Well, a human is made up of a Body, mind (the I) and spirit.
Perhaps The Father Son relation is something similar. You can´t seperate one entity from another!
i am curious about this.
ever since i realized that there is no proof that jesus=michael the archangel, i wondered about who jesus was.
that's how i think of the father and the son, or the word.
Well, a human is made up of a Body, mind (the I) and spirit.
Perhaps The Father Son relation is something similar. You can´t seperate one entity from another!
one of the biggest things that bothered me as a jehovahs witness was the whole 'we are the world' bullcrap that they used to teach, and that culture, color, and race didnt matter.
as far as i'm concerned thats a bunch of bs.
people have a right to preserve who they, where they came from, and they have a right to be represented.
A little off topic perhaps but don´t know how to create a post!
All nations is important to God! "Armagedon" isn´t "the end" as it´s cracked up to be by the totalitarian Governing Body.
In the end, the enemies of Jerusalem who survive the plague will go up to Jerusalem each year to worship the King, the Lord of Heaven’s Armies, and to celebrate the Festival of Shelters. 17 Any nation in the world that refuses to come to Jerusalem to worship the King, the Lord of Heaven’s Armies, will have no rain. 18 If the people of Egypt refuse to attend the festival, the Lord will punish them with the same plague that he sends on the other nations who refuse to go. 19 Egypt and the other nations will all be punished if they don’t go to celebrate the Festival of Shelters.
(This beeing AFTER "armagedon")
-Zechariah 14:16.
This is whyI ask, then, has God rejected his own people, the nation of Israel? Of course not! I myself am an Israelite, a descendant of Abraham and a member of the tribe of Benjamin.
2 No, God has not rejected his own people, whom he chose from the very beginning.
-Romans 11:1-2
we work hard and continue to struggle, [a] for our hope is in the living God, who is the Savior of all people and particularly of all believers.
-1 Timothy 4:10
apologies is this has already been discussed.
i came across this website www.
is this a new splinter group among jw's?.
Do someone have the website- adress to the other splinter group? (not anointedjw.org)
nwt bible - matthew 24:45-51 says:.
45 who really is the faithful and discreet slave whom his master appointed over his domestics, to give them their food at the proper time?
46 happy is that slave if his master on arriving finds him doing so.
Since Judge Booze Rutherford shut down the entrance to the Kingdom of the Heavens, the only hope for mankind according to both Jesus and Paul,
how could he be regarded as a "faithful slave"?
Today, the Society are also sworn enemies to the Kingdom as Jesus thaught it. They have even persecuted those within the org. for have taken part in the Lords evening meal, recognizing that they, just as any follower of the Christ are destined to enter the Heavenly Kingdom.
partially!!!!!!
!the following statements by the wtbts are true - up to a point!
but in order to appear as a loving united, brotherhood, only half-truths can be told.
Well, the Watchtower Inc. is just another offshot from mainstream christianity, just as another Pennsylvanian cult is: The Amish cult.
The Watchtower, altough a cult, do allow television!
Both with many ideas from English puritanism.
i have been out for 22 years.i was raised as a jehovahs witness.
i was baptized in 1986 but soon after left the religion.
theres a whole lot to the reasons why i left, but i left.
This site by current witnesses could provide you with help in doctrinal matters.
I will never , ever go back to JW, both for doctrinal and org. matters.
"the watchtower of october 1, 1909, said: all who cut loose from the society and its work, instead of prospering themselves or upbuilding others in the faith and in the graces of the spirit, seemingly do the reverseattempt injury to the cause they once served, and, with more or less noise,gradually sink into oblivion, harming only themselves and others possessed of a similarly contentious spirit.
.they seem inoculated with madness, satanic hydrophobia [rabies].
" http://sianrose.wordpress.com/2011/06/22/beware-of-the-evil-slave/.
More propaganda:
The similarity between Jw-artpropaganda and the communistic one is really scary!
"the watchtower of october 1, 1909, said: all who cut loose from the society and its work, instead of prospering themselves or upbuilding others in the faith and in the graces of the spirit, seemingly do the reverseattempt injury to the cause they once served, and, with more or less noise,gradually sink into oblivion, harming only themselves and others possessed of a similarly contentious spirit.
.they seem inoculated with madness, satanic hydrophobia [rabies].
" http://sianrose.wordpress.com/2011/06/22/beware-of-the-evil-slave/.
It´s almost as if the JW-leadership have copied communistic propaganda:
The Stasi perfected the technique of psychological harassment of perceived enemies known as Zersetzung – a term borrowed from chemistry which literally means "corrosion" or "undermining".-Wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stasi
Well, anyone that have doubts about "the true faith" wether communism or JW´s "unique" theology must endure hate-propaganda as "dangerous" dissidents.
so how does gog and magog pertain to jehovah's witnesses?
the latter-day battle is described in ezekiel 38-39, and it doesn't mention jehovah's witnesses anywhere.
the prophet does write, however: .
Gog, Magog is a prophecy about a final attack by villians shortly before Jesus "hand over the Kingdom" after the millenium reign. It has, of course, nothing to do with
JW in fantasy land!
sheep & goats.
jesus said, "truly i say to you, to the extent that you did it to one of the least of these my brothers, you did it to me".. exactly to whom was jesus addressing these words, and who were his "brothers?.
the subject matter of matthew chapter 25 deals with christ's judgement of all humans, and verses 32 & 33 make it crystal clear that there only two groups standing before him - 'sheep' and 'goats'.
Thanks for info Bobcat!
However, Matthew 24:36 is about the Christ´s arrival. Jesus didn´t link this event to any cataclysmic action. In Matthew 25:31, still answering the deciples´s questions, he is sitting on the "throne of glory" judging all the people of the nations. It could be an event occuring after the millenia reign, the very same as the parable of the sheep and goat´s.
The sheep would inherit the heavenly kingdom but Revelation talks about an uproar after the millenia reign. How could they have been blessed by the Father if the parable of the sheep and goat´s would occur during the Christ´s arrival, before the millenium?