Posts by FuzzyPaul

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JW woman dies in car accident out in the "work"--where was the holy spirit?

by blondie in

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http://www.palmbeachpost.com/news/traffic/mazda-crushed-by-truck-friday-carried-four-women-938492.html.

mazda crushed by truck friday carried four women headed out to share word as jehovah's witnesses; one diedbysonja isgerpalm beach post staff writer.

updated: 6:57 p.m. sunday, sept. 26, 2010. posted: 1:33 p.m. sunday, sept. 26, 2010. .

FuzzyPaul

I trust in Jesus, not WatchTower ideas. All y'all have filtered your experiences through the Watchtower's ideas.

Daniel 3:16 - 18

Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego replied, “O Nebuchadnezzar, we do not need to defend ourselves before you. If we are thrown into the blazing furnace, the God whom we serve is able to save us. He will rescue us from your power, Your Majesty. But even if he doesn’t, we want to make it clear to you, Your Majesty, that we will never serve your gods or worship the gold statue you have set up.”

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I don't doubt the story of a sister who was spared from a serial killer when she was seen with two large men she didn't know were there (thought to have been guardian angels). People are saved, not organizations, by the Lord. The WT is not "The Truth" and they are overwhelmingly shown to be liars and teaching false doctrines by those examining their ideas.

Stop trusting the training the WT indoctrinated you with. Who are they, really?

Paul

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JW woman dies in car accident out in the "work"--where was the holy spirit?

by blondie in

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http://www.palmbeachpost.com/news/traffic/mazda-crushed-by-truck-friday-carried-four-women-938492.html.

mazda crushed by truck friday carried four women headed out to share word as jehovah's witnesses; one diedbysonja isgerpalm beach post staff writer.

updated: 6:57 p.m. sunday, sept. 26, 2010. posted: 1:33 p.m. sunday, sept. 26, 2010. .

FuzzyPaul

Sorry, that was 27 days for the Haitian man.

According to http://www.survivaltopics.com/survival/how-long-can-you-survive-without-water/

The longest one can survive without water in cool weater is 10 days - yet:

Man pulled alive from rubble 27 days after Haiti earthquake
London Evening Standard (standard.co.uk)
Sri Carmichael, Consumer Affairs Reporter
09.02.10

A man has been pulled alive from a collapsed building in Haiti’s capital 27 days after the earthquake struck and 18 days after the government gave up looking for survivors.
The 28-year-old, identified locally as Evan Muncie, was found in the wreckage of a market where he sold rice. It appears he had been trapped the entire time.
It is not clear how he survived, but he reportedly told doctors that someone “in a white coat” kept bringing him water throughout his ordeal. He said he could hear excavating going on around him and feared being buried alive,
He was taken to a US field hospital in Port au Prince emaciated and hallucinating. Dr Mike Connelly said he was severely dehydrated, adding: “He hadn't had anything in quite some time. He had open wounds that were festering on both feet.”
Dr Dushyantha Jayaweera, of the University of Miami field hospital, said it was “unusual but not impossible” that he had been buried alive for nearly a month.
Mr Muncie's mother said: “I thought he was dead, but God kept him from dying.”

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JW woman dies in car accident out in the "work"--where was the holy spirit?

by blondie in

jw
friends

http://www.palmbeachpost.com/news/traffic/mazda-crushed-by-truck-friday-carried-four-women-938492.html.

mazda crushed by truck friday carried four women headed out to share word as jehovah's witnesses; one diedbysonja isgerpalm beach post staff writer.

updated: 6:57 p.m. sunday, sept. 26, 2010. posted: 1:33 p.m. sunday, sept. 26, 2010. .

FuzzyPaul

Would commentary of the kind above disparaging The Holy Spirit or accusing God of being evil be this common on a similar website intended for Seventh Day Adventist, Catholic or Baptist topics?

Many note that when some JWs leave the WatchTower they are so hurt and disillusioned that they become angry at God or become hateful about God.

