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  What Name Does the New Testament Emphasize - Jehovah or Jesus?

  by Vanderhoven7 in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  it seems to me scripturally speaking, that jehovah's witnesses are emphasizing the wrong name.. it should be jesus, not jehovah.

  who is the way, the truth and the life?

  (john 14:6).

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  slimboyfat

  The reason that you feel compelled to cite verses like this is because a template has been installed in your head by your WT trainers. Like a trained seal you and every other JW continually …

  You lost the argument right there.

  Allow me to explain to you the biblical and Christian view …

  Yeah, no thanks. Your attitude leaves a lot to be desired.

  I’m interested in what the New Testament says for its own sake. Having considered it a lot, I have come to the view that Jesus himself would have been astounded that others equated him with God. His earliest followers viewed him as a messenger from God in terms that clearly differentiated him from God himself. This is so plain in the texts themselves that no scholars without a theological commitment to the idea conclude there is anything like a Trinitarian dogma to be found in the New Testament,
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  What Name Does the New Testament Emphasize - Jehovah or Jesus?

  by Vanderhoven7 in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  it seems to me scripturally speaking, that jehovah's witnesses are emphasizing the wrong name.. it should be jesus, not jehovah.

  who is the way, the truth and the life?

  (john 14:6).

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  slimboyfat

  Hardly hidden, Jews were obviously aware that when saying the name Yehoshua, they were saying the divine name too, and the praise was to God through his Son. (See Matt 1:21)

  Revelation 3:12 is proof that the early Christians knew the name of Jesus’ God.

  The idea that you can count up each name as some sort of competition between them misses the point that all attention and praise for Jesus is “the to the glory of God the Father”. (Phil 2:11) So if you’re keeping count then the tally for Jehovah is all the direct references to Jehovah God plus the references to Jesus.
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  What Name Does the New Testament Emphasize - Jehovah or Jesus?

  by Vanderhoven7 in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  it seems to me scripturally speaking, that jehovah's witnesses are emphasizing the wrong name.. it should be jesus, not jehovah.

  who is the way, the truth and the life?

  (john 14:6).

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  slimboyfat

  In his own time, the name Jesus was pronounced Yahoshua, and the divine name was pronounced Yaho. So every time the first Christians said the name Jesus (Yaho-shua) it reminded them that Jesus demonstrated by his words and his life that salvation is from Yaho. (See Acts 4:9-12)
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  What Name Does the New Testament Emphasize - Jehovah or Jesus?

  by Vanderhoven7 in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  it seems to me scripturally speaking, that jehovah's witnesses are emphasizing the wrong name.. it should be jesus, not jehovah.

  who is the way, the truth and the life?

  (john 14:6).

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  slimboyfat

  The name Jesus literally means Jehovah is our salvation. Every time the name Jesus is used it is to the glory of his God. (Matt 1:21; John 17:6, 11; Rev 3:12)
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  Unification Church in the news this week

  by dropoffyourkeylee in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  a bit surprised to see the unification church (moonies) in the news this week:.

  https://www.cnn.com/videos/world/2022/07/16/shinzo-abe-assassination-unification-church-lah-amanpour-vpx.cnni.

  quick background:.

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  slimboyfat

  Very interesting. It explains a lot of the strange early reports that it “wasn’t political” and the gunman said it was because the prime minister supported certain “groups”.
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  Saturday convention videos MIA

  by solomon in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  where are the convention videos for saturday?

  my parents are starting to panic as the videos haven’t been posted on jw org yet and they are supposed to view this morning.

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  slimboyfat

  Locally most JWs get updates like this in private WhatsApp groups, especially since the start of the pandemic. I don’t know if they do it the same everywhere. Are your parents in a local WhatsApp group?
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  Saturday convention videos MIA

  by solomon in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  where are the convention videos for saturday?

  my parents are starting to panic as the videos haven’t been posted on jw org yet and they are supposed to view this morning.

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  slimboyfat

  Your parents are perhaps confused and it’s to be viewed next week. 💡

  If so, that presumably means they missed the meeting today. 😃
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  Michael Jackson Jehovah's Witness Thriller

  by researcher1010 in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  i'm a reporter working on a series about michael jackson.

  part of this series will look at his life as a jehovah's witness and his relationship to the faith.

  i've already spoken to a few ex-witnesses and one elder who have explained jw 101 beliefs and teachings.

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  slimboyfat

  The most extensive public sources for the JW experience of The Jackson family and Michael Jackson is LeToya Jackson’s books.

  https://www.amazon.com/LaToya-Jackson-Shocking-Controversial-Expose/dp/0099726408/

  https://www.amazon.com/Toya-Growing-Up-Jackson-Family/dp/0451174151/
  

  Although be warned she does sometimes contradict herself.
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  Interesting comment regarding in person meeting attendance.

  by joe134cd in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  interesting remark i overheard today.

  the physical attendance for the sunday meeting, in my local area, was 10. i tried to find out those on zoom.

  i was told that the zoom attendees wasn’t mentioned.

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  slimboyfat

  Wow that’s a big drop.
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  It's been a long 9 years Lloyd Evans / John Cedars

  by Newly Enlightened in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  original reddit post (removed).

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  slimboyfat

  He talks as if the idea that he was forced out of the basement by his in laws would be some wild ‘conspiracy theory’ that some people might come up with. But at this point it’s the fact he’s been allowed to stay there for as long as he has that looks like it needs explaining.

  It really doesn’t seem as though he is planning on giving up any time soon. Unfortunately he may just be able to ride this out. He’ll be pointing out that people like Leah Remini and Paul Grundy haven’t abandoned him and he will be looking for new recruits fresh out of Watchtower to perform various unpaid roles on his channel again.

  I still think he is inflating his Patreon number somehow though, so that might still play out because that might save face for a while but it’s not sustainable in the long run.