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Friday, December 28, 2012

Dinosaurs - Links to Information

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DINOSAURS- Links to Information (INDEX; Watchtower Online Library)

Dinosaurs (Search Results From the Watchtower Online Library)

Dinosaurs and the Bible (Defend Jehovah's Witnesses)

Does the Bible Mention Dinosaurs? (Defend Jehovah's Witnesses)

Dinosaurs - When Did They Live? (Defend Jehovah's Witnesses)

At Job 40:17, is the "Behemoth" a Dinosaur or a Hippopotamus? (Defend Jehovah's Witnesses)

Why Some Scientists Believe in God - A Spotty Fossil Record (g04 6/22 pp. 5-8; Watchtower Online Library)

Dinosaurs - When Did They Live?; Part 2 (Jehovah's Witnesses Questions and Answers)

Are things that seem to be at odds with the Bible's account really in contradiction to what the Bible says? (Jehovah's Witnesses Questions and Answers)

Is the Earth really only 10,000 years old? (Search For Bible Truths)

The Genesis Account and Dinosaurs (Jehovah's Witnesses Questions and Answers)

Why did God create dinosaurs? (Jehovah's Witnesses Questions and Answers)
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144,000 - Links to Information

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144,000 - Links to Information (INDEX; Watchtower Online Library)

Myth 3: All Good People Go to Heaven (THE WATCHTOWER 2009-11-01; JW.ORG)

What Do Jehovah's Witnesses Believe Regarding Physical And Heavenly Afterlives? The 144,000? (Defend Jehovah's Witnesses)

Is the Number 144,000 Mentioned in Revelation Meant to be Taken Literally? (Defend Jehovah's Witnesses)

Why Do Jehovah's Witnesses Believe That the Number 144,000 in Revelation is a Literal Number Instead of a Symbolic Number? (Defend Jehovah's Witnesses)

Who Are to Partake of the Bread and the Wine and How Does One Know if They Are of the Anointed Or Called to Heavenly Life? (Defend Jehovah's Witnesses)

To how many does the Bible hold out hope of heavenly life? (Search For Bible Truths)

Is the number 144,000 merely symbolic? (Search For Bible Truths)

Is the number 144,000 a literal number? (Jehovah's Witnesses Questions and Answers)

24 elders are a symbolic number, 144,000 a literal one (Jehovah's Witnesses Questions and Answers)

Are the 144,000 only natural Jews? (Search For Bible Truths)

Are the 144,000 all males, and are they only "made up of 'literal' Jews"? (Jehovah's Witnesses Questions and Answers) (Additional)

Does the wording at Rev. 14:3, 4 mean that none of the 144,000 persons had ever been married and are only men? (Jehovah's Witnesses Questions and Answers)

The Controversy Over the "Great Crowd" of Revelation Chapter 7 (Pastor Russell)

If Jehovah's Witnesses believe that only 144,000 people go to heaven, then wouldn't making more Jehovah's Witnesses reduce their own chances of getting into heaven? (Search For Bible Truths)

What future hope is there for Jehovah's Witnesses if they believe that only 144,000 go to heaven? (Search For Bible Truths)

What Do Jehovah's Witnesses Believe Regarding Physical And Heavenly Afterlives? The 144,000? (Search For Bible Truths)

Do 144,000 Anointed Christians Replace 144,000 Angels Who Defected? (Jehovah's Witnesses United)

Do all of the anointed ones first have to die? (Jehovah's Witnesses Questions and Answers)

What is "divine nature"? (Jehovah's Witnesses Questions and Answers)

Who are the 24 elders mentioned in Revelation? (Jehovah's Witnesses Questions and Answers)

The 24 elders and the 144,000 (Jehovah's Witnesses Questions and Answers)

Who Make Up "All Israel"? (Spiritual Israel; 12 tribes; 144,000) (Jehovah's Witnesses Questions and Answers)
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1975 - Links to Information

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1975 (INDEX; Watchtower Online Library)

Did the Organization of Jehovah's Witnesses Ever Say That Armageddon Was Definitely Going to Come In 1975? (Defend Jehovah's Witnesses)

1975 and Jehovah's Witnesses - The Opposers' Claims Vs. The Facts (Defend Jehovah's Witnesses)

The Problem with "False Prophecy" Polemics (Bible Translation and Study)

Response to anti-JW video concerning 1975 (AB; Daniel2)

