Seems to me that Jesus was a new deity they were pushing like Serapis. He had several attributes of older and current gods to try and get people to worship him and his qualities were written to be almost the exact opposite of the Old Testament creator god. Marcion hated Jehovah and wrote his bible to exclude anything about him focusing only on Jesus. Maybe the Bible we have today took cues from this idea.
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For any that still believe in God and Jesus, what is your reasoning on this matter?
by BourneIdentity inin the old testament, god was always full of anger and jealousy resulting in the murder of millions of people.
we’re told jesus perfectly reflects his fathers qualities.
why in the new testament does jesus show no hint of anger and jealousy and wanting to kill people?
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Crazyguy2
I think most Christians denominations do this. Your under the law when it works for the leaders of said sect.
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Questions Re October 2019 Watchtower
by DNCall inin the october 2019 watchtower, in the article "1919--one hundred years ago" it states:.
"but the brothers at headquarters could not just resume the work that they had been doing for years.
because during their imprisonment, all the printing plates that were used to print literature had been destroyed.
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wasn't the finish mystery book still in print but they just had to not put in a few pages where they encouraged people to stop supporting the government and fighting in WW1? I smell a rat and don’t think any printing plates were actually destroyed. -
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Regional Convention - Greenville, SC USA
by HiddenPimo inso my brother who never got baptized went to the convention today (went to make mom and dad happy since they are devastated that i am out) and he got very upset during the baptism talk and walked out because 3 of the candidates were under the age of 12 years of age.
he said they have no clue what they are committing themselves to and will face what you faced (referring to me).
i really wish the usa government would start cracking down on this cult..
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I just love that pic DOS. The guy and the woman above him are so bored. The woman above him and to the left is like WTF and his wife and kids are just plain checked out. Too funny!
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Jesus in a Super Hero Cape
by iloowy.goowy inhave you see the latest fashion for jesus in the wt?.
he's sporting a cape, just like superman!maybe caleb can get a t-shirt with a j logo instead of an s.. .
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These people at bethel are clearly nuts!!!!
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Why was Amnon (son of David) not put to death for raping his half-sister Tamar
by blondie init is amazing what comes up when i am researching.. i was thinking about the 2 witness rule.
amnon tricked his half-sister tamar to be alone with him and then raped her.
tamar's full brother absalom found out, it is implied by the wts that there had not been 2 witnesses to the rape (hah!).
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What stood out to me is that both the male names look Egyptian
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Great crowd article @ september study Watchtower
by Gorbatchov inhas anyone read the article about the great crowd in the september study watchtower?.
i read an elephant in the room.
is there a change comming?
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This cult is reactionary now and only changes things do to running out of time or do to some court case that exposes them.
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Just realized they changed maybe the most important scripture in the bible.
by Crazyguy ini just read the scripture then went and checked in thier older bible and it read the same so i check the greek interlinear and yes they changed john 3:16 .
the verse reads "all who believe in him should not perish but have everlasting life" the cult version says "exercising faith in him might not be destroyed but have everlasting life".. so not only do they say one must exercise faith meaning having to work for it but also they changed should not perish but having everlasting life to might not be destroyed again making a caveat where one does not exist.
just to add to the point verse 18 in both bibles says the one having faith is not judged, totally blowing up thier version of 16 but of course they change 18 to say exercising faith too but it makes little difference, since it says not judged.
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Heard the verse john 3:16 again today at meeting and again it really stands out when they state in their bible the phrase “might not parish “ when most Bible read “should not parish”
“should not “ sounds to me like a positive statement that makes me think most likely will not where the phrase “ might not” sound more like the odds are not good but just maybe. Maybe I’m just mincing words but these kind of changes really do in my opinion change the meaning of scriptures and people perceptions.
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Speaking of songs
by road to nowhere inthe part last week about entertainment actually was not too over the top especially considering it was chaired by tony.
but i noticed he mentioned the present songs used as being sacred music.
i call them sales ditties.
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The songs are so bad now. Just horrible!
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30 years after leaving utterly unrecognisable
by Number 6 inthis is the first time i have posted on here in many years..... i seldom visit now although this forum was instrumental to me in gaining my sanity in the early 2000's and recovering from the watchtower religion.. by chance tonight i was on youtube and caught a jw.org video which out of curiosity prompted me to look at the official website and amongst other things i looked up the music section.. why that i hear you ask?
music is my passion and nothing reminds me more or evokes more memories than the kingdom songs i grew up listening to.. i am 49 years old and my mother was baptised in 1974. i grew up in the era of pink songbooks and green bibles.
of the theology of fred franz and types and anti-types.
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Crazyguy2
The songs now seem as though they were created to drive people out of the cult. I don’t know their just bad!