i’m not interested in becoming a jehovah’s witness but have nothing against people who are, or whatever religion someone chooses to follow for that matter.
i am here because i have some questions regarding my family and i. .
my fiancé stopped going to church prior to us meeting.
Your boyfriend knows all the answers to your questions.
Ask him to explain how your relationship/marriage/parenthood will be required to develop.
I'd suggest you record his answers - just in case he denies things when he starts obeying the cult again.
i was pondering the way the society condemns anyone who looks for "spiritual food" outside of their approved channel.
as we know, jws are only to go to the approved website, and research material.. this illustration came to mind.. lets say we have a 5star fancy restaurant, and a new clean food truck.
both kitchens prepare a meal.. if the food is simply assessed on its own merit, and the source of its production is ignored, it can be deemed as healthy, safe, nutritious and tasty.
Diners will gladly recount how they paid a small fortune to eat a meal which was specially prepared by a renowned Michelin chef.
Imagine the diners' humiliation and dejection when they discover that the Michelin chef did nothing to prepare their meal - he delegated the whole process to a much lesser member of the kitchen staff. They'd feel duped.
When the meal was ready for serving, the Chef was simply asked for his approval.
Helpers, eh?
jesus described himself as a 'ransom' (matthew 20:28) and the following statement summarises the the fairy story which j.w.
's are sold as "truth" -.
w96 11/1 p. 9 par.
Jesus described himself as a 'ransom' (Matthew 20:28) and the following statement summarises the the fairy story which J.W.'s are sold as "truth" -
w96 11/1 p. 9 par. 12 - “As the benefits of Jesus’ ransom sacrifice are progressively applied, the obedient subjects of God’s Kingdom will grow to perfection, becoming totally free from all the bad effects of Adam’s sin.”
The
“faithful slave” also states this - w85 1/15 p. 16 par.
5 - "The price had to be the equivalent of
what was lost."
Picture this:
The 55 year old wife of a JW is kidnapped. He later receives a call telling him that unless he pays a ransom of $1,000,000, he will never see her again. He pays the ransom – and waits.
Next day there's a knock on door. The kidnappers have sent the man back – not his 55 year old wife – but a beautiful 25 year old girl with an exquisite figure.
Did the man's ransom buy back what was lost?
Accepting the J.W. version of Jesus' ransom poses two serious problems:
1) What Jesus “bought back” was not equivalent to what was lost, because he gained more than what was lost – 144,000 humans will become immortal king/priests in heaven.
None of Adam's descendants were ever going to achieve such a powerful, heavenly status.
2) Adam was immediately physically perfect in Eden. If J.W.'s are going to have to “grow to perfection” in order to “become totally free from all the bad effects of Adam’s sin,” then Christ's sacrifice wasn't payment enough to immediately buy back what was lost – it's going to take 1000 years to do so - according to the org.
new developments with the american boy scouts must have the wts leadership worried:.
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/looming-wave-of-sex-abuse-cases-poses-financial-threat-to-boy-scouts.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/investigations/2019/04/24/boy-scouts-face-hundreds-new-sexual-abuse-claims/3547991002/.
The scum who manage guilty organization's finances - WTBTS included - will very quickly "move" their cash to a safe haven somewhere and use "legal means" to limit payouts.
The vast majority of victims will not see appropriate justice carried out.
remember last year the financial video was leaked and subsequently taken down.
is there a copy anywhere available.
my dad says he wants to see it with his own eyes since it says many things about why they really got rid of so many kingdom halls and simplification of literature (such as magazine reduction).. i miss the leaks like that because you can't argue with your own peoples material.
Start with No 1. https://rutube.ru/video/fdbef56201beddf590d51302ea5429f7/
At the 5 minute mark - two propagandists praise Jehovah for his "backing" of the worldwide work and for speeding it up!
When one of them used the phrase "rapid expansion," I could just imagine hundreds of face-palms by the Bethelites in the Branches around the world who were tied into the live stream.
The charlatan anti-Christs at WTBTS & JW HQ's are so delusional that they believe Branches are still so gullible.
It's the information age G.B., and Bethelites are silently acquiring much information - about you scum.
this past weeks watchtower study, reminds us that jehovah provides guidance in the publications and in programs from faithful slave!
now you hear from the platform that god has given us jw broadcasting and jw.org.
lets see: thought wt says they have no special connection to god, nor special knowledge, they get no extra holy spirit, gods thoughts higher than mans???
Jehovah provides that guidance in the.....publications and through.....“the faithful and discreet slave.”
Tragic that so many of us never saw through the org's cult-language sooner!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5jd9amepgdm.
the beach boys video is not bad either..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Jd9AmepgdM
The Beach Boys video is not bad either.
it is a new book, now available on their website in pdf, and it is basically an update to survival—into a new earth!
(1984), the book that convinced me to get baptized at age 12.. i'm not going to review the entire book here.. because matthew 28:18-20 specifies baptizing as part of the great commission, and because hebrews 6:1-2 lists the teaching on baptisms as among the primary doctrine about the christ, i intend to focus on the portion of the new publication that deals with baptism.. in chapter 16, on pages 178 and 179, paragraph 17 states:.
17 to survive the coming destruction, individuals need to prove their faith now.
Welcome Afterburn. Enjoyed reading your well constructed summary.
My simple Q & A for J.W.'s regarding baptism is this:
Q. Scripturally, what requirements are necessary for a baptismal candidate?
A. Acts 2:38; 3:19 - Peter said to them: “Repent, and let each one of you be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ for forgiveness of your sins, . . .
“Repent, therefore, and turn around so as to get your sins blotted out, . . .
Repentance has absolutely nothing to do with the J.W. dogma of "dedication."
i applaud this great and holy man!
do you?.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7fstqepi9iu.
Just a P.S. to my criticism of what the "activist" did:
Every J.W. who goes out knocking on doors on Christmas day are actively & deliberately disrupting the lives of people who are celebrating a holiday which J.W.'s openly condemn.
J.W.'s who do so should be ashamed!
J.W.'s are confident that people will not want to show any animosity to them on Xmas Day.
Even my devout J.W. mother used to say, "Leave them alone - it's their one special day of the year."
this is important information that everyone should know.
it's pretty funny and not 100% inaccurate.. remember "never put your dick in crazy!"..
let the triggering commence .... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=incswssuyp4.
Thanks so much Simon, this is honestly the first time in years that I've cried laughing.
What a brilliant way to start the week!
I'm definitely sharing this one.
