take for example revelation 21: 10. .
“….and he showed me the holy city jerusalem coming down out of heaven from god.
here john sees something happening, action.
I've heard of the peanut gallery, but I've never heard of the jalapeño gallery...
What does a nosy pepper do?
Gets jalapeño business!
🤪🤣
If you don't believe in Christ, Jehalapeno, then I guess you feel you've got nothing to worry about. Although, personally, I suggest you "put on the Christ" because the world's about to get even colder, and you're just a little chili...
😆😁
here 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.
For example, could you proskyneo Michael with this hymn?
Yes! That was lovely!🥰
(It looks like the video isn't showing up now, but it was Tommy Walker, "My Jesus, I Love Thee")
luke 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.
I am what I am by means of God's undeserved kindness. I have faith in the power of Christ's blood, and I believe what he teaches by means of the scriptures and the holy spirit.
I have no interest in talking to you further right now, Sea Breeze. If you insist on misspelling "anointed" despite being on the board at a "Christian" educational facility, you certainly won't be able to comprehend anything else I could possibly share with you that Christ has shared with me. I have no interest in hearing any more of the corrupted doctrines of man that you seem to want to shove in my general direction. I prefer the clear waters of truth provided by my Lord the Christ.
Cheery bye-bye.
i think it was a john cedars video or someone else’s where the point was brought up that only baptised jws will be saved?
then one talk about kids of baptised jws hope they will make it but even them don’t know.
most jws probably think that some good people who are not baptised may make it through, but this is not official teaching?.
Jesus said there would be religious people who would show hatred and who thought they were doing it "for God". There are individuals within many different groups who show such religious hatred.
We have a choice to either be part of the solution or part of the problem.
Jesus recommended the following: "Love your enemies" and "if your enemy is thirsty, give him something to drink" etc...
It is entirely proper to point out hypocrisy and false religious teachings, and to report abuse to the authorities and media that others may not fall into the same traps, but there is also a danger in going too far and becoming "a religious hater" inciting hatred for individuals in the very group we are exposing.
"Pay attention to yourselves. If your brother commits a sin, rebuke him, and if he repents, forgive him."
In general, people in different religious groups, including the borg, have not yet repented of their false doctrines. They may repent in the future when Jesus makes very clear which doctrines are false. We need to be ready to embrace the religious people who wake up, regardless of what religious group they belong to (or don't belong to) at present.
luke 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.
I very clearly have stated my faith that Jesus was raised from the dead.
The verse you keep quoting wasn't written in English. It was written in a first century language. The English word "body" and the meaning you keep attaching to it wasn't in the original manuscript.
Your interpretation doesn't fit the leading of the holy spirit or the healthful teaching.
"Keep holding to the standard of wholesome words that you heard from me with the faith and love that result from union with Christ Jesus." (2 Timothy 1:13)
"I write you these things about those who are trying to mislead you. And as for you, the anointing that you received from him remains in you, and you do not need anyone to be teaching you; but the anointing from him is teaching you about all things and is true and is no lie. Just as it has taught you, remain in union with him." (1 John 2:26,27)
I don't know where you got that "dead isn't really dead" way of thinking from, @SeaBreeze, but I suggest you follow the Christ and the direction of the holy spirit rather than the teachings of corrupted men.
"If any man teaches another doctrine and does not agree with the wholesome instruction, which is from our Lord Jesus Christ, nor with the teaching that is in harmony with godly devotion, he is puffed up with pride and does not understand anything. He is obsessed with arguments and debates about words. These things give rise to envy, strife, slander, wicked suspicions, constant disputes about minor matters by men who are corrupted in mind and deprived of the truth, thinking that godly devotion is a means of gain." (1 Timothy 6:3-5)
note: photos can be found on the blue envelope channelhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-nakezkhqbmtony and susan morris are living in lumberton, north carolina.
a real estate document on the robeson county website is filed:.
the religious order of jehovah's witnesses has provided a "life estate" for them.they can live in this townhouse until they are deceased or choose to move away and in either case the ownership becomes entirely the property of jehovah's witnesses.
"The Rock, perfect is his activity,
For all his ways are justice.
A God of faithfulness who is never unjust;
Righteous and upright is he.
They are the ones who have acted corruptly.
They are not his children, the defect is their own.
They are a crooked and twisted generation."
There are many who have twisted the clean sayings of God. Anthony Morris III was part of the GB/FDS who as a group upheld certain teachings that dishonored Jehovah God and the Christ.
Christianity is not perverse, but sometimes humans misunderstand and that misunderstanding distorts the truth.
Jesus will make all things clear in time.
luke 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.
"Out of the heart's abundance the mouth speaks..."
@SeaBreeze, Why do you like to talk about "gas" so much? 🤭
I know Jesus died and was resurrected. Yes, I am concerned that you keep saying that I said something I didn't say. You're the one who insists Jesus never really died.
