jehovah's witnesses post 'anti-gay' 'harness your habits' leaflet in north devon.
devon and cornwall police have said a leaflet posted through doors in north devon isn't a crime – despite it advising gay people to "control their urges".the leaflet, entitled "how to harness your habits", was distributed in north devon by jehovah's witnesses and contains an article asking "what does the bible say about homosexuality?
"in it, the religious group states that "rejecting homosexuality" is completely different to "rejecting people of a different skin colour" and says their views are the same as people who "view smoking as harmful and even repugnant".it also compares gay people to animals, but says "unlike animals, they can choose not to act on their impulses".the journal was contacted by a reader, who wishes to remain anonymous, who felt "belittled" by the leaflet.
The Bible says that homosexuality is wrong while at the same time saying that some lesbians will be accepted into the kingdom. How does that work?
(Luke 17:35) "There will be two women grinding at the same mill; the one will be taken along, but the other will be abandoned.”
this should be titled "jerks for jesus afraid of their own shadow, sexuality".
seriously, someone thinks that a video on how to be nice to people different from him is an affront to his god.
http://www.rawstory.com/2016/09/federal-worker-would-rather-be-fired-than-watch-lgbt-diversity-video-god-doesnt-want-me-to-see-it/.
keyser soze: Wow. Even JWs aren't that fanatical.
They come pretty close.
*** w70 5/15 p. 314 The Spread of Homosexuality ***
The spread of homosexuality means that many persons are taking up a way of life that so often brings frustration and misery. It is something detestable and loathsome in the eyes of God and lovers of righteousness. Our knowing what to do to avoid such an unhappy outcome, one disapproved by God, is the wise course to take. The following article discusses homosexuality’s causes and prevention.
i still go to the meetings because of my in wife and it came about that the elders knew of my pissed off attitude about the society getting involved in the un.
so the elders said they could help me get over that and wanted to meet with me.
now just to let you know, i have only told my wife and her mom so far about it, that's it.
From 1970 to 2011 the WT quoted from The Guardian newspaper almost 200 times in the Awake!, Watchtower and other books.
I think this removes any possibility that the WT society thinks The Guardian has apostates working for it.
'Apostate' does not mean what most JW's think it means.
I'm pleased they submitted the extremely redacted version first.
This means that if they now try to remove entries in the unredacted version, they can be found out.
at the meeting last night, at the annoucments at end of meeting they said make sure u take your ped card.
i said to myself what is a ped card?
blood cards are back.
OrphanCrow I am curious as to what kind of security measures the elders have in place in order to protect confidential information. Where do the elders keep that information on hand? How is it stored? Who exactly has access to that information?
At my hall the elders routinely leave confidential medical information from the congregation underneath the photocopier lid. When they remember, it is stored in the safe. This is the same safe that the accounts servants and helpers have access to.
I could give you a list of meds the congregation members are on.
please can anyone help me to find any information from society's literature on the subject of marking.
i wasn't aware it was still practiced.
i would like to know how it is explained as being in any way scriptural.
a few years ago while traveling in the northeast, my wife and i stopped in new haven, connecticut, at a b&b we'd reserved for the night.
no sooner had we unpacked and moved into the living room for tea and treats, our hosts began to talk about religion, and we learned they were jehovah's witnesses.
i didn't mind so much, but my wife was outraged that our hosts would use their place of business as a launching point to do missionary work.
Put your experience on TripAdvisor so no one else are subjected to the same treatment.
this is actually, cinematographically, a pretty good video, certainly better then most of them anyway!.
1 to 3 july 2016 at sheffield arena, uk.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z1ra2ji909w.
Sunday attendance - 8428
Baptised - 19
This is 0.23%
guys i need a rebuttal in this.
cos this is what i plan to tell the elders when they come to me which i find inevitable.
due to general concession and confirmation from jw bible on page 1736. all the available christian greek scriptures manuscript today doesn't contain yhwh.
Sorry Splash but your emphasis on the number of manuscripts is very misleading.
It's not my emphasis and not my belief.
To debate a JW you have only one choice - use their own literature.
guys i need a rebuttal in this.
cos this is what i plan to tell the elders when they come to me which i find inevitable.
due to general concession and confirmation from jw bible on page 1736. all the available christian greek scriptures manuscript today doesn't contain yhwh.
The Borg argued that we don't have the originals manuscript and the available ones are written at least two centuries after the event, and that they have been manipulated.
If we do not have the original manuscripts, how do we know that later ones were manipulated?
This is a baseless claim with no evidence. It simply suits them to believe this.
If God's name is so important, why did God have it disappear both in print and audibly - it was never spoken.
*** si p. 305 par. 26 Study Number 4—The Bible
and Its Canon ***
Faith in the almighty God, who is the Inspirer and Preserver of his
Word, makes us confident that he is the one who has guided the gathering
together of its various parts.
*** si p. 11 par.
28 “All Scripture Is Inspired of God and Beneficial” ***
That which
has been recorded and preserved as the Holy Scriptures is not to be tampered
with. (Deut. 4:1, 2; Rev. 22:18, 19)
*** si pp. 316-317 par. 11 Study Number 6—The
Christian Greek Text of the Holy Scriptures ***
A Reservoir of Over 13,000 Manuscripts.
A tremendous fund of manuscript copies of all 27 [NT] canonical books is
available today. ... According to one calculation, there are over 5,000
manuscripts in the original Greek. In addition, there are over 8,000
manuscripts in various other languages—a total exceeding 13,000 manuscripts all
together. Dating from the 2nd century C.E. to the 16th century C.E.,
they all help in determining the true, original text. The oldest of these many
manuscripts is the papyrus fragment of the Gospel of John in the John Rylands
Library in Manchester, England, known by the number P52, which is
dated to the first half of the second century, possibly about 125 C.E.
Thus, this copy was written only a quarter of a century or so after the
original.
