Posts by Rattigan350

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The results of the CSA Study article in Kingdom Halls is starting to come in.

there are some jws that are calling it quits after today's watchtower study.

experiences are coming in on reddit.. here is one experience caught on video.. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s3_ndjphv1w.

here is another.. https://www.reddit.com/r/exjw/comments/cd2y97/wifes_done_with_wt/.

Rattigan350

She is wrong about here assessment. The Royal commission does not say JWs are the worst. And the 2 witness rule is scriptural and just.

She is lying.

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Magic

by Rattigan350 in

the april 2019 study edition page 20 has an article on resisting wicked spirits.

it says "magic refers to practices associated with the occult, or the supernatural.

it can include curses and the casting or breaking of spells.

Rattigan350

The April 2019 Study edition page 20 has an article on resisting wicked spirits.

It says "magic refers to practices associated with the occult, or the supernatural. It can include curses and the casting or breaking of spells. It does not refer to tricks using quick hand movements, which some people perform merely for entertainment."

Can you believe that people have to be told that the Bible is not against slight of hand magic tricks as if they believe demons are behind that.

Maybe back in the Bible days, people did all that stuff. Who knows. But magic is not real now.

Just another one of those articles that create and foster superstition and fear among the people.

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Jehovahs Witnesses Raking In Real Estate Dough.

by koolaid-man in

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they are making so much money ... they are stacking and bailing it!http://www.observer.com./2012/02/jehovahs-witnesses-raking-in-real-estate-dough/jehovahs witnesses raking in real estate doughby elise knutsen 2/13 4:11pm.

165 columbia heights.

whether its armageddon or soaring property values, the jehovahs witnesses have decided to get the hell out of brooklyn, and they are one property closer to cutting all earthly ties to their home of a century.

Rattigan350

A transaction from yesterday. Looks like they sold a farm for half a million.

http://www.morningjournalnews.com/news/local-news/2019/06/real-estate-134/

Watchtower Bible and Tract Society to WTJ Landholdings, farm buildings and 85 acres on Kelly Park Road; $525,000.

Kelly Park Road, Lisbon OH

https://ohiodb.com/company/2057888/wtj-land-holdings-llc

Wtj Land Holdings, Llc Description

Wtj Land Holdings, Llc is a Domestic Limited Liability Company. Company Number assigned to this company is 2057888.
Company Agent of Wtj Land Holdings, Llc is JOHN G. GROSS. This agent address is 44572 Metz Road Columbiana,Oh 44408.
Wtj Land Holdings, Llc was incorporated on Wednesday 26th October 2011, so this company age is seven years, seven months and nineteen days. This business status is currently Active.
Company has one director: John G. Gross.

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607 date of Jerusalems destruction

by benny in

i am confused about the time scale regarding the year of the destruction of jerusalem.

in the 1st october 2011 watchtower an argument is presented to back up 607 bc but there are so many conflicting arguments that this happened 20 years later according to secular sources.

your thoughts please..

Rattigan350

The Time Stone created an alternate timeline on this one.

If people are just going to conclude "Daniel's prophecy was mythological bullshit", then what is your point?

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Active JW's - Are you following "the slave" or the Scriptures?

by The Fall Guy in

despite the scriptures instructing christians to witness for christ, and not for god.... matthew 10:18; mark 13:9; luke 24:48; john 1:15; 5:37; john 8:18; john 15:26, 27; .

acts 1:8; 9:15,16; 10:39; 10:43; 13:31; 22:15; 22:20; 23:11; 26:16; 1 cor.

1:6; 1 tim.

Rattigan350

"scriptures instructing Christians to witness for CHRIST, and not for God."

The scriptures instruct no such thing.

Think about the context.

The scriptures you listed was because the person of Jesus was new to them. They had to proclaim him and what he did and what it means because it was a new thing. But that did not change who the Israelites were and thus who Christians were in relation to Jehovah God.

Don't get the Witnessing for Jesus and Witnesses of Jehovah confused. It is not about what all these scriptures say. It is about understanding how Jehovah and his son Jesus function in the Genesis to Revelation.

Stop trying to find fault with the teachings, it won't work.

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607 date of Jerusalems destruction

by benny in

i am confused about the time scale regarding the year of the destruction of jerusalem.

in the 1st october 2011 watchtower an argument is presented to back up 607 bc but there are so many conflicting arguments that this happened 20 years later according to secular sources.

your thoughts please..