Dates (1914; 1975) (Search For Bible Truths)

False Prophet (Search For Bible Truths Category)

"The JW organization itself didn't actively promote 1975 as a definite date for Armageddon by any means..." (Jehovah's Witnesses Questions and Answers)

"The WTS NEVER said the "End" would come (in 1975). The problem was the people, not the WTS..." (Jehovah's Witnesses Questions and Answers)
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1914 - Links to Information

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1914 - Links to Information (INDEX; Watchtower Online Library)

1914 (Search Results From the Watchtower Online Library)

1914—A Significant Year in Bible Prophecy (What Does the Bible Really Teach?; JW.ORG)

Dates (1914; 1975) (Defend Jehovah's Witnesses)

Number of years between 607 B.C.E. and 1914 C.E. “The appointed times of the nations” (Defend Jehovah's Witnesses)

'False Prophet' Claim and Jerusalem 607 B.C.E. (Search For Bible Truths)

Seven Times - The Times of The Gentiles (Pastor Russell)

1914 and GREAT EXPECTATIONS (Pastor Russell)
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Abraham - Links to Information

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ABRAHAM (Insight-1 pp. 28-32;Watchtower Online Library)

ABRAHAM - Links to Information (INDEX; Watchtower Online Library)

Abraham—A Friend of God (My Book of Bible Stories; JW.ORG)

Luke 16:19-31 - A Parable That Does NOT Teach a Literal Torment in Hell (Search For Bible Truths)

The Biblical Hell (Jehovah's Witnesses United; Includes analysis of Luke 16:19-31)

Even though the story about Abraham's Bosom is supposed to be symbolic, what is the meaning behind it? And why does it say that the angels carried them off after death? (Jehovah's Witnesses Questions and Answers; Question #2)
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Abel - Links to Information

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ABEL - Links to Information (INDEX; Watchtower Online Library)

ABEL (Insight-1 pp. 15-16; Watchtower Online Library)

Abel in the Bible Had Faith in God (THE WATCHTOWER JANUARY 2013; JW.ORG)

Who was Abel? (Search For Bible Truths)
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Thursday, December 27, 2012

Apostasy / Apostates - Links to Information

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APOSTASY (Insight-1 pp. 126-127; Watchtower Online Library)

APOSTASY - Links to Information (INDEX; Watchtower Online Library)

Our Attitude Toward Apostasy? (Supporting the Brotherhood)

What Should Be the Attitude Toward Opposers Who Encourage Jehovah's Witnesses to Read Apostate Material? (Defend Jehovah's Witnesses)

What is Apostasy? (Jehovah's Witnesses Questions and Answers)

Are charges made by apostates really knowledge that is essential for our eternal life? (Jehovah's Witnesses Questions and Answers)

The Apostasy, then and now (Pastor Russell)

Some identifying marks of APOSTATES  (Pastor Russell)

Beware of Apostates (Pastor Russell)

Apostates - "animalistic men" (Pastor Russell)

Apostasy, who let the dogs out? (Pastor Russell)

The Apostle John’s Fight Against Apostate Elements (Pastor Russell)

Apostates mourn Ray Franz (1922 - 2010) (Pastor Russell)
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Godhead (Col. 2:9) - Links to Information

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Col. 2:9; "Trinity" (rs p. 405-p. 426; Watchtower Online Library)

Col. 2:9 "Divine" (Insight-1 pp. 638-639; Watchtower Online Library)

Why does the NWT at Col. 2:9 state that in Jesus "all the fullness of the divine quality dwells bodily," when other translations say, "dwells the fullness of Deity/Godhead?'" (Defend Jehovah's Witnesses)

Col. 2:9 and the NWT - "divine quality," "Deity / Godhead"? (Defend Jehovah's Witnesses)

Does Col. 2:9 prove that Jesus is God? (Search For Bible Truths)

"Fulness of Deity" - Col. 2:9 (Examining the Trinity)

"Theotes simply does not literally mean "godhead," and the use of "godhead" by the KJV translators was not intended as some would understand it today..." (Jehovah's Witnesses Questions and Answers)

"The Fullness of the Divine Quality" in Colossians 2:9 (Bible Translation and Study)
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Is it Scripturally Acceptable for a Christian to Eat Animal Bone Marrow? Bone Marrow Transplants?

