there are many on this site that do not believe that jehovah truly exists; that he is not a real being.
but, he is as real as next breath you draw into your nostrils.. some of you say that there is no evidence that he exists.
yet, none of you can prove that he does not exits.. cofty, (you come to mind), i appreciate that you have stated, without reservation, that you do not believe that god exists.. yet, you cannot prove it.. hope in jehovah..
I go to all the meetings, go out in field service, and am in my 6th year of being an atheist.
I have conducted Bible studies and considered baptismal questions with unbaptized publishers as an atheist.
A rough estimate is that I have prayed to Jehovah about 20,000 times in my life and still counting.
lasting memory of the latter period of time in the organisation:.
i had a route call with the magazines whom i'd called on for a number of years.
eventually when i become a parent i became consumed with negativity, doubt (blood issue) & depression.
Had a Bible Student tell me: "I just don't see a problem with birthdays."
To myself I said: "Me neither."
reports are coming from witnesses that, once again, the number of memorial partakers has risen considerably this past year, 2016. while confirmation is still to come on the exact numbers, the current explanations given for this increase surely causes a dilemma.. imagine the roman catholic church publishing each year the number of members who it felt were mistaken about what they believed in, that this same number of members was likely suffering from problems such as pride or even mental disorders or something along this line.
this number, by the way, was in the thousands too and growing annually.
what would you conclude, therefore about the catholic church and its admission?.
One more thing:
The actual partaker count is much higher than what is reported. In our area of the world, we never count partakers that we don't know at the Memorial. I'm sure it's the same for most areas.
I've actually been in the back of an auditorium debating with other elders whether to count a baptized JW lady as a partaker because she was "inactive". We didn't put her in our report.
reports are coming from witnesses that, once again, the number of memorial partakers has risen considerably this past year, 2016. while confirmation is still to come on the exact numbers, the current explanations given for this increase surely causes a dilemma.. imagine the roman catholic church publishing each year the number of members who it felt were mistaken about what they believed in, that this same number of members was likely suffering from problems such as pride or even mental disorders or something along this line.
this number, by the way, was in the thousands too and growing annually.
what would you conclude, therefore about the catholic church and its admission?.
How the holy spirit works according to Watchtower dogma:
witnesses always claim to have a "bible trained conscience" yet they are really just watchtower robots who cant piss without checking with an elder or watchtower.
an elder who cuts hair was scared when i asked for a bald buzz cut since my hair was receding and grey.
he actually rang a bethel elder to see if this was okay watchtower wise!
This thread should be bumped once per month. So damn true.
Doing sports officially with your school a conscience matter? NOPE, it's just a no-no
don't they have editors?.
why can’t they get it through their heads that they aren’t under the mosaic law.. look at the “imperfect food” that was served up at the nov 14 watchtower study.. "3. what can we learn about clothing from god’s law to the israelites?.
3 for example, in god’s law to the israelites there were rules that protected them against the.
Just like many other sects of Christendom and other religions. Your holy scriptures can be mumbo jumbo'd to fit what ever belief you already have. Even if it doesn't actually make any sense at all, your sheeple shall follow.
from the fiji times.
see also https://www.jehovahs-witness.com/topic/5673136815079424/fiji-houses-built-love.
tears of joy for villagers.
"they were the ones encouraged instead"
Oh yes, always got to throw this one in with each and every one of these Fing experiences.
as the op states why would israel /jewish nation need to have an army at all ?
if they were the chosen people as the bible states under a theocracy , why would the men of israel need an army .?
to protect them ?.
"Seed" preservation is one of the worst apologetics for this question. There is no need for a seed, Abel could have been born Jesus. No need to drag shit out for 4000 years.
anyone reading [or did read] the bible without someone else telling you what it meant?.
would you be leaning towards the jws or baptists or lutherans or what?.
just asking.
"the bible" is a name of a "book" that we all use and throw around. However, it is one of those few words where we grant too much to it. "Bible" is a word without any definite meaning.
Which translation? Why?
Which master texts is it based on? Why?
What texts were the master texts based on? And how were variants handled and why?
What texts are considered canon and what was not? Why?
Interpretation of whatever phrases are in their Bible of choice is what actually matters the most. Yet most Christians and especially JWs deny that the Bible is open for interpretation, and they also categorically deny that any of their teachings are "interpretations". "Scripture interprets scripture" "Interpretations belong to God"
oh lordy
we are all familiar with the classic use by the society of proverbs 4:18 about "light getting brighter".
they say it applies to revealed truth, and doctrinal changes etc.. have you ever just read that chapter (and even the surrounding chapters) in full??.
it has nothing to do with doctrinal changes or teachings.. it has to do with acquiring wisdom and life skills in order to live a successful life.
if the bible says what it says and doesn't say what it doesn't say then =
THIS SCRIPTURE IS TALKING ABOUT THE "PATH OF THE RIGHTEOUS ONE",
it doesn't say:
"In the last days of this world Jehovah will have a mouthpiece that gets a lot of things wrong."
