day text -- saturday, september 19 - "he will certainly bring about deliverance from the assyrian."mic.
today, jehovah certainly has provided an abundance of spiritual men to shepherd his precious sheep, to strengthen his people for the future attack of the modern-day assyrian.
the most practical step that we can take to prepare for the coming attack of the assyrian is that of strengthening our faith in god and helping our brothers to do the same.
Absolutely Truthseeker, the tripe keeps oozing out of the propaganda sausage machine!
For gawd's sake the ASSYRIAN is no longer a threat! They gave up two and a half millennia ago. What a non-sequitur... following the non existent threat of the assyrian that the bros must be convinced that Big J is helping them and that they must obey the GB even if they don't believe. (in essence)
https://www.reddit.com/r/exjw/comments/3lw5cx/new_letter_from_ccjw_is_a_doozy/.
on reddit.. i've been expecting this.. any confirmation?.
https://www.reddit.com/r/exjw/comments/3lw5cx/new_letter_from_ccjw_is_a_doozy/.
on reddit.. i've been expecting this.. any confirmation?.
i am a new member to this forum.
i am a current jw who is currently struggling to leave or stay, depends on how you want to look at it.
i have created a new blog, www.jwawoken.com to allow me to have an outlet for the cognitive dissonance in my brain.
Well good on you Awoken and good to have you here!
Can you tell us something about yourself and how you got to thinking how you do? Do you think many others share your doubts but don't dare mention it?
http://tv.jw.org/#video/vodprogramsevents/pub-jwbmw_201509_1_video.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mf9j7qs7bvm.
obey.
Tight Pants Tony looks as if he had earlier drawn the short straw and been assigned to spend time reading apostate comments to find out what they say.
Not being a masochist, I couldn't bear to watch the whole thing but the beginning was enough for me. His comment right at the start of the clip was that obedience always leads to Big J's blessing, which he delivered with a contradictory facial expression; raising his eyebrows and looking down.
There is some serious conflict going on in either the mind of TPT or the GB generally... which can't be a bad thing. Perhaps TTATT is dawning on them?
one of the things that gave me confidence in life was that i believed i had the almighty creator/god watching over me, directing me, guiding my every step, protecting me from harm, and answering my prayers.
i now know that is not the case anymore.
i finally stopped praying.
It is more charitable to believe the scientific evidence of evolution than to attribute the indifference to suffering, as shown by the hyenas, to a creator god who made his creation eat one another. And don't anyone say there was a perfect world before Adam sinned; we have evidence of Hyena tooth marks on human bones dating back hundreds of thousands of years.
As regards the lack of heavenly help John, it was only an illusion in the first place. JWs are taught DEPENDENCY, in real life we become self reliant which ultimately is more grown up and satisfying.
at the special assembly day (sad) imitate the desert god.. here is a word for word quote from the co during the baptism talk .
"an intellectual approach to the truth will not lead to everlasting life"....
generation x+x=generation why?
already bringing "great tribulation" on watchtower readers.
the watch tower society has got some splane-ing to do.
A wrong foundation year of 607BCE plus Jesus' failure of prophetic fulfillment in "this generation" as he plainly meant: "his OWN generation", leaves us with such an attenuated piece of speculation, it is an exercise as useful as stretching dead dodos. It is as practical as a hippopotamus on tall stilts for as we know the WT paradise and Armageddon are not real things.
generation x+x=generation why?
already bringing "great tribulation" on watchtower readers.
the watch tower society has got some splane-ing to do.
The answer is very easy. When the writers put the words into Jesus' mouth it was meant to be his own generation. Jesus was supposed to be thirty three when he died, about the normal length of a modern generation; between grandparent and grandchild (it would have been shorter back then).
Jesus failed miserably in his prophecy as have all subsequent notions of extending further dates to it. Calculations are a total waste of time when dealing with fairy tales.
Why not do something else instead? Like... enjoy your life!
tradition within christianity has long been that any time the phrases holy spirit, holy ghost, or spirit of godare used in the bible (especially in the new testament), it always refers to the mysterious third divine person of the trinity, who is fully god, co-equal to the father and son, yet somehow distinct.. i want to present a simplified alternative view: let the context determine the meaning!.
(one thing to keep in mind is that the meaning of the bible words used for spirit basically is unseen force or invisible presence.).
the holy spirit as the mind and personality of god.
Caleb in F: critical reasoning demanding evidence and based on evidence
Paradisebeauty: conventional assertions without any evidence