Throughout human history, God consistently made it clear for humans to abstain from blood. God began with commanding Noah and his family to abstain from blood. (Gen. 9:4) He repeated this through the Mosaic law (Lev. 7:26,27; 17:10, 11, 13, 14) and He continued to remind us through the pages of the New Testament. (Acts 15:28, 29; Acts 15:19, 20) (For much more concerning Christians and the proper use of blood, see the Blood Category.)

So this brings up the questions, "Should Christians eat animal bone marrow?" and "Should Christians accept bone marrow transplants?"

Is it Scripturally Acceptable for a Christian to Eat Animal Bone Marrow?

Animal bone marrow was apparently used for food by the Israelites. (Compare Micah 3:2, 3.) And Isa. 25:6 says that God Himself "will certainly make for all the peoples, in this mountain, a banquet of well-oiled dishes, a banquet of [wine kept on] the dregs, of well-oiled dishes filled with marrow." So animal marrow is spoken of like any other flesh that could be eaten.

What About Bone Marrow Transplants?

There is good information concerning whether Christians should accept a bone-marrow transplant in the 'Questions From Readers' in the 5-15-84 Watchtower. A small excerpt:

"Of course, marrow used in human marrow transplants is from live donors, and the withdrawn marrow may have some blood with it. Hence, the Christian would have to resolve for himself whether—to him—the bone-marrow graft would amount to simple flesh or would be unbled tissue. Additionally, since a marrow graft is a form of transplant, the Scriptural aspects of human organ transplants should be considered. See "Questions From Readers" in our issue of March 15, 1980. Finally, writing in Harrison's Principles of Internal Medicine (Update I, 1981, page 138), Dr. D. E. Thomas observes that "virtually all marrow transplant recipients will require platelet transfusions" and many are given "packed red blood cells." So the Christian should consider what additional issues he would have to face if he submitted to a marrow transplant.—Proverbs 22:3.

"Though a personal decision has to be made on this matter, the Bible's comments about blood and marrow should help the individual to decide."

For more, see:

MARROW - Links to Information (INDEX; Watchtower Online Library)

MARROW (Insight-2 pp. 344-345; Watchtower Online Library)

Your Body’s Microscopic “Trucks” - Where Blood Cells Come From (g01 11/22 pp. 26-27; Watchtower Online Library)
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Holy Spirit - Links To Information

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HOLY SPIRIT - Links to Information (INDEX; Watchtower Online Library)

God’s Active Force; Holy Spirit (Spirit; Insight-2 pp. 1017-1027; Watchtower Online Library)

Holy Spirit (Search Results From the Watchtower Online Library)

What Is the Holy Spirit? (w09 10/1 pp. 4-6; Watchtower Online Library)

The Bible’s Viewpoint - Is the Holy Spirit a Person? (g 7/06 pp. 14-15; Watchtower Online Library)

Have You Sinned Against the Holy Spirit? (w07 7/15 pp. 16-20; Watchtower Online Library)

The Truth About the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit (What Does the Bible Really Teach? APPENDIX; JW.ORG)

The Holy Spirit - Not a Person or God, But an Impersonal Force From God (Original File With Notes) (Defend Jehovah's Witnesses)

Quotes: Holy Spirit is a Force from God, Trinitarians Admit (Defend Jehovah's Witnesses)

"Holy Spirit" in the Original Greek is Neuter - "It," "Itself" are Used in the Original New Testament Greek (Defend Jehovah's Witnesses)

Exposing the False Reasoning Behind Holy Spirit 'Proof-Texts' (Defend Jehovah's Witnesses)

Do Scriptures Personifying the "Holy Spirit" Really Mean That it is a Person? (Defend Jehovah's Witnesses)

The Holy Spirit "Poured Out" (Ekxeo) (Defend Jehovah's Witnesses)

Did the Holy Spirit Descend LIKE a Dove or AS a Dove? (Luke 3:22; Mt. 3:16; Mark 1:10; John 1:32-34) (Defend Jehovah's Witnesses)

Is Acts 5:3, 4 - Lied to the Holy Spirit...lied to God? (Defend Jehovah's Witnesses)

Why Does the New World Translation Bible Say, "God's Active Force" at Genesis 1:2? (Defend Jehovah's Witnesses)

2 Cor. 3:17 - "The Lord is the Spirit." (Defend Jehovah's Witnesses)

What is the Holy Spirit? (Search For Bible Truths)

Quotes: Holy Spirit is a Force from God, Trinitarians Admit (Search For Bible Truths)

