romans 1:25: they exchanged the truth of god for a lie, and worshiped and served created things rather than the creatorwho is forever praised.
amen.
do you all agree that the purpose of sacred texts is to bring believers closer to god?
In reality...Jehovahs Witnesses pray to Jehovah, they sing to him, they die for him, they cry out to him in times of fear and sorrow. They do not pray, call out to, or look to these men in times of extreme grief; and sorry.
' thing is .......... who's jehovah ?
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for jw's, what's the difference between a false religion, and "their so called true religion", when they keep on changing doctrines and saying things that never come true, and make life miserable for many of their followers?
what's the difference between false religion, and "their so called true religion"
That's a silly question - any jw probably knows that - a false religion is "other people's religion" - and a true religion is "my religion"
That's the difference - someone else....and me
It's easy to understand it all when you have the basics right
i was thinking of (just popped into my head)..of 2 bible stories.
1. daniel 6 the story of the king, who had to throw daniel into the lions pit, but was very unhappy about it.
anyways...daniel lived and the king threw the conspirators against daniel into the pit and they gobbled them up before they hit the bottom of the pit.
Also the threshing oxen being symbolic of the Christian evangelisers.
That's just something they read by Paul - he plainly explains it - no insight needed there, just a valid bible
(but I don't know that he meant the new type that you see on tv an' all)
"and he took him aside from the multitude, and put his fingers into his ears, and he spit, and touched his tongue; and looking up to heaven, he sighed, and saith unto him, ephphatha, that is, be opened.
and straightway his ears were opened, and the string of his tongue was loosed, and he spoke plain.
" ( mark 7:33-35 ).
Intelligent people who go out of their way to assist others can make a positive difference, and stories are told about such people.
"but when they persecute you in this city, flee ye into another: for verily i say unto you, ye shall not have gone over the cities of israel till the son of man be come.
" ( matthew 10:23 ).
"for the son of man shall come in the glory of his father with his angels; and then he shall reward every man according to his works.
Are "taste death" and "taste of death" the same ?
such illiteracy is more easily succumbed to when you're distracted by preconceived ideas
i really enjoyed the feedback i recieved from an earlier post i made.
i was asking about how anyone could actually know the meanings of simple words like "fire" "sea" etc and what they meant to the author of the bible.. all we have to go on is our own understanding of what we were taught by others who didn't write the book as to what "fire" was to them.
if they are wrong...we could be all screwed up trying to translate a book without any knowledge of the basic meaning of the words to the one who wrote it.
Exactly. So why is everyone not allowed to interpert successfully the holy writings? For what reason is the truth hidden from us?
So the GB can tell us right from wrong? I call bullshit.
There has to be some way to find out the truth as to what every little "simple" word meant to the author.
There's a bit of a snowball effect - just need to get going a bit nature can teach you - look at things and what happens - check out animal behaviours, and see why they are used in biblical language And think succinctly, and critically, and get rid of your nwt (it's just misleading) - eg. fear of God is the beginning of wisdom, so would you want to be fearful - no, it's for beginners, it doesn't say that it's an aspect of being wise - that's for people at the start who may never proceed any further - stay sharp, the word is That sharp
comments you will not hear at the 5-28-06 wt study (april 15, 2006 issue date, pages 25-29)(hands be strong).
review comments will be in red.
wt material from today's wt will be in black.
you can be certain that God's continued blessing depends on our doing the work at the spiritual temple in the way that Jehovah wants it done.
I think this should be quoted to anyone considering the jw religion as being christian
comments you will not hear at the 5-28-06 wt study (april 15, 2006 issue date, pages 25-29)(hands be strong).
review comments will be in red.
wt material from today's wt will be in black.
Why do the books of Haggai and Zechariah deserve our attention?
Ummm....because the catholics gave them to us ?
On what do Haggai and Zechariah focus?
Ummm.....the word of the Lord !
What took place soon after World War I?
Ummm.... Peace !
To what grand accomplishment does Zechariah 4:7 point?
Ummm.....grand....Hmmm.....a mountain is made a plain !
Jesus has what role regarding bringing true worship to its perfected state in our day, and why should we find that encouraging?
Ummm.....by his Spirit within us, and it's encouraging because he'll never leave us
Why must we give the work at the spiritual temple first place in our lives?
Because we are the temple of God who lives in us, and when we love God we love our true self, and if then our neighbour as ourself, like God
On what does Jehovah's blessing depend, meaning what to us?
Simply acceptance of the gift, meaning it's not a deal but a blessing
How might we analyze ourselves?
I was going to answer all the questions, but at this point I have to walk out ....... "Jehovah's blessing on us today depends on the extent to which we are magnifying his name and moving ahead in our work "...... because for me that really stinks
These people should really be exposed
note to board ... i'm starting this thread as a request from "judas i" cause he reached his limit... but it is related to this thread: http://www.jehovahs-witness.com/10/113936/1.ashx.
so why is everyone not allowed to interpert successfully the holy writings?
for what reason is the truth hidden from us?
And Gospels, like Luke, frankly say that the information contained was gathered from what others have said, and thus were not inspired
to make it fit preconceived ideas
if you think about it, it's true.
what's the difference?
constant shifting sands, one minute the grains are over here then we seek to blow them over there.
Have we become like them?
No. There's no way that I want to micromanage your subservient life to me
