What's missing?-jgnat
I have compared the first two lessons. I don't know. Are you asking so you can find out, or do you know and see if we can work it out ourselves?
If it is the latter I give up I have been looking for ages. Thanks Kate xx
Who are doing Jehovah's will today? Brochure
by KateWild 44 Replies latest watchtower beliefs
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Comatose
Kate we couldnt make it. We were going to slow fade, but after a few months we just had to quit. Sitting there watching my kids being indoctrinated was too much. I know your situation, and you have to tough it out will they reinstate you. So try what my wife did. Sit in the second school or back corner and look at pinterest during the meeting on a tablet.
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KateWild
Well my eldest is out already, its my youngest who goes once a week with me and once a week with dad. He has read Paul Grundy's story though and read an article on JWsurvey too. Thanks jwfacts and jwsurvey!
It wont be long untill we stop going, but I will have to teach him TTATT often if he is still going with dad
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DATA-DOG
Having the woman of the house learn TTATT seems like a blessing. My life would be so much easier...
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redvip2000
If you take a look at the topics, not even once Jesus is mentioned, or anything about his ramson. It's all self boasting drivel.
Lies permeate this brochure such as:
"In the first century, a small group, “the apostles and older men in Jerusalem,” served as a governing body to make important decisions on behalf of the entire anointed Christian congregation."
Then for support they mention Acts 15:2 which describes the council or Jerusalem, which was a group of elders assembled ONCE around 50AD to discuss the matter of circumcision. It was never a permanent body of decision makers.
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Billy the Ex-Bethelite
Well, since Jesus hasn't been doing anything since 1914, I guess that lowers the bar to accepting door-to-door cult recruiters as "doing Jehovah's will".
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jgnat
I put in a leading question to get the old brain cells circulating. Yes, Jesus is missing. Odd, being a supposedly Christian group. Supposedly True Christians. Who fail to mention Christ.
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KateWild
Ahh, light bulb moment, penny dropping. Very good jgnat
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Cold Steel
Data-Dog: I refuse to read the brochure, or study it. If only my wife would feel the same. The worse things get, the more she worships the GB/Organization. I may have to get DF'd, just to shock her to her senses.
Well, if you do that, she’ll think you’re just close minded and rebellious. Any anger in the way you respond will be interpreted by them as the bitterness of apostasy. And it will be YOU who will appear as being the unreasonable one. If you appear to be open minded and read the brochure with your wife, pointing out the obvious flaws. Some of the things you can expect from her include: If the Jehovah's Witnesses are not right, then who is? Which religion most closely follows Jehovah’s doctrine and his will?
The only thing you can do is throw it back in her lap and ask her what visible aspects of the Society have ever shown themselves. Not only have none of the members of the Governing Body of Jehovah's Witnesses ever been ordained by anyone with the keys of governance over God’s earthly Kingdom, none of them has actually seen or spoken to an angel, seen a vision or seen or spoken to Jesus. So where do they get the ministerial authority?
Jesus appeared and interacted with his servants anciently. He let them feel the prints in his hands and the wounds in his feet, and he taught them for 40 days before ascending into Heaven. If the Jehovah's Witnesses are his people today, why can’t he reveal himself to them now? If these men have had a joint revelation from angels or from Jesus, if they have the keys of the kingdom and if two or more of them can testify that it happened and that God has again spoken, then they would have some serious claims. But everything with the Jehovah's Witnesses is invisible. How can one prove something that’s invisible? Especially when the Governing Body members themselves haven’t seen or experienced anything that might be interpreted as a supernatural happenstance. They can describe these magnificent things that are “right around the corner” and put all these supernatural judgments coming down on American people and cities, but so far their predictions have come to naught, everything is invisible and just out of reach of verification. That just wasn’t the way it was in the ancient church. First century Christianity was rife with visions, dreams, healings, angelic visitations and even personal visitations of Jesus. John, on Patmos, had his vision and saw Jesus at around 96 A.D., some sixty years after Jesus’ death!
If your wife can counter the above, I’d certainly love to hear it! I’d also like to know when is something...anything...going to happen that is both accurate and visible? Much of the Jehovah's Witnesses religion is completely imaginary. Everything is in the future, no matter how many years pass. And if something disastrous finally does happens, you’re going to have many religions seeking guidance and claiming they told us so. Will the Governing Body be able to direct people during a disaster like an electromagnetic pulse attack or solar storm? Are the people who believe in the Rapture going to be standing around with their arms and hands outstretched heavenward? What can be expected from a religion that’s been consistently wrong about everything?
Ask your wife to explain why the Jehovah's Witnesses have the authority to act and speak in God’s name. I’d really like to hear her answer!
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eyeuse2badub
A few years ago, my wife asked me this same question, Who else today are doing Jah's will? She was very concerned since I had become more vocal about the WTBTS and particularly the 'self-appointed' GB. I answered by saying, "How does it glorify Jehovah when we are directed by the GB/fds to preach things for decades that are not true, suchas, 'this generation'. She got my point.
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