Now, don't run ahead of Jehovah's chariot with private interpretations and speculation.
We all have to wait for the GB to tell us.
The light just keeps on getting brighter and brighter.
some jw's used geehovah like a worn out sunday dish rag.
and so as those with a trade or talent.
in my hall my family owned an auto repair shop.
I can't help noticing that so many of the behaviors people have mentioned on this thread (entitlement mindset, expecting help but never offering help, expecting others to follow the rules but not following them themselves, etc.) are the exact opposite of what Jesus taught about how to live.
BluesBrother's statement that JWs use the divine name "like he was their mate whom they meet in the pub" reminds me of the contradictions in the JW religion -- you're supposedly the only ones who are on a first-name basis with God (your "friend") and yet you see him as a stern, never-satisfied figure who might well annihilate you any day now at Armageddon because you haven't proved good enough to deserve his undeserved kindness.
take a look at this heresy:"righteousness is the state of being right with god by complying with his standards of good and bad.
"- the watchtower—study edition | july 15, 2001 | blessings are for the righteous onewow!
my bible says in several places that "there is no one righteous, no not one".
hae anyone come across a quotation to that effect?.
Watchtower, June 15, 1978, p. 26, "Firmly Resolved About Blood," comes close:
"Hence, though most persons may be unaware of what God says and may look on blood as just something to sustain human life temporarily, not so with true Christians. Based on God’s Word we appreciate Jehovah’s view on life and blood. Let us be resolved to uphold that view and to live in accord with it."
birthday wisdom magnum opus.
i was born 2 years after the end of wwii.. everything was in black and white.. harry truman was president.. mahatma gandhi was the spiritual leader of india.. .
by the time i was 5, a new-fangled invention called television.
i am.. they are just fellow brothers, old and getting senile.... but enlightened, despite all the whining.....
how many times did you see elders hounding congregation members to quit their jobs due to missing meetings?.
my brother worked at a grocery store at 16 years old.
he would miss tuesday's ministry school due to his work schedule.
david splane comes out firing and is relentless as to the reasons why christianity was brought down.
christianity was not broken down by persecution, but by false brothers and apostate teachings.
today, jehovah's witnesses face the same danger from false brothers and apostates.
If anybody takes action against someone who would threaten our young ones, and takes action to protect our young ones, it is Jehovah’s organization. We reject outright such lies.”
In other words, once you decide it's "Jehovah's organization," you are forbidden to consider any evidence to the contrary.
Of course, if you look at evidence BEFORE making up your mind whether it's really "Jehovah's organization," you aren't really interested in the truth and you are persecuting Jehovah's Witnesses, so they will kick the dust off their feet as they cut off further communication with you.
with the current discussion if someone in his twenties can be elder or not.
i'm interested in what a elder in jw land really do.
all speeches already come in video format from headquarters.
absolute worst case scenario, the last of the generation that saw the events of 1914 would have died off would be in the mid to late 1990's!
so we were told in the 1980's!
so now we 3/4 of another generation past that!.
Russell's measurement of the main passageway of the Great Pyramid changed by 40 inches from one edition of his book to the next in order to accommodate the doctrinal switch from 1874 to 1914.
Maybe the GB should head to Egypt and measure it again.
No telling what new light they could come up with...