note:.
one out of every 100 jehovah's witnesses is tossed out and 2 out of every 3 are never reinstated.
over 70,000 tossed out each year!.
I remember the enthusiastic use of the word "Hate"
People saying things like " Do you know how much I hate the world"
They said it to make themselves look righteous, and you replied:
But "God so loved the world He gave His only begotten Son, so whoever
believes in Him would be Saved"
This always was met with a, deer-in-the-headlights, look.
my jw visitor left me a copy of the 2006 print of the book "the bible: god's word or man's?
", and i intend to provide him with my analysis of it.. i notice that the book was written in 1989, and the dates of the references suggest the book has not been updated since then.
am i correct?.
Second Law - interesting - well the quality of the law was superior
to the nations around them, in that it included - washing yourself - a lot
- and not eating pork and animals that contained
parisites and dangerous bacteria -
it also was the first set of laws about kindness to animals.
not muzzling an Ox, because the animal deserved wages for his work
Cities of Refuge -degrees of crime - intentional and unintentional -
Some semblance of trial by jury - some human rights -
rules about how to treat strangers -
Rules about the treatment of the most vulnerable in society,
like widows and orphans - Rules that said you could not
push back the boundary of a widow's land.
The 'Law of the Gleaners', requiring rich landowners to leave
the end of the harvest for the poor.
do not become slaves of human beings.. trying to win the approval of human beings.
Band on the Run - I know some people here seem to think I am a right wing, evangelical bible thumper, but I think I agree with Madeline Lengle. Other than books written directly by Jesus's brothers, family and friends, I sometimes wonder how certain books or parts of books escpecially written by Paul, got into what we now consider scripture. Paul never even met Jesus, except when he had his epiphany. So many letters were circulating between Christians scattered all over the Roman Empire, one wonders why they suddenly all stopped and no writings are found from the late 1st and 2nd and 3rd centuries, when all thos arguments were taking place as the Catholic Church emerged as the "governing body" and chased off all dissenters as "apostate" Who really was the apostate? Would the Church seeking its own agenda have any qualms about destroying any writings that did not support itself ? It has been specualted that Paul worked for Rome.
i have really come to realize, the dress code these days is really really interesting.
young women at wearing their shorts, to the limit of hieght.
sandles are basically high heal shoes, with a strap to make it look like sandles.
This depends on where you live I think.
The young girls here wear knee high leather boots,
huge scarves around their necks, and a sort of Ralph Lauren sporty look.
Or they wear all black, very "uptown" long trenchcoats.
In the summer they wear hiking boots, and hiking shorts to the knee, and all look
like they are off on a trek to the wilderness, which might be possible
since 60% of Canada IS wilderness.
an open letter to the governing body of jehovah's witnesses:.
gentlemen:.
all major world religions are accredited to the united nations as non-governmental organizations.
Does anyone here realize that the word "organization"
does not appear in the Bible ?
The only Temple, Priesthood, 'structure' that
could be described as an organization was the Jewish Temple,
Jesus attended. That Priesthood was replaced by Jesus Christ
explained in, Hebrews 5:6 .. You are a priest forever after
the order of Melchizedek. 10: named by God a high priest
after the order of Melchizedek. Jesus is our MEDIATOR
no man made organization stands between you and direct
access to Jesus Christ. That is why the NAME by which
you have life is the name of Jesus Christ:
John 20:31 31 But these are written so that you
may continue to believe that Jesus is the Messiah,
the Son of God, and that by believing in him you
will have life by the power of his name. ( Jesus Christ )
The WT organization sets ITSELF up as the Mediator,
the "sole channel" claim, makes them anti-Christ.
There NEVER WAS any "channel to God" except Jesus Christ.
No earthly man or group of men can stand in that Holy Place.
To do so makes them the Man of Lawlessness,
2 Thess 2:1-4: "... the rebellion occurs and the man of lawlessness
is revealed, the man doomed to destruction.
4 He will oppose and will exalt himself over everything
that is called God or is worshiped, so that he sets himself
up in God's temple, proclaiming himself to be God.”
Jesus is the ONLY Mediator and he says we are IN him.
This is a teaching the WT perverts to its own purposes.
Telling you, you cannot be part of the Body of Christ.
John 14:29 ... I am in my Father, that you are in me,
and that I am in you.
The "church" is the body of Christ. It exists in the persons,
in the being, in the belivers who are in union
with Jesus Christ, which is ALL those who accept Jesus as the Messiah.
It is not an external "organization"
It is a spiritual nation. There are not "two classes of Christians",
you are all ONE in Christ. There IS NO "God's organization on Earth"
that is a false premise from which no truth can ever be gleaned,
because it was an error from the beginning of the WT
and there is no correcting it. You can't find it in the WT.
Jesus replaced the priesthood, and collects all believers in himself
as the "body of Christ" It is spiritual, INCLUSIVE of all, in Grace.
i often prepare quickly for the study in the jeremiah book.
there's no real substance, nothing challenging, so it doesn't take long.
the annoying thing is the direction as to what material is to be covered.
