how long do you think the watchtower can speak about 1914 and have followers think it relevant?
i think for people born in the 1900's, it feels like an acceptable year.
but what about those born since 2000, will 1914 seem like a year of relevance?
jwfacts >>
By what year would the majority of believers have fallen away, because 1914 is just to distant to make any sense?
That question, or a variant of it, is a definitive 'must' to ask any elder, circumstances permitting.
Was there not also a 100 year period in the OT that Freddie did away with? Maybe it is to be added on after all.
one minute i'm believing completely in god and in jesus christ, and in the next instance i'm questioning all religious systems in general.
i think i'm just lacking faith, but then in the back of my head i'm wondering if i've just been so indoctrinated and deluded...that i can't imagine living without considering that there is a god to be worshiped, or that i need to worship god in order to be happy.
i don't know how full-blown atheists or full blown christians do it either way.
EntirelyPossible >>
- You can define your own purpose. For instance, mine is to live a life that makes me happy and be a good parent and a decent person. I work hard, take pleasure in my children, in backpacking, in a good round of golf, spending quality time with my friends.
Of course, you do understand, this attitude is exactly that the WTBTS condemns. They mistakenly will quote: "If you are kind only to your friends, how are you different from anyone else? Even pagans do that." - Matthew 5:47 (NLT)
cant find the reason in any wt publications.
With the incident at Babel HE confused the languages. What did you expect? Clarity of the written word?
we all know that beth hell monitors this site.. they have repeatedly had sites shut down for quoting large portions of their litterature.
not this one.. do you think this board enables them to keep a finger on the pulse of what is going on in ex and aposto land?
hb.
do you really think the wt view this site?
Yes - this site serves as their prime instrument of choice for amending policies and development of doctrines.
WTBTS has moles // J-W.net has moles.
Once a lion acquires the taste for human flesh he becomes as bold and daring in his pursuit as any two-legged Nimrod.
1951 Awake!, April 22, page 15
watch this video, posted on jw.org.... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9jjvxobvi5a.
here is my article in response.... http://jwsurvey.org/cedars-blog/is-watchtower-60-million-away-from-liquidation.
looking forward to hearing your thoughts!.
Listener >> The video is more like a play where the actors are pretending to present a news report.
You must be right - no caption text on who is who. The whole interview is like being staged between two 'brothers'.
I guess the press was not so interested in the story line, so they made up their own press tagline.
And the faithful start believing their own press.
time magazine quote of the day.. http://www.time.com/time/quotes/0,26174,1964660,00.html.
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bangalore.
None of the elders of her former congregation showed up to celebrate the anniversary with her.
time magazine quote of the day.. http://www.time.com/time/quotes/0,26174,1964660,00.html.
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bangalore.
The original Spanish language version you will find here.
time magazine quote of the day.. http://www.time.com/time/quotes/0,26174,1964660,00.html.
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bangalore.
From the article: Faith complicates a young mother's life-or-death decision on lung transplant
"Perez no longer talks to Jehovah's Witnesses, nor they to her. It is hard, she said. They are like her family. But the religion "disfellowships," or excommunicates, members who disobey its teachings. Contacted by a reporter and asked about Perez, a member of her congregation said, "She is not a Jehovah's Witness," and hung up."
Gawd . . . they show no mercy.
zechariah 11:12,13 is viewed as a prophecy pertaining to judas, and fufilled at matt 26:14-16 and matt 27:9. judas, as we know, sold out jesus for 30 pieces of silver.
i noticed something when reading the verses in zechariah, though.
judas sold out and betrayed jesus, however zechariah is a prophecy being spoken by jehovah and pertaining to himself.. vs 12: "then i said to them:" who is the "i"?
Dictionary of the Bible comprising its Antiquities, Biography, Geography, and Natural History,
Volume II (Kab-Red) - (1863), edited by William Smith, page 871
Quoting Smith’s work,the M'Clintock & Strong Cyclopaedia of Biblical and theological literature,
Vol. 8 (1879), says it close to identical on page 189.
