So, if I remember correctly, 600 000 men (means a population of few millions) left Egypt, and dwell for 40 years (whole generation!) in the desert with limited resources. Imagine that infrastructure, to meet daily needs for millions of people, it is not easy even today, not even in a well organized megacities, let alone near-east desert 35 centuries ago. There should be millions of relics, artefacts, artificial structures, graves, bones, remnants of daily life. Every other civilization left something, but Israelites left just a fairy tales...
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by ZindagiNaMilegiDobaara inthe latest watchtowel (march 2020) study edition has a question from readers ‘what evidence exists outside the bible that the israelites were slaves in egypt?’ from what i read in the bible unearthed there being nothing to base any claims on.
the article gives a quote by ‘dr.
bimson : “the biblical traditions of the bondage in egypt and of the exodus have a firm historical basis.” no links or sources given.
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Favorite Bumper Stickers!
by The Bethelite inone the jws like.. "get busy!
god is coming and he is pissed.".
one the that people who are not jws like.. "please god protect me from your people".
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Pray for Trump!
Psalm 109:8
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Hourglass app
by solomon inall of the local congregations are going to use hourglass app for publishers to report their time.
i’m not sure if this meets privacy laws in our province.
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Once upon a time God used Holy Spirit to communicate his loyal servants, now he use 4G/wifi and JW.borg...
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The Apology Tour
by minimus ineveryone seems to be hitting the apology circuit.
if you ever said anything inappropriate or what might be considered offensive, then you must apologize.
if you possibly could have hurt someone’s feelings, you need to say sorry.
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The very first thought reading the caption:
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JW's ransom sacrifice DOGMA
by The Fall Guy init-2 p. 735 ransom - “the real ransom (a) sacrifice.....would have to correspond (b) to the perfect adam......and enslavement into which their first father adam had sold them.
only thereby could he satisfy god’s perfect justice (c) that requires like for like...(d)’”.
a) can a ransom redeem something which wasn't lost – i.e.
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@blondie: It is easier to navigate through the pages if you download file (PDF, 47 MB). There is many articles named "Atonement", "Redemption", "Ransom", etc, but that one which caused division was on the page 170 of the above document. Russell answered on the page 183, continoued with Barbour's comment, then page 200, and so on till they split in May 1879, (page 327). Interesting reading is page 339 with some internal info about how Russell started his "The Watchtower"...
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JW's ransom sacrifice DOGMA
by The Fall Guy init-2 p. 735 ransom - “the real ransom (a) sacrifice.....would have to correspond (b) to the perfect adam......and enslavement into which their first father adam had sold them.
only thereby could he satisfy god’s perfect justice (c) that requires like for like...(d)’”.
a) can a ransom redeem something which wasn't lost – i.e.
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The very same question was the reason for breakup between Russell and Barbour, and it was thoroughly commented in the Herald of the morning, issue August 1878 and later. My two cents: two deaths are two deaths, not a break-even state.
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Did you EVER falsify your report card ?
by Chook inevery single watchtower soldier lied to god out of fear of the brooklyn popes..
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When I was still PIMI, I was always honest with my reporting. Later, when I woke up and quited with preaching, I stopped my reporting, and then brother who was in charge literally asked me to "report anything, at least one hour", or else he must remove my card to separate folder, fill some forms, then elders must visit me and fill some more forms, othervise CO will bother them because he should fill some forms, etc, so to save everybody's time "please, please, send anything, on my responsibility". So I felt sorry for poor brothers and continued to report, even fake.
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January 2020 Watchtower - Dogma being force-fed yet again as "truth"!
by The Fall Guy inif the wording & context of a scripture is dismissed at the outset, then every statement and assumption which follows is implicititly false.
in the very first study article, the gibbering body continues to indoctrinate the sheeple to accept that over 500 people met jesus on the mountain - despite the blatant fact that 1 corinthians 15:6 says absolutely nothing about the 500 people being anywhere near galilee!
(matthew 28:16-20) however, the 11 disciples went to galʹi·lee to the mountain where jesus had arranged for them (the 11 disciples) to meet.
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Must correct myself, data source for the world population from last post was wikipedia. Using worldometers.info numbers are slightly different:
Anyway, decceleration of the growth is there, but declining of JW is not on sight anytime soon.
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January 2020 Watchtower - Dogma being force-fed yet again as "truth"!
by The Fall Guy inif the wording & context of a scripture is dismissed at the outset, then every statement and assumption which follows is implicititly false.
in the very first study article, the gibbering body continues to indoctrinate the sheeple to accept that over 500 people met jesus on the mountain - despite the blatant fact that 1 corinthians 15:6 says absolutely nothing about the 500 people being anywhere near galilee!
(matthew 28:16-20) however, the 11 disciples went to galʹi·lee to the mountain where jesus had arranged for them (the 11 disciples) to meet.
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Figures can vary from country to country, but generally JW still growing slowly. Yet, last few years they oscillate around 0.109%. I used data from WT reports and worldometers.info:
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January 2020 Watchtower - Dogma being force-fed yet again as "truth"!
by The Fall Guy inif the wording & context of a scripture is dismissed at the outset, then every statement and assumption which follows is implicititly false.
in the very first study article, the gibbering body continues to indoctrinate the sheeple to accept that over 500 people met jesus on the mountain - despite the blatant fact that 1 corinthians 15:6 says absolutely nothing about the 500 people being anywhere near galilee!
(matthew 28:16-20) however, the 11 disciples went to galʹi·lee to the mountain where jesus had arranged for them (the 11 disciples) to meet.
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I can't help but notice how desperate WT trying to avoid any mention "...in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the holy spirit...", both in yeartext and study article. It is funny reading paragraph 3:
Read Matthew 28:16-20. At the meeting that Jesus organized, he outlined the vital work that his disciples would accomplish throughout the first century—the same work that we are accomplishing today. Jesus said: “Go, therefore, and make disciples of people of all the nations, . . . teaching them to observe all the things I have commanded you.”
Same work as Jesus outlined, by omiting and denying his words how to baptize disciples? Sure.