i have a question i'd like to ask long time witnesses and hopefully get serious answers ... if there is one.. can anyone tell me any area of life that active witnesses are totally free to use their own christian conscience on a matter?.
(for example, one that has not been commented on by wt articals).
can anyone tell me any area of life that active witnesses are totally free to use their own christian conscience on a matter?
There are no articles relating to which alcoholic beverages to select from.
Apparently one is as appropriate as the other ..... in moderation of course
hi guys,.
so then, why did you get dunked?
were you pressured into it too, or did you do it because you honestly thought it was the right thing to do?.
I wanted to get right with God.
i'm really interested in this question because i've heard for years that if you forgo further education and go pioneering, when you have a family down the track you will get a good job because jehovah will provide for you because you pioneered.
as long as i was a kool-aid drinker, even then, i thought, "how does pioneering pay your bills?
surely education should come first.
I actually left the Watchtower to get a university degree in sociology. I found some of my sociology professors to be just as narrow-minded as the elders. I was disappointed in the "education" but did benefit overall from the experience.
A bad education is still better than no edumacation.
i was at the check-out counter sitting in my wheelchair, listening to the customer behind me talk to the cashier.
he looks at her and says she looks tired.
she rings through one more of my purchases and she it has been a long day.
Nice POV. I think we were meant to be involved in the "trival" and to find great happiness there.
walking down memory lane today and recalled a convo with my ex about noah's ark.
(i made all the rookie mistakes when talking to my ex about jw stuff -sigh.
) i think i said something like 'if you believe in noah's ark take the cat and a mouse from the backyard for a drive around the block and let me know how it goes.
It's interesting to me how some scientists believe in the evidence of mars being covered in water
And then with a straight face, claim that an earthly global flood is impossible.
Christianity and science are inextricably intertwined. A Global Flood point of view was only recently rejected by many and was specifically predicted that scoffing at such would be a viable sign indicating the approaching or nearness of Christ's return.
Knowing this first, that there shall come in the last days scoffers, ...saying, ... for since the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of the creation [modern uniformitarianism belief]. For this they willingly are ignorant of, that ...the world that then was, being overflowed with water, perished: - 2 Peter 3
please for give me if it is.
i just received a call from an ex jw who was df the same time as me.. for not accepting 1914..... she picked up the wt at the library,jan 1st 2013 page 8 they there .
admit they have made errors in the dates they have given.....maybe this is why so many are leaving.. they told us that 1914 born folks would see armegeddon .i was born in 1927...i am 86 in may????.
Ahhh shucks grandma [blush]
jehovahs witnesses and psychiatric diagnoses?.
today i added a new article to my blog sharing information from a 1983 study published in the journal for the scientific study of religion addressing religious affiliation and psychiatric diagnoses.
this article pulls information from an excellent academic study that is often misunderstood and therefore underutilized for its value.
This is one area where I think religion can excel and I would expect to see a higher incidence of mental issues in the same way I would expect to find more sick people in a hospital.
Qcmbr,
When you consider the MANY studies that prove the health benefits of praying, it makes the JW propensity for mental illness all the more perverse because it bucks the trend.
please for give me if it is.
i just received a call from an ex jw who was df the same time as me.. for not accepting 1914..... she picked up the wt at the library,jan 1st 2013 page 8 they there .
admit they have made errors in the dates they have given.....maybe this is why so many are leaving.. they told us that 1914 born folks would see armegeddon .i was born in 1927...i am 86 in may????.
Thanks for the post Mouthy! I too have appreciated your contributions over the years. I left in '95 with the jettisoning of the generation doctrine. At that time I saw the writing on the wall RE: 1914 and packed my bags & adios.
Now, if they'd just come clean on the Mediator issue, perhaps many could avoid judgment after they die.
do you see anything even remotely in these scripture that fore tell a future slave that would dominate the rest of the slaves with a publishing company?
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42 therefore keep watch, because you do not know on what day your lord will come.43 but understand this: if the owner of the house had known at what time of night the thief was coming, he would have kept watch and would not have let his house be broken into.44 so you also must be ready, because the son of man will come at an hour when you do not expect him.. 45 who then is the faithful and wise servant, whom the master has put in charge of the servants in his household to give them their food at the proper time?46 it will be good for that servant whose master finds him doing so when he returns..
Pharaoh put Joseph in charge, literally, of the food supplies. In addition, Pharaoh made Joseph second in all his kingdom and gave him full authority over everything but the throne. It's a very similar relationship between Jehovah and Jesus.
leaving quietly,
I don't see how there could be much of a similarity there. Hebrews 1:5 reads:
For unto which of the angels said he at any time, Thou art my Son, this day have I begotten thee? And again, I will be to him a Father, and he shall be to me a Son?
The answer of course is NONE. Jesus is unique in that he ALONE was begotten by God, not created. He posessed dna from his mother, but was not a clone of Mary.... obviously because he was male. God supplied the other half of the necessary substance from his own being and thus begot the figure we call Jesus.
One of the qualities of God's substance is his omnipresence. Hence we see Jesus referring to his divinity at times such as this:
And no man hath ascended up to heaven, but he that came down from heaven, even the Son of man which is in heaven.- John 3: 13 KJV (Majority Text)
The Son of Man was both in heaven and on earth at the same time, just as God can be.
Other times, Jesus speaks from the standpoint of his humanity. This dual nature of Jesus is the only way to reconcile ALL of his statements.
Matthew 28:18 - And Jesus came and spake unto them, saying, All power is given unto me in heaven and in earth.
Of course it is inevitible Satan:
These have one mind, and shall give their power and strength unto the beast. 14These shall make war with the Lamb, and the Lamb shall overcome them...15And he saith unto me, The waters which thou sawest, where the whore sitteth, are peoples, and multitudes, and nations, and tongues. - Rev. 17
