I live about 20 miles from the town (Stratton) which is along the Ohio River at it's northern turn from Pennsylvania and West Virginia. This happened about 6 months ago and it is one town only. The congo is in Wellsville, Ohio.
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CNN mentions Jehovah's Witnesses Today
by ARoarer ini have been watching the news on cnn and happened to notice the news flashing across the bottom mentioning the state of ohio banning door to door work and jehovah's witnesses!
has anyone seen this?
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Teaching the Bible
by Rex B13 inhi gang,.
let me qualify this post before my usual detractors have a chance to blast me.
i already know that the great majority here do not believe in the one, true god.
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Shelby,
As cute as you are I still wish you would just quit playing semantics with people and recognize a paraphrase instead of reading everything literal.
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MAJOR UN/WTS NEWS- UN LETTER & 1992 Press R...
by hawkaw inas of 6:02 pm last night i received a facsimile from paul hoeffel at the un on the wts.. he gave me 3 of the 4 things i requested in two paragraphs.. i have sent a scanned version to steve bates and someone else.. i sent it to kent and randy.
and kent and randy have posted the official united nations letter on their web sites.. here is the letter - put your cursor on the image and then right click on your mouse and hit "save image" to your computer.. .
after you look at kent's web site and you people still think this it is a fake letter, phone paul hoeffel yourself at (212) 963-8070.. hawk
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This is great but I am not getting good hard copies out of my printer using the saved jpeg file. I even ran it through my viewer program filters. Can anyone help me out?
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C. T. Russell Must Be Rolling In His Grave
by KD inyears ago i remember reading an old book about the life of charles t. russell.
as a young man, russell was indignant with the major churches and at night used to write scornful letters and placed them on the buildings for the public to see.
he used harsh phrases such as "off spring of vipers" and "harlots".
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HI Rollo,
Russell needs to be blamed for the heretical notions he has helped inspire in the various offshoots of the Watchtower Society. Here is a rank amateur who later allowed himself to be called a "prophet, the Laodicean" who was actually proven a false prophet.
He spouted theology without understanding even the rudimentary skills of greek and hebrew/chaldee. He was a master at single scripture exgesis and twisting context to make scripture match his view. He and his secretary greatly exaggerated his 'world tours' and speaking and or debates with 'clergy'. I guess what I am saying is that he was a at worst a rank charlatan and at best a misguided soul with delusions of grandeur......
Maybe most of the board participants don't know you are an active Russellite who still promotes his teachings? Perhaps this is an opportunity to 'come clean' instead of skulking about?
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An observation, and comments wanted.
by JeffT ini'm going to stick my neck out here and announce that i'm writing a novel based on my experience in the borg.. tonight, as part of my reseach, i looked up "chronology" in two sources:the zondervan pictoral encyclopedia of the bible, and the aid to bible understanding.
zondervan is a five volume work (vol 1 is 1056 pages) the aid book is 1694 pages.
on this subject zondervan spends 29 1/2 pages of (interesting) discussion that boils down to "nobody actually knows-here are x number of best guesses.
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Zondervan publishes John Phillip's "Bible Explorer's Guide". It may provide insight on several different subjects for your research. Check it out.
The Russellites were a by-product of 19th century 'rationalism', which is the idea that the Bible can be totally and literally explained and there are no real mysteries.
The churches have been right all along with their mainstream, common doctrine of salvation by grace through faith, the trinity, literal hell, immortal soul, etc...
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by Rex B13 inhi gang,.
let me qualify this post before my usual detractors have a chance to blast me.
i already know that the great majority here do not believe in the one, true god.
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>As to the rest of your reply, you just know how to make me swoon, don't you? You drive me mad with desire, I must confess.
Love-
JulieHey! I can't take this. I have a weakness for sweet ladys who whisper sweet nothings. {[BOINGGGG]}
You will ruin my reputation yet! ;-)
xoxoxoxo then xxx,
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Teaching the Bible
by Rex B13 inhi gang,.
let me qualify this post before my usual detractors have a chance to blast me.
i already know that the great majority here do not believe in the one, true god.
