B of C, my Uberdub older sister said exactly that "Nobody who reads the Bible on their own comes to the same conclusions as the F.Slave "
I said "Doesn't that tell you something?" but of course it didn't, she starts from the premise that she has the truth (as supplied currently by the WT, it may change next week of course), so everybody else is wrong.
B of C, my Uberdub older sister said exactly that "Nobody who reads the Bible on their own comes to the same conclusions as the F.Slave "
I said "Doesn't that tell you something?" but of course it didn't, she starts from the premise that she has the truth (as supplied currently by the WT, it may change next week of course), so everybody else is wrong.
What "Law" on blood is that ? As for me and my reading of the Bible. I can see nothing that would prevent a Christian from accepting a blood transfusion.
You have begun to see the problem with the WT's faulty and murderous doctrine. The acceptable use of blood in the Bible, consistently is to save life, especially the blood of Jesus, which you do not have to bother to tranfuse ,but you should certainly drink, if you wish to have life.
i've taken a look at what the watch tower society has implied regarding its building plans in upstate new york and compared that with the governing body's beliefs regarding when the end will be.. when does the governing body believe the end will be?.
.
The Old Farts Club that is the GB probably feel like I did when I was in, well the Big A may come in my lifetime, but so what, it won't affect me that much.
That is if they believe in it at all.
I think to a degree the GB are figure heads, behind them pulling the strings are the real holders of power in the Borg and they certainly do not believe in Armageddon at all, they just believe in keeping the whole scam going, which means keeping 7 million people on a treadmill of activity whilst they are bled dry of their funds.
I thought you were going to invite all members of JWN to a post-armageddon party.
After all, we all know that the WT will declare that the big A happened invisibly in 2014, hence the party. Oct 5/6th I believe.
this website is odd.
it seems to be the witnesses, but maybe not?
honestly i don't know what to make of it.
So, another cult ,springing from a cult, the SDA.
it's nice to have you here !
i found that this board was very supportive when i first got on it over 4 years ago .
i still find it supportive !
Thank you Flip, for your kind words to me and to everybody, you are of immense value to all who find this site, you prove that life after the WT, whatever that malevolent organization throws at you, is not only possible , but is very very good.
Keep up your good work on here.
noah is not said to have carried plants in his ark.
supposedly the flood was severe enough to cover "even the tallest mountains", which would mean that mount everest was covered.
and this for forty days.
Taking the Bible stories literally to any extent is a relatively new phenomenon (late 19th century). The Jews of Jesus' day, and presumably Jesus himself,did not use that kind of exegesis.
So, presumably, when Jesus spoke of Noah and the Flood, he was not thinking of a literal global flood, so it behooves later readers of his words to not try and fit a silly theory into what he said, it makes Jesus look silly.
The oldest living thing on the Planet is a plant that lives in a part of Tasmania, called Kings Holly, if I recall, it is 43,000 years old, and salt water covering it for even a few weeks would kill it.
The WT has now, and never has had, any idea of how to read and understand the Bible, we who have left need not stay in the same gloom.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/nov/08/catholic-church-responsible-priests-court.
high court ruling will make it easier for victims of clerical sex abuse to bring compensation claims against the church.
a high court judge has ruled for the first time that the relationship between a catholic priest and his bishop is akin to an employment relationship.. victims of clerical sexual abuse will find it easier to bring compensation claims against the catholic church after a judge ruled it can be held responsible for the wrongdoings of its priests.. in a test case, heard on tuesday at the high court, mr justice macduff gave a decision in favour of a woman, known as jge, who claims she was sexually assaulted by a portsmouth priest at a children's home in hampshire.. the judge said although there was no formal contract between the church and the priest, the late father baldwin, there were "crucial features" that should be recognised.. "he was provided with the premises, the pulpit and the clerical robes.
The WT does all it can to distance itself from individual congregations and individual Elders if they smell litigation coming. The problem for them ,if this is upheld on Appeal against the RCC, is that they are SO very similar to the RCC.
They appoint Elders,MS, Pioneers etc. they train them, and then send them out into the community with authority vested in them by the WT, which will even provide an I.D card stating this for them if they ask their COBOE.
It could be argued that the WT's responsibility extends to all baptised JW's as they have claimed that all are "Ordained Ministers".
I can think of a number of ways that they can try to wriggle out of this, I will not write them here in case I am giving the WT Legal Dept ideas, but wriggle they will try, if called to account.
this website is odd.
it seems to be the witnesses, but maybe not?
honestly i don't know what to make of it.
It is as though it has dropped in from around 1952, it is weird. The Pleiedes are not that far away are they ? did this bounce off asteroid YU55 ?
