no 46 wt nov 2019.. the shield of faith, that jws are told to hide behind is so large, page 19, that if held comfortably would require it to have rear view mirrors, (to see 1975).
I saw a Youtuber point out the same thing about the Watchtower's definition of faith the other day. It is an odd interpretation of faith, that doesn't make sense. Having an expectation in something doesn't demonstrate a conviction.
Wouldn't it be more accurate to say that 'faith' is the assured confidence in things hoped for or believed?
They use the scripture in Psalms 37 which says that the meek will inherit the earth, to support their idea that the other sheep will live on earth. Then they say it's not the other sheep that will inherit the earth, it's the anointed.
the governing body of jehovah’s witnesses have approved the formation of an additional management corporation for jehovah’s witnesses in australia and the formation of a new audio visual production company.. on 11 november 2019 a new jehovah’s witnesses company, “kingdom support services (australasia) limited” (kssa), was registered in australia to “promote throughout australasia the advancement of the christian religion as understood and taught by the ecclesiastical governing body” and to “co-operate with or provide financial assistance to persons having similar aims and purposes and to other charitable organizations having similar aims and purposes within australasia or elsewhere”.. the structure and charitable purpose of kssa allows it to provide benevolent disaster relief (‘financial assistance’) to victims of the current bushfires in australia, albeit limited exclusively to “jehovah’s witnesses [who] practice their religion under the spiritual direction of the governing body”.
as of january 2020, the jehovah’s witnesses branch committee in australia, under the direction of the governing body, have formed two disaster relief committees to provide spiritual and material help to bushfire victims in australia that meet the religion’s criteria.. two days earlier, on 8 november 2019 another jehovah’s witnesses company, “avs productions (australasia) limited” (avspa), was registered in australia to “record, produce, publish, and distribute or dispose by way of gift music, photographs, film, animation, and other intellectual property of a religious or charitable nature”.. both new jehovah’s witnesses corporations have registered with the australian charities and not-for-profit commission (acnc) as religious charities.. despite the audio visual and animation production objects of avspa this new corporation also claims to “support members of the worldwide order of special full-time servants of jehovah’s witnesses”.. these two new jehovah’s witnesses companies join the new and controversial management corporation, christian congregation of jehovah’s witnesses (australasia) limited (ccjwa), which was formed on 12 april 2019 to administer congregations, congregation charities, and bodies of elders.
and also to “support members of the worldwide order of special full-time servants of jehovah’s witnesses”.. ccjwa, despite being registered as a not-for-profit corporation with the australian securities and investments commission (asic), is yet to be approved as a charity by the acnc.
What a loving provision to have the GB tell you what you NEED to do to get baptized and what you NEED to do after you get baptized.
They'll tell you what God's will is so that you can ensure you will be giving up your life to do it. What they don't tell you is that the Watchtower decides what God's will is.
we had to go off grid for a time, time and half a time as we thought we had been outed.
fortunately it was a false alarm, but it was a stressful time.
i asked for my original diary thread to be deleted in case there could be anything on there to identlfy mrs smith and i. i am always very careful when posting, and am sure there was nothing on there, but felt it best to have it removed in order to be as cautious as a dove.
I have one family member that has 'faded' and is more happier than ever. You just never know who will eventually wake up, there is always hope and it's nice being there to be of some support.
we had to go off grid for a time, time and half a time as we thought we had been outed.
fortunately it was a false alarm, but it was a stressful time.
i asked for my original diary thread to be deleted in case there could be anything on there to identlfy mrs smith and i. i am always very careful when posting, and am sure there was nothing on there, but felt it best to have it removed in order to be as cautious as a dove.
The Greens have never had the majority vote in Government on mainland Australia, I can't see how they can be blamed for final decisions the ruling Government chooses to make.
There is a lot to be learnt from this. New ways of dealing with the threat of fires and the fires themselves will be important.
There is so much suffering that comes from this and it the repercussions will be felt for some time. There is also a lot of coming together and supporting each other.
Our firefighters and volunteer firefighters are true hero's.
They also claimed, on this video, that they spent nearly $50,000,000 on relief work over the last two years. They didn't go into very much detail as to a breakdown of this spending but they did include approximately 700 Kingdom Halls which had been destroyed or damaged.
Do you believe that they call repairing or rebuilding their own buildings as relief workers?
I wouldn't be surprised if they also called payments to child abuse victims, relief work.
In the video we hear how Jehovah has performed miracle after miracle after miracle when it comes to buying land, building properties and getting licences.
In the speech that Loesch gave, he goes through some of the history of the Watchtower organization. He said that Rutherford saw himself as the leader of the organization but in 1942 he declared that he wasn't the leader but just taking the lead, as the bible says.
I don't know why Loasch admitted to this, maybe there will be new light and they will throw out all the false teachings introduced by Rutherford whilst he was acting as leader in the place of Christ, I doubt it though. But this was why many left the organization and to this day the GB talk about those ones as being unfaithful.
It is the Scriptural responsibility of congregation elders to determine whether the alleged perpetrator should remain one of Jehovah’s Witnesses
They've written the report identifying the idea that this is the only reason their religion holds a JC. It's pretty pathetic when they don't acknowledge that they have any other responsibilities when they hear claims of child abuse
They know publicly acknowledge that child abuse is a crime and all they are concerned about is whether an abuser is allowed to remain a Jehovah's Witness or not.