paul has allowed me to write up two articles for jwfacts: iglesia ni cristo, and why russell was not a mason.here is my iglesia ni cristo article.
“we believe that there is only one true god, the father, and no one else besides him”.
thus, faith alone is not enough.. about baptism.
That's a good comparison. The only statement that I can see that is not correct is that both disfellowship for marrying a non believer. The JWs do not do this as a practice and will (generally) only mark an individual for dating a non believer.
You may want to include how they are funded.
i had a brother visit me yesterday to invite me to the memorial.
as usual, despite the unspoken passive aggressiveness, i was polite,.
anyway, this year, he started his presentation by saying: "the governing body (gb) wants us to read this bible passage to you!
When they talk about love in their letters, don't they usually qualify it but saying 'brotherly love. It sounds really creepy when they say they love you, most blokes rarely say those words and when they do, it is only to close family members or very close friends whom they've developed a special personal relationship with. By missing the term, it cheapens the sincerity of those words.
did anybody (who went to the memorial) notice the opening song?.
keep in mind that this is the most important night of the year for the witnesses.
it is supposed to be all about jesus christ.
Spot on Sparrowdown.
did anybody (who went to the memorial) notice the opening song?.
keep in mind that this is the most important night of the year for the witnesses.
it is supposed to be all about jesus christ.
Drearyweather, where did you get that idea from, I can't find it in their publications?
for several weeks i've been treating myself to a hot chocolate milk (well, soymilk) before bedtime.
some 16 oz soymilk which i heat on high in our microwave oven.
this is just enough time where the liquid begins to bubble along the top edge.. i then take it out of the microwave and place it on my kitchen gram scale, stir it good enough to redistribute the heat, then reset the scale to zero grams.. next, i squeeze in the hershey's sytup, "special dark mildly sweet chocolate" (fat free) into the warmed soymilk till the scale reads some 30 grams.
place it on the scale and stir.
From my experience with scales, if you stir food when it is sitting on the scale it will mess up the reading.
in moscow, a soft rain drizzles.
along the facade of the supreme court stretched a large queue of those who came to the process as listeners.
a large bus is parked at the courthouse on povarskaya street, full of obviously bored police officers.
The absurdity of the position of the Russian Ministry of Justice, demanding that all 396 religious organizations of Jehovah's Witnesses in Russia be ruled to be "extremist," and to ban their activity and confiscate their property, and also the mass of contradictions appearing in the course of judicial proceedings forced the Supreme Court of the RF on 7 April to again postpone consideration of the case, this time until 12 April, a Portal-Credo.Ru correspondent reports.
http://www2.stetson.edu/~psteeves/relnews/170407a.html
If this report is accurate, it looks like the Ministry has a lot of work to do between now and then.
the witnesses lodged a counterclaim against their lawsuit on the 30 march, 2017.their argument is that the actions of the ministry of justice against them are 'political repressions'.the following link states "in the lawsuit numerous instances are cited testifying to the fact that prosecution of jehovah's witnesses is politically motivated."http://www2.stetson.edu/~psteeves/relnews/170402a.html.
it is a contradiction to what they have written in their "political neutrality' leaflet which states.
jehovah’s witnesses do not involve themselves in political issues or governmental affairs.
The Witnesses lodged a counterclaim against their lawsuit on the 30 March, 2017.
Their argument is that the actions of the Ministry of Justice against them are 'political repressions'.
The following link states "In the lawsuit numerous instances are cited testifying to the fact that prosecution of Jehovah's Witnesses is politically motivated."
http://www2.stetson.edu/~psteeves/relnews/170402a.html
It is a contradiction to what they have written in their "Political Neutrality' leaflet which states
Jehovah’s Witnesses do not involve themselves in political issues or governmental affairs. They have no interest in attempting to influence governmental authorities. (John 15: 18; 17:14, 16) As a result of their spiritual values, Jehovah’s Witnesses do not involve themselves in lobbying, civil disobedience, or movements to seize power or bring about changes in governments or laws. The Witnesses’ simple stand of nonparticipation in political issues makes them exemplary, peace-loving citizens from whom governmental authorities have nothing to fear.This also means that by asking all JWs to involve themselves in this legal issue by writing letters, individuals have also become politically involved.
my wife was recently cornered by the elders about her blood card because she didn't have one.
so one elder witnessed her sign it and he signed it and one elder made himself her health care agent.. with the memorial coming up i am thinking of maybe having a life insurance policy drawn up, maybe in the amount of 300 or 400 dollars a month and i will ask these two dipshits if they would like to sign it.
it only seems fair they should be finicially responsible for my son since they made my wife sign a document endangering her safety.. what do you think?.
Can't you use your 'headship' authority to ask for the card and documents? How dare an Elder claim authority over her health care.
in this wt literature illustration from a german kingdom hall, one can see that the two nonwestern jw's on the right are featured as needing to improve on their choice of clothing and become more american like the gobo wishes them all to be.. .. .
Let's see them publish this article in the public addition, after all, it is supposed to be spiritual food applicable to everyone. They wouldn't because they know they are rules for cult members only.
Com'on tight pants Tony, if your ideas are so Bible based, print them in the public addition so all may recieve your pearls of wisdom. Don't forget your gay designer comments.
i think it would be great if the gb could testify on behalf of the russia brothers they say care so much about.
if nothing else it would show the dear russian brothers that jehovahs organization has their back.
and give them moral support.
They have asked for the case to be held in a large courtroom, enough to hold 200 people, they have also asked for permission to videotape it.
