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  questions for those who were once elders

  by enoughisenough in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i watched some wendi renay youtube videos.

  the former elder who was being interviewed mentioned a couple of things i noted.

  i would like to know what your reactions were at the time you learned what i am going to relate if you had the same or kindred experience.

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  My question for those who were elders is, "How much backbiting / cliquishness did you experience within the group of elders?"
  
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  Romans 10:9, 13 Identifying Jesus as Jehovah?

  by Daniel Michaels in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  the use of the divine name in the nwtcgs

  romans 10:9, 13

  identifying jesus as jehovah

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  The other side of the coin is that if the WT teaching were correct, we would also expect to read about Jesus rebuking the Pharisees for their superstitious refusal to speak the divine name.

  That appears nowhere in the Bible.
  
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  Jehovah's Witnesses and Apostates

  by tfjw in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  jehovah's witnesses basically define the term "apostate" as someone who was once a member of the "organization" (a jehovah's witness) but no longer follows the teachings, rules, regulations and practices.

  the society gives their official definition in the following manner: "apostasy is abandoning or deserting the worship and service of god, actually a rebellion against jehovah god.

  some apostates profess to know and serve god but reject teachings or requirements set out in his word.

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  Proof positive that Jesus picked the WT organization to be the faithful and discreet slave in 1919, right?
  
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  My mom died.

  by noni1974 in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  it's been years since i posted here.

  my jw mother died july 5th.

  it was quite honestly not that emotional for me.

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  Ding

  Sorry for your loss.

  Sorry also for what the WT did to you and your family.
  
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  Our J.W friends still have issues with beards 2022??Why?

  by Witness 007 in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  our witness friend who during covid grew his beard has been hassled by elders who asked him "why" he chose to have facial growth.

  he for real, had to give an answer why.

  this is pharasees total rubbish.

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  Total obedience and uniformity above all...
  
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  Is the governing body of Jehovah's Witnesses REALLY the "faithful and discreet slave" of Matt. 24:45-47?

  by Roger Kirkpatrick in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  thesis: when someone who is given a responsibility mistakes that responsibility for authority, bullying is very likely to occur.. jesus spoke an illustration recorded at matthew 24: 45-51 which well illustrates this thesis.. jesus asked, “who really is the faithful and discreet slave whom his master appointed over all his domestics, to give them their food at the proper time?

  happy is that slave if his master on arriving finds him doing so.

  truly i say to you, he will appoint him over all his belongings.

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  The answer to the thread's title question is: NO
  
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  HM Queen Elizabeth is dead.

  by stan livedeath in

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  long live the king..

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  Condolences to all who live in the UK or in the Commonwealth.
  
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  More Watchtower Quotes

  by Sea Breeze in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  the secret of the greater intelligence and aptitude of the caucasian undoubtedly in great measure is to be attributed to the commingling of blood amongst its various branches; and this was evidently forced in large measure by circumstances under divine control.“ — charles taze russell zion's watch tower (july 15, 1902), pp.

  215-216.. golden age, july 1, 1927..... every bedroom [should receive] at least two hours of sunlight everyday.

  [this will] kill tuberculosis and other germs.

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  How can we not appreciate this spiritual food the slave has been dispensing?
  
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  refusing to go in service with someone

  by enoughisenough in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  did you ever refuse to go in service with someone?

  i did.... i went to the kh to meet for service and 3 brothers were there.

  i told the brother taking the lead, that when he made up the car groups to take note i had a plan of my own -the 3 brothers could go together and i would do my own thing.

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  Ding

  Sounds like independent thinking, Enoughisenough.

  No wonder you left the borg...
  
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  Hello I’ve just discovered that my religion is false just

  by Chickenlips in

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  2. friends

  just wanted to say hey.

  i’m in australia.

  i’ve just woken up… i’m disfellowshipped and finding it hard without family although i do have one sister who isn’t interested in the truth, so that’s good… at least i can talk to her.

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  Ding

  Chickenlips,

  Have you read Crisis of Conscience by Raymond Franz? If not, I recommend that you do so. Ray was on the GB and went through many of the things you've been going through.
  

  You said that you had been very depressed because you saw nowhere else to go. That's a major part of the WT indoctrination process. They poison your mind to everything outside the organization.

  I believe there are a lot of JWs who realize something is seriously wrong with their religion but they stick with it because the WT has convinced them that every alternative is worse. Not so!
  

  I don't recall if you said to what extent (if at all) you still believe in God, Christ, and the Bible. If you do still have belief in them to some extent, please be aware that not every Christian organization is as legalistic as the WT. Please be aware also that one's relationship to God is dependent on Christ himself, not on which earthly organization you might join. Don't look for the one true Christian organization. It's the WT that has planted in your mind the idea that there is only one of them.They've also planted in your mind the thought that unless it's perfect, a church must be satanic. Consider how messed up the churches were to whom Paul wrote his epistles. Yet he considered them to be truly Christian and continued to minister to them.

  If you'd like to PM me about any of this, feel free.

  Cheers.