Posts by Benny Sikter

But if I am dead, they have responsibility to raise me up according to Jesus’ admonition in Matthew 10:8: “Cure sick people, raise up dead persons, make lepers clean, expel demons.”

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My letter to Brooklyn Bethel.

by Benny Sikter in

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friends

dear friends,

some month ago two elders paid me a visit.

we had a very good spiritual conversation that strengthened my desire to again become a member of the congregation.

Benny Sikter

No response as far I can see. I am wondering: Do they think my letter is not serious enough and therefor throw it away?

But thanks for your responding! Jehovah's Witnesses do have much to learn from you and also from the Bible itself: "...always ready to make a defense before everyone that demands of you a reason for the hope in you, but doing so together with a mild temper and deep respect." (1 Peter 3:15)

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My letter to Brooklyn Bethel.

by Benny Sikter in

jw
friends

dear friends,

some month ago two elders paid me a visit.

we had a very good spiritual conversation that strengthened my desire to again become a member of the congregation.

Benny Sikter

Thank you so much!!

As you see I tried to edit my letter, but I failed...

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My letter to Brooklyn Bethel.

by Benny Sikter in

jw
friends

dear friends,

some month ago two elders paid me a visit.

we had a very good spiritual conversation that strengthened my desire to again become a member of the congregation.

Benny Sikter

Dear Friends,

Some month ago two elders paid me a visit. We had a very good spiritual conversation that strengthened my desire to again become a member of the congregation. My idea with the membership is to get increased spiritual association with the friends so that “an exchange of encourage” can take place. (Romans 1:12)

As the unhappily condition is right now merely the friends have the opportunity to encourage me by their many comments and talks at the congregation meetings. I have not the opportunity to do the same to them because a disfellowshipped person is not allowed to give any comments at the meetings. (You can read in Job 1:6-12; 2:1-7 how the graceful Jehovah God – the One we perfectly must imitate – allowed the evil Satan to give comments at the heavenly public assemblies. [Matthew 5:48; Ephesians 5:1])

Surely a problem for you is how my life has turned out since I left the congregation. To be precise I started to associate with so called apostates and disfellowshipped ones, mainly through Internet. Those dear friends of mine were to me “born for when there is distress” – a Jehovah’s gift to me. (Proverbs 17:17; James 1:17)

If I should break this precious friendship Jehovah mercifully has given me I would actually proved myself being haughty, unthankful, disloyal, having no natural affection, without love of goodness, betrayal, puffed up with pride and just having a form of godly devotion. (See 2 Timothy 3:1-5) A genuine Jehovah’s Witness will never abandon his friends, despite what doctrines or behaviours these friends have.

I am sorry to say that when I recently wrote a similar letter of reinstatement to Bethel in Sweden, and sent a copy of it to my home congregation, no answer has been given to me. The brothers ignore my letters. Therefore I hope you will show me more love and respect than these friends do and give me an answer to my letter of reinstatement. If you like you can write emails to me ([email protected]).

Sincerely, Benny Sikter

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Did You Realize Jehovah & The Organization Are One In The Same?

by minimus in

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friends

when you were a jw, did it ever dawn on you that the organization and god were pretty much the same thing?

if you disobeyed an organizational rule you were disobeying jehovah god.

if you missed an organizational meeting you were showing lack of appreciation to god himself.

Benny Sikter

We can't be loyal to an organization when Jehovah God is the only One who is loyal, can we? (Rev 15:4)

Love

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Effects of WT articles on the elderly

by Nosferatu in

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friends

i just finished reading the article eman posted on demons.

i really have to wonder how badly this stuff affects the elderly.. my mother cleans for an elderly jw woman.

the stories that come out of this woman are incredible!

Benny Sikter

Don?t you think the major responsibility for her state of ?lunacy? is the Bible? If the Bible doesn?t have been written, no stories about demons could be read. Jehovah?s Witnesses just deliver those old stories in the Bible. Should we kill the postman when he is delivering bills? (Compare John 19:11b)

Love

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Waiting on Jehovah or Jehovah waiting on us?

by JH in

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when something is wrong in the congregation, the elders will say, "wait on jehovah to fix it", and when we are anxious for the new system, the elders will say, we must preach the kingdom first.. so, who is waiting on who?

Benny Sikter

Hi friend,

When elders are saying, "wait on Jehovah", they are really saying, ?Jehovah is slow?. But He is not. (See 2 Peter 3:9)

To be justly, He is waiting on us because we are slow to understand the importance of fast response in order to satisfy all questioning people. (See 1 Peter 3:15)

Benny Sikter

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JW cannots........

by Nan in

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friends

i couldn't believe this list of cannots that jws have to adhere to!

i already knew about the holidays, blood tranfusions, the pledge, etc.

there's maybe one or two that i would agree are for your own good, but the rest are ridiculous!!

Benny Sikter

Hi Friends,

”JW cannots” is a depressive result of following imperfect men, such as apostle Paul. It is typical for imperfect humans to forbid things that God does not forbid. (See James 3:2) Where in the Gospels do you find reason to forbid all those forbidden things among Jehovah’s Witnesses?

“Do not put your trust in nobles, nor in the son of earthling man [apostle Paul], to whom no salvation belongs.” (Psalms 146:3)

“They [Jehovah’s Witnesses] bind up heavy loads and put them upon the shoulders of men.” (Matthew 23:4)

“This people honors me [JEHOVAH] with their lips, yet their heart is far removed from me. It is in vain that they keep worshiping me, because they teach commands of men [apostles Paul and John] as doctrines.” (Matthew 15:8)

Benny Sikter, Sweden

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THEY'VE DONE IT!!!! The WBTS set a new date!

by dmouse in

the latest watchtower, dec 15th 2003, is an out and out attack on the rank and file for dropping into a drowsy state spiritually.

ok, so armageddon didn't come before the generation of 1914 grew old and died.

but does that mean that the big a isn't near?

Benny Sikter

Hi friends,

WBTS have NOT set a new date! Please read the article in The Watchtower again and see what they really say.

Love

Benny Sikter, Sweden