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>>20037868
>Christ is Lord. Praise God

True

>>20037869
The apostle Paul counseled Christians to avoid pointless disputes with opposers, describing such arguments as “unprofitable and futile.”—Titus 3:9; Romans 16:17, 18. I gave you several opportunities to have a polite discussion but you don't want to, so just like Jesus did not pay attention to the hurtful words of the Pharisees, I will not either.

Happy are you when people reproach you and persecute you and lyingly say every sort of wicked thing against you for my sake.” (Matthew 5:11, 12)

>>20037874
Yes because the Old Testament laws were in place at the time of Jesus.

Jerusalem was destroyed in 70 AD, so now there can be no more sacrificial system to the priests in the temple. That is why Jews today can't follow the Torah but they follow Talmud.

>>19999446
The more I stidy the Bible, the more I know more about our Creator. As I grow in knowledge of God, my faith will become stronger. Faith helps you to please God. (Hebrews 11:1, 6)

It moves me to repent and to make beneficial changes in my way of life.— Acts 3:19

>>19999446
The more I stidy the Bible, the more I know more about our Creator. As I grow in knowledge of God, my faith will become stronger. Faith helps you to please God. (Hebrews 11:1, 6)

It moves me to repent and to make beneficial changes in your way of life.— Acts 3:19

>>19945672
ok give me a moment to read

>>19945674
In Jesus’ day, a person was considered Jewish if he or she 1) was born to a Jewish mother or 2) had formally converted to the religion of Judaism.

Jews by descent traced their lineage to the ancient Hebrews; Jews by conversion were proselytes from any ethnic background

so yes Jesus was a Jew by descent, and He lived a Jewish life in the first century.

>>19945685
>JWs must be old earth creationists

I have no objection to the scientific assertion that the earth is billions of years old

Genesis 1:1 simply says "in the beginning God created the earth", it gives no indication of when this happened

>There's ton of failed prophecies about the end of the world

We have always used the Bible as the sole authority for our beliefs, so we have adjusted our beliefs as our understanding of the Scriptures has been clarified.

We do not try to hide these changes in our understanding of the Bible. In fact, we record and publish them:

https://wol.jw.org/en/wol/d/r1/lp-e/1200277174

>JW's leader made up the "overlapping generation" concept in order to deal with the fact that the apocalypse isn't coming despite the fact that 108 years have passed since 1914 and they explicitly, repeatedly said that the end of the world was coming within a generation of 1914

There is a big difference between misguided and immature exegesis of prophecy or scripture and outright false prophecy. The later is an attempt to deceive by contradicting true prophecy and scripture.