Posts by BR25

i have already talked about origins and all that stuff so i wanted to ask something without bringing up scriptual or historical backgrounds for a change.. my question is (whatever your beliefs may be) what % of people who celebrate christmas, if you took the presents out of christmas would still acknowledge christmas as much as they do now?

note: as much.

BR25

Why doesnt god sweat it because man says its ok? All I am saying is people try to make it so great and full of praise, but noone has changed the day of the celebrations. You are probably right though jesus would probably enjoy being celebrated on these days. Take the gifts out of christmas, and taking the devil and skeleton dressing out of halloween, not only between the children but also my 60 yr. old neighbors, there would be no big deal anyways. I guess it is ok to do these things just because the children like it, but alot of people say they would celebrate christmas if you took out the gifts, so then they would be celebrating it without the regards to its beginning.

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Memorial 'Holiday"?

by onlycurious in

if the dub's don't believe in celebrating holidays, what makes the memorial different?.

BR25

Some of your comebacks are so stupid. Ok since jws do everything so wrong about everything. I will make a suggestion to the congregation. Will have all the elders dress up as easter bunnies and instead of passing the bread and the wine we will pass easter eggs, since that is what jesus really wants. Then we will all stand up and say PRAISE THE LORD, PRAISE THE LORD!!!! and then we will all faint like a shockwave just went through us. That sounds so much more appropiate. yeh good points guys.

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Convince me

by Liza in

i am highly considering becoming a jehovah's witness.

i have been raised in the congregration, but left it when i was a child because my mom left too, but we still retatined the core belifs including the ressurection and the blasphemous pagan influence on mainstream churches.

my mom has recently returned to the congregation, and it has helped her a lot.

BR25

Well you all do celebrate holidays that started from false beliefs and were centered around false gods, but thats ok because your saved right??? But then jws are condemmed. lol

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Holidays

by BR25 in

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i am a former jw, but i still believe what they do about the holidays?

i have already talked about origins and all that stuff so i wanted to ask something without bringing up scriptual or historical backgrounds for a change.. my question is (whatever your beliefs may be) what % of people who celebrate christmas, if you took the presents out of christmas would still acknowledge christmas as much as they do now?

note: as much.

BR25

I beleive no matter what religion you are from including jws it is disrespectful to celebrate things that dont have a great beginning. But men have their opinions and if thats what they think thats what it is. I am sorta of a hypocrit on this subject though. I have celebrated it the last few years, and yeah it is a blast, but in the back of my mind I know it is disrespectful no matter what religion you are from. I know there is many arguments against jws on here, but no matter the arguments, and how fun something is you gotta know its meaning.

Its just alot of subjects on here dont make any sense. Like people responded to this topic and said that they dont care about how these things started they will celebrate it anyway. doesnt make much sense, and also these same people are looking up how some of jws beliefs started, and then everyone supports it. Whats the difference.

Also, I know the kids enjoy holidays, but how can you not take the beginnging of christmas and especially halloween into consideration. Do us humans not get tested, or from what people tell me you pray to be saved and everything is automatically ok.

Why didnt a wise christian along the way change the day of celebration if it is something that it is to praise jesus. Why because people accept it as it is, and you cant prove a man wrong. To me no matter what religion you support it seems like most of the celebrations are a slap in the face and not praising. Sure men think nothing wrong of it because it brings families together, and everyone has a good time, but what do you think god thinks of it when it is celebrated from bad rituals and false gods. Why not another day????

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Convince me

by Liza in

i am highly considering becoming a jehovah's witness.

i have been raised in the congregration, but left it when i was a child because my mom left too, but we still retatined the core belifs including the ressurection and the blasphemous pagan influence on mainstream churches.

my mom has recently returned to the congregation, and it has helped her a lot.

BR25

arthur, i like how you put your last paragraph. I beleive what the jws do. You said only jesus knows who the other sheep are, but so many christians I talk to say they already know their fate because they felt jesus come through them, so good point.

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Memorial 'Holiday"?

by onlycurious in

if the dub's don't believe in celebrating holidays, what makes the memorial different?.

BR25

The memorial, the passing of the bread and wine is mentioned in the bible that is why it is acknowledged. It is not something that started with pagean customs, symbols or whatever, but it has scriptual backing that is what makes it different.

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Holidays

by BR25 in

jw
friends

i am a former jw, but i still believe what they do about the holidays?

i have already talked about origins and all that stuff so i wanted to ask something without bringing up scriptual or historical backgrounds for a change.. my question is (whatever your beliefs may be) what % of people who celebrate christmas, if you took the presents out of christmas would still acknowledge christmas as much as they do now?

note: as much.

BR25

I am a former JW, but I still believe what they do about the holidays? I have already talked about origins and all that stuff so I wanted to ask something without bringing up scriptual or historical backgrounds for a change.

My question is (whatever your beliefs may be) what % of people who celebrate christmas, if you took the presents out of christmas would still acknowledge christmas as much as they do now? NOTE: as much. Be honest. I will go with 10-15 percent.

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Convince me

by Liza in

i am highly considering becoming a jehovah's witness.

i have been raised in the congregration, but left it when i was a child because my mom left too, but we still retatined the core belifs including the ressurection and the blasphemous pagan influence on mainstream churches.

my mom has recently returned to the congregation, and it has helped her a lot.

BR25

First of all I am new on here and I was just brousing through alot of the comments that is why I said that alot of the stuff about holidays, birthdays, and so forth. I dont celebrate holidays mainly because of how they origined and who they originated from. Everybody digs up info on jw's and everyone supports, but as soon as someone sticks up for the jws on something that it is a good argument it gets shot down. I guess I can understand why people celebrate the holidays in general, because they think it is because of something good, and alot of people mean good by it, but if you dont celebrate and you have good reasons why (origins, customs, and so forth) it should be ok. Bye the way we do have a memorial for jesus we just dont celebrate easter. No biggy!!

Alot of people on here do got good opinions, but so do some of the jw backers on here, but every time a jw says something and backs it up all anyone wants to do is poke fun.

I can pick apart other religions and their beliefs just as easy as other people do with jws. I guess athiests is the way to go.(sarcasm).