Monday, December 14, 2009

Table of Contents


Introductory Material

Questions from Readers

  1. Jehovah's Witnesses and Romans 8:8-9
JW Study Meetings

  1. 7 June 2008 - Wherein JB begins a JW Bible study and hears conversion stories
  2. 21 June 2008 - Wherein JB and the JWs discuss the Bible being the Word of God
  3. 5 July 2008 - Wherein JB and the JWs discuss the future restoration of creation
  4. 26 July 2008 - Wherein JB confesses his Trinitarianism
  5. 2 August 2008 - Wherein JB defends the deity of Christ and answers JW objections
  6. 16 August 2008 - Wherein JB distinguishes Trinitarianism from modalism and questions the 'faithful and discreet slave'
  7. 30 August 2008 - Wherein JB explains John 1:1, Trinitarian doctrine, and church history, and discusses the practical implications of Trinitarianism
  8. 13 September 2008 - Wherein JB distinguished Trinitarianism from modalism (again), answers JW objections to the deity of Christ (again), and learns about JW history; also wherein JB challenges the JW depiction of the crucifixion
  9. 13 October 2008 - Wherein Uriah expounds the Watchtower's authority and discusses 'new light' with JB
  10. 1 November 2008 - Wherein Uriah gives JB articles
  11. 29 November 2008 - Wherein JB and Uriah discuss books, Mormonism, Joyce Meyer, etc.
  12. 20 December 2008 - Wherein JB and Uriah make small-talk and discuss the atonement
  13. 27 December 2008 - Wherein JB and Uriah make more small talk and discuss the atonement some more
  14. 17 January 2009 - Wherein Uriah presents the JW perspective on the fate of the dead
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  16. 7 March 2009 - Wherein JB challenges the JW view on the fate of the dead, and Uriah interprets scriptures differently
  17. 14 March 2009 - Wherein JB and Uriah make small-talk
  18. 23 May 2009 - Wherein JB learns about JW conventions
  19. 30 May 2009 - Wherein JB rants about Word of Faith teachers
  20. 6 June 2009 - Wherein JB challenges the JW view of the limited general resurrection
  21. 20 June 2009 - Wherein JB challenges the JW position on resurrection as 'spirit-creatures'
  22. 18 July 2009 - Wherein Uriah is open to the physical resurrection of Christ
  23. 8 August 2009 - Wherein JB learns more about JW organizational structure and life as a JW
  24. 15 August 2009 - Wherein JB and Uriah discuss the anointed class and the great crowd
  25. 22 August 2009 - Wherein Uriah shares stories from door-to-door ministry and life as a congregational elder and literature servant, and JB and Uriah talk about books
  26. 29 August 2009 - Wherein they discuss computers and bad neighbors
  27. 23 December 2009 - Wherein JB and Uriah catch up after the former's stay in Greece, and the two talk about LDS stuff and the importance of personal involvement in religion
  28. 26 December 2009 - Wherein JB, Uriah, and Shem talk about the kingdom of God
  29. 2 January 2010 - Wherein they discuss God's kingdom and Armageddon, and JB explains preterism briefly
  30. 9 January 2010 - Wherein JB, Uriah, and Shem begin to discuss 'signs of the end'.
  31. 16 January 2010 - Wherein JB, Uriah, and Shem continue to discuss 'signs of the end' and also how to be prepared.
  32. 13 February 2010 - Wherein JB, Uriah, and Raanan discuss angels, and JB asks annoying questions about the Nephilim.
LDS Discussions

  1. 8 October 2009 - Wherein Creon and Daedalos present LDS views on apostasy, the Restoration, and ecclesiology, and everyone discusses the relationship between faith and knowledge
  2. 9 October 2009 - Wherein JB asks about LDS scripture and the apostasy, Creon presents an inaccurate summary of church history, and the missionaries present the LDS Plan of Salvation
  3. 14 October 2009 - Wherein Admetus is introduced, and wherein all discuss pre-mortality, ecclesiology, and the gospel
  4. 4 November 2009 - Wherein Daedalos is replaced by Orestes, and wherein all discuss the plurality of gods, perfection, monotheism, the difference between Trinitarianism and modalism, God as an exalted man, the relationship between God and time, the Book of Mormon, and praying for testimonies
  5. 11 November 2009 - Wherein JB asks hard questions about ordinances in the apostolic period, the biblical view of priesthood, the sonship of Christ; and also wherein they watch a video clip and the missionaries talk about the importance of feelings
  6. 18 November 2009 - Wherein the missionaries discuss the Ten Commandments and the Word of Wisdom with JB, and wherein we all laud C. S. Lewis
  7. 19 November 2009 - Wherein JB asks hard questions about the relationship between Jehovah and the Father and intelligences, and wherein the missionaries try to discredit the Bible
  8. 27 November 2009 - Wherein the missionaries explain tithing and fasting, and JB asks more hard questions about Jehovah and the Father, the King Follett Discourse, and exaltation and omniscience
  9. 30 November 2009 - Wherein the missionaries and JB discuss personal revelation... and wherein JB receives a 'burning in the bosom'?
  10. 18 February 2010 - Wherein JB gets to meet some missionaries on this side of the Atlantic Ocean and reminisces about Greece
  11. 26 February 2010 - Wherein the missionaries talk to JB about spiritual gifts, focusing on others, and praying "with real intent"
Kingdom Hall Visits

  1. 6 April 2008 - Wherein Daniel and JB attend a JW meeting
  2. 10 April 2009 - Wherein JB attends a "Lord's Evening Meal" Memorial Service.
  3. 20 August 2009 - Wherein JB's friends Nick and Ray visit a Kingdom Hall
LDS Church Visits
  1. 14 March 2010 - Wherein JB experiences sacrament meeting, Gospel Principles class, and priesthood meeting for the first time
JW Conventions

LDS Fireside Chats

  1. 7 November 2009 - Elder Johann Wondra, Third Quorum of the Seventy
  2. 25 November 2009 - Elder Gerald Causse, First Quorum of the Seventy

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