quite effective and enjoyable.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ijzvt_jptx8&t=1306s.
Somewhere I saw a video of Peter Gregerson where he talked about how he examined what the WT was teaching in 1918-1919 and read The Finished Mystery, hoping that would reaffirm his faith in the organization.
Instead, it made him sick because it was so ludicrous he realized there was no way Jesus Christ would consider such nonsense to be a faithful feeding of his sheep. That's what led him to lose all faith in the WT.
If anyone has a link to that video, please post it. It's really good.
this from my book: good news for jehovah's witnesses.
before we discuss any doctrinal issues, i would like to distinguish between what i believe is proper versus improper interpretive practice.... so you know what i can accept as biblical and what i can't accept.. basic guidelines for validating doctrinal claims`).
i. there must be at least one scriptural reference that can be cited for support of any doctrinal claim or position.. ii.
JWs are trained to think in sound bites which become thought stoppers.
For example, to the WT James 2:26 ("...faith without works is dead") justifies its entire works salvation system.
No matter what else you show them, they always recite those five words and refuse to think any further.
only jesus has the power and authority to defeat satan and kick him out of heaven:.
“now have come to pass the salvation and the power and the kingdom of our god and the authority of his christ, because the accuser of our brothers has been hurled down, who accuses them day and night before our god.”.
"Firstborn" means preeminent, as shown by the context of the very next verse.
There's a separate Greek word which means "first created."
Paul didn't use that word.
only jesus has the power and authority to defeat satan and kick him out of heaven:.
“now have come to pass the salvation and the power and the kingdom of our god and the authority of his christ, because the accuser of our brothers has been hurled down, who accuses them day and night before our god.”.
I always thought it strange that the WT claims that Jesus is Michael.
John 1:1 doesn't say, "In the beginning was Michael, and Michael was with God, and Michael was a god."
John 1:14 says that a heavenly person called "the Word" became flesh and dwelt among us.
But in WT theology:
1. Jesus wasn't an archangel in human flesh.
2. What Michael and Jesus shared wasn't a personality, but rather an impersonal, animating life force analogous to electricity which powers various appliances.
3. When Jesus was conceived in Mary's womb, Michael went out of existence as a heavenly personage.
4. While on earth, Jesus was a perfect man like Adam, no more and no less.
5. As a man, Jesus didn't have a separate soul or spirit that survived physical death.
6. When he died, all of his personality, thoughts, and memories died with him.
7. After the resurrection, Jehovah implanted Jesus' memories into the re-animated Michael.
If all this is true, then in what sense was Jesus Michael and Michael Jesus?
only jesus has the power and authority to defeat satan and kick him out of heaven:.
“now have come to pass the salvation and the power and the kingdom of our god and the authority of his christ, because the accuser of our brothers has been hurled down, who accuses them day and night before our god.”.
Jude 9 says that Michael didn't dare rebuke Satan directly but left that to Jehovah.
Yet, Jesus rebuked Satan directly many times (Matthew 4, Mark 8:33, for example).
do you feel a draft?
(jw’s did-in the 1960s)i thought you might find it interesting to review exactly what the u.s. government thought, studied, and wrote about people of conscience during the vietnam war.what follows comes from official records…more than half of the 27 million men eligible for the draft during the vietnam war were deferred, exempted, or disqualified.
(cortright, david (2008).
The GB required a lot of JWs to go to prison while they themselves lived like kings.
i am looking for a tms that was published in the early 70s that said many have sold homes to go where the need was great, this is a fine way to spend ones time in the last days.
i am trying to remember how it was said to the best of my knowledge but this is close.
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Kingdom Ministry, May, 1974, p. 3 said, "Reports are heard of brothers selling their homes and property and planning to finish out the rest of their days in this old system in the pioneer service. Certainly this is a fine way to spend the short time remaining before the wicked world’s end."
HappyDad, TMS = Theocratic Ministry School.
hi everyone i would like to say hello to everyone,.
i just started attending kingdom hall about a month ago now and am doing bible study with a brother..
Welcome to the forum.
Please examine all sides and study things out thoroughly before making a lifetime commitment.
i am wondering if a jw accused to be a murderer (or any other serious crime except csa) in a judicial committee would be reported to the police.. if i sexually abused or molested a child, i would not be reported to the police.. what about if i killed a person: would i be instead?.
it is not a matter of being right or wrong but i am only curious to know if there is at least a sort of coherence regarding the internal policies for serious crimes....
Great question! Unfortunately, I don't know the answer.
do you remember some of the weird and wacky stuff emanating from the watchtower society?
let's make a list from memory that we can use to inject a little humor into our discussions with jehovah's witnesses.
- venus may be an enormous jurassic park.. - germs don't cause disease.. - no beards allowed.
Stay away from the internet because it's satanic.
But direct everyone to jw dot org.
