Do you know where I can see this new understanding in their publications?
berrygerry
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MINIMUS - If You Could Tell A Jehovah's Witness One Thing?
by The Searcher ingood question, but i can't add a reply to your op.. my statement would be this - "if your governing body is god's direct channel of communication on earth, why did god use babylon the great to reveal a 'new light' to let you all know that the 'evil slave' isn't real, it's "hypothetical"?.
after which, the wtbts plagiarised the idea and presented it as a "new understanding/clarification" in their watchtower magazine.. please read the net bible at matthew 24:48, then read the footnote.
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I'm a target now
by Stirred inwell, it has come to another fork in the road.
i have been going to other meetings and skipping more.
car groups and two bros tried stopping by my house recently but i was not home or gates were locked.
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berrygerry
If you are literally moving, do not give them your new address.
If you have trustworthy friends or relatives in another city, have your records sent to the hall in that city, or just make up an address and city.
(Never really understood the meaning of Witness Protection Program before)
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Am I part of the Cure or am I part of the disease
by Jon Preston inso this is the ultimate dilemma.
my wife and i are on the same page.
do we fade, in which all our friends, and i stress friends call us and feel sick and hurt and hurt and we feel guilty; or do we da so we tell the wt what we see as wrong as what we see that lead us to believe its a false religion; or do we df and let me or my wife let them catch us at some wrong doing and stop going to meetigs..... .
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berrygerry
There had been a bro. in our hall who was always making interesting comments (another year away from 1914, etc., always something - we're both rather intelligent, so I was probably the only one that he dared talk to like that).
Because I was doing an unknowing (to me) fade, and I ended up in a blindside JC, I couldn't talk to him.
And then I ended up here after.
If I had been here prior, I would be feeling out my friends first before deciding anything else.
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STARTING OVER with my Elderette - What Does the Bible REALLY Teach?
by Faithful Witness inshe said, "so, what made you decide to study this book?
at this point, she opened with a prayer.
"...and some decide that such questions are best left to religious leaders and teachers.
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berrygerry
It is probably on here somewhere, but was reading Matthew yesterday.
The ONLY directive that COULD be applied to JW work Mt. 28:19 (Mt 24:14 is a prophecy, not a directive), which directive is to baptize in the "name of the father, the son, and the holy spirit."
How would Miss K say JW's measure up when comparing Jesus' words with the actual 2 questions asked at baptism?
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berrygerry
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PM sent.
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Honeymoon Disfellowshippings
by dozy inone of the anomalies of the disfellowshipping process is the common situation when someone who is unscripturally divorced remarries.
in these occasions , the instruction is to always disfellowship the individual , regardless of repentance or attitude - what is referred to as a honeymoon df in elders jargon.
hence you have the (to me) bizarre situation of privately reproving a child molester , rapist or murderer one week and disfellowshipping a newly remarried middle aged sister who has been divorced for 20 years the next week.
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berrygerry
Someone recently posted that when a person is DF'd, they are "dead to God."
If they are dead, should not their spouse be free to marry someone else?
( Serious question )
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Does the Watch Tower Society have a clue how to HELP people?
by Terry inthis is a great example of the difference between the watch tower society approach to life and the power of one person to change the world for the better.. the game of chess is the example!.
here is what jw's are taught:.
chess has been a game of war since it originated...a play substitute for the art of war....a danger of stirring up competition with one another even developing hostility towards another, something the bible warns christians to avoid doing 1973 awake!.
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berrygerry
War, hostility, violence.
I always wondered why chess tournaments had security that rivalled G-20 summits. ;)
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Does the Watch Tower Society have a clue how to HELP people?
by Terry inthis is a great example of the difference between the watch tower society approach to life and the power of one person to change the world for the better.. the game of chess is the example!.
here is what jw's are taught:.
chess has been a game of war since it originated...a play substitute for the art of war....a danger of stirring up competition with one another even developing hostility towards another, something the bible warns christians to avoid doing 1973 awake!.
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berrygerry
Thanks for the post.
Chess has probably saved my remaining life.
Hopefully, it will help my children's.
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berrygerry
Did anyone read Margaux's story?
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Luke 12:45 - Does that mean the F&D can go "bad"?
by thedepressedsoul inthe more i read the gospels the more i get the feeling that jesus warns about organized religion or those that overbear on your faith telling you completely how to worship god.
let's say luke chapter 12 is talking about the f&s.
does vs 45 on mean that the f&s can turn bad so to speak?
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berrygerry
Mt. 24:48 reads "if THAT slave".
To me the explanation given in 2013 has given a lot of pause for thought.
There is ZERO discussion as to whether or not the slave, the GB, has acted evilly, beating his fellow slaves. (Should we start the list and risk crashing this website and maybe even the internet with overload?)
Instead, it is argued that the slave has not stopped giving food.
Which then makes the slave "hypothetical."
The word hypothetical is used ONCE in the whole WT Library when talking about an illustration or parable.