Posts by ozziepost

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Is this new? WT says that JESUS resurrects.

by ozziepost in

yep, on the "official" wt site, there's an article on grieving and a photo caption that reads:.

bible accounts show that jesus has the power and the desire to bring children back to life.

http://www.watchtower.org/e/20070501/article_02.htm.

ozziepost

Jesus seems to be taking on a larger part of the theology of the Jw's nowadays.

That's an impression I have too.. I remember the days whenabsolutely everything (except the cross!) was attributed to Jehovah. I recall mentioning to people at our KH that Jesus is the creator and being looked at very warily! Yet that's what the NWT says. Colossians chapter 1, for example, states just that. Even the inserted word "other" in the NWT doesn't change the fact that Paul speaks of Jesus as having created..

So, I'm especially 'sensitive' to reading anything in their publications that reveals a change in their official stand on the nature of Christ; it was that that caused me to question the Dub teachings many years ago now.

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Is this new? WT says that JESUS resurrects.

by ozziepost in

yep, on the "official" wt site, there's an article on grieving and a photo caption that reads:.

bible accounts show that jesus has the power and the desire to bring children back to life.

http://www.watchtower.org/e/20070501/article_02.htm.

ozziepost

Yep, on the "official" WT site, there's an article on grieving and a photo caption that reads:

Bible accounts show that Jesus has the power and the desire to bring children back to life

http://www.watchtower.org/e/20070501/article_02.htm

I wonder, is this a new slant on the resurrrection?

I find it interesting that in such an article, they don't say "Jehovah will resurrect".

Are they trying to appear more acceptable in their message, i wonder?

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Vaccines,Alt Srvc,GB, NEW/Old Light---I think i'm starting to see the light

by dirtyknections in

[edited: see duplicate thread http://www.jehovahs-witness.com/7/158726/1.ashx].

ozziepost

See duplicate thread: http://www.jehovahs-witness.com/7/158726/2916299/post.ashx#2916299

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What Its Like To Be A Gay Ex JW....

by str8?so is spaghetti..until you heat it up in

i guess its time to throw my little story out there.

i keep reading everyones stories and thinking how brave you have all been, coming out of the organisation and facing all the repercussions of doing so.. .

i only last august disassociated myself.

ozziepost

real one's in the cooler!

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Now let's get this thread back on topic.

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What Its Like To Be A Gay Ex JW....

by str8?so is spaghetti..until you heat it up in

i guess its time to throw my little story out there.

i keep reading everyones stories and thinking how brave you have all been, coming out of the organisation and facing all the repercussions of doing so.. .

i only last august disassociated myself.

ozziepost

real one obviously is oblivious to the full implications of accepting every line in the old testament.

possibly but this thread has gone way off topic. If i recall, it was about personal experience and did not call for a judgment, let alone homophobic slurs.

Let's get back to topic.

Please.

Ta.

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What Its Like To Be A Gay Ex JW....

by str8?so is spaghetti..until you heat it up in

i guess its time to throw my little story out there.

i keep reading everyones stories and thinking how brave you have all been, coming out of the organisation and facing all the repercussions of doing so.. .

i only last august disassociated myself.

ozziepost

Why do people try to twist the Bible?

Why, indeed ! Perhaps because they're bigots?

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What Its Like To Be A Gay Ex JW....

by str8?so is spaghetti..until you heat it up in

i guess its time to throw my little story out there.

i keep reading everyones stories and thinking how brave you have all been, coming out of the organisation and facing all the repercussions of doing so.. .

i only last august disassociated myself.

ozziepost

real one:

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Cynical Post By Hillary-Step ...

by snowbird in

snowbird,.

what have you against cuddles, hs?.

in real life?

ozziepost

Enough!

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Diary of a thinking to return ex-Jw

by reniaa in

i thought long and hard about posting this but the mis-information on this site finally persuaded me, i already accept many may not accept what i say on face value and get their appologist pens ready for making sure no pro-witness propaganda slips through the net on this site but here goes....... i've been on this forum for a few months my first post was about how i was thinking of returning to jw's and at my sisters recommendation to look at this site for both sides of the story before taking that step.. i faded from jw's 10/11 years ago now i left my hubby at the time divorced him to going on to have more relationships and kids, i was definately given the impression after asking on this site and with what i read that if i tried to return i might face df or at least a jc but definately a couple of elders questioning me over what i've been upto these last few years - none of these have happened.

i talked with an old jw friend (yes i do have then and she never shunned me quite happily accepted an offer of coffee from me and my asking for a chat) i told her i was interested in going back and was very frank about what i done in the last 10 years but not sure how returning was done now, she quite happily said she go ask for me to find out.. result!

she came back this week and said "all i had to do was goto meetings again" and an offer of a study was there for me if i wanted it to explore the open doubts that i had expressed i now had.. not quite the fire and brimstone welcome this site led me to believe would happen.. i will keep you posted with further updates if i feel the need to put them in future.. .

ozziepost

On that note I am locking this thread.

It'll give time to take the 'heat' out of this and also because this thread has gone 'off topic'.

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OMG!!!!! How do they think they will get away with this... June 15 WT

by ImFreeatlast in

i was just looking through the june 15 study wt and on page 9 at the bottem of paragraph 10 it says.... additional "disgusting things" include acts of pedophilia and other forms of sexual immorality committed by clergymen and tolerated by the church authorities.

is it any wonder that jehovah god will soon rid this earth of false religion?.

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ozziepost

tolerated by the church authorities

Huh? tolerated????