Posts by mychainsaregone

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Armageddon in 1975 'probability' or 'possibility'? Irrefutable Proof the Watchtower Said 1975 Was "Game Over!"

by PhilsWager2 in

it's hard to know where to put this link to a polish book some of you older members probably read, while our newer members are seeking answers to questions the watchtower vehemently deny's!

do i put this under "jw scandals" or "jw beliefs"?

for decades without the internet many of us did not have access to all the publications written by early watchtower writers because access was hard, only men like raymond franz jr(god rest his brave soul) had the golden key for entering the library of all publications jws made.. can some of the older members remember people who sold their homes and others who bought things in the summer or fall of 1974 knowing they won't be paying for their purchases because jehovah will destroy all the creditors records when he kills them!

mychainsaregone

I remember 1975 and I was a very small child... I was born in late 1970. My mother was instilling into my sister and me that we would soon be living in paradise on earth and even hesitated to enroll my older sister in kindergarten and only enrolled her because my dad insisted that she needed to live a normal life... That was in the fall of 1974 and 1975 came and went without Armageddon... My dad lost his faith in the org at that time and stopped going to the meetings. My mother stayed faithful to the organization and died believing. We have to remember what the Bible says about false prophets and about predicting the end.

Matthew 7:15 Beware of the false prophets, who come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly are ravenous wolves.

Matthew 24:36 But of that day and hour no one knows, not even the angels of heaven, nor the Son, but the Father alone.

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I asked where is the proof?

by disillusioned 2 in

arguing with my husband again, i asked where is the proof that jesus looked down on earth in 1919 and chose a small group of bible students in america apart from them saying it in their magazines.

also where is the proof that satan and his demons were cast down in 1914 just because first world war started.

neither of these things are in the bible only in their magazines.

mychainsaregone

Men can be so cold! I'm sorry you are going through this.... I grew up with the JW beliefs and remember the early 70s. My mother hesitated to enroll my older sister in 1974, but my father insisted she enroll her. My dad quit going to the KH along the time that the 1975 prophecy proved to be false. My mother kept going and died 3 years ago, still believing.

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A big hello and thank you

by iwasblind in

i just wanted to introduce myself and say a big hello to all of my mentally diseased friends.. i say friends because i have been lurking for some time so it feels like home (us lurkers are a bit scared and cautious so it takes a while).

i won't bore you with too many details, but i am a born in, currently serving as the cobe of a congregation.

my wife and i have pioneered for the last 10 years and were shaken awake by that ridiculous 15th july 2013 wt about the generation and 1914.. my wife who is much smarter than me has questioned for years.

mychainsaregone

I was just reading and I'm happy that you and your wife have been saved! I pray that you will exit from the organization though, it must weigh heavily on your conscience to still be in, as if condoning the teachings.

I've been out for many years.. was raised as a JW, but fell away as a teen. It is so enlightening when we start to read the Bible on our own. We discover that the doctrines that we were raised on as "the truth" are lies and, in the process, we come to know Jesus for who He really is and how truly amazing what He did for us was. When I was growing up, I felt doomed... and it was because of the "faith and works" that the JWs teach as the key to salvation. When I read the Bible on my own, I discovered that it's not what we do that saves us, it's what He did! We can do nothing to make us worthy of salvation and thinking that we can is an insult to what HE did for us. Jesus was without sin, and the only acceptable sacrifice who could possibly atone for the sin of the world.

1 Corinthians 15:3-4 For I delivered unto you first of all that which I also received, how that Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures; 4 And that he was buried, and that he rose again the third day according to the scriptures.

John 3:16 For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.

Romans 3:23 For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God
Romans 6:23 For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.

Romans 5:8 But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.

Acts 16:31 And they said, Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved, and thy house.

It is my desire to see lost and misled souls to come to know Jesus as their Lord and Savior!

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I want to tell you my story:-(

by Deltawave in

why am i here on this site?

why have i lost my faith in this version of christianity?

it's simple.

mychainsaregone

I was raised as a Jehovah's Witness. Through reading the Bible, I have discovered how absolutely wrong they are. Please research it on your own, without the aid of the watchtower and make your own mind up about their teachings. JWs teach salvation by works, that is so far from the truth... The only way to salvation is by confessing that you are a sinner and believing that Jesus Christ is the son of God and that he died for our sins, was buried and rose again on the third day. Jehovah's Witnesses do not teach these things. JWs are stuck in legalism, in other words, believing that salvation is earned by the things we do and the things we don't do. There is nothing that we can do to make ourselves worthy of salvation. Jesus was the only one who was without sin who could bear our sins as atonement. It is an insult to what he did for us and the gift of salvation that he gave us by being the perfect sacrifice on Calvary's mountain almost 2000 years ago. We are saved by grace through faith. Grace is God's Riches at Christ's Expense and is available to whosoever believeth in Him.