Rattigan350

Lastmanstanding. I just looked through Carl's book and when he mentions Elliott he just compares his writing of the Ascension year start in 605 to Barbour/Russell's destruction start in 606. And he refers to the day for a year principle. He fails to acknowledge what actually signals the start of the 7 times from the scriptures. If he did comment on that, what page? It appears that he does not know what the gentile times is all about or its purpose. All he does is argue with the Watchtower, which itself has it wrong. So one wrong person is arguing with followers of another wrong person Barbour/Russell.

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jwfacts.com Have you looked at it?

by blondie in

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i use this extensively rather than re-inventing the wheel.. paul grundy, the admin, keeps it up-to-date and welcomes any corrections or new information, especially in a well-written article, supported by wt publication quotes.. the 2 places i check first is www.jwfacts.com and then searching on jwn with key word(s) to see if the topic has been already extensively researched or commented on.. don't be frightened away by the material being more than 3 paragraphs.

the quotes from wt publications is are extensive and from publications that are older and less available.

i find it good to read many posts on a single topic and expand my knowledge and sources.. blondie.

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SBF said "Although there are many reasons to be DFed, probably 90% plus of cases are forniaction, with apostasy making up most of the rest.

Does anyone know more unusual cases?"

They like to use bloodguilty alot even where the law does not charge someone.

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607 date of Jerusalems destruction

by benny in

i am confused about the time scale regarding the year of the destruction of jerusalem.

in the 1st october 2011 watchtower an argument is presented to back up 607 bc but there are so many conflicting arguments that this happened 20 years later according to secular sources.

your thoughts please..

Rattigan350

"Carl Johnson's book is exhaustive on this topic"

Carl J's book is about as bad and the GB's thinking. They can't see the forest through the trees. They are focusing too much on the destruction of Jerusalem as the start of the 7 times. The destruction is not the start of the 7 times because that is not what the prophesy was about. Nathan told David that his offspring would sit on Jehovah's throne to time indefinite. That happened until Jehoiakim became vassal king to Nebuchadnezzer. Jehovah is sovereign, so no king on Jehovah's throne can be a vassal to someone else. The 7 times made that possible by pausing that line of kings for 2520 years when Jesus took the throne. That is all Biblical. Any criticism of that is outside the Bible.

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jwfacts.com Have you looked at it?

by blondie in

jw
friends

i use this extensively rather than re-inventing the wheel.. paul grundy, the admin, keeps it up-to-date and welcomes any corrections or new information, especially in a well-written article, supported by wt publication quotes.. the 2 places i check first is www.jwfacts.com and then searching on jwn with key word(s) to see if the topic has been already extensively researched or commented on.. don't be frightened away by the material being more than 3 paragraphs.

the quotes from wt publications is are extensive and from publications that are older and less available.

i find it good to read many posts on a single topic and expand my knowledge and sources.. blondie.

Rattigan350

Until the WTS challenges sites like that with jw in the name.

The WTS holds the trademark to jw as of 10/31/2017

https://trademarks.justia.com/873/61/jw-87361634.html

Digital media in the field of religious education, namely, pre-recorded video discs, digital versatile disks, downloadable audio and video recordings, DVDs, and high definition discs, all featuring religious information relating to the tenets of the Jehovah's Witnesses denomination; Downloadable software in the nature of a mobile application for accessing, viewing and downloading audio and video recordings, music, digital print publications, online publications, documents, forms, audio and digital content, and web pages, all featuring religious information relating to the tenets of the Jehovah's Witnesses denomination

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607 date of Jerusalems destruction

by benny in

i am confused about the time scale regarding the year of the destruction of jerusalem.

in the 1st october 2011 watchtower an argument is presented to back up 607 bc but there are so many conflicting arguments that this happened 20 years later according to secular sources.

your thoughts please..

Rattigan350

Scholars like Brown and EB Elliott back in the 1820s held that it was Nebuchadnezzar's ascension year that started the seven times. They thought it was 604-1917 or 606-1914, but it was not based on Jerusalem's destruction as that was 587.

Back then they looked to the 6000 years as ending in the 1870s. Nelson Barbour felt that the current belief that it was 587BC meant that the desolation was 50 years from 537 to 587. In March 1874, in the Midnight Cry, Barbour combined the two periods of captivity and desolation into one. He changed Jerusalem's destruction to 607 and Russell followed that. When Russell split from him, he should have examined his chronology too.

I adhere to what Elliott taught, that the seven times ran from around 606/604 to 1914/1917 and was not connected to the destruction of Jerusalem.

So blame it on Nelson Barbour who changed history and Russell and his followers for adhering to it.