court told of child abuse claims
w. east anglian daily times, uk - 3 hours ago.
an 80-year-old jehovah's witness lured young girls to run wild at his luxury house where he abused them, a court heard yesterday.
Buttlight,
I know your Sister-in-Law. She's as blind as the rest there and this story won't prove a thing to her -- except possibly that the filthy, God-defying media can't be trusted to get the story right, and is a tool used by Satan to slander members of the "one, true Faith".... Sorry.
well, i was going to add to this, but hit the wrong button.
(duh)
so, how do i find nwt comparisons that are not exact changes in it?
re: John 8:58:
One might also compare John 9:9, in both the Greek and the translation....
read the bible daily?
honestly do you?
or is it collecting dust on a table or shelf somewhere?
I did read - and still do - read the Bible daily. It was this practice that caused me to leave the Watchtower Bible and Tract Society.
according to the son of my newly baptised jw friends, they re-decorating their house for a visit and 'inspection' by the circuit overseer.
can anyone explain what the circuit overseer's visit is all about?
does he or she normally visit the homes of people in the congregation?
Heh. The last time the CO came to visit, I denounced the Presiding Overseer and his Sidekick. So (just maybe) the CO visit is an opportunity to 'clean house'.
i have a 1939 watchtower volume and happened to see a letter written to "brother rutherford" by peter moyle, son of o. r. moyle who as i remember took the society to court about that time.
here's what he wrote: "on august 8, 1939, when the bethel family was asked to express their disapproval of the letter of o. r. moyle, i expressed my approval by remaining seated.
after prayerful and scriptural consideration of the matter, i am now of the opinion that my action was wrong.
Are you perhaps making reference to Albert Schroeder receiving a "trimming"? It was mentioned in his Life Story in the 1988 WT (I am also nowhere near an Index).
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if you do pray, will you use the name that's above all other names....says the watchtower.. if not, what name do you use?.
It seems inappropriate (to me) to use the Divine Name when directly (well, mediated-by-our-Lord-Christ-Jesus) addressing my heavenly Father. Consequently, my prayers use the term "Father".
i just got a phone call from a really good friend of mine.
her husband is an elder, and a good friend of my husband's.
well, sunday my husband had the public talk in our kh, and they took him to lunch afterwords.
Ask her to explain how the Society's false prophecies, erroneous teachings, and unscriptural practices prove it to be the "one, true Channel Jehovah is using in these 'Last Days' ".
Tell her that you are discussing certain discrepancies in WTBTS literature with an Elder, and that he requested you speak about this matter with NO ONE, since it would destroy the faith of anyone who is not exceptionally robust in the "Truth"; indeed, he is unwilling to even discuss this matter with his peers of the local Body of Elders...
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is it possible that people still speak in tongues, from god's spirit?
the book of acts does not state that it would come to an end.. not everything in the spirit word is of holy origin, but i detest the idea that because it isn't in a kingdom hall it must be satan.. .
Acts may say little about it, but 1 Cor. 13:8 does state that the gift of tongues will cease.
However, it does not say when. (Some of the writings of the Ante-Nicean Fathers suggest that the gifts of prophesying and tongues had already ceased to be in their day; perhaps someone else would be in a position to give citations thereof. (?))
i usually don't read wt or awakes, but i stumbled on an article that shows the borg's two-facedness.. the article talks about a group of mennonites that had doubts about their religion and wanted to study with the jws.
after the first paragraph, i realized that i had felt exactly like those poor mennonites when i decided to study the jw's history.
let me explain... i have scanned some parts of the articles: .
Jesus expressed himself rather strongly regarding hypocrites.... Maybe I was a Mennonite all those years; after all, I was expelled for studying the Bible(!)
my 79 year old mom that has every ailment known to man was going to the bookstudy this afternoon because she felt "guilty" for not going the last couple of meetings due to illness.
i told her it was 95 degrees outside and asked her not to go since she has difficulty breathing.
she decided to do it anyway.
At some point in time, I began to feel guilty because I'd not yet left the apostate WTS. I got over it after I finally left.
