Young adults are very idealistic. I was baptized at 21. I did not know the bible before JWs and witnessed hypocrisy in my childhood church. I think I was seduced by the fantasy and living forever on a paradise earth. The love bombing was seductive also. Thankfully, I had great parents. I worked many holidays and have since discovered my daughter celebrated holidays with my parents. My parents also persuaded me to allow my daughter to swim, run track, and take music lessons. She also attended camp each summer. I apologized for making her miss out on holiday celebrations, but she said she's glad I wasn't too strict because that's why there so much immorality among the JW young people. She received presents from the family and I took her shopping each November. Her regret is not knowing the Christmas songs.
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17Raising children as JW's
by lancelink intonight my wife and i attended a christmas play held at a local church.
it was really cute, 4-8 year olds recreating the whole christ story, when suddenly this totally empty feeling hit me like a punch to the face.
i realized how much we missed out with our own two kids by raising them as jws.
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Did you ever have bad conscience for knowing the christmas songs better
by Newborn inthan the kingdom melodies?.
i did.
but not anymore.
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I could never sing those songs without the songbook. On the other hand, I remembered the lyrics of every Christmas and gospel song I'd sang growing up.
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Keep your options open.
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Jesus Is Jehovah/Jehovah Is Jesus
by snowbird inhttp://www.str.org/site/news2?page=newsarticle&id=5725.
i fought against this with all my wts-trained power, but truth prevailed.. any way you cut it, it comes out the same.. peace and strength in your search.. sylvia.
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In what manner was Jesus "symbolic" or "figurative" to Paul? You have been asked this question at least twice earlier.
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PolyHeme~Can JW's accept it?
by purplesofa inhttp://wiki.noblood.org/polyheme.
what is polyheme and how is it made?it has been scientifically found that raw hemoglobin can be toxic outside of the red blood cell and that in order to make a safe, effective substitute the hemoglobin molecule must be made larger than its natural state.
polyheme, according to the northfield labs website, is a solution of chemically modified hemoglobin derived from human blood.
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This is a potentially dangerous product.
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Jesus Is Jehovah/Jehovah Is Jesus
by snowbird inhttp://www.str.org/site/news2?page=newsarticle&id=5725.
i fought against this with all my wts-trained power, but truth prevailed.. any way you cut it, it comes out the same.. peace and strength in your search.. sylvia.
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Leolaia, thank you for your posts. I have learned a lot from reading your posts during the short time I've been a member.
Snowbird, thank you for this thread. This is a concept I've struggled with since leaving the organization.
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Jesus Is Jehovah/Jehovah Is Jesus
by snowbird inhttp://www.str.org/site/news2?page=newsarticle&id=5725.
i fought against this with all my wts-trained power, but truth prevailed.. any way you cut it, it comes out the same.. peace and strength in your search.. sylvia.
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Congratulaions, snowbird. My GPA is 3.4. What is her major?
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Jesus Is Jehovah/Jehovah Is Jesus
by snowbird inhttp://www.str.org/site/news2?page=newsarticle&id=5725.
i fought against this with all my wts-trained power, but truth prevailed.. any way you cut it, it comes out the same.. peace and strength in your search.. sylvia.
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How is Jesus Christ a symbol? I do not wish to be argumentative, but this makes no sense to me. As a Christian, I allow the bible to teach who the Father is and who Jesus is. If you don't believe in the historical Jesus, who do think he is? I
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Jesus Is Jehovah/Jehovah Is Jesus
by snowbird inhttp://www.str.org/site/news2?page=newsarticle&id=5725.
i fought against this with all my wts-trained power, but truth prevailed.. any way you cut it, it comes out the same.. peace and strength in your search.. sylvia.
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Of course, my question is sincere. I asked the question because I sincerely wish to know who Jesus is. I know he is the Son. I know he was much more than a perfect man as taught by the WTS. He was worshipped and as stated in Phil 2:5-8
"5 and think the same way that Christ Jesus thought: 6 Christ was truly God.
But he did not try to remain equal with God. 7 Instead he gave up everything and became a slave,
when he became like one of us. 8 Christ was humble. He obeyed God and even died on a cross." CEV
1 Tim 3:16 states
" 16 And without controversy great is the mystery of godliness: God was manifest in the flesh, justified in the Spirit, seen of angels, preached unto the Gentiles, believed on in the world, received up into glory." KJV
Verses such as these and the ones Leolalia entioned in her posts makes one wonder. Jesus was MUCH more than a perfect man.
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Jesus Is Jehovah/Jehovah Is Jesus
by snowbird inhttp://www.str.org/site/news2?page=newsarticle&id=5725.
i fought against this with all my wts-trained power, but truth prevailed.. any way you cut it, it comes out the same.. peace and strength in your search.. sylvia.
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possible-san,
Please explain the following scriptures
19 Jesus answered and said unto them, Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up.
20 Then said the Jews, Forty and six years was this temple in building, and wilt thou rear it up in three days?
21 But he spake of the temple of his body.
22 When therefore he was risen from the dead, his disciples remembered that he had said this unto them; and they believed the scripture, and the word which Jesus had said.
Why, also, does the bible say Jesus was worshipped?