the best easy summation of christianity i've ever come across).

  my first encounter was when i was taking a seminary course that met at st. thomas, a very high english church in ny.

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  The Orthodox Corruption of Scripture: The Effect of Early Christological Controversies on the Text of the New Testament.

  by whereami in

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  the victors not only write the history, they also reproduce the texts.

  in a study that explores the close relationship between the social history of early christianity and the textual tradition of the emerging new testament, ehrman examines how early struggles between christian "heresy" and "orthodoxy" affected the transmission of the documents over which, in part, the debates were waged.

  his thesis is that proto-orthodox scribes of the second and third centuries occasionally altered their sacred texts for polemical reasons--for example, to oppose adoptionists like the ebionites, who claimed that christ was a man but not god, or docetists like marcion, who claimed that he was god but not a man, or gnostics like the ptolemaeans, who claimed that he was two beings, one divine and one human.

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  How and when was the New Testament Compiled?

  by ProdigalSon in

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  early christian writings.. .

  let alone "inspired by god?

  church councils) this is what i mean by spiritual osmosis.. there are other early lists of new testament books that.

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