But I wonder: how many JW's went to prison during the years that the WT did not allow them to perform community service as an alternative to military service?
Anyone care to take a stab at the numbers?
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Alternative Military Service is Now OK
by Sea Breeze inbut i wonder: how many jw's went to prison during the years that the wt did not allow them to perform community service as an alternative to military service?.
anyone care to take a stab at the numbers?.
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Why Do JW's Believe that Hell is Symbolic When the Disciples of the Apostles believed it Was Literal ?
by Sea Breeze inlooks like the early christians believed jesus when he warned about hell over 40 times.
why don't the jw's do the same?.
from “the epistle of barnabas” (70-130ad).
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If that were a place of burning torment, why was he looking forward to going there?
Because there is more than one compartment in hell.
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Anyone Have a Photo of The Current 9 Member Governing Body?
by Vanderhoven7 ingoverning body members.
kenneth eugene cook, jr. (2018).
gage fleegle (2023).
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Great photo Jeffro. One of their heads went up in smoke .... kinda like a match.
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Is there really a Bible rule against sex without marriage?
by Halcon inregarding the poster from jw headquarters, who claimed that the gb would eventually loosen the rules regarding sex.
the question is, is there really a bible rule explicitly prohibiting sex without marriage?
because this would be the only possible reason why loosening those rules would even come up in a discussion.
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Not only that; there is also a biblical rule against marriage without sex!
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Money Is The Answer For Everything - Eccl. 10: 19 (NASB)
by Sea Breeze indo jehovahs witnesses believe eccl.
10: 19 is literal or is limited in application in some way?
money is the answer for everything - eccl.
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Looks like they limited the application of this verse to purchasing bread and wine.
Why then don't they limit Eccl 9: 5 - "But the dead know nothing" to just the body?
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Money Is The Answer For Everything - Eccl. 10: 19 (NASB)
by Sea Breeze indo jehovahs witnesses believe eccl.
10: 19 is literal or is limited in application in some way?
money is the answer for everything - eccl.
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Do Jehovahs Witnesses believe Eccl. 10: 19 is literal or is limited in application in some way?
Money Is The Answer For Everything - Eccl. 10: 19 (NASB)
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Thoughts on Likely Upcoming Changes in the Org.
by Phizzy ini am thinking that the "ten year plan" that some have spoken of is the most likely scenario.
the org.
has to both attract new members and retain as many existing ones as possible.. so i think they will let the recent changes "bed in" for a while, maybe a year ?
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I think the powers that be realized that the doctrinal heresies have worked far better than imagined and the asceticism is mostly unnecessary.
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Anyone Have a Photo of The Current 9 Member Governing Body?
by Vanderhoven7 ingoverning body members.
kenneth eugene cook, jr. (2018).
gage fleegle (2023).
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s-395 Adjustments-to-handling-serious-wrongdoing-in-the-congregation
by gavindlt inthis was posted on jw leaks.. my truth's | dad seeking truth.
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"If the individual is not an apostate or actively promoting wrongdoing...
Here's what this means:
If the individual is not saying that they have become a born again Christian or telling others that Jesus is the Mediator for all mankind...
Then, heck yeah.... give them their families back after humiliating them for 3 months. What a loving provision!
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Why Do JW's Believe that Hell is Symbolic When the Disciples of the Apostles believed it Was Literal ?
by Sea Breeze inlooks like the early christians believed jesus when he warned about hell over 40 times.
why don't the jw's do the same?.
from “the epistle of barnabas” (70-130ad).
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Once Adam fell, the right to exist ceased, for the wages of sin is death. The miracle is that God has allowed any of sinful man to exist for any length of time. Your next breath is a kindness from the Lord.
Courts all over the world recognize that the pure administration of Law leaves something lacking. Judges recognize that justice without mercy is cruelty.
Thomas Aquinas said, “Mercy without justice is the mother of dissolution” and “justice without mercy is cruelty.” For the former, the wicked are allowed to go unpunished, and for the latter, they are punished with brutality.
God who the standard of goodness and who knows all things is perfectly within his judicial authority right to apply a mixture justice and mercy as he sees fit.
You seemed to be hung up on the idea that if you submit to God, he might go back on his word to save you and treat you as a cherished son or daughter for eternity.
If he did, I would only be getting what I deserve anyway, so I have no right to complain. But Jesus, who raised himself from the dead, guarantees otherwise:
Receiving Jesus guarantees eternal life:
*Rom.6:23b The gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ.
*Jn.11:26 Whosoever…believeth in Me shall never die.
*Jn.14:2-3 In My Father’s house are many mansions.*1Pet.1:3,4 Incorruptible inheritance reserved in Heaven for you.
*2 Cor 1:22. Our inheritance cannot be taken away.
*1Jn.5:11 God hath given to us eternal life…in His Son.
*John 17:3 to know Jesus is to have Eternal Life.2 Cor 1:3. God is our comfort and we can comfort others and use that affliction to help others.
John 6:47 “I tell you the truth, anyone who believes has eternal life.
1 Corinthians 15:51 But let me reveal to you a wonderful secret. We will not all die, but we will all be transformed!
