blondie’s comments you will not hear at the march 19, 2017 wt study (january 2017).
excellent general website: www.jwfacts.com .
bible translations www.biblegateway.com/cgi-bin/bible .
What sticks out at me is "presumptuous"
What are “presumptuous acts”? By definition, when someone rashly or impertinently does something that he is not authorized to do, he is acting presumptuously.
Didn't Jackson say it would be presumptuous to think of themselves as God's channel of communication? However, they do claim to be so. So they are NOT the authorized channel of communication.
i bought a house literally in walking distance from the local kingdom hall.
we used to get saturday morning doorknockers on a regular basis.
then it stopped.
It's back in style.
nvi noticias, friday 10 march 2017. ten citizens are imprisoned in the isthmus for being jehovah's witnesses.
http://www.nvinoticias.com/nota/53600/encarcelan-diez-ciudadanos-en-el-istmo-por-ser-testigos-de-jehova.
https://www.jehovahs-witness.com/topic/5714189639221248/_post/5153619030573056.
Yeah, bribing is allowed by headquarters in Mexico. Not in other countries, though.
does the rank and file or the elders view us as disassociated or disfellowshipped or simply "weak" or possibly a "prodigal son" type?.
That's probably true, scratchme1010. Though they might not know it, they are jealous. lol
I know they pity me...they fell "sorry" for me but I feel "sorry" for them. What a pitiful lie they are living.
a local elder had the part this week on the "good news" brochure.
he said: "if the householder has any questions, direct them to jw.org, don't say, just look up jehovah's witnesses on the internet(an older sister said this at the door), if you do they will be directed to a site visited by apostates and weak witnesses!
" "this mistake, would cause the householder to never accept bible truth".. i thought to myself, wow, i'm sure some listening to this part, will get curious now(many in the hall are just being exposed to the internet, and practicing with their new tablets) and do, just what they were told not to do..
new letter today (please visit avoidjw.org for a copy of the official letter and yes, i also noticed they got the date wrong!).
february 28, 2017. to all bodies of elders.
re: visiting disfellowshipped or disassociated individuals.
Not that Elders ever followed that arrangement...at least none that I'm aware of.
so had to check it out to see what it's all about.. what i got was more cloudiness.
as in luke 2:9.... suddenly jehovah’s angel stood before them, and jehovah’s glory gleamed around them, and they became very fearful.
the notes point out.... jehovah’s angel: this expression occurs many times in the hebrew scriptures, starting at ge 16:7. when it occurs in early copies of the septuagint, the greek word agʹge·los (angel; messenger) is followed by the divine name written in hebrew characters.
Thanks for posting. I find particularly interesting the last quote you cite. The rest of the quote mentions: "When that happens, when evidence is at hand, biblical researchers will have to give due consideration to the views held by the NW editors. Until that day, translators must follow the manuscript tradition as it is currently known, even if some of its characteristics appear to us puzzling, perhaps even inconsistent with what we believe. Anything translators want to add to clarify the meaning of ambiguous passages, such as those where “Lord” might refer to either God or the Son of God, can and should be put into footnotes, while keeping the Bible itself in the words given to us.
So, WT basically cherry picked just what they wanted to make their point. However, it seems they don't agree with the full thought of this scholar, Jason BeDuhn because they still replace "Lord" to suit their beliefs.
yesterday i was listening to the radio at work as usual.
i listen to npr (national public radio) on most days.
there was a report about some ex-jw's who were "daring to dream" again.
The link is posted a few posts below. :)
http://www.npr.org/2017/02/19/510585965/poor-education-leads-to-lost-dreams-and-low-income-for-many-jehovahs-witnesses.
can't comment on this right now because i'm heading off to school .
transcript:.
Thanks for sharing..
seems jw's are allowed to remember valentine's day as long as it involves a trolley/cart or jw broadcast.
this is serious stuff!
i saw this on my facebook news feed shared by few brothers and sisters:.
lol
