"for you must not prostrate yourself to another god, because jehovah, whose name is jealous, he is a jealous god," exodus 34:14 nwt 1984 edition.
"you must not bow down to another god, for jehovah is known for requiring exclusive devotion.
yes, he is a god who requires exclusive devotion.
I was wondering why you were accusing them of intellectual dishonesty by saying the same thing in clearer phrasing. That's the whole point of the new revision.
WT has always claimed the NWT was the ultimate Bible translation on the planet- the most accurate, blah, blah, blah (after all, didn't Jehovah guide the GB through the whole "translation" process?)
A revision seems absurdly contradictory if the claims were even remotely true.
I'm with sparky...I guess I missed the joke too.
i get tired of using the argument of "the mystery of evil" to attack god but where are we when we see heroic acts of godly courage from great humans like dr. kent bradly and dr. nancy writebols wonderful works of love?
did you listen to dr. kent bradley's concern and loving compassion for west africa?
he's not angry superstitious mobs destroyed several make-shift medical facilities to treat victims of ebola, no, dr. bradly implored the world to "help save west africa".
millie: The goal is to at some point grow out of that way of thinking.
Read what I actually said. My comments are based on what religious people claim. I didn't say it had to make any sense.
Something good happens: god did it
Something bad happens: Satan did it (or bad luck...whatever).
BTW, religious people do think they are the center of the universe. Everytime they pray for something they expect god to bend the laws of nature just for them...because they are so special.
i was unable to find any details on this on jwfacts, anyone have details on the wt not being a religion so they could instead own property?.
This is no different than the claims WT has made about Hitler's Nazi Germany.
WT claims that JWs were told they could not read the Bible or worship Jehovah, so they stood firm for "true worship" by choosing to go to concentration camps and/or be executed in order to not compromise their Christian faith.
WT's claim is patently false.
In the form a JW could sign to gain their freedom, no mention is made saying, or implying, that a JW could not read the Bible or worship god. The Nazis required a JW to disassociate themselves from the Watchtower Society only and the JW agreed to not promote WT teachings.
i was unable to find any details on this on jwfacts, anyone have details on the wt not being a religion so they could instead own property?.
Apog: Not sure I see the problem here.
What does WT drum into every JW as to being present for the entire meeting or assembly program? Do not miss the song and prayer because these two components are a vital part of our worship.
Yet, in Mexico, WT was willing to dispense of these vital components and went a step further by also doing away with the Bible itself !!
This isn't a problem?
What would happen to an individual JW who on his own refused to sing songs at the KH, refused to participate in prayers and refused to use the Bible?
Most certainly they'd be disfellowshipped under some charge of "brazen conduct" or disrupting the peace of the cong. But in true hypocritical WT fashion, when the GB decides unilaterally to dispense of its own self-claimed "vital" aspects of worship for no other reason than to protect its corporate/financial interests, suddenly the heretical becomes acceptable.
i get tired of using the argument of "the mystery of evil" to attack god but where are we when we see heroic acts of godly courage from great humans like dr. kent bradly and dr. nancy writebols wonderful works of love?
did you listen to dr. kent bradley's concern and loving compassion for west africa?
he's not angry superstitious mobs destroyed several make-shift medical facilities to treat victims of ebola, no, dr. bradly implored the world to "help save west africa".
So if healings "prove" there is a god, wouldn't complete lack of healing prove there isn't a god?
Oops, Christians don't like to consider the other side of that coin.
"for you must not prostrate yourself to another god, because jehovah, whose name is jealous, he is a jealous god," exodus 34:14 nwt 1984 edition.
"you must not bow down to another god, for jehovah is known for requiring exclusive devotion.
yes, he is a god who requires exclusive devotion.
How then did the 'scholars' that translated this new NEW WORLD TRANSLATION (2013 edition) make the intellectual jump of converting the word JEALOUS into the phrase 'REQUIRING EXCLUSIVE DEVOTION'?
1. WT does not have, and never has had, any scholars in its ranks.
2. Intellect has little to do with anything WT does.
3. "intellectual dishonesty". Bingo! You've hit upon WT's bread and butter.
i get tired of using the argument of "the mystery of evil" to attack god but where are we when we see heroic acts of godly courage from great humans like dr. kent bradly and dr. nancy writebols wonderful works of love?
did you listen to dr. kent bradley's concern and loving compassion for west africa?
he's not angry superstitious mobs destroyed several make-shift medical facilities to treat victims of ebola, no, dr. bradly implored the world to "help save west africa".
I get tired of using the argument of "The Mystery of Evil" to attack God but where are we when we see heroic acts of godly courage from great humans...
Ironically, if the Christian god was actually doing what Christians claim he's doing ( a loving father who's helping his children), these doctors wouldn't be necessary, would they?
I get tired of anything good being attributed to god by the religious while all evil is conveniently shelved under the nauseatingly generic "bad things just happen, why blame god?" category...
i know some of you are in the field and many others are hobbyists and enthusiasts.. aside from a tablet/smart phone os, what were they thinking?.
i don't know a single desktop user (e.g.
architects, engineers running autocad, solid works, etc.
Microsoft wasn't doing any thinking...that's the problem.
I curse the day I started using Win 8 (not that I had any choice).
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http://jwtalk.net/forums/topic/14030-jworg-greatest-website-in-the-world/.
thoughts, comments, outbursts ;) .
BD: If you repeat something enough times you're most likely to believe its' true.
Watchtower is in good company. Hitler used the same methodology:
"Make the lie big, make it simple, keep saying it, and eventually they will believe it." -Adolf Hitler
problemaddict: Jehovah's Witnesses - Misspelling the word website since they discovered the internet in 2011!
Since JWs are the 'best educated people in the world', everyone else must be wrong.
There is a lot of research into this disease and money being raised to find a cure.
Money and research only reveal a lack of faith.
The Kingdom will fix it. Until god gets around to curing ALS (tens of thousands of years and counting) humans must show "faith" and wait (and wait, and wait, and wait) on the "loving" father Jehovah™.
(yes, I'm being facetious).
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The evil, wicked Satan and his world: money and research, actually doing something.
The "loving father" Jehovah: ***crickets****
