twinkletoes
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Is Michael the Archangel really Jesus?
by twinkletoes infor years i have believed what the wt says about michael the archangel really being another name for jesus christ.
but now i am reading lots of other non-witness books, i am beginning to question this teaching.. has anyone done any research on this particular subject.. your comments would be appreciated.
twink.
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Elimination of Jesus from Song Book?
by twinkletoes inive recently been looking at a non-jw tract this was an interesting paragraph.
watchtower 1st 1954 page 31. there we read "jehovahs witnesses are proud of the fact that they have eliminated from their song books, songs praising jesus (revelation, its grand climax at hand, page 36)".
i was in the org.
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What was the reason why you were never made an elder or Ministerial Servant
by twinkletoes inthe reason i heard constantly by the elders, as to ones spiritual progress in the organisation was, .
"brothers are appointed by holy spirit.".
if this is the case, why is god speaking to himself when he says in 1 tim 3 v 6 .not a newly converted man, for fear that he might get puffed up with prideetc.. to re-iterate if god appoints elders, why would he give himself this advice ???.
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Changes to the Shunning Practice ? We have just been spoken to !
by twinkletoes inwe went to lunch at our local cafe on saturday, and there were two families - still jws, also dining there, (in different parts of the cafe).
we expected the usual shunning treatment, but surprisingly they initiated the "hellos and how are you" and seemed genuinely pleased to see us (we have been out of the org for over 3 yrs now and we are always shunned whenever we see former jw friends) it was such a surprise to us and we couldn't help wondering if the governing body have issued "new light" on the treatment of disassociated ones.
especially as these two families have completely avoided us for a long time, even though we personally wrote to them to explain our reasons for leaving (un involvement etc+) .
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Has anyone ever been to a Christadelphian meeting?
by twinkletoes insince i have been out of the jws, i have found the freedom to look into other beliefs.
i remember when i was in the org.
how they used to say that the christadelphians are so similar in beliefs to the jws that they must be controlled by satan, especially as they do not beleive in satan as a person/individual.
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Kaytee & Twink's "Resignation" letter
by twinkletoes inthis was the second letter given to elders that turned out to be a "resignation" letter.
this was, as you will see, because they chose not to answer any of our questions.
the reason we are posting our letter, is because it is now obvious (by personal experiences) that ones who we thought were our friends are now choosing to shun us.
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No good deed goes unpunished
by twinkletoes inthe last congregation we were at, decided to invite a neighbouring congregation to their territory to help them with the field service.. the elders asked my husband, if we would host the bbq for the brothers and sisters after the ministry, as we have a large garden.
we were told not to worry about the amounts of food, as everyone from the other congregation would bring something.
not even a bag of crisps arrived.
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Born Again - what do they believe ?
by twinkletoes inwe have neighbours who have been very sincere "born again" christians, for about ten years.
i know that quite a number of you on this forum are also born again, but my question is, just what do you believe?, i understand that you don't have any particular denomination and appear to join any church service as you wish.
when i used to go out on "field service", i seemed to get different understandings of the scriptures, from born again christians, some seemed to be of the opinion that they would be taken up into heaven and armageddon would wipe the earth clean and then they would be put back on the earth, others seemed to think that they would go to heaven and stay there ?
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memorial tomb or grave ?
by twinkletoes inthe jw bible states at john 5:28.
...all those in the memorial tombs will hear his voice and come out..... this scripture was used (by jws) to show that only those in god's memory would be due a resurrection.. in our recent independant research, using 4 other bibles, this is how that same scripture was translated -.
...all those in the grave will hear his voice and come out.... why did they (the society) have to add to this scripture, giving a totally different meaning to the original understanding.. bibles used were.
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Help - what is the very latest on blood transfusions?
by twinkletoes inwe are in the process of writing our final letter to the elders, which will no doubt end in our disfellowshipping or disassociation, and require some up to date info on the blood issue.. due to the wbts policy on blood over the years and my acceptance of it, i almost lost two of my sons at birth.
i am amazed at the u-turn on this blood policy by the org.
and feel very bitter about all that they have taught us for the last thirty years.