jehovah's witnesses derived their policy of excommunication from 1 corinthians 5:9-13, a small fraction of religious text compared to the overall compendium of religious books that the world's religions revolve around.
in my letter i wrote you to quit mixing in company with fornicators, not [meaning] entirely with the fornicators of this world or the greedy persons and extortioners or idolaters.
otherwise, you would actually have to get out of the world.
So evidently you don't care for the Six Screens of the Watchtower website. Haven't we been over this already? I don't care for that website either, so I don't go there to get information. I would recommend jwfacts.com if you're truly searching for information about the JW's.
Your wife is being recruited into a dangerous doomsday cult. A cult that requires its followers to shun their own parents, children or siblings who successfully escape from the organization.
forgot about this one i did about two years ago.
found it on kent's site.
thanks kent!
It's great that you're researching GrandmaJones. There is a lot of good information on this site, but it sometimes gets buried under the silly back and forth bickering threads. I would recommend the "Best of Topics" section on this site. Have you been to JWfacts.com yet? I think it's the single best website available to research the real truth of the Watchtower Society.
many people for one reason or other have quit going to the kingdom hall me included!
i dont object to the people for they are clean well dressed human beings, i object to the way a prefabricated doctorine is distributed, useing hugh amounts of books magazines and media to attempt to study the bible,i feel obligated to say i agree with that method and under pressure to promote it, theirfore i stoped going because pretending to agree with this method and rendering lip service to it in order to keep from being disfellowshiped is a lie,and liers go to the lake of fire, .
so now that we have left the hall were do we go?
Sounds like a heroin addict getting on methadone. Are you a God junkie? I've been sober for several years, kicked that delusional habit. If you need a good fix try the Moonies.
in direct contradiction to the testimony of some of our friends and family, billy graham weighs in.
billy graham says christians don't actually hear the voice of god.
.. the question should have put billy in a dilemma.
Inkie, you admitted in a different thread that you hear voices. My question is if your child told you they were hearing voices would you encourage them? Or would you be concerned about their mental health?
in direct contradiction to the testimony of some of our friends and family, billy graham weighs in.
billy graham says christians don't actually hear the voice of god.
.. the question should have put billy in a dilemma.
This thread brings up one of my main problems with Christianity. I believe it encourages delusional behavior and psychologically unhealthy ways of thinking. Lets just encourage people who hear voices by planting the idea that maybe the voice they’re hearing comes from a magical being who lives in the sky. Encouraging schizophrenic behavior is not morally ethical and it‘s also very dangerous.
what's your pet-hate witnessisms?
mine is 'in the truth'.
blegh!!
Spiritual Feast.
But that one has inspired my own catchphrase. "Spiritual Koolaid". Such as, where else will you go to recieve your spiritual koolaid?
i remember growing up and hearing all sorts of stories about demonic activity from people.
some would be experiences that people had going door to door and visiting a "witch" or "warlock".
some would inadvertently go to a fortune tellers door and have a demonic experience.. i was always facinated by all the stories.
17 And these signs will accompany those who believe: In my name they will drive out demons; they will speak in new tongues.....
Chalam, I noticed you left out the next verse.
Mark 16:18 They shall take up serpents; and if they drink any deadly thing, it shall not hurt them; they shall lay hands on the sick, and they shall recover.
How strong is your faith? Do you think you could drink Drano and it wouldn't hurt you? I would love to hear the perspective of a believer about that passage.
Any moron can babble in a made up language, where are all the real Christians who are ready to prove their faith by drinking poison?
BrotherDan, sorry about taking the thread off topic. To answer the orginal question, I don't believe in demons or satan, so naturally I don't believe in demonic possesion. I also don't believe in talking donkeys, it was very liberating for me when I came to the realization that just because something is in the Bible doesn't mean it's true.
my parents are visting from florida and i agreed to take them to the kingdom hall for a meeting, but i'm just doing to make them feel comfortable while they are here.
i told them i'll be sitting in the back with jeans and sneakers playing with my i phone.
i made shure they didn't get any wrong impressions about me returning to the kingdom hall.
I don't know the circumstances with your family, but I say don't go. There are times when we have to make a stand. How long has it been since you went to a meeting?
see my blog article titled.
watchtowers answer shows blood doctrine is false.
http://marvinshilmer.blogspot.com/2010/09/watchtowers-answer-shows-blood-doctrine.html.
you guys have issues!the bottom line is the bible says that we should abstain from blood!Jehovah will correct you in his time!
You explained it so simply Makonnen. Thank you. I'm going to start abstaining from blood now. If I don't abstain from blood Yahweh will correct me. By correcting you mean murder or destroy right? I certainly don't want to be murdered by God so I will start abstaining from blood.
I am a little confused about what it means to “abstain” though, please clarify. Is it okay for me to eat a medium rare steak or any food with traces of blood in it? What about when my wife has her "monthly visitor"? How do I abstain from her? Should I avoid sitting in any chairs she has sat on? I could sleep in a separate bed during that time but I need to make sure what God actually requires. I certainly don’t want to be murdered by God.
the jc gave me 7 days to appeal, ...well, i am not going to waste my energy trying to win a loosing battle.....or(wait aminute), i can play difficult and strech them to their limit..
Why do you feel the need to make up stories? Why can't you just be yourself here? I'm sincere in wondering why you make all these threads. If you were to answer "boredom" I could understand. But I imagine it's more complicated than that.
