it might just be me imagining things.. i hear things from my jw spies.. from all that's being said, it seems to me that the rank and file(tm), are either waking up to the scam and fading/leaving.
they are going full on 'cult mode' and acting like 'spiritual police'.. is it just me and my imagination?
have others noticed this?.
Phats just use the bible and concentrate on the love parts and all who believe in Christ are saved. There a ton of scriptures stating that if you believe or just support Christians your saved and even gods sons. Show also all the parts about how it's all about love with Jesus and to even love your enemies.
I think if this can be shown this will go along way. People in general don't want to think of thier fellow man in the negative light the cult put them in.
the watchtower november 2016, page 16, par.
"some may feel that they can interpret the bible on their own.
however, jesus has appointed the ‘faithful slave’ to be the only* channel for dispensing spiritual food.
Their really turning up the propaganda and it reeks of desperation. This will also cause more people to wake up.
so at the meeting this week it was announced that a certain brother was no longer serving as a ministerial servant.. this is a guy who was brought up in a different country as his family went to serve where the need was greater.
this is a guy who was home schooled and went straight into pioneering.
he then went and worked on building projects in various places in europe and africa.
Thier already irrelevant, they just don't know it yet. Most people in the world never heard of the cult and those that have could care less.
how much did your congregation and its bank account get taken for?
share your horror story!.
It's just really sad that people can be ripped off so easily and they never even see it , then turn around and give more.
worship of jesus was declared to be an act of idolatry!.
we are going to examine the cataclysmic changeover in christian teaching exploding inside the watchtower religion in the early 50’s by exploring a background of the history of jesus’ place in christianity.
jw teaching about the nature of jesus’ importance in the salvation of mankind will be compared with christian history.
Early Christianity was about the worship of a new God Christ. Even the New Testament was about establishing this new God and it even says he was elevated to god like status with the highest of names. The Angels also did an act of worship to him etc.. Later the trinity doctrine was established melding the son God with the father God, this was not uncommon for father and son were considered much the same in culture and in pagan pantheons often times the new God took the powers of the older God.
So when Christians today elevated Jesus and people worship him that's exactly what Christianity was meant to do. New God new religion.
i often comment in threads that interest me on this forum.
moreover, some of you may know that i study the history of early christianity.
i once wrote an extensive comment on the historicity of jesus' existence in one of the threads.
That's really sad, people can be so sick and twisted!
i think the reason the borg really went on a cost cutting move and is selling off all thier buildings has become obvious.
the cult is telling people that there fast growing but then the numbers seem to indicate about a 1% growth rate.
this would give them roughly 800,000 new baptized ones in ten years give or take do to the small increase per year from previous gains.
I think the reason the Borg really went on a cost cutting move and is selling off all thier buildings has become obvious. The cult is telling people that there fast growing but then the numbers seem to indicate about a 1% growth rate. This would give them roughly 800,000 new baptized ones in ten years give or take do to the small increase per year from previous gains. Then on the other hand at least 250,000 are leaving, dying or being dfd. This gives us a total of 2.5 million that's 1,700,000 in the negative.
I know this has been talked about before but it's always nice to hear some good news!! There loosing 2 million per decade. How long can that's last.
hi.i have a 13 year old daughter that i still have for a limited time as she comes to stay about one night a month at present.the law here in australia is on my side in that the australian governments stand is that the child needs regular access to both parents .
i am currently arranging for mediation to have her more often .
her mother can not stand that i am living with another woman and doesn't want her here .
I would be proactive at teaching her about all the problems with the bible. Noah's flood is a good place and how all the evidence shows there never was a global flood. Anyway if your not proactive the cult will mess her mind up and even if she stops being a JW she may have guilt issues etc if she is not properly educated.
· for what reasons does jesus have the formerly demonized man tell others about what jesus did?.
but jesus tells the man: “go home to your relatives, and report to them all the things jehovah has done for you and the mercy he has shown you.”—mark 5:19.. .
(mark 5:18-20) .
It's like Romans chapter 8 or 10 where they say all who call on the name of jehovah will be saved yet the scriptures just before mention Jesus , so if you read it in context in thier bible Jesus is jehovah .
i'm new here; one of my relatives was a member on this forum a few years ago and told me about it.
anyways, as a sister who has been in the org since childhood and now in her late 40's (plus as a woman of color), i have noticed that a number of brothers have an ageist attitude.
they are very accepting of young women under 26 and rejecting women over that age, particularly those in their 30's and over.. is this an unspoken mindset from wthq (specifically from bethel), or is it that quite a number of males (sorry, i'm not sexist here) have this type of mentality?
When I was dating if a sister was older then 23 or so everyone figured there was something wrong with her. In most cases it's was right , sisters we're usually engaged by the time they turned 18.
