Posts by Steel

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Firstborn of all Creation - What does it refer too?

by JW Answers in

the jehovah's witnesses believe the title given to the lord jesus as 'firstborn' is in reference to himself being created.

however as we study the scriptures we can see that it has a greater meaning than being created..

Steel

I was raised evangelical and I can assure you a one hour motivational speech on Sunday morning is nothing compared to the WTS. Also don't try and tell me some of these nutty fringe groups like potters house or westbourgh baptist church represent the evangelical church.

Kids dying over blood transfusions

Parents shunning there own children

Taking all the fun things out of childhood

boring boring assemblies

attacking higher education

just the shear bloody waste of time of it all.

Its really sad to see ex dubs are just as stupid as the ones still in.

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Firstborn of all Creation - What does it refer too?

by JW Answers in

the jehovah's witnesses believe the title given to the lord jesus as 'firstborn' is in reference to himself being created.

however as we study the scriptures we can see that it has a greater meaning than being created..

Steel

a, I don't give a shit about religious dogma. The WTS destroys lives and families . Comparing it to evangelical the church isn't a fair comparison.

b. The trinity is based on the idea Jesus was the visible touchable manifestion of God or Lord in the old testament. Its not about proof texts. it's about having a basic understanding of the bible narrative.

It's sad when you can't see the forest because of all the trees in the way.

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Firstborn of all Creation - What does it refer too?

by JW Answers in

the jehovah's witnesses believe the title given to the lord jesus as 'firstborn' is in reference to himself being created.

however as we study the scriptures we can see that it has a greater meaning than being created..

Steel

Comparing evangicals to Jehovah witnesses is idiotic. The WTS is a hell of a lot more dangerous.

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Jephthah's daughter : A shining example of singleness

by Diogenesister in

really watchtower?

jephthah's daughter as an example of what a girl wants to be when she grows up??.

a burnt offering?!!.

Steel

It's just a reminder with the gender imbalance in the rank and file to not look for a mate off the reservation.

Just assume everything they teach has a cultish twist and you will be able to spot it right away.

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Beautiful Circularity

by Euphemism in

just ran across this beautiful example of circular reasoning from the watchtower.w85 12/1 31. .

questions from readers.

was the apostle paul part of the christian governing body?.

Steel

Once I learned about the book of Acts, if there was any central " governing body " and that is a big if, it was located in Antioch Syria, not Jerusalem. The majority of Christians were ran out of Jerusalem after the feast of Pentecost by the Romans and Jewish authorities. The majority of first century Christians then moved to Antioch.

Paul travelled back to Jerusalem to correct incorrect doctrine, not join a club.

There is literally no words to describe how stupid the WTS is on this subject.

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Yearbook 2014 NWT is The Finest Translation of the Bible Available to Mankind. 😇

by Fabian in

the is on page 4 of the 2014 yearbook.. a letter from the governing body.

how delighted we are to write you at the beginning of this momentous year!

by late 2014, a whole century will have passed since our beloved king jesus christ began ruling in the midst of his enemies.—ps.

Steel

I always kind of thought the WTS producing their own bible was kind of like a cigarette company building their own medical school.

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Is Russia "right" about presecuting Jehovah's Witnesses?

by iliketreasure in

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jehovah's witnesses are presecuted in russia.

on par with the is and other terroristic groups.

it happened when the anti-extremism laws were extended to non-violent groups.. i don't believe that russia actually cares for the well-being of their citizens with this move and probably merely a law to stop other political forces (and the jws are one in a way, since their gather authority over large groups of people and also have their own political and judicial institutiona), but are they right about it anyway?.

Steel

Freedom of speech isn't freedom to yell fire in a crowded theatre. The WTS is built on insulting, annoying and slandering every other Christian denomination and destroying lives and families in the process.

In World war 2 Russia lost 20 million people defending the motherland and To have a group of people going door to door telling people it is immoral to defend the country because a group of men in America say so is really insulting.

Slippy slope ??? Yes.

Is Russia better for it. Oh hell yeah.

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Who will be resurrected? The righteous and the unrighteous

by RULES & REGULATIONS in

chapter seven.

there will be a resurrection.

17 who will be resurrected?

Steel

According to JW theology , won't it be better to not do anything ? Because you are basically just destroying people with your door to door service ?

If you never told them, they get a chance to live again ?

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Discontinue unproductive bible study - jw broadcasting

by Gorbatchov in

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https://tv.jw.org/#en/mediaitems/latestvideos/pub-ism_2_video.

interesting video explaining how to end a bible study.. watch the kind of uber behaviour of the witnesses: make a choice or we leave.... so hard, so not christian.

no love for the person.. g..

Steel

I wonder how many so called bible studies are just evangelical do good ers trying to do some cult deprograming, faking the premise of an interest.

I think the wts knows that.

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The End of World War 1 was Exactly 100 Years Ago

by ILoveTTATT2 in

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it is so amazing that the end of wwi was signed exactly 100 years ago!

and in just a few more hours, at 11:00am on 11 november 2018, paris time, the combat actually stopped!

(the war wasn´t officially over until 1919).it is such a historic moment, for the entire world, but also for jw´s, and for exjw´s.for almost the entire length of the war, the witnesses thought that the war was the prelude to armageddon.

Steel

When I was in grade 12 we had a speaker in our social studies class who was a holocaust survivor.

He was 5 years old in Belgium and the SS came to his kindergarten and started to pull the pants down of all the little boys looking for circumcised ones. At that time only Jewish boys were snipped. Lucky he was hidden by his teacher because she knew what the police wanted and after his parents died in the death camps she raised him.

Now I have a son about that age and I think of those children being shipped to the death camps. I also think of those who gave their lives to stop it.

Yesterday was memorial day in Canada and in the kingdom hall not a word. Disgusting. Absolutely disgusting. Parasites, living off the blood of there hosts.