Gday Kingdoman,
Im an SDA and I like comming here to visit my spiritual cousins the JWs. Im just wondering what reason would you give for SDAs being a cult?
Posts by barry
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58The Witness Cult
by kingdoman inaccording to the watchtower bible and tract society, all non- jehovah witnesses will be destroyed at armageddon, a time said to be coming soon.
the watchtower prints over 14 million copies of its magazines every week, and has over 4 million (in 1992) jehovah's witnesses are spreading their doctrines in 200 countries and it is rapidly increasing.
since it's origination, the jehovah's witnesses have had many names and boldly claim to be the only organization that god is using to speak his truth for him today.
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How Do YOU Feel Knowing That YOU Were In A Cult?
by minimus infor years, i refused to think of the witnesses as a "cult".
too harsh and restrictive of a word for me......but there is no denying that we were all in a mind controlling cult.
are you embarrassed or uncomfortable knowing that you belonged to a cult just like the moonies and the branch davidians are/werw a cult?
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barry
Lyin eyes Ive heard it said very smart people are much easier to be brain washed than us ordinary people.
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Reformation Movement
by SWALKER inhas anyone received this e-mail and what do you think about it?.
http://www.jwreform.org/index.html.
swalker
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barry
I beleive only those in the religion can reform it because the WT society wont take any notice of those wo have never been JW or those who have left with no desire to return.
The hierarical system actually works against uniformity in beleif. I have heard it
said their are more divisions in the catholic church [a hierarcical system] than all of protestantism combined. I beleive its only fear which keeps the JWs united if the fear was taken away the WT would have all sorts of problems.
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Jehovah's Witnesses and Born-Again Christians are too much alike its scary
by booker-t inever since i left the jw's i visited a few born-again christian churches and i felt like i was sitting in a kingdom hall of jw's.
because born-agains are more like jw's then they want to admit.
both jw's and ba's think they know everything.
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barry
Gday LT, But its in non-essentials liberty If I remember correctly and also makes better sense.
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If you could create a new canon - what books/ writings would you include?
by Qcmbr inok so the bible is a work of the early roman church - if you could add any books to a new canon of 'scripture' what would you add - would you take anything out?
my starter for ten: .
i think i'd take out song of soloman.
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barry
I would like to see the book of mormon and the pearl of great price in. Just for ou mate
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A challege for Bible scholars
by jaffacake incan anyone find any scriptures in either old or new testaments which contain the following phrases, or word combinations?
i will accept any bible versions:
new light
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barry
In the Adventist Church people who leave are sometimes called Backsliders the same term the Baptists use. The only place I have ever seen the word apostate used is in the annual figures on church members deaths apostacies etc. I have never seen the word used in the same negative way as is used by the WT Society. SDAs use the word Heritic more often but mainly in a joking sort of way. Barry
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Could a Gandhi like Person,, Help Break The Governing Body's Power Over
by frankiespeakin inin logan's thread he mentioned ghandi and it got me to thinkin.
what do you think about gandhi?
wan't he a genius or very wise person?
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barry
I beleive it would be hard for a leader in the WT Org to establish himself because all the WT writers are anonamous and and it would be like an excellent writer in the real world trying to make a name for himself by writeing a book and not only getting a best seller but getting people to follow his idears.
The WT has been very cleaver in not allowing their writers develope a reputation.
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How do the Kigdom Melodies compare to Christendom's Songs?
by Honesty ini just have to comment about the canned wtbts music on cd the local congregations play on $150 cd players through $20 speakers set in the foamboard ceilings at their sales meetings worship services.
what a joke the music is that they use to sing praises.
the lyrics remind me of a high school pep rally with all the emphasis on 'we're joe hoba's witnesses and yada-yada-yah preaching from door to door and from house to house' or 'life everlasting in the pair-o-dice' crap that just tickles the dubbies ears so much they get all pretty and pink.
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barry
Onward Christian Soldiers was my favorite as a kid but with 400 hymns and responsive readings in the hymnbook it took a while to get sung again. Barry
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Do JW's stay up late on NEW YEAR'S?
by Donkey Lipz in.
my parents & i stood up late and watched the ball dropped in times square on tv....but i like 2 kno if jw's do it...do they have gatherings on that nite?.
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barry
Usually I cant get to sleep from all the fireworks but its great to see them on TV the next day.
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Has Anyone Heard of the Amazing Facts
by Shawn ini had a woman come to my door today that i thought was a jw.
it was wierd she was by herself but i didn't think twice.
she started asking me questions about faith and i asked her if she was affiliated with the jws.
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barry
Gday newlight2,
I checked out that site and chances it is an SDA concervative site as one name there caught my eye, Kenneth Cox was banned from preaching in SDA churches at one stage because he was saying Christ would come in the year 2000 or before and he was useing some JW theorys to do it. Similar to how the JWs said 6000 years would end in 1975 he was saying the same about the year 2000. These groups in the SDAs would comprise about 40% of the membership.
Stay away from that type of religion it is legalistic and perfectionistic look for a group with the gospel. Barry