let's add to the following list.
jws are mistaken when they believe the bible teaches:.
1. that their leaders somehow represent the faithful and wise servant.
That Jesus is a creature and not God in the flesh.
That the Holy Spirit is an “impersonal active force” and not a person.
That salvation is by works (cleaning one’s self up so you can become a Jehovah’s Witness, making sure you put in enough field service hours, meeting attendance, mustering up the willpower to keep yourself morally pure, etc.) - and NOT by grace (alone) through faith (alone) in Christ (alone).
have you seen this on jworg?.
https://www.jw.org/en/news/jw/region/global/coronavirus-report/.
2 minutes in everyone's favourite clow, stephen lett, tells us all that this coronavirus means we're in the last days of the last days.. cool.
Don’t they know they could sound a lot more convincing if those guys that the goofy guy with the big mouth interviewed just spoke from the heart, naturally and unscripted?
Everything in that video was staged and every word spoken was painfully scripted and read from a teleprompter. It makes the video seem so cultish, especially after watching so many unscripted live news interviews lately because of what’s going on.
over at jw talk they're saying because they're having to hold the upcoming memorial at home, they dont need to actually have the emblems.
apparently, listening to or watching the talk is the thing that counts.. "do this in rememberence of me" apparently means watching tony morris on your phone give a talk.. this begs the question... "what's the point?
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“Truly, truly, I say to you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you have no life in you.” (John 6:53)
have you guys seen jw.org today?
the main article is entitled “the four horsemen of revelation.”.
looks like the pale rider has arrived..... .
Yeah, I noticed that too. My uber-dub sister sent me an email about the U.N coming for religion and it had the words "peace and security" in it. She was absolutely giddy about, "this is it. You better get back to the organization."
I got a text message from a relative yesterday with a link to this news article:
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-russia-summit-britain-idUSKBN21017S
The text message said “Look! Bible prophecy being fulfilled! Better get ready! If you want to get together and have a bible study, let me know!”
have you guys seen jw.org today?
the main article is entitled “the four horsemen of revelation.”.
looks like the pale rider has arrived..... .
conservative christians like the jehovah's witnesses often claim that, like the new testament, the old testament forbids all sexual relations outside marriage, including relations between unmarried people.
that is not quite true.
to see that patriarchal and israelite culture adhered to a different standard, we must first understand just how the old testament treats marriage, sexuality and related items.. the old testament view of women as property.
JW’s teach moralism from the Old Testament that has nothing to do with Christ.
Real Christians teach that the entire Old Testament is pointing to Christ and man’s need for a savior. Christians distinguish between “moralism” and “morality.” One is anti-gospel, the other is a byproduct of the gospel.
i don't think i shared this story yet, it's strange and although i did a little detective work trying to figure out who said what and when i never found out much, big surprise, jehovah's witnesses love their secrets as we all know... but i thought other posters might find this interesting both in and of itself, because of what an elder told me one sunday back in 2011, and because of what it could imply as to high-ranking jehovah's witnesses prophesying the date of armageddon.
specific dates went out the window in 1975, although governing body helper ken flodin hinted at 2040 in a talk uploaded to jw.org a couple years back, and the governing body hinted at 2034 in a watchtower back in the 90s.
but it might be, just might, that more specific date-setting still goes on behind closed doors in certain circuits.... so after i went to "meetings" and talked to witnesses for a couple years at a rural congregation in the eastern united states an elder pulled me aside one service into the vestibule at the hall, in other words, into a private area where no one would overhear us.
if Armageddon got close enough Jehovah might tell Jesus the exact date
this is such an important issue, more and more people are succumbing to what must be some viral outbreak wreaking havoc in the world.. i'm talking about unnecessary punctuation.. it's easy to become infected.
you want to write something and add some emphasis so you add an exclamation mark to make it "important!
" but dang, it's not important enough is it??
My Pet Peeve Is Those People On The Internet Who Capitalize The First Letter Of Each Word In Every Sentence They Write.
did jesus ever utter the name jehovah?.
and if he didn't what are the implications?
nwt answers don't count but feel free to use the kingdom interlinear.
Half banana: Actually there is no record of Jesus having ever uttered a word.
All we have are words and sentences attributed to him a generation after he was supposed to have lived. There are no eye witnesses from Roman documents of the Bible's account of a miracle worker who could bring back the dead, let alone any verbatim records of his speech.
So by dwelling on what this fictional character said, this speculates on an existing myth and worst still it reinforces a credibility in the minds of those fixated by Christianity. After all if a person is quoted he must have lived?
Do you believe Socrates and Plato existed? If you do, what evidence supports your belief?
Most historians believe Jesus of Nazareth existed as a historical figure, whether or not he became mythicized over time. The Christ myth theory is a fringe theory which deviates from the mainstream historical view.
There is more evidence to support that Jesus existed as a historical figure than many of the other historical figures you probably accept as having really existed. Unless you're one of those people who believe the moon landing was fake.
i have never seen this country so divided.
something is going to give.
they is such a lack of recognition for the law.
This is clearly a sign that we are in the last days
