Apostate 643 times in 50 years ------ Eh! What's up?

by garybuss 7 Replies latest jw friends

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  garybuss

  
  Hi Gang,
  
  The word "apostate" is listed on the TW CD as occurring 13 times in The Bible in the past 6000 years . . . . and 643 times in The Watchtower magazine alone in the past 50 years. Think there might be a trend?
  
  
  

  The Watchtower, May 1, 2000, pp. 9-10 - Firmly Uphold Godly Teaching -
  
  Enemies of the Truth
  
  8 Apostates can present yet another threat to our spirituality. The apostle Paul foretold that apostasy would arise among professed Christians. (Acts 20:29, 30; 2 Thessalonians 2:3) In fulfillment of his words, after the death of the apostles, a great apostasy led to the development of Christendom. Today, there is no great apostasy taking place among God's people. Still, a few individuals have left our ranks, and some among them are bent on defaming Jehovah's Witnesses by spreading lies and misinformation. A few work with other groups in organized resistance to pure worship. In doing so, they side with the very first apostate, Satan.
  
  9 Some apostates are increasingly using various forms of mass communication, including the Internet, to spread false information about Jehovah's Witnesses. As a result, when sincere individuals do research on our beliefs, they may stumble across apostate propaganda. Even some Witnesses have unwittingly exposed themselves to this harmful material. In addition, apostates occasionally take part in television or radio programs. What is the wise course to follow in view of this?
  
  10 The apostle John directed Christians not to accept apostates into their homes. He wrote: "If anyone comes to you and does not bring this teaching, never receive him into your homes or say a greeting to him. For he that says a greeting to him is a sharer in his wicked works." (2 John 10, 11) Avoiding all contact with these opponents will protect us from their corrupt thinking. Exposing ourselves to apostate teachings through the various means of modern communication is just as harmful as receiving the apostate himself into our homes. Never should we allow curiosity to lure us into such a calamitous course! Proverbs 22:3.
  
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  I just read the following passage and I'd say the lies and misinformation are coming from the Watch Tower Publishing Corporation and truth about the nature and practices of the Corporation are coming from the critics. What do you all say?
  
  Gary
  
  
  
  
  
  
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  Lady Lee

  Gary really!!!

  Don't ya know?

  We're more important now than we used to be!!!!
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  garybuss

  Hi Lady Lee, I bet the new song book will have a song about apostates. Watch Tower Published maps will have routes marked away from streets apostates live on. Apostate's mail boxes will have a red dot sticker applied by Witnesses in service. Every week, three day texts will be about dangers of thinking. Gary
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  Lady Lee

  Who knows they might even add a meeting once a week

  Apostate Awareness Knowledge AAK for short.

  This meeting would help loyal JWs identify and avoid apostates in the field work at work and when shopping or on vacation. The focus will be on avoiding apostates so that faithful servants of Jehovah will hold steadfast in this time of the end. We know brothers that the time is short and Satan will be diligently seeking out those who waver in their faith. Reporting apostates and reporting those who fellowship with apostates will be discussed. It is imperative that we keep the congregation clean from apostate influences. Topics will include:

  • The apostate next door
  • What to do if your co-worker is an apostate
  • Avoiding apostate information in bookstores and in the media
  • Flee from the internet

  Brothers, your eternal life hangs in the balance.

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  Translation:

  Apostate Awareness Campaign AAC for short.

  This meeting would help loyal JWs identify and avoid apostates in the field work at work and when shopping or on vacation. The focus will be on avoiding apostates so that faithful servants of Jehovah our slave force will hold steadfast in this time of the end not desert us and continue peddling our books and magazines. We know brothers that the time is short urgent because the apostates are getting through to too many of you and Satan apostates will be diligently seeking out those who waver in their faith. begin to doubt that we are the mouthpiece of God. Reporting apostates and reporting those who fellowship with apostates will be discussed. It is imperative that we keep the congregation clean from apostate influences. make sure you don't find out we have been lying through our teeth to you. Topics will include:

  • The apostate next door
  • What to do if your co-worker is an apostate
  • Meeting apostates in the field
  • Avoiding apostate information in bookstores and in the media
  • Flee from the internet

  Brothers, your eternal life your continued slave work to us hangs in the balance.
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  Maverick

  Garybuss: We are a threat to the power of the borg. We can infect the minds of the J-duds. The borg soften their minds up. They have to do that to control them, but this is also a weakess that us big bad apostates can exploit. So we are portrayed as the worst kind of evil, the bogieman lurking under the bed waiting for the poor sweet Duds feet to hit the floor! BOO! What a bunch of goofs!Maverick
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  rocketman

  Maybe they likey apostates.
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  DanTheMan

  Wow, they almost tied the number of times "apostate" appears in the bible with just those 3 paragraphs!

  It's been a while since I've read Watchtowerese, It's so embarrassing that I used to sit at meetings listening to this nonsense while nodding my head yup yup yup yup yup.
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  garybuss

  Lady Lee, You wrote:

  • Flee from the internet

  Don't they wish? Hahaha
  
  
  Maverick: You wrote:
  
  

  We are a threat to the power of the borg.

  Me thinks we must be a HUGE threat as often as they are hammering on the dubs to don't look behind the curtain. Ignore the little man.