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  1. J

    Watchtower Governing Body: Are They The Exclusive Channel For God??

    It doesn't matter what the history of something is but what the individual does with it. I'll just imagine that there were people who celebrated their birthdays a thousand years ago with worshipping a false God, getting drunk, having sex, and killing people. Does that make it evil? No, it makes...
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    Watchtower Governing Body: Are They The Exclusive Channel For God??

    1. We are to have no part in the world, true, but that by no means says we shouldn't try to make it better, including in politics. 2. In war, if you see someone being hurt or slaughtered and gave the ability to help and don't, that's also sin. Wouldn't you fight to help stop Hitler? If not, Say...
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    Watchtower Governing Body: Are They The Exclusive Channel For God??

    When is a birthday a religious celebration? A birthday is not identifying, or edifying someone as God or above God. It's merely a celebratory instance of being here on Gods earth another year. Also, about the Son... The notion that the title 'Son of God' indicates inferiority to the Father is...
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    Watchtower Governing Body: Are They The Exclusive Channel For God??

    The Book of Job does not specifically name its author. The most likely candidates are Job, Elihu, Moses and Solomon. Whoever it was just didn't feel the need to include that word, especially if they didn't have any Egyptian heritage or upbringing. Either way though, it was still a "his day"...
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    Watchtower Governing Body: Are They The Exclusive Channel For God??

    Of course not as Moses who wrote the first 5 books was from Egypt but the writer of Job was not so he didn't intend to use that terminology. Either way "His day" were individual celebrations of the brothers where the family got together to celebrate something about them.
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    Watchtower Governing Body: Are They The Exclusive Channel For God??

    The hebrew expression for 'birthday' is yohm hul·leʹdheth (this is the expression used in reference to the birthday of Pharoah) This expression is not found in the book of Job. The account says that each brother would hold a banquet for his brothers and sisters to attend at his own home...
  7. J

    Watchtower Governing Body: Are They The Exclusive Channel For God??

    The many gods and lords were about false gods of the pagans. And yes only one God. Only one. Not The God and a god Jesus. He can't be another lesser god. Remember Jesus is called Mighty God in Isaiah 9:6. And in the very next chapter in Isaiah 10:21, Jehovah Himself is called "Mighty God." Jesus...
  8. J

    Watchtower Governing Body: Are They The Exclusive Channel For God??

    you dont have family get-to-gethers? Each brother was hosting a family meal on his own set day. The account doesnt call it a 'birthday' Yeah, they don't call it a literal birthday because that word wasn't invented yet. And saying that "his day" is just a family gathering is stretching it a...
  9. J

    Watchtower Governing Body: Are They The Exclusive Channel For God??

    A conversation with a Jehovahs Witness... Christian: According to John 17:3, how many Gods are there? JW: Only one: Jehovah the Father is "the only true God." Christian: Quite right. Now, would you agree that whatever is not true must then be false? JW: Yes, I suppose so. Christian: Then, if...
  10. J

    Watchtower Governing Body: Are They The Exclusive Channel For God??

    Yes, I know they got to him when he was an infant. The DVD cover shows it for effect. The DVD explains that he was an infant and much more. In fact here's the doc in its entirety :) And yes, "his day." What else would they celebrate every single year of their lives? The day they got more sheep...
  11. J

    Watchtower Governing Body: Are They The Exclusive Channel For God??

    Like in my previous post, Job's family celebrated birthdays as well as Jews in the time of Christ celebrated when's boys came of age etc...
  12. J

    Watchtower Governing Body: Are They The Exclusive Channel For God??

    Your answers on this wonderful DVD. I urge everyone to check it out :)
  13. J

    Watchtower Governing Body: Are They The Exclusive Channel For God??

    I Love Jehovahs Witnesses but I found these memes funny:
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    Watchtower Governing Body: Are They The Exclusive Channel For God??

    Now on to blood transfusions... Many people have died heeding the Watchtowers prohibitions on blood transfusions. Former Jehovahs Witnesses Leonard and Majorie Chretian commented: "(One man told of) the heart rending decision he was forced to make between his religion and his child. His baby boy...
  15. J

    Watchtower Governing Body: Are They The Exclusive Channel For God??

    You haven't sinned? You mean you've never told a lie, or taken something that wasn't yours, you've never lusted at anyone? WOWWIE! Hey, maybe on Sundays we should all go to your house and sit around you? ;)
  16. J

    Bible College/Seminary: A Waste of Time?

    You can be a great scholar in the sciences and religion by being self taught. Just keep studying and learning (and saving tens if not hundreds of thousands of dollars). But college does offer things like first hand experience and possible connections in the field as well. Plus if your serious...
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    Watchtower Governing Body: Are They The Exclusive Channel For God??

    The Watchtower believes that Birthdays are bad because for instance that Pharaoh had one (Genesis 40:22-22) the JW believe everything in the bible is there for a reason and since they think it portrays Birthdays in an unfavorable light, they must be evil or bad. However the Watchtowers position...
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    Watchtower Governing Body: Are They The Exclusive Channel For God??

    He is with All believers in the Holy Spirit. We should be united in scripture as one body but the only channel is not an organization. It's through His word and the Holy Spirit living on the inside of every believer. Remember Jesus rebuked the "channel" of His day because they were believing a...
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    Watchtower Governing Body: Are They The Exclusive Channel For God??

    1. Genesis.1:1-2--"In [the] beginning God created the heavens and the earth. Now the earth proved to be formless and waste and there was darkness upon the surface of [the] watery deep; and God's active force was moving to and fro over the surface of the waters." (New World Translation, emphasis...
  20. J

    Watchtower Governing Body: Are They The Exclusive Channel For God??

    I'll keep praying one day your eyes may be opened to the Truth. God Bless
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