Posts by Anna Marina

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Another deep cut . . . Walter Salter

by BereanThinker7 in

as ive mentioned before i like digging into obscure watchtower characters of the past.

so todays topic will be w.f.

salter.

Anna Marina

Hi Slimboyfat

Are you aware of the connection of the Christadelphians to Benjamin Wilson who wrote the Emphatic Diaglott?

I am not an expert like you but I put this here in case it is of use/interest to you.

Benjamin Wilson joined the Cambellite movement (followers of Thomas Campbell) but he split from that movement circa 1850 due to doctrinal disagreements.

In a publication by John Thomas (founder of the Christadelphians) called, The Herald of the Future Age, Benjamin Wilson expressed his views on the immortal soul. This was the initial cause of Wilson's break with Campbell.

So Benjamin Wilson, who wrote the Emphatic Diaglott agreed with the founder of the Christadelphians on matters to do with the soul.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin_Wilson_(biblical_scholar)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Thomas_(Christadelphian)

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Manhole , Manpower , Policeman...Unacceptable Words In Berkeley California

by minimus in

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offensive politically incorrect words.🤭.

Anna Marina

The word narcissist is bandied around as an insult. People should reflect on this.

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Have you ever gotten a straight answer? If yes, what was it?

by Tenacious in

the light continues to get brighter, yada, yada, yada.. but, the bottom line is the watchtower claims everything comes from jehovah.

books, magazines, videos, assemblies, to jw broadcast, to gb appointments, to dramas, even the music and sophia and caleb.

heck, they would claim jehovah provides the toilet paper if they could.

Anna Marina

I was once given a straight answer - an elder told me that 50% of what he said from the platform was rubbish.

He wasn't telling me something I didn't know. What I didn't realise was that I was never supposed to repeat what he told me. But when I do repeat it to other elders I get told, "oh I expect he was only joking."

But he wasn't joking. He told me that because I had found him out as a liar in relation to the talks he was giving because I knew enough Hebrew and Greek to challenge him - I think his conscience was pricked and he was trying to salve it by confessing.

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Craziest books or magazines printed by the tower.

by rockemsockem in

what are the craziest books or magazines the tower ever printed?

i know of the millions now living is crazy the finished mystery.

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Anna Marina

Reasoning from the Scriptures.

Also the New World Translation of the Scripture with Appendix 5B which entirely contradicted their beliefs, especially the Reasoning book.

Maybe that's why they did the Revised New World Translation and left Appendix 5B out.

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Disfellowshipped

by lriddle80 in

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my judicial committee was set for monday.

the message says to call back asap and that he loves me, but he said it like "i love ya, girl" he never has said that to me like that.

so, i call back and he says i have been a hard person to get a hold of and that confused me because i had not received any calls from him.

Anna Marina

Hi Smiddy – here are the scriptures you cited plus a bit of context. Can’t find a Titus 4:1 though.

(Acts 10:40-43) . . .God raised this One up on the third day and granted him to become manifest, 41 not to all the people, but to witnesses appointed beforehand by God, to us, who ate and drank with him after his rising from the dead. 42 Also, he ordered us to preach to the people and to give a thorough witness that this is the One decreed by God to be judge of the living and the dead. 43 To him all the prophets bear witness, that everyone putting faith in him gets forgiveness of sins through his name.”

(Acts 17:30-31) . . .True, God has overlooked the times of such ignorance, yet now he is telling mankind that they should all everywhere repent. 31 Because he has set a day in which he purposes to judge the inhabited earth in righteousness by a man whom he has appointed, and he has furnished a guarantee to all men in that he has resurrected him from the dead.”

The words Jesus spoke came from His Father – so this is how I understand it, it’s where a person has stood throughout their lives in relation to the values Jesus expressed. And it had to be Jesus expressing them because he lived by them perfectly. So, I don't see a contradiction.

My bottom line is if Jesus was wrong, I’ll be wrong with him because I think he was a nice, kind person. Throughout my life, I have always found that if I follow the direction Jesus gives, things work out and you are happy. I appreciate you have a different view. Just explaining why I value Jesus’ words.

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Disfellowshipped

by lriddle80 in

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friends

my judicial committee was set for monday.

the message says to call back asap and that he loves me, but he said it like "i love ya, girl" he never has said that to me like that.

so, i call back and he says i have been a hard person to get a hold of and that confused me because i had not received any calls from him.

Anna Marina

Correction, not March, June.

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Disfellowshipped

by lriddle80 in

jw
friends

my judicial committee was set for monday.

the message says to call back asap and that he loves me, but he said it like "i love ya, girl" he never has said that to me like that.

so, i call back and he says i have been a hard person to get a hold of and that confused me because i had not received any calls from him.

Anna Marina

Hi Iriddle80

It's a long story to explain what I went through being df'd in March. As I said, they have no legitimate scriptural authority to do such a thing from a Christian/Jehovah's Witness stand point, because they are, as you realise, opposing the words in the Bible. But I read this and given you what you said about wanting to be forgiving towards them, I thought I'd share it with you.

(John 12:47-50) . . .But if anyone hears my sayings and does not keep them, I do not judge him; for I came, not to judge the world, but to save the world. 48 He that disregards me and does not receive my sayings has one to judge him. The word that I have spoken is what will judge him in the last day; 49 because I have not spoken out of my own impulse, but the Father himself who sent me has given me a commandment as to what to tell and what to speak. 50 Also, I know that his commandment means everlasting life. Therefore the things I speak, just as the Father has told me [them], so I speak [them. . .

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Disfellowshipped

by lriddle80 in

jw
friends

my judicial committee was set for monday.

the message says to call back asap and that he loves me, but he said it like "i love ya, girl" he never has said that to me like that.

so, i call back and he says i have been a hard person to get a hold of and that confused me because i had not received any calls from him.

Anna Marina

Nicolaou - I appreciate people have different opinions. You misunderstand my intentions. I'll leave it there and I wont pm you.

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Lowel MA. Convention, Plenty of Empty Seats

by RESPECTFUL OBSERVER in

all the empty seats … lowell ma.

regional convention, july 6, 2019 over 2000 missing!.

Anna Marina

I feel encouraged.

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Disfellowshipped

by lriddle80 in

jw
friends

my judicial committee was set for monday.

the message says to call back asap and that he loves me, but he said it like "i love ya, girl" he never has said that to me like that.

so, i call back and he says i have been a hard person to get a hold of and that confused me because i had not received any calls from him.

Anna Marina

As they are neither Christians and/or Jehovah's Witnesses (meaning a faithful descendant of Jacob) they cannot disfellowship you in the way they like to imagine they can. Jehovah is not with them, to them Jehovah is the apostate because He doesn't agree with GB. If you quote the words of Jehovah's prophets or his first born only begotten son, Jesus Christ at them, and those words contradict GB, they go nuts.

Gal 5:1