jehovah's witnesses accept jesus as christ, the son of god.
they try, in their own way, to live by his teachings and imitate him.
they pray, read the bible and meet together regularly for worship.. i won't minimise any of the harm and damage they cause but for the life of me, i can't see how anyone can credibly deny that they are christians.. why do so many former jws have a problem with this?
If being a Christian means belonging to a religious group that claim to follow Jesus, but in reality follow men instead, then the JWs are Christian as far as I can tell.
However if a Christian is someone who follows Jesus, instead of a religious group, then the JWs are assuredly not Christian as far as I can tell.
so i ask because of all the books, mags and testimonies that the wts promotes.
not only the wts, but many other christians attempt to speak about the bible with authority.
how do we measure who is an authority if we don't know that much?.
In my experience God speaks directly to each of all the time.
We hear or experience this as an inner knowing.
The best tool or framework for tuning in it seems is the liberating gospel of grace.
The best tool or framework for tuning out it seems is religion (Matt 23 esp v15).
hello all.... i am new here so i figured i'd make a quick post introducing myself and giving a brief intro as to who i am and what i'm here for... as well as to hopefully meet others.. so, i made a profile and in it i gave a pretty detailed explanation as to my intent here and exactly why i decided to participate in the boards.
in case you don't read it, i'll give a brief summary.
the name is robert.
Hello Robert
What are your thoughts on the 5 solas?
jehovah's witnesses have never come to my door but they have come to my girlfriends door.
i have coached her as to what to say or ask but it appears that they always seem to come when she's not there.
.....just curious would you get into it with a jehovah's witness at your door especially if it was someone you did not know?.
In my 44 years as a third generation born-in not a single Christian ever shared the liberating gospel of grace with me, when knocking at their doors.
All they had to do was ask a simple question.
What a pity no one had the ability or courage to ask a simple question...
hello friends,.
after receiving a letter at my home calling me for a "judicial audience" after having quit 5 years ago the jw, i decided to go to the police and talk about the policy within jw.org: social abuse, judicial threats and in my case sexual abuses.. a national newspaper in spain www.elperiodico.es has decided to give visibility to this situation.
please find the first link:.
Well done Miguel for getting the "bad news" aka TTATT out there in Spanish which I recently learnt has the second most native speakers of all languages, beating English.
would you agree:.
there are three main paths in life?.
secular, religious or spiritual?.
@a watcher
Which path have you chosen and why do you prefer it to the other two?
would you agree:.
there are three main paths in life?.
secular, religious or spiritual?.
Would you agree:
There are three main paths in life?
Secular, religious or spiritual?
They are very different?
Each path has both atheists and "believers"?
this notice is not official yet and it should be confidential until released thru the proper channels.
a friend of mine told me about a huge elders meeting in southern california.
the subject was the relocation and dissolution of some congregations; it seems that this is the result of some project that has been going on for some time and is going to be implemented right now.. please let me know if this is happening all over the country?.
Wonderous contraction is taking place!
Good news indeed.
The end is near.
The end of religion that is.
The Watchtower is being destroyed in Armageddon:
the war between religion and the liberating gospel message.
Long live the gospel.
the watchtower september 1, 1951, in a wonderful article entitled “hated for his name”(pp518,519) describes the persecution and martyrdom of steadfast christians in the first 3 centuries ad.. by the year (a.d.) 64 christianity was.
prominent throughout much of the roman.
empire, including the capital city.
Watchtower: two hopes (heaven or earth).
Bible: one hope (heaven and earth).
(Ephesians 4:4, 5) . . .One body there is, and one spirit, even as YOU were called in the one hope to which YOU were called; one Lord, one faith, one baptism. . .
while reading the magazines the other day it occurred to me that jws never really had a very good answer to that question.
because it was aimed at young people and it said something along the lines, "if you believe in god you have a purpose, but if you don't believe in god your life has no purpose or meaning".
i think that is a faulty analysis of the situation.
Schooling for the next/real/eternal life?
