Posts by vinyamar777

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Definition of an apostate?

by ThomasCovenant in

my first post but i've been looking for about 12 months.

very interesting to get others views on jw matters.

very quick background.

ThomasC: Greetings.
It’s one thing to define, it’s another to ask as to whereto. I think C S Lewis spoke about someone abandoning their religion, looking up at the sky, and having their first religious experience. I enjoy a Muslim forum, and – although they don’t publicise the fact of folk leaving Islam for Christianity, they do have a special section for those moving in what may seem the other way. To me I say “bless ’em all”, as long as each moves in the right direction! I hold messiah to be God’s ultimate revelation: the person abandoning their ‘religion’ might be moving closer to God; the ‘Christian’ because their family is who turns to Islam might be taking a real step towards God, and by his grace may eventually come into the fuller light.
If apostasy means falling away from God, may that never be. If it means falling away from a tradition which is either a weed (never good) or chaff (a useful stage), then perhaps we may speak of a good apostasy, even a required apostasy. May you & yours journey in God.

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"We are the only religion on earth that can claim to be unhypocritical."

by Bonnie_Clyde in

those are the exact words of the po's wife today at the wt study.

i wrote them down as she said them.

the next comment by one of the servants was, "if we accept the authority of the faithful and discreet slave, we cannot go wrong.

vinyamar777

What moral filth from Jack W. I didn't realise that anyone who used that word of contempt of marriage, human relationships, & God, would have anything to do with what should be a clean, meaningful life affirming forum. Such utter filth demands no less than utter rejection from any decent human being. Sir, you should be ashamed of yourself, even having to cover up the word to evade more general detection: you filthy man.