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I’ve been reading the September 1, 2012 Watchtower under “Does God Care About Women?” It’s an excellent article. The article explains the many protections that women enjoyed under the mosaic law.…
This comes from one of the readers of this forum and involves correspondence with the branch office in his country about clarification on our position as regards whether it is right or not to applaud…
This week’s Bible reading covers Daniel chapters 10 to 12. The final verses of chapter 12 contain one of the more enigmatic passages in Scripture.
To set the scene, Daniel has just finished the…
A new understanding of Matthew 24:45-47 was released at this year’s annual meeting. It should be understood that what we discuss here is based on hearsay accounts of what was said by the various…
I recently got an e-mail from one of the forum members about a problem we've all observed. Here is an extract from it:
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Here's an observation of what I believe is an endemic…
If you have read the article on the Two Witnesses of Revelation 7:1-13, you’ll recall that there is strong evidence to support the idea that this prophecy has yet to be fulfilled. (Our current…
Granted, this is a very minor point, but in the interests of accuracy, in next week’s Watchtower (w12 8/15) the following statement is made on page 14, par. 10: “Web sites that promote pornography…
[This is not so much a post as it is an open discussion topic. While I am sharing my opinions here with all the readers of this forum, I sincerely welcome other viewpoints, opinions, and the insight…
We had a visiting speaker from an overseas branch office give our public talk this past weekend. He made a point I'd never heard before regarding Jesus' words, "Who really is the faithful and…
I wasn’t going to write about this, but sometimes it is just too hard to let something go. It concerns this sentence from yesterday’s Watchtower study:
(w12 7/15 p. 28 par. 7)
Although Jehovah has…
One of our forum contributors stumbled across this. I thought it was an interesting insight into our position on the holding of contrary opinions on matters of a speculative or interpretive nature…
Admittedly, this is a pet peeve of mine. For decades the Watchtower has used anecdotes to prove a point. We do it a lot less than we used to, but we still do it. I remember many years ago an anecdote…