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Shelby,
So, this is what you are driving at!>Where, then, is the need for the Bible?
That's all I'm asking...
There is NEED for the Bible when evaluating the assertions of various anointed, self appointed prophet-crack-pots who claim some 'new revelation'. Does that sound like anyone you know, sweets?
If your contentions don't line up with the valid exgesis of scripture then you are either a false prophet and/or a loonie.
BTW, 'you' 'use' 'the' ' ' 'too' 'much' 'and' 'it's' 'irritating'.'Rex', someone who understands that 'prophet' means 'teacher'.
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Oh lordy lord read this its hilarious
by bboyneko inok so i was breakdancing at this event called in the streets in frederick maryland, if you want to see pics go to my website www.bboyneko.com and go to the events section.
.. http://www.bboyneko.com.
anyway, its a small town we affectionatly nick named fredneck and so there are many bible-thumpers..i received a series of llittle comic book pamphlets that i loved!
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Boyboy,
Jack Chick tracts are ultra-fundie. They are on the level of old JW publications about armageddon. Needless to say, we don't use them. However, those who are of the age of accountablity are accountable for their life's course.Do you actually have any idea why 'no man is good' and in line for judgement? Try reading the first three chapters of Romans if you want some insight.
Also, there are no 'minor sins', that idea is the result of man comparing himself to other men. One sin violates the whole law. One sacrifice has saved all who desire to be saved.
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The bros. at ground 0
by tdogg infrom wol:.
"someone from gc sent this e-mail to me.
it is a very nice and encouraging experience.. hi everyone, .
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I got this same story from my dad. I also promptly squashed it as the turd it is. It's oh so easy to point out the flaws and self-adulation in this story.
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by Rex B13 inhi gang,.
let me qualify this post before my usual detractors have a chance to blast me.
i already know that the great majority here do not believe in the one, true god.
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Good cheerleading, Jdubla. I am beginning to see the extent that you follow the pack and forget to think for yourself.
Hi Julie,
I am thrilled just to have the attention of such a confident and self-assured woman!Bible stories are read to toddlers at the level their own minds are able to fathom. By the time a child reaches kindergarten age they know as much about scripture as many adults. We don't have any books that are as graphic as the old 'Paradise' book, if that is what you are asking. Detailed analysis of various passages would be useless until they are able to understand context.
>How old does a child have to be to be kept in line with fear? Is it a never-to-young-to-start sort of mindset or more of a let's-not-damage-their-tender-minds-yet view?
I know the story of Joshua and his people slaughtering others was way too much for my own daughter at about age 8 so that's why I ask.As a New Testament church, we emphasize salvation and the work done on the cross by Christ. The whole key is to teach at the level of understanding. Some children are ready for this type of study, some are not. Naturally, we would not want to instil fear in children, in anyone really. Even 'fearing God' is in relation to 'respect' for the creator and His own awesome abilities. Those who are drawn to the Father are not drawn out of self-preservation, they are drawn out of love for Christ in his grace toward us.
BTW, those who died as the result of judgement by God were warned repeatedly and their deaths, (as well as the innocents deaths) are of their own responsibility for disobedience to God.
Fleeing to God in times of trouble is our shelter. Knowing that God is in ultimate control of all events (sovereignty) reassures us that all will work toward the good in the end.
Could you yourself understand this at 8, 12, 18 or even 38?Let me go off on a tangent:
I came across a new approach to prophetic events as taught by David Chilton. Some of his message is part dominion theology: this teaches that the church will gradually convert the whole world without violence and that Jesus return will be the end result of this conversion. It may take thousands of years yet the results will be that God Himself will save humanity rather than have to destroy the majority who have sided with evil. According to Chilton, Revelation is a book that was really fullfilled during the Roman times. Either way, armageddon is not for the purpose of killing off 'those who do not believe as we do'. It's likened to a policeman gunning down thugs who are threatening innocents, and really, is that so bad? Imagine a whole world threatened by the likes of Hitler and his cronies; would you blame God for blasting them?
Context, context, context. ;-)
Rex