i know this recent video has been talked about already but i just watched it and here are a few things that got me annoyed as usual:.
splane says that if a bible student says he saw some negative information from apostates and asks us to explain it, we shouldn't look at it or address anything specifically, but instead we should tell them to go to meetings and hear what we have to say about ourselves and also tell them to befriend people at the hall.
for any person with integrity and/or intelligence, this is not a satisfactory answer.
The scripture in question says, "Does not the ear test out words as the tongue tastes food?"
rtn: yeah, at meetings/assemblies, it was like: 'in one ear, out the other', never could remember any, after the sessions. because it did not really add to my understandings.
The key word is test, allowed to test,ideas sifted out by lingering questions. like a chef that brings up the taste to it's finest, then serves.
Of Course we dont want to be 'beefeaters', or gluttons of useless pulp.
jesus: "so that is why you all get sick and die, because adam and eve grabbed an apple from the tree that god told them not to.".
a man from the crowd: "but why are we punished for something we didn't do, we don't even know that man and woman, that was thousands of years ago!".
jesus: "my father exercises perfect justice, believe me when i tell you when i say you got what was coming to you.
"Blessed are the cheesemakers...."
FFG: ???? cheesemakers of "cheesecake" as it was understood in my youth the 1930, 40s? or
swiss cheese?, like wt doctrine? full of holes, holy cheese?
jesus: "so that is why you all get sick and die, because adam and eve grabbed an apple from the tree that god told them not to.".
a man from the crowd: "but why are we punished for something we didn't do, we don't even know that man and woman, that was thousands of years ago!".
jesus: "my father exercises perfect justice, believe me when i tell you when i say you got what was coming to you.
My Father wants me dead to accomplish one of his purposes.”
another man shouts, jeez, what is that?
Jesus: "universal sovereignty. wait until watchtower explains that to you.
btw, sacrificing a human never entered my father's mind, but he is bound by the law.
the light really is getting brighter, but what kind?
i can think of three types of figurative light in this context:.
1) that which jws refer to and they base on pr 4:18. light on a path... light that gets brighter.
If anything, the analogy of dawn in the east, also implies a dusk in the west, the cyclical nature of wt "enlightenment"
all their much heralded new doctrinal slants in their "new releases" are now on the dustheap of history, no wonder they would like to see the light from a bonfire on all of it, going up in smoke, so much hot air rising.
It must have dawned on David Splane, that it 'be easier if he could start from scratch, wit a clean slate, but it's too late, wt, doctrinally, is in the declining light, dusk phase.
https://www.c21media.net/news/vice-doc-spotlights-jehovahs-witnesses/.
us cable network vice tv will debut an original documentary that claims to uncover corruption and abuse within the jehovah’s witnesses community.. vice versa: crusaders, which will air on july 28, is part of the channel’s vice versa brand, known for docs including fear of a black quarterback and the neglected pandemic.. the project comes from hollywood director aaron kaufman, who was shunned by his jehovah’s witness family after investigating paedophilia within the organisation.. crusaders is directed by kaufman and executive produced by lauren terp, as well as daniel levinson and robert fernandez for us-london prodco moxie pictures, and danny gabai and andrew freston for vice studios.
executive producing for vice tv is catherine whyte.. kaufman said: “after witnessing first-hand the cycle of abuse that runs deep within the jehovah’s witnesses, i could not rest until the dark truth of this organisation was brought to light.
the judgement starts with the house of god. beth-el.
the light really is getting brighter, but what kind?
i can think of three types of figurative light in this context:.
1) that which jws refer to and they base on pr 4:18. light on a path... light that gets brighter.
read it gain, it is not the light alone that is getting brighter, but the pathway.
the light really is getting brighter, but what kind?
i can think of three types of figurative light in this context:.
1) that which jws refer to and they base on pr 4:18. light on a path... light that gets brighter.
The path that wt has trod is now exposed through the better focus of communications.
wt's mistake/dilemma is, to project the failures of the dark past to still mark their "about the future" doctrines.
hi folks,.
this interesting article on abc australia covers views of people ex-communicated or shunned by a couple of institutions.
it also includes paul grundy's experience.. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-07-25/the-australians-who-were-cast-out-of-their-religions/100306930.
With resilience and strength … people can find ways to create a life worthwhile and meaningful for them, even after an event like this.
P: hear, hear, think of Joseph after his expulsion, aka "disfellowshipping"; Galileo after his shunning, banning of his books, and the later success that the ideas he fostered saw.
hi folks,.
this interesting article on abc australia covers views of people ex-communicated or shunned by a couple of institutions.
it also includes paul grundy's experience.. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-07-25/the-australians-who-were-cast-out-of-their-religions/100306930.
DJ, I should have said too seriously, because it is, after all accepted literature, subject to critical reviews and viewed by a billion plus as basis of their faith, even if they do not know all the amazing details.
hi folks,.
this interesting article on abc australia covers views of people ex-communicated or shunned by a couple of institutions.
it also includes paul grundy's experience.. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-07-25/the-australians-who-were-cast-out-of-their-religions/100306930.
one can not take all these stories seriously, such as concurrent with the carpenter's death, the graves opened, and resurrected "saints" going into Jerusalem. of course once you accept the talking snake, why not go full bore? boring.
shunning? a badge of honour.
