Their website states: "Jehovah's Witnesses do not recognize any human as their leader." However, they continually use that thirteenth verse of Hebrews to mean the Governing Body. I don't think it meant being obedient to 'religous leaders'. I always thought he was talking about secular authorites instead.
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"Neither be called leaders" vs "Obey your leaders"
by Bonnie_Clyde ini'm trying to harmonize matt.
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or is this a contradiction?.
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Ran into a witnessing table at the park today
by confusedandalone ini just got in from my daughters homecoming(she is a cheerleader and these guys make a huge deal out of this stuff).
they play 3 football games of various age groups.
it starts at 8 in the morning and just ended at 1:30. i just got in the house literally 5 minutes ago and i had to share.
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LOL. Notice how Stand For Pure Worship didn't go into any relative detail about this unconsciousness of spiritual obligation.
He's really starting to soften up in his posts.
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what exactly is a publisher of the good news?
by nowwhat? ini have been a "publisher" for 40 years.
even though i never actually printed a book or magazine.
i just cant find the term anywhere in the bible.. am i missing something?.
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Caupon
A publisher of the good news is someone who distributes literature for the WatchTower Corporation. In essence, it has nothing to do with printing books.
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I find it hard to see how Jehovah can hate this..
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/james_harrison_(blood_donor).
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Haha. I don't think the witnesses have really saved anyone because they are false, Dis-Member.
By the way, amazing occurance relating rarity of a man's scarce gore.
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So Frightened.. Extremely Afraid
by Caupon inas some of you may know, i'm a pretty troubled lad who was on the verge of getting baptised but stopped when i learned the shocking truth about the organization.
following that my own mother let me have it in anger to my decision.
since then, my life has been true hell.. .
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Qcmbr, sorry for reading like a troll but when I write posts, I write it like I'm writing a paper for school. I look up words in the dictionary and stay very careful in expressing my feelings, which is not something I'm good at in real life. Thanks everyone for your advice. I guess I was overreacting the situation. Being a stressful and untidy person is no easy come by. Didn't mean to waste everyones time.
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So Frightened.. Extremely Afraid
by Caupon inas some of you may know, i'm a pretty troubled lad who was on the verge of getting baptised but stopped when i learned the shocking truth about the organization.
following that my own mother let me have it in anger to my decision.
since then, my life has been true hell.. .
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As some of you may know, I'm a pretty troubled lad who was on the verge of getting baptised but stopped when I learned the shocking truth about the organization. Following that my own mother let me have it in anger to my decision. Since then, my life has been true hell.
But there is something that creeped me out a bit at my last meeting, particularly the Ministry School. I'm trying my best to act like I enjoy the meetings and I suppose I'm succeeding in that. I'm also naturally respectful so there is no problem speaking to folks. Now, walking inside, I guess my suit jacket was very loose on the button threads. So one button fell as I was finding my seat. But I didn't know it had fallen so after the forsaken meeting, I opened the door to the rear library to try to find them. What do you know? Benoist to me, the elders were there just talking casually, which was weird hearing them talking just like any other group of males. At that moment, the way they were talking made it evident that it wasn't at all about Jehovah or anything related to the organization and congragation. Unfortunately, I still asked them if I could look for something. All five men looked at me like I was really annoying them. And almost immediately one said furiously, "No, you can not! Not while we're having a meeting." They all had the biggest tempered stare on me. After that I apologized and closed the door stunned. I figured just wouncing in on them may have been negligent and stupid on my part but I in no way expected such an aggresive reaction like that, especially from the elders. I mean, they did not even ask me what I was looking for.
Being a minor, it really scared me because even though I know the Witnesses are false, they still seemed very nice people. Now I'm terrified to go back to the Kingdom Hall because of that encounter of people who always were so pleasant but showed me another side to themselves. Or maybe I'm worried about nothing and they just had a bad day, but that can't be because they all appeared to be happy giving their talks and greeting everyone that day. Or am I just overthinking this? It just seems that the more I learn about the formerly called Russelites, the more horrific the organization stands with me.
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The Jehovah's Witness religion has gone for good !!!
by snare&racket ini am not sure how you all feel as we all left at different times for different reasons.... but this new bible seems to have put some final nails into a coffin that was once my jw life.
the religion is so far and so different to the religion i grew up in that it has become something i feel no affiliation with anymore, no bond, no shared ideas or even sentimental views.
different teachings on when the end is coming.
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Very interesting and true at that. This is a great example of howeth good thou are at brainwashing to the point of not even seeing tons of changes.
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Young children baptism
by zound into further push the young children baptisms take a look at this image:.
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So making Jehovah happy is dedicating your life to an organization (not Jehovah). That is just pure evil.
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So many wisecracks....
by Caupon ini attended the agm and god, it's as if they are trying to entettain the audience.
it is like they don't even have a regard to being serious anymore, which makes me sick.
how am i supposed to focus on what you're really trying to say if all most everything you do say is feignly amusing.
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clarity, I have started my intro already. It should be on list no. 5894.
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So many wisecracks....
by Caupon ini attended the agm and god, it's as if they are trying to entettain the audience.
it is like they don't even have a regard to being serious anymore, which makes me sick.
how am i supposed to focus on what you're really trying to say if all most everything you do say is feignly amusing.
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I attended the agm and god, it's as if they are trying to entettain the audience. It is like they don't even have a regard to being serious anymore, which makes me sick. How am I supposed to focus on what you're really trying to say if all most everything you do say is feignly amusing. Out of all the witticism I did not laugh once. It all just feels fake and not even like a religion.