there are a number of defendants being sued by the trustee.
two are jw's from vancouver lower mainland.
this b--ch started the business in vancouver and then took it to washington.. here is the list of defendants.. lls america llc, debtor.
to which the defendant replied, “God bless you.”
So, clearly not a Witness. Which is why I'm still unsure why so many JWs invested with her. What was her connection to the religion? Or was it just that some high-profile JWs happened to invest first, and they recruited others who trusted them?
this is a question a sincere christian may agonize over after learning that some books of the bible were rejected by certain early christian groups,while other books that did not make the canon were accepted.
also,when one realizes that so called inspired writers of the greek scriptures quote from apocrypha,that most christians reject today,one wonders if these writings that include these quotes should even be in the bible.. it is true that when it comes to the christian greek scriptures the canon has been closed for many centuries.
also, these books have been accepted by christians ever since the second,perhaps first,century.
Chris Tann, I suggest you take some hours to read over the material posted on that site, particularly the entries for Genesis and Exodus. The Meribah accounts are just a piece of a larger puzzle that you haven't seen yet. That being said, what did you think of the fact that the Israelites said "if only we had expired in Egypt" after 40 years had passed and the ones who had lived in Egypt were already dead? These sorts of oddities are evidence for the documentary hypothesis, and if you aren't familiar with it, you owe it to yourself to read up on it. The Contradictions site is one way to learn about it, starting with the articles in the Essential Reading sidebar.
imagine, for a moment, that you are the christian god.
and you have been around since before time began.
what would it be like to never be able to learn anything .
Yeah, he was a treasure.
ever notice how the "happiest people on earth" are also the most class-oriented?
the social structure in the congregation is more complex than the blueprints of a nuclear warhead, but just so that you "remember your place", see if you can find where your niche was/is:.
1. at the top of the social order of things within the congregation is of course, the presiding overseer and his family.
Heh, well written. I'm a 7.
as 2014 draws to a close, i looked to see what important things happened in history.. looking to 1880, these things all made the news for good reason:.
jan 27th - thomas edison patents electric incandescent lamp.
mar 10th - salvation army of england sets up us welfare & religious activity.
I had a similar thought recently: http://www.jehovahs-witness.net/watchtower/beliefs/285166/1/Lets-celebrate-2014-by-looking-back-at-C-T-Russells-era
imagine, for a moment, that you are the christian god.
and you have been around since before time began.
what would it be like to never be able to learn anything .
this is a question a sincere christian may agonize over after learning that some books of the bible were rejected by certain early christian groups,while other books that did not make the canon were accepted.
also,when one realizes that so called inspired writers of the greek scriptures quote from apocrypha,that most christians reject today,one wonders if these writings that include these quotes should even be in the bible.. it is true that when it comes to the christian greek scriptures the canon has been closed for many centuries.
also, these books have been accepted by christians ever since the second,perhaps first,century.
The Bible isn't "true" or "false", it's a collection of disparate writings with many noted flaws, but certainly also some historicity. Take a look at contradictionsinthebible.com. If you prefer hard copy material, the writer recommends a few books in his articles, esp. in his early/introductory posts. It can take a while reading the site before his point sinks in -- that you need to take the writings at face value and let them speak for themselves, instead of viewing them through an interpretive lens that was invented centuries/millennia later.
in genesis 9:22, it says, "ham saw his fathers (noah) nakedness.
" over the years i have heard many theories of waht that meant.
leviticus 18:8...20:11...and 20:20-21 says.
I think you have cause and effect backwards, JosephP. Gen 9:21 states that Noah was drunk and naked. That was why his sons had to go in and cover him after Ham told them. The statement in Deut. likens sleeping with a man's wife to uncovering his nakedness because seeing another man naked was considered a sin. People are looking for something deeper in the Ham account instead of simply accepting that the Jews were prudish about nudity and that seeing his father naked was a sin in and of itself.
a book titled written by a long ti me ss member .rudolf franz ferdinand hoess.
here is a quote from this book : .
"a pleasant contrast to this type were the female jehovah's witnesses, called "bible bees" or "bible worms.
Yes, that's it, thank you ADCMS.
in his preesentation, he speaks to "you the young ones".
"you are the next generation of " adult witnesses.
this one sentence using generation in the normal way, at a stroke, shows they just made up the overlapping teaching to get themselves out of a hole.. .
I guess I see your point, Magnum and simon17. Lett can't be talking to the next generation because, according to the "overlapping" definition of the word, they don't exist yet.
A potential resolution to this linguistic quandary could be found if we imagine that, in his mind, generations are defined as fixed blocks anchored to the 1914 teaching. Generation 1 would be the block of anointed ones that saw 1914 and the later anointed ones that saw those earlier anointed ones (). Generation 2 would include anyone born after the death of the first part of the overlapping generation -- that is, the ones who saw 1914. So children born after, say, Fred Franz's death in 1992 cannot possibly be included in Generation 1. Technically even ones born long before 1992, but not anointed by 1992, are in Generation 2, which means that from the standpoint of a Generation 1er like Lett, they are in fact "the next generation".
Don't hurt me, I'm just thinking out loud here.
