I always found it remarkable that while out of the one side of their mouths they preach frugality and no skills
besides window washing and cleaning offices - but out of the other side, if you have a skill - they'll sure use it.
jehovah's witnesses don't expect to convert the world.
they expect to educate the world about jehovah's kingdom and his christ.. before: nobody knows about it.. after: everybody knows about it.. how would you measure what people "know"?.
how well informed is the average citizen in 2010 vs 1879, for example?.
I always found it remarkable that while out of the one side of their mouths they preach frugality and no skills
besides window washing and cleaning offices - but out of the other side, if you have a skill - they'll sure use it.
are the ten commandments still in force?.
many today believe they should still follow the ten commandments.
but are they correct in believing that?.
let’s put it this way.....do you think Sodom and Gomorrah would have been wiped out had they been observing the Law?
And another thing, the Law wasn't a covenant. Torah means instruction.
are the ten commandments still in force?.
many today believe they should still follow the ten commandments.
but are they correct in believing that?.
Without law there is no sin because sin is transgression of the law. Without sin there is no need to sacrifice.
Hebrews 10:26-29 (New International Version) - "If we deliberately keep on sinning after we have received the knowledge of the truth, no sacrifice for sins is left, but only a fearful expectation of judgment and of raging fire that will consume the enemies of God......."
"Galatians proves that we should observe the Torah " - http://www.eliyah.com/galatianskjv.html
why would the followers of jesus be hated?.
should we find it strange, that as followers of jesus, we will be hated to the extreme jesus here foretold in these following words?
to the point of being arrested, persecuted, and killed?.
In other words we don't have to trust God and his word or anyone who espouses it.
Espouse | Define Espouse at Dictionary.com
to make one's own; adopt or embrace, as a cause. 2. to marry.
They are words of life to those who believe, but death to those who do not.
2 Thessalonians 2:9-11 (NIV)
"The coming of the lawless one will be in accordance with the work of Satan displayed in all kinds of counterfeit miracles, signs and wonders, 10and in every sort of evil that deceives those who are perishing. They perish because they refused to love the truth and so be saved. 11For this reason God sends them a powerful delusion."
first off, you can look up the chemical now approved by the epa today: .
it is so deadly, you should not breathe it in, or let it get on your skin.
it causes burns, disrupts reproduction in all fish/shellfish, and possibly humans, and should never be consumed.
If that well is gushing 70,000 barrels/day - that's 14 times worse than what's been officially reported
- which is almost 3 million gals/day times 3 weeks is on the order of 60 million gals.
That puts it on the map of one of the worst spills and 6 times the Exxon Valdez.
http://www.aolnews.com/the-grid/article/the-grid-charting-the-worlds-worst-oil-spills/19457792
And now they're popping the champagne and saying they're recovering "some" of the oil, buuuuuuut....
They don't say how much. And in the mean time.........not to mention the underwater plumes caused by "dispersants"
http://www.dailyfinance.com/article//expedition-to-contain-oil-leak-begins-in/1039683/?cid=10
"It's all billowing along the ocean floor in a massive underwater "cloud" of black goo that's many miles long and wide. It's destroying the oxygen content of the Gulf of Mexico and threatening to create a massive "dead zone" that could destroy virtually all marine life there."Read more in today's article: http://www.naturalnews.com/028805_Gulf_of_Mexico_Deepwater_Horizon.html
But don't worry, be happy - it's just another end-time-doom-and-gloom conspiracy theory. That muslim in the White House, the pope and a few other notable geniuses have things well in hand.
Luke 23:30 - "Then 'they will say to the mountains, "Fall on us!" and to the hills, "Cover us!" '"
Oh, and then there's that pesky volcano in Iceland and that little stock market correction
Amsterdam, Edinburgh Airports Closed on Ash; London Restricted ...
May 17, 2010 ... Amsterdam and Edinburgh's airports will be closed this morning, while London services face restrictions, as ash from a volcano in Iceland ... www.businessweek.com/.../amsterdam-edinburgh-airports-closed-on-ash- london-restricted.html - 30 minutes ago
And don't forget those earthquakes of a couple months ago.......................
.....disfellowshipping, i think.. potential disfellowshipping, current disfellowshipping, disfellowshipping of people we love.. it's the most genius cult tool ever invented..
