so i went to the kh for the first time in a month, and the first brother in our congregation has grown a full beard.
i am in a western u.s. semi-rural area in a cong with an extremely conservative and controlling elder body.
oddly enough, it seemed like people were going out of their way to converse with him and act like they didn't notice the beard or they complimented the beard.
@stuckinarut2
I'm not a fan of any religion at this point
But there is no individual application of Scripture here
Totally regulated and enforced by the Church
How is this Scriptural?
This is rather (as you say) the cult of Sir Charles
Salvation originates from his writings
Succession through Sir Joseph
and proceeds by means of The Synod of Cardinals
All Hail!
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so i went to the kh for the first time in a month, and the first brother in our congregation has grown a full beard.
i am in a western u.s. semi-rural area in a cong with an extremely conservative and controlling elder body.
oddly enough, it seemed like people were going out of their way to converse with him and act like they didn't notice the beard or they complimented the beard.
so i went to the kh for the first time in a month, and the first brother in our congregation has grown a full beard.
i am in a western u.s. semi-rural area in a cong with an extremely conservative and controlling elder body.
oddly enough, it seemed like people were going out of their way to converse with him and act like they didn't notice the beard or they complimented the beard.
The "masters of your faith"
have spoken
sort of
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at least, that is how i see it... the article "the judge of all the earth always does what is right".
paragraph 6 & 7 .
6 consider the experience of willi diehl.
Makes me think of another WT account
(I used to like reading them, they'd really make you scratch your head at times :)
This brother was doing "the work" covertly in Europe during WWII
He was rather successful in this
He would report to a Branch and on one occasion the Branch told him to
preach out in the open
He said to himself (maybe to them) that this is NOT a good idea but
He too was obedient "to Jehovah"
He was immediately arrested and thrown into prison for years,
So the message here is what?
I guess: Be obedient to Jehovah and you will be blessed?
Really strengthened my faith (sarcasm)
Lol
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anybody have any ideas where they are going with the "new light" they have been pushing last week and this week?
for instance in this weeks study article one section reads:.
in years gone by, we believed that jehovah became displeased with his people because they did not have a zealous share in the preaching work during world war i. we concluded that for this reason, jehovah allowed babylon the great to take them captive for a short time.
what if fred franz had never existed?.
those of you who weren’t around in the days when he was the oracle of jwdom or who at least aren’t familiar with the deeper publications he was responsible for probably won’t be able to comprehend the significance of the question.
i believe he influenced jwdom greatly, and the whole feel of jwdom would have been different without him.. during the 60’s, 70’s, & 80’s (not sure about 50’s), he was considered to be almost superhuman by some (a lot?
what if fred franz had never existed?.
those of you who weren’t around in the days when he was the oracle of jwdom or who at least aren’t familiar with the deeper publications he was responsible for probably won’t be able to comprehend the significance of the question.
i believe he influenced jwdom greatly, and the whole feel of jwdom would have been different without him.. during the 60’s, 70’s, & 80’s (not sure about 50’s), he was considered to be almost superhuman by some (a lot?
If Freddy had never existed
Kruschev would not have been secretly reading his books
The Cuban Missile Crisis would have brought about WW3
As his dormant paciifist leanings would then have not caused him
to back down,
Forcing Jehovah's hand to finally wake up and bring on
Armageddon
So that we would now be hugging Pandas and using live koalas
As throw pillows
:)
at least, that is how i see it... the article "the judge of all the earth always does what is right".
paragraph 6 & 7 .
6 consider the experience of willi diehl.
@darkspilver
I'll be there with bells (on my toes) on!!
:)
at least, that is how i see it... the article "the judge of all the earth always does what is right".
paragraph 6 & 7 .
6 consider the experience of willi diehl.
Before that the conngregations voted people out such as the Canadian
Branch Manager in 1937
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at least, that is how i see it... the article "the judge of all the earth always does what is right".
paragraph 6 & 7 .
6 consider the experience of willi diehl.
@crazyguy I think he meant how someone TODAY might view a
disfellowshipped person
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