so my parents cannot answer my question and are pretty much pushing me to go to the elders for an answer so i'd like to know what the best questions to ask an elder are.my first question is going to be the mediator one..and if he tells me it's the 144,000 or the anointed, i'll ask him to show me where it says that in the bible.what are some other tough questions for an elder to answer?assuming we can get past the mediator one of course.i'm going to hold off on asking about new light or 607... also, has anyone ever asked about how satan can cause wwi in july if he wasn't expelled from heaven until christ became king in october?i haven't gotten much of an answer to that either..
"When will the Watchtower make restitution to Candice Conti and other people who were sexually harmed by association with the organization, so it will no longer be participating in the practices of False Religion?"
"Even churches that condemn immorality have tolerated religious leaders who have sexually abused children"
when you are a jw, you are given a view of spiritism that is like a jack chick tract but without the unintended humor.. when i began to read channeled "information", i was surprized by how positive, optimistic and often loving it seemed to be.
naive?
yes.... often silly?
The whole doctrine of an earthly hope is a result of spiritism.
Joe Rutherford channeled that doctrine from invisible spirit beings, as it never existed before 1935.
my elderly(72) grandmother told my auntie that she has to get an ipad and a ipod.
my granny can barely check her email, im not sure what she thinks shes going to be doing with these apple products.
she said she needs them for the field service.... my faded aunt says if it will make her pretty and popular in the hall, cost is no matter.
Nonsense.
My auntie enjoyed her iPad for email, web surfing and games at age 85.
Age isn't an issue here. Unwillingness to do new things is.
hello jwn, my last thread revealed the identity of the beast out of the earth referenced in revelation chapter 13 veses 11-18. this post will deal with the beast out of the sea who is being ridden by a prostitute called babylon the great.. first, we must identify the beast the prositute is riding.
this can be found in revelation chapter 17:.
one of the seven angels who had the seven bowls came and said to me, come, i will show you the punishment of the great prostitute, who sits by many waters.2 with her the kings of the earth committed adultery, and the inhabitants of the earth were intoxicated with the wine of her adulteries.. 3 then the angel carried me away in the spirit into a wilderness.
Babylon the Great is a far grander entity than Babylon the Merely Adequate or Babylon the Needs Work Done.
considering the recent major doctrinal changes in relation to the generation and to the faithful and discreet slave which other doctrines do you think they will have to change?.
generation changea time and too many of the anointed dying.
f&dsa anointed growing in number so necessary to blow that out of the water by completely centralising power in the gb.
This doctrine is rather dubious. Watchtower Jesus.
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The amount of time spent by elders or other Watchtower operatives preparing so called spiritual food is irrelevent to this scripture.
The relevent point is those who compared the teaching to existing scripture were considered more noble minded than those who gulped down any teaching handed to them without question.
Does the Watchtower encourage people to examine their teachings like the Bereans did, by comparing to scripture?
This is another example of the Watchtower Bait and Switch in operation.
Very well. When you wake up, wipe the vomit from the keyboard and don't bother sharing the details with anyone.
It is a form of Dubnesia.
is the simple fact the wts forgot to buy domains like jwn etc proof that they are not guided by god ?
how could god be so blind and forget to buy jwn, and let apostates spread their lies ?.
To be fair, Satan is never presented as a liar, but rather questions everything, which is hardly a bad quality.
Satan often got bad PR in the Bible.
well, the prophesy is in the bible.
the twist is from brooklyn.
what will happen after the destruction of the world empire of false religion?
That prophecy is over the top absurd.
Let's go along for a moment that somehow we are in the Nonsensical Pretend Universe and the UN somehow gets troops together and starts attacking false religion. How would the Watchtower survive that? Would the UN commanders send out troops to destroy churches and tell them to not harm the kingdom halls because they are not false religion? How would they even know that? This whole narrative fails the nonsense test.
