Posts by iwasblind

the poster accused paul of this mysoginy, but that is not correct.. 1 timothy, 2 timothy, titus, colossians, ephesians and hebrews were written after paul's death.. paul was not a mysoginist; he made full use of women in leadership roles.

he wrote that in god's sight there is neither male nor female, for all are one in god's sight.. doug.

iwasblind

Doug

Who wrote those book then? I have not researched it but would love any source material.

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COs are like parrots, can’t handle questions of dynamic nature!

by anointed1 in

when i was a zealous publisher, once i took co for a return visit to learn how he handles difficult questions.

house holder brought the subject of joshua secretly sending two spies to spy out the city of jericho before its planned conquest, and asked: “wasn’t joshua acting in a human way here?

why would joshua need to send spies if he was the commander-in-chief appointed by god the almighty?”.

iwasblind

In the SKE school and its predecessor, they basically parrot descriptions and memorize stuff like parrots. I know this as I have had quite a bit to do with it in the last 2 years.

I had the same response when asking biblical questions of various students.

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Wife is Awake

by freemindfade in

following the news of stuckinarut2, over the past few months my wife has completely mentally woken up.

i've been meaning to post but haven't had the time.

i saw stuckins post and i figured i'd add my news too.

iwasblind

ohh wow that is brilliant news! Congratulations!

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For those that read the bible, does the true message of scripture still come through in NWT?

by NikL in

jw
friends

my active and in jw wife is up for reading bible together.

thing is she wants to use nwt.. i have problems with that translation as you my imagine.. just wondering if you thought the true message of the bible will shine through the deliberate tampering of the nwt?.

i know many people here don't like or want to read the bible and think it's rubbish anyway, so if that's you, you can save your comments :-).

iwasblind

I would say it is ok except anything relating to the divinity of Jesus, they have modified so much.

I would also say make sure you make them read every scripture in context not just the cherry picking.

I love biblehub.com for any translational issues. I use the NIV at the moment.

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NWT cross references

by Steel in

lately i have been really interested in the idea of who jesus was in the in old testament.

i have reading an author named michael heiser who generally believes anytime there was a physical manifestion of god in the old testament it was a pre incarnation of jesus christ.. i was reading the first chapter of jeremiah there is a figure called " the word of jehovah appears ".

this actually happens in a number of places in the old testament.

iwasblind

Some preachers think that Melchizedek was Jesus in physical form in the OT. I kind of like the idea but there is not enough hard data if you know what I mean.

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Hello

by midnight in

jw
friends

hi i am posting for the first time although i've been looking for a few years , i was born into a witness family left when i was 12 with my parents went back at 22 pioneered became ms started to have major doubts around 2002 when there was a lot of talk about blood fractions etc have been hit and miss since i'm extremely mentally confused as to wether or not this really is jehovah's earthly organisation , i find life hard facing up to mortality etc not having the new system hope , what nailed your decision to leave ?

how did you cope with world problems on news etc ?

how did you fill the void ?

iwasblind

Hi Midnight

We had a similar dilemma being born in's and waking up in our forties. The old "where are we to go", "what is out there".

We still believe in God but we have found:

Nearly everyone we meet christian or not are really really good people
The longer we are away from them the closer we get to God
God does not have an organisation - infact Jesus wanted people to worship
him in different ways by Spirit.
They have mistranslated the Bible and skewed the most basic of teachings
You don't need a building to go to with a group of people that you don't like to worship God.

I would suggest take your time, study what the athiests say as much as the scripture itself.

Try connect with God and see what happens also. I can't deny my connection to him as my Father.
I have too many things that have happened over the past few years - but that is my journey I am
sure you will have your own as many here do.

If you want any help on the scriptural side I would be more than happy to help and share just PM me.

And by the way - congratulations - this journey is by no means easy but when you find true freedom
there is nothing like it.