there are certain wt terms that sound biblical but really just puff up the pride.
hundreds of times the wt has used the term honest-hearted in their literature.
it sounds biblical, if for no other reason because we hear it so often in jw circles.
The JW use of the term, "Honest hearted" is a very old technique.
"So?" said the gentleman in the fine coat: "are ye of the honest party?" (meaning, Was he a Jacobite? for each side, in these sort of civil broils, takes the name of honesty for its own).
(Robert Lewis Stevenson)
our witness friend who during covid grew his beard has been hassled by elders who asked him "why" he chose to have facial growth.
he for real, had to give an answer why.
this is pharasees total rubbish.
The JW assertion that beards are unusual in the U.S. is bullshit
Thirty-three percent of American males have beards. This is down from slightly over fifty percent 10 years ago.
Among Architects and Engineers, the figure is close to 90 percent
an avid wts supporter writes:.
re: vaccinations: vaccinations have never been banned.
if they were, then no representative of the wts would have been allowed to travel overseas when vaccines were compulsory around 1920 when vaccines was regularly in the news, there was both positive and negative information printed in the golden age (forerunner of the awake) but not from the staff writers, but from out side sources of article by medical doctors at the time and others that responded to those articles.. re: organ transplants: organ transplants were never forbidden by the society.
Is he right or wrong?
He is not completely correct, but not blatantly wrong either.
Serum immunizations (i.e. Post-exposure vaccines) were formally allowed in 1958 and the Watchtower article openly admitted that blood-based vaccines had been placed in the same category as blood transfusions in the past.
"Ban" is too strong a word, as transfusion was not yet a "disfellowshipping" offense, but it would be dishonest to pretend that the JW parent organization did not explicitly teach against such "misuse of blood."
Our starry-eyed apologist could be shown multiple statements in the mid 50's stating that anything derived from blood is forbidden regardless of whether it was administered as an injection or transfusion.
The situation with organ transplantation is similar. To my knowledge, there were not formal sanctions for non-compliance, but again, it is dishonest to pretend that the JW's did not teach against them.
That transfusion was "essentially an organ transplant" and therefore a form of cannibalism was actually one of the JW arguments against transfusion at one point. Bartolomeo above has provided a quote, but there are others.
can anyone state what year russell & co. first introduced the cross & crown on the cover of the watch tower?.
Every major religious denomination and church group has used the cross and crown emblem.
From Catholic to Lutheran to Southern Baptist, there is nothing even mildly unusual about it
a new space telescope launched a few days age that will supposedly be able to see to within 100 million years of the big bang.
wow... only 100 million years from the big bang.
that is pretty early given the 12 billion year age of the universe assigned by scholars who adhere to naturalism.
John Mather, a senior project scientist for the JWST maintains a blog where he sometimes addresses questions about the telescope and big bang theory.
https://www.edge.org/response-detail/27054
Mather has pointed out more than once that WMAP, COBE and Planck have all "looked" back farther than the JWST is capable of.
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The definitive work on Einstein and God/Religion was written in 1999 by Max Jammer, who was one of his closest acquaintances. Jammer exhaustively compiles Einstein's written statements on the subject, both public and private.
https://www.amazon.com/Einstein-Religion-Theology-Max-Jammer/dp/069110297X
https://www.jehovahs-witness.com/search/?q=circuit+leasing .
I remember
I was shopping for a car for my wife years ago and inquired with Circuit Leasing. Their prices were higher than new in my area, so I scrapped that idea.
They continued to send me flyers and key fobs for a couple of years though:
don't know if this subject has been touched on here before, but i have wondered at times, how much literalness can be applied to this messianic prophecy within a paradise setting (assuming one probable interpretation of is.
the wt presents a mental image of complete harmony between animal and mankind.. does this biblical passage somehow indicate that existing wild beasts will feed on vegetation alone.
animals are not spoken of living forever in the bible.
I would like to know where you picked it up.
Ancient was part of a Classical Studies course at a local Community College.
Modern (Which I highly recommend for pronunciation even though it's technically a different language) was with a private tutor.
don't know if this subject has been touched on here before, but i have wondered at times, how much literalness can be applied to this messianic prophecy within a paradise setting (assuming one probable interpretation of is.
the wt presents a mental image of complete harmony between animal and mankind.. does this biblical passage somehow indicate that existing wild beasts will feed on vegetation alone.
animals are not spoken of living forever in the bible.
Two of the many times I've spoken on this topic:
https://www.jehovahs-witness.com/topic/187882/jw-science-quote-1-22
https://www.jehovahs-witness.com/topic/141006/jw-science-quote-day-8-28
i know there was a leak a few weeks back, but this really does seem to have come out of the blue.. the anomaly was the original decision.
it clearly had no basis in law or the constitution, and was a flimsy, ridiculous ruling.
plus the whole thing was based on a fraudulent case in the first place.. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-61928898.
...they said it is not in the constitution.
Yes. Regardless of a person's personal and religious feelings on the subject, the tie-in to the Constitution (i.e. That the right to privacy guaranteed in the 1st, 3rd, 4th & 5th Amendments speaks to the legality of a medical procedure) was fanciful, to put it mildly.
only jesus has the power and authority to defeat satan and kick him out of heaven:.
“now have come to pass the salvation and the power and the kingdom of our god and the authority of his christ, because the accuser of our brothers has been hurled down, who accuses them day and night before our god.”.
