Comments You Will Not Hear at the 8-26-07 WT Study (SIN-HOLY SPIRIT)

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  BluesBrother

  Thanks to Blondie and to V - greatly appreciated...

  What have we here? The WTS (cult) creates a climate in which guilt and fear can flourish among the gullible souls who make up the r & f - so much so that they may feel unworthy , even believe that God has turned his back on them .

  w87

  2/1p.18par.11DoingOurUtmosttoDeclaretheGoodNews***

  What does the Master find? If we content ourselves with token service just to get by, then it could be that we will be found among those shamed and thrown "into the darkness outside."

  So this article attempts to redress the balance. saying in effect 'if you feel guilty then you have not committed the unforgivable sin'

  I wonder if the Judicial Committee that allowed child abuser Michael Porter to remain in the congregation had this article in mind?

  p7 "It is not so much a matter of what kind of sin a person has committed, rather it is the motive, the heart condition and the degree of willfulness involve that determines whether a sin is forgivable or not"

  unless of course one is an "apostate who has rejected spiritual light" p20
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  erandir

  "willfully inactive" is a new term applied to some JWs that no longer attend meetings or turn in time.

  Cool...that's me!
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  OnTheWayOut

  Q19) What can help us to remain "healthy in faith"?

  We need to keep on attending congregation meetings and sharing in the Kingdom-preaching work. Doing so will help us to be "healthy in faith" and free from anxiety over the possibility of having committed the unforgivable sin.-Titus 2:2.

  Concluding Comments

  The WTS is laying the foundation for avoiding JWs that appear weak, have doubts and troubles, to avoid them as bad association, something to catch a spiritual illness from.

  Meetings and service are the all-important thing. Your sins are possible to overlook if you just stay in line at the meetings.
  A pedophile or even a murderer and adulterer who goes to the meetings- he can be forgiven. But let a good person decide
  not to go anymore, and even though his reputation remains intact as far as sin goes, he is no longer "healthy in faith" and
  his sickness is contagious. DISGUSTING CULT.

  I was at a JW wedding where the speaker actually said "Worship together to stay together, that means meetings and service."
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  MinisterAmos

  >>I was at a JW wedding where the speaker actually said "Worship together to stay together, that means meetings and service."<<
  
  At my wife's cousin's JW wedding, the speaker, the GF of the groom and a 3rd gen Dub which makes the groom a 5th genner, reminded the happy couple that your "mate is less important than following the Faithful and discrete slave and building your ministry"
  
  I think the guy is still repeating the stuff he heard as a child even though there have been numerous "corrections"
  
  Later at the reception (in his son's bayfront mansion) we were looking at his very extensive JW library. Since his son is a PO he has been able to "liberate" the collections of the older Dubs. Very curious to hear this guy who marches in lock-step with the Corp. say things like "No we don't use that one anymore, too many mistakes"
  
  HTF can they claim they are "spirit-directed" when the most spiritual amongst them admits that the books are pure garbage? It's insanity.
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  Borgia

  I always enjoy reading your comments Blondie.

  While being on the convention I picked up a signal about being apostate and the unforgivable sin. I thought I had not clearly heard it. Now it is, although a bit concealed, in print: refusing to accept spiritual light = sinning against holy spirit! Of course that has a bearing on all the flip flop doctrines!

  How peculiar: using your own GOD-GIVEN-GREY-CELLS to construct, study hypothesize and conclude and differentiate from the WTS-BS = sinning against HS.

  They have already set the stage back in 2005 when the new org back came to light. Now it looks as though it's time to enforce that. I have the feeling that we are going to have a lot of "fun" as of January first 2008.

  Cheers

  Borgia
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  blondie

  good comments everyone. I am looking forward to seeing the new 1/1/2008 WT or is it the 1/15/08 issue? Solomon says there is nothing new under the son; and that was in his time. It will be the SOC BUT INTENSIFIED.

  Love, Blondie (return with some comments after next week based on V's post.
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  Robert222

  Thank you V and WT Comments. Please keep providing us with the WA commentary! I look forward to this each week!
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  V

  RESULT!

  My wife's comment during the meeting:

  "All I learned today was that if David and Manasseh can repent at the last minute, then I have no guilt for anything I do (missing meetings, field service, etc.). Jehovah will always forgive me."

  Thank you WTS! We have decided to skip the next assembly--waste of time and all that.