https://cne.news/article/2827-court-case-jehovah-s-witnesses-norway-kicked-off.
norwegian jehovah's witnesses are in court this wednesday and thursday.
they are fighting the government's decision to remove their registration as a religious community.. .
Yes but governments have a right to withdraw taxpayers money to organizations they believe are harming children and adults and unnecessarily breaking up families in the process.
They might even use the money they save to inform the public about the dangers of associated with certain groups, religious or otherwise.
in 2008 i was baptized into the truth after leaving a trinitarian faith.
during my eight years as a jehovah’s witness, i strived to keep the standards set by the bible, wt and the faithfull and discrete slave.
but unfortunately, the congregational elders from the kingdom hall i attended were not keeping to jehovah’s standards, hence, wrote my letter of resignation.
As it stands my status is that of a disfellowshipped apostate ostracized from close family members.
Unfortunately injustices like this happen when you are in a cult.
i'm making a list.
1. salvation is redefined for the majority of members from justification to survival into a new system..
JWs believe that 99% of Christians don't have the indwelling Holy Spirit, nor are they adopted sons of our heavenly Father.
i'm making a list.
1. salvation is redefined for the majority of members from justification to survival into a new system..
I'm making a list
1. Salvation is redefined for the majority of members from justification to survival into a new system.
we all know that despite many scriptures to the contrary, jw's believe that when they die, their consciousness will cease.
my question is this: what will be the likely reaction of jw's if they find themselves conscious after death?.
Whether you wake up immediately at death or wait till the resurrection, you will have the exact same reaction. Either way, the next conscious moment after death, you will face the inevitable.
we all know that despite many scriptures to the contrary, jw's believe that when they die, their consciousness will cease.
my question is this: what will be the likely reaction of jw's if they find themselves conscious after death?.
I don't see one scripture which indicates that the human soul is innately immortal. The mortal soul puts on immortality only after the resurrection.
we all know that despite many scriptures to the contrary, jw's believe that when they die, their consciousness will cease.
my question is this: what will be the likely reaction of jw's if they find themselves conscious after death?.
Hi Seabreeze,
Regarding your list of scriptures to prove conscious life immediately after death; almost all relate to punishment after the resurrection. Consequently, they are irrelevant to the subject of consciousness prior to the resurrection. There is one exception and that is the Lukian account of Lazarus and the Rich Man which happens to be a parody of the Pharisees as is the preceding account of the master congratulating the conniving dishonest steward.
i happened to come across this video at the beginning of the week.
you feel so sorry for this poor woman who experienced csa and then the hardheartedness of the elders (what's new there) when she needed genuine love and help.. https://fb.watch/j1qacgxphi/.
J.V. shared
JEHOVAH’S WITNESSES
WA State House committee held a hearing on WA SB 5280 re: Clergy mandated reporting.
3 EX JW Heroes shared testimony about the jehovah’s witnesses cult’s horrendous child sexual abuse.
I couldn’t be more happy.
dear friends,.
i think you all know me as a person who has always strived, despite my imperfections to only ever wanting to be and remain in the “truth”.
it is in fact what i so desperately want for my son ashton and my baby girl honey bee, to be lovers of truth and grow up to be a loyal servants of jehovah god and his son, jesus christ.
Excellent OP! A real keeper. Hope many will be swayed to examine their faith in men.
do we understand these three words: worship, idolatry, and blasphemy?.
most christians have a vague notion of worship, idolatry, and blasphemy already, but.
a clear definition is necessary.. we must take care to differentiate, however.. how the words appear in original language and how they are defined today might be at odds.. ____________________.
Nothing to see here - move along.
