pop quiz on jw (current) teaching.
1. was jesus 2nd coming in 1914?.
2. is jesus 2nd (parousia) presence the same thing as his coming?.
Wait a minute....terry, are you serious about number 7? Are they ACTUALLY teaching that Jesus died only for the anointed??
God's going to get them good someday. Freaking Pharisees. Not only do they keep the kingdom from themselves, they keep it from others.
some of you may have seen my previous post regarding my concerns with leaving the organization.. so many of you responded and were so kind and helpful, that is was rather overwhelming.
i didn't expect so many responses.
a lot of you also provided links to research as well as some books to read.
Big hugs
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have you all read this weeks study article?.
oh my word it is full of fear inducing tactics....doom and gloom outlooks.... anxiety inducing methods to develop absolute control over witnesses and cripple them in any attempt to think for themselves!.
(notice i am saying "themselves" rather than "ourselves"?!
pop quiz on jw (current) teaching.
1. was jesus 2nd coming in 1914?.
2. is jesus 2nd (parousia) presence the same thing as his coming?.
i was deleted as the cobe after i let my adult child move back home and he admitted that he fornicated under my roof while my wife and i where away on a rbc project.
of course the elder mode in me kicked him out of the house.. the elders moved quickly to remove me because i was too involved in "theocractic activities", i had neglected my adult son.. i accepted this primarily because i didn't want to serve with a boe that did not want me.
i was devastated however because it was the only life i knew.
Helpmeout, the Internet may eventually cause change in the org. Corporations who have not found it profitable to be environmentally conscientious or who use veritable slave labor have been pressured to make changes to stay in business, simply because of media coverage and public awareness. maybe eventually the org will make changes too because it won't be profitable for them to be hard nosed about DF ing and gays etc....too much negative publicity, and we know how much they care about their public image.
have you all read this weeks study article?.
oh my word it is full of fear inducing tactics....doom and gloom outlooks.... anxiety inducing methods to develop absolute control over witnesses and cripple them in any attempt to think for themselves!.
(notice i am saying "themselves" rather than "ourselves"?!
a few weeks ago i was working out of my home state and was in a grocery store parking lot when i received my first jw witness since leaving jwdom.
a youngish-looking lady was sitting in an suv parked next to my car and i was about to get in my car to leave.
she opened the door and asked whether she could give me something to read (had a tract in her hand)..
now that the jw belief system excludes non-anointed from the new covenant.
there seems to be a giant hole in the issue of salvation for the majority of members.
can anyone explain this?
a few weeks ago i was working out of my home state and was in a grocery store parking lot when i received my first jw witness since leaving jwdom.
a youngish-looking lady was sitting in an suv parked next to my car and i was about to get in my car to leave.
she opened the door and asked whether she could give me something to read (had a tract in her hand)..
I think they were in better shape when they tried to dig deeper into the bible. Probably the strongest witnesses were shaped by the Truth book and its predecessors, and it has degenerated from there. Of course it's always been whacked, but at least it was deep.
I don't think they are creating people now with a solid faith...only superficial, and it's going to be easily shaken, and it's only held together by a sense of obligation and guilt. We'll have to see what happens, but I don't think this has been a smart move for them.
you know how our minds often get all "fuzzy" and confused when we are put on the spot and asked to come up with points?
we often tend to lose focus and go off on tangents?.
im trying to compile a basic list of bullet points for the most obvious and clear problems / doctrines / history of witnesses that can blow the org out of the water.. it is more for the purpose of getting my own thoughts clear rather than using it to talk to witnesses (as that doesn't really work).
Focus on acts for salvation vs. salvation by Jesus.
and while I'm at it, Jehovah Jehovah jehovah and very little Jesus doesn't correspond with the bible. It shows their cult mentality to read scriptures about Jesus and say 'see, this brings out Jehovah...'
