donuthole- If you read the public version of the WT and awake they recently had an article on how the anointed are chosen by God . When you get baptized at some point after God give you holy spirit which would make it obvious beyond a doubt that you are in the flock but only to you today , back in the first century they had gifts from the spirit such as speaking in toungues , prophesy , healing and such but today they don't claim any such power , even tho the scripture does state ," in the final part of the days men servants would prophesy and have visions and female slaves would prophesy and old men would dream dreams," (I'm guessing it's to do with dream interpretation). Now I do know an "anointed" that claims to experience nothing out of the ordinary .
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The Faithful Steward and it's Governing Body
by Mickey mouse inthis will be studied in two weeks time but it's such a special .
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The Faithful Steward and it's Governing Body
by Mickey mouse inthis will be studied in two weeks time but it's such a special .
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Just looks like another of those articles where they want to claim infalibility yet won't come out and say it . Since God apointed them we have to accept their inconsistancy as the perfect will of God . Of course they won't say that all "anointed" are equal since women are yet a sub group of the anointed and not allowed to lead the organization nor preach or hold any authority in the congregation . I don't like the part where they make it sound as if the "anointed" were always good christians , the apostle Paul was clear that they were just as immoral as everybody else prior to their conversion and many did leave to start their own sects . Some returned after commiting gross sinful acts .
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jesse jackson,cnn now, i am going to hurl
by orbison11 injesse is saying katherine knows she will see mj again, due to her faith.
(where is my hurl icon).
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allow me, this is as close as it gets. It even made me sick whenever cnn showed the cloud cover in NY city and people thought they could see MJ in the clouds , give me a break please.
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that makes about no sense . Just because his name has six letters in first middle and last doesn't make him the beast . ridiculous .
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M. JACKSON FUNERAL WILL BE AN EXCELLENT WITNESS!!!!
by whereami inwas at the hall and all the dubs were talking about was that michael jacksons funeral will serve as a "huge witness to the world".. do you really think the boys in brooklyn will use this as a perfect opportunity do make a "good witness"?.
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I would doubt it since he was not actually a devout witness, didn't he convert to islam during his second trial?
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beards are from satan!
by Adrianoblue init is illegal to wear a beard.
(matthew 24:45-47).
but it is legal to wear a mustache.
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Some good points being made about beards. God and christ are both seen as having beards in heaven even , the WTBTS depicts all angels as having beards where as I don't recall seeing any pics of the devil with a beard . I think the hair situation was more about being separate from the world but the apostle Paul tried to say that only women could have long hair but in the mosaic law the rite of the nazarite was to not cut his hair unless in morning or toward the end of his term .
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"Kingdom Songs" can be used for torture of Prisoners???
by Witness 007 inforget waterboard torture, have recordings of witnesses singing at the meeting.
last week the song during the service meeting was absolutely horrid!
singing classics like "from house to house" "we're jehovahs witnesses" it's torture!
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no kidding !! These people can't sing along with the music for sh!t . Unbelievable how they write this music for piano yet they are tone deaf . That stuff is absurdly difficult for people that don't have any music training and are expected to sing along regardless .
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Russia calls for banning JWs
by Dogpatch insent: friday, february 16, 2001 9:00 pm.
subject: kns russia: prosecutor calls for ban on jehovah's witnesses.
witness ban.
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I don't see how banning would make a difference since they'be been banned before and it made none . These type of things usually come from the other religions that really want the control anyway ,such as the russian orthodox church.
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Time left is reduced!!!
by crapola inmy mom just told me the theme of the next special assembly day.
"the time left is reduced!
" now how many times have we heard that?.
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You people keep saying the ORG. is on the decline but they keep saying they are growing exponentially . People in third world nations are taking to it . Good point tho how they are still money hungry and continue to want to build congregations , I heard recently that from a mineral rights lease agreement they took the money and put in savings , now am I wrong on this or is it illegal for NFP ORG. to have savings?
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6/15 WT- GB More Powerful than Worldwide Anointed- Don't Judge Partaking
by flipper inmore of the latest from the june 15th " witness only " watchtower.
under the article " the faithful steward and it's governing body " there were some very telling quotes which could indicate how the wt society is tightening the control of it's members - and trying to justify more partaking of the emblems at the memorial since the numbers partaking have gone up from about 8,000 to 10,000 since they no longer feel that the sealing of the anointed ended in 1935.. so first off, notice this quote indicating the importance of elevating the governing body over the rest of the anointed around the earth.
paragraph 16 it states , " are all these anointed ones throughout the earth part of a global network that is somehow involved in revealing new spiritual truths ?
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What I find interesting is that they don't ask these people why they partook , maybe some don't buy into the WTBTS dogma that only the 144k are to eat and drink and believe they are only professing the death of the lord as the apostle Paul put it , that he died for your salvation . Who knows? I would seriously doubt the numbers reflect the left over remnant , as Revelation puts it, God is waiting for the last to be killed off by the ax before he takes action . I don't think it's talking about a symbolic death there.