take a look at this heresy:"righteousness is the state of being right with god by complying with his standards of good and bad.
"- the watchtower—study edition | july 15, 2001 | blessings are for the righteous onewow!
my bible says in several places that "there is no one righteous, no not one".
In a works-oriented salvation system such as the Watchtower's, it's all about keeping the rules.
So what do we need Jesus for?
Come to think of it, the GB places far more emphasis on "the faithful and discreet slave" (i.e. themselves) than it does on Jesus.
hae anyone come across a quotation to that effect?.
Watchtower, June 15, 1978, p. 26, "Firmly Resolved About Blood," comes close:
"Hence, though most persons may be unaware of what God says and may look on blood as just something to sustain human life temporarily, not so with true Christians. Based on God’s Word we appreciate Jehovah’s view on life and blood. Let us be resolved to uphold that view and to live in accord with it."
birthday wisdom magnum opus.
i was born 2 years after the end of wwii.. everything was in black and white.. harry truman was president.. mahatma gandhi was the spiritual leader of india.. .
by the time i was 5, a new-fangled invention called television.
You need to face the fact that you will never grow old in this system of things.
Oh, wait...
i am.. they are just fellow brothers, old and getting senile.... but enlightened, despite all the whining.....
There are other groups that don't believe in the Trinity or Hell.
The distinctive of Jehovah's Witnesses is loyalty to the organization and the teaching that the GB is Jehovah's appointed faithful and discreet slave who must be obeyed without question.
how many times did you see elders hounding congregation members to quit their jobs due to missing meetings?.
my brother worked at a grocery store at 16 years old.
he would miss tuesday's ministry school due to his work schedule.
The WT is all about controlling every aspect of JWs' lives.
david splane comes out firing and is relentless as to the reasons why christianity was brought down.
christianity was not broken down by persecution, but by false brothers and apostate teachings.
today, jehovah's witnesses face the same danger from false brothers and apostates.
If anybody takes action against someone who would threaten our young ones, and takes action to protect our young ones, it is Jehovah’s organization. We reject outright such lies.”
In other words, once you decide it's "Jehovah's organization," you are forbidden to consider any evidence to the contrary.
Of course, if you look at evidence BEFORE making up your mind whether it's really "Jehovah's organization," you aren't really interested in the truth and you are persecuting Jehovah's Witnesses, so they will kick the dust off their feet as they cut off further communication with you.
with the current discussion if someone in his twenties can be elder or not.
i'm interested in what a elder in jw land really do.
all speeches already come in video format from headquarters.
The job of an elder is to be a company man, obeying, teaching, and enforcing all the GB's directives.
absolute worst case scenario, the last of the generation that saw the events of 1914 would have died off would be in the mid to late 1990's!
so we were told in the 1980's!
so now we 3/4 of another generation past that!.
Russell's measurement of the main passageway of the Great Pyramid changed by 40 inches from one edition of his book to the next in order to accommodate the doctrinal switch from 1874 to 1914.
Maybe the GB should head to Egypt and measure it again.
No telling what new light they could come up with...
i found this interesting topic on the current views among jws regarding the overlapping generation.. the posts are hilarious.
how do most jehovah's witnesses explain the overlapping generation?.
i've asked a couple of jws to explain the overlapping generation and they directed me to the website jw------org.. either they don't know, or they do know but don't want to discuss it because they know it's bogus and embarrassing.. either way, surely they must know that this just extended the last days another 80 years from the time fred franz died.
FedUpJW,
Does this mean I'm my own grandpa?
absolute worst case scenario, the last of the generation that saw the events of 1914 would have died off would be in the mid to late 1990's!
so we were told in the 1980's!
so now we 3/4 of another generation past that!.
Maybe it came invisibly in 1975.
If you didn't see it, you don't have "eyes of understanding."
