Yes. As JW's, we accuse all others of ignoring the name Jehovah. When it was always right there in front of us, God glorified himself through the name Jesus which is defining God (Jehovah, Yahweh) as salvation. When I realized that it was so simple yet profound.
New Watchtower Quotes : Feel the Love and Anger and Deception
by brotherdan 41 Replies latest watchtower bible
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brotherdan
Paragraph 14 in the article "Empowered to Fight Temptation and CopeWith Discouragement"
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Christian activities are always refreshing.
(Read Matthew 11:28, 29.) How often brothers
and sisters arrive at meetings feeling weary, but
when the time comes to go home, it is as if their
energy has been renewed, their spiritual batteries
recharged!-----------------
I wonder what was wrong with me. Even when I believed it, I left the meetings feeling horrible...My wife has left the meetings, many times, in tears (not of my doing but of how she was made to feel).
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brotherdan
WOW!!! The new Watchtower also comments on the Malawi situation!!!
On the second article on overcoming trials it says this:
Paragraph 5: Consider the example of two of our sisters in
Malawi. In an effort to get them to buy political
party cards, a violent mob beat, stripped, and
threatened to rape them. The mob lyingly told
them that even the members of the Bethel family
had obtained party cards. The sisters’ response?
“We serve only Jehovah God. So if the
brothers at the branch office have bought cards,
that does not make any difference to us. We will
not compromise, even if you kill us!” After taking
that courageous stand, the sisters were released. -
brotherdan
Did you know Jesus went "door to door"? Notice this picture in the December 2010 WT:
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notverylikely
WT's dishonest account of the Roman troops "unexpectedly leaving" the siege of Jerusalem.
I love this one. Apparently they have either never heard of or cover up the history of the great jewish revolt and Cestus Gallus.
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brotherdan
19 Among those “gifts in men” are the members
of the Governing Body, who act in a representative
way for the entire Christian congregation.
(Acts 15:2, 6) In fact, our attitude toward
Christ’s spiritual brothers is a major factor that
will determine how we will be judged during the
coming great tribulation.They are really trying to shove this down everyone's throats right now. I wonder if they are sensing a loss of control or power?
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streets76
spiritual illiteracy <-- what the hell is that?
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sabastious
Consider the example of two of our sisters in
Malawi. In an effort to get them to buy political
party cards, a violent mob beat, stripped, and
threatened to rape them. The mob lyingly told
them that even the members of the Bethel family
had obtained party cards. The sisters’ response?
“We serve only Jehovah God. So if the
brothers at the branch office have bought cards,
that does not make any difference to us. We will
not compromise, even if you kill us!” After taking
that courageous stand, the sisters were released.Interesting how the use an example where they are released at the end. What about the accouts of people getting burned alive for not accepting the cards?
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brotherdan
With the Malawi situation, I'm all for someone sticking up for what they believe to be right, whatever that is. But I can't imagine that the majority that didn't buy the card did so not for their own conscience sake, but because the WT told them not to.
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pirata
great jewish revolt and Cestus Gallus
Crazy. I had never realized this (read about it here: http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Judaism/revolt.html ). Thank you for mentioning this notverylikely.
I'm starting to wonder WHAT HISTORY WRITTEN FOR JWS IS ACCURATE???
So if I got this write in 66 BCE, the Florus stole silver from the temple, enraged the Jews and resulted in a Jews killed a small Roman garrison in Jerusalem. The Romans then sent a larger force, but the Jewish fought them off as well. Then Rome sent 60,000 soldiers to fight off the insurgents in the most radical state (insurgents lost), the refugees and insurgent leadership fled to Jerusalem, started a Jewish civil war in Jerusalem, while Rome turned on Jerusalem, and finally destroyed it in 70 CE.
A far cry from: Yeah, they left for an unknown reason then came back.
