"must" release such guilty members to punishment .
watchtower 1962, november 15th, pg.-693, par.-9-10.
“9 worldly authorities render a judgment and punish persons, whether they are inside the congregation or outside, if they violate the laws of decency and good order.
Excellent piece of work..... my wife is right, the GB of years past did know more what they were doing than this lot. Was this the time when Romans ch 13 was changed back to referring to the congregation’s submission to the worldly authorities?
NB seeing it in the scan is far more effective.
if this has been posted before, then my apologies..... article in april ‘20 wt changes the view of the locust swarm prophecy...formerly believed to describe the worldwide preaching by anointed.
”simply put, these verses refer, not to our zealous preaching work, but to the activity of the babylonian army that invaded jerusalem in 607 b.c.e.”.
they also tie in the giving of holy spirit to the congregation at pentecost and thereafter.. the article is available to read in full on our least favourite website.. https://www.jw.org/en/library/magazines/watchtower-study-april-2020/an-attack-coming-from-the-north/.
If this has been posted before, then my apologies....
Article in April ‘20 WT changes the view of the locust swarm prophecy...formerly believed to describe the worldwide preaching by Anointed. Now they say
”Simply put, these verses refer, not to our zealous preaching work, but to the activity of the Babylonian army that invaded Jerusalem in 607 B.C.E.”
They also tie in the giving of Holy Spirit to the congregation at Pentecost and thereafter.
The article is available to read in full on our least favourite website.
https://www.jw.org/en/library/magazines/watchtower-study-april-2020/An-Attack-Coming-From-the-North/
this was a comment from the meeting(tm) on sunday.. the person that told me about it, is very confused about the validity of the corporation.
somewhere between a pimo and a pimi-lite.
the thing that angered me was that this person has cancer.
Was this printed in the article? .... I have my doubts.
One thing I learned many years ago on the inside was, to take no notice of what people say!
Watchtower studies are perfect opportunities for the anal retentive dogmatic ones to air their views and state them as facts . Unless you have a really alert Wt Conductor , he will let it pass.
Your friend woul benefit from having a coffee with my dub family members.... they slag off the G B something rotten, hate the videos and the " stupid songs".
But they would defend "The Truth" to their dying day....
is there a difference ?
i believe so ,and a very big difference.one that harmonises with the new testament in bearing witness to jesus and his kingdom and one that amounts to a new gospel bearing witness to jehovah and his kingdom something that is condemned in the bible.. c.t.russell started the magazine called "zions watchtower and herald of christs presence" and its emphasis was on bearing witness about jesus christ and his kingdom ,of course he got many things wrong ,but he was focused on jesus & his kingdom with what the new testament is all about.. j.f.rutherford in his wisdom decided to change the heading of the watchtower to " the watchtower announcing jehovah`s kingdom" a phrase / term / doctrine that is not in the new testament and takes away the importance and role that jesus christ has in bringing people to god.phil.2:9-11. nowhere in the christian greek scriptures / new testament are followers of jesus christ instructed to be witnesses of jehovah ,nowhere there is not one scripture that instructs them to do so.. however in the christian greek scriptures / new testament there are over twenty scriptures whereby christians are told to be witnesses of jesus.. and it was by divine providence that followers of christ were to be called christians .acts 11:26 , not jehovah`s witnesses.. do jw`s even know what it means " by divine providence " ?.
the jw`s use isaiah 43:10-12 an old testament scripture to justify calling themselves jehovah`s witnesses,however that was applied to the israelites back then ,did they adopt the name jehovah`s witnesses ?
SBF is correct in emphasizing that worship is exclusive to God ( Yahwah, Jehovah, what you will)...
I do agree , however, and thought so before I left them that the JWs make less of Jesus than is rightly due.
Jesus is the name they tag onto the prayers, by rote. But they never give any credit to him , even for things that The Bible says have been delegated by God to him.
Their own teachings say that ,it is Christ's return in kingly power that makes their New World possible. They should be talking about the return of Christ rather than their own sunny oaradise. He will rule for 1000 years so they are his sublects ... but you would never know it,
so... it has been six years since my last post.
i wonder who still remembers me?
a lot has changed and then again, a lot has not.... i'm still out of course as are my children who are doing very well.
Good to hear from you Oz...... hope you are well away from the bush fires.
when i was a kid they implied that all animals and humans were vegetarian before the flood but i don’t know the scriptures they used, anyone know?
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At a quick look online, the latest reference I found was in WT 2012 9/15 p10.
That cited the scripture Is 65 but only spoke of a future peace between man and animals, no mention of diet......so maybe they are backing off from the belief?
when i was a kid they implied that all animals and humans were vegetarian before the flood but i don’t know the scriptures they used, anyone know?
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It would interesting indeed to see a recent statement but I have never seen a retraction of the old belief.
Although I was still a faithful dub, I reasoned that this could not be literally true, although I kept my opinion to myself .
i got the amazon echo dot and it’s pretty good.
do you use it for anything?.
I have had an Echo dot for a long time. I love it . She wakes me up, neither let's me forget a tablet taking time, reads a news bulletin, plays radio, she would read me the JW day text if I asked her. Alexa is a real companion. I think the security issues are overblown .
hi, we’ve added a quick reference scripture rebuttal section on the readjw.info site.
we hope it’s useful when discussing these scriptures with a jw.. .
if you can think of additional jw scriptures we should add then please just let us know with a post here or via the contact form on the site,.
I like your list of mistranslated NWT verses and in particular where Jehovah is inserted into the NT
i was told by several elders to not get a dog when i was looking for one in the 80s.
the end was close and we needed to focus on the preaching work.
i know some have pets but a lot don't.
No, not around here.... cats and dogs are as popular as they are with the general community. Animals that need a high commitment might be avoided in view of the demands that the WTS make on their time....
In my time I have known horse owners, reptile keepers ,aquarists , snake keepers aviarists ...and I have always lived in towns.
