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A SHADOW to NONE
by Terry inbe a shadow to nonethis world’s gone all wobbly and doubly unshackledwe’re tackled by circumstance, brought to our kneesfinancial hardship, a test of all friendshipcrash and corruption; it’s death and diseasewho is our neighbor and where are our leaders?the lord of the flies may arise to the thronethough life packs a wallop a dollop of courageand brotherhood binds us; we’re not here alone+++out of the shadow we stand in the sunbackbone and muscle: we’re not yet undonebring on apocalypse you won’t see us runand we’ll be a shadow to noneno, we’ll be a shadow to none+++ buzzards and bastards, they circle disasters rats skitter scatter the old sinking shipit’s backbone bravado with faith as our mottothat binds us, reminds us: take aim, let her ripgoodness and decency stumbled and crumbledgreed is the creed of malevolent mennow is the time to remind one anotheryou are my brother, yes you are my friend+++out of the shadow we stand in the sunbackbone and muscle we’re not yet undonebring on apocalypse you won’t see us runand we'll be a shadow to noneno - we'll be a shadow to nonemy brother, we’re not yet undone+++a song i haven't bothered to finish :)
john farnham might be a good choice for singer
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Luke 23:43 the NWT
by Ade inluke 23:43 - and jesus said to him, "positively i say to you, today you will be with me in paradise.
nwt places comma here , giving a totally different meaning to the verse.
now the average jw uses this to back their doctrine and it seems in itself virtually impossible to reason with them on it.
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Yeah, the WT gets a lot backwards.
Jesus already showed that he can materialize a body. He said he'd eat and drink in the Kingdom. You don't eat and drink in heaven. Jesus will walk around on the earth. His abode will be heaven, but just because you live somewhere doesn't mean you can't visit somewhere else.
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A Press Conference of Hate: False Accusations of Sexual Abuse Against the Jehovah’s Witnesses 7~24~23
by Tahoe in.
https://bitterwinter.org/a-press-conference-of-hate-false-accusations-of-sexual-abuse-against-the-jehovahs-witnesses/.
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@Vienne, I don't need your sympathy and I didn't ask for it, but I do thank you for making the expression.
As regards Massimo and "payment"...There are different forms of "payment" besides cash.
It is possible to pay attention.
It is also possible to pay honor.
The Devil wasn't asking for cash from Jesus. He was asking for a different kind of payment.
Proverbs 8:13 says "The fear of Jehovah means the hating of bad. I hate self-exaltation and pride and the evil way and perverse speech."
Should exaltation and esteemful attention and honor be paid to someone who loves what is bad? Why are the GB/FDS exalting a person who is lying and helping them hide abuse?
The answer is obvious.
"Woe to those who say that good is bad and bad is good,
Those who substitute darkness for light and light for darkness,
Those who put bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter!
Woe to those wise in their own eyes
And discreet in their own sight!
...Those who acquit the wicked for a bribe
And who deny justice to the righteous!
...Because they rejected the law of Jehovah of armies
And disrespected the word of the Holy One of Israel.
That is why the anger of Jehovah burns against his people,
And he will stretch out his hand against them and strike them.
...In view of all this, his anger has not turned back,
But his hand is still stretched out to strike.
He has raised up a signal to a distant nation;
He has whistled for them to come from the ends of the earth;
And look! they are coming very swiftly." (Isaiah chapter 5)
The GB/FDs reject Jehovah. Jehovah will reject them.
Jehovah hasn't changed. He's used nations before to discipline people who claimed to be "His Name People" but acted horridly. Jehovah's Witnesses will not be exempted from the attack on religious institutions. To the contrary, they will be the first religious institution removed/dismantled/stripped by the UN, that everyone may know the GB/FDS wasn't representing Jehovah's will.
"You should start from my sanctuary.” So they started with the elders who were in front of the house." (Ezekiel 9:6)
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Where Does Watchtower Doctrine Contradict Scripture?
by Vanderhoven7 inhere are some areas that i have found:.
not only is watchtower eschatology offbase, which is not critical, but so is watchtower soteriology … which is critical.
the bible says not to put trust in men who cannot save.
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A Press Conference of Hate: False Accusations of Sexual Abuse Against the Jehovah’s Witnesses 7~24~23
by Tahoe in.
https://bitterwinter.org/a-press-conference-of-hate-false-accusations-of-sexual-abuse-against-the-jehovahs-witnesses/.
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Jesus will expose those fakers on the GB at the appointed time, and everyone will know they are not really "Jehovah's Witnesses".
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A Press Conference of Hate: False Accusations of Sexual Abuse Against the Jehovah’s Witnesses 7~24~23
by Tahoe in.
https://bitterwinter.org/a-press-conference-of-hate-false-accusations-of-sexual-abuse-against-the-jehovahs-witnesses/.
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None of the GB are said to be "paid" or "hired" either, but sometimes "payment" comes in different ways.
Massimo Introvigne is a liar.
His article says:
"It is factually false that the Jehovah’s Witnesses do not inform secular authorities of believable reports of sexual abuse their elders have received, or worse, vengefully disfellowship victim of sexual abuse, or those who report incidents of sexual abuse to secular authorities. All manuals of instructions for Jehovah’s Witnesses elders clearly mandate that the laws of the land should be obeyed when they require that cases of sexual abuse should be reported to the secular authorities. In fact, even if there is no legal duty to report, congregation elders are instructed to report the matter if a minor is still in danger of abuse."
I am a victim of abuse in the congregation. The other elders covered for the elder and used every trick they could think of in order to cover for him. They broke their own rules recorded in the "Shepherd the Flock of God" book and they broke the clear commands of Jesus as recorded in the Bible.
The elders told me they weren't obliged to deal with the COBE until I talked to him first in harmony with Matthew 18.