Comprehensive Research Concerning Why the Holy Spirit is Not God or a Person (Examining the Trinity)

Gender of article, pronouns for use with holy spirit discussions (Examining the Trinity)

"The Coptic text uses articles with the term 'holy spirit', proving conclusively that it was not regarded as a personal name by those early translators." (Jehovah's Witnesses Questions and Answers)

Bowman's Holy Spirit (Examining the Trinity)

What is the difference in the meaning of "ru´ach" (spirit) in Genesis chapter 1 and 2 in the Bible? (Search For Bible Truths)

Is the Holy Spirit really God? (Search For Bible Truths)

The Holy Spirit-Active Force or the 3rd Person of the Trinity? (quotedstatements.com)

What about scriptures that seem to show the Holy Spirit being personified? (Search For Bible Truths)

If the Holy Spirit is God, then why isn't the Holy Spirit given equal description in the Bible? (Search For Bible Truths)

Did Jesus ever teach that the Holy Spirit was God along with the Father and Son? (Search For Bible Truths)

Is it true that the Bible describes the Holy Spirit as an "it"? (Search For Bible Truths)

Is the Holy Spirit really a thing that can be poured out into portions? (Search For Bible Truths)

Does the Holy Spirit have a personal name? (Search For Bible Truths)

Why is the Holy Spirit nameless and indistinguishable from all of the other holy spirits? (Search For Bible Truths)

Does Mt. 28:19 prove that the Holy Spirit is God? (Search For Bible Truths)

Does Acts 8:29 prove that the Holy Spirit is a person? (Search For Bible Truths)

How can the Holy Spirit be "grieved"? (Eph. 4:30) (Search For Bible Truths)

If the Holy Spirit is really a person, wouldn't the water and blood be persons too according to Trinitarian reasoning and 1 John 5:8? (Search For Bible Truths)

2 Cor.13:14 "Jesus", "God", "and the...Holy Spirit" (Search For Bible Truths)

If the holy spirit really is a person, then why is it sandwiched between a list of QUALITIES at 2 Cor. 6:6? (Search For Bible Truths)

What is indicated by the expression “the seven spirits”? (Jehovah's Witnesses Questions and Answers)

Questions for those who believe in the Trinity (Search For Bible Truths)
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Birth Control - Links to Information

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BIRTH CONTROL - Links to Information (INDEX; Watchtower Online Library)

Is it wrong for married couples to use contraceptives? (w11 11/1 pp. 4-7; Watchtower Online Library)

The Bible’s Viewpoint - Is Contraception Morally Wrong? (g 9/07 pp. 10-11; Watchtower Online Library)

Should Christians Use Birth Control? Is It All Right for Christians to Use Contraceptives? (JW.ORG)

Since Sterilization Procedures Are Now Said to Be Reversible on Request, Might a Christian View Them as a Birth-Control Option? (JW.ORG)

Is it compatible with Bible principles for a Christian married couple to use birth control pills? (Search For Bible Truths)

Are birth-control pills a form of abortion? (Jehovah's Witnesses Questions and Answers)

Is it compatible with Bible principles for a Christian married couple to use birth control pills? (Jehovah's Witnesses Questions and Answers; 'Questions From Readers', 6/15/89 Watchtower)
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Women - Links to Information

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WOMEN - Links to Information (INDEX; Watchtower Online Library)

WOMAN (Insight-2 pp. 1195-1199; Watchtower Online Library)

Women (Search Results From the Watchtower Online Library)

Do Jehovah's Witnesses Have Women Preachers? (JW.ORG)

Does God Really Care About Women? (w12 9/1 pp. 4-8; Watchtower Online Library)

God's View of Women—Does He Really Care? (THE WATCHTOWER SEPTEMBER 2012; JW.ORG)

The Odds Against Women—Gender Discrimination Worldwide (THE WATCHTOWER SEPTEMBER 2012; JW.ORG)

What is the spiritual significance of a woman wearing a head covering? (1 Cor. 11:4-13) (Search For Bible Truths)

Are 1 Tim. 2:12-14 and 1 Cor. 14:34-35 really referring to women being totally silent with a man about the Scriptures? (Search For Bible Truths)

Women - A Biblical Perspective (Jehovah's Witnesses United)

Women's key role in the ministry (Jehovah's Witnesses Questions and Answers)

Are women looked down upon in the Bible? (Search For Bible Truths)

