My son has an ambition to be an Anglican Priest but only is famiiar with Anglican services. He asked to go to other services at other denominations we have been to the catholic church but he wants to further his experience at the kingdom hall .
Posts by barry
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19How Does An EX-JW Go To Church For The Fun of The Experience?
by LoisLane looking for Superman inif you are on vacation and see a cute, pictureques, church and your fun and artistic side says, hey...let's go in...what's to be expected?
i would think that it would be ok to just slip in for a few minutes and slip out again.
geez...i don't want to listen.
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WT August 15, 2013 QFR - Sitting next to a disfellowshipped child at meetings
by Designer Stubble inpage 8 of the latest wt (insider version) has a whole page dedicated to the question whether it is appropriate to sit next to a disfellowshipped child at meetings.. not sure how to paste this in, but check jw.org.
perhaps someone can do this for me.. horrible, no words really on how pharisee like their cult grip and control has become!.
first of all, without any shame they are talking about disfellowshipped minors.
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barry
The most telling point here is why do they have to even talk about such issues. Why do they have to in this artical mention it is required the person "behave". what standard are they using apparently their own standard. What if the person has some grievance how does he or she express it?
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barry
none of the above I say G'day
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Anyone can be saved
by StopTheTears ini prayed that 2 japanese men would come to church today, and thank god that 1 said yes so far.............so please pray he and his friend would come not only to church, but to jesus.
and i meet another non christian friend on monday, please pray for her salvation.. .
when asked which is the greatest commandment, jesus replied,.
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barry
Matthew says to fear not those who destroy the body but fear God who can destroy both the body and soul in hell. So maybe the punishmsnt in hell is only for a time.
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Being of the "anointed" doesn't mean doodly squat!
by Terry inwhere do jehovah's witnesses get all their contrary ideas and doctrines?.
isn't it directly from heaven because they are "anointed" and have been selected as jehovah's channel of communication?.
hell no!.
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barry
I come from an adventist background and most if not all events about Ellen White are fake. Ive never believed her as supernatural or haveing the 'gift of prophecy and I have had many arguements with ministers in the past. She had one vision where she saw the planets in our solar system described them and the number of moons they had. It so happened the planets had the exact number of moons they had at that time discovered but the information is currently outdated. Did God know how many moons around jupitor or did he only know the number of moons there because the telescopes on earth are not powerful enough?
Ellen white got all her information out of books that were currently available at that time.
The theological truth that did come out of adventist theology is premillienilism because many of the churches believed at that time in postmillienilism which has since been consigned to the scrapheap.
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Nephilim are they fair dinkum
by barry inmy son just showed me large humanoid skeletons of about 20ft tall.
just google nephilim.. whats the jw take on the nephilim?
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barry
My son just showed me large humanoid skeletons of about 20ft tall. Just Google Nephilim.
Whats the JW take on the Nephilim?
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Dr Desmond Ford a contemporary of Raymond Franz
by barry inmost of you know raymond franz but there is a parallel contemporary dr desmond ford.
des writes on the book crisis of conscience..
'splendid!.....there were so many parallels between the author's experience and mine that i was continually amazed .
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barry
Most of you know Raymond Franz but there is a parallel contemporary Dr Desmond ford.
Des writes on the book Crisis of conscience.
'Splendid!.....There were so many parallels between the author's experience and mine that I was continually amazed . It seems that all small religious groups, unless fortified by a true understanding of God's grace, fall into the same pitfalls and behave the same way.'
Dr Desmond Ford Former Seventh Day Adventist theologian and professor at Pacific Union College defrocked due to conscientious issues.
Des spoke at this church 6th Sept 2008 so he had already been an apostate for about 28 years when this was recorded at a university SDA church in America . SDAs love their apostates well the ones they agree with anyway.
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Liberal v conservative churches
by barry inyou can read the artical on the above link.. a short story about nancy a conservative christian who states to the minister she wont be attending his church again because the reasons being she doesn't like the drums.
also the people are too friendly to each other and to new people visiting conservative churches aren't like that.
according to 'nancy the truth is important as well as character perfection before jesus comes.. some of you might be amused, i was.
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barry
gnat that looks like a roman catholic or orthodox group isnt that a statue of mary there on the right of the cross?
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The Greek Word Parousia! How should it be trasnslated?
by wannabe inthe greek word parousia!
how should it be translated?.
i say, that because it can be applied to presence; which the governing body who does have an ax to grind, would jump on; and apply it, as they have to the thirteen occurrences, where it appears in their new world translation bible.. as i said, it can be applied to their teaching that the christ was invisibly present in the year 1914, but according to the information i found, that application is incorrect.
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barry
I would guess everyone would translate as comming before 1850 because only after this time presents was intergrated into the meaning.
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Liberal v conservative churches
by barry inyou can read the artical on the above link.. a short story about nancy a conservative christian who states to the minister she wont be attending his church again because the reasons being she doesn't like the drums.
also the people are too friendly to each other and to new people visiting conservative churches aren't like that.
according to 'nancy the truth is important as well as character perfection before jesus comes.. some of you might be amused, i was.
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barry
Gday jgnat, I just thought that link captured the feeling of conservative and was ammusing .
Of course liberals can be those who believe evolution, have women pastors and don't believe the bible is inspired at one extreme but not necessarily. Liberals may be just more open to the community and have a happy vibrant religious community that talks a lot about Jesus and has drums.