I hate that name - I find it very hard to say these days.
LL :)
Can you even stomach the name "Jehovah"?
by logansrun 49 Replies latest watchtower beliefs
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SixofNine
I got that song stuck in my head... how does it go...?
Oh yeah:
We Thank you Jehovah
each day and each night
that you shed upon us
your precious lightWe thank you for giving us
the privilege to preach...(?)
and com.....edy from lips of Marin, Cheech (that's wrong, no? how does it go?)We thank you blah blah
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Fleur
to me it draws an uncontrollable gut reaction, a wince in my stomach, because i literally heard it from the womb. i always say that the JW's got me as a zygote, otherwise i never would have believed what they were selling. when mama tells you something, you believe its true. especially if she believes it with all her heart cause her mama told it to her.
but it's getting better...now when i hear it i have the same reaction as when i hear "Jesus" or "allah" or "Buddah" or "The holy mother"; any other name used to refer to any religious symbol. Religion is just not for me.
not for me at all.
fleur
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franklin J
the name has come to be accepted as the name of the ancient Hebrew God to me; no different than Zeus as the ancient Greek God.....
the teachings of Jehovahs Witnesses are just another middle tier fundamentalist religious teaching to me; to be tolerated in our free society like so many other teachings......
It is a religious teaching I no longer can relate to.
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Country Girl
I use "Abbah" or "Lord" or "My Father". To me, that's much more personal and fulfilling. Jehovah, the name, doesn't bother me as a name in itself, but owing to my past, it bothers me alot, since it's connected with that old Jehovah guy in my past that is unloving, and judgmental, and willing to kill billions of people. That doesn't bide with the new guy that I've come to know who is compassionate, and loving and graceful. To me, the hardest thing learned, is to accept this being for who he is, and that is someone that created us in his image, and doesn't ask much of us but to accept his compassionate gift of love and saving grace. No hours, or unwritten rules.. just to love him and be the best we can be to REFLECT his perfect image, even though we, ourselves, are not perfect.
It's not about a church, or which religion you belong to... it's all about your PERSONAL relationship with him. That was the hardest part for me to learn, and accept. I used to say "But we have to do SOMETHING for us to show that we are saved. All he asks of us is that we admit our imperfection and accept him as our savior. If we have a true desire to do this, then we will strive to do our best to imitate his life on Earth. When we fall short, we can ask his forgiveness, and tomorrow is a new day. He says that there is no one that can come between him and me: no organization, no person, nothing. I believe what he says. It's just me and him. I sincerely believe that if we continue to search for his truth, we will find it, and if we DON'T find it, well, at least we were looking. All of us move in our own time and sphere, and he recognizes that.
I don't believe that prayers go unanswered. Sure, they may not be answered as quickly, or as effective, as we like, but they are answered. If no answer comes, well, then it wasn't meant to be. Sometimes, our unanswered prayers are the best thing that could happen to us. Think about it.
Some of God's greatest gifts are unanswered prayers.
Country Girl
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Undaunted Danny
The divine name simply explained: The "J" in Jesus is from the "J" in Jehovah. The original "Y" was Latinized in the 5th century and the "Y" was converted to the modern "J",and we now have Jesus instead of Yeshua and Jehovah instead of Yahweh One thing is for sure Mary did NOT call her first born baby Jesus. This is what I hold to::people IMITATE THE GOD THEY WORSHIP.The religious cult known as Jehovah's Witnesses are malevolent.Consequently Jehovah must be a Jinn ( demon ) Jehovah is a Jinn [ Footnote:Unlike in the case of Christians who are persecuted in other lands for talking about Jesus Christ, Jehovah?s Witnesses are largely persecuted for following the teachings begun during the second presidency of the Watchtower, when Joseph F. Rutherford took over in a corporate flap and began changing doctrines quickly in the Watchtower belief system. He claimed that angels directly conveyed ?truth? to some of those in leadership. He coined the name ?Jehovah?s Witnesses? to make them stand out from being witnesses of Jesus, a typical evangelical _expression (and a Biblical one). Rutherford dumped holidays, birthdays and the 1874 date for the invisible return on Christ, and invented an ?earthly class? of Witnesses, since only 144,000 can go to heaven in their teaching. The rest, meaning all 99.9% of Witnesses still alive, will live forever on a cleansed earth, under the rule of the Watchtower leaders in heaven, who will keep them in line by local elders known as ?Princes.? -
Gopher
We thank you for giving us
the privilege to preach...(?)
and com.....edy from lips of Marin, Cheech (that's wrong, no? how does it go?)We thank you blah blah
blah blah blah blah blahLOL!
I think it goes
We thank you for giving us the privilege to preach
About your great name and the truth to teach
We thank you for giving us your precious son
That something something (the Super Bowl?) may be won
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Gopher
BTW,
The name "Jehovah" doesn't bother me so much as when it's put together with "Witnesses".
The name doesn't bother me more than the name of other deities, like Zeus, Ra, etc., etc.
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Bubbamar
I don't use that word at all - unless badmouthing the JW's!! I can't even stand to hear any bible reading. I really cringe when people use the bible around me. It just brings up such bad memories of having scriptures forced down my throat and of being manipulated and lied to with scriptures.
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kls
Geez, i thought i was the only one or at least a small minority. Even thinking ,hearing or reading it makes my stomach sick. Yes, i am in the majority!.