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When God created humans he made them male and female. The bible shows clearly, that God does not approve of homosexuality. When Jesus Christ declared that 'God's Word is truth he endorsed God's view of homosexuality as described at Leviticus 18:22, which reads: 'You must not lie down with a male the same as you lie down with a woman. It is a detestable thing.'. Jehovah's Witnesses take the bible and it's teachings very seriously. Which means that no homosexual person can become or stay one of Jehovah's Witnesses. I don't deny that some persons have homosexual inclination, but there are people that are inclined to violence, lying, unfaithfulness etc. theses are all imperfect tendencies we have to fight against. As Jehovah's Witnesses we DON'T hate gay people, as we are to love our neighbor and every person has the right to make their own decisions, but we will not condone this behavior in the congregation, the same way we don't condone adultery, fornication, drunkenness etc. If your acquaintance goes to these orgies, he is obviously leading a double-life, and there will come a point he won't be able do that anymore. He has only two choices: repent and clean up his life or he will be sooner or later disfellowshiped

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[Lydia]

Most religious organizations have produced bad fruitage. It is not the fact that groups are organized that is bad. But many have promoted forms of worship that are based on false teachings and are largely ritualistic instead of providing genuine spiritual guidance; they have been misused to control the lives of people for selfish objectives; they have been overly concerned with money collections and ornate houses of worship instead of spiritual values; their members are often hypocritical. Obviously no one who loves righteousness would want to belong to such an organization. But true religion is a refreshing contrast to all of that. Nevertheless, to fulfill the Bible's requirements, it must be organized. Heb. 10:24, 25: "Let us consider one another to incite to love and fine works, not forsaking the gathering of ourselves together, as some have the custom, but encouraging one another, and all the more so as you behold the day drawing near." (To carry out this Scriptural command, there must be Christian meetings that we can attend on a consistent basis. Such an arrangement encourages us to express love toward others, not only concern about self.) 1 Cor. 1:10: "Now I exhort you, brothers, through the name of our Lord Jesus Christ that you should all speak in agreement, and that there should not be divisions among you, but that you may be fitly united in the same mind and in the same line of thought." (Such unity would never be achieved if the individuals did not meet together, benefit from the same spiritual feeding program, and respect the agency through which such instruction was provided. See also John 17:20, 21.) 1 Pet. 2:17: "Have love for the whole association of brothers." (Does that include only those who may meet together for worship in a particular private home? Not at all; it is an international brotherhood, as shown by Galatians 2:8, 9 and 1 Corinthians 16:19.) Matt. 24:14: "This good news of the kingdom will be preached in all the inhabited earth for a witness to all the nations; and then the end will come." (For all nations to be given the opportunity to hear that good news, the preaching must be carried out in an orderly way, with suitable oversight. Love for God and for one's fellowman has caused people around the earth to unite their efforts to do this work.) So you see religion is necessary, the problem lies with how it's practiced.

