Oh, look. It's RebelWife, the queen of analogies, again. I'm sorry, but that's just how I think. I'm sure no smart person has ever gotten sucked into a relationship with a rotten, no-good blankety-blank-blank. It's not stupidity. It's being human and having weaknesses that are preyed upon by an unscrupulous entity.
RebelWife
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Jehovah's Witnesses are NOT stupid!
by nicolaou inafter several years 'out' i can't be the only one who still gets a bit pissed off to hear 'oh so clever' apostates slagging off jw's for being dumb, stupid and worse.
grow up!
the beliefs of jehovah's witnesses are certainly stupid but then i'd say the same for all christian belief just as many of you might condemn my atheistic, evolutionary postion as being nonsense.
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Jesus as Michael
by Kphoto inlet me start by stating that i'm not a jehovah's witness but have family who have been discussing it with me and i am hoping for a better answer than i have gotten thus far.
i can find no scriptural backing for jesus being the arch-angel michael.
in fact i find things that seem to show me that they are two distinctly different beings.
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RebelWife
"So, the translator must insert the 'an', 'the' or 'a', in how they think it fits with the paragraph. That is way, I assume, some say 'an archangel' and some say 'the archangel'..." Interesting that the NWT translators chose to use "an," which indicates to me that they meant "one of the archangels."
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"Pioneer " Witnesses to me in McDonald's Parking Lot / I Reverse Witness!
by flipper inso early this morning i had been working all night .
just got done eating mickeyd's in my truck , getting ready to take a nap before driving , and this jw young lady in her early 20's knocks on my closed window !
i put the window down and while forcibly handing the watchtower to me just says, " here is the watchtower !
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RebelWife
Good job! I didn't see the show, but I wondered about her saying it was an isolated circumstance. Really? Like I said, I didn't see the show, but it wouldn't have come across as an isolated incident, would it? And I love the remark about the two big, strong angels wanting her to hear what you said!!!
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Jesus as Michael
by Kphoto inlet me start by stating that i'm not a jehovah's witness but have family who have been discussing it with me and i am hoping for a better answer than i have gotten thus far.
i can find no scriptural backing for jesus being the arch-angel michael.
in fact i find things that seem to show me that they are two distinctly different beings.
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RebelWife
Hi, NewTruth, So how would that sentence be translated? Why insert "an" if it gives an erroneous meaning?
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Is grace enough?
by Kphoto inhi again, debating again with my favorite jw and the issue of grace became a firestorm.
my contention is that epesians 2:8-9 says it all but i get the arguement that "that's too easy" and shouldn't i have to do something.
my point is if i earn it it's not grace.
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RebelWife
I like the saying, "You can't outsin God," meaning the grace of God.
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Jesus as Michael
by Kphoto inlet me start by stating that i'm not a jehovah's witness but have family who have been discussing it with me and i am hoping for a better answer than i have gotten thus far.
i can find no scriptural backing for jesus being the arch-angel michael.
in fact i find things that seem to show me that they are two distinctly different beings.
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RebelWife
1 Thessalonians 4:16 16For the Lord Himself will descend from heaven with a loud cry of summons, with the shout of an "archangel", and with the blast of the trumpet of God.
"An" indicates there is more than one archangel, so how could it indicate a specificone? Saying "the" trumpet indicates there is only one trumpet.
hence Christ comes or descends "with" this shout and also the Trump of God is playing. The text also says the Lord ascends "with" the trump of God. So is Jesus the trump of God too? Or is he making the trump of God sound? No. Again he comes "with" these 2 things, not that he is them.
Exactly! The shout and the trumpet are even in the same sentence. He rode with the urgency of Paul Revere. Must mean he is Paul Revere. He spoke with the fire of Martin Luther King, Jr. Must be MLK, Jr.
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Is grace enough?
by Kphoto inhi again, debating again with my favorite jw and the issue of grace became a firestorm.
my contention is that epesians 2:8-9 says it all but i get the arguement that "that's too easy" and shouldn't i have to do something.
my point is if i earn it it's not grace.
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RebelWife
Good one, Sad emo. If love or forgiveness for our children were dependent on things like their doing the dishes or cleaning their rooms religiously (pardon the pun), none of us would love or forgive our children. They may screw up all over the place, but we still love them. We forgive them because we love them, because it is our nature. We love them even when they hate us. Another analogy that I like to use for my husband's benefit is that I don't make love to him because I am afraid of him or because he says so or because I'm trying to make him accept me, and it's not a privilege that's earned. It's an EXPRESSION of something beautiful and precious. We make love because we love each other, not vice versa. We also forgive because we love.
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Do You Ever Fear The Jehovah's Witnesses???
by minimus inare you completely devoid of fear regarding jws in your life at this point?
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RebelWife
I fear no man....that includes my mother in law
Okay, now, Ninja, that was just funny as hell!
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UBM scores!
by RebelWife init was another dreary ubm birthday.
birthday girl was moping around the house, trying to be mature.
but wait -- hubby came home early with a card (a real one with the evil "happy birthday" words on it) and chocolate!
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RebelWife
Thanks, y'all. He caught me completely off guard. Yippee!
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Could a JW lifer not know about theocratic warfare?
by RebelWife ini was just looking at another thread about lying.
it reminded me of a discussion i had a while back with my husband, who has been a jw all his life (dfd now).
i brought up lying and this term "theocratic warfare," which i had never heard before, but found online.
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RebelWife
Thanks, y'all. He wasn't an elder. I know he wanted to be. I don't think he ever had any titles, but other than that, I think he was pretty heavily involved from birth. As far as the term itself, I EXPLAINED it to him. But even if I explain what something is, it doesn't click a lot of times unless I use the right term. (That goes for stuff outside the JW category, too.)
We try not to talk about his religion or any aspects of it because we always fight about it and the fights are so awful. Next time we inadvertently get into it, I'll ask about "spiritual warfare." I just wonder about things sometimes, and it's a lot safer to ask my questions here.