I vividly remember an elder telling me about witnessing, that when you kick out the crutches of a potential dub, you have to give them something to support them. This is the support for those who've had their crutches kicked out.
stand alone video is not available as of this posting.
however, if you skip ahead on this cspan video to 2:45:05, you can see for yourself how ag holder came to the opinion that sb1070 was unconstitutional.. so when ag holder was on meet the press saying that sb1070 "has the possibility of leading to racial profiling" he really did not know what he was talking about, because he had not read the law.
when ag holder called law's passage "unfortunate," and questioned whether the law was unconstitutional because it tried to assume powers that may be reserved for the federal government he really did not know what he was talking about because he hadn't read the law.. in the above video, holder said that he was basing his comments on what he had heard from the media.
LET ME SEE IF I GOT THIS RIGHT!!!
IF YOU CROSS THE NORTH KOREAN BORDER ILLEGALLY YOU GET 12 YEARS HARD LABOR
IF YOU CROSS THE IRANIAN BORDER ILLEGALLY YOU ARE DETAINED INDEFINITELY.
IF YOU CROSS THE AFGHAN BORDER ILLEGALLY, YOU GET SHOT.
IF YOU CROSS THE SAUDI ARABIAN BORDER ILLEGALLY YOU WILL BE JAILED.
IF YOU CROSS THE CHINESE BORDER ILLEGALLY YOU MAY NEVER BE HEARD FROM AGAIN.
IF YOU CROSS THE VENEZUELAN BORDER ILLEGALLY YOU WILL BE BRANDED A SPY AND YOUR FATE WILL BE SEALED.
IF YOU CROSS THE CUBAN BORDER ILLEGALLY YOU WILL BE THROWN INTO POLITICAL PRISON TO ROT.
IF YOU CROSS THE U.S. BORDER ILLEGALLY YOU GET
1 - A JOB,
2 - A DRIVERS LICENSE,
3 - SOCIAL SECURITY CARD,
4 - WELFARE,
5 - FOOD STAMPS,
6 - CREDIT CARDS,
7 - SUBSIDIZED RENT OR A LOAN TO BUY A HOUSE,
8 - FREE EDUCATION,
9 - FREE HEALTH CARE,
10 - A LOBBYIST IN WASHINGTON
11 - BILLIONS OF DOLLARS WORTH OF PUBLIC DOCUMENTS PRINTED IN YOUR LANGUAGE
12 - AND THE RIGHT TO CARRY YOUR COUNTRY'S FLAG WHILE YOU PROTEST THAT YOU DON'T GET ENOUGH RESPECT
I JUST WANTED TO MAKE SURE I HAD A FIRM GRASP ON THE SITUATION.
http://www.surfingtheapocalypse.net/forum/index.php?id=238211
(1952) = (wt 9/1/52 pg 543).
(1962) = (awake 9/22/62 pg 27).
(1968) = (awake 10/8/68 pg 13).
Another different colored light bulb.
the news from the gulf just keeps getting worse.
gulf oil spill more than 10x greater than thought: expertsby frank james and allison richards.
npr has learned that much more oil, 70,000 barrels a day or more than ten times the official estimate, is gushing into the gulf of mexico from the deepwater horizon pipe, based on scientific analysis of the video released wednesday.. that's the equivalent of one exxon valdez tanker full every four days.
But don't worry - it's just another doom and gloom apocalyptic conspiracy theory.
what do you think are the reasons why the wts can't handle the truth on why members quit?
why must they disfellowship everyone who would say something like this to an elder on why he/she no longer wishes to be a member......................................................................................................... '' i do not want to be a member any longer because of the changing ''generation'' teaching,the wts is just a publishing and real estate corporation,the preaching work is just a means to distribute books and magazines,the baptism and disfellowshipping of teenagers is wrong,the meetings are boring,the meetings are repetative, the 144,000 is symbolic not literal ...etc.....etc.....
"Even when the Org tells the truth about itself- using veiled language- the JW's just refuse to connect the dots. How much plainer do they have to be- 8600 anointed in the 80's and over 10,000 a generation later. If you can count, you can understand the numbers don't lie- the F&DS slave/annoined remnant class does not exist."
As I've said before, that delusion is more important to their house of cards then the 1914/generation things put together.
It's the reason the r&f refuse to connect the dots. They've just gotta believe in the man behind the curtain.