that text reminds me of one of a handful of problems peculiar to the ex-jw community.
second only to the wild beast's internal divisions, is the divided makeup of the ex-jw populace.
you know the one thing that indicates jehovah's blessing upon the worldwide association of kingdom proclaimers, is not only the continued success of the preaching work, but along with it the unity and love amongst the brothers and sisters.
The simple, the spineless and the lazy want all the answers given to them on a plate, regardless of whether it is accurate or not.
A House Divided Against Itself Falls
Really? There are a billion Catholics, I guess that means they display better unity than Watchtower followers. A good principle, but you have stretched it out of context.
it cracks me up if you bring this subject up to a witness , they always try to convince themselves that i'm reading into this!!!.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bpqwknq31ie&feature=youtube_gdata_player.
My hall in West Hobart was sold to a Bridge club.
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http://e-watchman.com/home/2012/11/11/who-really-is-the-faithful-and-discreet-slave.html.
Jackson has packed on the pounds since joining the GB. He was a lot smaller the last time I saw him face to face about 10 years ago.
i struggled with this question before i got baptised.
what helped you to overcome any doubts?.
Stand for Pure Worship - That was a very fluffy answer. A lot of broad statements with nothing to back it up.
Jehovah has always used some form of organization and mediatorship to fulfill His purposes upon the Earth as it relates to spiritual direction.
Really? Who was that organisation between Adam and Noah? What organisation did Lot belong to. What organisation was being used between Jesus time and 1919?
When Jehovah used an organisation, he made it clearly known. He spoke directly to them, like Noah or Moses. He used a pillar of smoke. He spoke from the heavens, or enabled miracles. The Governing Body have not provided a single sign of being used.
All the other religions of the world are doing things contrary to God's will. They're involved with politics, rife with sexual immorality, supporting homosexuality, hiding pedophilia, and fleecing their flocks for every penny they can get out of them.
As is the Watchtower. The Watchtower is well known for its protection of pedophiles, so well known that in Australia the royal commission into child abuse within religion specifically has highlighted Catholics and Jehovah's Witnesses, along with a couple of other religions. The Watchtower is entrenched in politics. The average member is not supposed to vote, but the leadership have throughout history lobbied governments, and made use of the judicial arm of politics. And the Watchtower is a multi billion dollar corporation, made rich from the constant demands to provide free labour building their property empire and distributing literature for a donation, or previously for sale.
You show a very narrow understanding of your own religion, or that of other religions. It would do you well to do some real research. It is important to get alternative points of view, outside of the indoctrination you have been subjected to your entire life, in order to come to an understanding of your religion.
Fortunate enough for me, I was born into the True Religion.
Interesting. What do you think of a God that is willing to destroy all those billions that were not fortunate enough to be born into the True Religion, and will never even meet someone from your religion? Is that really a God of love and justice.
it was announced at this years general meeting that the new years text is let your kingdom come.
matt 6:10 .
the speaker clearly sounded vexed as he went on to say and why not as 2014 marks the 100th anniversary of christs heavenly reign.
Let your kingdom come ... imminently.
i don't really do hugs and kisses.
my wife went to hug me this morning and i instinctively backed away.
we laughed.
I am very much so, but my wife is not.
i want to thank jehovah's witnesses new world bible translation committee for changing the words, "mentally diseased" as found in the 1984 edition of the nwt, to "obsessed with arguments," as found in 1 timothy 6:4 in the 2013 revised nwt.. on february 6, 2012, david splane, the overseer of the watchtower's writing department received an open letter from me which i posted below especially for new posters.
the topic of my letter was in response to the writing department's statement that ..."apostates are mentally diseased" in their july 15, 2011 watchtower.
the 1984 edition of the new world translation reads:.
Wow Barbara, you are still being used by the Writing department.
I am surprised they removed the term mentally diseased from the Bible, as it was their justification for applying that term to apostates in the Watchtower. I wonder how this will affect some current court cases regarding this term in the Watchtower being hate speech.
an examination of genesis 3:6.... .
in the 2013 nwt we read: "consequently, the woman saw that the tree was good for food and that it was something desirable to the eyes, yes, the tree was pleasing to look at.".
in the douay-rheims bible we read: "and the woman saw that the tree was good to eat, and fair to the eyes, and delightful to behold".
Thanks bytheirworks, I had not noticed this point before.
Adamh, your write up on the subject is extremely interesting, as are your other articles. It is the first time I have looked at http://awgue.weebly.com
in 2008, the outline for meetings of circuit overseers with congregational elders and ministerial servants discussed that an elder can be removed for promoting university.
there used to be a spanish scan linked on this site, but the link no longer works.
i would be happy to find a copy of either the spanish or english version.
Thank you. That is a great help.
in 2008, the outline for meetings of circuit overseers with congregational elders and ministerial servants discussed that an elder can be removed for promoting university.
there used to be a spanish scan linked on this site, but the link no longer works.
i would be happy to find a copy of either the spanish or english version.
A scan used to be accessible from http://www.herniacerebral.blogspot.com.au/ It is a Spanish website. Does anyone know who runs that site, or know how to contact the owner? I don't see an email address.