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(1) Are its teachings based on God, or are they largely from men? (2 Tim. 3:16; Mark 7:7) Does the Bible teach that God is a Trinity? Does it say that the human soul is immortal? (2) Consider whether it is making known the name of God. Read John 17:6 and Matt. 4:10. Has your religion taught you that 'it is Jehovah you must worship'? Have you come to know the Person identified by that name so that you feel you can confidently draw close to him? (3) Is true faith in Jesus Christ being demonstrated? This involves appreciation of the value of the sacrifice of Jesus' human life and of his position today as heavenly King. (John 3:36; Ps. 2:6-8) Such appreciation is shown by obeying Jesus—sharing personally and zealously in the work that he assigned to his followers. True religion has such faith that is accompanied by works.—Jas. 2:26. (4) Is it largely ritualistic, a formality, or is it a way of life? (Isa. 1:15-17) True religion upholds the Bible's standard of morality and clean speech instead of weakly going along with popular trends. (1 Cor. 5:9-13; Eph. 5:3-5) Its members reflect the fruits of God's spirit in their lives. (Gal. 5:22, 23) So, those who adhere to true worship can be identified because they sincerely endeavor to apply Bible standards in their lives not only at their places of meeting. (5) Do its members truly love one another? (John 13:35) Christian love reaches across racial, social, and national boundaries, drawing people together in genuine brotherhood. So strong is this love that it sets them apart as being truly different. When the nations go to war, who have enough love for their Christian brothers in other lands that they refuse to take up arms and kill them? That is what early Christians did. (6) Is it truly separate from the world? (John 15:19) To worship God in a manner that he approves requires that we keep ourselves "without spot from the world." (Jas. 1:27) Can that be said of those whose clergy and other members are involved in politics, or whose lives are largely built around materialistic and fleshly desires?—1 John 2:15-17. (7) Are its members active witnesses concerning God's Kingdom? (Matt. 24:14) What religion is really proclaiming God's Kingdom as the hope of mankind instead of encouraging people to look to human rulership to solve their problems? Has your religion equipped you to share in this activity, and to do it from house to house as Jesus taught his apostles to do?—Matt. 10:7, 11-13; Acts 5:42; 20:20.

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Why does anyone have curly or straight hair. It's genetics. And not all jewish men have curly hair. If you mean, why some in jewish groups (for example orthodox) men don't cut the hair on the side. That goes back to the law that God gave to Moses, in which it said that jewish men should not cut the hair on the side. This served the purpose to distinct them from the pagan nations that surrounded them and seperate them from idol worship.

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I am not sure why they like especially white T-Shirts, but I see these oversized T-Shirts in all colors, maybe white ones stand more out. Anyway, a good friend of mine, she is African-American and very much educated about black culture and it's origins, told me about where all this oversized cloth come from. She said that in the past, when blacks were inprisoned they gave them cloth that were too big, to make it more difficult for them to flee (Try running with a pair of pants that fall off your body and are too long etc.). When the whole ganster scene and hiphop/rap culture became more popular, young blacks startet wearing the 'prison look'. Imitating, like many young people, something whose origin they don't really know.

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To designate the instrument of Christ's death, Apostle John used the Greek word stau·ros´, rendered 'torture stake' in the New World Translation (The translation JW's use most). (John 19:17, 19, 25) In classical Greek, stau·ros´ denotes the same thing that it does in the common Greek of the Christian Scriptures-primarily an upright stake or pole with no crossbar. Interestingly, John Denham Parsons wrote in the book The Non-Christian Cross: 'There is not a single sentence in any of the numerous writings forming the New Testament, which, in the original Greek, bears even indirect evidence to the effect that the stauros used in the case of Jesus was other than an ordinary stauros; much less to the effect that it consisted, not of one piece of timber, but of two pieces nailed together in the form of a cross.' The Interpreter's Dictionary of the Bible states, with reference to stau·ros´: 'Literally an upright stake, pale, or pole . . . As an instrument of execution, the cross was a stake sunk vertically in the ground. Often, but by no means always, a horizontal piece was attached to the vertical portion.' Another reference work says: 'The Greek word for cross, stau·ros´, properly signified a stake, an upright pole, or piece of paling, on which anything might be hung, or which might be used in impaling [fencing in] a piece of ground. . . . Even amongst the Romans the crux (from which our cross is derived) appears to have been originally an upright pole, and this always remained the more prominent part.'-The Imperial Bible Dictionary. The evidence indicates that Jesus did not die on the traditional cross. Hence, Jehovah's witnesses, who once had a representation of the cross on the front cover of their journal The Watchtower, no longer use such a symbol. Nor do they give the stake veneration. Surely, the instrument of Jesus' suffering and death no more merits such reverence than would the gallows on which a beloved one might have died unjustly. Moreover, God's Word prohibits such veneration, for it says, 'flee from idolatry' and 'guard yourselves from idols.'-1 Cor. 10:14; 1 John 5:21. Should you be interested in receiving a more detailed answer to your question, feel free to ask one of Jehovah's Witnesses the next time they ring your door bell.

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