Posts by revdrjohnson

Not only special, but after they came out with the AID book and the KIT, I figured we were now ready to classify ourselves as Bible scholars -- and ready to kick the spiritual pants off ANY nut case, "born again," Collar-turned-backwards, Bible thumpin' PREACHER on the planet ...

(until the evening I stumbled into the home of one who pulled out his personal copy of NA 26 and chellenged me to SHOW HIM my points, from the Greek)

Now I'm the nut case, "born again," Collar-turned-backwards, Bible thumpin' PREACHER

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They want my kids

by Sadie5 in

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friends

ran into some jws today.

was out to lunch at a restaurant with 2 of my kids.

there were 2 tables full of jws, i wondered what the occasion was.

revdrjohnson

While I feel for you I can't help but hope you will be detached enough to let your kids think for themselves. Afterall, isn't that what we want for ourselves?
carmel

I'm usually reserved in my remarks, but ...

This is the most ridiculous bunch of PC BOVINE EXCRETION I've heard -- except the drivel that comes from the pro-bies like fredhall, and that bunch.

If that had been me at the door I would have BLASTED the CO.

Allowing children to think for themselves does NOT mean that you abdicate your role as parent; nor that you don' do ALL YOU CAN to protect them from things that you in your wisdom deem harmful.

Sadie said her children were playing in the background -- which suggests that they must be relatively young. NO ONE has a right to disregard -- and outright DISRESPECT -- these parents: as if they were incapable of raising their children, or provide whatever spiritual atmosphere for their own children that they fell is appropriate. That this yokel felt he had the right to do it irks me, and should irk any and every sensible parent.

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Detroit pictures ???

by mouthy in

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i have gone through the posts- but i cant for the life of me find the pictures hmmmm posted ...dah!!

i know i'm a dummy,.

old age kids .could someone help me???

revdrjohnson

Cool pictures!

I also had to miss this one. I'd just joined the Presbytery of a new church, and we were doing some work on installing new phone lines, and setting up new offices.

Did you guys settle on another date?

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An Interesting PRO-JW Site

by Mister Biggs in

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i stumbled across this site today.

i wonder who runs it.

has anyone ever heard of this site before?

revdrjohnson

As previously stated JWU is the official homesite of Greg Stafford and other pro-JWE apologists. LOTS of analytical information about the controversial issues -- especially Deity of Christ subjects. The owner is a talented writer, but with no real scholastic credentials. Greg has written several books -- and has debated for years on the net with Rob Bowman -- who was working for Watchman Expositor, most recently http://www.watchman.org/expo/index.htm and http://www.watchman.org/jw/index.htm

And has a site counter to the JWU site called:

http://www.atlantaapologist.org/resources.html

Interested in a class action suit

by revdrjohnson in

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friends

received today via e- mail.

if anyone is aware of any such lawsuit, please contact her:.

please add me to the class action lawsuit against jehovah's witnesses.

revdrjohnson

Received today via e- mail. If anyone is aware of any such lawsuit, please contact her:

Please add me to the class action lawsuit against Jehovah's Witnesses. I would also like to retain an attorney about disfellowshipping mentally ill family members. Best Regards, Brenda Bulyar [email protected]

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What a jerk...

by joannadandy in

ok so it always bothered me what a jerk jacob was.

he was a deceptive little cheater, and yet he was favored over his brother?

he used a blatant trick to confuse his obviously blind old father...how is he a biblical hero?.

revdrjohnson

Dismembered:

and then there's Solomon who died an "apostate". If that's true, why is his history part of the Bible?

Because everything in the Bible may not be right, but everything written there is TRUE. So it was necessary to report even the bad things.

Because overall Solomon's life was a testimony

1 Kings 11:9 And Jehovah was angry with Solomon, for his heart had bent away from Jehovah, God of Israel who had appeared to him twice,
10 and had given a charge to him concerning this thing, not to go after other gods; and he did not keep that which Jehovah commanded.
11 And Jehovah said to Solomon, Because this has been done by you, and you have not kept My covenant and My statutes that I charged on you, I shall surely tear the kingdom from you and shall give it to your servant.
12 Only, I will not do it in your days, for the sake of your father David; I shall tear it out of your son's hand.
13 Only I will not tear away all the kingdom; I will give one tribe to your son for my servant David's sake, and for the sake of Jerusalem that I have chosen.
14 And it happened, Jehovah raised an adversary to Solomon, Hadad the Edomite; he was of the seed of the king in Edom.

2 Chron. 9:22 And King Solomon increased more than any of the kings of the earth for riches and wisdom.
23 And all the kings of the earth were seeking the face of Solomon, to hear his wisdom that God had put in his heart.

And because Jesus' natural descent was from Solomon's bloodline

Matter 1:6 and Jesse fathered David the king. And David the king fathered Solomon out of her who had been the wife of Uriah,
7 and Solomon fathered Rehoboam, and Rehoboam fathered Abijah, and Abijah fathered Asa ...
17 So all the generations from Abraham to David were fourteen generations, and from David to the deportation to Babylon, fourteen generations, and from the deportation to Babylon until the Christ, fourteen generations.

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What a jerk...

by joannadandy in

ok so it always bothered me what a jerk jacob was.

he was a deceptive little cheater, and yet he was favored over his brother?

he used a blatant trick to confuse his obviously blind old father...how is he a biblical hero?.

revdrjohnson

The name "Jacob" means 'Trickster'

Hebrew parents named their children according to expectations about their [future] character. That's why God had to change his name:

http://www.blueletterbible.org/tmp_dir/words/1028671345.html

03290 Ya`aqob {yah-ak-obe'}

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AV - Jacob 349; 349

Jacob = "heel holder" or "supplanter"
1) son of Isaac, grandson of Abraham, and father of the 12 patriarchs
of the tribes of Israel

Gen. 32:24 And Jacob was left alone. And a Man wrestled with him until the ascending of the dawn.
25 And He saw that He had not prevailed against him. And He touched on his hip socket, and Jacob's hip socket was unhinged as he wrestled with Him.
26 And He said, Send Me away, for the dawn has ascended. And he said, I will not let You go unless You bless me.
27 And He said to him, What is your name? And he said, Jacob.
28 And He said, Your name shall no longer be called Jacob, but Israel, because you have wrestled with God and with men, and have prevailed.

03478 Yisra'el {yis-raw-ale'}

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AV - Israel 2489, Israelites 16; 2505

Israel = "God prevails"
1) the second name for Jacob given to him by God after his wrestling
with the angel at Peniel
2) the name of the descendants and the nation of the descendants of Jacob
2a) the name of the nation until the death of Solomon and the split
2b) the name used and given to the northern kingdom consisting of
the 10 tribes under Jeroboam; the southern kingdom was known as
Judah
2c) the name of the nation after the return from exile