by sparrowdown 40 Replies latest watchtower beliefs
Maybe I am ignorant but WHY WHY WHY pray tell
If I am not jewish and not of the 144k why is it necessary (compulsory even) for me to attend the Memorial ?
What is the scriptural precedent?
I only ask because I dont see the point in going to a party where I am denied access to the buffet.
They believe it is important to show 'respect' for the event regardless of whether the individuals are partakers. But beyond that, setting up the 'Memorial' as pseudo-'compulsory' is a mechanism intended to get 'weak' JWs 'back to meetings'.
Hello Sparrowdown, and welcome
You made a very good point, in fact, that's the same " reasoning " the Jehovah's Witnesses used
to condemn the celebration of Christmas
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" Illustration: Suppose a crowd come to a gentleman's home saying they are there to celebrate his Birthday........and they bring presents for everyone except him! "_____Reasoning book page 179
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Jehovah's Witnesses memorial is a rejection party of the Christ
They reject the blood, the cross of salvation on which he died
and refuse to witness in his name
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Everyone be sure to come and watch no one partake of anything.
Better yet, why observe something that Jesus said would only be necessary to observe until he returned?
Tis been 100 years since he returned albeit invisibly, so why the big fuss???
That's right Ding
You better brown Bag Your Own Bottle at that dinner party
if you expect to drink
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it was not compulsory for the very first Christians, Peter in prison, it passed unnoticed as the passover.
Well, I think the JW conception of the event is that it's primarily a memorial, and the emblems are an additional affair only for the anointed. For them it's primarily a reminder of Jesus' sacrifice, even though the covenant part of the original event is limited to the remnant. So I don't take issue with JWs attaching importance to their Memorial, although I agree that the whole two-hope thing that leads to most attenders not partaking is unscriptural.
By the way, you new here, sparrowdown? Welcome.
For the same reason you go to someone else's wedding ceremony, I reckon.
Thier refusal to partake is like everything else they do
to set them apart from Christendom
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That's why they call those who do partake " Mentally Diseased "
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