JWs CAN USE PAGAN PRACTICES/DECORATION!

Sirona

Hi

I just had to post a new topic after discovering even more pagan practices that the watchtower has allowed. Please read the JWs can celebrate christmas thread, where I have posted my evidence that the watchtower ALLOWS pagan decorations and now more information about them allowing pagan customs in other ways.

Here is an excerpt from my most recent find (bold added. can you see how this could apply to xmas and other holidays they ban?):

*** w91 10/15 30-1 Questions From Readers ***
Questions From Readers
õ When someone dies, is it proper for Christians to give flowers to the family or to send flowers to the funeral home?
....
It is similar with some funeral customs. Egyptians customarily embalmed the dead. The faithful patriarch Joseph did not automatically react, ‘This is a pagan custom, so we Hebrews must avoid it.’ Rather, he “commanded his servants, the physicians, to embalm his father,” evidently so that Jacob could be buried in the Promised Land. (Genesis 49:29–50:3) The Jews later developed different funeral customs, such as bathing the body and burying it on the day of death. Early Christians accepted such Jewish customs.—Acts 9:37.
....Still, all kinds of objects, designs, and practices have, at some time or place, been given a false interpretation or have been linked with unscriptural teachings. Trees have been worshiped, the heart shape has been viewed as sacred, and incense has been used in pagan ceremonies. Does this mean that a Christian must never use incense, have trees in any decoration, or wear heart-shaped jewelry? That is not a valid conclusion.

The whole article is on the xmas thread.

Sirona
(edited for typos)

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waiting

Hi Sirona,

Thanks so much for this information. Last month, near the back of the Watchtower (perhaps Awake) was a Question from Readers asking what's a believing wife to do during the holidays with a non-believing husband about celebrations.

The answer? Whatever he wants her to do. Submission and all that.

This would have been so nice to know 20 years ago when fighting this miserable now non-issue. JW's read these changes and say "thank you!!" instead of saying "why NOW?" If it's ok now......why not back then?

And then the famous answer......."New Light" - and we should be thankful.

waiting

Francois

Yeah, and that's not all the witnesses allow.

JWs allow all sorts of things to go on at weddings that have their origin in supersitition and pagan observance. The wedding veil, for instance, was to hide the identity of the bride from the evil spirits (the incubus presumably). The JW bride is, of course, virginal (yuk) and you know how those incubi like a virgin.

The wedding party; the best man and the ushers, etc. the maid of honor, the bridesmaids, etc. were originally there to create a crowd and a distraction for the same purpose. Perhaps all these good folk are allowed to keep these pagan traditions alive because they believe in demons anyway.

The days of the week and months of the year are all named after Greek or Roman gods, and the JWs still use 'em. Yes, it would a great pain in the ass not to, but hey!, we're talking about God's will here. JWs don't even countenance dying because of refusal to take blood, so what's a little renaming of days and months, hummmmmmmmmm?

Tombstones have evolved from a craven and primitive fear that unless restrained, the spirit of the newly dead would come to terrorize the village; kill the women, rape the me....wait a minute, that's backward. Kill the MEN, rape the women. Now. That's right. Anyway, to keep these dire things from happening, stones were piled upon the body of the dead and this evolved into tombstones. And the JWs keep right on usin' 'em.

Actually, we could likely play a little "can you top this" with this topic and come up with an incredibly long list of stuff the JW dabble in that if they were true to their charter they'd no more have anything to do with than they would pedophil...bad example, um, than they would drunkne....bad example, er, um, than they would go to a Catholic church.

Got any good examples?

Francois

Please read the JWs can celebrate christmas thread

By all means do so, I'll even supply the link. And be sure and read it all, so far there’s two pages. Click here please---> http://www.jehovahs-witness.com/forum/thread.asp?id=16572&site=3

While there, note that it's unscriptural for Christians to indulge in the Christmas celebration.

Daniel 11:35 ... a KEY prophecy that must be fulfilled before the "time of the end" gets underway.

JWs CAN USE PAGAN PRACTICES/DECORATION!

Sirona

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Francois

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