just ran across this beautiful example of circular reasoning from the watchtower.w85 12/1 31. .
questions from readers.
was the apostle paul part of the christian governing body?.
His inspired writings show that Paul sometimes settled issues himself. That is as might be expected back then with one of the governing body who was far away from the central body and faced with slow means of communication.
i have just been informed that there is a 'special letter' to be read at the meetings week of feb 3,2019 in canada.
anybody heard of this!!
just a heads-up!
Thanks for the update acluetofindtheuser.
am a newcomer.
had a starnge metting in local news last night.. check it out.
actual info starts at 50;12. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=plxdjs13l0k.
@51.41 he says "you've heard it a thousand times"
Enough said.
thanks to atlantis, this statement is mentioned on chapter 1 paragraph 1 in the middle.
but i like how the statement says members but the sentence right before has the governing body dudes in a collective whole like voltron here is the paragraph in whole.
1. governing body: the governing body of jehovah's witnesses is made up of brothers who are anointed servants of jehovah god.
Great pick up Fabian.
With your first point, this supports how they view themselves. As individual GB members, they consider themselves to be 'domestics' like all other JWs and being instructed by the FDS. As a collective group of GB members coming together, they form the FDS. They do not state that the FDS is not the leader.
As for the term 'Governing Body', a Government has all authority in regards to leadership.
just in case anybody needed this.. 2018 branch organization manual.
https://we.tl/t-vya6lknwtn.
atlantis!.
Your amazing Atlantis. 🏋🏻🏆
thanks to atlantis and his sources, we are able to examine material from the alleged "faithful slave" which is intended only for the eyes of the shepherds wolves in the congregation.. information needed for visit of circuit overseer .
all congregation accounts records covering the period since the last visit, which would include any bankbook being used and the records for any additional accounts being kept by the congregation.
(do you have excess money which should have been given to us?).
It is unbelievable that they need a circuit overseer to audit every congregations books that he visits. There is no bible principle to establish such a focus on materialism. The org. does not trust the Elders in financial matters so why are they trusting them in much more life altering situations? Why doesn't the CO, at the very least, review JCs?
single zipped folderhttps://we.tl/t-uiqj87wimd.
2019-02-02-musical preludeshttps://we.tl/t-zyfpnodizd.
s-21-e congregation's publisher record (2018-12).pdfhttps://we.tl/t-i9qamx3s0q.
Thanks Atlantis, much appreciated.
Here are some thoughts on some of the rulings found in the Shepherding Book. In many instances they continue to list a number of questions that the Elders should consider but don't even explain why they should consider those things. My guess is that examples are given at the special Elder schools and they list those in their books. This makes it seem like the organization is not so dogmatic.
Their appears to be a change in attitude about Elder's children living at home, this includes adult children.
If a brother’s wife or child, including an adult child living in his home, is involved in serious wrongdoing, the body should seek to determine whether the brother was negligent...Allows Disfellowshipped or Disassociated Family Member to Move Into His Home:...Similar questions should be considered when an adult child living at home is disfellowshipped or disassociated and allowed to remain in the home.
31...Elders do not generally involve themselves in what an individual does with regard to petty gambling solely for entertainment. However, if such petty gambling affects his spirituality or becomes a cause of stumbling for others, counsel should be given.
An exception may be made, however, if the unbeliever privately makes an unambiguous confession of adultery to the Christian mate. In such a case, if the innocent Christian mate believes that the confession is true and does not wish to reconcile, he can submit a letter to the elders outlining his situation...If there is no known reason to conclude otherwise, the innocent mate can be allowed to take responsibility before Jehovah for obtaining a Scriptural divorce; if he remarries, no judicial action will be taken.
76.2 The innocent mate signs a divorce decree or in some other way indicates he does not object to a divorce initiated by the guilty mate, either before or after learning of the adultery.
76.3 Though verbally expressing forgiveness and not seeking a divorce, the innocent mate refuses to resume sexual relations for a very prolonged period of time, a year or even years.
if you haven’t seen these two videos yet, you need to.
absolutely outstanding work by theramin trees explaining and breaking down the arc:.
https://youtu.be/tsvjmlg_sam.
Applewhite isn't even a JW, according to them, she's under the influence of Satan. If it fits their agenda, they'll do whatever they want and then scratch their heads when it backfires.
a few weeks ago i took the jw channel off of our roku.
i was just cleaning off unused channels and wondered if my wife was actually watching this.
yep.
They are crazy. They give a talk at the annual meeting titled 'This is it' and the very next talk explains why this isn't it.
this is simply disturbing and infuriating!.
the may 2019 wt has defiantly and arrogantly been released by the gb, and it is full of their disgusting excuses for not complying with authorities!.
(i have seen and read all the articles, but cant work out how to upload a link here - perhaps someone can assist?).
While the elders are not authorized to enforce the law of the land, they do not shield any perpetrator of child abuse from the legal consequences of his sin. (Rom. 13:4)
