in Whose leadership can you trust? the put in last section:
By accepting Christ Jesus’ leadership and “obeying him,”
Why is OBEYING HIM in quotes? If Jesus is supposed to be your leader, then one should obey, without quotes......
Very peculiar.
2 new talks if you want them.. .
2019-s-34-e-38--how can you survive the end of the world.
https://docdro.id/knfjplo.
in Whose leadership can you trust? the put in last section:
By accepting Christ Jesus’ leadership and “obeying him,”
Why is OBEYING HIM in quotes? If Jesus is supposed to be your leader, then one should obey, without quotes......
Very peculiar.
from the november 2019 watchtower study edition.. how many of you would like to know what the brothers and sisters would respond to this question.
also, if you went into a hall how would you like to respond to the question.. 8. how should we respond to lies?.
8 satan, “the father of the lie,” uses those under his control to spread lies about jehovah and about our brothers and sisters.
of course they never print some of those "lies" as examples. "Lies" about CSA handling and court cases, about wrong doctrines (too many to mention here), about dishonesty in the organisation etc.
Pfff......
when a person is guilty and worthy of punishment, the judgment ‘will already have been bound in heaven jesus said and if they are loosed or innocent it will already have been “loosed in heaven..in such judicial deliberations, jesus says, “where there are two or three gathered together in my name, there i am in their midst.” .
psalm 127:3.. children are a sacred trust, “an inheritance from jehovah.
jws abhor child abuse and view it as a crime.its recognized that the authorities are responsible for addressing such crimes.jws do not shield any perpetrator of child abuse from the authorities as has been alleged.
All religions are from men. Even the scriptures were written (and copied/rewritten) by men. They all claim to be approved by their God. Religion means power for its leaders. And they all try to.hide their (serious) mistakes and crimes. So, the community can only depend on non-religious organisations to uncover those hidden crimes. Priests or elders or vicars are all employed by their leaders. They serve the organization else they will be removed from their position.
In the world we have something like Intellectual Property and patents, setup to protect the originator that his/her ideas are not copied. If the scriptures should lead to Gods approval, would it not be good that God made sure people could rely on ONE source, that is clearly identified as coming from God, beyond a doubt? As this is not the case, people cannot rely on religion as they all have used the void to present themselves as "true" and have assumes a position of power.
The WT has created its own world and believe that they are above the authorities. The same the Roman Catholic Church had made. None of these so-called religious worlds are any better than the world outside religion.
It is up to humans to fix things. Those who wait on their God to act or fix things are guilty for allowing bad things to continue to happen. People will have to act to protect the weak, the meek, the innocent. Progress has been made but still a lot to do.
two days ago, i experienced a spiritual epiphany while visiting the library of a catholic university: i was shocked to find thousands of religious literatures produced by the catholics and protestants in the last few hundred years.
someone could easily spend a secluded lifetime trying to read them all.
for years, i was told by my religious leaders (jws) that the catholics and other religions did not provide spiritual food to their members.
Regardless the denomination, why write so much? Would the scriptures not be enough? Unless the aim is to control and confuse people by writing so many books etc.
my name is alies.
i was wondering if there are people here from the netherlands.
have a good day.
#metoo in Nederland
i know i would be miserable if i could remember all my dead relatives.
all my dead children, parents all my worldly family members and friends, yes and the billions of other people too.
all the people jehovah will be killing off in the years to come.
Then the expression "see you in paradise" is hollow as you would not remember anyone anymore.
how alienated from jehovah and un-christian so many bethelites must be, who finished their higher education and gained their degrees!
i don't know how they can live with their consciences!.
pages 6 & 7, pars.
The point is not that higher (what is higher??) or academic studies are good or not, the point is it is not up to the WT to generate fear. It is a personal decision. And if the WT would step in when a member has no job nor income because he lacks a study, then I would find it acceptable. But the happy few at the top benefit of all the millions donated by people who have good income. Hypocrites.
so i picked up an original copy of the 1920 millions book.
can anyone give me some of the most crazy wrong predictions in this book?
its a rare book that is a bit hard to find.
Well...you could point to the words Undisputable, and facts etc the use in the book to prove their truth. Then ask, if it would have been acceptable then to dispute the Undisputable? And then, how is it now? Can we dispute the Undisputable gb?
this is the announcement we have heard “about” but now it has been released to the whole world.
its in the 2nd of a three part serries about the jw annual meeting (oct 2018).
to minute 52. .
"Daniel chapter 11 and we’re going to read verse 40 or half of it"
So, old verse and only half of it ..really???
since today there is a post about jws and science i thought it right to throw them a bone and see if they have anything right:.
1. round earth (lol).
2. old universe (13.7 billion years).
I believe the WT is not right because they write about something that is proven in science. It was not the WT who said as the first the earth is round. Smoking was bad before WT prohibited it. The WT did not write the bible (some added words maybe).
There is actually nothing positive that can be credited to the WT. All they have done is using what somewhere was already written and published that in their publications. I have never read a good news article in which a JW played a role, nor any invention, nor any prediction, nor anything else. If WT would rule the world, women would have no rights, we would still be in the stone age with few men ruling all.