this came to me today.
at first jesus's own brothers didn't believe in him....thought he was crazy...can you imagine him shunning them for apostasy?
i would think disbelieving in jesus would be far worse than disbelieving the gb.
Jesus conducted miracles and his own brothers doubted him. Not a sin.
Sadducees stated Jesus' miracles were from the demons. That was an unforgivable sin.
Conclusion - denying the Governing Body is Jesus appoint slave from 1919 to the present is not heresy or a sin.
i like to check google news for "jehovah" every month to see what's new...".
man suspected of sexually assaulting a child, search warrant executed at kingdom hall of jehovah’s witnesses near woodland park" "teller county, colo. (kktv) - a 60-year-old man is suspected of sexually assaulting a child in the woodland park area.. the teller county sheriff’s office announced the arrest of shawn lance swisher on tuesday.. “a search warrant of swisher’s residence was also completed at the time of his arrest,” part of a news release issued by the teller county sheriff’s office reads.
“the second search warrant was executed at the kingdom hall of jehovah’s witnesses near woodland park.
This is the second time I have seen law enforcement executing a Search Warrant on a Kingdom Hall this year. 2 different Kingdom Halls in 2 different states. What I can also add is, in all my years, I have never seen a Search Warrant executed on any other religion except cases of extreme abuse in cult compounds.
for the same reasons jw's reject christmas they use the name jehovah.. dec 25 is the recognized day to celebrate the birth of christ in the world.- we use jehovah because it is the recognized name of the father in the world.. it dishonors jesus because we don't know the actual date of jesus birth- even though we don't know the actual pronouncing of gods name it brings honor to god to use it.
even though the angels rejoiced at the birth of jesus, no where in the bible does it say we should celebrate it.
even though no where in the bible does it say christians are to be witnesses of jehovah, we proudly bear his name!.
My family and I commonly celebrate birthdays a day before or a day later as it helps with schedules so everyone can attend. It doesn't "dishonor" the persons be doing so. Just the opposite - we all have a good time celebrating our family member's birth.
There is no law or tradition that demands birthdays be celebrated or that they not be celebrated or that they can only be celebrated on the actual calendar day of birth.
Jehovah's Witnesses are the true masters of making up whatever they want as "truth" and then grasping at straws to justify it with erroneous reasoning and taking scripture out of context.
a friend is just after sending this to me.. https://www.reddit.com/r/exjw/comments/zcrssl/schism_in_jehovahs_witnesses_over_secret_abuse/.
Just to be sure I read this article correctly; The claim is that the Watchtower is putting the JW membership on notice that they are aware of PIMO members and the bodies of elders have been tasked with sniffing them out?
mark jones explains the watchtower gospel much better than i can.. "the good news that christians in the first century preached was the birth, death and resurrection of jesus christ; that all those who believed in him were saved and reconciled to god through the death of his son.. unfortunately jehovah’s witnesses) have been led to believe it is something bizarrely different.
the good news according to the watchtower society is as follows:.
the the good news (according to jehovah’s witnesses).
Then for a long time he did nothing until 1919 when he chose the Watchtower society publishing company to be his channel of communication on earth. 3 He fed false information to the Watchtower leaders over the decades “as a cleansing” to sift out “those serving a date”. This is known as “new light”. 4
So, according to the Watchtower, Jesus is a lazy do-nothing and a liar.
personally i feel really sorry for these people.
free to do anything they want now because of changed circumstances they are deluded to waste more of their time and (no doubt) money putting in more time to this religious cult.. it breaks my heart reading their story.. https://www.thecharlottepost.com/news/2022/12/15/life-and-religion/living-the-balanced-and-more-focused-simple-life/.
He downsized to a 1,300-square-foot condominium and sold his restaurant in late 2022. “I am now happier because the stress of the business is not there and I can be in my ministry full-time,” he said.
If I sold a 4,000 square-foot home and a business to move into a smaller place my stress would go right out the window, too. I could spend my free time helping the poor and down trodden with real solutions are "right now" and not "coming soon" for the last 2,000 years.
mark jones explains the watchtower gospel much better than i can.. "the good news that christians in the first century preached was the birth, death and resurrection of jesus christ; that all those who believed in him were saved and reconciled to god through the death of his son.. unfortunately jehovah’s witnesses) have been led to believe it is something bizarrely different.
the good news according to the watchtower society is as follows:.
the the good news (according to jehovah’s witnesses).
I was saw the term "Yahweh sect" used to describe Jehovah's Witnesses and other sects that concentrate their belief system on the Old Testament. Makes sense.
a previous thread has inspired me to post this ,thanks guys .. { i`ve been out for so long i may have missed something }.
This is a good challenge. A part of the challenge is agreeing on the definition of "pagan". I believe that for the question posed the definition should be -
a person who worships many gods or goddesses or the earth or nature : a person whose religion is paganism. 2. old-fashioned + often offensive : a person who is not religious or whose religion is not Christianity, Judaism, or Islam.
In addition it has to be specifically a Watchtower teaching.
my favorites.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fsdg9qtjzzi.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7uudu66e_vw.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SvK3jEXJFdg
Charles Shultz seems to have invented all the best holidays.
many on here are ex jw....they have left the jws because of coming to find out the many false indoctrinations.
one of the things learned as a jw is that there isn't anything true about xmas being the birth of jesus.
( matt chapter 2 tells a whole different narrative about the baby jesus than what is portrayed by the christian churches) they learn the ways that are celebrated are pagan practices jesus told the samaritan woman that god wanted to be worshipped in spirit and it truth.
Something I recently learned is that Christianity is unlike any other religion. This difference even set Christianity apart from the other Abrahamic faiths of Judaism and Islam. Christianity is a religion based on belief and not on practice. Even practicing Jews have learned to answer "What do you believe" when asked by Christians because originally the question was a foreign concept.
We find in the Gospels that there are many differences in what the Jews of Jesus' day believed. Some, like the Sadducees, believed there were no spirit creatures other than God and there was no resurrection. The Pharisees on the other hand did believe in angels and a resurrection. They all offered sacrifices to God at the temple. They all attending the synagogue to listen to the law being read. They all obeyed the Sabbath. That was their practice. Because religion is a practice...unless you are a Christian. Then it is all about belief.
The first Christians were practicing Jews who added Jesus' teachings to their practice. This practice evolved even in the New Testament. The New Testament and the entire Bible stops, but Christianity kept evolving. Those changes are recorded, but just not in the Bible.
Those who are obsessed with trying to recreate the original Christian congregation fail. Those original 11 Apostles + Matthias changed their beliefs and practices. The Apostles who replaced those 12 Apostles did so likewise. They had to. As a religion grows its membership the religion natural changes.
To begin with the premise that 1) If it is not in the Bible it is not true and 2) If the Bible does not command/sanction something it is unacceptable practice to God is a logical fallacy. There are many recordings by Christians of the 1st and 2nd centuries of how they practiced.
Do you object to the celebration of wedding anniversaries? Do you object to the wearing of wedding rings? These are practices of a non-Judeo-Christian origin. So are these "pagan" practice that should be avoided?
Finally, read only the teachings of Jesus. Jesus on several occasions rebuked the religious leaders of the true religion of the day, Judaism, because they were concerned with rules and regulations rather than carrying for others and being content with basic necessities.