Are 1 Tim. 2:12-14 and 1 Cor. 14:34-35 really referring to women being totally quiet or even speaking to a man about the scriptures? (Jehovah's Witnesses Questions and Answers)

"While not permitted to teach in congregational assembly, a woman could teach persons outside the congregation who desired to learn the truth of the Bible as well as be a `teacher of what is good' to younger women (and children) within the congregation."(Tit. 2:3-5) (Jehovah's Witnesses Questions and Answers)

Should a woman wear a head covering? (Jehovah's Witnesses Questions and Answers)

What is the spiritual significance of a woman wearing a head covering? (Jehovah's Witnesses Questions and Answers)

Does Deut. 22:5 mean that women should never wear men's pants? What does this Scripture mean? (Jehovah's Witnesses Questions and Answers)

Because 1 Cor. 11:14, 15 is concerned about women having longer hair than men, does this mean that women should only have long hair? (Jehovah's Witnesses Questions and Answers)
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Genesis - Links to Information

Also see AbelAbrahamAdam and Eve, Babel, Cain, Canaan, Creation, Day, Dinosaurs, Flood, Fossils, Garden of Eden,  Noah, Race, and Sons of God.

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GENESIS (Book) - Links to Information (INDEX; Watchtower Online Library)

GENESIS, BOOK OF (Insight-1 pp. 919-923; Watchtower Online Library)

Genesis (Search Results From the Watchtower Online Library)

Does Science Contradict the Genesis Account? (Defend Jehovah's Witnesses)

Are Jehovah's Witnesses Creationists? (Defend Jehovah's Witnesses)

The Creative 'Days' - How Long Was Each 'Day' and Were All 'Days' Uniform in Length? (Defend Jehovah's Witnesses)

How Does the Bible Show That the Creative Days Were Longer Than 24 Hours Each? (Defend Jehovah's Witnesses)

Gen. 2:2 - How and Why Did God Rest on “the Seventh Day"? (Defend Jehovah's Witnesses)

Does Gen. 2:5, 6 Indicate That it Never Rained Before the Flood? (Defend Jehovah's Witnesses)

Is Genesis 2:19 Really Saying That God “Was Forming” Animals AFTER He Already Created Adam? (Defend Jehovah's Witnesses)

What Language did Adam and Eve Speak? (Defend Jehovah's Witnesses)

How Could the Snake in the Garden of Eden Talk When Snakes Don't Have Vocal Cords? (Defend Jehovah's Witnesses)

The Deluge—A View from Ancient Mesopotamia (Defend Jehovah's Witnesses)

Genesis 9:20-27 - How is This Account of Canaan, Ham and Noah to be Understood? (Defend Jehovah's Witnesses)

Does Genesis 10:5 really suggest that various tongues (languages) already existed BEFORE the confusion of tongues at Babel (Genesis 11:1)? (Defend Jehovah's Witnesses)

Is the Earth really only 10,000 years old? (Search For Bible Truths)

How could God produce light on the first day if the luminaries were not made until the fourth day? (Search For Bible Truths)

What are The Meanings Of The Words Translated "created" In Genesis 1:1 And "make" in Genesis 1:16? (Y/A; Esp. Bar Enosh's response)

Were the creative "days" in Genesis literal 24 hour periods? (Search For Bible Truths)

How long is a "day" in the first chapter of Genesis? What Does the Hebrew word for "Day" mean? What each Day began and ended with (Jehovah's Witnesses Questions and Answers)

What is the significance of a Genesis "Day" consisting of only "evening' and "morning"? (Jehovah's Witnesses Questions and Answers)

Is Gen. 1:5 talking about a literal morning and a literal evening of a literal day? (Jehovah's Witnesses Questions and Answers)

Definition of a "Genesis Kind" (Jehovah's Witnesses Questions and Answers)

Were there two separate accounts of creation? (Jehovah's Witnesses Questions and Answers)

Why did Moses write Genesis chapter 2 the way he did? (Jehovah's Witnesses Questions and Answers)

Can the Genesis account and Adam and Eve be believed? (Search For Bible Truths)

Was the Garden of Eden a real place and if so, where was it located? (Search For Bible Truths)

How is Man Made in God's Image? (Gen. 1:26) (Search For Bible Truths)

Does Genesis 1:26 prove the Trinity? (Search For Bible Truths)

