i cannot think of a single doctrine that is so clearly laid out in the bible that every christian sect teaches the same point.
are there any doctrine where there is total consensus amongst all christian religions, including jehovah's witnesses?.
I have an uncle who has pastored Baptist, Mennonite and evangelical churches. I really have to disagree that there are huge dogmatic gaps between 98% of christian churches.
Ex dubs have a tough time even after believing that you can be a Christian without a telemarketer package. How can we be christians if dont all have the same view of the book of relevations etc etc.
The idea of tenets of faith and the rest are just details is so alien to the jws.
to show respects for the older bro who died.. first thing i noticed.
the noise!..
jw never learn to sit and do so quietly.
What i have noticed at jw funerals is no one cries. Its honestly really creepy. Of course 5 mins about the person and 30 mins about the borg.
The part really bugs me is the counting. You could see the elders at the back taking attendance. Not really sure why.
I just thought was rude.
a couple of examples of scriptures hardly ever quoted is 1 tim.
2:12- "i do not permit a woman to teach, or to exercise authority over a man, but to be in silence".
or verse 11- "let a woman learn in silence with full submissiveness.".
Anything about faith over works. Basically the entire book of romans.
i cannot think of a single doctrine that is so clearly laid out in the bible that every christian sect teaches the same point.
are there any doctrine where there is total consensus amongst all christian religions, including jehovah's witnesses?.
Jesus was the manifestation of god in the flesh.
You are saved by grace not works.
All true christians are the body of christ ( the church). Its not an organizational or denomination thing.
my active and in jw wife is up for reading bible together.
thing is she wants to use nwt.. i have problems with that translation as you my imagine.. just wondering if you thought the true message of the bible will shine through the deliberate tampering of the nwt?.
i know many people here don't like or want to read the bible and think it's rubbish anyway, so if that's you, you can save your comments :-).
The bible is extremely boring and quite complex. I really hate when people say reading it is so life changing. Some parts of it are done right nasty. I actually have a so called childrens niv with warnings to say out of parts of the new testament.
I do enjoy listening to academics and real scholars talk about it. It is quite interesting if you deal with people who know what they are talking about.
The problem i have with nwt is it tries to isolate and obscure single verses assuming the reader doesn't know the intent of the authors. New testament writers believed jesus was the physical manifestation of jehovah god from the old testament. There is no big picture in the nwt.
Its so stupid, its not even the bible.
my active and in jw wife is up for reading bible together.
thing is she wants to use nwt.. i have problems with that translation as you my imagine.. just wondering if you thought the true message of the bible will shine through the deliberate tampering of the nwt?.
i know many people here don't like or want to read the bible and think it's rubbish anyway, so if that's you, you can save your comments :-).
lately i have been really interested in the idea of who jesus was in the in old testament.
i have reading an author named michael heiser who generally believes anytime there was a physical manifestion of god in the old testament it was a pre incarnation of jesus christ.. i was reading the first chapter of jeremiah there is a figure called " the word of jehovah appears ".
this actually happens in a number of places in the old testament.
Wow
Just wow
The average jw really has no concept of why some believe he was jehovah in the old testament.?
lately i have been really interested in the idea of who jesus was in the in old testament.
i have reading an author named michael heiser who generally believes anytime there was a physical manifestion of god in the old testament it was a pre incarnation of jesus christ.. i was reading the first chapter of jeremiah there is a figure called " the word of jehovah appears ".
this actually happens in a number of places in the old testament.
Lately i have been really interested in the idea of who Jesus was in the in old testament. I have reading an author named Michael Heiser who generally believes anytime there was a physical manifestion of god in the old testament it was a pre incarnation of jesus christ.
I was reading the first chapter of Jeremiah there is a figure called " the word of jehovah appears ". This actually happens in a number of places in the old testament.
I check my nwt and see if any of these appearances actually reference Jesus being called the word of god or the visible image of rhe invisible god in the new testament.
Not a single reference lines up in the nwt.
Not saying it really matters or does the average jw even read or care about the bible but to me it is one of the more tangible ways to prove how dishonest the wts is.
once you woke up did see mockery?
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from the memorial to the new world translation to the general stupid things said in the hall it seems like some bizzaro world where some supernatural entity controls everything in an attempt to mock god..
I have seen so called bible studies centered around a single verse only found in the nwt, usually something trying to disprove the diety of christ.
It makes me feel i am in the god damm exorcist.
Yeah i do believe in the devil.
once you woke up did see mockery?
.
from the memorial to the new world translation to the general stupid things said in the hall it seems like some bizzaro world where some supernatural entity controls everything in an attempt to mock god..
So no one has ever went to the memorial and felt liked they were at slayer concert.
When i was younger i had an interest in the occult. Not that wanted to practice it ,i just thought it was interesting. The more i learned the majority of it wasnt actually rooted in devil worship, it was just extreme atheism rooted in mockery of all things Christian.
I kind of see the same things rooted in the wts .
