i was asking why jws won't sing any church hymns even if they were doctrinally correct.
jws asked me in response if i would sing any of their songs.. dan watkins wrote .
its a hilarious misunderstanding, if it does not come from the watchtower bible and tract society, then it is effectively considered as coming from satan.
Vanderhoven76 hours ago
I was asking why JWs won't sing any church hymns even if they were doctrinally correct.
Jws asked me in response if I would sing any of their songs.
I think the answer to that would be,
"No, look what happened when Aled Jones sang 'Listen, Obey and be Blessed' "
https://youtu.be/lkwl5frew08?si=qj_gvlhfc4bkspbh&t=91.
mark sanderson's fake and vivid imagination experience starts at the 1 minute 30 second mark:.
goes out with local brothers and sisters in door to door service.
Man in story: 'Is that The Man from JW Broadcasting?'
Stephen Lett: 'Am I a joke to you?'
Mark Sanderson generously thought up this whole scenario so that his captive audience realises just how modest, unassuming and humble he really is. 'The Man' indeed!
i have heard or read, many times by many exjw's, that the org does not remove the blood transfusion ban because it would be crippled by the resulting lawsuits the minute that "new light" was made official.i am not a lawyer, but i would like to know what legal opinion lawyers have on that.on what legal basis would there be a lawsuit?
"i am suing the watchtower because my relative died because of a rule they had but no longer have"?am i missing something?.
If the blood doctrine was removed, that'd be one less thing for JWs to feel smug and superior about.
gillies is moving up quick.
wonder what kind of devilish acts he's done to get that job so fast.
hey, look!
The rise and rise of Paul Gillies? (jehovahs-witness.com)
An older thread for information.
What a star of the closing moments of IICSA he was!
now that the long-expected kingdom had become an established reality in heaven, surely its growing interests in the earth after 1919 would not be left in the hands of a novice organization of spiritual babes.
and that proved to be true.
it was the 1900-year-old “faithful and discreet slave,” the old christian congregation, that was entrusted with this precious kingdom service.
KalebOutWest13 hours ago
The above proves something very true and inarguably about Jehovah's Witnesses: they are an ad-hoc religion.
They say and make up things as they go.
You really articulated something important there! This would be why nobody can be reasoned into becoming a JW, and why so many are reasoning themselves out of it.
https://cne.news/article/4320-small-church-in-rome-goes-to-the-big-court-in-strasbourg-to-find-justice?push=null .
the evangelical church in rome will move to strasbourg to seek justice from the european court on human rights (ecthr) to eliminate the huge tax burden.
in the meantime, protestants all over the world are amazed by what is happening in italy..
So basically, Italy is NOT 'going after protestant religions'.
One little church might be trying to get a tax exemption they aren't entitled to, and is being denied.
Protestants around the world might, or might not, be 'amazed' at some aspect of this, for sure.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/uk-69025640.
how do you feel about this latest inquiry?
although we expect jehovah's witnesses to use this opportunity to say "we were right all this time", it's nonetheless a historic blow to the nhs.
you will definitely get AIDS if you get a blood transfusion.
It's worse than that! You'll become a homosexual!
my wife of many years is more-or-less pomo, but she still (nominally) believes in jehovah and the bible.. she raised her eyebrows when she realized the full scope of the csa problem… rolled her eyes when letto the clown called babies “little enemies of god”… but today, we apparently crossed a real threshold….
…her response to the governing body being referred to as “our future kings” was….
…“what????!!!!!”.
I just knew that they'd imagine a hierarchy amongst the 144,000, with them at the top level!
it is proposed to the seimas not to grant state recognition to the religious community of jehovah's witnesses.
lithuania05/05/2024 09:30. jehovah's witnesses; baptism associative / e. ovcharenko / bns photo.. it is proposed to the seimas to refuse to grant state recognition to the lithuanian jehovah's witnesses religious community.. community representatives told bns that they hope that parliamentarians, taking into account the practice of the european court of human rights, will make a different decision.. the draft resolution registered by the chairman of the human rights committee of the seimas, tomas vytautas raskevičius, states that this community does not meet the requirements of the constitution and the law, that its education and rites do not conflict with laws and decency.. "the ministry of justice has determined that the religious teaching of this community is possibly not compatible with the constitution of our country in two aspects.
the first is that jehovah's witnesses oppose blood transfusions due to certain aspects related to health care (...).
I'm sure Ben Elder is getting ready to deploy with his Holocaust Victims speech.
I hadn't realised at the time just how slightly tone deaf that was in Norway. I certainly look forward to his delivering that lecture in a Lithuanian court, if it comes to that.
