Topics Started by BelisemDeBelimakom

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MINA TREASURY SERVICES LIMITED, Ireland, Bethel, the vow of poverty, stocks, dividends and Christ Jesus. Find me the connection
by LaFrancia in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
i read this from a european blog.

all the bethelites who are part of it (16 in total) own 631,250 shares (value of each share 1 euro).

the shares will generate a dividend, but the bethelites have all taken a vow of poverty.
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JWhub
by Mikejw in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
i’m an elder who is pima, i’m amazed how much info is available to all elders.

you can see all private details of every member of the congregation.

i wonder how these sisters feel about their private details being available to these creepy elders?.
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Do JWs believe Jesus is an angel?
by slimboyfat in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
i would suggest:.

the short answer is yes.. the longer answer is a qualified yes, with some caveats.

the short answer is yes because jehovah’s witnesses teach that jesus is michael the archangel, their leader, eldest and most powerful, and have taught this since the very beginning of the religion.
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How many JW in the 1920's
by xaminewt in
1. watchtower
2. bible
i'm trying to find out how many jw there were globally in 1924, 1925, 1926, 1927 and 1928. the watchtower of 1926 says that there were 25,000 in attendance at the magdeburg convention for the public address, but the same watchtower say that one the last day of the convention there were 15,000 present, so i assume at least 10,000 were interested persons - non jw.

the watchtower 1955 says: "for this year of 1927 the number in attendance at the spring memorial internationally was 88,544, yet of these only some 18,602 were active as house-to-house kingdom announcers".

these statistics would seem to imply that the majority of jw in 1926 were at the magdeburg convention.
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2024 GB Update #5
by ukpimo in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
let's mine for the next gb update!

it isn't yet on the servers, however the code 1112024014 is to be used for august.

it should be out publicly on the borg website tomorrow.
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Members of congregation know it’s not true
by Mikejw in
1. jw
2. experiences
we have lonely old folks and even some not so old.. they know the gb are not who they claim to be.. but they stay in the congregation because they are lonely.

i wonder what percentage of jws this is the case, i would guess a lot.

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The true pronunciation of God's name....
by Kosonen in
1. jw
2. friends
i found a very interesting video by a jewish biblical scholar about how to correctly pronounce jehovah.

it's not yahweh as other scholars claim.. https://youtu.be/4vgxmmbst8w?si=yq7ggwstkpnd3f18.
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How Much Damage Would You Assess?
by Sea Breeze in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
just as there is no such thing as a christian who worships satan, there is no such thing as a christian outside of the new covenant “for the forgiveness of sins”.

and he took the cup, and gave thanks, and gave it to them, saying, drink ye all of it, for this is my blood of the new testament, which is shed for many for the remission of sins.

- mt.
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Romans 10: 9 Simple Salvation - Not So Fast Says WT.
by Sea Breeze in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
"if you confess with your mouth that jesus is lord and believe in your heart that god raised him from the dead, you will be saved".

- romans 10: 9. i find it interesting that this simple requirement for salvation has been a specific target of wt since their beginning.. first, jw's call jehovah lord, not jesus.

the fact that scripture calls jesus the king of kings and lord of lords doesn't seem to matter to them.
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"Put Faith in a Victorious Organization" WT 3/1/79
by WingCommander in
1. jw
2. friends
the concept of "the organization" is not new in jw-land.

it's been around since rutherford's time.

ray franz is quoted as saying in the first jw expose documentary entitled "witnesses of jehovah" in 1986: .