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  Writing a "Thesis on Doubting the Watchtower"

  by Saethydd in

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  i'm currently writing what i've decided to call a "thesis on doubting the watchtower," and was wondering if you guys could help me out a bit with the research.

  my plan is to use it as a sort of personal reference.

  if any of you could help me find the publications i'm looking for i would appreciate it.. as things stand i need:.

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  StudyBuddy

  Correct me if I am wrong please, but it seems to me that you are basing your "Doubting" of the WT basically on their hierarchy similarity to other churches in Christendom and the WT handling of Child Abuse cases? Is that really enough to cause you to "doubt"? If that is all you need, then you have no depth of spirituality anyway, those things are purely fleshly. This is not an insult, it is the point that if you are going to "doubt", then you had better understand the beliefs/understandings AND why they are wrong; THAT is a basis for doubt. (But remember in Israel the prophets of God stayed faithful to Him and to their work even when almost the entire nation was worshiping false gods, they had prostitutes working at God's temple, and they were ignoring many, if not most, of their laws.)
  
  In other words, before you "decide" to doubt, have a good reason. And then once you have a good reason, remember what Jesus said YOU need to do to be saved (in another post someone said "believe", but lazy people love to try and stop with John 3:16; 6:47), but Jesus clearly said that if someone "believes" then they will do the work of His Father, and He said that THOSE are the ones that will be saved (Matt 7:21, 24; 12:50). Let your doubting be your reason to LEARN! The job of the slave is to get us started on a path, the path of Christ; once they have done that, WE are supposed to take up feeding ourselves with solid food. Then once we truly understand, what are we supposed to do with it? Jesus told his disciples - (Matthew 13:51, 52) 51 “Did you get the sense of all these things?” They said to him: “Yes.” 52 Then he said to them: “That being the case, every public instructor who is taught about the Kingdom of the heavens is like a man, the master of the house, who brings out of his treasure store things both new and old.”
  
  
  
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  Red Alert - Propaganda is Being Used!!!!!!!!

  by The Searcher in

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  2. bible

  check out the latest watchtower:.

  "your defense?

  be determined to stick to jehovah’s organization and loyally support the leadership he provides—no matter what imperfections may surface.

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  StudyBuddy

  I appreciate your proper use of the word Propaganda. I ended up in a very exciting elders meeting when I submitted a letter containing numerous copies/pastes from various past WT articles on propaganda. They said it sounded too much like I was applying all those article references to our own organization!

  Good call on pointing this one out! Imagine what would be put in print in our publications about another religious organization if they said 'No matter what happens, stick by us, because we are still faithful and true!'?! Granted, I don't agree with bailing, but I think we may want to tone down our own arrogance regarding those in other faiths, oh, maybe a few hundred notches?!
  
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  Why did Satan tempt Eve with a talking snake when he could have materialised as another human to tempt her ?

  by smiddy in

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  since the angels that followed satan could take on human form and even have sex and bear offspring to females of earth why would satan not have used this avenue instead of talking through a snake .?

  which really makes no common sense ?.

  why wouldnt eve question how a snake could talk?

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  StudyBuddy

  Yes, I believe the Bible is the Word of God...A couple of thoughts on this, though speculating beyond the words in the Bible can be fun, it is probably rather pointless...but here goes! ;-)
  
  1) Snake, yes but...there is a difference...what "spoke" to Eve was not a snake we know as of today, just as the fruit eaten was not an apple. Notice the "Serpent" was subsequently cursed (Genesis 3:14) to move in the dust on the ground; my personal speculative opinion on this is that the curse from God is going to be the most marked impression upon the image of the creature...a sign to everyone looking upon it...I think that whatever it WAS, it used to fly. It may have become the "snake" we now see, which aptly fits the description of the cursed creature.

  2) Even today we have people who are "whisperers"; those with an ability to have their spirit be more interactive with the spirits of other creations of the world (horses, dogs, cats, elephants, even plants)...these are people over 6000 years away from perfection; just imagine the communication abilities of perfect humans in a perfect world, and also remember that Adam and Eve were to have in subjection all creatures of the earth. That would not be (and is not) easy without clear communication. Now for some "educated" speculation, when Noah came out of the Ark, he and his family were told they could eat the animals, but also that a fear/dread of man was going to come over the animals (Genesis 9:2, 3); this was something NEW. What if this new subjugation of animals to man involved taking away the main spiritual ability of inter-species communication? This COULD explain both why it was no surprise to Eve that the serpent was "speaking" with her, and she with it, AND why all animals would suddenly be in fear of man. (Remember what happened when Jehovah confused languages with humans? They scattered according to their new "type" which was language.)