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kassad84
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Letter From Whitney's Mother
by breakfast of champions injust saw this on google news.
link to letter here.. .
dear family, i want to tell you that although this has been the worst of my lifes tribulations, that i am still standing.. the obvious reason is that jehovah is the faithful keeper of promises holding to his word that never, would his great love allow his precious children to be tested beyond what we could bear.
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Jehovah's Witnesses DO NOT break up families
by irondork injehovah's witnesses do not break up families.
members who refuse to become or remain jehovah's witnesses... break up families.. really, you apostates have such a distorted perception of reality.. .
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Why aren't you an Atheist?
by Bloody Hotdogs! inlong time lurker, first time poster.. .
i'm an ms (accounts servant) in a large congregation in canada.
over the last several years i've faught a hard-won battle to rid my mind of all religous and supernatural beleifs.
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kassad84
13 These things we also speak, not in words which man’s wisdom teaches but which the Holy Spirit teaches, comparing spiritual things with spiritual. 14 But the natural man does not receive the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him; nor can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned. - 1 Corinthians 2
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Can you think of anything that is postive about being A JW?
by jam inthey make good neighbors, why because they.
stay to themselves..
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kassad84
I owe them being more familiar with the Bible. I was originally Catholic and I know absolutely nothing about the Bible then.
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Thinking of becoming a JW.
by Kate82 inhi,.
i am new to here so please be bear with me.. i have always believed in god, but was never baptised, my parents wanted me to make up my own mind religon wise.. i am thinking of becoming a jw and am just needing some advice on how to do this, bible study and jw beliefs.
also do jw say grace and how.. i am greatful of any help.. thanks.
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Thinking of becoming a JW.
by Kate82 inhi,.
i am new to here so please be bear with me.. i have always believed in god, but was never baptised, my parents wanted me to make up my own mind religon wise.. i am thinking of becoming a jw and am just needing some advice on how to do this, bible study and jw beliefs.
also do jw say grace and how.. i am greatful of any help.. thanks.
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kassad84
I feel alone too, if that helps. But everything will be alright.
And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose.
Romans 8:28
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Why aren't you an Atheist?
by Bloody Hotdogs! inlong time lurker, first time poster.. .
i'm an ms (accounts servant) in a large congregation in canada.
over the last several years i've faught a hard-won battle to rid my mind of all religous and supernatural beleifs.
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kassad84
As he thus made his defense, Festus said with a loud voice, "Paul, you are crazy! Your great learning is driving you insane!" - Acts 26:24
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Thinking of becoming a JW.
by Kate82 inhi,.
i am new to here so please be bear with me.. i have always believed in god, but was never baptised, my parents wanted me to make up my own mind religon wise.. i am thinking of becoming a jw and am just needing some advice on how to do this, bible study and jw beliefs.
also do jw say grace and how.. i am greatful of any help.. thanks.
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kassad84
Hi Kate,
The JWs are generally advised against going through these forums and sites for fear of being corrupted by 'apostate' leanings. Better safe than never. And so if you want to get to know them, you must do so at the Kingdom halls. They are a good bunch of people. But the problem is not the regular JWs themselves, the problem is who they follow and the concept formulated a long time ago that's being followed. The problem is at its core in Brooklyn, their governing body. They are all following them unquestionably (maybe as blindly as Germany to the Nazis in WW2). They regard them as having divine authority as being brothers of Christ. This claim should merit additional investigation because of its enormity, but most of them didn't do so when joining, including me.
All the best,
Kassad
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Why aren't you an Atheist?
by Bloody Hotdogs! inlong time lurker, first time poster.. .
i'm an ms (accounts servant) in a large congregation in canada.
over the last several years i've faught a hard-won battle to rid my mind of all religous and supernatural beleifs.
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kassad84
That's why things look so perfect. Adjustments were made, but by evolution.
Hey NewChapter, you posted this 8hrs ago. i just want to answer cause i'm finding this thread/debate so much fun. i just want to point out that i don't want to quarrel, just someone who wants to voice his opinion.
yes it may very well be that its all because of evolution, but then I will question how or where that life that's become so well versed in evolving came to being in the first place. how a combination of carbon and other elements suddenly sprang into activity into living beings. i believe science may come up with an answer eventually on that, but it may take its time. at the moment, scientists are still having trouble figuring out how electrons behave in the quantum level.
there is an argument called Pascal's wager about this. That since God cannot be proven nor disproven that there is more to gain for a man to live as though God exists than not.
And it all comes down to morality, isn't it? The right and the wrong.
God/the Bible/the people who wrote the Bible spelled out moral principles that man has always known in his heart but in the past, there's no formality or obligation to do it. The question is maybe whether or not God exists, but whether or not we will be still be moral people, looking not to harm our neighbor, even without an all power entity looking on our shoulders. If someone is an atheist BUT a moral man nevertheless, then he is soooo much better than a religious one that is a hypocrite.I remember Ricky Gervais twit the other day that goes,
"Dear religion,
This week I safely dropped a man from space while you shot a child in the head for wanting to go to school.
Yours,
Science."
With events like this and so many countless ones that have occurred in history, I can totally understand why there are so many atheists. But I think these acts of the Taliban may for them be a religious act, but NOT a moral one. Once again legalism makes religious people crazy.
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Thinking of becoming a JW.
by Kate82 inhi,.
i am new to here so please be bear with me.. i have always believed in god, but was never baptised, my parents wanted me to make up my own mind religon wise.. i am thinking of becoming a jw and am just needing some advice on how to do this, bible study and jw beliefs.
also do jw say grace and how.. i am greatful of any help.. thanks.
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kassad84
hi kate, i think we have the same disposition. i can relate to you. i'm by nature a shy person too and that's exactly how they found me. i am still a jw, but now inactive. i think the jws are a nice bunch of normal people like us and that they are really seeking God. but they are victims. for me personally, i think the problem with this organization is the foundation in which it was built, the so called "faithful and discreet slave" doctrine. i suggest you read crisis of conscience by raymond franz to weigh in your decision. the author i think is honest in relating his experiences with the organization but leaves the decision of whether to join, or leave, or stay to each one. because most of the times, its not an easy decision. there are things that I think the JWs got right, and there are things that they got wrong. just like in every other denomination of christianity.