Was Eve created shortly after Adam? (Jehovah's Witnesses Questions and Answers)

Why, in some Bibles, does it say that God called "THEIR name Adam"? (Gen. 2:5) (Search For Bible Truths)

What did the tree of the knowledge of good and bad represent? (Search For Bible Truths)

What would have happened if Adam had told Eve "No"? (Jehovah's Witnesses Questions and Answers)

Was Satan around at the time of Adam and Eve and was he responsible for the snake? (Search For Bible Truths)

Where did Cain get his wife? (Search For Bible Truths)

Where did all of the varieties of human races/skin tones come from? (Jehovah's Witnesses Questions and Answers)

According to the Bible, what was the time span between Adam’s creation to the Flood? (Search For Bible Truths)

Were the "sons of God" mentioned in Genesis 6:2 angels, and if so, how could they produce offspring (Nephilim) in the time of Noah? (Search For Bible Truths)

Did the Great Flood of Noah's Day Really Happen? (Search For Bible Truths)

From what source was the Flood of Noah’s day? (Search For Bible Truths)

In what year does the Bible indicate the Great Flood occurred and why didn't Noah's father and grandfather enter the ark? (Search For Bible Truths)

Who were the "sons of God" mentioned in Genesis 6:2? (Search For Bible Truths)

Who were the Nephilim? (Search For Bible Truths)

According to the Bible, when was the city (and tower) of Ba'bel built? (Search For Bible Truths)

Would we have only one advantageous language with one alphabet if natural selection was at work? (Jehovah's Witnesses Questions and Answers)
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Garden of Eden - Links to Information

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GARDEN OF EDEN - Links to Information (INDEX; Watchtower Online Library)

The Garden of Eden—Myth or Fact? (1/1/11 Watchtower; Watchtower Online Library)

Garden of Eden (Insight-1 pp. 889-891; Watchtower Online Library)

Eden (Insight-1 pp. 676-677; Watchtower Online Library)

Garden of Eden (Search Results From the Watchtower Online Library)

How Could the Snake in the Garden of Eden Talk When Snakes Don't Have Vocal Cords? (Defend Jehovah's Witnesses)

Was the Garden of Eden a real place and if so, where was it located? (Search For Bible Truths)

Can the Genesis account and Adam and Eve be believed? (Search For Bible Truths)

Is the Scene in the Garden of Eden too Simplistic to be Believed? (Jehovah's Witnesses United)

How is Man Made in God's Image? (Gen. 1:26) (Search For Bible Truths)

Why, in some Bibles, does it say that God called "THEIR name Adam"? (Gen. 2:5) (Search For Bible Truths)

What did the tree of the knowledge of good and bad represent? (Search For Bible Truths)

Was Satan around at the time of Adam and Eve and was he responsible for the snake? (Search For Bible Truths)

Where did Cain get his wife? (Search For Bible Truths)

According to the Bible, what was the time span between Adam’s creation to the Flood? (Search For Bible Truths)
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Mormonism (Latter-Day Saints; LDS) - Links to Information

Mormonism (Latter-Day Saints)

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CHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST OF LATTER-DAY SAINTS (INDEX; Watchtower Online Library)

LDS' Book Of Mormon (JWs - Reasoning From Scripture)

LDS’ Changes - Changing God’s Inspired Word (JWs - Reasoning From Scripture)

LDS’ God (“Elohim” & “Jehovah”) (JWs - Reasoning From Scripture)

LDS' 'Stick' Prophecy  (JWs - Reasoning From Scripture)

LDS Civil War 'Prophecy'  (JWs - Reasoning From Scripture)

LDS' Book of Abraham  (JWs - Reasoning From Scripture)

LDS and the Kinderhook Plates  (JWs - Reasoning From Scripture)

LDS and New World Civilization - Mayas  (JWs - Reasoning From Scripture)

Mormonism (JimSpace)

Is the concept of God being a man supported by the Bible? (Jehovah's Witnesses Questions and Answers)

Is 1 Cor. 15:41 talking about other varying degrees of glories (afterlives) depending on how loyal we are? (LDS teaching) (Jehovah's Witnesses Questions and Answers)
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Death Penalty (Capital Punishment)

How do Jehovah's witnesses view capital punishment?

