I`m confused ? The organization is dead set against beards yet in their illustrations of the resurrected who rule with JC in heaven both men & women are shown as having beards ?
smiddy3
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Oh Boy! Beards are "stumbling blocks" again ... from Stephen Lett
by freddo inso this week's midweek meeting video about stumbling others has lett spouting and gurning rubbish again.. if you can't take the whole 9 minutes go from 5:50 to get the context and 6:45 for the "beard" mention.. https://youtu.be/ezv1ici5cwo.
oh, well - at least they shoot themselves in the foot with this doublespeak.
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Is he interested?
by Sunnybear ini met a wonderful man on match.com several months ago.
on our first date, there was amazing chemistry and we ended up having sex.
it was not planned, it just happened.
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smiddy3
I agree with Doc now people do what they want to do regardless of any evidence to the contrary
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Huffpost: A Reason (and Season) to Stop Shunning
by AndersonsInfo inhttps://www.huffingtonpost.com/janice-harper/a-reason-and-season-to-st_b_1146103.html.
a reason (and season) to stop shunning.
by janice harper.
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smiddy3
Jehovah never shunned Satan and neither did Jesus what does that tell you .?
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Blood Issue.......something for thought, where is the logic.
by CovertsadJW ini have yet to read about the contradictions in the jw teachings on blood, but i have personally witnessed one.
i am a medical professional and have seen hemopure administered for an active jw who did refuse a blood transfusion.
its not fda approved here, but given in special life saving circumstances.
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smiddy3
i`m pretty certain the average Joe blow J.W would have no clue defending their no Blood policy in a state of emergency .
To anybody who asked , they would deflect these embarrassing questions to the Elders who would then contact the legal Department for clarification .
What does the latest Watchtower say about this ?
It has nothing to do with what the Bible says.
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Is it a GOOD thing to be a sheep, or to be wheat??
by stuckinarut2 inthe bible passage at luke 15 speaks about being a "sheep who is lost".
the shepherd looks for and brings the sheep back into the fold.. the passage at matthew 13 speaks about the righteous being like wheat - kept separate from the weeds.. but, there is an inherent problem with both passages!
for what reason are the sheep saved?
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smiddy3
All christian religions interpret scriptures as to what they want to believe the scripture to mean..
And not what the scripture`s actually say ..
And that explains why their are over 40,000 different Christian sects in the world today
And JW`s are no different from Christendom in this regard .
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Is it a GOOD thing to be a sheep, or to be wheat??
by stuckinarut2 inthe bible passage at luke 15 speaks about being a "sheep who is lost".
the shepherd looks for and brings the sheep back into the fold.. the passage at matthew 13 speaks about the righteous being like wheat - kept separate from the weeds.. but, there is an inherent problem with both passages!
for what reason are the sheep saved?
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stuckinarut2
LOL though it`s oh so true every living thing on this planet keeps living by devouring some other living thing whether it`s on land sea or in the air.
And it has always been the case from time immemorial
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Facing my own mortality!
by eyeuse2badub ini’m 71 years old now.
seven decades plus.
but, i put that in perspective owing to the fact that my older brother died in 1992 at the age of only 51. it was a very sobering time for me even though i was only 45 at the time.
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smiddy3
The Bible says the wages of sin is death ,
Lazarus and a couple of others in the Bible died and were resurrected they paid for their sins right?
But they still died According to the Bible they should be still walking around among us but their not.
Death and taxes are the realities of life enjoy life while you can .
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Is he interested?
by Sunnybear ini met a wonderful man on match.com several months ago.
on our first date, there was amazing chemistry and we ended up having sex.
it was not planned, it just happened.
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smiddy3
He has invited me to church and told me he would go with me if I ever wanted to see what it was about.
And you would be love bombed by the congregation as a newcomer.
In the booklet, they say that Jehovah is written as God's name 70 times in scripture. But, when Iooked Jehovah up in original Hebrew, I only saw it written 4 times as just Jehovah.
In the publication of JW "The Kingdom Interlinear Of The Christian Greek Scriptures" a word for word translation of the Greek New Testament the Tetragrammaton representing Gods name does not exist at all yet JW`s have added the name Jehovah in their translation of the New Testament ?
If they lie about his name being in the New Testament what else would they lie about.
One more important thing to consider :Their are numerous / many scriptures in the New Testament that admonish Christians to do this,that or the other in the NAME of JESUS .
Their is not one Scripture in the New Testament that admonishes Christians to do ANYTHING in the name of Jehovah ,not one.
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Some of the vital teachings of the Bible are later interpolations, says Bible writer Habakkuk
by Ireneus inso small a book, yet habakkuk answers too big questions.. 1) god did not ask israelites to plunder other nations (habakkuk 2:8).
2) god did not authorize eating of flesh of other living beings.
(habakkuk 1:15) uninspired bible writers invented a story of noah’s flood which meant all plant lives got destroyed which necessitated the eating of flesh of living beings (ironically, as though god commanded noah to eat the flesh of the very living beings god supposedly commanded him to save through ark taking two of all creatures).
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smiddy3
Every living creature on this earth lives off of the feeding of every other living creature on earth and has done so since Adam was a boy /or since time began whichever came first
On land in the Ocean or in the air .
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Victoria, Australia:Survivors of sexual abuse to be able to sue churches
by AndersonsInfo inhttp://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-02-24/survivors-of-sexual-abuse-to-be-able-to-sue-churches/9481000.
sexual abuse survivors in victoria to be able to sue churches as government moves to end 'ellis defence'.
updated about 2 hours ago.
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smiddy3
When i was being converted in 1960 it was emphasized to me that their was no clergy / laity distinction as existed in Christendom`s religions.
So how come they can claim clergy / penitent privilege in a court of law.
And lets not forget Rom.13: 1 let every soul be in subjection to the superior authorities
{ Apparently only when it suits them to do so otherwise forget about it }