You make an interesting point. There are a lot of talks where a wife has an unbelieving husband, and how she must stay and win him over without a word. But it is quite different when the husband was a JW and leaves. He is now a dangerous apostate that could affect her spirituality, and very often the spouse will feel leaving is the correct option, as encouraged by elders. I hope you are able to work it out with your wife.
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FuGK This Religion- Stop Ruining My Life!!!
by wallievase ini am sorry for the title but today just took the cake.
after not going to the meetings since august and trying to sort through this with my family, my wife today told me she wants to separate because of our differences over being a witness or not.. this is ridiculous.
so i said- how can you separate from me when the religion you whole heartedly believe says you can only separate for 3 reasons- abuse, willful non-support, or stopping her from her meeting attendance, etc.
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Be Honest About This Doctrinal Matter
by lambsbottom inwife says she always thought the wt said that anyone alive at armageddon that did not get a chance to hear kingdom message may survive?
true?
references?.
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There is the official answer, and then the vaguaries the Watchtower leaves open, so that it can still attract new people and not offend JWs that are not totally heartless.
Salvation only for Jehovah's Witnesses shows numerous quotes that only active, baptised JWs will be saved (and their minor children). This is reinforced by concepts such as you needed to be on the ark to be saved in the flood. Not everyone on earth was contacted by Noah, but they all drowned nonetheless.
But the Watchtower opens it up by saying things like, "It is up to God to judge." It makes it seem God may allow some others to be saved, and some JWs take it that way to appease their own consciences, but that does not mean what it seems, as the doctrine is God will not save someone that is not a baptised active JW. So it is a dishonest misdirection.
The dishonesty can be seen in the following quote. It actually says that it is not only Jws that will be saved, but goes on to show that it is only Jws that will be saved.
" Do You Feel That You Are the Only People Who Will Be Saved?
No. Many millions who lived in centuries past and who weren’t Jehovah’s Witnesses will have an opportunity for salvation. The Bible explains that in God’s promised new world, “there is going to be a resurrection of both the righteous and the unrighteous.” (Acts 24:15) Additionally, many now living may yet begin to serve God, and they too will gain salvation. In any case, it’s not our job to judge who will or won’t be saved. That assignment rests squarely in Jesus’ hands." -
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Things WT has condemned other religions for doing...only to eventually do themselves!
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They are finding that main-stream religion became that way for a reason, and realise that they have to copy them to survive.
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How to tell how effective JW.TV will be
by bohm inhere is a simple and obvious way to tell how effective jw.tv is going to be:.
in the past, how effective has religious tv been for you?
has watching religious tv made by moonies, evangelists, mormons or scientologists made you seriously reflect on spirituality?
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What I found interesting was the song that was played towards the end. Not sure what you would call it - Christian folk rock maybe. I don't think they expect outsiders to view it, but rather they are trying to make the youth find some sort of excitement in the religion.
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Has anyone else heard this about the GB??
by FeelingFree inok so me and my husband were talking to his mum again about why we are no longer going to meetings and got into another pointless discussion where she feels he needs to talk to an elder about his issue's blah, blah, blah... round and round it went...... the thing i wanted to ask was if anybody had heard that there wont be any gb after these one's die??
this is something she mentioned today and we have never heard of this ever.
so it means no more will be appointed and they will just die off!
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It sounds like a rumour. JWs want to believe that, as it indicates the end must be very near.
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A Nice Story.
by Wrath of Jehu infriends.. i'm sure you will all be encouraged by this nice story related to me by a brother in my old congregation.
4 year old "jana" (not her real name), is from a witness family in a middle sized city.
she has faced many challenges in her pre-school class.
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How is denying a child the joy of birthdays, when there is no logical Scriptural reason not to celebrate ones birth, a nice experience?
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8TH KING RISING
by CharlieSmith1975 inper jws the un is the scarlet-colored wild beast that becomes the 8th king just before armageddon.
it is interesting to see how the un is becoming more and more an authority in the world with obama clearly the leader and supporter of globalism.
plus obama is always saying "peace and security.
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In another 500 years there will still be superstitious people making these doomsday predictions. It is a sad part of human nature to think/hope some sort of doomsday will occur magically in their own lifetime.
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Don't say "the truth", say the Jehovah's Witness religion
by hoser inwhen i meet up with a jay dubya i've never met before and the conversation inevitably turns to "so where did you learn the truth?
i reply" my parents joined the jehovahs witness religion in 1982".
some of the looks i get are priceless .
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I refer to it as "the religion," "the Watchtower religion" or "the Jehovah's Witness religion." Religion is exactly what it is, yet it really iritates JWs.
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Article: JW woman (19) - receives 29-month sentence for killing her newborn
by AndersonsInfo inmorales receives 29-month sentence.
http://m.record-eagle.com/news/local_news/article_402b8194-2f32-53a5-af1e-fbe9ba9bd76b.html?mode=jqm.
by matt troutman [email protected] | posted7 days ago.
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Heartbreaking.
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I think they're doing a good thing....you guys need to cut them some slack.
The Watchtower deserves as much slack as they give to worldly people - none. They usually receive a lot more than that.