a friend sent me a link about the king james bible translating the "divine name".
maybe this is why there are no new nwt bibles available.
the web site states:.
I believe this KJ version with Divine Name was done by a JW.
Notice it is the original KJV which means it is in the public domain. That is why the person was able to publish it as there is no copyright. No translating here, just replacing LORD with Jehovah.
so why not female governing body?
why not female anything?
i mean, i kind of know the answer.
1 Corinthians 11 3 But I want YOU to know that the head of every man is the Christ; in turn the head of a woman is the man; in turn the head of the Christ is God.
1 Timothy 2 12 I do not permit a woman to teach, or to exercise authority over a man, but to be in silence. 13 For Adam was formed first, then Eve.
does anyone know if the watchtower recently oppened an official you-tube channel?
http://www.youtube.com/user/jehovahswitnessesen?feature=.
it looks official ... damned if they do, damned if they don't I guess
i don't know if anybody else has mentioned this, but i'm currently at a dc in sweden, and this morning, during the symposium on different kinds of service, it was mentioned that 40% of baptisms are the result of informal witnessing.
if you add the number of baptisms of children of jw parents to this, how many are left that are baptized as a result of the door-to-door work?
doesn't sound very effective at all....
Perhaps it is an accurate statistic in context. We all know that the Organization doesn't lie, they just get creative with what they say and how they say it. For example, if the quote was "40% of all baptisms throughout the earth are the result of informal witnessing", this would be an outright lie, however, if this were a true statistic in a single area, such as the Dominican Republic for example, the Watchtower would feel as though they were being perfectly honest editing the statistic and letting you, the listener, come to the conclusion on your own that they meant it was a global statistic.
i have basically thrown away all of my bound volumes and loose wt and awake magazines.
i kept some bpoks, the insight to the scriptures, god's love, the reasoning book, and daniel's prophecies (this was my favorite) .
i held onto insight to the scriptures after reading some of ray franz's book, crisis of conscience.
1968 Awake! bound volume
i just cracked open my "crisis of conscience" book and reread the chapter, "point of decision.
" i wonder what ever happened to the people who were disfellowshiped and kicked out of bethel.
i know that ed dunlap went back to oklahoma and died not too long ago.
Thanks Cedars, for posting this article about Nestor and Toni Kuilan.
http://jwsurvey.org/life-stories/nestor-kuilan-surviving-the-fall-from-watchtowers-trapdoor
remember the drama about persecution,suffering, that a modern-day job experiences?
the jw's under ban in a " landmark ruling", our faithful brother conversing with job in the new world, it' all too wonderful!
especially job wearing pants and a tunic style shirt!
I came to a wicked reasoning as a JW that differed from the organizational point of view, that, if the Bible was written specifically for the anointed (144,000), and the anointed were to become angels, then the scripture about resurrected ones not marrying and being as the angels (Matt 22:30) applied to them and them alone. Why would that apply to a member of the human family resurrected to life on earth? Would they not have hormones? Would they not have an attraction to another human? Would these traits, feelings, emotions, be eliminated?
http://www.jwfacts.com/watchtower/quotes/marriage-new-system.php
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8dbfc4rclay&nr=1&feature=endscreen.
her blog.
http://jehovahs-witness-cult-control.blogspot.com/.
i received the following explanation in favor of the date of 607 bce.
accepted comments on the points at issue.. .
conclusion.
TJ, you might try this post, it seems to address at least some of the arguments
http://www.jehovahs-witness.net/watchtower/bible/112819/1/607-70-years-1914
an 'apostate' inactive jw in america i know on facebook went to the dc and said fully 600 people left between the end of the apostate talk and the lunch break.
have any of you who also went to the dc seen something like this happen?
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edited to say ... oops
here is a link to the talk which was given at Green Bay DC
