page 4, 2014 yearbook .
jehovah used his own spirit-begotten sons to provide the original new world translation.
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When the bible was released at the AGM one of the GB members raised the question of what scholarship was used to translate it, and answered it by saying that it was the only bible translated by the anointed and so therefore it was the best.
Good spot ADCMS, "dear fellow domestics" what a bizarre way to greet people.
i had no idea, having come from such a sheltered life, how tantalizing those little text messages could be.
i'm a married man.
my wife has pretty much decided that sex is not for her anymore.
You don't need an affair, you need marriage counselling!
The grass is not always greener and this new girl could end up worse. Even if it works out there may be residual guilt (particularly if you have children?) You want to be able to honestly say you did everything you could to save your marriage before you give up on it.
mine was a gradual going away.
but once it dawned on them, i think people were shocked that i left the religion i espoused from youth.. were people "in the truth" and "in the world" surprised by your departure?.
Although with the benefit of hindsight some of them now claim they saw it coming.
mine was a gradual going away.
but once it dawned on them, i think people were shocked that i left the religion i espoused from youth.. were people "in the truth" and "in the world" surprised by your departure?.
Yep, stunned. I began my fade in a separate country to the one I grew up so my home congregation did not see it coming.
spinning off from another thread, have jesus' teachings been less than universally helpful to mankind?
how do we measure if a particular philosophy is helpful or harmful?.
i am going to use the "universal morals" listed here.
At that moment I was thinking of the influence Jesus had on MLK and the civil rights movement, I wouldn't dare to say Christendom has been all positive for African Americans.
hi, i really need some advice here.
i was selected to play in a sports team representing the country i live in.
it's no big deal as it wont create any kind of major publicity.
Sir, is it even as many as 3 elders? JCs are by majority vote right?
spinning off from another thread, have jesus' teachings been less than universally helpful to mankind?
how do we measure if a particular philosophy is helpful or harmful?.
i am going to use the "universal morals" listed here.
I don't think some of these things are easy to measure:
And I say to you, whoever divorces his wife, except for sexual immorality, and marries another, commits adultery; and whoever marries her who is divorced commits adultery.”
In the first century middle east this represented a big improvement on the injustice of abandoning women to poverty whenever you got bored of them. In the 21st century West, it's a control tool for abusive husbands and fathers.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cncehcvrvgq.
Confused,
Fair point, I don't really know, didn't put that much thought into the post to be honest.
can anyone spot the basic problem with the question asked on the cover of la weekly, for an article on alien encounters?.
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adam.
Is it because you're being asked to prove a negative?
in christian theology there is often a lot of talk about whether we are saved by faith or works, and what exactly those things mean.
this thread is not exactly about that, instead it's about how jws, in their inimitable style, somehow managed to create a doctrine that mixes the worst of both and caused me no end of internal conflict as a jw.. in jw doctrine, life is about an argument between jehovah and satan.
satan said that nobody follows jehovah out of love, but only for what they can personally get out of it.
Yes Ding, and I don't personally see a problem with that, I think it sounds quite reasonable in fact. The JW problem is that they're not supposed to be serving for that reason, which is the conflict.
