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  "You are my witnesses says Jehovah"

  by NikL in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  "you are my witnesses says jehovah".. this is going to show you how poor my knowledge of the bible has been.. i thought there was a scripture that says the quoted phrase (at least in nwt).

  i could swear that i heard it for years quoted in talks.. i went to find it this morning and found nothing of the sort.

  am i an anomaly or do any of you remember this as well?.

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  NikL

  Completely unrelated to biblical things but, why is this page appearing split up in this way instead of the usual post following post format?

  
  
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  "You are my witnesses says Jehovah"

  by NikL in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  "you are my witnesses says jehovah".. this is going to show you how poor my knowledge of the bible has been.. i thought there was a scripture that says the quoted phrase (at least in nwt).

  i could swear that i heard it for years quoted in talks.. i went to find it this morning and found nothing of the sort.

  am i an anomaly or do any of you remember this as well?.

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  See, that's the thing that gets confusing to me.

  Was there a different word used in Hebrew? I mean how would the reader of a scroll in say 100BCE know the difference?
  
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  "You are my witnesses says Jehovah"

  by NikL in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  "you are my witnesses says jehovah".. this is going to show you how poor my knowledge of the bible has been.. i thought there was a scripture that says the quoted phrase (at least in nwt).

  i could swear that i heard it for years quoted in talks.. i went to find it this morning and found nothing of the sort.

  am i an anomaly or do any of you remember this as well?.

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  Thanks Blondie.

  I was looking for "says" instead of "declares" in the library and it didn't show up.

  Which brings up an interesting point (at least for my under educated brain)
  “You are my witnesses,”+ declares Jehovah,

  “Yes, my servant whom I have chosen,+

  So that you may know and have faith in me*

  And understand that I am the same One.+

  Before me no God was formed,

  And after me there has been none.+

  If there is "no other God before or after", then how is Jesus "A" god as they like to translate John 1:1?
  

  
  
  
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  "You are my witnesses says Jehovah"

  by NikL in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  "you are my witnesses says jehovah".. this is going to show you how poor my knowledge of the bible has been.. i thought there was a scripture that says the quoted phrase (at least in nwt).

  i could swear that i heard it for years quoted in talks.. i went to find it this morning and found nothing of the sort.

  am i an anomaly or do any of you remember this as well?.

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  NikL

  "You are my witnesses says Jehovah".

  This is going to show you how poor my knowledge of the bible has been.

  I thought there was a scripture that says the quoted phrase (at least in NWT). I could swear that I heard it for years quoted in talks.

  I went to find it this morning and found nothing of the sort.

  Am I an anomaly or do any of you remember this as well?
  
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  How did you feel when you got baptized?

  by Schnufti in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  back in 2005, i remember sitting in the stadium in the special rows with 42 others.

  8000 people were looking at us - maybe even with a binocular - while listening to the speech.

  my family and my friends among them, being all proud of me.. i don't remember being enthusiastic.

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  Numb actually.

  I don't really think I knew what I was doing.

  Just did it because it was the thing to do.
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  Great youtube channels for light entertainment

  by stuckinarut2 in

  1. social
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  most here are no doubt aware of these great channels, but for any new members, you have to check out these!.

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rb3g6mxlekk.

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dcwr9sjby3a&list=pl0886d8914d5fa08f.

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  Hadn't seen these.

  Funny stuff.
  
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  What not to say...

  by joey jojo in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  hey guys.

  i was recently talking to a old friend who is a very active elder.

  i was talking about ' the truth' and he suggested i sounded like an apostate because i used terms like ' the society' and ' watchtower '.. i am aware that ' dubspeak ' has changed over the years and i am pretty sure that someone posted about it here but i can't find the thread.

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  If only I dared to call it what I now know it to be...Bull Sh*t....oh well, gotta keep peace with the wife
  
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  Was looking at my childhood book "From Paradise Lost to Paradise Regained" I found something interesting.

  by Still Totally ADD in

  1. jw
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  i was showing a friend of mine what kind of books my parents allowed me to read when i was very young.

  no children books that was age related but the so called orange paradise book was my only children book i had.

  she was taken back on how violent it was and showing little kids being killed by god was just unspeakable.

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  I remember the horror pictures.

  I hated that F**King book even when I was a witness.
  
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  One million dollar reward offered...

  by Jafox in

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  2. experiences

  for information leading to the arrest and imprisonment of.

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  Tight Pants Tony?
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  Witnesses desperate for news to feel good about themselves

  by joker in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i have a relative who is a "dyed in the wool true blue jw" and yesterday he sent me this link with the jw method of evaluating the news " more to come !.

  sounds like they're grasping at straws now to put meat on their failed prophecy bones.. http://www.freep.com/story/money/business/michigan/2017/02/23/family-christian-stores-close/98310234/.

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  NikL

  Funny how they found this article and sent it to you, but if you sent them the one about the ARC, what would be their reaction. When witnesses send links about failures of other religious places, they are showing you....See, if they had Jehovah's blessing this wouldn't have happened....

  You took the words outta my mouth tor