Posts by believingxjw

a couple of posts by hamsterbait motivated me to post this.. the elimination of the book study: it was the only place where those who were shy, or anxious, about commenting would comment.

it was small, intimate and we had a lot of fun.

remember the "f" word?

The greatest enemy to the friends in Kingdom Halls throughout the world is not Satan or governments or the world, or the flesh, but their own Governing Body. They are being killed from within something much more devastating than anything else because it comes from an unexpected place! Twisted love is evil.

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What do you think the WT's ultimate irony is?

by sabastious in

off the top of my head it would be the fact that they say that satan's world will brainwash you when you leave the wt.. -sab.

believingxjw

I think the Watchtower's ultimate irony is that they have become the very thing they preached against: the Pharisees of Jesus' day whose rules and regulations smothered the love for God and brother.

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A question for those who still believe.

by still wondering in

the first step to putting right the sin of adam was for christ to come to the earth to sacrifice his life, preach the gospel of the kingdom and the command to his disciples to preach and attempt to convert the world.. the second step will be or has been christs second coming.. as it is a priority to put right the wrongs of adam and to convert the world of mankind then the sooner the first step is implemented the greater the chance of achieving the desired result as the human population was still relatively small the further back in time so why did god take .

four thousand human years.

to implement just the first step?

believingxjw

I believe God sets in motion a process that at its completion will be what He intended from the beginning. Creation was a process. Abraham's entering the future Promised Land was a beginning of a process that would culminate in Israel. Israel a process culminating in the Christ. Christianity existing almost as long as the time from Abraham to the Christ is also a process that will lead to mankind's salvation at the revelation of God's Son. And sadly, will also, imo, reveal that Christianity was and is no better than the Jewish nation in that all people eventually go the wrong way and need correction.

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Forget disfellowshipping, reinstatement is grossly unbiblical

by sabastious in

disfellowshipping has a "measure" of validity since in the 1st century you could be removed from the christian congregation for practicing sin.

(but not shunned outside of worship ceremonies).. the process in which someone is accepted back into the fold in the jw policy is completely made up.

it's funny that witnesses will poke fun at catholics for making up purgatory when they have completely pulled the reinstatement process out of their asses!.

believingxjw

The Watchtower is a pharisaical religion that just loves to add more and more laws. Trusting in God and his Son is nice but LAW and LAWYERS and BOOKS BOOKS BOOKS is even nicer! The Governing Body suffers from a lack of faith in God!

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"For My Yoke is Kindly and My Load is Light"...

by AGuest in

jw
friends

to the household of god, israel, and those who go with... may you have peace.

as some of you have witnessed lately, i have been involved in a bit of "pushing" with others.

some of you were uncomfortable and i totally understand that, but as i stated, i was doing what i was directed and heard (well, 95% of the time - to say otherwise would be untrue).

believingxjw

Dear SA, (and I do mean the "Dear" sincerely as a fellow Christian)

"I cannot tell you the prayers... and tears... that I have undergone during this time"

I believe you but the problem, imo, is that most here have at one time also prayed with tears and much suffering trying to understand why it is that men who claimed to be anointed and who claimed to be followers of Christ were in fact not what they claimed but insisted that we believe they were. They tore us to pieces, they stumbled us, they tore from us our trust in God and the Bible. We too have suffered with many tears! I, like many here, will never trust another man or woman with my faith and beliefs again. Never! I trust the Christ. I trust God. No man, no woman. And when a man or woman claims to speak for the Christ there is an instant revulsion in my heart and a red flag that goes up, something like being exposed to an allergen that has sensitized my religious immune system.

You said above, " Again, I bid you the GREATEST of love and peace, and I AM..." (emphasis mine)

Lady Lee is right, if we disagree with you better it is not to open your threads. To open your threads is for me the same as an abused woman who opened the threads of a man who claimed that some women need a little abuse now and then to keep them in line. Better to leave it alone and pass it by than to open the thing and live again the hurt that I am trying to recover from. The hurt that came from religious leaders who insisted that they sincerely represented God and Christ.

You are, I AM? Then I wish you peace and the love of God upon you.

I ask this one favor of you, do not respond to this post. I love you as a fellow Christian and do hope all that you yourself hope for in Christ will come to pass. Please, I ask, do not respond to this post. Let peace reign between you and me in silence. In this way I will know that you are truly my sister who loves.

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Remind me- how do they explain.....elder book

by carla in

can someone please remind me how they explain the need for a secret elders book to the r & f?

my jw has given numerous convoluted reasons over the years and i have forgotten the official reasoning.

on one hand they claim no clergy class, we are all the same, blah, blah, yet they have only one book the r & f (particularly women) cannot see.

believingxjw

Who said I was defending? Just telling like it is.