2021-11-18--pioneers.
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Their taskmasters have spoken.đ. Just so funny how members cannot see the control mechanism has no basis in the scripture and was brutally exposed during the lockdowns that it has no meaningful bearing on anything.
Thanks again Atlantis. Stuff like these gives numerous ones out there that are not aware something to think about when engaged in discussion based on related topics.
deut 14:21 you shall not eat anything that has died a natural death; give it to the stranger in your community to eat, or you may sell it to a foreigner.
for you are a people consecrated to yhwh.... it seems quite self evident the ritual of blood letting prior to eating meat was understood by the deuteronomist as binding only on jews..
Blanket ban or prohibition approach by the organization will lead to reading and interpreting the below scripture 1 Peter 2:11
Beloved, I urge you as foreigners and temporary residents+ to keep abstaining from fleshly desires, which wage war against you.
Keep abstaining from fleshly desires such as food, drinks, sleep, watching football, sports, sex, recreation e. t.c.
Compare with Acts 15 29
to keep abstaining from things sacrificed to idols, from blood,+ from what is strangled, and from sexual immorality.
the watchtowerâstudy edition | january 2022. during the great tribulation, gog of magogâs forces may try to assault us in our homes.
but we can take comfort in knowing that jesus and his angels are aware of what is happening and will defend us (see paragraph 13).
13. when gog of magog attacks, why will we appear to be vulnerable, but what reason for confidence will we have?
I always laugh when reading all these maybes. Too many assumptions, speculations.
so i have not been to a kh for 26 years.
if i wanted to dissociate what would be the procedure and is there any gain in doing it so long after i left?.
Check the shepherd book for disassociation procedure. Words of mouth or a written note to that effect is enough.
simple.. you cannot find the word there (or many of the comical variations such as: a triune godhead, the triunity, co-equal god beings, godhead, a hypostaic union, divine essences, divine natures, a god-the-son, a god-the-ghost, hypostasis, homoousios, perichoresis , a godman, omnipresence, incarnation, a god who is a sacred mystery, a god 'in three persons', dual natures, a reincarnate god, a first person of the trinity, a second person of the trinity, a third person of the trinity, godness, a tri-unity or a multipersonal god), or any of the so-mentioned aspects.. jehovah identified himself (not 'themselves") as on one god, as did jesus and all the prophets.
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so, come, let us know of the simple twists of the clergy!.
Is the WTBTS as governed by the Guardians of Our Doctrines aka Governing body the only channel JEHOVAH is using to dispense past, present and future truth of the Bible?
simple.. you cannot find the word there (or many of the comical variations such as: a triune godhead, the triunity, co-equal god beings, godhead, a hypostaic union, divine essences, divine natures, a god-the-son, a god-the-ghost, hypostasis, homoousios, perichoresis , a godman, omnipresence, incarnation, a god who is a sacred mystery, a god 'in three persons', dual natures, a reincarnate god, a first person of the trinity, a second person of the trinity, a third person of the trinity, godness, a tri-unity or a multipersonal god), or any of the so-mentioned aspects.. jehovah identified himself (not 'themselves") as on one god, as did jesus and all the prophets.
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so, come, let us know of the simple twists of the clergy!.
@Revealed
Are JWs Christians?
It looks very much that way @jonahstourguide. They create threads as longs as threads keep moving and gets contributed to. Time counting continues.
found out on fb friday .
not sure if anyone else found out, but i take long breaks from the exjws movement.
had to do a serious search for her name, because she wasnt as active on jwn anymore...not sure how she passed but her sister said (according to another ex jws) that she had been sick for a while.. i met her once here in milwaukee, had a great time hanging out with her.
Time to rest.
my in-laws are two such people.
people who pioneered and did not work and try to save, instead they made just enough to get by and waited for the end to come.
now my mil is in palliative care and the state is paying for her keep, my fil lives in a dilapidated home and can not keep it up.
@Simon
Spot on about the TIME. I love the way Raymond Franz analysed that in his book In search of Christian Freedom. The org uses the most useful and important part of the the time of life of its members by the time such members decides to live, they begin to realise those lost time cannot be recovered and their productive years is remaining few.
i'm looking for wts quotations that contrast with ii timothy 3:15-16 whereby they downplay scripture.. here is one from way back..
"...people cannot see the divine plan in studying the bible by itself...if he then lays them [scripture studies] aside and ignores them and goes to the bible alone, though he has understood his bible for ten years, our experience shows that within two years he goes into darkness.
on the other hand, if he had merely read the scripture studies with their references, and had not read a page of the bible, as such, he would be in the light at the end of the two years, because he would have the light of the scriptures," (watchtower, sept. 15, 1910, p. 298).
We must not lose sight of the fact that God is directing his organization ⌠To turn away from Jehovah and his organization, to spurn the direction of âthe faithful and discreet slave,â and to rely simply on personal Bible reading and interpretation is to become like a solitary tree in a parched land.â (The Watchtower, June 1, 1985, pp. 19-20)
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The written Word of God, therefore does not need the traditions which are the private interpretation of men and religious organisation..... Let God be true book
Had the oral traditions of religious men been necessary to compliment the canon of the Bible, Paul would not have said that the point of making the men of God perfect in faith and devotion to God. It would have been inadequate and would have left the man of God unperfected..... Let God be true book
All of the above from the channel of God aka WTBTS.
Look at how the Bible, left to each one's individual interpretation, has resulted in the religiously divided condition of PROTESTANTISM. To this we(WTBTS) say, protestantism multitude of sects and cults is no proof that the Bible is a divisive force to those who take it, and it alone as ADEQUATE..... Let God be true book
Oh dear fast Forward to 1985 those who take the BIBLE and its interpretation ALONE and ENOUGH are labelled PARCHED LAND
