Posts by vanissa

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I can't take this pain anymore...my life at dead end

by JustHuman14 in

my life has reached to a dead end...i'm stuck and there is no way out.

i was inactive for 6 years and i'm disfellowshiped for the past 3. i would never think that my life would have been in this terrible mess.. .

i wasn't planned to be disfellowshiped by my "wife" turned me in to the elders for apostasy 2 times!!!

vanissa

This is one scripture JWs seem to ignore when it comes to wives with "unbelieving" husbands:

1PE 3:1 Wives, in the same way be submissive to your husbands so that, if any of them do not believe the word, they may be won over without words by the behavior of their wives.

My mother became a JW, and then tried forcing my father to become one. He refused. And, they soon divorced. They had four very young children at the time (including myself) who suffered because of it.

JWs use this scripture to justify the breaking up of families:

MAT 10:34-36 "Do not suppose that I have come to bring peace to the earth. I did not come to bring peace, but a sword. 35 For I have come to turn "'a man against his father, a daughter against her mother, a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law-- 36 a man's enemies will be the members of his own household.'

They seem to ignore the following scriptures:

MAR 10:11-12 He answered, "Anyone who divorces his wife and marries another woman commits adultery against her. 12 And if she divorces her husband and marries another man, she commits adultery."

ROM 7:3 So then, if she marries another man while her husband is still alive, she is called an adulteress. But if her husband dies, she is
released from that law and is not an adulteress, even though she marries another man.

And, that in causing one spouse to leave another "unbelieving" spouse they are encouraging them to commit adultery.

People who desire to live a Christian life according to Jesus' teachings live according to scripture NOT according to religious doctrine that is changed to suit the religion's new "light". The truth is truth - it does not change.l

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Witnesses who were Shunned by Worldly family for BEING Witnesses! ME!

by Witness 007 in

yes when you become a witness, your family tree looks like it was hit by hurricane katrina!

{just like when you leave...ironic} my father said if i become a witness he will never see me again...and he didn't....but like most idiot witnesses this is held up like a badge of honour!...i was on the platform at ass-emblies like many others who lost....parents, boyfirends, husbands, children, whole families.

we thought we were blessed by jah to have lots of "brothers and sisters...but our real family knew we were part of an "apocalipse cult.

vanissa

I'm new to this forum, but not to the Jehovah Witness religion/cult that destroyed my family like so many other families.

My mother (now deceased) joined JW 54 years ago. Soon after joining she divorced my father who refused to become a JW. She had four children when she separated from my father ranging from age seven years old (myself) to age two (my youngest brother).

She remarried as soon as her divorce became final. Her new husband was also new to JW, and she remarried so quickly so as to not commit "sexual sin".

How ironic, after all these years and her passing, I recently read the following Bible verses that made me realize that she was commiting adultery while practicing the JW faith - including separating herself from her nonJW children to remain "pure":

MAR 10:11-12 He answered, "Anyone who divorces his wife and marries another woman commits adultery against her. 12 And if she divorces her husband and marries another man, she commits adultery." -- AND --

ROM 7:3 So then, if she marries another man while her husband is still alive, she is called an adulteress. But if her husband dies, she is released from that law and is not an adulteress, even though she marries another man.

There are several other verses restating the same thing.

What I found about the JW religion (like some other religions), scriptures are used and interpreted to suit what they preach. One scripture that the JWs seem to emphasize is:

MAT 10:34-36 "Do not suppose that I have come to bring peace to the earth. I did not come to bring peace, but a sword. 35 For I have come to turn "'a man against his father, a daughter against her mother, a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law-- 36 a man's enemies will be the members of his own household.'

I know my mother seemed to take pride in her standing firm about her separating herself from me her oldest daughter whom she had expelled from JW for fornication. She would not talk, associate with, or respond to my letters for eight years until the JW faith revised their ruling about expelled members. Then she paid me a visit to invite me to rejoin. I refused. And so, as a result we lost the opportunity to have a mother/daughter relationship for all those years. It wasn't until she knew she was very ill did she start communicating with me again. Shortly thereafter she passed away.

To sum it up, she lived in sin none the less, and caused herself and her family a lot of suffering practicing her faith married to her second husband who was a child-abusing JW minister (but that's another long story I won't go into here).