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  How to accept the actions of the Old Testament God

  by confusedandalone in

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  how are we able to do this.. this is not an attempt to stir the pot or cause confusion but i was sitting here thinking of all the really horrid things that the old testament god did to people.

  when i was a jw i just purposely put it to the back of my mind always trying to make an excuse.

  when i was in field service and someone would ask me about it i would just change the subject.. however i have been reading alot of info lately here about how wonderful jesus is and how he is a direct representation of what god the father would be.

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  MAJOR DOCTRINE CHANGE IN 1/15/2014 WT ON GENERATION TEACHING

  by EndofMysteries in

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  the generation scripture no longer is speaking about 'the end'.

  i'll quote it...... side note: tons of lies in this article, i'll point out at the end of the post.

  "yet, jesus words at matthew 24:34 give us confidence that at least some of "this generation will by no means pass away" before seeing the start of the great tribulation.".

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  Interesting Conversation

  by piztjw in

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  so i had what i thought was an interesting conversation this morning.. elder: "mother" sure is loving, and knows exactly how to care for us.. me: "mother"?

  who are you referring to?.

  elder: well the organization of course.. me: the organization?

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  The Great Crowd and 144K explained

  by Crazyguy in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  i was talking to the person who posts on this site www.wernerbiblecommentary.org and we were talking about his understanding of the great crowd and the 144k (his whole article is on the site).

  anyway if you look at rev 5:10 these look to be the same as the great-crowd, being from the nations etc.

  and are dead.

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  About 1914?

  by Slidin Fast in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  the following appars in the new, new world translation bloatware section under "the message of the bible".

  "about 1914 c.e.. jesus hurls the serpent, satan, to the earth, confining him there for a short time.revelation 12:7-9, 12.".

  err, urm, err ok?

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  Traveling snitches and the tentacles of Rutherford's takeover

  by Terry in

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  2. beliefs

  in the 50's, 60's, 70's, when i was an active jw, the traveling overseers both district and circuit,(before elder arrangement) came around to visit local congregations.. two points to be made about this.

  when pastor russell died, rutherford wanted federal control of the varied congregations for himself.

  under russell, all the groups were independent and unencumbered by an organization.

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  ELDERS CAME KNOCKING AT MY DOOR

  by wakingup60 in

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  2. friends

  so this is the situation..........haven't been to meeting for the past 10 months....misssed dc as well as 2 day assemblies.. i have woken up to the fact that the watchtower is not god's organization so their is absolutely no way iam going.

  to give the elders any of my time.

  i have no desire to agree to a sherherding call!.

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  I wonder...

  by braincleaned in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  i wonder about why so many of us stick to the "truth" within the frame of the jehovah's witness religion.. of course, the wts has authority over our minds thru the control of information, demonizing any "worldly" knowledge that might jeopardize our faith in this entity.. thru my own experience, i understand how we can stick to this organization; because of a life's investment in serving, and the close ties of family and peers we do not wish to abandon or upset.

  so we are here on sites like these, to understand the mechanisms of the cult... to try to make sense of why we should stay, or why we should leave.. the consequences are too important to take this lightly, or too swiftly.. if i may share a bit of my journey, i did not have to worry too much about the cult at first, because my main battle was based deeper than that.

  after all, the root of any christian religion is in the bible itself; faith in jehovah and christ; trust in the idea that the bible is inspired by god himself.. so yes, my quest went to the base, the root of the jw faith... the bible.. since childhood, the character of jehovah was a problem for me.

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