Posts by possible-san

That I have to say to you first, the decrease of the number of congregations and the decrease of the number of Jehovah's Witnesses are not related.
In Japan, the merger of congregations was encouraged by the Japan branch or the Governing Body several years ago.
Many congregations disappeared by it.

WHY do you think people in your country are leaving the Witnesses?

This is my own opinion.

Around 1997, the Internet has spread in Japan.
And the activities of anti-Jehovah's Witnesses prospered from that time.
The people who looked at those websites understood that the society was telling the lie.

And blogs came into fashion also among active Jehovah's Witnesses, and people can express their view now.

While there are ex-Jehovah's Witnesses (like me) on the Internet, there is no growth in Japan in the future.

I think that the depression in current Japan and university education are not the direct cause of a decrease of the number of Jehovah's Witnesses, IMHO.
Many of Japanese ex-Jehovah's Witnesses have not got university education.
Moreover, an economic reason is no reason for abjuring faith.

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10 Years Japan losses 5,400 Publishers and 638 Kingdom Halls! Why?

by Witness 007 in

japan had a handful of witnesses after ww 2....this number skyrocketed to 222,912 by 1998!

then something happened.

publisher figures didn't stop, they dropped by thousands over the next decade!.

possible-san

Hi, AndersonsInfo.

I am a Japanese ex- Jehovah's Witness.

In fact, one of the senior writers commented that the reason for the high percentage of pioneers in Japan was Lloyd Barry.

I think that it is not the fact although I think that you have freedom of speech.

When I became a Jehovah's Witness in 1983, Mr. Lloyd Barry was not the overseer of the Japan branch.
(He was the overseer till January, 1975.)

Since it is the 1980s that the number of JWs increased in Japan, many Japanese JWs do not necessarily feel familiarity for him specially.

Rather, many Japanese Jehovah's Witnesses respected Mr. Masataro Oda who became the next overseer from 1983.
That is because he was modest.
He died in the accident in 2004.

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A New English Translation of the Septuagint - Book Download link

by VM44 in

a new english translation of the septuagint.

oxford university press | 2007-11-02 | isbn: 0195289757 | 1027 pages | pdf | 6 mb.

translated from the hebrew between the third and first centuries b.c., the septuagint became the bible for greek-speaking jews and was widely cited by early christians.

possible-san

Mr. VM44.

Thank you.
I got it.

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Clarifying the Trinity Doctrine

by UnDisfellowshipped in

since there is so much confusion among ex-jw's, jw's, and christians in general about exactly what the trinity doctrine is, i decided to post this to clarify this teaching.. the historical trinity doctrine of the christian (protestant and catholic) churches has always been this:.

* there is only one true god by nature.. * there are three distinct persons who share equally the nature of god.. * there are not three different gods (that is the false doctrine of tritheism or polytheism).. * there is not one person who is revealed three different ways (that is the false doctrine of modalism).. * however, each person of the trinity does have his own "role" or "function.

" the son willingly obeys the father.

possible-san

Hi, UnDisfellowshipped.

Thank you for your reply.
But since this thread is already the past thing, I make my reply the last now.

Where does the Bible teach that only The Father has the Name YHWH?

I think that you can use this question only when there is no such fact.
(I have already answered to such a question from the Bible in other thread.)

And that explanation that "the Father" is Jehovah is not my own view/opinion but Trinity doctrine itself.

When The Angel of YHWH spoke to Moses in the burning bush, He declared that His Everlasting Name was I AM, YHWH. Jesus declared that He was I AM (John 8:58, 8:24).
Who was this Angel? And if Jesus is I AM, then He is YHWH as well.

I think that I already explained enough also about this.

I said repeatedly that Jesus is "I AM."
That is because he is the "God" in essence.
It means "Jesus is the same as Jehovah in essence."

But even you describe it as "Jesus" repeatedly.
He has the name of "Jesus."
Similarly, "the Father" has the name of "Jehovah."

And there is no the divine name "Jehovah" in the New Testament as you also know well.
Rather, the name of "Jesus" is used in the New Testament repeatedly.
That is because "the Son" is "the leading part" (head the cast) in the New Testament.

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