has anyone here left jehovah's witnesses to join the churuch of jesus christ of latter-day saints?
what was your motivation for doing so and how has it worked out?.
if you haven't joined the lds or considered it, as an ex-jw, what is your general view of the lds faith?.
Cold Steele, Have any artifacts been found mentioned in the book of mormon that are found in the Americas? Things like arrow heads, coins or art works? Have any of the numerous cities been found also mentioned in the book of mormon ? The flora and fauna in th ebook of mormon is also false isn't it.
The mormons are allowed to go to other churches as claimed recently some mormon missionarys visited St Matthews here in Canberra in trying to convert some Anglicans to their church
in what could be a major breakthrough in physics and how we understand reality.
scientists at the cern lab recorded neutrinos traveling faster than the speed of light.
the telegragh ran the story www.telegragh.co.uk.
I knew about that long ago it was all on Star Trek
the aussies are in a winning position this fine sat morning australia declared and the poms are 2 for 15 and chasing 561 runs on their last innings.
my wifey is going beserk..
Australia just won the Cricket by 381 runs. Just have a sleep in this fine sunday morning over in pomy land.
the aussies are in a winning position this fine sat morning australia declared and the poms are 2 for 15 and chasing 561 runs on their last innings.
my wifey is going beserk..
The Aussies are in a winning position this fine sat morning Australia declared and the Poms are 2 for 15 and chasing 561 runs on their last innings. My wifey is going beserk.
for you ex-jehovahs witnesses...and even you current ones...have you ever contemplated your future existence in paradise earth, should you be fortunate enough to end up there?
during those raucous, fun moments at the kingdom hall when you were contemplating eternity and having the times of your lives...did you ever speculate about what life would be like?
for example, would you have to walk everywhere or would you be able to fly around like superman?
I remember reading about the book of mormon and according to that book there are coins mentioned that have never been found , there are cities mentioned that have never been found, fauna and flora mentioned that doesn't exist in northern America. In fact not one artifact from north America has ever been sighted that is in the book of mormon.
The LDS church is a cult in its theology . Barry
the priest acted as if he was the reason why people were there.
he was about 80 and totally disinterested in the affair although he married the deceased and her husband 15 years earlier.. his sermon's gist was that we need faith to accept that the reason why god has us die is so that we can go to heaven.
and that's it.. the only interesting (touching) time was when the grandkids gave testimonials about their beloved grandma.. oh, and one more thing.
Minimus I think you would like the Anglican church we as a family go to we have very few rituals. Apart from the Apostals creed and the litergy of communion and the absence of the WT book there is little ritual there. The Anglican priest doesn't mind if a person wants to be baptised by immersion or infant baptism can be also arranged. We meet in a school hall so there is no religious artifacts
the priest acted as if he was the reason why people were there.
he was about 80 and totally disinterested in the affair although he married the deceased and her husband 15 years earlier.. his sermon's gist was that we need faith to accept that the reason why god has us die is so that we can go to heaven.
and that's it.. the only interesting (touching) time was when the grandkids gave testimonials about their beloved grandma.. oh, and one more thing.
the JW religion also has rituals but most JWs are to close to it to see them
i am sure nowhere is perfect but if we want to compare these two countries from different prospectives like racism, job, income/spending, quality of life, standard of living etc.
can you please give me a rough idea by sharing your experiences.. .
by the way, i am considering applying for a masters progrmme in any of the two countries.. .
One New Zealand prime minister made the statement that immigration to Australia improves the IQ of both countries. Now how does that work? In his deluded mind the New Zealand people that are out of work immigrate to Australia to find jobs are the lower IQ of New Zealand and the lower IQ of the New Zealanders is still higher than that of the Australian population as a whole.
I'm Australian and I don't appreciate that one.
that text reminds me of one of a handful of problems peculiar to the ex-jw community.
second only to the wild beast's internal divisions, is the divided makeup of the ex-jw populace.
you know the one thing that indicates jehovah's blessing upon the worldwide association of kingdom proclaimers, is not only the continued success of the preaching work, but along with it the unity and love amongst the brothers and sisters.
Stand for pure worship,
I don't question your sincerity but may I point out to you the question that decides who is christian and who isn't is the belief about Jesus Christ. Some say Jesus is a good man some say just an historical figure christians say he is the son of God. There is the biblical evidence of who Jesus is as well as the developement of the doctrine through the ecumenical councils. The doctrine of the trinity should be studied with the aid of history because christian doctrine is developed as explained by John Henry Newman in his essay 'An essay on the developement of christian doctrine'.
At church we say the Apostolic and the Nicean creed which divides christianity from non christian religions. Muslims and the witness religion believe in Jesus too but are not a christian religion because they both don't believe Jesus is the Son of God.
i'm still determined not to vote - just to write something unpleasant about pollies on the ballot paper.
if i lived in victoria, i just may, as an act of sheer bastardry, vote for julian assange (of wikileaks fame), but i don't live in vic, so i cant.. my objection to voting is that the political choice offers two self-perpetuating oligarchies (who are something like the governing body).
they make up a slate of candidates and election advertising consists of attempting to persuade swinging voters to vote for their slate of candidates.. anyway, i noted that k.rudd has made a video in chinese, aimed apparently at mainland china.
I haven't got a red neck yet it's only spring here, but when I do I will wear it proudly
