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  Is homosexuality wrong?

  by forgetmenot in

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  2. friends

  i know that the dub's view is that it is totally wrong.

  i live in an area where the majority of people think it is wrong.

  i don't think it is wrong (but i am not a homosexual).

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  1 Corinthians 6:9, 10 (New Living Translation)

  9Don't you know that those who do wrong will have no share in the Kingdom of God? Don't fool yourselves. Those who indulge in sexual sin, who are idol worshipers, adulterers, male prostitutes, homosexuals, 10thieves, greedy people, drunkards, abusers, and swindlers--none of these will have a share in the Kingdom of God.

  Romans 1:26, 27 (New Living Translation)

  26That is why God abandoned them to their shameful desires. Even the women turned against the natural way to have sex and instead indulged in sex with each other. 27And the men, instead of having normal sexual relationships with women, burned with lust for each other. Men did shameful things with other men and, as a result, suffered within themselves the penalty they so richly deserved.
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  History of disfellowshippings (Biblically)

  by MavMan in

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  first expulsion: adam and eve.

  first disfellowshipping: cain.

  biblical practice, got any questions?

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  AjaxMan:

  we don't read mind therefore, we don't know if it's biblical.

  You don't have to read my mind, I'm telling you that it was biblical.

  What makes it a biblical DF'ing?

  The fact that Jehovah mentioned the particular sin I committed in the Bible.

  How does the JC know whether the DF'ed person is repentant???

  This is a tough thing to do, because they cannot read the heart. But some signs show evidence of this, specially our attitude. My attitude for example was very uncaring. At the time, I did not care about myself, my family nor the congregation, thus showing that I was not repentant. Also I did not abandon my sinning path right away. So I was disfellowshipped.

  Reborn2002:

  I will stop coming here the day I am reinstated.
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  History of disfellowshippings (Biblically)

  by MavMan in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  first expulsion: adam and eve.

  first disfellowshipping: cain.

  biblical practice, got any questions?

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  detective:

  could you please provide the clarifications I asked for earlier in this thread

  Sure, sorry I skipped you. I will answer now,

  Adam and Eve were expelled from the Garden of Eden for being unrepentent sinners. Would they have put blame on someone else if they were repentant? So too, unrepentant sinners are expelled from the Christian congregation. Attending a meeting does not make the person part of the congregation.

  Regarding Cain. Jehovah did the disfellowshipping. Later he named some men as judges, eventually, the elder arrangment was instituted in the 1st century.
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  History of disfellowshippings (Biblically)

  by MavMan in

  1. jw
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  first expulsion: adam and eve.

  first disfellowshipping: cain.

  biblical practice, got any questions?

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  MavMan

  He has told me already. How? I feel it in my heart. I am able to pray to him with a clean conscience, something I was not able to do before.

  I am still disfellowshipped, I was turned down reinstatement on March 10th. But it was my fault for I did not communicate well with the elders. I am drafting a letter for reinstatement once again and will turn it in this coming week.
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  History of disfellowshippings (Biblically)

  by MavMan in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  first expulsion: adam and eve.

  first disfellowshipping: cain.

  biblical practice, got any questions?

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  MavMan

  Jehovah.
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  History of disfellowshippings (Biblically)

  by MavMan in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  first expulsion: adam and eve.

  first disfellowshipping: cain.

  biblical practice, got any questions?

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  MavMan

  Thi: Barnabas never questioned Paul's authority. He disagreed on the appointment of Mark, that's all. Paul does defend his authority, but ask yourself, Was John in his second letter not speaking of apostates?

  Ajax: I will not share in this forum the reason for my judicial committee meeting. I will tell you that it was biblical. I was disfellowshipped of not being repentant. I agree, I was not. Since then, I have repented and am working to have Jehovah's approval.
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  Quickest memorial invite ever

  by ashitaka in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  wifey's dad: hi, it's dad, how are things going?.

  wife: ok. wifey's dad: is (his son) on his way home yet?.

  wife: yeah, he left about twenty minutes ago.. {indiscriminate small talk, about one minute worth}.

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  AMarie:

  Tell me, is this scriptural?

  This is hard to tell with no details. I don't know how you handled yourself during the judicial meeting. No discipline feels good at the time it's given, but what is the purpose? To strighten us out.

  D8TA:

  Listen to yourself dude, "I was Forced", "I was Raped", they "shoved their **** in my ****". Quit labeling yourself a victim. If you were raised to be a JW by your parents, so what? Didn't that protect you from a lot of trouble out in the world? Try to see the good in things, instead crying foul and yelling "I'm a victim".
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  Quickest memorial invite ever

  by ashitaka in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  wifey's dad: hi, it's dad, how are things going?.

  wife: ok. wifey's dad: is (his son) on his way home yet?.

  wife: yeah, he left about twenty minutes ago.. {indiscriminate small talk, about one minute worth}.

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  MavMan

  You see, I, nor my wife, are disfellowshipped. In fact, we're merely inactive.

  I should have remember that, but I didn't. I apologize, I thought you two were disfellowshipped.

  Then you are right, the family shunning her is unscriptural. Of course, family is very important. I understand the shunning if you were out to to destroy their faith. But if you are not, then I don't see why they choose to act that way. I know this has not been taught at the Hall I attend.

  Name one lie. If you can't find one, then your words are slander.

  Again, for some reason, I was under the impression that you were trying to destroy their faith. If you are not and you are just inactive and not publicly criticizing their faith, then I was way off base.
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  Annointed before 1840??? &Before JW`s???

  by Beans in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  now as we know there are annointed ones,but what about those who didn`t have the chance to become annointed as the bible students were not around until a certain time?

  so you can only be of the annointed after the jw`s were conceived?.

  as we know jw`s are the only ones who will be saved in the magic kingdom but what about those who didn`t have the chance to be jw`s because they died before the inception of the religion?.

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  According to Romans, chapter 8, the "revelation of the sons of god" will soon be upon us. At that time, everyone will know exactly who was of the annointing and reigning in heaven.
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  History of disfellowshippings (Biblically)

  by MavMan in

  1. jw
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  first expulsion: adam and eve.

  first disfellowshipping: cain.

  biblical practice, got any questions?

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  MavMan

  The prodical son did not have to wait three months to a year be accepted back into his fathers house, did he? Why not?

  No, he did not have to wait three months to a year. He humbled himself to point of willing to take the job of a slave. He showed repentance. JWs disfellowship unrepentant sinners.

  Paul stated that the majority who rebuked the wrongdoer was enough.

  I don't believe he made that distinction. Certainly those Christians would have respected Paul's authority within the Christian congregation and not challenged him by associating with the wrongdoer. Obviously they did respect the arrangement, that's why Paul wrote his Second letter with instructions to accept the wrongdoer into the congregation.