The God of Love is not being represented by The WatchTower. They taught hatred for Traditional Christian Religion and continue to train their readers to distrust anything from "Christendom". They even teach their readers to believe that demons will take them over for reading the Bible (non - NWT) on their own or other Christian authors writings. The WT pushes Jesus out of the message of scripture and place themselves into it calling themselves the "..." class in dozens of ways.

What did Jesus actually do to wrong you when he took your sins upon himself? He did not write the Bible to or die just for 144,000 leaving an "other sheep" to work out their own salvation by service to the WTBTS publishing corporation. He died for all men and women to pay for all their sins. No works can save you. Being out in "Service" convinced that this work is necessary to secure ones salvation or to earn it actually diminishes the perceived value of HIS death to nearly zero.

Shaving cream can't make a man righteous - but the WT's Witnesses act as if it is that important.

The Watchtower CAN NOT BE TRUSTED and too many exposed to their ideas think they can not trust Christendom. The WT uses dishonest and incomplete quotes and does not identify the source to hinder a reader from verifying the quote and its context. They condemn one who does try to verify and WT elders say the WT gives everything one needs and one is not to waste ones time reading other sources. The WT, its writers and its editors are exposed as liars by those who investigate their ideas and their organization. I found only hatred for truth in the Watchtower who calls themselves "The Truth". I spent over 40 years in the WT and knew its ideas better than many of the elders I knew.

I know that I found God in Christendom.

God is big enough to handle your hurt that is so great it makes one hate him. But HE did not sin against you. Stop calling (Jehovah) God, Jesus, The Holy Spirit as evil or responsible for the evil acts and ideas of men such as the WT produces. Please, test God to display himself to you - give him a challenge only HE can answer.

Paul

Blondie, I think it fair to add that the kind of angels called "watchers" are our guardians. Men are guarded by such until they become reprobate and God removes his hand of protection. That is one explanation for Katrina and Haiti type disasters. (New Orleans and Haiti have large numbers of persons involved in VooDoo - Get angry at VooDooers for causing God's watchers to go away if you think HE was wrong for letting a flood come or an earthquake or whatever to come. Yet, there are reports of miraculous interventions such as the Haitian man buried in rubble for about 6 weeks who said a man in white had brought him water. - That should cook your noodle.) We are not abandoned to chance, time, or unforeseen occurrence in general - that is just another non-Biblical WT idea.

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The PERFECT Translation...for Churchoids!

by theMadJW in

http://www.themadjws.com/thercvbible.htm.

FuzzyPaul

So what is the point?

Regards,

Paul

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FAO: Bane - You Mentioned the Eye

by cantleave in

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i don't want to hijack the other thread.. you mention the eye being better than any camera so lets discuss this.

i used to give a talk where i would use the complexity of the eye as evidence of creation, but i have since changed my mind and below is the reasoning that helped me do so.. i would welcome you comments and reasoning against this.. if you had a choice between being totally blind and being able to see things out of focus, which would you pick.. i'm sure you would, like me prefer to have out of focus vision, than no vision at all.. would you rather have vision that was out of focus and devoid of color, or be totally blind.

i'm sure you prefer the colour option.. how about if you could only see vague shapes around you or blindness?

FuzzyPaul

I took a year of pre-med biology and can't comprehend how someone teaching a course that complex could believe in pure chance. The mathematical probability against it is beyond comprehension and quarantees that it didn't and doesn't happen. Evolution is taught because one has to or you "will never get a job teaching (at a secular university) or get published" which is a real threat and demonstrates the intimidation and methods of those anti-god philosophers who control higher education. If academic freedom WAS allowed most profs wouldn't sink their conscience to sell that dogma.

The coding needed for anything in DNA is precise. Many disease states are minor errors in the DNA and many errors in DNA code are fatal to an organism. It just doesn't happen. I wrote computer programs and that is baby's play compared with DNA.

