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I would say,
"Well............ I may not be, but, we do have them in the family. My mother and father both
apostatized from their previous religion to become Witnesses. They were considered heroes at the time...........
perhaps I can bask in their reflected glory?"
y
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jesus received his mission orders from jehovah.. the apostles received their mission orders from jesus.. philip received his mission orders from an angel.. paul received his mission orders directly from a vision of christ.. barnabas took paul to jerusalem where he met james (jesus brother and peter) for fiteen days.
no mission was ordered by jerusalem.
Excelllent Terry.
Condensed and easy to understand.
y
we all chewed on this article pretty well when the news first came out about the " overlapping anointed " concept , however we discussed so much on just those 2 paragraphs dealing with the new " generation " theory - that almost the rest of the article was overlooked .
our lurking inactive jw friend on the board sent us a copy of the april 15th.
i think you folks may find this interesting.. on pg.
how would the writing committee know what a man was thinking 2000 years ago.
Especially when they don't even know what they themselves were thinking two years ago!
y
as i was growing up my dad would always make a special effort to enlighten his catholic brother-in-law.
hed ask my uncle to get out his catholic bible and show him scriptures.
one of his favourite arguments was the doctrine of the popes infallability.
They're both cults.
A big one and a little one.
y
If they did it was so subtle, or I was so dense, I wasn't aware of it.
a wedding is in the works for my dad!
he's been very lonely since my mother's death.
the bride's in her 80's, and a lonely jw who lost her husband a few years back.
I am thinking of getting them a hotel gift card, one to a national chain. That way, they can go on a honeymoon.
That is such a beautiful idea. Just beautiful.
Everyone should have at least one son like you.
a wedding is in the works for my dad!
he's been very lonely since my mother's death.
the bride's in her 80's, and a lonely jw who lost her husband a few years back.
I hope he's on a viagra drip.
Ahhh the ignorance of the young.
It's probably best not to judge others by ones self.
poor little wokeup1 was all excited for her first day of jw discussion.
she picked out a new outfit, polished up her saddle shoes, rolled down her bobby socks and off she went.
she was hoping all the posters would like her.
That was dreadful I saw the thread, but did nothing.
Just as bad.
I'm sorry.
I think some people are just trying to be funny but have the sensitivity of a wild buffalo.
Please give your mother an apology and a big hug from me.
Again I am so sorry. Your first post made me cry. No one's mother should be treated like that.
Please forgive us.
y
the way crisis of conscience lays it out, despite their reservations on doctrine, ray franz and ed dunlap would have been more than happy to live out their lives within the jw ranks without causing any disturbance.
ray was contemplating resigning from the gb and living out his life quietly somewhere outside bethel.
ed preferred to remain in bethel due to his advanced age.
Sorry, Ray, but I downloaded your books in pdf for free.
Gross hypocrisy Titus! You're not the slightest bit sorry.
In fact your proclamation shows you are proud of your theft.
jehovah's witnesses commonly use the term "jehovah's organization".
anyone who questions doctrinal points is one who "questions the organization".
the term, as any informed jw would know, was born in the era of j.f.
No doubt Rutherford was more at home in the business world than the spiritual.
During Russell's time a congregation was called an "ecclesia", which is a Biblical word.
Rutherford changed it to "company", obviously a business word.
It is only since 1953 that groups of Witnesses were call a "congregation".
y
