how come the watchtower will not side with christendom and address a topic like the following?
what if christendom had allowed islam to spread it's plunder into europe without a fight and great force?
i direct your attention to islam spreading not as a distraction, but to ask the question most atheist have asked me when we talk of this subject.
All babies are born into an atheistic state and are then subsequently taught beliefs.
There has never been a historical society observed that did not have some kind of religion. It is natural for man to seek guidance from a higher power.
A much more accurate statement might be something like:
All babies are born with an empty mental data base and then are subsequently taught beliefs and conclusions from a variety of sources.
how come the watchtower will not side with christendom and address a topic like the following?
what if christendom had allowed islam to spread it's plunder into europe without a fight and great force?
i direct your attention to islam spreading not as a distraction, but to ask the question most atheist have asked me when we talk of this subject.
Biblical Christianity is about relationship OVER religion. AS JW's we were prevented from having a relationship with the risen Savior. Lots of so-called Christian religions socialize their members (knowingly and not) to varying degrees to have a relationship with their religion and not Jesus.
Some "Christians" sort of get the idea that Jesus did his thing and now its time for the religion to take over. Biblical Christians have a day to day relitionship with the living diety - the resurrected Jesus Christ. He is very much alive and in total control of everything, expecially life. He presides over a decaying and dying world, aliented from a righteous and Holy God.
No person in relationship with Christ is committing genocide. That's absurd. Jesus is about loving your enemies to the extent possible.
i was raised as a jw, most of my family is still in, i regular pioneered for 5 years, elder for even longer.
preached for over 40 years that the 1914 generation will see the end, etc, etc... believed every single word, and preached it with total conviction.. i have not been active for approx 7 years, completely faded now, mainly because i couldn't believe a loving god would destroy me, after coming to terms with and admiting i was preaching a lie.. i'm extremely happy i'm out, although still hitched to it somehow by my past, i guess like many of us on here.. i do have a question for all jws.. how can "god, who cannot lie" a god which is love, justify destroying the world, including all of us that left, and saving only the jws, when for decades one of the main teachings of the jws has proved to be a lie?
a teaching no one wants to discuss anymore, which got covered up by a new light, which most can't even explain.
People are different, and if we are the children of God, I believe He would do everything He could for us.
That's the problem, we are not God's children at birth. We are children of Adam. As such, God has no obligation whatsoever to us. Yet, while we were yet enemies and sinners, Christ died for us. For those who do not put trust in Jesus ALONE, their sin (and judgement that determines salvation) remains.
John 3:18 He that believeth on him is not condemned: but he that believeth not is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God.
i was raised as a jw, most of my family is still in, i regular pioneered for 5 years, elder for even longer.
preached for over 40 years that the 1914 generation will see the end, etc, etc... believed every single word, and preached it with total conviction.. i have not been active for approx 7 years, completely faded now, mainly because i couldn't believe a loving god would destroy me, after coming to terms with and admiting i was preaching a lie.. i'm extremely happy i'm out, although still hitched to it somehow by my past, i guess like many of us on here.. i do have a question for all jws.. how can "god, who cannot lie" a god which is love, justify destroying the world, including all of us that left, and saving only the jws, when for decades one of the main teachings of the jws has proved to be a lie?
a teaching no one wants to discuss anymore, which got covered up by a new light, which most can't even explain.
fedup:
Behold therefore the goodness and severity of God - Romans 11: 22
The God you have created in your mind would never judge sin. You are guilty of breaking one of the ten commandments - Ye shall have no other gods before me.
Jesus comes in at Armageddon to save mankind, or what's left of it, from the devastations of the Anti-Christ. The WT turns things around and makes Jesus the bad guy.
Real judgement comes after you die according to the bible:
it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment - Heb 9: 27
the watchtower feeds true believers.. the watchtower feeds true believers spiritual "food".. the watchtower feeds true believers spiritual "food" at the proper time.. .
the members of jehovah's witnesses who receive this "food at the proper time" receive it from their governing body who have digested.
the importance and timeliness of it and passed it along.. .
Terry,
At least you could say "excuse me".
me whom they have pierced .
blood flowed from our saviors' side when he was pierced:.
"but one of the soldiers pierced his side with a spear, and immediately blood and water came out...for these things were done that the scripture should be fulfilled...and again another scripture says, 'they shall look on him whom they pierced.
Still, it is instructive to know what those close to Jesus thought of him. Those of us that that wished to follow Jesus as Jehovah's Witnesses were prevented from doing so in the way that his close associates did through the evil deceptions of the Watchtower.
If you do not wish to follow Jesus, I respect that. I think Jesus would respect that decision as well. For me, John's connection that he makes draws me closer to the New Testament ideal that Jehovah himself suffered as my savior in the person of his only begotten - Jesus
For unto which of the angels said he at any time, Thou art my Son, this day have I begotten thee? (Answer: NONE) And again, when he bringeth in the firstbegotten into the world, he saith, And let all the angels of God worship him. - Hebrews 1: 5-6
while everyone has been bickering back and forth, i decided to do something positive to move forward.
as most of you know back in jan our family marked us as apostates and started shunning us.. so i wrote to all of my congress-people and told them what is going on with the jw's.
i told them how they are breaking up families, teaching the children intolerance, etc.
Good Job Newly Enlightened. We live in a representative democracy and the Ex-JW community is a part of those being represented. I praise you for your initiative.
the meetings.
as a jw you know what to do.
twice a week, does it give you a clue?.
The Congregation Bible Study is the first one
You comment from a book, it's really great fun
I still can't get over how I never saw the deception in having a "bible" study from a book that was not the bible. It never occurred to me that a bible study should use the bible as the sole textbook.
Thanks for the reminder.
how do jws compare to the ancient churches of the first few centuries?
almost every jw claim's "organized preaching" is the mark of true christians, this is not backed by the bible.
how are jws like the first century through fourth century christians?.
JUde referred to the book of enoch?
You bet your bippy. And the book of Jasher is referred to three times favorably in the bible. It's not inspired....just an ancient history book.
a few minutes ago, a jw, (elder's wife who for some reason still calls me 1-2 times a day to tell me about her new purse/dr's appt/what she's making for dinner/etc.
) called to tell me she saw sherri sheppard on tv talking about her new diet book.
i say, "you know she was raised a jw.
I speak as my parrot instructs me to. But, only for further clarifications of course.
Me: (yes) something something about the remnant being caught away before the GT begins.
Is that what this WT really says?
