last night i recieved a call from my sister and she told me to compare the last chapters of each gospel regarding the resurection of jesus.
she said she was blown away to read that they all had drastic differences.
i haven't had the time to compare this yet, but have any of you discovered this?
OK, I just got through reading it!! Holy Cow!! Totally different stories of what happened. What is up????
As a jw, did you believe that you knew more theology than "those in christendom", yet hadn't even read the bible ? More than say, a monk who over a thousand years ago hand wrote one?
there was a thread by almostatheist illustrating how the wts could interfere in the sex lives of jws.
this is a topic from the 6/1/2006 wt questions from readers:
in the mosaic law, why were certain natural sexual functions viewed as making a person "unclean"?
The law is not physical (we know that the law is spiritual), and utilises "what people do" as a basis for teaching spirituality as reflected by nature - this is about a confession
And where a man lies down with a menstruating woman and does lay bare her nakedness, he has exposed her source, and she herself has laid bare the source of her blood. So both of them must be cut off from among their people.
Jwism is an absurd use of physical application of what is spiritual - living according to the flesh
my point of view is that they have no idea - no idea at all
"my dad died when i was 13, and my closest cousin got raped and stabbed and burned when i was 15. i am an only child so she was the closest thing i had to a sister.
i felt so alone too.
no one in the churches i attended seemed to care.
I'd like to see a specific name, and cultural localities, of these "churches" that you continuously warn jehovahs witnesses about - your continual inclusion of all 'christian churches' seems a polarised sentiment.
(john 2:18-22) 18 therefore, in answer, the jews said to him: "what sign have you to show us, since you are doing these things?
" 19 in answer jesus said to them: "break down this temple, and in three days i will raise it up.
" 20 therefore the jews said: "this temple was built in forty-six years, and will you raise it up in three days?
The Lord said to my Lord, sit at my right hand
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No one can confess "Jesus is Lord" except by the Holy Spirit
hey, i am new to this site and looking into the jw faith and watchtower.
i have currently been studying what was written in the "should you believe in the trinity?
" publication found at watchtower.org .
Should you believe in the Trinity?
Is believing like a choice or something, or an effort of will ?
"i was put up against a wall the last years of my life, always depressed, hopeless and miserable.
even though i was married and had a family i was alone, no one to confide in, no one to turn to, always in fear that my doubt would be discovered and i would become an outcast ( more so ).
i was lucky enough to have my apostate brother refer me to this site.
Paduan thats just dishonest. You know his position yet you misrepresent him. Shame on you.
I do not know his position; he may state what he may, yet his threads always begin with, "If you are a Jehovahs Witness.....
I disagree, A Paduan. It seems to me that Scout feels driven to warn some who might run from one high control group to another.Like a christian group that is higher control than jwism ? a bit rare isn't it ?
"i was put up against a wall the last years of my life, always depressed, hopeless and miserable.
even though i was married and had a family i was alone, no one to confide in, no one to turn to, always in fear that my doubt would be discovered and i would become an outcast ( more so ).
i was lucky enough to have my apostate brother refer me to this site.
"If you're a Jehovah's Witness thinking about joining a church"
This begins Scout's every warning thread - Scout thinks you're better off being a jw
I suspect there's a 'theocratic warfare' issue going on here
"but now i have written unto you not to keep company, if any man that is called a brother be a fornicator, or covetous, or an idolater or a railer, or a drunkard, or an extortioner; with such an one no not to eat.
" ( 1 corinthians 5:11 ) .
"a man that is an heretick after the first and second admonition reject.
I will continue to insist that there is no such thing as an EX-Christian.
I'm not sure that Scout may get what your meaning by that
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Scout does not warn ex-jws about jwism, jws about jwism, or christians about christianity.. Rather, he specifically and continuously writes TO JWS CONSIDERING CHRISTIANITY.
I don't believe Scout is an EX..., and still has the us (jw) and them (christians) whole thing going - urging jws not to enter 'christianity' as a whole - one can only consider that Scout considers them better off being jws.
the other day i spent more time than normal with my inlaw.. ( in which is in so much credit card debt).
after 1 hour of spending time and talking about her nonsense (s)he says "the signs out there show that we are sooooooooo close to end".. i asked, what makes you think so?.
(s)he says the convention showed us how close we are, and the other day i saw the arsenal of north korea".
One thing that's coming is the end of their life, at which time they will know 'the big A didn't come'
Tell them that next time
"but now i have written unto you not to keep company, if any man that is called a brother be a fornicator, or covetous, or an idolater or a railer, or a drunkard, or an extortioner; with such an one no not to eat.
" ( 1 corinthians 5:11 ) .
"a man that is an heretick after the first and second admonition reject.
I someone insists on being named a christian, but persists in extortion, greed, slander, and promotes a gospel that is not that of Christ, but follows and idol, well, don't support it, stay clear, don't take that way to heart.
It's pretty basic.
Apart from a couple of extremist sects I can't think of others who shun those who at one time called themselves brother.
I ask - what do you believe these phrases to mean ?
Perhaps the tradgedy is that people apply spiritual teachings to ways of the flesh
Somehow I think one can care for another and yet avoid these things - let alone someone who doesn't even claim to be your spiritual brother.
