looking for a simple explanation of the ransom from a jws perspective..
Jehovah's Witnesses view the 'ransom' as essential and also demonic.
The Watchtower, 15 November 2014, page 12:
The only way any of us can have peace with God is to have faith in Jesus’ ransom sacrifice and appreciate that blood has special meaning to our Creator.
The Watchtower, 1 April 2007, page 19:
Human sacrifice in any form is demonic, and true worshippers of God stay away from anything that is connected with such a practice.
i know i shouldn't--i tell myself this over and over--but i can't help peeking at these silly articles.
and then i see this and my head really starts hurting: so the gannet, if you don't know (and why would you?
) is a seabird that feeds on fish.
For every individual species that JWs claim has some remarkably 'designed' feature or behaviour, they increase the required population of the 'ark'. This is particularly evident when they argue that some very specific species has a unique feature necessitating that each species is not merely part of a poorly defined 'kind'. (For example, see Awake! No. 1, 2017, p. 16.)
so i was in a yugoslav ethnic congregation of about 200 people in australia we had alot of refugee witnesses come in from the balkans war.
in the late 1990's we were thriving!
today the young ones have all left "the truth.
Maybe they can start calling the ethnic language groups separate ‘lands’.
could you guys believe this über borg 'friend' ?.
he says that babylon has fallen because all of the coronavirus restrictions (and the resultant less revenue) are gonna destroy them symbolically.
so he thinks this are the last, of the last, of the last days.
mikeflood:
He says that Babylon has fallen because all of the coronavirus restrictions (and the resultant less revenue) are gonna destroy them symbolically. So he thinks this are the last, of the last, of the last days. Urged me to check the on-line conventions. Thoughts?
Ha ha... See my comment from four months ago... https://www.jehovahs-witness.com/topic/5738470961053696/oz-starting-shut-down#5659416618598400
Seems he may be 'running ahead' though.
at what time would you say that the watch tower schema lost the spirit?.
like the ancient nation of israel which struggled maintaining divine blessing due to a long series of grave errors that eventually culminated in definitive loss... how and when did watch tower lose the spirit?.
can we pinpoint a time or event?.
Smiles:
Please do not reply with 'JWs never had the spirit'
Why on earth not? Your fallacy: begging the question.
csa victims need our support, not vindictiveness.
in that vein, lord farquaad has these kind words for shelly, aka “bcg”.
false dilemma logical fallacy.
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Indeed, Evans' own response was conditional: "If you include me in this vague rebuke...", though because there was purportedly some related dispute between the same parties on Reddit, his assumption would be more warranted than yours. It does seem to be the direct references to YouTube and Patreon that raised his ire in the little Twitter spat (Twitter being the highly collegiate platform that it is ). He could have made his response more clear and that is a matter for him, but his ambiguity doesn't justify you pouring fuel on the fire.Using the same logic, how do we even know they were referring to Evans?
csa victims need our support, not vindictiveness.
in that vein, lord farquaad has these kind words for shelly, aka “bcg”.
false dilemma logical fallacy.
I feel it’s important for people to at least know what kind of man you are defending.And there's the problem. You still imagine I'm 'defending' someone. Your specific accusation was unfounded, and that it is all. But the underlying problem is the us-versus-them mentality that thrives so much within the 'ex-JW community', of which Evans and BCG both evidently share some guilt. That doesn't make either of them 'evil', it's just a product of their experiences. And unrelated to your claim that Evans directed his "screw you" comment at Shelly.
csa victims need our support, not vindictiveness.
in that vein, lord farquaad has these kind words for shelly, aka “bcg”.
false dilemma logical fallacy.
Diogenesister:
I can actually verify this and give some context.
I don't doubt there was some wholly unproductive separate exchange on Reddit. But unless Evans unambiguously said "screw you" to Shelly on Reddit, it lends no credence to the claim that the comment on Twitter was directed at Shelly rather than Champion.
csa victims need our support, not vindictiveness.
in that vein, lord farquaad has these kind words for shelly, aka “bcg”.
false dilemma logical fallacy.
You seem to think that everyone who has a distaste for that man and his methods is being unreasonable.
Nope. That statement is purely your mind's own invention. I commented on your response to one Twitter comment. I don't really care about some separate Reddit exchange, which does not confirm to whom Evans was saying "screw you" on Twitter. But the really apparent thing is how readily you attack someone who doesn't fully endorse your hatred of Evans.
csa victims need our support, not vindictiveness.
in that vein, lord farquaad has these kind words for shelly, aka “bcg”.
false dilemma logical fallacy.
Patreon livestream? What are you on about? You seem to imagine that anyone who doesn't agree with you about Evans must therefore support him financially and hang on his every word. This is simply your own fantasy, projecting your dislike of the person on to my ambivalent interpretation of a Twitter comment.
Back in reality, it just seems that Evans' "screw you" comment was directed at Champion, rather than BCG as claimed in your thread title.