Please read these scriptures.

1 Corinthians 15:3-4 For I delivered unto you first of all that which I also received, how that Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures; 4 And that he was buried, and that he rose again the third day according to the scriptures.

John 3:16 For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.

Romans 3:23 For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God
Romans 6:23 For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.

Romans 5:8 But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.

Acts 16:31 And they said, Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved, and thy house.

It is my heart's desire to see people who have been blinded to come to know the kind of freedom that I have since I know Jesus as my personal savior and the Lord of my life.

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Help? :(

by BlackWolf in

i apologize for how rantish this is but please hear me out.

anyways i'm a 15 year old girl and i've never really wanted to be a jw.

its just never been something thats made me feel happy or loved.

mychainsaregone

I'm so sorry to hear about what you're going through. I was raised as a JW also, but was in public school. I never seemed to fit in with anyone. My mother was raised as Church of Christ and my father was raised Baptist. They disliked each other's religions, so they found another one. This was around 1970 and I think it was when my mother was pregnant with me that they started studying with JWs. Along the time that my older sister was entering kindergarten, my mother was hesitant to enroll her, since the time of the end was to be in 1975 and she was starting in 1974. My dad insisted that she start school and stopped attending the meetings along the time that he knew that the prophecy that was made didn't come true. I didn't put that together until I was grown, but I realize now that's what happened. It's funny what a small child really does understand and remembers as an adult. My mother continued to go to meetings and took us (my sister and me) with her. As we got older, we rebelled and got involved with "worldly" children and did "worldly" things. We were never baptized and we grew way away from the "truth." Our mother kept going to the kingdom hall and to the day she died, believed in her heart that they were right. It's only been since my mother died that I have really started digging into the roots of the JW religion and found out about all of the false prophecies that were made even before the one about 1975. JWs are warned to not read "apostate" literature, to study the Bible on their own or to attend any other church and it's because they are afraid that their followers will learn the truth about the "truth." I'm sure that the elders in the kingdom halls don't know the real truth about all the false prophecies. I was so messed up before I came to know Jesus Christ as my Lord and Savior. As a child, I was taught sin would keep us from eternal life and that it was even a sin to be raped and that a person who was raped, would not inherit God's Kingdom, so it was better to be killed than to be raped.... Wow....We do not "earn" salvation by our works! Salvation is a free gift to whosoever believeth in HIM! When I was young, I always felt doomed, and knew I was not worthy... none of us are worthy and it's an insult to what Jesus did for us to think that we can earn salvation. Jesus was the atoning sacrifice for all of our sins, the only ONE who was without sin who could have possibly satisfied the Father in Heaven. That doesn't give us a free pass to do whatever we want, but it does mean that He forgives us. Once we truly belong to Him, we can't be plucked from the hand of the Father!

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A prospective juror(JW) really ticks of Judge!

by truthseekeriam in

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an appellate court has reversed the conviction of a bacliff woman who recorded her boyfriend raping his 14-month-old granddaughter on her cell phone, saying the trial judge tainted the jury by arresting a prospective juror during jury selection.

alisha marie drake had been sentenced in 2013 to 15 years in prison for using her cell phone to record the act.

her boyfriend, jason grant, was charged with aggravated sexual assault of a child and possession of child pornography and is awaiting trial.

mychainsaregone

Wait a minute.... don't you have to be a registered voter to serve on a jury??? Faithful JWs do not register to vote.

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The poor and deprived life of JW children.

by Esse quam videri in

i find it hard to believe that adults on this forum make such a big deal about not celebrating birthdays, x-mas, easter, halloween, etc, etc, etc.

i grew up as a jw kid and it actually made me feel good, being different from the other kids in school.

we went to meetings.

mychainsaregone

I definitely felt like an outcast.... having to sit through the pledge of allegiance and not be allowed to color any type of holiday pictures or sing any patriotic or holiday songs, and don't even think about participating in any type of program at school, being left out of birthday parties, even when a mother would bring cupcakes for her child to share with the class... that's not awkward, is it? Being pointed at and called weird. I can remember my first birthday cake... It was when I turned 16 and I was at work, I cried and thought it was the nicest thing anyone had ever done for me... and I didn't tell my mother. :/

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Witnesses of Jehovah film from about 1986

by violias in

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ve3zp9fiyiq.

film witnesses of jehovah .

note 37:35 .

mychainsaregone

I wish my mother would have seen this... It was around that time that I was a teen and quit going with her. She died in 2009 and was still in the organization, though not as deeply rooted with them as she once was. I am so thankful that I received the free gift of salvation by making Jesus Christ my personal lord and savior!