"Jehovah's Christian witnesses adhere to what the Holy Scriptures present as God's view of capital punishment. They recognize that Jehovah God, as the Creator of man, has the absolute right to set forth laws that must be obeyed if one is to continue enjoying life. Accordingly, when God determines that certain people merit the death penalty because of their persistent practice of sin, he can rightly take their life. Two notable examples of such capital punishment executed by God are the destruction of disobedient mankind in the Flood and the later destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah.—2 Pet. 2:5, 6.

"As Lawgiver, Judge and Supreme Sovereign, Jehovah God can also delegate to others the authority to execute lawbreakers. After the flood of Noah's day, for example, he authorized humans to administer capital punishment for deliberate murder. We read: "Anyone shedding man's blood, by man will his own blood be shed, for in God's image he made man." (Gen. 9:6) The human authority, by executing the murderer, would be acting as "God's minister, an avenger to express wrath upon the one practicing what is bad."—Rom. 13:4.

"Of course, some may question whether human authorities can rightly execute individuals for acts that God's Word does not designate as capital offenses. That is a responsibility the governments must bear before God. But there is no Scriptural basis for saying that governments are condemned for prescribing the death penalty for murderers. God's view is that the person deliberately taking someone else's life forfeits his own life. Today, however, many governments are abandoning God's view of capital punishment, this doubtless contributing to increased crime and violence." - Questions From Readers; 8/1/72 Watchtower

For more information concerning capital punishment from the Official Website of Jehovah's Witnesses, see:

CAPITAL PUNISHMENT - Links to Information (INDEX; Watchtower Online Library)

EXECUTION, EXECUTIONER (Insight-1 pp. 774-775; Watchtower Online Library)

CRIME AND PUNISHMENT (Insight-1 pp. 548-552; Watchtower Online Library)
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Predestination / Destiny / Fate / Foreordination - Links to Information

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PREDESTINATION (INDEX; Watchtower Online Library)

FOREKNOWLEDGE, FOREORDINATION (Insight-1 pp. 851-860; Watchtower Online Library)

The Bible’s Viewpoint - Is Your Life Predestined? (g 5/07 pp. 12-13; Watchtower Online Library)

Can You Control Your Destiny? (w05 1/15 pp. 4-7; Watchtower Online Library)

Who Are Giving God Glory Today? (w04 10/1 pp. 9-14; Watchtower Online Library)
Take as an example the teaching of predestination. This doctrine is based on...

Predestination: Does God foreordain our life course and ultimate fate / destiny? (Search For Bible Truths)

TASSO (Pre-destination?) Acts 13:48 (Search For Bible Truths)

Yatsar (Predestination) Ps. 139: 15,16 (Search For Bible Truths)
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Nephilim - Links to Information

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Nephilim - Links to Information (INDEX; Watchtower Online Library)

NEPHILIM (Insight-2 pp. 491-493; Watchtower Online Library)

Identifying the Nephilim (Defending Jehovah's Witnesses)

Who were the Nephilim? (Search For Bible Truths)

Could the Neanderthals be the nephilim of Genesis 6? (Jehovah's Witnesses Questions and Answers)
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Wormwood - Links to Information

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Wormwood - Links to Information (INDEX; Watchtower Online Library)

Wormwood (Insight-2 p. 1210; Watchtower Online Library)

What is Wormwood as read at Rev. 8:10,11? (Search For Bible Truths)

Not uncommon for the Bible to use stars in a figurative sense (Jehovah's Witnesses Questions and Answers)

Wormwood and spiritual poisoning (Jehovah's Witnesses Questions and Answers)
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Acts 20:28 - Links to Information

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Acts 20:28 (rs p. 405-p. 426; Watchtower Online Library)

Acts 20:28 ("God...with his own blood") (Defending the NWT)

ACTS 20:28 (IN Defense of the NWT)

Does Acts 20:28 really say that God bought the church with his "own" blood? (Search For Bible Truths)

Acts 20:28 ("God...with his own blood") (Examining the Trinity)

A Response to Alleged New World Translation "Errors" (Jehovah's Witnesses United)

"The Sahidic Coptic version...does not speak of 'the church of God which he purchased with his own blood,' (Acts 20:28) (NWT and Coptic)
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Adam and Eve - Links to Information

(Also see Garden of Eden.)

