Woken;.
They need to strip you of your individuality.
And your life.
The only thing of what ""you"' are all about.
You only get one "you"'.
You have to serve a heartless $$billionn corporation. That sucks your soul away. Gone.
The ''dreaded'' birthday cake
by RULES & REGULATIONS 49 Replies latest watchtower bible
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Rattigan350
"Jehovah's Witnesses do not celebrate pagan birthday's, but have no problem celebrating wedding anniversaries, baby showers and bridal showers. Why don't these displease God? The Bible never mentions these events!"
That's a lame rebut to this issue.
Anniversaries of one's birth are not an accomplishment.
Wedding anniversaries are an accomplishment of a choice and longevity.
Showers are to give presents.
As for displeasing God. Our very existence on this planet displeases God. But Jesus came and cleansed that. So God is not displeased by what we do.
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NotFormer
No bible verse says that God is displeased with us if we celebrate the day of our birth.
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blondie
I always wondered why the WTS celebrates the "memorial" even though it was only established with Jesus apostles, privately, and then only the anointed (all Christians then were anointed). When members of the WTS started being mostly non-anointed jws, for 3 years, the non-anointed were not invited, since they were not to partake and were not part of the group. Then they started inviting. Jws I knew personally then, some did not feel "called" to go to heaven and there was not an "earthly" hope offered, so they partook anyway. They said they were relieved when another choice, to live forever in a paradise earth" was explained, they could stop feeling they were eating improperly.***
jv chap. 16 p. 243 Meetings for Worship, Instruction, and Encouragement ***
Particularly beginning in the 1930’s, prospective members of the “great multitude,” or “great crowd” of other sheep, began to manifest themselves. (Rev. 7:9, 10, KJ; John 10:16) These were at that time referred to as Jonadabs. For the first time, in its issue of February 15, 1938, The Watchtower specifically invited them to be present at the Memorial, saying: “After six p.m. on April 15 let each company of the anointed assemble and celebrate the Memorial, their companions the Jonadabs also being present.” They did attend, not as partakers, but as observers.
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Beth Sarim
There is a lot of things that are not in the bible that would displease God.
That JWs mandate.
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DisgruntledFool
Jehovah's Witness logic:
You can't celebrate birthdays because there was a death involved.
But you MUST celebrate the Memorial because there was a death involved.
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blondie
DIsgruntedFool, very good point!
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RULES & REGULATIONS
Questions From Readers
Many of Jehovah’s Witnesses observe wedding anniversaries. A birthday is an anniversary of when you were born. So why celebrate wedding anniversaries and not birthday anniversaries?
Well, early in this century, Bible Students, as Jehovah’s Witnesses were then known, did take note of birthdays. Many of them kept small books called Daily Heavenly Manna. These contained a Bible text for each day, and many Christians put a tiny photograph on the pages corresponding to the birthdays of fellow Bible Students. Also, The Watch Tower of February 15, 1909, related that at a convention in Jacksonville, Florida, U.S.A., Brother Russell, then president of the Society, was ushered onto the platform. Why? He was given a surprise birthday present of some boxes of grapefruit, pineapples, and oranges. That gives us a glimpse of the past. To put matters in their context, recall that during that period, Bible Students also commemorated December 25 as the anniversary of Jesus’ birth, or birthday. It was even customary to have Christmas dinner at the Brooklyn headquarters.
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DisgruntledFool
Jehovah's Witnesses aren't the only ones with a distaste for birthday celebrations:
bibletools.org/index.cfm/fuseaction/Library.sr/CT/ARTB/k/290/celebrating-birthdays.htm
Some of the same ridiculous arguments.
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NotFormer
DisgruntledFool, that article is written by Martin G Collins, who seems to be a pastor/minister/whatever* at Church of the Great God. They are a remnant of Armstrong's Worldwide Church of God. A bunch of curmudgeons and killjoys, by the the look of things. Some of those breakaways and holdovers despise the same holidays and celebrations that the JWs do, while believing that the old testament festivals should be observed.
Interestingly, that church website doesn't have a problem with mother's Day or father's Day; apparently it's only kids that aren't allowed an annual appreciation day. 🙄
*"elder", apparently.
