Excellent questions pontoon! Short and sweet and very revealing.
Follow up:
Isn't that exactly what the Bereans did and were commended for?
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Talking to a Jehovah`s Witness .Ask the right questions .
by smiddy3 inwhat questions should be asked to a jehovah`s witness when confronted with them.. a jw gives his sermon.
"you" immediately ask him by what authority he has from god that you should take notice of him ,seeing their are over 40,000 different christian religions in the world who claim to represent god,.
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Announcement December 3, 2020 FOR CONGREGATIONS
by pixel inannouncement.
december 3, 2020. for congregations.
1. covid-19 vaccine information: several covid-19 vaccines may soon be approved and.
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Vanderhoven7
This article says neither of the two vaccines (Pfizer and Moderna) is manufactured using fetal tissue.
https://www.health.nd.gov/sites/www/files/documents/COVID%20Vaccine%20Page/COVID-19%20Vaccine%20Fetal%20Cell%20Handout.pdf -
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Who was it who ''rescued'', or ''saved'' you?
by Beth Sarim infrom the borg?.
i point to none other than cal lehman and the towerwatch ministries.
towewatch.com.. the years following the collapse of the ussr and the 1995 generation left a bad taste in my mouth for a long time.
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Vanderhoven7
Two JW elder types arranged a "Bible Study" with me in 1968. I was 21 at the time with little scriptural knowledge or knowledge about the organization. I was clearly in over my head from the start. My Dad came out of his office downstairs, asked if he could join the study and proceeded to turn both men on their heads with the Bible and facts. That's when I wanted to be like him and began my own research into the organization and their interpretive abuse.
Thanks Dad!
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Talking to a Jehovah`s Witness .Ask the right questions .
by smiddy3 inwhat questions should be asked to a jehovah`s witness when confronted with them.. a jw gives his sermon.
"you" immediately ask him by what authority he has from god that you should take notice of him ,seeing their are over 40,000 different christian religions in the world who claim to represent god,.
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Vanderhoven7
Merry Christmas Waton,
I just defined CSA for ya. It was Longlive's argument.
I'm not sure about the Boy Scouts. But perhaps he might argue that churches like the Catholic Church have finally openly admitted their error, removed guilty persons from office and attempted to make reparations. The WTS, on the other hand hypocritically condemns other churches, often refuses to report pedophiles in it's ranks, protects them if there aren't witnesses to the molestations and has to be dragged to court to make reparations.
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Talking to a Jehovah`s Witness .Ask the right questions .
by smiddy3 inwhat questions should be asked to a jehovah`s witness when confronted with them.. a jw gives his sermon.
"you" immediately ask him by what authority he has from god that you should take notice of him ,seeing their are over 40,000 different christian religions in the world who claim to represent god,.
jw.
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Vanderhoven7
CSA = Child Sexual Abuse
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Talking to a Jehovah`s Witness .Ask the right questions .
by smiddy3 inwhat questions should be asked to a jehovah`s witness when confronted with them.. a jw gives his sermon.
"you" immediately ask him by what authority he has from god that you should take notice of him ,seeing their are over 40,000 different christian religions in the world who claim to represent god,.
jw.
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Vanderhoven7
Very good question Smiddy. I'll try it when they eventually get back to door to door fieldwork.
They might respond that Jesus gave them authority in Matthew 28....another false claim. And as to things they still believe...Jesus selected them because they did not believe in the Trinity doctrine, immortality of the soul and eternal torment.
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Are there more Bethel layoffs in the immediate future?
by LongHairGal ini just saw a post on reddit: ‘wt are prepping the r&f for changes in the march/april meeting workbook’.. in the post the person noted what they read (for march 8) and it mentioned bethel adjustments and reference was made to 2015 when bethelites were let go.. if this happens (yet again) another bunch of people are being sent home to fend for themselves in the big bad world at an advanced age with little to no preparation.
even though this doesn’t surprise me, it could not come at a worse time with a global pandemic and massive job loss everywhere..congregations are already in turmoil because of so many who reached retirement age totally unprepared because they were told armageddon would be here before they reached that age.
this is in addition to all the other ‘needy’ and troubled types in the congregations looking for as$istance.. i hope any bethelites there have a plan and some people they can contact.
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Vanderhoven7
Plus another handful to vaccum the carpets, clean the sheets, make the meals, wash the dishes, film the rockstars, print the propaganda, buy the booze and chauffeur the Faithful Slave to and from the airport.
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Jesus speaks in third person
by menrov ini stumbled on john 17:1,2 which reads in net version:.
17 when jesus had finished saying these things, he looked upward to heaven and said, “father, the time has come.
glorify your son, so that your son may glorify you— 2 just as you have given him authority over all humanity, so that he may give eternal life to everyone you have given him.. if jesus had a close relation with his father, would you not expect to read something like this:.
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Vanderhoven7
Jesus seems to have wanted to withold specific information at times, such as forbidding demons from confessing who he was. If he had identified the other sheep as Gentiles for example he might have been rejected and persecuted needlessly by the Jews as Paul was for including them in God's plan of salvation.
Picked the following up somewhere on line.
Ben witherington III (a conservative NT scholar) holds that
if Jesus were to let on too early who He was He would have been crucified before being able to get done whatever preaching and teaching and miracles He did get done.
if Jesus' own followers didn't understand fully what He meant by calling Himself the son of man and the son of God, then how much more so everyone else? The full disclosure of who He was came after the resurrection (because no one understood that the Messiah would have to be crucified and then raised) when in John 21 Thomas calls Him "my Lord and my God!"
Makes sense to me.
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Has anyone contested a Will and WON????
by cha ching inmy jw mom just died last week, about 6 1/2 months after my non jw dad died (dehydration, starvation, imo) i was the executor of that will.
before a month had passed of his death, my dad & mom's will was changed.
i didn't know until she died.
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Vanderhoven7
Or you could just accept your mom's will and refuse to be a pain in the neck only a little lower.
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What Are Jehovah’s Witnesses Like Nowadays?
by minimus ini’ve been gone a long time.
after my mother passed away a few years ago, i pretty much lost most contact with the witnesses.
a couple that were family friends for many years stopped checking on me to say hello.
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Sea Breeze
Hadn't heard that Witnesses are permitted to vote. Anything in the literature about that?