Apostacy.....harsh or ?

by KAYTEE 4 Replies latest jw friends

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  KAYTEE

  The majority who come out of the JWs, have been given this title because of leaving them.

  But is the "word" as bad as it seems, the Wikipedia definition is as follows

  Apostasy - is the formal religious disaffiliation or abandonment or renunciation of one's religion

  The word apostasy can sound very harsh, cruel, vindictive and definitely judgmental, causing some families great hardship because of this.

  My wife who was a catholic before joining the JWs must according to this definition have been apostate because of her abandoning the Catholics. Yet still she was accepted with open arms into the JWs

  Therefore why, with some mainstream religions can you NOT be accused, yet the JWs can use this phrase directed at the person (this made publicly), as if you had abandoned GOD, rather than abandoned their assumptions.

  KT
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  Chalam

  Hi,

  Apostasy is a greek term 646. apostasia (ap-os-tas-ee'-ah)

  There will be a great "falling away" from the truth before the anti christ is revealed 2 Thessalonians 2:3

  This of course has nothing to do with JWs as they have already fallen away from the biblical truth

  Galatians 1:6-9 (New International Version)

  No Other Gospel

  6 I am astonished that you are so quickly deserting the one who called you by the grace of Christ and are turning to a different gospel— 7 which is really no gospel at all. Evidently some people are throwing you into confusion and are trying to pervert the gospel of Christ. 8 But even if we or an angel from heaven should preach a gospel other than the one we preached to you, let him be eternally condemned! 9 As we have already said, so now I say again: If anybody is preaching to you a gospel other than what you accepted, let him be eternally condemned! All the best, Stephen
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  chickpea

  i use the same application, kaytee

  i was a lapsed catholic prior to
  assimilation into the b0rg, so
  by definition i was already an
  apostate....

  the word might leave the mouth
  of a dr0ne dripping with venom,
  but it truly has no effect, for me anyway

  all it truly indicates that, in light of
  new information or personal awareness
  i (GASP!) changed my mind

  i used to think the scariest aspect
  of the former president was his
  pride in sticking to his decisions,
  regardless of new information.....
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  Pistoff

  JESUS and PAUL are the biggest apostates, even by the definition of the WT.

  They abandoned their religion; they changed their ideas, and SPOKE continually of it to others in an attempt to change their mind.

  P
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  KAYTEE

  P

  "They abandoned their religion; they changed their ideas, and SPOKE continually of it to others in an attempt to change their mind."

  I had never thought of that, and it is so true.

  Well brought out P.

  KT