Topics Started by Acluetofindtheuser

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JW's Family Worship Evening - Mormons got ripped off!
by BoogerMan in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
mind you, it took the org over 30 years to think it was an idea worth copying.. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/family_home_evening.

imitation is the sincerest form of flattery!

😁.
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Is Watchtower totally off base on Armageddon?
by Vanderhoven7 in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
to me it is quite evident that the gt spoken about in matthew 24, mark 13 and luke 21 is a one time, non-repeatable localized event resulting in the destruction of jerusalem and the temple followed by the dispersion of surviving jews throughout the nations.. however, what is not so clear to most is that the gt of revelation deals with the same event.

my understanding is that the gb of jehovah witnesses has no clue as to how to interpret the apocalyptic messages found both in the synoptics and revelation.

but steve greg has armageddon down pat.
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Thanking Jehovah God for Sports
by Sea Breeze in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
serena william's thanks jehovah god for allowing her to participate in sports.

how nice.

my jw parents followed the rules and thought they were doing jehovahs will by denying me participation in sports.
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Alteration of Revelation 3:14 in the 4th century to support the emerging Trinity doctrine
by slimboyfat in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
in an earlier thread another poster asserted that there is no evidence that revelation 3:14 played a part in the 4th controversy that led to the trinity doctrine.

this was claimed as evidence that the description of jesus as “the beginning of the creation of god” in the verse was not understood to mean that jesus was god’s first creation.

the scholarly greek–english lexicon of the new testament & other early christian literature 3e (2001) by bauer, arndt, gingrich, and danker, in its latest edition states that “first creation” is indeed the probable meaning of the greek phrase.
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Happy Star Wars Day............
by BoogerMan in
1. social
2. humour
..............to all the star wars fans who have a lisp!.
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US SOLE DISSENTING "VETO" VOTE ON UN COUNCIL TO PREVENT PALESTINIAN UN MEMBERSHIP!!!
by Golden4Altar in
1. jw
2. friends
us sole dissenting "veto" vote on un council to prevent palestinian un membership!!!.

the obvious wickedness of usa .

on world wide display!.
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What are you wearing for the special talk
by ExBethelitenowPIMA in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
many are talking on whatsapp about what to wear.

sisters wearing slacks and brothers wearing all sorts of different tops.
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Rekindled Light — The Narrative Structure of the Hexaemeron (Genesis 1:1–31)
by Mebaqqer2 in
1. watchtower
2. bible
i used to comment here many years ago when i had an interest in biblical research in relation to jehovah’s witnesses.

these days my biblical research is little concerned with jehovah’s witnesses.

i feel my time is better spent researching the diachronistic development of the biblical text and ascertaining what the biblical writers and editors intended in the times in which they lived.. i have recently placed a summary diagram for a paper that i have written with original research entitled the narrative structure of the hexaemeron on academia.edu.
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Dates and times
by jhine in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
last night at my bible study group we looked at 1thessalonians ch 5 .

we have been working through the whole letter.

verses 1-11 start with .
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How do JWs know that less than 150,000 Christians existed before the 20th Century?
by Vanderhoven7 in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
according to watchtower, only anointed christians existed between the first and 20th centuries.

the great crowd of other sheep only began forming after the 20th century started.. how do they support this conclusion?

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