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  African JWs Can Keep "Messianic" Attire Because It's There Culture!

  by minimus in

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  my mom went to the sunday meeting and a missionary that was formerly in the congregation was showing (boring) slides about the "work" in africa.

  when he showed some pictures of some witnesses, they were dressed in what he called "messianic attire".

  he told the audience that it was no big deal that they were being allowed to continue this style of dress by the society since it was merely seen as "cultural".

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  Why are the world's anointed not called to Brooklyn to be Governing Body?

  by free2beme in

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  when i was in the witnesses, and near the end of my time in.

  there was the whole new understanding, of putting non-anointed people in positions in the organization that were normally something an anointed person would be in.

  i remember them mentioning that the amount of anointed was dwindling and there needed to be people in these positions of responsibility, to make sure the work continues.. after this was highlighted and all good witnesses swallowed this thinking hook line and sinker.

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  "That I may make a reply to him that is taunting me"

  by under_believer in

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  so for our "congregation book study", we are still deeply mired in the bible teach book.

  this week's lesson talks about the whole idea that the book of job relates the central issue of the entire cosmos, a vital issue raised by satan, where satan questions whether humans follow god because of what they are given, or because he deserves it.

  i'm surprised that the book of job, obviously archetypal and figurative (for example, i doubt people back then literally spoke for hours in hebrew verse, and i doubt that four messengers showed up all in a row with stories telling that they, only they, got away to tell of a disaster) even has a place in the canon; aside from its lack of any specific historical position or accuracy, the argument it advances (especially as the society interprets it) is facile: the idea that privileged, wealthy, powerful job somehow stands as a representative for all humanity and serves as a litmus test for man's interaction with god is downright silly.

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  Do you believe that you are the only ones that will be saved?

  by truthseeker in

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  http://www.jw-media.org/beliefs/beliefsfaq.htmdo you believe that you are the only ones who will be saved?no.

  many millions who have lived in centuries past and who were not jehovah's witnesses will come back in a resurrection and have an opportunity for life.

  many now living may yet take a stand for truth and righteousness before god's time of judgment, and they will gain salvation.

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