For numbers that exceed 1 chance in 10^50 a probabiblity and statistics mathematician will imform you that is the threshold of impossibility. 10^100 approximates the volume of the known Universe in cubic Angstroms. A hydrogen atom is about an Angstrom in diameter based on the Bohr radius of 0.53 A. Probabilities far worse than that exist for the simplest steps in evolution as proposed by models beginning with just chemical evolution. The chances against the right kind of molecules occurring is beyond possibility.

Get real. There is a GOD. He cares for you since he made you. He loves you and knows that we are all stupid here but stop denying him the chance to show HOW MUCH HE CARES.

As an ex-jw of 45years I am very happy in Christendom - the world wide empire of blessings from Jesus.

Regards,

Paul

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Joining a new religion after being a JW is like......

by exwhyzee in

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joining a new religion after being a lifetime jw would be like getting remarried at middle age after years of putting your heart, soul, faith, and commitment into it only to find out it was a hoax.

i have been happily married for many years and if (god forbid) i should ever find myself single one day...i can't imagine ever wanting to remarry...especially not if i had been terribly betrayed as i feel i have been by this organization..

FuzzyPaul

After 45 years in the WT I left and attend a local Southern Baptist Church. It's like a family. I have quality study materials, choices of discipleship courses, activities, friends for me, my ex-JW wife, my ex-JW pre-teen son, my ex-JW step-daughters and grand-daughter.

I go to mass at times and feel that God is definitely present.
I go to a synagogue occasionally and know that they actually understand the Torah (law) since they actually know the language.
I have been to Assemblies of God (lively worship like a celebration).
Nazarene (strong music ministry).
Conservative Baptist (like them old hymns but I can‘t understand the King James Version).
Grace Brethren (All of our sins are forgiven by believing that he DID pay the full penalty).
Lutheran (a little too sedate for me).
Messianic (Christianity IS a Jewish sect and Hebraic in source).
Methodist (respectful, sedate with Pastor dependent but solid teaching).

I first hand learned how they invent and then re-invent truth on the fly, invent their own proofs while claiming that they are quoting a true expert, claim they always taught 1914 but actually had 1799, 1874, 1914, 1915, 1925, 1948, 1975 in the same role in doctrine.

They repeatedly quote atheists like Bertrand Russell who wrote Why I Am Not A Christian And Other Essays On Religion And Related Subjects, and Stephen Mumford edited: Russell on Metaphysics: Selections from the Writings of Bertrand Russell.

They quote anti-Darwin evolutionists (in a WT evolution vs. creation book) like Francis Hitching who wrote The Neck of the Giraffe or Where Darwin Went Wrong, and Earth Magic, and Dowsing: The psi connection.

Angels and Women is edited by the WT from a book called Seola by Ann Eliza Smith
featuring a demon angel that reformed and wanted to get back into Jehovah’s good graces.
http://www.amazon.com/Angels-Women-Watchtower-Bible-Society/dp/B000Q74274/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1278055072&sr=1-2

“Angels and Women (1924). This book is a revision of the book Seola by Mrs. J.G. Smith. According to The Golden Age magazine (Oct. 27, 1924 p. 35 and Golden Age, July 30, 1924 p. 702), published by the Watchtower Society (Jehovah's Witnesses), Seola was revised at the suggestion of Charles Taze Russell and published as this volume. Editions of the book at the headquarters of the Watchtower Society (Bethel library) state: "Introduction by J.F.R. [Joseph F. Rutherford]. Appendix by C.J.W. [Clayton J. Woodworth]. Written by a brother had been long in the service, was incapacitated, and sought to provide for himself by thus "indirectly" presenting some valuable information. Not altogether up to date, as "Angels" booklet and other information supplements and revises what this work contains."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seola

Charles T. Russell’s belief that The Great Pyramid is God's Stone Witness “Thy Kingdom Come examines the testimony of God's silent stone witness the Great Pyramid of Gizeh, revealing its harmonious confirmation of the accuracy of the Bible.”
http://www.amazon.com/Thy-Kingdom-Come-Charles-Russell/dp/0972824324

see: http://members.cox.net/jellogator/pyramid/pyramid.htm and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Taze_Russell touches on his beliefs in Pyramidology.

