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12:23
- The Watchtower () uses this passage to force Jehovah's
Witnesses to shun (disfellowship) apostates (former J-dubs) in their own family.
13:6
- Martin Luther used these verses ()to justify burning the synagogues and homes of the Jews.
13:12
- Jehovah's Witnesses use this "two witness rule" when dealing with the sexual abuse of children, which makes it pretty much
impossible to establish the guilt of witness child molesters.
17:6
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18:10
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18:10
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18:18
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19:15
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21:15
- When someone commits "a sin worthy of death" that person is "accursed of God" and should be hung on a tree. But should the accursed person be killed first by stoning and
then hung on a tree or be killed by hanging on a tree -- that is, by crucifixion?
The important thing is to make sure you take the accursed dead body down before nightfall. Leaving dead bodies on trees all night is just nasty. Too nasty even for a
very nasty God.
21:22
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22:13
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24:14
- The JWs believe that Jesus is "a god" who was with Jehovah
during the creation. But how could that be if God was speaking truthfully in this verse
when he said, "there are no gods with me"?
32:39
- "And there arose not a prophet since in Israel like unto Moses."
34:10
