I'm good but I would rather hear about you! hehe Miss you all!! I haven't been on here for a while. I will check this post tomorrow morning so please leave your comments!! :)
Butterflyleia85
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How is everyone by the way!?!
by Butterflyleia85 ini'm good but i would rather hear about you!
hehe miss you all!!
i will check this post tomorrow morning so please leave your comments!!
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Catching the Manipulation in Sundays Watchtower Article
by Butterflyleia85 ininspired by many on jwn board, my goal is to every sunday study the article and find the manipulative parts.
if you would like to join me that would be great!
we can then find them together and then find what the scriptures or insights truly means with research, our own understanding, or maybe how it should be interpreted to ones self.
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Butterflyleia85
Thanks bluesbrothers! Hope Blondie is ok as well!!
And yes Blondie probably could carry on threads like this way way better then I can... Not thinking if it would affend or out speak someone else! :S
I just hope I can encourage as well as learn and be encouraged from others that's all.
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Catching the Manipulation in Sundays Watchtower Article
by Butterflyleia85 ininspired by many on jwn board, my goal is to every sunday study the article and find the manipulative parts.
if you would like to join me that would be great!
we can then find them together and then find what the scriptures or insights truly means with research, our own understanding, or maybe how it should be interpreted to ones self.
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Butterflyleia85
And look others have the same goals and thinking!! NOT JUST JEHOVAH WITNESSES!! http://www.runwithendurance.net/
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Shunning is so stupid
by AwSnap ini cannot seem to shake the visual image i have from about 5 days ago.
i went over to my mom's house, and apparently she didn't mention it to my younger sister (who lives in their downstairs apartment).
she and her baby were visiting with my mom, and when she saw me walking up the side walk, she grabbed her toddler up in her arms and i saw her hauling ass down the stairs....the toddler didn't understand why she was just snatched up and hauled away and started screaming.
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Butterflyleia85
I totally agree! My sister is a pioneer now but a little over a year ago she was just baptised and was shunning me full force... she still does shunning but in not as a rude way. I wrote her during that time too about what I was finding out with resources from the watchtower and bible and she said she deleted all of it and didn't even want to read it! It seem to apostate to her. She said she had a funny feeling and it felt wrong to read.
Not my mother nor my grandma shuns me the ways she does. But my father side is worse then that they don't even check to see how my 8 mth old son and I are doing.
So I totally understand where you are coming from.
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Blondie's Comments You Will Not Hear at the 11-06-2011 WT Study (YOUR SHARE)
by blondie in.a revelation by jesus christ,...to his slave john, .
comments.
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Butterflyleia85
Where is your next weeks thread please?? :) Very encouraging.
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Jehovah's Witnesses- The Organisation Behind The Name
by african GB Member inlets admitt it guys, this org is the closest that anyone will ever get to the truth, i am not saying they are perfect, but maybe they just need a few modifications to some of their doctrines.. after all they are not that bad.. they don't execute people.
they promote unity and peace among people.
they encourage people to live good purposeful lives.
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Butterflyleia85
I think that was a bet helpful in a sense... I am always thinking of ways to answer those types of comments and well it kinda was like a pop quiz on the board! hahaha
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Catching the Manipulation in Sundays Watchtower Article
by Butterflyleia85 ininspired by many on jwn board, my goal is to every sunday study the article and find the manipulative parts.
if you would like to join me that would be great!
we can then find them together and then find what the scriptures or insights truly means with research, our own understanding, or maybe how it should be interpreted to ones self.
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Butterflyleia85
I been offered the watchtower and awake by my family and I feel the need to keep up on their thinking so I can get them out of the snare of Governing Body!! It's been bothering me and that is what truely motivated this Post.
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Catching the Manipulation in Sundays Watchtower Article
by Butterflyleia85 ininspired by many on jwn board, my goal is to every sunday study the article and find the manipulative parts.
if you would like to join me that would be great!
we can then find them together and then find what the scriptures or insights truly means with research, our own understanding, or maybe how it should be interpreted to ones self.
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Butterflyleia85
Awesome! I missed her thread... Does she do it every week? I would like to attach her link then so as to not get off her thread. I just didn't know if she did it every week.. I will add to her thread instead then if that's the case.
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Catching the Manipulation in Sundays Watchtower Article
by Butterflyleia85 ininspired by many on jwn board, my goal is to every sunday study the article and find the manipulative parts.
if you would like to join me that would be great!
we can then find them together and then find what the scriptures or insights truly means with research, our own understanding, or maybe how it should be interpreted to ones self.
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Butterflyleia85
Outside sources I enjoyed for example came from http://cicministry.org/commentary/issue15.htm
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Catching the Manipulation in Sundays Watchtower Article
by Butterflyleia85 ininspired by many on jwn board, my goal is to every sunday study the article and find the manipulative parts.
if you would like to join me that would be great!
we can then find them together and then find what the scriptures or insights truly means with research, our own understanding, or maybe how it should be interpreted to ones self.
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Butterflyleia85
Inspired by many on JWN board, my goal is to every Sunday study the article and find the manipulative parts. If you would like to join me that would be great! We can then find them together and then find what the scriptures or insights truly means with research, our own understanding, or maybe how it should be interpreted to one’s self. The benefit here is yes we have Critical Thinking Skills and/or we have the power of Holy Spirit.
Please ALL comments are welcome, for example:
For ones believing in God who uses prayer and Holy Spirit, others scriptures or interpretations are welcome!
For ones who don’t believe in God but enjoy theology using the scripture insight for their ethical principles, other sources, quotes, or words of wisdom are welcome!
Watchtower (Study) — September 15, 2011 for November 7-13 Run the Race with Endurance Page 16
{paragraph 6}Some succumbed to the pressures and distractions of daily life and failed to make the spiritual advancement that would have fortified them. (Heb. 5:11-14) Others apparently felt that life would be so much easier if they just went along with the majority of Jews around them. Those Jews, after all, had not completely abandoned God; they were still following his Law to some extent. Other Christians were persuaded or intimidated by individuals in the congregation who clamored for sticking to the Mosaic Law and tradition.
My examination is: They are putting words in the scriptures mouth… Heb. 5:11-14 is a simple warning of falling away from God, which the whole article is about as well but here they imply things that are not in the scriptures. If people just read the scriptures themselves they would just know “Oh I need to do more studying of the scriptures and try to understand them so I know right from wrong”, because simply like today many people don’t want to learn all the theology and hermeneutics (study of the theory and practice of interpretation).
{paragraph 12}Abraham and Sarah were called upon to leave behind their homeland to pursue true worship and await the fulfillment of Jehovah’s promise. We are urged to disown ourselves and gain Jehovah’s approval and the blessings he holds out for us.
My examination is: Again they interpret this in their own words implying that “We” the obedient Jehovah Witnesses “disown ourselves” in another words, don’t think for yourself and what you feel is right, “gain Jehovah’s approval” actually gain OUR, the governing body, approval!! “and the blessings he hold out for us” because yeah governing body makes mistakes and you just need to be patient with us because we are imperfect.