He ordered us to preach to the people and to give a thorough witness.—Acts 10:42

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He ordered us to preach to the people and to give a thorough witness.—Acts 10:42.All of us are subject to “the law of the Christ.” (Gal. 6:2) That law includes all that Jesus taught. Foremost among Jesus’ teachings is that his followers should display love. (John 13:35; Jas. 2:8) And one of the primary ways we show love for God, for Christ, and for our neighbor is by preaching the good news of the Kingdom. (John 15:10; Acts 1:8) Jesus commanded only a relatively small number of his followers—those to whom he appeared after his resurrection—to preach. (Acts 10:40-42; 1 Cor. 15:6) But all his faithful first-century disciples recognized that the command applied to them, even if they had not personally heard Jesus speak. (Acts 8:4; 1 Pet. 1:8) Likewise today, Jesus has not personally spoken to any of the eight million active Kingdom preachers. But all recognize their obligation to exercise faith in Christ and to express that faith by means of the witnessing work.—Jas. 2:18. w15 3/15 4:14, 15

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Id like tom post a video but dont know how. can someone point me in the right direction pleas xx

[astrologica]

Where was Jehovah last week when the poor French priest, at 85 years old, was literally butchered to death at his own altar? That poor man had lived an exemplary life....hurt not a soul, and given comfort to his parishioners for many years. Why did not Jehovah smite that evil Muslim beast down with hellfire and brimstone...after all..he has the power..has he not? Was it because the victim was a Catholic, and not a JW? Would he have been saved if he was an elder in a JW meeting place? If any man was worthy of His grace, then Father Hamel was that man. If Jehovah has the power, then why does he not use it to wipe out this evil?

FD...I do not want to offend your faith by taking the name of Jehovah lightly, as I know it means everything to you, but I cannot...cannot believe in what your faith preaches. It makes not an iota of sense to believe in a God that could do so much, but does nothing.

[bankhaunter]

You Tube videos are easy enough, just click on the video symbol and paste the video url in the drop down box..

Don't know about others though.

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Thank you Bank, I will have a fiddle  xx

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With the greatest  of respect to you too astro, but you miss the point every time.

Jehovah is doing many things regarding all evil, but in a way that he sees best to benifit all mankind. 

[astrologica]

Such as? Can you give me an instance of his work?

[cee-dee]

The origins of the Bible go back a long way and from the very earliest times, what was originally said has been picked over, bits deleted, bits added and generally completely corrupted.

The origins were only repeated by the spoken word, when writing was "invented", many additions and deletions were incorporated and so it's been over the millennia since then.

The earliest writings have had symbols mis-read and mis-interpreted and when transcribed from one language or dialect to another, the translations have been wrong. Repeat things often enough and they become "fact". Try now to correct those mis-translations and you'll get nowhere!

Now, some of those repeating the earliest "words" were doing just that, repeating what they'd thought of claiming it to be the word of god. It came out of their mind only.

Today, people believe what they want to believe and those with fervent belief claim to "know". They don't "know", they believe what they believe but they do not know.

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@astrologica wrote:

Such as? Can you give me an instance of his work?

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https://www.jw.org/en/publications/books/good-news-from-god/why-god-allows-evil-and-suffering/

[astrologica]

There's an awful lot of 'obeying' going on there!  I think I will stick to my own particular brand of Atheism...even if I don't get 'saved'.

[cee-dee]

No-one will "get saved". When yer dead, yer dead and that's that. However..... on the point of dying, many people feel a sense of euphoria along with "pleasant thoughts" but if it's a quick, sudden death, yer gone.

Live your life and be thankful for it.

[jd.linklater]

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@astrologica wrote:

There's an awful lot of 'obeying' going on there!  I think I will stick to my own particular brand of Atheism...even if I don't get 'saved'.

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Exactly Astro, that's what religion is all about.

God didn't create mankind, gods are an invention of men for reasons of power and control.

The church peddles religion like a drug. Like any other drug dealer, the church acquires extreme wealth while those on the receiving end remain in poverty. I don't know how anyone can see this as a good deal.

No offence to FD, just my opinion.

[evoman3957]

You look deep enough into anybody's soul and you'll find that most have vulnerabilities, religion finds those vulnerabilities; whether it be loneliness, fear, neediness or many of the others.  It promises to plug that gap, acting as a panacea for all your weaknesses.......a con to beat all cons. If the species hadn't got a sense of their own mortality ( the only living creatures that do have it ) then religion would never have succeeded. It's sad that a species, clever and adept enough to make it to the top of the evolutionary chain; should be afraid / vulnerable enough, to allow itself to be controlled in such an obvious manner.

[bankhaunter]

The poison of religion.

http://idahochildren.org/

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-25268343

[Anonymous]

Shocking!

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KZGWA8njFmc

[Anonymous]

Could you tell me why Jehovah witnesses feel that only their god and their bible is the only one that is the right one. Catholics and Protestants use the bible. So can you explain why their interpretation is wrong? Why is your bible better than theirs?

If the bible is God's word should all the Christian religions then not all be the same and preach the same?

[cee-dee]

And where does all that leave the Brahman and the Atman? I suppose along with the Lord Shiva and Vishnu they're all regarded as rubbish in the tunnel vision World of the JWs?

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Hi Harry,

I will try to answer that.

When we and other faiths  talk of the Bible we speak of it as the word of God our God being the same God  - The word of God is the Bible,. So anyone using a Bible whether it be Catholics, methodists etc are believing in the same God and his word.

The differences in the translations is the main point. We now use the new world translation because it has been researched and written to the nearest translation and meanings from the original scrolls and scriptures, the original writings. Bible translations that the other faiths use are not as accurate, thehavey had changes and omissions and differing interpretations which distort and change the meanings within.For example omitting Jehovah's name.

God stated with his word, nothing should be taken away and nothing added or changed. We beleive the translation we use is the nearest to the original writings, bearing in mind the Hebrew language doesn't have certain aspects that ours has. It it been painstakingly researched and written to get the original meanings.

As for content regarding principals we tend to find that other faiths, even if their Bible versions have written in them Gods laws, t he clergy cherry pick what the wish to follow or not follow.  For example in our translation and the Catholics for instance! It states homosexuality to be against God/Jehovah's principals, but many faiths now are changing their view against Gods principals and now tolerating and accepting it. The Bible does not give us the command to celebrate Christmas as Jesus birthday, to my knowledge you can't find a specific date in any translation of the Bible that gives that date, it doesn't give the command go celebrate Easter and Easter bunny's etc as Jesus death.  The command was to celebrate the Passover.

Jehovah's witnesses are trying to adhere to all Gods principals not just some. 

Not sure if I have explained that very well, but any other questions I will gladly try to answer.  Xxx