Posts by jhine

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Disfellowshipping

by jhine in

so last night my bible study group was discussing the healing of the blind man in john's gospel.

ch 9 .

the man's parents were reluctant to say much on the subject.

jhine

Dagney which orthodox religions do this apart from orthodox Jews ?

Jan

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Disfellowshipping

by jhine in

so last night my bible study group was discussing the healing of the blind man in john's gospel.

ch 9 .

the man's parents were reluctant to say much on the subject.

jhine

So last night my Bible study group was discussing the healing of the blind man in John's gospel. Ch 9

The man's parents were reluctant to say much on the subject. " He is of age , he will speak for himself. "

Vs 22 " His parents said this because they were afraid of the Jewish leaders , who had already had decided that anyone who acknowledged that Jesus was the Messiah would be put out of the synagogue "

Vs 34 " ........ and they threw him ( the healed man ) out. "

My NIV study Bible commented that being thrown out of the synagogue would probably mean being socially as well as spiritually ostracized.

Of course l was struck by the similarity to the WT disfellowshipping someone. So it seems that they are following an old Jewish practice, who knew ?

Jan

25

Back to the Meetings------Back to Covid.

by pistolpete in

a lot of pimos are reporting that returning to the meetings is backfiring in that covid is spreading among the members returning.. post;.

so last saturday was my first meeting back in person and well it completely backfired.

last night i got a text from my group overseer saying that someone in the hall tested positive for covid and that we need to get tested(great 🎉).. honestly i kinda expected this.

jhine

Here in the UK churches are back to normal. Yes we're hearing of some cases but not just in church members . It's still in the community generally so you can catch it anywhere.

Also when people have it most are not too bad , just like a bad cold . My daughter just got over it . She doesn't come to church so she got it - well who knows where?

Jan

24

New Discovery at Mt. Ebal: the earliest historical instance of the name of God

by Terry in

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https://youtu.be/guzbxzdpflo.

jhine

I think that everyone else has known that for years have they ?

Jan

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oscar wilde was an irish poet who moved to london in the late 1800's where he became famous.. his brother toby who was a songwriter, decided to emulate his brother and traveled to england to seek fame & fortune also.

he chose lincolnshire as the base for his songwriting, and settled in the town of bourne.. it was here where he wrote his most well known song, "bourne toby wilde.

jhine

Groan . 😬.

Boogerman did you want to start an awful joke thread? Cus l can help .

Jan

11

Just how damn good is this song?!

by LoveUniHateExams in

purple haze by jimi hendrix.. f**king awesome, gotta say.. enjoy .... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wgodayjdfsg .

jhine

Just got Alexa to play them both. Fantastic , you forget how good some of this early stuff is .

Jan

28

Where did Christendom go? They HATED our bible in 1950...just read...

by oompa in

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the articles on the jw-cd which only go back to 1950 where we fought back the attacks.

i do not understand why they did not continue to blast our bible since it is such a fraud....down south in usa churches teach members how to refute dubs at their door.....but why did they stop blasting the nwt?

it is sooooooo easy to show a dub there is a bunch of made up crap in it.....i may have to help my local chruches.....if you need more info about the horrible fraud parts, feel free to pm me.........................oompa......even elders dont know

jhine

Speaking as a Brit Anglican l would say that most members of Christendom don't know any very much about the WT.

Certainly my fellow church members often think that l am being somewhat unChristian when l speak of a cult.

Most know that JWs don't celebrate Christmas and birthdays but know little about the level of control , shunning etc . They don't know that the WT has it's own Bible.

Jan

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Hi again

by Lee Marsh in

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it is nice to see some familiar faces here.

for those who don't know who i am my last id was lady lee.

thought i would drop by and say hello; see how people are doing.

jhine

Hello Lee , nice to see you back .

Jan

19

This good news of the kingdom

by Rattigan350 in

growing up around the faith, whenever i heard something taught, i'd always think there is a different way of looking at that, probably better.. we always hear "this good news of the kingdom will be preached... " matt 24:14.. so i think, is there more to it than preaching the kingdom?.

luke 17:21 the kjv and asv says "neither shall they say, lo here!

or, lo there!

jhine

Smiddy re the Good News I'm not sure how you can categorically say it never will be preached in all the Earth or that there are billions of people who have never heard it now.

The Gospel has been preached all across Europe, Africa, the Americas, the Middle and Far East . There are Christians in all those places .

Jan

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Hi im df Nick in Arizona

by Nick-Arizona in

i'm from california.

i'm in arizona.

i was df twice.

jhine

Hi , I'm Jan from England. A slight oddity here. Never a JW but a life long Anglican ( C of E ) .

I stumbled across this sight a good few years ago while researching in the WT after several weird conversations with JWs . I wanted to learn more about counter witnessing. I've learnt a lot more than l expected , about all sorts of things!! .

Jan