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Being called brother/sister in public places

by JH in

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how did you like being called brother or sister, when you were in public.

i remember once i was inside a bank waiting in line, and all of a sudden , a brother also waiting in line, said to me quite loud, hello brother x .

i felt like a jerk, being called brother in front of everyone there.

heathen

What made me uncomfortable was when they started calling me brother and I was only a book study and not a member of the church .I would hate that myself if I was going about my personal business and someone out of the blue in public announces my last name and thus invading my privacy.

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Wow, this is a weird place!

by markhoback in

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but interesting, and i plan on looking around a good bit.. question for some of you folks that have been members for a while.

what do you find to be the more interesting forums/topics here?.

thanks in advance,.

heathen

There is definately a hodgepode of just about anything .You name it .

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JW's deny jesus as being king before 1914

by heathen in

i ventured to the local hall here last week and when time to discuss the watchtower a guy made a comment that the wt only believes that jesus became king in 1914.now i have read the bible and do have an interest in what it says despite my handle on this site and i have noticed that the apostles made clear that christ was king of heaven and earth in their day at least until the last apostle died .this just looks like typical crap that would only lead me to further arguement with them and in the end being demonized .anyone else with thoughts on the subject ?

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heathen

just one more thought here since this thread is dying. Sangdigger- that scripture with jesus on the torture stake .I think I would agree with the WT on the fact that jesus was not resurected till 3 days after he died ,so there would be no way possible for him to be in paradise with the criminal on the that same day and that promise would be fulfilled at a later date .

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JW's deny jesus as being king before 1914

by heathen in

i ventured to the local hall here last week and when time to discuss the watchtower a guy made a comment that the wt only believes that jesus became king in 1914.now i have read the bible and do have an interest in what it says despite my handle on this site and i have noticed that the apostles made clear that christ was king of heaven and earth in their day at least until the last apostle died .this just looks like typical crap that would only lead me to further arguement with them and in the end being demonized .anyone else with thoughts on the subject ?

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heathen

Good points all around .It is clear he was promoted to king of heaven and earth after proving he would be obedient to God under severe test. I agree with scully on the point of the WT claims to have this uncanny ability to determine the spirtual from the figureative and antitypical . Then if they are wrong claim this uncanny ability to tack in the wind such as a sailboat.I think the WT uses REV 11:15 in their arguement but as aforementioned the kingdom of the world under satans direction still exists.Thus the WT is misaplying the scripture to enforce a concept jesus is now the ruler of the world in a spiritual way not in a totalitarian way as described in the passage .This really did get interesting and thanks for the replies .

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