how did i miss this after studying the rev.
book 3 times:.
obeying christ’s kingdom rule, they (the great crowd) hope to inherit its blessings here on earth.
blondie,
I think the F&DS has gotten several self-promotions since they were organized like in that chart.
The F&DS class is now just the GB. They certainly are not over the GB if they still exist in WT mythology. Jesus is just an errand boy that mediates prayers, not reconciliation with God and Justification. And Jehovah is synonymous with the GB since they are his mouthpiece and celestial vehicle, his chariot-like organization.
yb71 p. 97 country reports (part one) - "in malta there is a monk reputed to have the powers of a seer, in the confessional being able to know a person’s sins before they are even confessed.
a woman in one of the villages was having family trouble, and made a journey to this confessor in the hope of getting some hidden information by the monk’s psychic powers.
after being told of the problem, the monk said: “don’t worry about it, my dear, the end of all things is very near!” another woman in the same village, somewhat opposed to the truth, told this to her husband, who is having a bible study.
Watchtower moral of the story: Listen to the demons, they wouldn't lie to you.
https://youtu.be/iv_uifab-qg?si=ttnajiuizmtqlte9.
it began during the last annual meeting of 2014 and now is trikling down to their watchtower magazines, this new "live and let live" attitude towards people of other faiths, or as they were known as babylon the great soon to be dead in the hands of god members.but it is a new different story, so let's read paragraph 15 from study article 15:.
"jehovah is kind to both the righteous and the unrighteous.
Thus until that publication removes the Interfaith paragraph from the section dealing with Apostasy, as a disfellowshiping matter ... it is pointless to get overly excited about this thread.
Exactly. We are talking about freedom of religion. During the Catholic Inquisitions which lasted 6 centuries, not one of 80 Popes in a row declined to speak against the institution of the Inquisition.... which is all the JW judicial committiees are. Instead of actual torture that resulted in murder, the JW Inquisition flies under modern countries radar with social murder... shunning.
A former Catholic Priest explains:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RE_kl620IOE&ab_channel=borhany1979
From 1206 to 1805 fifty million people died.
how did i miss this after studying the rev.
book 3 times:.
obeying christ’s kingdom rule, they (the great crowd) hope to inherit its blessings here on earth.
How did I miss this after studying the Rev. book 3 times:
Obeying Christ’s Kingdom rule, they (THE GREAT CROWD) hope to inherit its blessings here on earth. They come to Jesus’ anointed brothers and “bow down” to them, spiritually speaking, because ‘they have heard that God is with them. - Revelation Book Ch. 12 under the subtitle : “They Will Bow Down to You”
Compare with ACTS 10 25 & 26 when Peter would not tolerate a man bowing down to him.
- As Peter entered the house, Cornelius met him and fell at his feet in reverence. 26But Peter made him get up. “Stand up,” he said, “I am only a man myself.”
God's "chariot-like organization":
what could be "an instruction not sound by a human standpoint"?.
i'm going by dissolving their legal entities...any guesses?.
What could be "an instruction not sound by a human standpoint"?
What I'm about to ask you to do may not seem sound from a human standpoint.
uh oh, looks like the mega thread gave up the ghost, so while i investigate / fix it just continue the discussion here .... it's been a long 9 years lloyd evans / john cedars.
I wonder if he ever thought that his "repression" would result in another man sleeping with his wife every night and his kids calling another man daddy?
i have been lurking around here for years.
i'm not a witness, but my in-laws are.
my wife grew up in it but was never baptized.
whenever we touch any religious subject, it's like the lights turn off, and they go into robot mode.
This is a global phenomena among JW's. The robot mode you are referring to is the indoctrination kicking in reminding them that they alone have the "TRUTH"."
To receive everlasting life in the earthly Paradise we must identify that organization and serve God as part of it." Watchtower 1983 Feb 15 p.12
"The plain truth is that we cannot say that we trust in Jehovah if we do not trust in his earthly representatives - those whom Jehovah trusts. Today Jehovah leads the earthly part of his organisation by means of "the faithful and discreet slave."" Examining the Scriptures 23 June 2023
"Today Jehovah leads the earthly part of his organization by means of “the faithful and discreet slave.” ... We show that we trust in Jehovah’s way of doing things by heeding the direction we receive from the organization and the elders." Watchtower 2022 Feb p.4
"Some may feel that they can interpret the Bible on their own. However, Jesus has appointed the ‘faithful slave’ to be the only channel for dispensing spiritual food. Since 1919, the glorified Jesus Christ has been using that slave to help his followers understand God’s own Book and heed its directives." Watchtower 2016 Nov p.16
https://youtu.be/i4uttjj7eus?si=0b-fzpqm8axb_d3p.
in its latest april 2025 watchtower study article 17 and paragraph 12 the watchtower promotes 2 dangerous lies that will cost your life if you are a believing christian during the time of the end, so i'm considering today the first lie in the first part of the paragraph, but first let's read the paragraph itself: "today, jehovah promises to provide us with spiritual protection.
he will never allow satan to corrupt true worship.
Good points. Jesus said that the world would be filled with deception at the end of the age:
Mt. 24 - 3-5 Now as He sat on the Mount of Olives, the disciples came to Him privately, saying, “Tell us, when will these things be? And what will be the sign of Your coming, and of the end of the age?”
And Jesus answered and said to them: “Take heed that no one deceives you. For many will come...and will deceive many".
"Come to Jehovah's organization for salvation" Watchtower 1981 Nov 15 p.212
"Consider, too, the fact that Jehovah's organization alone, in all the earth, is directed by God's holy spirit or active force. (Zech. 4:6) Only this organization functions for Jehovah's purpose and to his praise. To it alone God's Sacred Word, the Bible, is not a sealed book." Watchtower 1973 Jul 1 p.402
"Christ thus leads the congregation by means of the spirit-anointed "faithful and discreet slave" and its Governing Body." Examining the Scriptures Daily 2007 p.34
"Jehovah’s visible organization can use you, but can get along without you too. But you cannot get along without it. Fruitless ones are eventually pruned off and never missed as new ones are grafted in. Pruned-off branches soon wither and die, being cut off from the circulating, life-giving sap." Watchtower 1950 Jan 15 p.26
i know as a jw i concluded several times that i was not brainwashed as i was not some unautonimous zombie and had not experienced anything akin to.... .
but in reality, brainwashing is a control of thought and ideas over a person and changing the way they think.
in normal life such sentences are not used, in fact they are highly discouraged... .
Some EX-JWs appear brainwashed too:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_tZan-PYDCk&ab_channel=KimMikey
https://youtu.be/iv_uifab-qg?si=ttnajiuizmtqlte9.
it began during the last annual meeting of 2014 and now is trikling down to their watchtower magazines, this new "live and let live" attitude towards people of other faiths, or as they were known as babylon the great soon to be dead in the hands of god members.but it is a new different story, so let's read paragraph 15 from study article 15:.
"jehovah is kind to both the righteous and the unrighteous.
JW's will have to find other means to get their jollies since it is no longer PC to talk about their neighbors and co-workers becoming bird food and manure on the ground. The old timers are being put out to pasture, after WT ganked their life savings and family wealth of course.
This is nothing less than WT admittling that they never believed the old filty whore schtick about churches, just as they never believed the fear porn about the UN being the wild beast of Satan when they agreed to support UN objectives while they were listed as a UN NGO.
The question is how many brain-dead members under 40 will go along with this ?
