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  Governing Body

  by Daym123 in

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  hello,.

  i am currently in a discussion with a jw about the governing body.. i have read alot of articles regarding it, however whenever i bring up what i have read, i am refuted with scripture, such as acts 15, where they say there was a governing body, who sent out elders and men etc.. does anyone have a website that i may not know of, that has answers to what they refute with?

  or any help here or good thought provoking questions to respond with would be much appreciated.. thank you kindly.

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  hardtobeme

  Ask them who was the "faithful and discreet slave" back then. They might say that the GB acts talk about.

  Tell them that there was no faithful and discreet slave in the first century. That whatever they did back then had no relevance cause Jesus didn't appointed them. Jesus had to wait till 1919 to appoint Rutherford and colleagues as the faithful and discreet slave (which they didn't know anything about, neither they didn't know that Jesus came in 1914 and they died without knowing it). And the GB was established till 1971.

  They had to cherry pick a scripture to back up what they say. But look carefully in their publications, you will find "The Truth About The Truth" there.
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  rejection of your own founder?

  by Mr.logic in

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  what kind of confidence can anyone have in an organization that rejected its founder and first two presidents for the first 63 years of its existence?

  that's 53% of the time they existed!

  any comments.

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  hardtobeme

  New books with and eraser on the back.

  Holy spirit is not tuning good at Brooklyn. Maybe moving out from there they will have a better reception.
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  Anyone have a recording of Imitate Christ convention?

  by Maralee in

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  2. bible

  maybe it is too soon, but i would like to hear the new convention.

  i would appreciate it if anyone is willing to share there recording.

  thank you, maralee

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  NEW EXJW BOOK By a former Pioneer

  by Watchtower-Free in

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  2. beliefs

  new exjw book by a former pioneer and she is a qualified psychotherapist and trainer specializing in issues of abuse and neglect.. http://www.amazon.com/gifts-men-responsibility-patricia-sadio/dp/1508919623/ref=sr_1_5?s=books&ie=utf8&qid=1433092341&sr=1-5&keywords=gifts+in+men.

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  hardtobeme

  We need another EX-GB book. Ray Franz book is excellent. I wonder if all the procedures in the GB are still the same. If not, what have changed? Who gives them the new light to publish? We know is not the holy spirit. Where do they get the crazy ideas from?
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  Christ's Fake Brothers - Tomorrow's WT Study

  by The Searcher in

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  2. bible

  tomorrow's wt study, paragraph 4 says this - "the early bible students understood the expression rendered in the king james version "my brethren" to refer to those who would rule with christ as well as to all of mankind after they are restored to earthly perfection.".

  rutherford decided in 1923 to change this teaching, and create an elite group of christians.

  for 92 years the men running the wtbts have perpetuated & embellished this false teaching - especially so during the past three years - and hidden the bible truth about christ's brothers from millions of people fearful to question the org - created doctrine!.

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  Follow the link, it is very interesting what a brother says about the GB teachings:

  http://anointedjw.org/What_Jesus_Meant.html
  
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  Why new people visiting kingdom halls are able to comment while a reproved ones can't???

  by hardtobeme in

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  i have always asked myself that question.

  why new people visiting kingdom halls give comments at meetings while a reproved brother can't?.

  who is more worldly?

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  hardtobeme

  I have always asked myself that question. Why new people visiting kingdom halls give comments at meetings while a reproved brother can't?

  Who is more worldly?

  Is there something in the Bible that says that a reproved brother can't give a comment or prayer at meetings?

  I know you fellow apostate brothers would give me an answer for that one, specially elders.
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  april 15th simplified why is the article dissfelowship a loving arrangement missing

  by poopie in

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  thoghts

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  hardtobeme

  That article is missing in the Spanish simplified Watchtower too.
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  Return to Jehovah Photo

  by naazira in

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  2. friends

  this picture is in the new publication from this year's convention, titled "return to jehovah".

  part 1the lost one i will search for.

  personally, the animal looks scared of the shepherd.

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  When the shepherd takes the lost sheep back to the flock, will he have that sheep separated (disfellowshipped) from the rest for a year or two as a punishment?

  As someone said: "Let's review it, It's a cult"
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  A funny moment... lol

  by hardtobeme in

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  2. friends

  when the rnwt was released, we were invited to go to the local assembly hall.. there was a sister right next to me and she started bragging that it was her 8th year in an annual meeting.

  (typical thing, all spiritual).

  when was time to sing, i listened to her beautiful voice.

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  hardtobeme

  When the RNWT was released, we were invited to go to the local assembly hall.

  There was a sister right next to me and she started bragging that it was her 8th year in an annual meeting. (Typical thing, all spiritual)

  When was time to sing, I listened to her beautiful voice. But then I heard her say to her husband: "this man sings too ugly". As a matter of fact I do. As soon as I heard her say that, I turned around to her and I started singing louder.... LOL She was all pissed off, she couldn't go anywhere cause we were sitting in the middle of a row... LOL

  I still remember that and I laugh imagining her face... LOL

  What have you done on purpose to piss off someone?
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  What triggered your doubts / awakening?

  by Tornintwo in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  i am sort of new here, used a different username for a while but things got 'difficult' at home so i've since been lurking.... what i would be really interested to know, if you don't mind sharing, is what it was that triggered your doubts and initial research which led to awakening, was it a bad experience, injustice, changed doctrine?

  for me, it was seeing mistreatment of young ones in the congregation, they're under so much pressure and as soon as they go even slightly astray they are shunned, either informally (as bad associations which pushes them further into the 'world') or formally - with elders dying to throw the book at them so they even lose their family.... ...then reading about child abuse issues in the press.... ...which led me to silentlambs.

  ...then jw facts, this forum and coc, wham!

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  hardtobeme

  144,000 doctrine, blood doctrine, 1914,1919,1925, beth sarim, the trumpets of revelation, 1975, 1995, Work was gonna be done by the end of the 20th century, overlapping generation, pedophile cover ups, lies, lies, lies...

  I read some forbidden books: Ray Franz, Don Cameron, etc..

  I'm still in only for family....