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  Holy spirit indwelling

  by Ding in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  is it your understanding that any jw can have holy spirit indwell them or is that an experience a part of the anointing that the wt teaches is reserved for the 144,000?.

  please provide references if you can..

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  Ding

  I found this quote in the July 15, 1987 Watchtower, p. 13: "Just before giving a public talk or having some part on a Service Meeting or in the Theocratic Ministry School, we can beg Jehovah to have his holy spirit dwell richly in us. Why? So that we may have confidence and poise, may speak with earnestness and conviction, so as to bring honor to God’s name and build up our brothers. All such prayers are also conducive to our having the right frame of mind when speaking." (Boldface added)

  That sounds like any JW can have the holy spirit dwell in them.

  Is that different in Watchtowerspeak than having holy spirit indwell?

  I find this confusing.

  Is there a specific article that says the indwelling is only for the 144,000?
  
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  Holy spirit indwelling

  by Ding in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  is it your understanding that any jw can have holy spirit indwell them or is that an experience a part of the anointing that the wt teaches is reserved for the 144,000?.

  please provide references if you can..

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  Ding

  Is it your understanding that any JW can have holy spirit indwell them or is that an experience a part of the anointing that the WT teaches is reserved for the 144,000?

  Please provide references if you can.
  
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  Our congregation will be deleted

  by Rattigan350 in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  last night was the co's visit.

  prior to his part, an elder had a part on following theocratic direction.

  it was about our congregation being deleted (there are 2 sharing this hall) and the people and territory being divided up to the 4 other surrounding ones.. they say it is not about numbers but about making best use of resources.

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  Ding

  This sounds to me like a great opportunity for people to fade.

  Everyone will assume they went somewhere else.
  
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  Did Jesus die on a stake or pole?

  by sweetyj in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  we already know how jws will respond ( on a pole).

  but i found an article that talks about jws views on how jesus died.

  i didn't know that there was a time when jws accepted the cross unlike now.

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  Ding

  A great example of the WT majoring on minors.

  What difference does it make?

  I never understood why the WT considered a traditional cross to be a pagan phallic symbol... but a single upright stake isn't?

  It's all about the WT trying to convince JWs that they have superior Bible knowledge that makes them more righteous than the people of Christendom.
  
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  "Gem from the November 2019 WT. Reject apostate material because JWs trust in "their brothers."

  by Daniel1555 in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  dear friends.

  i didn't post for a while, but i still enjoy the great jwn community.. just wanted to share a "gem" from the november 2019 study watchtower.. paragraph 8 from the article "are you maintaining your large shield of faith?".

  satan, “the father of the lie,” uses those under his control to spread lies about jehovah and about our brothers and sisters.

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  Ding

  The WT comments quoted by Blondie assume that JWs are Christians because they are following the "faithful and discreet slave."

  Are they?

  Or are they unwittingly following a false prophet that claims to speak for Jehovah and Jesus?

  Surely, that it something every JW should consider worth investigating.

  They won't... but they should.
  
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  "Gem from the November 2019 WT. Reject apostate material because JWs trust in "their brothers."

  by Daniel1555 in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  dear friends.

  i didn't post for a while, but i still enjoy the great jwn community.. just wanted to share a "gem" from the november 2019 study watchtower.. paragraph 8 from the article "are you maintaining your large shield of faith?".

  satan, “the father of the lie,” uses those under his control to spread lies about jehovah and about our brothers and sisters.

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  Ding

  So if you check out what apostates say, you don't have faith in Jehovah and you don't trust your brothers.

  Is that what Paul said when the Bereans checked out everything he told them by the scriptures?

  Or did he commend them for trusting God rather than men?
  
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  Blew it this morning with 4 JWs

  by Vanderhoven7 in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  so i decided to go hunting for jws this morning.

  walked to the end of my driveway and who should be approaching...but 2 ladies, one old (dianne) and one younger both with watchtower mags in hand.

  dianne shared how the world was under the control of satan etc.

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  Ding

  As a general rule, I think kindness and understatement work best.

  However, you never know.

  Sometimes you have to whack them between the eyes (figuratively speaking) as Jesus did with the Pharisees.
  
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  If we could travel at light speed, would travel be 'instantaneous' for us??

  by Bad_Wolf in

  1. social
  2. current

  this might be confusing to think about.

  we know that as you approach the speed of light, time slows down, if you were in a spaceship, time goes by quicker on earth.

  we also know that distances between planets and such are measured at 'light years'.

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  Ding

  "Warp 8, Mr. Crusher!"

  (For those of you who spent all your time at WT meetings and out in service, that's from Star Trek: The Next Generation)
  
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  Theocratic Ministry School

  by tresdecu in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  so the tms....does anyone think it might ever go away?

  possibly being replaced by a borg streaming presentation that's required viewing from home?

  it seems to me that with the congregation merging and sell-off that's going on, there are going to be 4 maybe 5 congregations sharing some khs.

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  Ding

  The literature used to have drawings of Jesus' disciples going door to door.

  I wonder if they've replaced those with the disciples standing next to carts...
  
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  AM3 sighting

  by neat blue dog in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  it's not much but anthony morris the turd had what i believe is his first official post-whiskeygate sighting, in a jwdotorg article that mentioned him giving a talk at a convention.

  getting quite a paunch there!.

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  Ding

  There's a great WT solution to his weight problem -- pioneering!

  There's no exercise as theocratic as door-to-door work.