english standard version(2001).
woe to you, scribes and pharisees, hypocrites!
for you travel across sea and land to make a single proselyte, and when he becomes a proselyte, you make him twice as much a child of hell as yourselves.. .
3.Preaching the "vindication of Jehovah's name" was THE purpose of their ministry until recently.
The "vindication" thing was big when I was associated years ago (and it didn't make much sense to me). So you're saying that has changed? What is it now?
i took pride as a 9 year old "boy" that i was a "minister".
i had a card that i carried in my wallet (with no money in it) that said i was a "minister"..
The call themselves "witnesses". Yeah? What did they actually witness?
They are witnesses to the fact that no Russell/Rutherford/Franz prophecy ever came true (or ever will).
Does anyone think there will ever be a good GB?
Each JW should wise up and become the governor of their own body.
there's already a couple of threads discussing this particular issue of kool-aid version of the wt, but i just had to start another after reading about the creative days mentioned in this issue.. we debate from time to time if the wts has ever officially retracted their doctrine that the earth and all things created are less than 50,000 years old.
there's been some quotes that show them waffling on the age of the planet itself but still sort of holding to the notion of all creation happening within a defineable 7 day period.
how long is a creative day?
The average dub is too stupid to grasp the subtle complexities found in their monthly Drool-Aid Kool-Aid edition.
she asked me if i am christian.
i told her that i was raised as a jw, but i do not go to the kingdom hall.
she says that she watch charles stanley and franklin graham on tv.
Ouch!
she asked me if i am christian.
i told her that i was raised as a jw, but i do not go to the kingdom hall.
she says that she watch charles stanley and franklin graham on tv.
I used to work with a girl who went ballistic every time she heard one of what she called the "C" words. Chick was one of them.
the jws need one more category of witness............ a jehovah's bystander!
they're like the witnesses, only they dont want or have to get involved.
i know it's an oxymoron but think of all the problems that would solve.. .
I guess I'm a Jehovah's Rubber-necker -- anxiously awaiting the inevitable train wreck.
is it not true that the leaders knew that it was a blatant lie when the 1975 teaching was propagated in the 60's?.
Fred was batshit crazy.
andre, who had served jehovah for years, had the bitter experience of being led astray.
by apostate thinking.
he felt that having a quick look at an apostate web site would not be dangerous.he recalls: initially, i was attracted to the so-called truths that the.
Wow, I'd like to meet Mr. Andre. I bet he drinks Dos Equis (when he drinks beer, that is).
ok you and i are friends we have a lot in common.............. so we don't believe what you do......... atheist christian muslim yada yada yada.
what now i'm evil?.
yeah .............. so who's the prick?.
Ever notice that some friendships are exhausting? I've had friends in the past that I felt I had to constantly entertain with agreeable conversation.
But I also had a friend once that could ride with me for hours in a car and not require any verbal affirmations. Just enjoying the day and the ride.
Sometimes I suspect that I am very shallow.