And his followers thought the Pyramid was so important to WT doctrine that they built a Masonic One-Dollar-Bill style Pyramid for him as his cemetery monument, see: http://www.spotlightministries.org.uk/russellspyramid.htm

Is this “Religion is a snare and a racket”, “Christendom” bashing organization the truth?

They can’t have thought of themselves as a religion to parade that sign. Christendom means the domain of Christ, Christ’s Domain - Christendom. Like a Kingdom is the domain of a King. So they don’t want to part of Christ’s domain - why?

Get real, get out of the WATCHTOWER and go to Church. Get over it. They lied and Jesus IS IN CHRISTIANITY in traditional Christian Churches.

Or do I have to add several hundred more reasons proving the damned nature of WT origins, doctrine, practices, associations?

It actually only does take faith in Jesus paying the penalty in full for our sins to be saved. What can you add to the Blood of Jesus?

Fuzzy Paul at your service. Got any questions? PM me.

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The PERFECT Translation...for Churchoids!

by theMadJW in

http://www.themadjws.com/thercvbible.htm.

FuzzyPaul

“Deut 6:4- Hear, O Israel: The LORDS our Gods is one LORD, yet Three Divine Essences! - RCV”

Ummm, The Jewish sages believe in ten emanations (Sephirot) of "The One" each of which has a personality. And,

Revelation 1:4
Prologue
John:
To the seven churches in the province of Asia.
Grace and peace to you from the One who is, who was, and who is coming; from the seven spirits before His throne

Revelation 3:1
The Letter to Sardis
"To the angel of the church in Sardis write:
"The One who has the seven spirits of God and the seven stars says:

Revelation 4:2-5
The Throne Room of Heaven

Immediately I was in the Spirit, and there in heaven a throne was set. One was seated on the throne, and the One seated looked like jasper and carnelian stone. A rainbow that looked like an emerald surrounded the throne. Around that throne were 24 thrones, and on the thrones sat 24 elders dressed in white clothes, with gold crowns on their heads. From the throne came flashes of lightning, rumblings, and thunder. Burning before the throne were seven fiery torches, which are the seven spirits of God.

Revelation 5:5,6
The Lamb Takes the Scroll
Then one of the elders said to me, "Stop crying. Look! The Lion from the tribe of Judah, the Root of David, has been victorious so that He may open the scroll and its seven seals." Then I saw one like a slaughtered lamb standing between the throne and the four living creatures and among the elders. He had seven horns and seven eyes, which are the seven spirits of God sent into all the earth.

Do you really think that you have the last word on the nature of God?

If you had only read the Bible, would you have derived the Watchtower’s doctrines denying that The Holy Spirit is a person?

Isaiah 63:9,10
Remembrance of Grace

In all their suffering, He suffered, and the Angel of His Presence saved them. He redeemed them because of His love and compassion; He lifted them up and carried them all the days of the past.

But they rebelled, and grieved His Holy Spirit. So He became their enemy [and] fought against them.

the Angel of His Presence = His Holy Spirit

Why would a Christian hating organization that denies that anyone can have God’s Holy Spirit teach them directly and individually have the last word on truth? I have repeatedly seen the same subject being taught at the same time from several different independent sources on TV, the Radio, Lifeway pubs (for example) and local pulpits. Only the Holy Spirit can do this.

Pray for truth from the source or do you not trust HIM?

Respectfully,
Paul

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How to respond to "Whoelse is preaching the good news worldwide?"

by EndofMysteries in

this scripture stands out to me...... 1 cor 1:17-21 for christ dispatched me, not to go baptizing, but to go declaring the good news, not with wisdom of speech, that the torture stake of the christ should not be made useless.. 18 for the speech about the torture stake is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is gods power.

19 for it is written: i will make the wisdom of the wise [men] perish, and the intelligence of the intellectual [men] i will shove aside.

20 where is the wise man?

