as you know i am still in but have no strong conviction for this cult..but i still go because my wife is still asleep to the false teachings.
for a few months now...when we have family study it is stricly from the bible.
which is great, while we study we are taking the bible as it is, i think it is opening her eyes and how important jesus is.
coffy- the biblical definition of "faith" is that it is based on "assurance". When one merly HOPES, they are not ASSURED.
Many facts cannot be seen with our eyes, and FACTS are the basis of my belief in the Bible, and the ones it tells us about.
The WTBS is seperate.
Able- you would not be DFed for just
"pointing that out"- but only if you spread that opinion causing divisions.
You took a stand for your opinion.
Jesus and his God's holy spirit ENCOURAGES unity- and that is all those words mean- since we WOULDN'T be baptised if we thought this WASN'T the real Christian Brotherhood.
What church do you now go to- Baptist?
Able- you would not be DFed for just
"pointing that out"- but only if you spread that opinion causing divisions.
You took a stand for your opinion.
Jesus and his God's holy spirit ENCOURAGES unity- and that is all those words mean- since we WOULDN'T be baptised if we thought this WASN'T the real Christian Brotherhood.
What church do you now go to- Baptist?
this i never understood, the publications say that gods name translated from hebrew is yaweh.
why add a whole bunch of letters and vowels that change the sound of the name completely?
i've often thought surely we would gain greater respect on the ministry if we used a name that is historically and verbally accurate?.
"why Jehovah's witnesses? not yaweh witnesses?"
Dumb question.
Why not Yehoshua instead of Jesus.
The games churchoids play.
as you know i am still in but have no strong conviction for this cult..but i still go because my wife is still asleep to the false teachings.
for a few months now...when we have family study it is stricly from the bible.
which is great, while we study we are taking the bible as it is, i think it is opening her eyes and how important jesus is.
The WTBS teaches nothing unbiblical that I know of.
HOWEVER, it 1- Has some very goofy opinions (as it has always had) as to what some of the prophecies mean, and
2- Lacking details on how the first congregations were run, have established some rules that cause many problems, and often hurt others.
As EVERY one of us have many flaws, on Organization has many more.
Judge us JWs and the WTBS all you want, as you play Judge- but the Truth stands on it's own- and you will NOT find it in Churchianity....
Apostatea, and atheists, as well.
" Please list the titles and authors of the science books you have studied on the topic of evolutionary biology and genetics." Discover and Discovery Magazines, National Geographic, etc.
" The question I would ask you is ......did you toss out your critical thinking abilities to remain a JW?" No, that is why I don't accpept GB Opinions that are taught as Fact, and freely admit such.
" Does that include hating your "father and mother, wife and children, brothers and sisters—yes, even [your] own life"- Took that literally, eh? Arer you catholic , gulping down Jesus Blood and Flesh at every mass?
"So, you studied the bible and meditated and concluded it was believable?"
Yes- it begins with the ONLY credible explanation as to how life and all the matching ecosystems came into being. Genetics does not disprove the account of Noad. "Innocent children"? Think God should have whisked them somewhere? The other questions there is no known details regarding
The line between science and sciecnce fiction is blurring, and many scientific facts are revealed as untrue, or fraud in time.
" Is this the same doc house from facebook?" Yes.
i am 46 and have been a jw for only 6 years.
i was doing ok until about a month ago.
we were having an international convention and i heard the brother that had to pick up 2 of the members of the governing body had to get a background check done on him and his wife.
You mean a cult - as in Catholic, Baptist, Lutheran Churches, etc?
i am 46 and have been a jw for only 6 years.
i was doing ok until about a month ago.
we were having an international convention and i heard the brother that had to pick up 2 of the members of the governing body had to get a background check done on him and his wife.
What's this nonsense about "trhe best way to leave"?
Just don't GO anymore.
HOWEVER, if you still SEE the Bible as truly inspired of God- then us JWs- faults, pretenders, and all- rewally are the only ones teaching what it REALLY teaches...even thoi a lot of oipinion is mixed in....and we are simply TRYING to live up to it.
