Posts by factfinder

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Farewell from Confused and Alone

by confusedandalone in

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i use to hate when people who made goodbye posts on message boards.

why would they think that just because you no longer post on a chevy truck forum or a los angeles lakers forum the world would crumble around those still left there.

this place is definitely different.

Surviving Armagedon?

by Crazyguy in

the jw's have always been bung up on preaching the good news of the kingdom to all the nation's then the end will come.

but is there any where jesus said that preaching the good news will bring you salvation?

he does talk about being born again in order to see the kingdom and the bible at matt 16 and hebrews 9 talks about the blood means the covenant and this is bow ones sins are forgiven if your in this covenant.

factfinder

LisaRose-you are right. Most people have no idea what "the good news of the kingdom is."

I do think their preaching IS more extensive and far reaching than other religion's, but what is it really accomplishing?

But when I went out in fs all those years it was because:

I wanted to please Jehovah

I would be destroyed at armageddon if I didn't preach.

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Help please!!!

by braincleaned in

my mom just hung up on me, convinced that the borg has never said that jesus was not the mediator between the sheep and him!.

i know they have presumptuously took the place of jesus as mediators can someone pleeeeeeze give me the wt references of this?.

she does not believe me..

factfinder

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New Orleans Convention website - June 13-15

by sir82 in

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looks like there is a "hospitality committee" that has been desgnated to "sell" the convention city for each place an international convention is being held.. other posts on this site have displayed the websites for detroit & atlanta, this one is for new orleans.. .

http://jw2014neworleans.org/.

this one even has a brochure!.

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SERVING ELDERS - WHY THE NEW DONATION ARRANGEMENT?

by The Searcher in

in case you didn't notice the false reason given to you, i've highlighted the 15 times you were told directly, and the 3 times indirectly in the letter from the g.b.!.

so why didn't you reason on the addendum you were given by the org to read out to your congs, which "legalised" this deceptive money-grab from those whom you are supposed to be protecting?

shame on every last one of you for not explaining what was really going to happen to the donations!.

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WT admitted "Jehovah" is not God's name...

by Watkins in

if i remember right(unlikely, lol) it was a one-page article about the tetragrammaton which concluded by saying that even though "jehovah" was 'probably' not an accurate pronunciation, it is a widely-recognized and accepted english transliteration of the divine name.

i was thinking it was on the last page or maybe the back cover of a wt pub - maybe a watchtower.. can someone please direct me to the publication it was in?

i read it when i was still 'in' and it made me stop and think about how much emphasis the wt puts on that name, all while knowing it's not the name.

factfinder

@Turd Ferguson and AndDontCallMeShirley (ok Leslie!)-

Thank you! You both bring out good points I had not thought of.

And yes, a very good question- if God's name is so important for us to call on for salvation why did he allow its true pronounciation to be lost?

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WT admitted "Jehovah" is not God's name...

by Watkins in

if i remember right(unlikely, lol) it was a one-page article about the tetragrammaton which concluded by saying that even though "jehovah" was 'probably' not an accurate pronunciation, it is a widely-recognized and accepted english transliteration of the divine name.

i was thinking it was on the last page or maybe the back cover of a wt pub - maybe a watchtower.. can someone please direct me to the publication it was in?

i read it when i was still 'in' and it made me stop and think about how much emphasis the wt puts on that name, all while knowing it's not the name.

factfinder

It does not bother me that Jehovah is not the correct way to say God's name in Hebrew.

Nobody complains about using the names Jesus, Moses, David or Abraham, for instance.

We know the Hebrew pronunciations of these: Yehoshua (Joshua), Moshe, Daveed, Ahvrahm. But we all use the English pronounciation.

At some point in time the Jews felt it best not to write out God's name so it would not be marred, desecrated, thrown out or erased. So it began to be written with the vowels of elohim & Adonay.

In time the original pronounciation went into misuse, and thus was lost.

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Who Will the Circuit Overseers "Report" to Now???

by RubaDub in

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i still do not understand the new structure at this point.. there has to be something between thousands of co's and the gb.

i know there were zone overseers that the do's reported to.. i have spoken to a couple of elders i can talk to frankly and they both said they have no idea.. rub a dub.

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factfinder

Does not the CO report to the branch office?

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New "theocratic history" book for witnesses?

by stuckinarut2 in

so i have heard a few of us talking about a newly released book to replace or add to the proclaimers book?.

is that correct?.

if so, i wonder how much they have re-written history to cover the real truths?.

factfinder

Is the new book illustrated? Any photos of Brooklyn, Wallkill & the printing branches?

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New "theocratic history" book for witnesses?

by stuckinarut2 in

so i have heard a few of us talking about a newly released book to replace or add to the proclaimers book?.

is that correct?.

if so, i wonder how much they have re-written history to cover the real truths?.

factfinder

When the new book was released did they limit how many copies you could have?