i'm a month away from my 1 year anniversary with jw.com!
this time last year i was working at a job i hated, arguing with my wife all the time about the wt, and just not sure what i could do about it.
i recieved some good advice from randy waters of freeminds.org (he probably doesn't even remember it) right about this time last year.
AWESOME!!!!
That's great, great news. Thanks for posting. Please keep everyone informed --- I'm sure there will be lots more good news coming from you and your wife. May God continue to bless you both.
Edited by - ElwinRansom on 13 January 2003 14:36:11
this reporter curiously had access to a number of jws.
jw himself???.
jehovah's witnesses reject many holidays and the notion that they are a dour group.
FreeFallin:
Exactly. What IS wrong with the Christmas tradition? and sentimental feelings? As someone said earlier, it seems that the GB just wants to enforce an artificial difference, an "us/them" mentality.
So Christmas isn't mentioned in the Bible: yeah, well, neither is Brooklyn, but they seem to own a little bit of land there. Are they being idolatrous?! I think Christmas is very valuable because it briefly, sort of, directs people to think about Jesus.
Not grounded in Christianity?? The only holiday more central to Christianity than Christ's birth is Easter: Christ's atoning death and resurrection. But then they don't acknowledge the atonement of his death (the entire NT notwithstanding, e.g., Acts 4:12) or a literal resurrection (in spite of his deliberate actions to prove that he had been bodily resurrected: "Touch me! Look at this wound! .. Let's have some of that fish you just caught. Let's go for a walk to all the way to Emmaus.").
I had a visit from a JW during Christmas of 2000. A very sincere and personable individual, I must say, but still bent on the "Christmas is pagan" thing. I pointed out that every single day of the week is named after a pagan object of worship (Saturn, Sun and Moon; Tiu, Woden, Thor and Freya (Norse gods)). But the GB has never forbidden JWs to use the names of these days, or supplied alternatives. I said this not to shame or antagonize him but to suggest that (a) the GB have absolutely no business exerting the control that they do, and (b) it isn't pagan if you don't INTEND it that way. I personally am not doing pagan worship when I decorate a tree with my wife and we give our kids presents.
Right on Free. Be free, indeed! -- John 8:36.
Dins:
It broke my heart to imagine you alone and crying on Christmas Eve as a child. Since my little guys were born, the idea of a child's lonely suffering has become extremely painful to me. Not that they suffer in particular, just that being a parent will do that to you. You are totally right on when you learn from these experiences and deliberately give your children the opposite.
I can imagine the Lord saying to all hurting ex-JWs: Come to me and I will give you rest ... I will repay you for the years the locusts have eaten (Matthew 11:28; Joel 2:25). Aaaa-men.
i just happened on this place a few days ago, and thought i would stop in to see what it was all about.
it claims to be a jehovah's witness forum, which it is not.. dont want to come here and point fingers, as i am sure there are some good people in here, just seems the bad have followed the good.
i guess in reality thats always the case, but hey, what else would these people do if they couldn't wage their little war on the truth.
Hello everyone ... Let me just pose a basic question.
Does the New Testament actually say that there will be a Governing Body at all?
I believe WTBS cites some passages from Acts describing how Paul and Barnabas went from Antioch to Jerusalem to ask the advice of some other Christians on a theological issue (law vs. grace), and claim that this shows the existence of a GB from the very outset.
But this isn't terribly convincing to me. If there really was a GB in Jerusalem, wouldn't Paul have been going around to all those churches he planted, saying "Look, there's this bunch of guys in Jerusalem, you have to obey them?" In fact, he was going around saying, "Look, God's one and only Son has died for your sins, and you need to receive Him, become a new creation in Him." Nothing about others, except love them and help them when they need it.
The core of the WTBS claim should be pervasive in the Bible. But it doesn't seem like it is; a different message seems to be pervasive instead. I recall reading something written by a fellow by the name of Leonard Chretien: "Jehovah loves you with a love the Watchtower has not told you about."
Thoughts?
