when i was a kid they implied that all animals and humans were vegetarian before the flood but i don’t know the scriptures they used, anyone know?
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I don’t think they have backed off from this teaching but have just stopped talking about it. I have noticed over the years that WT has stopped talking about anything that can easily be proven wrong my kids don’t know the Bible says there was a dome over the earth, they don’t know about the subject of this thread. They have never been taught how long a ago Adam and Eve were created. When the flood happened etc.
it’s easy to keep people in if your vague about your teachings concerning the Bible.
the last couple years i have been really getting into watching these videos called the bible protect.
there is no real dogmatic axe to grind.
just simple 10 -15 min videos on the individual books of the bible and kind of how it’s all connected together.
When I was waking up from the cult is when it became apparent I didn’t know much and what I did know was just jw propaganda. I was on my way of being what I call a true Christian until I dove tailed off when seeing a post about the God El.
I think I have a tremendous amount of knowledge now about how the Christian concept and ideas came about over time in the New Testament I have also studied individual books and when some of the individual writings and stories came from. I see the Bible as more a collection of individual books not always being about the same god or even people, thrown together then edited to get what we have today.
i found out just last night that back in 2015 scientists discovered a piece of amber estimated to be over 15 million years old.
inside the amber was a flea, very similar to the size and kind that attack and eat our blood today.
whats even more astonishing is in the mouth they found bacteria that has the same make up as bubonic plague.
I found out just last night that back in 2015 scientists discovered a piece of Amber estimated to be over 15 million years old. Inside the amber was a flea, very similar to the size and kind that attack and eat our blood today.
Whats even more astonishing is in the mouth they found bacteria that has the same make up as bubonic plague.
They also found evidence that this flea had eaten on a rat.
So there you have it, 15 million years ago a flea sucked some holy sacred blood from a rat and got some bubonic plague. But the Bible says no animal before the flood ate flesh no blood and god forbid (no pun intended) was their any disease before Adam sinned.
Wonder what a JW would say?
when i was a kid they implied that all animals and humans were vegetarian before the flood but i don’t know the scriptures they used, anyone know?
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When I was a kid they implied that all animals and humans were vegetarian before the flood but I don’t know the scriptures they used, anyone know?
i am surprised no one has mentioned what is going on in canada.. maybe they have but i missed it.
so here are some of the facts as i know them.
ontario only.. sault st. marie had their six congregations whittled down to two.
Are jws in Canada leaving at a faster rate?
it not only reflects, but it would verify that wt statistics are true and accurate.
herein, are my reasons why.. lds general conference, which is the equivalent of the jw memorial, has an attendance of around 20 million ( that's people, who physically turn up).
however, the people choosing this online option is the unknown in this equation.. lets now look at 2 different scenarios for lds general conference to see how this compares to the jws: .
I don’t see a connection? I sincerely believe both groups are lying and the jws probably even more so then the Mormons. All cults lie about their numbers! The jws right now are telling their followers about all their growth yet are sell off Kingdom Halls.
fader here - last meeting was in autumn 2005. lurker on this site and others.
not one to get all controversial.. typical situation, pretty much a born in and left the church at age 38 and never looked back.. i'm 53 now, parents getting older - late 70s but very active, dad is still an elder.. parents, in laws, brother and brother-in-law still uber active jws.. my family (wife and 2 adult children) out since 2005.. we have stayed close to our parents - we have treaded religion lightly and have had a pretty good relationship and have kept our personal lives and beliefs/opinions separated from them.
this was intentional - as we love them and do not want anything to cause shunning since they are getting older and want to be there for them and we respect their beliefs.. got this letter today.
Send them the article in the Awake I think it is about whether it’s ok to have a piñata. Then write some where in it in all caps Hypocrites.
so proud of this counter that i made!.
very simple yet shows the estimated amount of people that are living that are from the generation of 1914, defined as "all the people who were alive, even just barely being born, when ww1 started".. here's what i assumed:.
10% of the 1.7 billion people alive in 1914 were infants, just children.
They didn’t say born in 1914 when I was young , it was first those old enough to understand the events that happened in 1914 so they specifically said they would have to be 14 or 15. Then as time went by they reduced it to about ten then younger and younger. The fact is the book Millions will Never die wasn’t about that idea at all but another switch in doctrine. Anyway so they would have had to be born no later then 1900 as they explained in the 70’s and early 80’s. Your chart should be adjusted for that anyway no ones alive now that was born in 1900.
this notice is not official yet and it should be confidential until released thru the proper channels.
a friend of mine told me about a huge elders meeting in southern california.
the subject was the relocation and dissolution of some congregations; it seems that this is the result of some project that has been going on for some time and is going to be implemented right now.. please let me know if this is happening all over the country?.
I just noticed last night that in the area I grew up two hall’s closest to the one I attended are gone along with two maybe three congregations. The remaining congregation was relocated to the hall I attended. I don’t know how many congregations or halls have been eliminated in the greater city area.
In the area I now live, rural area, there’s not much changing that I see other then people being told to attended other congregations no halls being sold yet. I’m thinking that if the halls aren’t worth much or could not be easily sold that the jws are being told to just stay put for now but I’m not sure maybe it’s just this area.
so i was interviewing a guy for a podcast episode today and he went and saw his grandmother over christmas to gather some history.
he wasn't raised a jw but it turns out his family was actually opposed to the jws because they went all the way back to russell.
according to him (from her stories), they refused to follow rutherford and that's where the split took place.
Jws were still into pyramid crap till 1928. I heard the first breaks with Rutherford was also about 1918 one reason was the book the Finish Mystery. Later people left and more breaks because of his failed 1920s Beth sirim predictions . He then reinvented the whole religion and changed the name after so many left.
