when i was a witness it never felt like a free gift even helped my wife prepare a talk in the school where the elder in charge needed to make clear in his comments after that your not earning it.
Ucantnome
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Everlasting life is a free gift. Or is it?
by hoser inat the meetings i hear from time to time that everlasting life is a free gift from jehovah, but from a jehovahs witness point of view is it really?.
you will not receive the "gift" if:.
you miss meetings.
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Were People Surprised When You Left The Witnesses?
by minimus inmine was a gradual going away.
but once it dawned on them, i think people were shocked that i left the religion i espoused from youth.. were people "in the truth" and "in the world" surprised by your departure?.
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Ucantnome
i didn't think i would ever leave. how others felt i have no idea they never said. although the elders spoke to me and although i encouraged my wife to continue to attend the hall when i left. no one ever enquired of her how she felt although she was raised in the truth and had lived in the area for 20+ years.
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Were People Surprised When You Left The Witnesses?
by minimus inmine was a gradual going away.
but once it dawned on them, i think people were shocked that i left the religion i espoused from youth.. were people "in the truth" and "in the world" surprised by your departure?.
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i was surprised
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How would you answer these questions that came to me in an email through my website? ...
by AndersonsInfo inmany emails are sent to me through my website, watchtowerdocuments.com.
all are answered.
remember 1corinthians 6: 1-2 (i'll answer this question.
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question 12.
i think in the January 1st 2013 Watchtower there was an article about incorrect dates and i think they likened it to the 'first century disciples, who sometimes looked forward to fulfillment of prophecy ahead of God's timetable. (Luke 19:11; Acts 1:6; 2 Thessalonians 2:1,2)'
without giving the long answer.
in 1971 they said: 'Not alone were the inspired words of Ezekiel prophetic, but he himself was a prophetic figure in his action, as is later shown on occasions. (Ezekiel 24:24) Since Ezekiel himself was a "portent," or "sign" (AV) , of someone to come, and since he was not a type or prophetic figure of Jesus Christ, whom did prophet Ezekiel typify in carrying ou his divine commission?'
on page 66, 'Jehovah has found and commissioned his modern day "Ezekiel." It is a composite Ezekiel. It is composed of those dedicated, baptized proclaimers of God's kingdom, who have been anointed with His spirit for their work.'
To me it seems to be saying they had a different role than the disciples of the first century.
On page 70 'Jehovah would confirm him as a prophet before them by causing what Ezekiel prophesied to come true.'
i think this is an interesting quote on page 216
'Shortly, within our twentieth century, the "battle in the day of Jehovah" will begin against the modern antitype of Jerusalem, Christendom.'
(all quotes from the book The Nations Shall Know THAT I AM JEHOVAH- How? 1971 WTB&TS of Pennsylvania)
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Do you have a favourite scripture?
by Ucantnome ini have two.. luke 4.
16 he went to nazareth, where he had been brought up, and on the sabbath day he went into the synagogue, as was his custom.
he stood up to read, 17 and the scroll of the prophet isaiah was handed to him.
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Dis-member, maybe it's not quite the same but when we stopped attending the meetings the thought of joining another church wasn't palatable.
galatians 5: good scripture
i didn't appreciate elder visits
prologos i'm scared of heights
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Is there anything you could do forever that wouln't get boring?
by mynameislame innot sure when i came to this conclusion but i can't imagine living forever.
after a while i think i would be completly bored with everything.. not saying i wouln't like to live for a few hundred years or maybe even a few thousand if i could travel through space and discover other universes star trek style.
but the thought of living forever sounds like it would eventually become a complete drag.. maybe i'm wrong, maybe after a thousand years or so you would foregt all the stuff that happend at the beginning and just start over in an infinite loop..
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Ucantnome
probably not
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JWism and their curious doctrine of salvation
by Laika inin christian theology there is often a lot of talk about whether we are saved by faith or works, and what exactly those things mean.
this thread is not exactly about that, instead it's about how jws, in their inimitable style, somehow managed to create a doctrine that mixes the worst of both and caused me no end of internal conflict as a jw.. in jw doctrine, life is about an argument between jehovah and satan.
satan said that nobody follows jehovah out of love, but only for what they can personally get out of it.
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The music that moves you....
by FlyingHighNow inonce when i was profoundly sad for too many days, my brother in law sent us a mix tape.
he named each song after a person in our family.
this is the one he named heather.
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eighteen
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I just binned all my meeting clothes.
by quellycatface ina bit rash but very necessary.i never really liked them anyway..
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Ucantnome
i never really had any meeting clothes i just had clothes that i wore to the meeting and other places if i binned them i would be naked.
i never owned a suit in the last ten years or so of being a witness. i bought one after i left.
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ARE YOU AN ANGRY and BITTER APOSTATE?
by Hummingbird001 ini have noticed that there are different reactions to learning the "truth about the truth".
some become quite bitter and angry and become very activist.
others seem to just move on quite easily.. .
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Ucantnome
i feel irritated with the decisions i made in life based on the belief that the generation that saw the events of 1914 would also see the end.
i think i lost a lot