"Now if it is being preached that Christ has been raised from the dead, how is it that some among you say there is no resurrection of the dead? If, indeed, there is no resurrection of the dead, then Christ has not been raised up. But if Christ has not been raised up, our preaching is certainly in vain, and your faith is also in vain. Moreover, we are also found to be false witnesses of God, because we have given witness against God by saying that he raised up the Christ, whom he did not raise up if the dead are really not to be raised up. For if the dead are not to be raised up, neither has Christ been raised up. Further, if Christ has not been raised up, your faith is useless; you remain in your sins. Then also those who have fallen asleep in death in union with Christ have perished. If in this life only we have hoped in Christ, we are to be pitied more than anyone. But now Christ has been raised from the dead, the firstfruits of those who have fallen asleep in death."
here 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.
The scriptures make clear that Jesus isn't "merely an angelic being". The scriptures also make clear that an archangel isn't merely an angel.🙂
take for example revelation 21: 10. .
“….and he showed me the holy city jerusalem coming down out of heaven from god.
here john sees something happening, action.
True, @Vanderhoven, but the disciples asked two questions. "Tell us, when will these things be, and what will be the sign of your presence and of the conclusion of the system of things?" (Matthew 24:3) Jesus answered them both.
(1) When will these things be (regarding the first century temple being torn down)?
(2) What will be the sign of your presence in Kingdom power and the conclusion of the system of things?
Jesus told them when the Jewish system of things would end. But he also answered when he would come in Kingdom power and end the complete current system of things.
How do we know?
"...for then there will be great tribulation such as has not occurred since the world’s beginning until now, no, nor will occur again..." (Matthew 24:21)
The tribulation that occurred in Jerusalem in the first century was bad, but it's not the worst tribulation ever to occur on the earth. There have been plenty of bad "tribulations" since that time up until now. The great tribulation to come will be worse than what happened in Jerusalem, and it will be worse than anything that has happened up to this point.
"In fact, unless those days were cut short, no flesh would be saved; but on account of the chosen ones those days will be cut short."
Also, these things haven't happened yet...
"Immediately after the tribulation of those days, the sun will be darkened, and the moon will not give its light, and the stars will fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens will be shaken. Then the sign of the Son of man will appear in heaven, and all the tribes of the earth will beat themselves in grief, and they will see the Son of man coming on the clouds of heaven with power and great glory. And he will send out his angels with a great trumpet sound, and they will gather his chosen ones together from the four winds, from one extremity of the heavens to their other extremity."
Everybody will see Jesus. Everyone will know. We won't have to say, "hey, did you know this means Jesus is present?" Nope. Everyone will know without needing to be told. "They will see the Son of man coming on the clouds of heaven with power and great glory."
the wt org claims that the lamb's marriage will happen after armageddon, despite the fact that revelation 19 very clearly says that the lamb's marriage happens after the destruction of babylon the great.
and that after the lamb's marriage he with heavenly armies will go to destroy the wicked.. the wt claims that the order of events in revelation 19 is not really in that order referring to psalm 45. but i can't find in psalm 45 any explicit contradiction to revelation 19. .
paragraph 10 in the following article shows the wt org's view point:.
"And yet all of these, although they received a favorable witness because of their faith, did not obtain the fulfillment of the promise, because God had foreseen something better for us, so that they might not be made perfect apart from us." (Hebrews 11:39,40)
In those verses, Paul was referring to two groups: "all of these" (Samson, Sarah, Abraham, Moses, Samuel, David, etc) who had the hope of living forever on the earth and then "us" (Paul and the Christians in the first century who were anointed to be part of the Kingdom government in heaven).
He wasn't talking about the resurrection of the 144,000 when he said "all of these".
But Paul did say at 1 Thessalonians 4:13-18:
"Moreover, brothers, we do not want you to be ignorant about those who are sleeping in death, so that you may not sorrow as the rest do who have no hope. For if we have faith that Jesus died and rose again, so too God will bring with him those who have fallen asleep in death through Jesus. For this is what we tell you by Jehovah’s word, that we the living who survive to the presence of the Lord will in no way precede those who have fallen asleep in death; because the Lord himself will descend from heaven with a commanding call, with an archangel’s voice and with God’s trumpet, and those who are dead in union with Christ will rise first. Afterward we the living who are surviving will, together with them, be caught away in clouds to meet the Lord in the air; and thus we will always be with the Lord. So keep comforting one another with these words."
When Jesus called Lazarus out of the cave where he was buried, he called him with a loud voice. When Jesus descends from heaven to the earth "with a commanding call, with an archangel's voice and with God's trumpet" it is going to be much "louder". Loud enough to wake the dead. Everyone will know.
Revelation shows that during the great tribulation when Jesus resurrects the anointed ones who have died, everyone will know. Paul, Peter, Mary, James, Mary Magdalene...they will all be walking around in materialized bodies just like Jesus did for those 40 days after he was resurrected. Everybody will know they've been resurrected.
