Posts by BereanThinker7

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United Nations puts up old 2004 letter regarding Watchtower's association with DPI-NGO

by pistolpete in

several young jws on reddit have written the united nations asking about watchtower's involvement with the united nations.

they been seeing to many apostate sites sitting at home because of covid.

as a result, the united nations has re-posted the old letter explaining the situation on their site.

Speaking with Demons

by BereanThinker7 in

having learned more actual christian beliefs since awaking from the org, looking back we had such strange and unhealthy obsession with demons compared to any other denomination that i know of.

i recently remembered this article from when i was a kid.

https://wol.jw.org/en/wol/d/r1/lp-e/101986604?q=talk+to+the+demons&p=par#h=23.

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random update, it appears maybe this was the original articles writer??? if so then he would have been from Galesburg , IL.

https://obituaries.galesburg.com/obituaries/register-mail/obituary.aspx?n=ralph-h-anderson&pid=164976491&fhid=10620

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Old Literature

by RolRod in

jw
friends

what did you do with your jw literature when you left?

kept it, sold it or dumped it?

BereanThinker7

I really wish people when are waking up would realize as more and more of the witness literature becomes online only the org will do their best to destroy their past.

Save what you have even if only to give away (or sell) to other activists. The physical copies of literature is evidence the org cannot change if you preserve it!!!

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2 Watch Tower Magazines published at the same time

by RolRod in

we all know that the name "watch tower" is not unique to the society.

there were papers that used that title prior to the society.

but did you know that the advent christian church (to which russell affiliated with) published a journal called the watch tower?.

BereanThinker7

pretty cool stuff, i love the historical aspects of that era

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Yet More Apostate Damage Control

by neat blue dog in

unbelievable.

okay actually it's very believable.

check out the latest video on jwdotorg:.

This unfortunately will probably be a very effective attempt at using inoculation theory on the average witness. Now if they hear subjects related to those points they will immediately turn of thoughts processes of their own.

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Another deep cut . . . Walter Salter

by BereanThinker7 in

as ive mentioned before i like digging into obscure watchtower characters of the past.

so todays topic will be w.f.

salter.

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"Another interesting teaching, I found out, related to the devil thing, is that Christadelphians believe only humans have free will. They believe angels don’t have free will, therefore Satan cannot be an angel who rebelled, because angels cannot rebel."

@Slimboyfat

interesting, any idea on what reasoning they have to come to that conclusion?

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Trevor Pope and Jesse Hemery

by BereanThinker7 in

jw
friends

does anybody know anything about trevor pope?

he compiled some ideas from jesse hemery and wrote a book on end times called "a bible study investigation into our relationship to god and into the time of the end" .

its interesting so far and its already hard enough to even find any writings about hemery or info on his goshen fellowship.

BereanThinker7

Just seeing these replies now. Thanks for the info guys!!

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Trevor Pope and Jesse Hemery

by BereanThinker7 in

jw
friends

does anybody know anything about trevor pope?

he compiled some ideas from jesse hemery and wrote a book on end times called "a bible study investigation into our relationship to god and into the time of the end" .

its interesting so far and its already hard enough to even find any writings about hemery or info on his goshen fellowship.

BereanThinker7

Another swing and a miss lol

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Trevor Pope and Jesse Hemery

by BereanThinker7 in

jw
friends

does anybody know anything about trevor pope?

he compiled some ideas from jesse hemery and wrote a book on end times called "a bible study investigation into our relationship to god and into the time of the end" .

its interesting so far and its already hard enough to even find any writings about hemery or info on his goshen fellowship.

BereanThinker7

Does anybody know anything about Trevor Pope? He compiled some ideas from Jesse Hemery and wrote a book on end times called "A Bible Study Investigation into Our Relationship to God and into The Time Of The End" . Its interesting so far and its already hard enough to even find any writings about Hemery or info on his Goshen Fellowship. Is Trevor Pope alive? Is that even his name or is it a pseudonym? The book hints at Pope being a former witness himself.

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Does prophesy negate free will?

by Tim207 in

not sure if this is in the right subject but here it goes.

i’ve asked this question to a few elders and bethelites but they don’t seem to understand or like the question.

to start off we have to agree that jehovah is all powerful.

BereanThinker7

This used to trouble me until I realized my concept of Yahweh and time was inaccurate and I was limiting God to an experience of time like that a human has. A better understanding of the relativity of time and things like gravitational lensing made it click for me.

So granted this is a presuppositional argument. Time is an actual dimension not just humans measurement of it. If there is an architect to all things created the creator himself is not stuck in and limited to that dimension. So when Yahweh looks at time or "steps into it" on our level he can still see all things past/future/present concurrently. Therefore when he prophesies something will happen it as good as if you did it/are doing it/will do it. You have already chosen your actions at that point in time and he is reporting back what he has seen to prove His glory and power that he Truly is God. Your free will was never touched, you made your choice.