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  King Solomon

  by Cicatrix in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  okay, maybe i'm ignorant, but i can't stop thinking about this.. it's recorded in the bible that jehovah gave solomon great wisdom.

  so why did he eventually turn away from jehovah and start serving the gods of his foreign born wives?it would seem to me that that increased wisdom from jehovah would make him more likely to continue to serve jehovah faithfully.. this also brings to mind the account of adam and eve and the tree of knowledge of good and evil.. i considered this from the angle that solomon used his free will and chose to oppose jehovah.

  but is free will really "free" if you are punished with death for disobeying the creator???.

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  No Questions, No Answers!

  by bjc2012 in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  the road to god's "truth", divine truth, is the same.

  it takes real, real "effort" before truth, divine truth can be achieved.

  and therefore, they could not give it to us, this divine truth.

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  Rev 9: 1-11

  by Smitty in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  what do these scriptures apply to now?

  who is apollyon, the locust, the trees and grass??.

  rev 9:1-11. the fifth angel sounded his trumpet, and i saw a star that had fallen from the sky to the earth.

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  WTS Changes Media Info on DF'ing

  by FreePeace in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i don't know if this has already been posted (as i don't visit as much anymore).

  the wts has changed the info in the faq section of their media site,

  http://www.jw-media.org/beliefs/beliefsfaq.htm

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  "I said, 'You are "gods";

  by Smitty in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  psalms 82:6 -- "i said, 'you are "gods"; .

  in your opinion, who does this scripture apply?

  offer scriptural support if you can.

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  THE DILEMMA FACING APOSTATES

  by You Know in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  the dilemma facing apostate jehovahs witnesses, or apostate dubs, as i have dubbed them, (no pun intended) is the very fact of their seeming success.

  one of the great ironies of the apostate movement, that presumptuously boasts of "know the truth about the truth," is that apostates themselves are bound by the watchtower's own interpretive shortcomings, and hence are massively ignorant of jehovahs judicial decisions regarding his organization.

  in that the presumption in operation is that if enough scandal and error can be brought to light regarding the governing body, the watchtower society's teachings, as well as individual jehovah's witnesses, then that somehow means that jehovah's witnesses have no connection with jehovah god.

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  where can i watch dateline?

  by mommy_rose in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  does anyone here have a link to a video or transcript online of the last dateline show about jws?

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  Dateline's Necessity

  by metatron in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  there is a new necessity for the dateline expose'.. fairness to catholics.. the blitz of media attention has focused almost exclusively.

  on the catholic church and its priests.

  yet, other centralized.

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  Child abuse policy

  by Smitty in

  1. watchtower
  2. child-abuse

  the pope is considering adopting a child abuse policy similar to jw's.

  they've already accepted the policy of 'one strike youre out'.

  now they're considering applying it to those cases that involve pass offences.

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  Being dis-fellowshipped or dis-associated

  by Smitty in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  for those that are dis-fellowshipped or dis-associated: do you speak to jw's even though they know you're disfellowshipped or dis-associated?

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