A question to Jehovah's Witnesses.?

[Lone Dissenter 4 questions 2 think about]

I posted this on facebook a while back & many all my contacts loved it .
As you know I am a new JW & this is way before my time as a JW.
I have now read it & love it .

Do you remember this ?
Does it bring back memories ?
Is the information still relevent ?

http://www.a2z.org/wtarchive/docs/1958_F...gained.pdf

Yes this is a re post because I go so many liars saying it has a virus , it was confirmed it does not by an anti-JW.
Oh you could not get me on the viris lies Now you try porn . What type of Christians are you ? Liars for God ? You make me sick , how can you call yourselves Christians , I will remember you ,I will have questions just for you.
Oh all the ...it's a link to porn or it has a virus has gone.
At least they have contacted me to say sorry.

[Tessa g]

I wonder why some are saying strange things about this link, it is to a beautiful Pink/red book "from Paradise lost, to Paradised regained".
I learnt everything I know from this book as I read it to my daughters at bed time.
That was back in 1973/4 when I first started to study the Bible myself, and had no idea of how everything in the Bible has meaning and all the 'Bible stories' I had heard as a child actually have real me
aning. Maybe some ideas are out of date, but I still have mine, it is a lovely book to keep.

[Rick G]

Yes, it was one of my favorite books. While some of the information has changed since 1958, the book was one of my first experience with information about the coming restoration of paradise. That archive has many of our publications that are pre-1960. Only real old congregations have some of these books in their libraries.

The one picture that stuck with me was the one with the family enjoying the paradise.

The link below is from the Index in the Library, it cites the articles that relates to the book being used in service.

[Wendi888]

Yes, I remember this book well. I was a pre-teen when it was released and we studied it both at home and at the KH. Yes, most of
the information is still relevant. As you are now reading it you realize this. Every chapter in the book is based on many scriptures because the Bible is our basis for all knowledge of God and His purposes.

Anyone calling this porn should have their account suspended for all time.

[Wendi888]

Nice. This book is before my time. I studied "The Truth That Leads To Everlasting Life," I feel really old now. LOL

Your 1st 3 answers speak volumes of ignorance. I would have said stupidity but I wanted to be nice.

[BibleChooser]

The directory to the documents available:
http://www.a2z.org/wtarchive/archive.htm
A very nice site!

Note: some of the titles are not 100% precise. For example:

"1610 Douay Rheims Bible" is actually an edition of the 1750 Challoner Revision or an even later revision of that text - and on top of that, excludes all of the notes. The Bible text (meaning: the words themselves) is quite different from the 1610 edition of the Douay Rheims. I have multiple links (3 links, one to each volume) to scans of the 1610 Douay-Rheims if someone is interested. Warning: not for the faint of heart! It takes some practice reading that old Germanic font!

"1611 King James Version" - this is the scan not of the original 1611 edition but - rather - a recent re-typeset edition (you can tell by the use of Roman fonts). It is also copyrighted (owned by Hendrickson Bible Publishers who bought the rights from the creator) and not legal to publish without permission. Here is a scan of the actual 1611 edition:
http://sceti.library.upenn.edu/sceti/pri...osition=36

Despite these imprecise titles, the documents themselves have not been altered. That is: they are authentic scans of real documents, and so all of the Watchtower related material is authentic. A quite useful web site!

[Sunshine]

Downloaded to harddrive, thanks Pop.

Alas, I wasn't even a vague twinkle in my father's eye in 1958 but I've heard of the book. Thanks

[Suzy]

I don't remember it as I was only 1 year old that year. LOL I do have many older books though and it may be in with them. I'll now have to go look for it. Thanks Lone for bringing this up.

[angelmusic1914]

The "Paradise" book was the first book that I gave Theocratic School talks from.

In Jan, 1959, sisters could begin to give talks, and the Paradise book was the one that was used for assignments.

It was definitely a good "foundation" book for young kids.

I have given both my sons and grandsons copies and I still have my very first copy - well used, but still essential to my library.

[teller of truths]

Yes, I was a baby, but later on my mother studied it with me and I loved the pictures so much this book went everywhere with me. I took it to school one day. I must have been in kindergarten/ I was sitting an looking at the pic's and was on the back of the book where it depicts what it possibly be like at Armageddon. There are people fleeing skyscrapers falling. There was a girl and I told her if she didn't stop celebrating XMAS she would die at Armageddon. Well my way of teaching which was not at all turned disastrous. She punched me in the nose and ran off. Many years later as I was a servant at my home Cong.I had to get there early to set up the book room. As I walked in I saw a women looking at the information board. She turned around and asked if I remembered her. I said no.Well guess who it was..Yes the lil girl who broke my nose. She was the wife of the Sunday speaker and had married him years before..And yes, she did remember the nose incident..I still have my copy of the paradise book somewhere.

No, I had received it a while back from you a nd it was fine.Thanks for the memory.