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  CD or copied WT article when reverse-witnessing?

  by NeverKnew in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  so, a couple of weekends ago, i, a non-jw, went to my non-jw cousin's house and lo and behold, two witnesses showed up.

  amongst the many random topics, the mediatorship of jesus came up.

  i stated, "...now, in your faith, jesus is not your mediator, correct?

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  Is this publication something they may be carrying?
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  CD or copied WT article when reverse-witnessing?

  by NeverKnew in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  so, a couple of weekends ago, i, a non-jw, went to my non-jw cousin's house and lo and behold, two witnesses showed up.

  amongst the many random topics, the mediatorship of jesus came up.

  i stated, "...now, in your faith, jesus is not your mediator, correct?

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  I'm just thinking that if I ask her to look it up for me and bring me the information that Christ would be my mediator if I became a JW, I'll be avoided like the plague once she found out she "misled" me.

  She was adamant about JWs believing that Christ was everyone's mediator.
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  New Light not accepted by all..

  by Dis-Member in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i came across 3 very long serving regular pioneers today in the street.

  they are out preaching full time ever day.

  they are at the forefront and spearhead the teaching of jehovah's witnesses on ground level.

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  LOL.... yeah... I was confused too.

  Yes, I know the Bible says that Christ was the mediator for all...

  Yes, I know that the WTS says he's only the mediator for the annointed...

  Yes, I was trying to bait her so that she'd explain the scripture at 1 Tim 2:5 to my cousins using WTS logic...

  And she unknowingly came through Christ to traditional Christendom on me. MAN, was I confused.

  She was saying He is the mediator for all men.

  It's kinda hard to reverse witness when you gotta teach someone what they're supposed to be believing. *sigh*
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  CD or copied WT article when reverse-witnessing?

  by NeverKnew in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  so, a couple of weekends ago, i, a non-jw, went to my non-jw cousin's house and lo and behold, two witnesses showed up.

  amongst the many random topics, the mediatorship of jesus came up.

  i stated, "...now, in your faith, jesus is not your mediator, correct?

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  NeverKnew

  So, a couple of weekends ago, I, a non-jw, went to my non-jw cousin's house and lo and behold, two witnesses showed up.

  Amongst the many random topics, the mediatorship of Jesus came up. I stated, "...now, in your faith, Jesus is NOT your mediator, correct?" OMG.... you would have thought I worshipped Satan for saying something so absolutely ridiculous.

  So, this woman adamantly believes that Jesus is her mediator. Great... How the heck do I... uh, teach the JW what she's supposed to believe?

  It would make sense to have her explain one of the "Jesus is only the mediator for the annointed" articles to me. My experiences have taught me that asking a JW to get back to me is a waste of time so asking her to look up the article may be futile.

  If I get the article and say that another JW adherent told me something different and ask her to explain the information that was e-mailed "from something called a Watchtower CD" do you think I have a snowball's chance in hell of her looking at it?
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  New Light not accepted by all..

  by Dis-Member in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i came across 3 very long serving regular pioneers today in the street.

  they are out preaching full time ever day.

  they are at the forefront and spearhead the teaching of jehovah's witnesses on ground level.

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  Wow Dozy... I've seen that. As a non-JW, I have a little more lee-way in my statements.

  Last week, I had a JW verbally ripping my head off about Jesus being her mediator. She spoke to me like I was an idiot and followed her rant with, "don't you read the Bible????"

  By the time she was finished, I was a little confused as to which side I was arguing! LOL LOL LOL
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  "Why would everyone be included this time...unless something special is about to happen?"

  by Separation of Powers in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  so, i am talking to a long time friend, you know, the non-judgmental type that doesn't really mind that i don't go to many meetings and am never out in service.

  he tells me that the annual meeting is coming up and that the whole congregation is invited...well, at least the active "approved" whole congregation.

  he speaks with an excitement that puzzles me, like he just got invited to the locker room of his favorite football team when they won the superbowl.

