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One performer, related Psychology Today, “sits head down, eyes closed, building aggression and a feeling of hatred for the next opponent” Others took anabolic steroids (synthetic hormones) to develop muscles A few resorted to blood ‘doping’ to increase blood oxygen, extracting their own blood and then transfusing it back into their bodies shortly before they competed A number resorted to various drugs for stamina.
Impressed by certain Watch Tower publications (including the book) that directed them to the , all agreed that they would use our literature to study the and would apply the things learned Then they would simply ask to let them join as a congregation They began calling themselves “ worshipers” However, false ideas and practices began creeping in, such as naming 12 —women as well as men.
12 However, the were again by the officers and brought to the Sanhedrin hall to face an angry high priest, who said:
“We positively ordered you not to keep teaching upon the basis of this name, and yet, look! you have filled with your teaching, and you are determined to bring the blood of this man upon us” ( 5:28)
In that unfriendly court, with officers guarding them and the high priest speaking so strongly against them, would the cave in? Not so
“In answer Peter and the other said: ‘We must obey as ruler rather than men The of our forefathers raised up , whom you slew, hanging him upon a stake.
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