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[A couple of years back, Apollos brought this alternate understanding of John 17:3 to my attention. I was still well indoctrinated back then so I couldn't quite see his logic and hadn't given it…
Introduction
The purpose of this regular feature of our site is to provide forum members with the opportunity to share deeper insights into the Bible based on whatever is being featured as the…
Last week we made no comment on the Watchtower Study which left some forum members no option but to use the Contact Us area to leave their comments. My apologies. I am going to try to do a brief…
"…when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.” – Sherlock Holmes, The Sign of Four by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. “Among competing theories, the one…
(2 Peter 1:16-18) . . .No, it was not by following artfully contrived false stories that we acquainted YOU with the power and presence of our Lord Jesus Christ, but it was by having become…
In my daily Bible reading this jumped out at me:
"However, let none of you suffer as a murderer or a thief or a wrongdoer or a busybody in other people’s matters.16 But if anyone suffers as a…
I think that chapter 11 of the book of Hebrews is one of my favorite chapters in all the Bible. Now that I have learned–or perhaps I should say, now that I am learning–to read the Bible without bias…
This started out as a comment on Apollos' excellent post on "Was Adam Perfect?" but kept growing until it got too long. Besides, I wanted to add a picture, so here we are.
It is interesting…
[There are some insightful and thought-provoking comments under the post “The Devil’s Great Con Job” which got me thinking about what congregation membership really entails. This post is the result…
“Do you think you know more than the Governing Body?” Try raising an objection to something taught in the magazines using scriptures to support your position and you will inevitably be met with this…
Why do we hold on to 1914 so tenaciously? Is it not because a war broke out in that year? A really big war, at that. In fact, “the war to end all wars.” Challenge 1914 to the average Witness and…
Did anyone notice today the line in paragraph 14 of the study (w13 9/15 p. 14) that said, "Hence, in 1922, J. F. Rutherford, who took the lead in the preaching work..."
One of our objectives with…