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  And the reason they won't call CNN or another major network and have it broadcasted is because...... must have missed the reason... Why again?

  *ahem*
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  Similar Religions to Jehovah's Witnesses

  by God_Delusion in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  hi guys,.

  i am sort of having a breakthrough with my mother-in-law.

  she's not really going to the meetings any longer but still believes the jehovah's witnesses are the "true religion".. in our last conversation, she said the following:.

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  Does anyone know the group that rails against the government AND refuses Social Security Benefits and other government subsidies? I can never remember the name...
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  Just received a phone call from bethel overseer and guess what?

  by label licker in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  him and another brother will be in our neck of the woods tomorrow from bethel which is and hours drive away and would like to know if i could meet them downtown.

  i will be bringing with me the transcript to my jc but not the recording.

  although there's names on the papers there's no recorded voices or my signature so there's nothing they can do as far as sueing me, right?

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  Are you nervous at all?
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  The Last NWT in America

  by NeverKnew in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  so, my non jw cousins have been telling me about a couple of jws that have been "coming over a lot and talking about their religion" (it's hilarious that my cousins don't see these sessions as "bible studies").

  it seems that i've been hearing about these ladies for at least a year but i doubt that my cigarette smoking, pants wearing, no-dress owning, flip-flop wearing, verbal swearing cousin they come to meet with isn't always available.

  i was told that the last time they were there, they asked my cousin to get her bible.

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  They came back today and dropped off one of those precious NWTs with my cousins!

  They weren't reading the yellow book. They were reading a skinny blue magazine that said "Good News" on the front. It's been year and they're only on chapter seven? Does this mean my cousins are in the slow class?
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  The Last NWT in America

  by NeverKnew in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  so, my non jw cousins have been telling me about a couple of jws that have been "coming over a lot and talking about their religion" (it's hilarious that my cousins don't see these sessions as "bible studies").

  it seems that i've been hearing about these ladies for at least a year but i doubt that my cigarette smoking, pants wearing, no-dress owning, flip-flop wearing, verbal swearing cousin they come to meet with isn't always available.

  i was told that the last time they were there, they asked my cousin to get her bible.

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  I think that plan got hi-jacked when I came on the scene.

  It had to have been the world's WORST Bible study. It could have been a hilarious youtube video. At one point, the woman who appeared to be the point person was just sitting staring straight ahead looking like, "this can't be happening." There were five people... 3 non-jws and 2 jws. Because I've now talked to my cousins about JW beliefs they had known nothing about, they have become insanely curious so they were trying to make heads AND tails of the answers. OH, and NONE of us are shy.

  The point person JW kept holding up her literature saying, "we're NOT going in ORDER folks!" and her counterpart would then say, "See, that's why she's confused" and point at me. At one point she said to me, "That's why you can't understand, see you keep jumping around. These books are ORGANIZED." I told her that it appeared that the scriptural references were kinda all over the place but she insisted that I had to read it EXACTLY as it was written to understand. "But it looks like there's a reference to our last topic you said was off-topic - 1914 in that next paragraph over there on the next page? I'm not allowed to talk about my question before that paragraph?" "NO," she replied in frustration, "Do you know what order means?"

  My cousins would be talking about points THEY had just made, and the point person wasn't being heard at all. Now in retrospect, it was hilarious! EVERYone was talking at the same time.

  At one point, the pointperson regained control of the crowd. Flustered from the previous topic, she mistakenly declared within three sentences that the Jews had killed Jesus. You would have thought that my non-church going cousin was a competitor on Jeopardy! "OH NO.... UH-UHHHHH!!!! THAT was the ROMANS who killed Jesus! Even I know that." Simultaneously, cousin number 2 says, "The story about the Romans is in this Bible here somewhere and it's the same on TV!" I was feeling kinda sorry for the pointperson so I kept my mouth shut for this one.

  The other JW woman? She was trying my Christian patience.... LOL