Posts by Rattigan350

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Do you play the LOTTERY?

by Fisherman in

jw view gambling as a sin and sadly people get addicted to gambling causing them financial and health problems.

but is playing a couple of bucks a week on some lottery tickets actually gambling?

what do you have to lose?

No, playing the lottery is not wrong. As the OP said, it is a few bucks a week. A person can spend $5 on lottery tickets or he could spend it on beer. Which is better? Why is no one questioning the beer purchase but they question the lottery tickets purchase?

The only reason that they say gambling is wrong is because of that scripture in Isaiah about the god of good luck.

but the God of good luck is Jehovah. They don't even know what luck is.

This is just more superstition that JWs have taken on and adhere to without thinking it through.

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Acts 15:29 - "keep abstaining from blood"

by aqwsed12345 in

for a christian, only the moral commandments of the old testament are binding (as they cannot change), but the various liturgical, social, and other so-called casuistic laws no longer apply to them.

this includes dietary habits, such as the prohibition of pork or fat, as well as the prohibition of blood.. take a look at the following verses: mt 15:11, mk 7:15-19, acts 11:7-9, 1 tim 4:3-5.. the jehovah's witnesses say that, yes, but in the acts of the apostles (15) the consumption of blood, idol meat, and strangled animals is also prohibited, meaning the new testament still forbids it.

for catholics, the council of florence settled this issue, stating that this apostolic regulation was only a temporary measure to facilitate agreement between jews and gentiles in the early church.

Rattigan350

@easyprompt said

""Abstain from blood."

It's not complicated."

And it is not God's law.

They applied the word 'abstain' to all 4 things as a convenience.

They didn't expand the scope of God's law as the apostles did not have the authority to do such. The Apostles and Older men were not functioning as a Governing Body. They were functioning as a court. The job of a court is to state what the law is, not what it should be.

God's Law on blood is as stated in Gen 9:4.

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Acts 15:29 - "keep abstaining from blood"

by aqwsed12345 in

for a christian, only the moral commandments of the old testament are binding (as they cannot change), but the various liturgical, social, and other so-called casuistic laws no longer apply to them.

this includes dietary habits, such as the prohibition of pork or fat, as well as the prohibition of blood.. take a look at the following verses: mt 15:11, mk 7:15-19, acts 11:7-9, 1 tim 4:3-5.. the jehovah's witnesses say that, yes, but in the acts of the apostles (15) the consumption of blood, idol meat, and strangled animals is also prohibited, meaning the new testament still forbids it.

for catholics, the council of florence settled this issue, stating that this apostolic regulation was only a temporary measure to facilitate agreement between jews and gentiles in the early church.

Rattigan350

Actually, you are not selling plasma. It is illegal to sell body parts. They pay you for your time.

And the apostles saying "abstain from blood" is not an expansion of the law. All 4 prohibitions were listed under "abstain". The apostles did not have the authority to alter God's law. If they did, it would not be God's law, it would be the apostle's law.

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A divorced single sistet

by TxNVSue2023 in

it was an opinion of someone that to be a divorced, single sister i. the organization was the lowest social standing you can have.

why are they dispised?

( what if was a scriptural divorce where husband cheated?

Rattigan350

"I have to wonder what was so wrong in the marriage that HE had to go somewhere else?"

Women normally have friends and many friends. She has people she can talk to. Men don't have friends. Men don't have people they can talk to. So men feel ghosted by their wives. So men just want to expand their emotional support and it is not all about sex.

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Disfellowshipped for Fornication

by TxNVSue2023 in

hi i want to tell my story and get advice.

i'm a single sister ( in usa) that has been baptized for 20 years.

i came from the world, so did not grow up in the truth and i have no family in the truth -- i am alone.. last year i met a brother & we did have premarital sex while we were dating.

Rattigan350

This topic reminds me that the elders are like the high sparrow and the others who hear accusations and then accuse and try to get that one to CONFESS and then try the person, all the while telling the person it is the God's that are knowing and seeing and directing.

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Acts 15:29 - "keep abstaining from blood"

by aqwsed12345 in

for a christian, only the moral commandments of the old testament are binding (as they cannot change), but the various liturgical, social, and other so-called casuistic laws no longer apply to them.

this includes dietary habits, such as the prohibition of pork or fat, as well as the prohibition of blood.. take a look at the following verses: mt 15:11, mk 7:15-19, acts 11:7-9, 1 tim 4:3-5.. the jehovah's witnesses say that, yes, but in the acts of the apostles (15) the consumption of blood, idol meat, and strangled animals is also prohibited, meaning the new testament still forbids it.

for catholics, the council of florence settled this issue, stating that this apostolic regulation was only a temporary measure to facilitate agreement between jews and gentiles in the early church.

Rattigan350

Easyprompt why are you arguing about blood fractions?

God has no law against the medical use of blood.

The only law is Gen 9:4.

The apostles and older men were not a governing body. Even with the holy spirit's help they can not expand the scope of Gen 9:4. Only God can. And he has not done that.

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Disfellowshipped for Fornication

by TxNVSue2023 in

hi i want to tell my story and get advice.

i'm a single sister ( in usa) that has been baptized for 20 years.

i came from the world, so did not grow up in the truth and i have no family in the truth -- i am alone.. last year i met a brother & we did have premarital sex while we were dating.

Rattigan350

People are not disfellowshipped for offenses. Any of those such offenses are sins deserving of death with is no different than the sin we are born with.

People are disfellowshipped for not adhering to Christian principles of repentance towards any sin.

And celebrating birthdays is just plain worldly.

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The Watchtower—Study Edition | July 2023

by RULES & REGULATIONS in

study article 31.

“be steadfast, immovable”.

11 at times, we might reason that the direction jehovah gives us is not sufficient.

Rattigan350

Every time I see Jack Smith, the special prosecutor for Trump, I think if I were on that grand jury, I would tell him that I don't trust a damn thing you are saying because you have a beard. I trust Trump because he doesn't. (though Don Jr does)

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Disfellowshipped for Fornication

by TxNVSue2023 in

hi i want to tell my story and get advice.

i'm a single sister ( in usa) that has been baptized for 20 years.

i came from the world, so did not grow up in the truth and i have no family in the truth -- i am alone.. last year i met a brother & we did have premarital sex while we were dating.

Rattigan350

There is no such thing as a "Disfellowshipping offense".

People aren't disfellowshipped for 'offenses'.

They get that from 1 Cor 6:9,10 but Paul got those things from Israel's history, such as Sodom and Gomorrah. But were the homos within those cities destroyed because of their offenses? Or because they didn't flee for their safety?

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Disfellowshipped for Fornication

by TxNVSue2023 in

hi i want to tell my story and get advice.

i'm a single sister ( in usa) that has been baptized for 20 years.

i came from the world, so did not grow up in the truth and i have no family in the truth -- i am alone.. last year i met a brother & we did have premarital sex while we were dating.

Rattigan350

What I don't understand is this "I did not forgive his adultery so I kicked him out, filed for divorce and went to the elders." You ask the elders to be forgiving toward you, but you didn't show forgiveness towards him. I think Jesus had an illustration about that.