my wives friends husband from the hall died.
he wasnt a jw but she has been one for more than 60 years.
the funeral for him is going to be a lutheran church.
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My wives friend’s husband from the hall died. He wasn’t a JW but she has been one for more than 60 years.
The funeral for him is going to be a Lutheran church. Now I am wondering how many JWs are going to show up at his funeral to support her.
I am kind of hoping it might be one of those wake up moments for my wife. Too bad this guy was such an asshole. It was literally almost funny how much of a prick he was.
hello all.. i haven't been here for some time to post as mainly i read the comments and such.
yesterday was a really interesting, unnerving experience though.
two sisters had called last week when i had an abscess on my tooth and was sort of sick from it.
I always like to give JWs a statement of faith. I believe the bible is the story of God and the Jewish people and god and his church and the transfer of blessings to the church AKA the body of Christ. The old covenant to the new covenant. Being reconciled to god by having a relationship with Jesus Christ.
What do you believe ??
At that point they usually leave.
If they don’t leave and start giving you the sales pitch start asking questions
Where does it say membership in the new covenant is limited ?
I believe the texts are you referring too are reference to the jews and the gentiles. What makes you believe they are the earthly hope and heavenly hope ?
How many of Jesus parables are directly prophecies ? What is the difference between a prophecy and a parable ?
Explain to me long a generation is in the bible and how you just noticed this when the generation that wasn’t suppose to die, all died.
There are over 300 prophecies about the coming messiah in the old testament fulfilled in the new testament, you would think if gods plan for humanity was to give us 7 men in New York, you would think it would be a common theme throughout the old testament.
Now answer my question just using your bible.
You will never see them ever again.
hello, i am certainly new to all of this.
i have recently been studying the prophecy's, and i was wondering if they are of any importance at all?
Getting back to the subject on hand , JW obsession with the book of Daniel and Revelation is not because they are sincere students of the scriptures, it is because playing da Vinci code with the bible gives them a smug sense of moral superiority. There are no mysteries to a JW because they have magical men in Brooklyn who have it all figured out , unlike the false religions of Christendom.
Does the average JW really understand it ………ha ……….not a chance.
I was raised in a plain old evangelical church and I was taught it was good to interested in this kind of stuff but there is also a danger in it also. There is no real point wasting all your time trying to crack codes and prove the unprovable.
As for the bible haters here, don’t waste your time with them. The bible is of remarkable connections. They are nothing more JWs, they just don’t know it. WTS are not trying to teach the bible, they are trying to disprove it. Isolating one verse at a time, while ignoring the big picture.
do you ever "think about" the things you just take for granted about the story of jesus?.
there are things about christianity which should make honest thinkers scratch their head in wonder.. **.
when beloved (or hated) public figures are murdered (or executed), some rather large waves of reaction ensue.. there are two kinds of outcry both speculative and descriptive.
IMHO
The WTS is essentially just a nutty conspiracy theory that turned into a cult.
I really wish people wouldn’t any mind too stuff like this because you are essentially just thinking like a JW again. You spend all your time studying rubbish you fry your brain and turn into Robert King.
the july 15, 2015 study watchtower article entitled "your deliverance is getting near", along with the jw broadcasting video entitled "gerrit losch: fortified by "the prophetic word," and chapter 21 of the god's kingdom rules!
book presented a large amount of new light or clarified understanding of the events of the great tribulation.. here i am presenting it in chronological order -- this is the governing body's updated chronological order of events for the time right before the great tribulation through armageddon:.
the final sealing of the anointed occurs just prior to the outbreak of the tribulation.
I am not really sure how a coalition of nations from central Asia to North Africa is going to attack the all the Jehovah Witnesses. How many kingdom halls are actually in the Middle East.
At least the evangelical view of Christianity with Israel and the church ( AKA, Christians, the body of Christ ) being two different things and Israel being attacked by a shitload of Muslims in the end days is at least is somewhat plausible.
I just don’t see the logistical possibility of it even happening.
there was a man who was baptized in my old hall in his mid-30s and was into everything.
one day i stopped by his house and he opened the door and he was in his white saggy underwear and had this green goo all over his head, chest and legs.
he had purchase on the internet this formula that would grow hair.
I was in a hall where we had token elders who were converts with a body of born ins that were the real heavy weights. The token elders were just construction labours and janitors.
Too me it reminded me of pro wrestling where you had the stables ( D-X, the four horsemen, the Hart Foundation ) where you had the major players ( Shawn Michaels, HHH, Rick Flair, Brett Hart ) and the rest of the members are pretty interchangeable.
It really surprised me how quickly converts moved though the ranks while three generation born-ins had no intentions of going anywhere in the borg.
To me it seem like you have to be a real asshole or have a below average IQ to serve as an elder.
in the watchtower august 15 in the topic: "let the many islands rejoice" appears the following paragraph: .
then, however, it came time for a serious decision.
would i accept a scholarship to go to university?
It is absolutely frightening how absolutely useless some of the higher ups in the borg are.
Never had a job
Never had a mortgage
Never had a family
Couldn’t change a flat tire.
https://www.amnesty.org/en/articles/blogs/2015/05/a-life-sentence-from-birth-story-of-a-south-korean-conscientious-objector/ .
a life sentence from birth story of a south korean conscientious objector.
13 may 2015, 09:01 utc .
I had an discussion one time with a JW about are you really loving your neighbour if someone is putting your neighbour in an oven. That after the whole “ you know we didn’t fight for Hitler, blah blah blah “.
I bet you have showed more love trying to stop the holocaust than babysitting the SS’s kids.
Neutrality assumes that you are dealing with two parties at the moral equivalent to each other. I hardly think is the case North Korea and South Korea.
I really wish these losers would do there time in a North Korean gulag.
for starters, this topic isn't about former or non-practicing jws, but active ones who are authors.
we all probably have heard of mcmillan's faith on the march and the other one by marley cole, but how about more recently?.
i found a couple.
which bible translation is the best, according to biblical scholars, anybody knows?
please chime in.. i plan on getting it and doing comparison with the new world translation.
sl.
It is best to know what the bible says as an overview ( especially the new testament) before getting to excited about bible translations and which is the best because they all have some dogmatic slant to each of them.
The overview of the new testament is simply the disciples realizing Jesus is the promised Messiah talked about in the old testament and when he came back from the dead he was Jehovah in the flesh or “the angel of the lord “from the old testament. Then Paul basically creates the first century church and gods people become the body of Christ and not the Jewish people. Revelations, lots of weird stuff happens. The end.
I have never really saw much point fighting over indefinite articles and isolating single verses if you don’t really understand the reader digest version first.
I often find JWs seem to me are more interested in a weird way in disproving the bible.
