When Raphael Narbaez embraced Islam, he brought the Muslim community the organizational and speaking skills he developed among the Jehovah's Witnesses! Read the story on http://www.watchtowerinformationservice.org/
Rado Vleugel
From the Watchtower to the Minaret
by Rado Vleugel 4 Replies latest jw friends
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Satanus
From one cult to another. But islam has a lot more to offer than watchtowerism.
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Raphael Narbaez, Jr.< http://www.watchtowerinformationservice.org/wtislam.htm
A forty-two-year-old Latino, Raphael is a Los Anodes-based comic and lecturer. He was born in Texas, where he attended his first Jehovah's Witness meeting at age six, gave his first Bible sermon at eight, tended his own congregation at twenty, and was headed for a position of leadership among the 904,000 Jehovah's Witnesses in the United States.1 But he traded in his Bible for a Qur'an after having braved a visit to a local mosque.
On November 1, 1991, he embraced Islam, bringing to the Muslim community the organizational and speaking skills he developed among Jehovah's Witnesses. He speaks with the urgency of a new convert, but one who can make immigrant Muslims laugh at themselves.He told his story mimicking a cast of characters.
I remember vividly being in a discussion where we were all sitting in my parents' living room and there were some other Jehovah's Witnesses there. They were talking about: "It's Armageddon! The time of the end! And Christ is coming! And you know the hailstones are going to be out here as big as cars! God is going to use all kinds of things to destroy this wicked system and remove the governments! And the Bible talks about the earth opening up! It's going to swallow whole city blocks!"
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< http://www.isnet.org/archive-milis/dec93/part5/0060.html
["Choosing Islam", currently appearing on cable television explores this
question. Evidences are taken from the personal experiences of individuals
from different backgrounds: Roman Catholic, Greek Orthodox, Jewish, and
Jehovah's Witness. Their experiences are likely to make an objective
observer take a closer look at Islam.The program begins with Raphael Narbaez, a Texan of hispanic descent.
Narbaez was baptized a Catholic, but became a Jehovah's Witness pastor by
the age of twenty. The labels: "extremists, fanatics, and fundamentalists"
sound familiar to him, because as a Jehovah's Witness, he got used to being
called such. Now that he is a Muslim, he considers that background as
preparation for dealing with the same kind of stereotyping."Scrolling further:
"Raphael Narbaez whose
similar experience with the Qur'an says "We have the most beautiful book
that God has ever produced for the salvation of mankind. We should read it
for ourselves."
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singsongboi
having once taken the time to let muslims talk at the door, and try to understand, i found they had some curious beliefs about the time of the end also....
it's too hazy now for me to try and relate, but maybe someone else has heard these stories also and can share??
