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Scriptural reason why only the anointed can partake?

by StephaneLaliberte in

its weird, but im trying to find scriptures used by the wtbs to back the following assumption:.

*** w81 4/1 p. 12 celebrating the death of the greatest man ever on earth ***.

it is because the founder of the celebration set it up for observance by those with whom he made a covenant for the heavenly kingdom.. .

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@yadda yadda 2 "SUBSET" - duh! 2+ years after starting to wake up and I still learn stuff. Awesome!

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Easy to believe the FDS gets direction from God if you do this. Did you?

by Wasanelder Once in

ok how many of you while a jw took the advice to pray on a problem and then open the bible and start reading.

did you seem to get "just the right scripture" that answered your prayer?

they encouraged that where i was.

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"For false Christs and false prophets will arise and will perform great signs and wonders so as to mislead, if possible, even the chosen ones" - Matt 24:24

It was pointed out to me recently that the word Christ means, literally, "Anointed One". This would then translate into: "For false anointed ones and false prophets will arise..."

Something to think about when someone claims to get direction directly from God.

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Congregation Contributions

by nolongerconfused in

do you guys remember when the congregation's monthly contribution report was read out loud in the service meeting?

obviously, they don't do that anymore... does anyone here know why exactly they stopped reading the report publicly?.

seems fishy to me.

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They're supposed to read it every month. That's one announcement that have to do. It's the accounts report. Additionally, that report should be posted on the information board for all to see.

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Critique of Mar 2014 Awake on Creation by Alan Feuerbacher

by jwfacts in

alan feuerbacher has written a tremendous critique of the march 2014 awake!, which contains a grossly dishonest discussion on creation.

the pdf file can be downloaded from awake_march_2014_creation_critique.pdf.

it highlights watchtower use of poor and contradictory reasoning..

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humans with relatively modern culture have existed for at least 200,000 years

At least this somewhat agrees with the Battlestar Galactica version where they settled on earth 155,000 years prior to present day.

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Wa State Mudslide - Witness saved by being away at Circ. Ass.

by tresdecu in

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i heard something through the grapevine...was curious if it was an 'official view' long story short, it was stated (??

) that a jw would have been killed had she stayed home and not gone to a ca.

(in washington state) has anyone else heard about this?

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As far as I know, true. I started a thread on this a few days ago.

http://www.jehovahs-witness.net/watchtower/beliefs/277501/1/Mud-slide-in-WA-state-sister-at-Assembly

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Does anyone know? Will our disfellowshipping be announced when the CO is here?

by cha ching in

sometime soon, we are to be "announced" as "no longer one of jehovah's witnesses".

well, that's what you get for testifying against "glorious ones.".

question is: will this kind of announcement be made the week of the co visit?.

leaving_quietly

We had a DF announced when our CO visited. I don't see why not. Gotta keep the congregation clean, ya know.

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I am going back...

by ILoveTTATT in

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i have decided i will go back to the jw's.

this will be my last post on this site.

i hope jehovah has mercy on me for being so insolent and thinking that his organization was wrong... how could i have thought that!!

My Special Assembly Day was yesterday. Here are the lowlites.

by BU2B in

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the assembly overall was basically all about doing more, not wasting your youth (a waste being anything but pioneering) and bashing apostates.

well without further ado... .

talk- the voice of jehovah is powerful.

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I think the banana thing was in the outline. It was in the talk at our SA, too, and then another brother in a public talk a couple weeks after used the same illustration.

I posted on this SAD, too, here. Sounds eerily similar.

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The Scriptural Meeting JW's Don't Have

by metatron in

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do you ever read in your bible about a "service meeting"?

how about the "theocratic ministry school"?.

the society has to reach back into the ot to justify its assemblies and conventions, as with national holidays in ancient israel.. yet, there is no official modern-day version of this:.

villagegirl, in my post, I said JWs believed this, not that I did. Sorry I wasn't clearer with that. When talking with JWs, you have to use their own interpretations against them, which can be done in Hebrews 10:24,25 since they apply the verses prior to just the 144,000.

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1st Century GB... Peter

by leaving_quietly in

was there a 1st century gb?

jws say, it was centralized in jerusalem, and they use acts 15 to prove it.

however, today's wt study shows something interesting.

leaving_quietly

non believer, welcome... first three posts!

Please introduce yourself on a new thread and let us know a little about yourself.

Just for clarification, this site is full of ex-JWs and current JWs who no longer believe their teachings. It's a support group, and it's a way to expose what they teach as false.

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