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    To Any Jehovah’s Witness or Mormon Upon Troubled Waters
    To Any Jehovah’s Witness or Mormon Upon Troubled Waters
    To Any Jehovah’s Witness or Mormon Upon Troubled Waters
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    To Any Jehovah’s Witness or Mormon Upon Troubled Waters

    By Richie Cooley

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    In a gracious spirit of seeking the truth, this booklet challenges Mormons and members of the Jehovah's Witnesses to study the Bible privately.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRichie Cooley
    Release dateOct 15, 2018
    ISBN9780463503065
    To Any Jehovah’s Witness or Mormon Upon Troubled Waters
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    To Any Jehovah’s Witness or Mormon Upon Troubled Waters - Richie Cooley

    To Any Jehovah’s Witness

    or Mormon Upon Troubled Waters

    by Richie Cooley

    Licensed by:

    Richie Cooley (October, 2018); [edited: (December, 2018); (April, 2020)]

    Creative Commons: Attribution 4.0 International

    Email: richieacooley@live.com

    Table of Contents

    I. Introduction: The Comparison

    II. Regulating Emotions

    III. Origin of Doctrine

    IV. Eternal Truth?

    V. Citations

    Before getting started, let’s review a few notes…

    *This work mostly uses British spelling, except for the quoted material, which often employs U.S. spelling.

    *I’ve decided to break from my normal practice, and will only cite from the King James Version throughout this writing. The Mormons hold it in a fairly high regard, and even the Jehovah’s Witnesses often mention it as a point of reference. Also, in quoting from a different Bible version than I would normally use, I’m demonstrating the fact that true orthodoxy should never be bound up in a single translation. If you have to perpetually wield your pet version to prove every point, this reeks of dubiousness. A robust orthodoxy can be expounded from any school of popular textual criticism and from any conservative translation. Mormons say that the Bible was corrupted. The Jehovah’s Witnesses say that all modern versions are corrupt. Is this not a troubling pattern?

    *Divine pronouns are normally not capitalized, unless they appear that way in Bible versions or other quotes.

    *As a general rule, words that appear in brackets within quotes are not found in the original texts, and were added by the translators or are my personal comments, etc.

    I. Introduction: The Comparison

    There are many reasons someone might want to read a booklet like this. One of the most common in the West will probably be people who are trying to defend the Christian sects that are in the title. This type of behaviour has become very common. Many religious devotees think that somehow it is their divine calling to find every writer on their smartphone’s storefront who disagrees with them and promptly give him or her a nasty review and/or a one star rating. That’s a rather odd form of ministry. It’s surprising though that Paul didn’t specifically mention anything like this as being a fruit of the Spirit, given how incredibly popular it is!

    I’m not pointing out this lamentable behaviour for my own

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