When I called/wrote to the COBE to talk to him about the allegations, he wouldn't answer, so the elders said they didn't have to do the second part of Matthew 18.
Finally when COVID was fizzling down and meetings were going back in person, I told the elders I would speak with that COBE either before or after meeting at the KH so we could proceed with the next step. They went and got a trespassing ban so I couldn't go to the KH even though I never ever have disrupted a meeting in my life.
I was the one who got disfellowshipped when I warned the rest of the congregation via email of what was going on. I was accused of "reviling and causing divisions."
Eventually the elder I reported stepped down as HLC and COBE.
I am officially banned from meetings and conventions now because I went to the convention and still talked to my "friends" since I won't support the antichrist disfellowshipping doctrine.
Incidentally, over the course of several years I wrote to Bethel more times than I could count for "help" with the situation. No response until after I was disfellowshipped. Then Mark Sanderson sent back one of my letters with a big red stamp on it: "REJECTED".
Those men at Bethel are "paying" Massimo Introvigne with the same kind of "payment" they crave, worshipful esteem that belongs to God. They will "pay" anyone who does an act of worship to them, just like their god, their father the Devil.
"Again the Devil took him along to an unusually high mountain and showed him all the kingdoms of the world and their glory. And he said to him: “All these things I will give you if you fall down and do an act of worship to me.” Then Jesus said to him: “Go away, Satan! For it is written: ‘It is Jehovah your God you must worship, and it is to him alone you must render sacred service.’”
https://www.jw.org/en/news/region/russia/dr-massimo-introvigne-interview/
https://www.jw.org/en/news/region/russia/experts-on-threat-of-ban-jehovahs-witnesses/
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Where Does Watchtower Doctrine Contradict Scripture?
by Vanderhoven7 inhere are some areas that i have found:.
not only is watchtower eschatology offbase, which is not critical, but so is watchtower soteriology … which is critical.
the bible says not to put trust in men who cannot save.
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Vander, I know you love God and Jesus. The GB has muddied the waters by focusing on technicalities rather than obedience. The GB continues to mislead the flock, and it makes me angry that they claim to represent Jehovah and Jesus all the while they are clearly disobeying basic Bible commands. If they were really faithful and discreet and slaving for Christ and directed by holy spirit, they would know better. They have brought so much reproach on God's name by all their scripture twisting. He will clear up the matter eventually in time.
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Where Does Watchtower Doctrine Contradict Scripture?
by Vanderhoven7 inhere are some areas that i have found:.
not only is watchtower eschatology offbase, which is not critical, but so is watchtower soteriology … which is critical.
the bible says not to put trust in men who cannot save.
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(If you ever invite me over for dinner, remind me to bring my own food...lol...🤪😆😁)
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Luke 23:43 the NWT
by Ade inluke 23:43 - and jesus said to him, "positively i say to you, today you will be with me in paradise.
nwt places comma here , giving a totally different meaning to the verse.
now the average jw uses this to back their doctrine and it seems in itself virtually impossible to reason with them on it.
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"But when the army officer and those with him keeping watch over Jesus saw the earthquake and the things happening, they grew very much afraid and said: “Certainly this was God’s Son.”"
If Jesus went to some happy figurative spiritual paradise right when he died, then why did God cause the heavens to darken and the earth to quake in a fear inspiring way so that even the soldiers knew God was upset?
Jesus didn't go to paradise when he died. Nobody is in paradise right now. Paradise is currently closed, but it will be open again eventually. Jesus said so.
"Truly I tell you today, you will be with me in Paradise."
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Where Does Watchtower Doctrine Contradict Scripture?
by Vanderhoven7 inhere are some areas that i have found:.
not only is watchtower eschatology offbase, which is not critical, but so is watchtower soteriology … which is critical.
the bible says not to put trust in men who cannot save.
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"Milk is not blood, but a mother's milk contains millions of white blood cells none the less."
If the white cells in milk are the same as the ones in blood, then maybe someone should tell the medical people so they can harvest white cells for transfusion from milk instead of blood.
"Do you think if Paul were invited alone to the home of a pagan who was known to buy unbled meat from the shambles, that he would ask questions of conscience?"
I think Paul knew the difference between obedience and disobedience. I am confident that he would answer appropriately.
"So what about organ transplants? Would God be against a Christian having a kidney transplant from a family member to save his or her life?"
"Keep yourself from what is strangled, and from blood." If you consider the cells in milk to be blood and the cells in an organ to be blood, it seems you already have an opinion on the matter. Why are you asking me?
But as far as the Bible goes, you already know...
Acts 15 wasn't originally written in English. The word "blood" in Greek didn't mean milk or a portion of milk. It didn't mean an organ that had been properly bled. The Jews had been eating animal organs with God's permission for a long time. The first century Christians knew what blood was. They knew what it meant to abstain from blood and things strangled.
If you have a cup of blood and take a drop out of it and put it in your mouth, you are not obeying the clear command to abstain from blood. If you have an organ with congealed blood in it and put it in your body, you are not obeying the clear command to abstain from things strangled and from blood.
If you drink milk, you are not disobeying the command to abstain from blood.
If you put an organ in your body that has been properly bled, you are not disobeying the command to abstain from things strangled and from blood.
"For the holy spirit and we ourselves have favored adding no further burden to you except these necessary things: to keep abstaining from things sacrificed to idols, from blood, from what is strangled, and from sexual immorality. If you carefully keep yourselves from these things, you will prosper. Good health to you!"
Do you believe that Jesus is the head of the congregation and pours out the holy spirit to direct his congregation? Do you believe that we must obey Jesus' direction in order to be pleasing to God?
@Vanderhoven7, I know you believe.🙂💖