Glad to here it. Thank you for the update.
Have you researched Substitutionary Atonement yet? It helped me a lot after I left.
God Bless
Posts by Perry
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38Update on my fade
by wizzstick init's been over 3 months since i first posted after years of lurking:.
http://www.jehovahs-witness.net/jw/friends/253883/1/my-story-a-kinda-newbie-from-the-uk#.ukhopt-yza8.
and what a 3 months it's been.
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Discussion w/ Wife: I Welcome Your Suggestions
by breakfast of champions inso these last few wts have definitely eroded my wife's faith in the org.
she is definitely seeing the bs, and i even overheard her talking openly about it to a family member.
good for her!.
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JWs treat soldiers as they treat the blood banks, they only enjoy their benefits!!!!!
Excellent observation, they enjoy their benefits while cursing them.
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Discussion w/ Wife: I Welcome Your Suggestions
by breakfast of champions inso these last few wts have definitely eroded my wife's faith in the org.
she is definitely seeing the bs, and i even overheard her talking openly about it to a family member.
good for her!.
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The not going to war excuse just feeds their pride. Ask your wife if she was being attacked if she would want you to fight the attacker. Then ask if she would want the same assistance given to her next door neighbor. What about the neighbor three doors down, the next street, the next city, country and so on. Where does one's responsibility stop in regard to their neighbor?
JW's rarely reason on this because they would have to forfeit a major source of pride and perceived moral superiority on this issue... not to mention actually believe the bible.
We must not forget that Cornelius was an active duty roman army officer when baptized.
Rom 13:1,3-4,6 (NIV) Everyone must submit himself to the governing authorities, for there is no authority except that which God has established... Do you want to be free from fear of the one in authority? Then do what is right and he will commend you. For he is God's servant to do you good. But if you do wrong, be afraid, for he does not bear the sword for nothing... This is why you pay taxes, for the authorities are God's servants, who give their full time to governing.
1 Pet 2:13-14 (NIV) Submit yourselves for the Lord's sake to every authority instituted among men: whether to the king, as the supreme authority, or to governors, who are sent by him to punish those who do wrong and to commend those who do right.
Temporary, Practical Submission To Worldly Authority Versus Eternal Submission To God
Luke 20:20-25 (NIV) Keeping a close watch on him, they sent spies, who pretended to be honest. They hoped to catch Jesus in something he said so that they might hand him over to the power and authority of the governor. So the spies questioned him: "Teacher... is it right for us to pay taxes to Caesar or not?" He saw through their duplicity and said to them, "Show me a denarius. Whose portrait and inscription are on it?" "Caesar's," they replied. He said to them, "Then give to Caesar what is Caesar's, and to God what is God's."
John 18:36 (GLT) Jesus answered, "My kingdom is not of this world. If My kingdom were of this world, My servants would have fought that I might not be delivered up to the Jews. But now My kingdom is not from here."
When (And Only When) Not To Obey The Authorities Of This World
Acts 4:19 (TEB) But Peter and John answered them, "You yourselves judge which is right in God's sight, to obey you or to obey God."
Acts 5:28 (NIV) "We gave you strict orders not to teach in this name..." Peter and the other apostles replied: "We must obey God rather than men!"
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Too many changes mean more changes to come
by Verenda ini just joined this site after researching the recent 'new light" my daughter is an unbaptized witness, as well as her husband and my grandchildren.
i was baptized in the 80s but i am inactive for years now because of changes and inconsintancies etc.. .
if the sheep and the goats teaching has been changed to happen after the great tribultaion, or after armageddon then this would mean that everyone would not be seperated or judged until after armageddon has occured.
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Hi Verenda,
I still believe in Jehovah and the basic teaching in the bible, so where do I go now? thanks
Perhaps the question should not be where, but whom. That's what Jehovah said: " And there came a voice out of the cloud, saying, This is my beloved Son: hear him."
As a former regular pioneer and 4th generation JW I used to hear what the watchtower, circuit overseer, my conscience, elders etc; had to say. Now I only hear Jesus.
It sure made things alot simpler for me.
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Evolution vs. God
by Perry inhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u0u3-2cgomq&list=plimax6whtnhc34_zbxbtcgvgvgxk3qzvu.
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Do you make your own soup?
by compound complex ingreetings, soup lovers:.
i have a huge kitchen at my disposal (not my own); vegetables, cans of this and that and spices are scattered about, prepared to go into a cauldron of minestrone i started a few days ago.
i'm preparing ahead so as to freeze the leftovers to heat up later at home over my hotplate.. nothing like a 6-burner gas range to simmer over!.
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Soups are awesome...HUGE on flavor without feeling like you just ate concrete.
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How do believers defend a god who is going to murder billions and pin it on them?
by tootired2care inat that time those slain by the lord will be everywherefrom one end of the earth to the other.
they will not be mourned or gathered up or buried, but will be like dung lying on the ground.
- jerimiah 25:33.
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Fearing that your parent, whether earthly or heavenly, will kill or torture you for anything, is unhealthy fear.
God is NOT our parent naturally. We are born as children of Adam, not God. Our natures want a God that we can control, a false God. We are his enemy. We, by nature would much rather choose religion (or an ideology) instead of the personage of an infinite God any day. This is what we all did as JW's and we ALL mocked those Christians that we met in field service that adocated a PERSONAL relationship with Christ Jesus.... as if such a thing were impossible for the mere average Joe.
The idea that we should fear a God that will murder us (we're already justly on death row) is insane, irrational, and totally phobic. Only the silliest of minds could entertain such a thought without realizing that we are all dying ANYWAY!!
Death is not to be feared. It is the judgment that occurs after a person has died that is to be feared. There is no escape from the judgment of an infinite God. There is simply no place to hide, even in death.
And fear not them which kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul: but rather fear him
which is able to destroy both soul and body in hell. - Jesus
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How do believers defend a god who is going to murder billions and pin it on them?
by tootired2care inat that time those slain by the lord will be everywherefrom one end of the earth to the other.
they will not be mourned or gathered up or buried, but will be like dung lying on the ground.
- jerimiah 25:33.
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Aren't billions dying of decay, old age, sickness anyway? God is the source of life, not death.
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Everyday, 16,000 Muslims Convert to Christianity.
by Perry inaccording to al jazeera.
why is this?.
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myelaine,
I want to thank you for posting that link. I watched the whole thing. It was AMAZING. I want to repost it here to try to put in player format:
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Everyday, 16,000 Muslims Convert to Christianity.
by Perry inaccording to al jazeera.
why is this?.
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I'd bet that once some of these new converts really start to examine the deeper truths of Christianity they would come to the same inevitable conclusion that in the end it is no better than the same "we're better you", "god is on our side" doomsday mindset.
Real Christians consider themselves as less than their neighbors, servants of their fellow man: This man has a pretty amazing testimony.