"can the ethiopian change his skin?
", feb. 15, 1904 watch tower.
we answer, no.
That teaching, or suggestion that black people could turn white in the Kingdom is completely outrageous to us in the twenty first century. However, back in 1904 it must have seemed impossible that black and white people could live together as equals.
The scriptures were clear that the message was for all men , so what was solution? Why, turn them white of course! Problem solved……
more accurately known as a reversal of a long held 'truth.'.
september 2022 study watchtower - par.
14 p. 18 - "in the past, we understood jesus’ words to refer to the deeds the resurrected ones will practice after their resurrection; that is, some will come to life and practice good things while others will come to life and practice vile things.
I would call it boring… It is radical in claiming that the world faces imminent judgment and destruction.
As for the resurrection, I must have missed something because I always used to believe that judgment was for what they did after they came back…. Their death having wiped the slate clean of their past sins…
So according to the dubs a dead gangster can get salvation and life , but a clean living apostate like us , alive at the end gets eternal death……
Go figure?
can someone explain the difference between dating and courtship?
how does it look like for a jw, is it always in groups?
is kissing allowed?.
Take it seriously please !
Dating is the casual association alone with one of the opposite sex, just for the fun of it.
Courtship is if you are seriously seeking a wife/husband, whether you are yet serious about that person or not.
So young single dubs spend a lot of time in groups. That is not a date
one of the earliest movies i can remember watching, probably because of the heart-wrenching ending with little dewey alone in space, watering the flowers in the garden, was silent running.
i'm not going to admit to how long i sobbed after watching that.. apart from it being a pioneering movie about environmental apocalypse and the people involved going on to create other great scifi movies, and the robots being the inspiration for r2d2 in starwars ... it reminds me of growing up.. it's now a 50 year old movie.
but back i thought the little robot was real.
I have not forgotten that “Silent Running “ film, Bruce Dern and Duey and Thuey…..
I was too grown up to take it for real but it made an impact. The way this worlds going, with the loss of species and biodiversity, it seems even more relevant.
the other day, i chatted to an elderly woman and her daughter who was about 45-50. total strangers.. we were discussing covid when the daughter said, "my neighbor studies with jw's, and the jw's told her 3 months before the virus started, that they had to stop going from door to door because something was coming.".
i've never heard anything like this before - have you?.
Anecdote from an unnamed source🤔 If the Witness said anything of the kind we know it was a lie.
The quotes that Blondie showed us are what I hear from believing relatives. I am bemused by them . Anybody can apply a prediction after it has happened…. The trick is to know it beforehand….. surely?
can someone please call these three guys and tell them that the first gentile christian was an active duty roman military officer named cornelius.
these guys have been locked up for 25 years!.
The link that Disolusioned JW put up is very good in respect of the original question as to the early Christian’s serving in the Roman army . It would appear that the early Christian writers spoke against it but over the next 200 years or so, of course some no doubt did.
I am not going to say anymore on the attitude we should have today. People have intractable positions.
can someone please call these three guys and tell them that the first gentile christian was an active duty roman military officer named cornelius.
these guys have been locked up for 25 years!.
I would agree with Drearyweather’s post above.
Sea Breeze earlier wrote.
“When Jesus told the soldiers to be content with their wages, he tacitly told them to keep doing their job as soldiers. They could not have been "content with their wages" unless they continued as soldiers.”
I do not see that when Paul wrote 1 Corinthians 7 ,which is the scripture to which we have referred, he was tacitly addressing soldiers. His remarks are to slaves and he later brings in married men , to be content with their lot.
The lack of Scriptural references to soldiers could suggest that there were none in the congregation…… perhaps?
can someone please call these three guys and tell them that the first gentile christian was an active duty roman military officer named cornelius.
these guys have been locked up for 25 years!.
The secular law used ( or not) in modern conflicts has no bearing on a Christian’s responsibility to free from blood guilt.
It is easy to hide behind the conscience salving claim that “ I was serving my country “ but that attitude has enabled wars to proliferate.
We do not know what happened to Cornelius or what he did , so that is no excuse for a Christian to take up arms .
this week's installment in the science quotes of "celebrated jw scholars" concerns one of their perennial claims.
based on a literal reading of genesis 1:30, jehovah's witnesses believe and teach that all animals were orginally designed to be vegetarians and that the restoration prophecies of isaiah foretell a return to this state.
this has been stated many times in jw literature:.. .
When I was a little boy I told everyone that in the New World I was going to have a pet lion…. As I grew older I wondered about the literalness of that prophecy , even the WT sometimes said it could refer to people changing their personality, then another article made it literal.
As an adult with more knowledge I quietly kept my own thoughts on that belief , while still a dub. I knew now the massive re-creation it would need to change an animal’s digestion and teeth to “ eat grass like a bull” . TD has masterfully explained that above.
Now I know that it is all b/s anyway. This doctrine should indicate to any prospective Bible Student of the WTS that they all live in cloud cuckoo land!
We are discussing Study article 19, I am afraid the link given above was to next week’s study . As to their teaching on to whom the Revelation was directed, and who are the Slaves.. they now say ‘ we ‘ and ‘us’ as though it includes all the Other Sheep .
The revised Revelation Book on line said “ The apostle John, who wrote down Revelation, describes himself as such a slave. He was the last surviving apostle and one of the select spirit-anointed group of “slaves” that inherit immortal life in the heavens.”
So they have changed it, So what? They do flip flops and tweaks to teaching all the time . I doubt that anybody up the K/hall noticed.