FuzzyPaul

"The bible only tells us how the Eunuch got contacted and Philip's preaching, then his baptism."

Drawing any conclusions about further actions of the Eunuch using wishful thinking that the story can be made to fit ones agenda is DISHONEST because the bible says no more about it.

"The bible does indeed only say how he was contacted and his baptism. That's it. Speculating he did anything else after his baptism is adding to the scriptures."

Amen

I was a JW for 45 years then I went searching. I settled in a Southern Baptist Church, a common version of Baptist here in Florida. Very contrary to anything I was taught in the WT:

1.) We aren’t and did not become “demonized” or turn into “pure hate” by leaving the JWs, reading anti-JW lit, or visiting and studying with any Catholic, Jewish, Messianic, or Protestant group.

2.) I and my family are incredibly happy. We are loved and respected.

3.) I read this forum with so many talking suicide due to the ELDERS JC actions in their lives and remember what it did to us to be falsely accused, declared immoral, called "adulterers, bigamists, and the parents of bastards".

4.) I have a quality of study material that far exceeds the WT pubs.

5.) NONE of the churches, synagogues I visited demands absolute devotion or proclaims itself the only way. I have never heard the self promotion, self glorifying, proud "hurray for us" behaviors I heard weekly in the KH.

6.) I studied with a retired Seminary professor who edited a Bible translation and he is the humblest man I know. No pretentiousness. Not from him or any of the pastors, deacons, retired missionaries and pastors in our group of 750.

7.) Deciding who is the "truth" with Watchtower notions is ludicrous. They invented and falsified ‘proofs’. Type into Google any WT doctrine “Watchtower cross” or “Watchtower Jesus worship” for example and check out the research on the falsified WT doctrines. Liars lie and Satan is the Father of the lie. There is no honor in believing in lies.

I so wish you would consider that you are the one who is responsible to God for what you believe and how you act. You can’t tell him that you were just following the orders of the CO or a ten year old WT article to abuse someone, judge and that with faulty promotion, or act dishonestly. You aren’t “in the truth” if you don’t hold Jesus as being in the Number 1 position in the Universe - HE is the truth and the way and the life.

In the past God spoke to our forefathers through the prophets at many times and in various ways, but in these last days he has spoken to us by his Son, whom he appointed heir of all things, and through whom he made the universe. The Son is the radiance of God's glory and the exact representation of his being, sustaining all things by his powerful word. (Hebrews 1:1-3)

Does that sound like an angels powers of the full powers of God himself? Since:

For He has put everything under His feet. But when it says "everything" is put under Him, it is obvious that He who puts everything under Him is the exception. And when everything is subject to Him, then the Son Himself will also be subject to Him who subjected everything to Him, so that God may be all in all.

At this time Jesus is number one in charge and announcing “Jehovah’s Kingdom” is distressingly inappropriate. It is Jesus’ Kingdom. Knowing this and then saying that we shouldn’t look intently at Jesus for our every need is telling the Father that we don’t approve of his choice of absolute ruler of the Universe.

Everyone who believes that Jesus is the Messiah has been born of God, and everyone who loves the parent also loves his child. (1 John 5:1)

I can’t say enough except that all of our Watchtower brainwashed in reasons for refusing to consider or investigate traditional Christianity is based on lies, exaggeration, irrational fear, false standards of doctrine trying to prove “Babylonish” religion (unsubstantiated nonsense if you actually investigated Babylon and its religions) and hatred of actual Christian doctrine. Go read the first and second century Church Fathers including the actual disciples of Peter and John. Read Josephus’ The Antiquities of the Jews - book 18, chapter 3, paragraph 3 on how Jesus was felt to have to have been more than a man.

Since the Watchtower’s origins are in Charles Russell’s promotion of “proving the Free-Masonry of the Bible” makes his WT doctrines “Egyptian-ish” religion what with his promoting 1914 based on the length of a hallway in the Great Pyramid!

Is that the source of your truth? Free-masonry? New World Order? Who are they, really?

