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  More failed JW chronology

  by Jeffro in

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  ive just been reviewing my timeline of the divided jewish monarchy and the neo-babylonian period.

  i decided to check for correlations of egyptian and assyrian rulers mentioned in the bible that i had not previously considered at all (much less tried to make fit a particular year).

  i was happy (though unsurprised) that no adjustments were required.. pharaoh tirhakah (taharqa) (2ki 19:8, 9; isa 37:8, 9) insight (volume 2, page 1109) claims the years assigned to him by historians must be wrong.

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  Round 2 please!
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  Challenge to you prophets - can you meet it?

  by punkofnice in

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  2. beliefs

  i challenge anyone that can accurately predict events by reading the bible or your prophetic book of choice, to give me a specific date when something will happen so i can watch for it!.

  give us the date here (not a pm) and tell us what will happen.. let there be no excuses!

  no get out clauses of ''it doesn't work that way'' or similar.

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  notsurewheretogo

  I predict 8 older men (well maybe 7 and one youngish man) living in luxury in Brooklyn will NOT go out on service midweek...instead they will gather around a table (with cosy luxury seats remember!) and talk giberish.

  This will occur every week...
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  If the Governing Body are the Faithful and Discreet Slave, Could the Governing Body all die at once?

  by Eustace in

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  2. beliefs

  i'm thinking that if all the governing body members all died at once, it would disprove this whole "the governing body are the faithful and discreet slave" business once and for all.. the faithful and discreet slave, according to watchtower teaching, will continue to exist into the time of the end.

  so if the governing body all die at once, that means they ain't the faithful and discreet slave.. they need more youngish gb members quick!.

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  Blondie...that article is great and did say that some anointed WOULD be on hand at the Big A and then they would be taken to heaven....BUT the nu-lite says that ALL of the anointed will be taken up DURING the GT and before the Big A...blowing the article you just quoted as old-(s)lite...
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  2013 Watchtower, July 15 - CHARTS for discussion

  by bats in the belfry in

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  @jwfacts..in 1919 Jehoove rappointed them over His domestics but it is a future incident, right before the big A and during the GT that they get appointed over the belongings...but your question still stands...why? The only reason seems to be the timing mentioned in the illustration/prophecy/parable/madeupcrap
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  The Watchtower BTS now teaches the Rapture

  by Julia Orwell in

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  note what the reasoning book said about the rapture in 1984:.

  rapture.

  definition: the belief that faithful christians will be bodily caught up from the earth, suddenly taken out of the world, to be united with the lord in the air.

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  But the anointed need to be on earth during the GT so that it is cut short and the big A comes...if the anointed go to heaven during the GT then what about the scripture that says on the account of the chosen ones the big A starts?

  They are just making this stuff up...
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  Questions for Believers about the Soul

  by cantleave in

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  at what point do you believe the soul is made / inserted?

  in which of the gametes is the soul or the information for the soul stored, sperm or ovum.

  is it inserted at fertilisation, some other point during embryogenesis or is it during fetal development?

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  Or there is no soul and we are what we are...physical beings...and when we die that is it...
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  Books for making a choice to believe in the Bible or not

  by Aunt Fancy in

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  i know some of you have referenced excellent books but i am not sure where to find them.

  i am looking for some very good books to give me the other side of not believing the bible.

  i am not sure where i stand at this point and would like to be informed.

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  Expressing their disbelief and doubts Lars? I think they go well beyond that, they actually prove referring to examples in nature and science to back up their belief...these men use sound logic and reasoning to prove theor points...you may want to try and emulate that as did Christ did 2,000 years ago...
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  The official list of things for which you may be disfellowshipped

  by slimboyfat in

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  from the secret elders' book which states that the list "of course" is "not comprehensive".

  nevertheless here are the acts that they deem worthy of specifying as being possible grounds for chucking people out:.

  murdermanslaughter such as killing someone while breaking traffic lawsattempting suicidesexual intercourse with someone other than your spouseanal sex with someone other than your spouseoral sex with someone other than your spousesexual stimulation of the genitals of someone other than your spousedelay in reporting a rape?

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  That list is surely very incomplete? What about gambling? You can be disfellowshipped for that and I never saw it on the list...

  Gluttony, Slander etc are others...
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  Some dummy questions for JWs

  by FingersCrossed in

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  2. beliefs

  1. who do you listen to?

  jehovah or his organization?.

  2. if you listen to jehovah, how does he speak to you?.

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  notsurewheretogo

  How about this question...

  Is it possible for a true prophet to be directed by God’s Spirit and yet is not inspired by God’s Spirit?

  To say there is a difference in being "Inspired" and being "directed" by Holy Spirit will not stand in any reasonable discussion...
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  Some dummy questions for JWs

  by FingersCrossed in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  1. who do you listen to?

  jehovah or his organization?.

  2. if you listen to jehovah, how does he speak to you?.

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  notsurewheretogo

  A quote from Don Cameron's excellent Captives to a Concept book:

  A Spirit-Directed, Uninspired True Prophet?

  Here is another example of how faulty reasoning eventually catches up with those who try to force the Bible to uphold

  their illusion…

  The Governing Body does not deny that the organization claims to be, or acts as God’s prophet.109 What they do

  deny is that they are inspired.110 Somewhere along the way someone came up with the idea that it’s all right to put God’s name on their teachings and prophecies as long as they don’t claim to be inspired. But this causes a problem that they apparently haven’t noticed yet. According to the

  Bible there are only two kinds of prophets:

  • True Prophets

  • False Prophets

  True prophets are inspired by God. False prophets are

  not…

  • Inspired true prophets

  • Uninspired false prophets

  But the Watchtower’s religious leaders have created a third kind of prophet that is a mixture or combination of both a true prophet and a false prophet…

  Added to this is the fact they also claim to be “God’s spirit-directed organization.” Therefore, when you add up all the things they do and don’t claim to be, they end up a kind prophet that has never before existed. They now have an illusionary Spirit-directed, uninspired true prophet to go along with their illusionary God’s organization.