Watchtower Has Statute of Limitation on SIN?

by Nanoprobe 25 Replies latest jw friends

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  Nanoprobe

  Statement from the Vicki Boer Trial

  Lawyer Colin Stevenson argued that Momm and his allies were confusing the spiritual law of the Witnesses, which imposes a three-year statute of limitations on such things as abuse, with the law of the land, which requires immediate reporting.

  http://www.jehovahs-witness.com/forum/thread.aspx?id=36530&site=3

  What is this? Was anyone aware of this? So if a person sinned (even raped a child) and were not reported within three years -----no Judicial meeting?

  Edited by - nanoprobe on 12 September 2002 23:7:19
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  I'm confused on this too.

  Anyone?
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  Swan

  I never knew there was a spiritual statute of limitations. I thought that they said that "God always knows."
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  minimus

  sounds like legal mumbo-jumbo.
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  Big Tex

  I'd never heard this either. Does this mean that "waiting on Jehovah" lasts only three years?

  Backed into a corner, people will say anything, do anything to get out.
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  tdogg

  I love how they hide behind the laws of man when convienient, and blast the government that makes those laws at other times.
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  julien

  Wish I'd heard of this when I was a horny seventeen year old. How are would it have been to keep stuff secret three years???
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  UnDisfellowshipped

  I'VE NEVER HEARD OF THIS RULE!

  Wait, here it is in the upcoming November 1st 2002 Watchtower (this is a joke):

  Jehovah God has now made the LIGHT BRIGHTER for the "Faithful and Discreet Slave Class".

  Jehovah has told us through Jesus, through the anointed who are in Heaven, through the holy spirit, through the angels, through the....Oh whatever, basically the Governing Body needed to cover their a$$ so they made this NEW LIGHT RULE up, and here it is:

  BROTHERS, there is now a 3-Year Statue of Limitations on ALL SINS* (See Footnote).

  (Footnote: * Not including the following SINS: Whistle-Blowing, Exposing our Cover-Ups, Exposing our False Prophecies, Exposing our False Bible Translation, Exposing any of our wickedness, saying anything that does not agree with the FDS, and wearing a beard, or showing up at a Wedding when a Disfellowshipped person MIGHT be there).
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  Wolfgirl

  I've never heard of any such thing. Is this new?

  They did tell my father that since his abuse of me was "so long ago" (despite the fact that he lied about it for 20+ years), that he could remain an elder.
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  garybuss

  
  So sin is like bread at the bakery counter? Fresh . . . or stale?
  
  I used to search for Watch Tower Publishing Corporation related quotes with references. With all these interviews with Brown and others, newspaper articles, books by current and former members, and TV documentaries, I am overwhelmed with sources.
  
  I have more Society quotes available since 1995 than in all the history before then. The last 2 years have been phenomenal.
  
  The Society's old policy was to ignore all and never reply to a charge or give an interview. It was really, really rare that they reacted to anything. Now they are almost spontaneous. A big change!
  
  Anyone have any ideas why the radical change?
  
  gb
  
  

  Edited by - garybuss on 13 September 2002 8:8:6