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Adam and Eve - Links to Information (INDEX; Watchtower Online Library)

Adam (Insight-1 pp. 44-46; Watchtower Online Library)

Eve (Insight-1 pp. 771-772; Watchtower Online Library)

Adam and Eve (Search Results From the Watchtower Online Library)

What Is God’s Purpose for the Earth? (What Does the Bible Really Teach?; JW.ORG)

What Language did Adam and Eve Speak? (Defend Jehovah's Witnesses)

How Could the Snake in the Garden of Eden Talk When Snakes Don't Have Vocal Cords? (Defend Jehovah's Witnesses)

Didn't Adam and Eve Already Have to Know What Was Bad in Order to Eat From the Tree and Disobey God? (Defend Jehovah's Witnesses)

Can the Genesis account and Adam and Eve be believed? (Search For Bible Truths)

How is Man Made in God's Image? (Gen. 1:26) (Search For Bible Truths)

Was Eve created shortly after Adam? (Jehovah's Witnesses Questions and Answers)

Are things that seem to be at odds with the Bible's account really in contradiction to what the Bible says? (Jehovah's Witnesses Questions and Answers)

Why, in some Bibles, does it say that God called "THEIR name Adam"? (Gen. 2:5) (Search For Bible Truths)

What did the fruit from the tree of "the knowledge of good and bad" symbolize? (Jehovah's Witnesses Questions and Answers)

Did the snake really talk? How could it when snakes don't have vocal cords? (Jehovah's Witnesses Questions and Answers)

Didn't Adam and Eve Already Have to Know What Was Bad in Order to Eat From the Tree and Disobey God? (Search For Bible Truths)

What does Gen. 3:7 mean when it describes what happened immediately after eating the fruit: "At that moment, their eyes were opened, and they suddenly felt shame at their nakedness"? (Jehovah's Witnesses Questions and Answers)

Why did God forbid Adam and Eve from partaking? (Jehovah's Witnesses Questions and Answers)

What would have happened if Adam had told Eve "No"? (Jehovah's Witnesses Questions and Answers)

Did Adam And Eve originally not know good and bad? Didn't Adam and Eve already have to know what bad was in order to eat from the tree and disobey God? (Jehovah's Witnesses Questions and Answers)

If Adam and Eve were perfect, then does perfection require that Adam and Eve be unable to do wrong? (Jehovah's Witnesses Questions and Answers)

Was Satan around at the time of Adam and Eve and was he responsible for the snake? (Search For Bible Truths)

Where Do the Different Races Come From? (Search For Bible Truths)

Where did all of the varieties of human races/skin tones come from? (Jehovah's Witnesses Questions and Answers)

According to the Bible, what was the time span between Adam’s creation to the Flood? (Search For Bible Truths)
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2012 A.D. - Links to Information

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2012 - Would God Really Have Used the Mayan Calendar to Proclaim His Judgement? (Defend Jehovah's Witnesses)

Beyond 2012: Why the World Won't End (NASA.GOV)

The Maya - Yesterday and Today (g01 9/8 pp. 15-19; Watchtower Online Library)

The Amazing Maya Calendar (g05 4/8 p. 31; Watchtower Online Library)
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12 (Twelve) What does this number apparently represent in the Bible?

Numbers can have some significant symbolic meanings in the Bible. And it appears that the number 12 represents a balanced and complete arrangement according to divine standards.

Consider:

Jacob had 12 sons, who became the foundations of the 12 tribes of Israel. Further, these are 12 tribes of the sons of spiritual Israel, each tribe consisting of 12,000 members of which is quoted in Rev. 7:4-8.

Interestingly, 12 apostles were also chosen, who form the secondary foundations of the New Jerusalem, built upon Jesus Christ. (Mt 10:2-4; Re 21:14)

In this sense, multiples of 12 (or 12 + 12) are also mentioned. David established 24 divisions of the priesthood to serve by turn in the temple later built by Solomon. (1 Ch. 24:1-18)

This 12 + 12 combination is also used in identifying the 24 elders who were seated round about God's throne in white outer garments and who were wearing crowns. (Re 4:4)

So learning about this usage of the number 12 throughout the Bible (especially when considering Rev. 7:4-8...12 times 12,000 = 144,000) can help us better understand the numerical significance behind the divine representation of a balanced & complete arrangement.

For more, see:

Twelve - Links to Information (INDEX; Watchtower Online Library)

Number, Numeral (Insight-2 510-513; Watchtower Online Library)
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2520

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Number of years between 607 B.C.E. and 1914 C.E. “The appointed times of the nations” (bh p. 215-p. 218 par. 1; Watchtower Online Library)
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