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  We pray for the governing body

  by StephaneLaliberte in

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  since when has it become cool to pray for the gb?

  i noticed that at the begining of my fade back in 2015, it had already been there for a good while and was already getting on my nerves.

  i means, i grew up in it, but can't remember much further than the 90s and i don't remember this being always in the payers.

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  Definition of "Sister":

  1. a female "Brother"

  2. a "Sister" with brotherly teaching qualities
  
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  Approximately 40 authors wrote the Bible considered as GOd`s inspired word .Jesus never wrote one sentence in the bible.

  by smiddy3 in

  1. watchtower
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  the bible from genesis to revelation and some apocrypha books are considered "god`s inspired word" written by imperfect men over the centuries.. yet jesus christ who never wrote a single sentence yet claimed to be the son of god and changed the history of the world not by what he said and did ,but by what others claimed he said and did.. moses wrote five books jesus wrote none .. how can jesus be considered greater than moses ?.

  did the political powers that be in those days see an advantage of making jesus and christianity an opportunity for power and authority over the population of the time ?.

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  All he ever managed was to doodle something in the sand.
  

  And bending over again he kept on writing in the ground.- John 8:6,8
  
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  New Armageddon date?

  by neat blue dog in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  looking at the most recent wt the study article focuses on the jubilees.

  the made a separate box in the article to highlight the math behind jubilees, and i'm wondering if they're trying to get people thinking and stir up the pot without actually making a false prophecy.

  for instance: jubilees happened every 7 times 7 years.

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  nkelstein

  Jesus says ... " Why dont these fuc..g idiots obey and listen to me when I said no one knows of the time ? "

  Because they have been made to believe GoD that Jesus knows time and date by now.

  
  

  
  
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  The J.W fishpond of marriage mates! How many of us married a idiot!! No choice.

  by Witness 007 in

  1. jw
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  what a horror.

  instead of there being "more fish in the sea" our marriage mates came from the small and crapy witness pond.

  anyone got burned by going with mr or mrs you will have to do?

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  If you marry one that doesn't do a sentence without the word "Jehovah" in it . . . then you know you've hit the jackpot of constant tribulation in the flesh.
  
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  A Manufactured example? (Morning Worship, by Kenneth Flodin: Beware of Deceit)

  by bats in the belfry in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  the only 1910 watchtower i ever came across are the wtbts reprints.

  has anyone ever seen the original 1910 watchtower scan online?.

  flodin's story line does not add up.

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  The only 1910 Watchtower I ever came across are the WTBTS reprints. Has anyone ever seen the original 1910 Watchtower scan online?

  Flodin's story line does not add up. If Kenneth compared the original (which may reside in the WTBTS library) to the photocopy sent in by the lady, then her's must have been from the reprints.
  

  From that point onward his story line appears fabricated. At 06:30 minutes into his ramblings he says:

  One example I came through in my stack of letters. It was a sincere older lady it seems by the look of the scrawl or handwriting; it was probably an older woman.

  And she sent in a photocopy from a page of a 1910 Watchtower.
  

  And her question is "Why did your Mr. Russell say that you only need to read his "Book Studies in the Scriptures" instead of the Bible?
  

  I read over the photocopy and it looks like that is exactly what it said.
  

  But then I got an original of the 1910 magazine and compared, and very quickly you could discern the deceit, the trickery that was involved.
  

  When photocopying that page they put a piece of white paper over the bottom part of the page so you didn't see the bottom of the first column.
  

  And they are very tricky, they placed it exactly on a line where it sounded like when reading down the first column that the sentence completed on the second column.
  

  But what was in the first part of that column that they had made invisible with the paper?
  

  It was a subheading "SCRIPTURE STUDIES NOT A SUBSTITUTE FOR THE BIBLE". And here is what it said in that text that disappeared with the photocopying...
  

  Besides, the whole thing is about omission, which the WTBTS can be accused of many times over. Would they call themselves apostates for doing do?
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  God's name

  by Gorbatchov in

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  first at all, there is a new marketing video of god's name, clearly saying the name of god is jehovah.. link: https://tv.jw.org/#en/video/vodbible/docid-502014331_1_video.

  and then, there is the video with geoffrey jackson (gb) clearly saying that the original name of god is not known and the use of jehovah is because of it is the most used variant in english.. link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xwv_8ocvkj8.

  so, something contradicts here, isn't it?.

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  His / her / its name is Gormuna, stupid !

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  The Emphasised Bible
  
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  The Watchtower Society's Purpose

  by compound complex in

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  2. beliefs

  "the sole purpose of our existence as a society is to announce the kingdom established in 1914 and to sound the warning of the fall of babylon the great [in 1918].

  we have a special message to deliver.

  "--- fred franz's words to bethel family, november 17, 1979..

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  It has always been some SPECIAL message - issued from but ONE publishing house..

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  Be it further resolved, that we will not have any part with or spend our time listening to human teachers who desire to express their private interpretation of God’s Word, but will at all times use The Watchtower and other books and booklets put out by the above-named society.

  The Watchtower - April 1, 1934, page 109

  
  
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  "Personal Decisions" (Study Article of July 11-17, 2016)

  by bats in the belfry in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  concise thoughts from the wtbts.

  par.2) however, there are numerous situations for which the bible provides no specific command.. par.3) in the absence of specific laws, how can we know what choices will please jehovah?.

  par.16) many matters could be decided one way or another, and jehovah would still be pleased.. .

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  Concise thoughts from the WTBTS:

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  Par.2) However, there are numerous situations for which the Bible provides no specific command.

  Par.3) In the absence of specific laws, how can we know what choices will please Jehovah?

  Par.16) Many matters could be decided one way or another, and Jehovah would still be pleased.

  Everything else is fluff.
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  Did you have "Your chair" or place you sat at the K.H??

  by karter in

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  i never really did but lots of the "friends" did like one brother who felt the cold and had "his chair" by the window and was always closing the window when everyone else wanted it open.. karter..

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  'Kingdom of God's birth in heaven in 1914' - first reference?

  by EdenOne in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  can someone tell me please when was the first time that the wts published something to the effect that the kingdom of god was born in heavens in 1914 / jesus enthroned invisibly in 1914 ?

  i see an obscure reference to an article in a golden age magazine in 1930 but i can't find the actual quote,.

  not looking for quotes that talk about the "coming" or "presence" since 1914. i'm looking for actual mention that the kingdom started in heavens in 1914. when was the first ever time this was clearly said in the publications?

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  The earliest references I came across, so far:

  

  wt 1927, August 1, page 230

  
  

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  wt 1928, September 1, page 260