Once you have clearly established that WT doctrines are false doctrines.
Why search through volumes of publications looking for "deep truth" when
no truth at all exists in any Watchtower book or magazine , past or present.
False Doctines: false false false false
(1) 1444,000 is literal number (NO it isn't )The number only appears in
Revelation where ALL numbers are symbolic. It symbolizes extension of Grace.
(2) There are two classes: earthly class and heavenly class;
No there aren't . Based on John 10:16 which clearly states the
"other sheep" will be gathered into the same flock and they will all
be ONE flock. Other sheep being Gentiles added to the flock of Israel.
Jesus UNITED believers into one Body of Christ.
(3) The faithful and discreet slave is a "class" NO it isn't.
(4) The sole channel of communication between God and
mankind is the governing body. NO, NO, NO, it is NOT,
Jesus Christ is our direct and ONLY Mediator )
All other doctrines, no-hell fire, no-trinity, thousand year reign of Christ,
Paradise Earth, Bible chronology, End Times prophecies were
ALL copied from Adventists, Millerites, Congregationalists, "New Lighters"
the Golden Age magazine. Nothing to see here folks No "amazing light"
is contained in new or old WT publications, its Malarkey, from the top to the bottom.
i have to say i am surprised and am quite saddened to hear how many jdub marriages fall apart when one partner becomes an "unbelieving mate" or even an "apostate.
" i thought i might post my thoughts on my thinking process during the time my hubby, bethelyellowdollarbag, in my jdub thinking moved along the path from an "unbelieving mate" to an "apostate" over the course of 30 years before i finally woke up to ttatt.
"-1 corinthians 10:13.. *** it-1 p. 126 apostasy ***.
For- jgnat I am confused, I thought you said you were never a JW ?
So you cannot be an apostate. Your husband is attending meetings,
so he is NOT an apostate either. So how does your case compare???
You never believed the WT was the "truth" right ?
You married a JW ? While he was disfellowshipped ?
For adultry ? He was married to a JW ?
But he divorced her and married you jgnat ?
But you want him to leave not only his first wife
but also his religion for you ?
And your here to get ammunition ?
hello all, help me to recognize a possible trend:.
is your current or recently past co or do or their wives of the anointed?.
i think i have discovered a disturbing trend..
This is my last allowed post of the limit of TEN posts in 24 hours.
There was a priesthood, Jesus was pe-figured by Melchizedek, who
was both King and Priest. Jesus entered the Most Holy, as High Priest,
meaning he entered heaven and completed or fulfilled the Law,
which was a system of accounting for and atoning for sins.
Jesus replaced the priesthood in himself. Jesus said "you are in me
and I am in you" He invited all to be part of the body of Christ.
When he died the curtain to the Most Holy in the temple tore in two.
He removed the barrier between gentile and Jew and joined the two
groups into ONE unified believers in his "body" the Body of Christ.
Drinking the wine and eating the bread is accepting that you are in agreement
with Jesus Christ and part of the Body of Christ.
To prevent anyone from doing this is Anti-Christ.
The governing body of the WT Society claims
to be the "sole channel of communication between man an God"
and in doing so the governing body FDS is "Standing in the Holy Place"
because they usurp Jesus and make themselves the Mediator.
THEY are the Evil Slave.
hello all, help me to recognize a possible trend:.
is your current or recently past co or do or their wives of the anointed?.
i think i have discovered a disturbing trend..
144,000 is a SYMBOLIC number - NOT LITERAL - THINK - WAKE UP
THERE ARE NO LITERAL NUMBERS IN REVELATION
- NO LITERAL NUMBERS
LITTLE FLOCK WERE JESUS FOLLOWERS,
JEWS WHO JESUS JOINED INTO
ONE FLOCK, JEWS AND GENTILES
- ONE- UNITY - NOT "CLASSES"
THE WATCHTOWER TEACHES FALSE DOCTRINES
"Do this in rememberance of me" was for EVERYBODY.
I was a JW, pioneer, baptized in 1957, true believer, read and
reasearched all books and publications probably before you were born.
Listen to what I am telling you.
hello all, help me to recognize a possible trend:.
is your current or recently past co or do or their wives of the anointed?.
i think i have discovered a disturbing trend..
stillin - Research - American Adventists
in the mid to late nineteenth century 1840-1890
and you will see how Charles Taze Russell
copied ALL watchtower "sepcial Knowledge"
doctrines, like; no hell-fire, no-trinity, the Catholic Church
and Christendom as Babylon the Great, going house to house,
assemblies, Daniel and revelation interpretations, chronology,
no-imortal soul, all of this was taught by Congregationalists
and Adventists and the Millerite movement.
Nothin original was invented or discovered by the WT.
Claiming to be " God's sole channel of communication
between God and mankind" is stepping into the Holy Place, of Mediator,
Only Jesus can be the Mediator between you and God. One Mediator, Christ.
no "governing body" needed. Please read Crisis of Conscience by Ray Franz