I pray to know truth, do you? Do you trust that the source of truth isn’t going to use a two centuries old political - philosophical fraternity as his exclusive outlet? Ask God, Jesus himself to reveal truth directly to you and listen to him. Don’t trust that WT brainwashing of “spiritual ruin” coming by reading the Bible on your own.

Love and regards,
Paul

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Okay I just got back from the Police department

by troubled mind in

the officer was very understanding and helpful .

he said you would be surprised how many citizens they have come in and ask how to stop the jehovahs from coming to their doors .. .

i told him my whole story about leaving the jw's after 44 yrs and just wanting peace and freedom .

FuzzyPaul

Eight months or so after sending a letter warning against trespassing a lone elder came to my door asking if I still did not want calls! I told him to leave, he did not but kept writing on his territory card! I repeated it and stepped out onto the porch and said very firmly and loudly "Leave now, not when you feel like it." He did and I trailed him to the street in escort.

Another pair of elders came to my door after that when they learned I had become Baptist. I said that they must leave, I was ignored and their demands for information continued. I said that I will call the Sheriff's office and my friends there will explain what that means. They left.

They do not obey any laws if they don't wish to. Forgive me for my negativity.

Bless you and search for the real Jesus,

Paul

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Are you certain you're a Baptized Christian?

by wannabe in

are you certain you're baptized?.

is it also not true, because of that, the old law covenant was set aside?

{1 corinthians 1:17} {romans 11:13}.

FuzzyPaul

Wannabe,

Who are you, a defective elder or something? Your reasoning is out of context with the passages. You are tiring to read and dishonest. You wrongly condemn non-JW Christians as being blind blah, blah.

You are a false "acusser of our brothers".

The Dragon Thrown Out of Heaven

Then war broke out in heaven: Michael and his angels fought against the dragon. The dragon and his angels also fought, but he could not prevail, and there was no place for them in heaven any longer. So the great dragon was thrown out—the ancient serpent, who is called the Devil and Satan, the one who deceives the whole world. He was thrown to earth, and his angels with him.

Then I heard a loud voice in heaven say:

The salvation and the power and the kingdom of our God

and the authority of His Messiah have now come,

because the accuser of our brothers has been thrown out:

the one who accuses them before our God day and night.

They conquered him by the blood of the Lamb

and by the word of their testimony,

for they did not love their lives in the face of death.

Therefore rejoice, O heavens, and you who dwell in them!

Woe to the earth and the sea,

for the Devil has come down to you with great fury,

because he knows he has a short time. (Revelation 12:7 - 12 Holman Christian Standard Bible)

Exodus 20 : 16 reads, "Do not give false testimony against your neighbor."

If you want to stay out of HADES ( whatever is there it is not good)

" 'Father,' he said, 'then I beg you to send him to my father's house— because I have five brothers—to warn them, so they won't also come to this place of torment.'

"But Abraham said, 'They have Moses and the prophets; they should listen to them.'

" 'No, father Abraham,' he said. 'But if someone from the dead goes to them, they will repent.'

"But he told him, 'If they don't listen to Moses and the prophets, they will not be persuaded if someone rises from the dead. ' "

(Luke 16 : 19 - 31 excerpt)

Jesus said he had all authority THEREFORE ...

The Great Commission

The 11 disciples traveled to Galilee, to the mountain where Jesus had directed them. When they saw Him, they worshiped, but some doubted. Then Jesus came near and said to them, "All authority has been given to Me in heaven and on earth. Go, therefore, and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe everything I have commanded you. And remember, I am with you always, to the end of the age." (Matthew 28:16 - 20 Holman Christian Standard Bible)

That is in water, like Philip did for the Ethiopian. The WT did not use the words " in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit" at my 1978 baptism, it was in their name. I was stolen.

Shame on you. I go to a Baptist Church and others at times and have found ALL of that type of reasoning to be a huge lie. The Bible is not to be used to paint others with slander.

But I do still pray for people like you,

Paul