jehovah witnesses once taught, promoted, and identified charlest.
russell as being the faithful slave of matthew 24:45-47. .
the watch tower (10/16/1916) .
i cant help me, but for it seems like the evil slave include some society who add to the scriptures, give false prophecies, want complete obediance, forbid the examination of the bible and create human laws and twisted doctrines to beat and even kill (blood) their "fellow slaves".
just a guess.
jws are told that jehovah is love and that his love his higher than any other love.
it is actually more intense that the love of parents to their child.. so the question is:.
what type of parents would actually murder their son if he were gay and kill their daughter if she smokes?.
How is this possible?
JWs are told that Jehovah IS love and that his love his higher than any other love. It is actually more intense that the love of parents to their child.
So the question is:
What type of parents would actually MURDER their son if he were gay and KILL their daughter if she smokes?
(plus a thousand more examples like "blood transfusion", "doubting the JW doctrine", "wear too sexy clothings", "having a weak faith in things that cant be proved nor seen", etc)
i was wondering about this one even when i was a child.
freeme
when i was a little girl, i was very afraid of thunderstorms - every time we had one i thought it was armageadon (did i spell that right?)..
so what were you afraid of?
what made you think the "big a" was here?
So what were you afraid of? What made you think the "BIG A" was here? Or were you anxiously awaiting it?
i STILL think of armageddon when a thunderstorm begins. i still fear demons somehow.
its a non-rational fear, but i cant switch it off completely. even though i can live with that and its not very intense i sometimes get angry that my parents planted that seed into me which wont go away completely for the rest of my life :-(
i was always a cat lover, but after adopting my 2 big dobies, i am in awe.. there is a west wind coming in tonight after a miserably hot day.. my 2 boyz in the dark have their noses to that wind.
they announced my son coming home before he arrived.
he came out and greeted them and returned back inside the house.
when i was a kid i was totally scared of dogs. when i was like 4 i was attacked by a dog and that was the reason.
with ~16/17 my fear began to decrease and now im owning dogs myself :-) i love them. never want to live without dogs again.
BUT... i understand ppl who fear dogs too and i watch my dogs not jump at other ppl or stuff (they love everyone i speak to). even though they dont even bark and are the most pazifistic beings on this planet...
the box says that interpretations belong to god, uses genesis 40:8 and romans 15:4. must be so, the fds published it.
then why are they printing all these trees of paper providing interpretation?
i'm just sayin ... .
its so twisted... isnt it? it makes me crazy. i cant understand why jws cant see this :"(
does the bible teach that adam was a perfect human?
do any mainstream christian churches hold this teaching of human physical perfection?.
(i know that adam and eve is a myth, but bear with me for the purposes of discussion!
jw mind talks:
I agree with Terry that if Adam was perfect, he would not have sinned.
adam was perfect to do anything he wanted. he had a free choice. he wasnt able to sin by "accident".
That would mean that God created imperfection, even in his animal kingdom, where did viruses / disease come from?
bacteria and viruses are a important part of nature. we couldnt live without them. because of the sin creation became imperfect and thats where illness started. before sin this system was perfectly balanced so noone would become ill.
Either they are the product of evolution, or God made them, or you could believe that evolution's catalyst came from a creator.
god made them. and through sin this became flawed.
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of course that raises for my non-jw-mind some questions:
- Is it righteous to create humans and give them the ability to have a free choice and PUNISH them if they use it?
- When nature was perfect before and even viruses existed "what" made "sin" to imbalance it? isnt it a act of DESIGN to change viruses/bacteria/the whole system and animals to an imperfect state?
and finally:
- WHY the hell created god bloodsucking animals, when blood is SO sacred? (my mum told me when i was a child maybe satan created them LOL!!!!!!!!!!!)
my 17 year old daughter told me 2 men were at the door saturday looking for adults that lived in the house.my wife and i were out of town for 2 days.they had suits on and carrying book bags.
they asked if she was over 18. she replied that she wasn't.
they left without indentifiying themselves.
When I started out, we would present ourselves as Jehovah's Witnesses, but then after a few years I remember it changed, mostly because people would slam the door right away if you said that.
So then we started the whole "We're in the neighborhood talking to people about the current state of the world. What is your opinion on how the world is today when you look at the news?" etc. Even when asked who we were, we would be evasive sometimes and try another round of "We're trying to encourage people to read the Bible" etc.
i always used and still use the magical word "jehovahs witnesses" and "the bible" for avoiding a senseless discussion :-) ya, i still go to service occasionally to calm down the elders.
Today, I understand the "doors" perfectly. If some strangers come to my door, the first thing I want to know is why they are here and what they're selling. Oh, and btw - I remember kinda laughing at people who we could see were home because the peep-hole in the door would go dark then light. Well - today I am that person on the other side of the door. I hate opening the door if I don't recognize the people standing there, and most often I don't answer...
yeah, i always laughed about that too. you sense how they try to make no noise lol :-) i always understood the "doors" :-) when i was no dub and someone came to my door talking about dub-stuff i wouldve thought "ignorant religious idiots".
does the bible teach that adam was a perfect human?
do any mainstream christian churches hold this teaching of human physical perfection?.
(i know that adam and eve is a myth, but bear with me for the purposes of discussion!
i believe there isnt that particular sentence "adam was perfect".
but he was made in gods image, god saw it was "good" and he actually lost something when thrown out of paradise.
in jw doctrine a "perfect human" isnt infallible, but without "construction errors" which lead to illness, death and stuff.
i always wondered how the PERFECT WOMAN looked like
if armageddon would have happened while you were an active jw, do you think you would have been saved?.
i'm sure i would have been saved the first 4 years i was in and i was active.. .
What a screwed up childhood
yeah, same here!
a whole youth spent in guilt, in tears and fears.
so every time we had a bad storm I thought "this is it" I'm gonna die, The big A is here!
exactly. i know of a girl in my cong. who woke up one night when a heavy storm was outside (one of the biggest i have ever experienced) crawled into her parents bed and said "this is armageddon, is it?" everyone in the cong. said it was SOOOO cute. ha, it was damn sad. shes adult and married now.
to be honest. when the weather is really bad or something else (a loud bang or something) is outside my brain STILL thinks of armageddon. i now that it isnt armageddon, but i think about it when something like this happens. i believe i NEVER get rid of that :-/ makes me angry.
if armageddon would have happened while you were an active jw, do you think you would have been saved?.
i'm sure i would have been saved the first 4 years i was in and i was active.. .
for me it always was 50:50.
i always wondered who will get the price.
liberal jws or conservative jw?! the ones that do watch movies or those who dont and spent their whole day studying and in service. i thought about Matth. 7:13,14 all the time and concluded maybe only a small part of the witnesses aka the hardcore ones will get it.
i was never good enough in my opinion.
