*** w09 4/15 p. 6 par.
16 job held high the name of jehovah ***.
even when crushed by the news of the death of his children, job did not ascribe anything improper to god.
Hoffnung:" Keep in mind it was intended as poetry "
You can set the book of Job to iambic pentameter, wrap it in pretty ribbons, and spray it with perfume. God is still a murderer of innocent children and animals by allowing, no -- encouraging, it to happen.
the first thing that needs to be determined is who or what is the wild beast ?......
estephan.
1and it stood still upon the sand of the sea.. and i saw a wild beast ascending out of the sea, with ten horns and seven heads, and upon its horns ten diadems, but upon its heads blasphemous names.2now the wild beast that i saw was like a leopard, but its feet were as those of a bear, and its mouth was as a lion's mouth.
The Mark of The Wild Beast, How Does One Receive It? 666
A tattoo would do the job.
harlots humiliate jehovah witness preachersby: kola niyi-eke on may 24, 2013 - 5:41am.
in a reminiscent event, harlots operating at a popular ezenei-cable point inasaba delta state have humiliated four gospel jehovah witness preachers during their routine activity leaving two of them stripped naked while their bags containing awake and watchtowers were allegedly set ablaze.. it would be recalled that few years ago some christian convertors from a popular pentecostal church after they were allegedly hoodwinked into love making with the harlots, had their bibles set ablaze upon their refusal to pay for their love making.. eyewitness told leadership friday that the incident occurred last tuesday towards nightfall when the preachers upon courage approached residents of the brothel to be part of their gospel teachings (word of god).. as it were, the tradition of jehovah witness widely known for strict compliance against things of the world especially as they carry out their preaching of house to house in group of male and female.. but as unsuspecting regular visitors/preachers to various places, sources said they moved into the brothel was greeted in happiness by some of the sexworkers who immediately assembled themselves to hear the word of god.. while the preaching lasted, our informed sources said many of the sex workers were seen like passersby clad in skimpy dresses that merely cover their nudity leaving their colleagues who had assembled to hear the word of god with serious gossip.. but this fateful day it was not to be for the jehovah preachers who had gone to the brothel without the female among them and in their usual way introduced the topic in one of the awake and while the biblical discourse lasted, the preachers were said to have been greeted in rude shock when one of the sexworkers identified as chinasa raced out of her room in what could be best described as hot pant that merely covers her nudity and with big bottle of stout and cigarette to drag one of them for sex.. in what looks like a childs play, the preacher leadership friday reliably gathered, resisted the attempt on him but the hookers method gained prominence and was dragged into the room.. leadership friday checks revealed that the sex workers modus operandi is to woo unsuspecting men into having sex with them via their skimpy dresses; a situation they also display their pubic hair.. expectedly the preacher and the harlot were said to have been engaged in serious battle right inside the room when his colleagues made attempt to rescue him but the situation became conflagrated as the harlots were allegedly said to have teamed up and seized their bags containing watchtower and awake.. they were said to have descended on them in severe beating including calling them names and allegations that they made love to them and did not pay.. .
http://leadership.ng/news/240513/harlots-humiliate-jehovah-witness-preachers.
Who uses the word "harlot" anymore?
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Seraphim: " Does anyone really think that chance created existence? "
No one here was around when it happened.
someone once quoted gandhi to me, but i don't actually think it was gandhi, saying that man can only be happy when what he says, what he believes and what he does are all in harmony.. how many of us led lives that meant all three of those were at loggerheads whilst jws?.
i came out as gay when still a witness, to my family first and then my friends.
they were all accepting of me, to varying degrees, but accepting.. i even asked the elders for help.
"But now I am thinking I'd rather be unable to talk to my family, but that they know I'm happy; than not be completely honest with them and keep in contact."
If that's the way you feel, then it's easy-peasy. DA yourself and send occasional letters to your family to assure them of your continued health and happiness. If they love you more than they love the WT, maybe they'll even answer back.
*** w09 4/15 p. 6 par.
16 job held high the name of jehovah ***.
even when crushed by the news of the death of his children, job did not ascribe anything improper to god.
"Can you imagine a parent (God) being approached by another person questioning the motives of their adult child for loving them and then allow this person to kill their grandchildren, their employees, and finally infecting them with a horrible, painful illness?"
Ding stated that God allows these things to build character in the victim, not to prove his children love him best.
I don't see how Job's character was any better after the calamities he experienced. The only result I saw was that Job got new children, employees, and animals.
No loving parent, heck, not even an extremely abusive one, would allow all the things God allowed to one of his favored children. God is as evil as Satan in that parable. In a court of law, he would be considered an accessory to murder and get the needle.
*** w09 4/15 p. 6 par.
16 job held high the name of jehovah ***.
even when crushed by the news of the death of his children, job did not ascribe anything improper to god.
Ding: " Parents often allow their children to make bad decisions which have painful consequences.... If this analogy is a good one, then God is more concerned with the development of character than will making some point about sovereignty. "
Many years ago, my 10-year-old niece ran in front of a car, lingered in a coma for a month, and then died.
How did God's allowing this "bad decision" develop my brother-in-law's character?
*** w09 4/15 p. 6 par.
16 job held high the name of jehovah ***.
even when crushed by the news of the death of his children, job did not ascribe anything improper to god.
My dub brother has been married to a mentally disturbed dub for 40 years (she wasn't like that when they married), was screwed over my his dub business partner, and is now in his 60s, nearly destitute, and has a menial job working for a dub half his age.
His fellow dubs at the KH say he's being "tested." My dub mother nearly goes into hysterics trying to understand what her son could have done so wrong that Jehovah has allowed him to be "tested" for so many years.
I always hoped that my mother would come to understand that Jehovah's allowing my brother to be tested is the same as inflicting the pain himself. But no -- Jehovah can do no wrong.
So she goes on believing that it's ok for Jehovah to stand by while Satan keeps stabbing my brother in the back.
Sick, perverse thinking.
don't get me wrong, this forum currently has plenty of interesting discussions and posters, but, for those of you who weren't on the old jwd board in the early-to-mid-00s, man...i'm sorry but you really missed out on the glory years of this forum.
it was really a special, unique place then.
again, not dissing the current, but, that huge exciting wave of ex-jw internet activity that occurred in the early part of this century seems to have leveled off.
Farkel: " The regulars at that time said we 'disrupted their quite little 'coffee shop' atmosphere.' "
"Disrupted"? You H20 guys were more like a hand grenade thrown into a coffee shop.
he stayed inside and kept going about his business like they weren't even there.
i engaged them on the verandah hut politely explained that they'd caught us at a bad time as we were doing a big cleanup of the house.
the elders had even bought a pack of chocolate cookies around, so they were expecting to be invited in and offered coffee.
JO: The biscuits are tim tams- irresistible! I'm eating them now lol. They left them with me and said I owe them a cup of coffee next time they come round.
If the cookies are that good, you should at least have let them put a foot inside your house before shutting the door on them.
Next time they come around (and it sounds like they will), set up the coffeemaker on the front step, close the door, and let them drink it outside. Make sure the coffee is of the same quality as the cookies. Fair's fair.
