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  Guys Learning the Bible is important for Us or Not?

  by Is123 in

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  i think it not very important for us today because it a common book written and it has no value i believe in science.

  yes, but when i was browsing the internet on google a website popups claiming you can get an answer to useless bible questions please can check and give you fuck reviews here yes science has fact then the common book called bible!!

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  The Bible is one of the best preserved pieces of ancient literature in modern form.

  ---But unless you just happen to have an interest in ancient literature, the benefit of studying it is dubious....
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  Shoehorning events regarding so called bible prophecy

  by nowwhat? in

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  does anyone really look at england and the united states as a duel world power?

  america alone is the world power.

  you can lump england in with other counties like france and germany.

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  The "dual world power" thing actually made a certain sense in the immediate post-war era, but that was a long, long time ago.

  Times have changed.
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  JW's - your hierarchy perverts the Bible so much, why?

  by The Fall Guy in

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  (revelation 5:10) - and you made them to the god of us kingdom and priests, and they are reigning upon the earth.

  (nwt kindom interlinear).

  (revelation 5:10) .

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  Scripture proves scripture...

  A popular sentiment in fundy circles, but it's no better from the perspective of translation than the doctrinal bias of the JW's.....
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  Jehovah's Witnesses can donate blood

  by Marvin Shilmer in

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  2. friends

  jehovah’s witnesses can donate blood.

  today i added a new article to my blog that answers the question of whether watchtower doctrine forbids jehovah’s witnesses from going to their community blood bank and donating some of their blood to help replace all the products from blood accepted on a daily basis by the community of jehovah’s witnesses.. .

  my article is titled jehovah’s witnesses can donate blood and is available at: http://marvinshilmer.blogspot.com/2012/03/jehovahs-witnesses-can-donate-blood.html.

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  So have the JW's ever stated (Formally or informally) an official position on apheresis blood donation?
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  Donating Blood a Disfellowshipping Offense?

  by HiddenPimo in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  when i served as an elder i never heard of this scenario presenting itself - giving blood.. has anyone heard of a judicial case where a person donated and was disfellowshipped?

  are there any references to this in the jw publications, manuals, handbooks?.

  not so hiddenpimo :-).

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  Blood drawn for testing is not necessarily disposed of.

  A striking example in this discussion is premature infants, who cannot tolerate the loss of even a few cc's of blood.

  When blood absolutely has to be drawn, it is reinjected later.
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  Doctor Sleep

  by Simon in

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  2. entertainment

  saw the movie yesterday and, wow - it was good.. it's a follow-up to the shinning, an iconic movie, and it just has the same feel to it not least because some of it ends up set back at the same hotel and has the same kind of camera angles and scenes plus the haunting soundtrack.

  it actually starts with the mom and the kid living after they survived the experience in the original movie.. it wasn't what i was expecting, i thought it was going to just be a cash-in, but it wasn't - not just more of the same, instead it actually built in the original and expanded on what 'the shinning' was.. if you like suspenseful movies but not just a gore-fest, i give it a thumbs up..

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  Cool. I gotta see this one!
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  Outcast Doctrines

  by Socrateswannabe in

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  2. beliefs

  in a recent post about the watchtower’s claim that all animals were created as vegetarians, one commenter said that watchtower could no longer sustain this belief so they simply stopped talking about it.

  i began thinking about other wacky doctrines and statements by the borg that have faded away.

  i’ll offer two of them below, but the complete list must be longer than your arm.. 7000 year-long creative days: watchtower once taught that each of the creative days was 7,000 years in duration, hence the hype leading up to 1975. they believed that year marked 6,000 years since adam’s creation, and oh how nicely the 1,000-year reign would fit as the last piece of the puzzle, thus completing the final “day”.

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  The belief that all animals were originally vegetarians surfaces every 7 to 10 years. Just when you think the JW's have abandoned it, you realize they haven't.

  The wacky heart as the source of emotion teaching was formally reversed in the mid 80's, which is a break from the pattern of simply not mentioning a past belief ever again.
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  Interesting WT Deluge Contradiction I just noticed.

  by Jofi_Wofo in

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  i was reviewing some of the evidence the wt proposes for their claim of the bible's scientific accuracy, when i came across this interesting assertion.. the mountains rise and fall, and today’s mountains were once under the ocean.

  (psalm 104:​6, 8) in contrast, several myths say that the mountains were created in their current form by the gods.. https://www.jw.org/en/bible-teachings/questions/science-and-the-bible/.

  interesting.

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  I thought the JW's taught that the pressure of the water caused the mountains to rise to their current height (?)
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  When "all" is not "everyone" or "everything."

  by Wonderment in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  we keep seeing posters bringing col. 1.16 and john 1.3 up as proof that christ is excluded from the creative acts.

  the proof they submit is that the words "all things [gk., pánta]" appear in these texts.

  however, they are missing this important element from the discussion: the word "all" is rarely used in greek, and even in our everyday language to mean literally "everyone" or "everything" under the sky.

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  I'm sorry I missed this thread. Thank you!

  People have a tendency to treat Ancient Greek as a cipher that decodes directly into English, which is very frustrating.

  Your example from Genesis is especially illustrative of your point: --ὅτι αὕτη μήτηρ πάντων τῶν ζώντων. (3:20 or 21 depending on what LXX you have.)
  
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  Help please

  by jhine in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  hi , would someone help me please with some info about the nwt .

  during my study time l have been reading john 1:1-14 and colossians 1:15-17 .

  both these passages indicate that jesus was not created as the wt asserts .

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  jhine

  The word is πᾶς (pas)

  "πάντα" (panta) is the neuter plural form. Perhaps this is unfamiliar because English is a relatively uninflected language.

  At any rate, I don't quite know what to say.

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