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Who really is the FDS?!?!?!?!?

by LDH in

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hey all, hope you're having a great year so far.. before witnet was closed down, there was an interesting discussion regarding the fds and their failed prophecies.

i asked a question, but unfortunately there wasn't enought time to get everyone's view.. so i'll rephrase my posts, and wait to hear from y'all.. if we are so quick to say that the fds is a false prophet because of some failed prophecies (even tho they say they don't prophecy, we all know better) then how would you explain the bible book of jonah?.

a faithful prophet, jonah, followed (after much trial and tribulation to himself) jehovah's command to declare destruction on the city of nineveh.

RR

I think we need to look at the verses again, the Lord here is not talking about two individuals or groups, but one.

The interlinear translates it "and if THAT servant should say evily in his heart." This tells us that the once "faithful servant" become evil when he felt the "Lord delayeth."

Quite interesting, if we take the Society's position that the slave is a CLASS, then Judge Rutherford is a dead ringer for the "evil Servant." How is one faithful then evil? It is all wrapped up with the second advent. Russell taught that Jesus' parousia was in 1874, Rutherford also taught this. Eventually Rutherford stated "the Lord delayeth" and moved the date up to 1914, forty years later, he also "smote" his brethren [the schism of 1917] and began drinking with the drunkards, it is a known fact Rutherford was a drunk.

"People in glass houses, shouldn't throw stones"

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God Active or Not?

by ISP in

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i am interested in the boards view on the above.

is god actively helping any or is he dormant.

living in the time of jesus presence/kingdom rule i have to say that i would expect a little more than i see at the moment!.

RR

TR

I'm getting to the point of believing that religion does whatever one wants it to do.

As the judge would say "Religion is a snare and a racket."

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New here

by Ziggy424 in

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hi all...am new to your great forum....got a sore back from shoveling all the new snow today and yesterday...:-) "smile" it makes them wonder....:-)

RR

Hi Ziggy, I know how you feel, we had plenty of snow here too, but fortunately my neighbor came over with his snow blower and tok care of that for us.

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God Active or Not?

by ISP in

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friends

i am interested in the boards view on the above.

is god actively helping any or is he dormant.

living in the time of jesus presence/kingdom rule i have to say that i would expect a little more than i see at the moment!.

RR

God is very active, remember ... before any good can come, chaos must first reign, a tearing donw of this system must first come before a building up of God's system can begin. We are in the tearing down stage.

"People in glass houses, shouldn't throw stones"

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Other Life

by Angharad in

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sorry if this topic has already been posted.. looking at size of the universe i cannot belive that we are the only life in it.

why would god create this enormous universe and then only use one minute planet?.

does anyone have any thoughts?.

RR

Could it be that we were the first, and not wanting a repeat of sin, he is using us as a model and sample for future life on other planets to learn from?

"People in glass houses, shouldn't throw stones"

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How Many?

by neyank in

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hi all,.

reading the 1914 thread brought a question to mind.. how many of us became jws because of witnesses coming to our doors telling us that christ came into power invisibly in 1914 and this generation that saw those events would not pass away untill all those things took place?.

i.e.the new system coming.satan bound for a thousand years.people becoming perfect.ect,ect........ neyank

RR

Good question, I would have to say that their basic theology is what attracted me to them. Granted I didn't have much knowledge of the Scriptures, but much of what they had to share with me, made a lot of sense.

1914 played no issue with me, as I could see from scripture itself that we were living in prophetic times.

"People in glass houses, shouldn't throw stones"

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Hi everyone!

by LsweetNC in

just stopping by, wanting to make new friends.

feel free to write me back.

lsweet.

RR

Howdy, welcome to the jungle

"People in glass houses, shouldn't throw stones"

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Confessing

by STRUGGLE in

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hello, i was reading judical com.

was really suprise to find out how some of jw's feel.

some have, like the single mom, have such a negative experience with them.

RR

She was intelligent, attractive, well educated. She had very high morals, a great sense of humor, a good job and was in great shape financially. We also were in love with other.

She apparently had one flaw ... she was a JW.

"People in glass houses, shouldn't throw stones"

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