this is how the wt characterizes "anointed" christians who died faithful to wt doctrine.. a careful reading of matthew 24 (a trumpet blast from an angel will gather the chosen ones), 1 corinthians 15 (ditto), 1 thessalonians 4 (ditto), will reveal that all the dead will remain dead until that event occurs.. it takes a lot of twisting and turning of scripture for the wt to conclude that the dead in christ began to arise after 1918, and that those who died after that time experienced an instantaneous resurrection.. i tremble for them!.
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Can WT take a hint?
Apparantly (to their discredit) - only from the Millerites.
But isn't this dogmatic conclusion that no human resurrection occurred before the arbitrary year 1918 just about as ridiculous as any other date they ever published - including the notorious 1925 and 1975?
this is how the wt characterizes "anointed" christians who died faithful to wt doctrine.. a careful reading of matthew 24 (a trumpet blast from an angel will gather the chosen ones), 1 corinthians 15 (ditto), 1 thessalonians 4 (ditto), will reveal that all the dead will remain dead until that event occurs.. it takes a lot of twisting and turning of scripture for the wt to conclude that the dead in christ began to arise after 1918, and that those who died after that time experienced an instantaneous resurrection.. i tremble for them!.
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Just pointing out that there is a lot of ambiguity about this subject even directly from the bible itself.
Pretty much dealers choice, if you ask me.
this is how the wt characterizes "anointed" christians who died faithful to wt doctrine.. a careful reading of matthew 24 (a trumpet blast from an angel will gather the chosen ones), 1 corinthians 15 (ditto), 1 thessalonians 4 (ditto), will reveal that all the dead will remain dead until that event occurs.. it takes a lot of twisting and turning of scripture for the wt to conclude that the dead in christ began to arise after 1918, and that those who died after that time experienced an instantaneous resurrection.. i tremble for them!.
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Truly I tell you, today you will be with me in paradise.
http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/atlanta/obituary.aspx?n=raymond-franz&pid=143464974&fhid=5304.
raymond franz | visit guest book.
paid full name=raymond franz .
That's a nice obit for a true gentleman.
Interesting contrast with the Ted Jaracz propaganda brochure...
http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/atlanta/obituary.aspx?n=raymond-franz&pid=143464974&fhid=5304.
raymond franz | visit guest book.
paid full name=raymond franz .
I had been gone for a couple of weeks - is this the first announcement we have had?
RIP
this looks a lot more fun than the district convention!.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=86uzifhizzk&feature=related.
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It is so comical. I knew Witness families who watched every Disney film featuring fairies, witches, magic, genies, etc, but were mortified of the SMURFS.
I first heard it after I had left in the late 1970s - from a kind of halfway-in, halfway-out JW that I used to know when I was active. I actually thought it was a joke at first - but sadly enough, it was real in a very weird way.
This guy said that somebody reported that plastic smurf dolls were walking around right there in the kingdom hall (under satanic power) and wanted to know if I thought it was possible.
I told him that it was IMHO NOT POSSIBLE unless those dolls had batteries in them.
I am still not sure if this was ever an official WTBTS superstition, but for sure it developed an urban JW life of it's own.
i received this generous offering from 'anonymous brother'.
his comments : hmmm...why do i not see such things at most jw funerals?.
please give your 'thank you' to "anonymous brother'.
Blondie, all that chart stuff by the stage and written tests at the school are completely unfamiliar to me - did this stuff happen after I left in 1979?
this looks a lot more fun than the district convention!.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=86uzifhizzk&feature=related.
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Just as a question - are the SMURFS even commercially published or the dolls produced any more? I never see them on TV or in stores -
Is it possible that they have had a second life only in JW superstitions, and have been largely forgotten by the general public?
Further, is it even possible that the witnesses could have dreamed up a more unlikely (and ludicrously silly) demon fear to keep around for about 35 years now?
i received this generous offering from 'anonymous brother'.
his comments : hmmm...why do i not see such things at most jw funerals?.
please give your 'thank you' to "anonymous brother'.
OK, now I see, Mad Sweeney. So Russell & company was generational slide version 1.0...
BTW, how was this distributed? Did they just send it to people invited to the funeral itself?
i received this generous offering from 'anonymous brother'.
his comments : hmmm...why do i not see such things at most jw funerals?.
please give your 'thank you' to "anonymous brother'.
Mad Sweeney has forgotten that generations now overlap according to the noo lite.
