the watchtower—study edition | november 2021. .
13. how did prayer help one family who were unjustly treated?.
13 consider the experience of a sister named vero, who lives in the democratic republic of the congo.
A religious reporter was asking an elderly devout Jewish man who has been going to the wailing wall in Jerusalem everyday for over sixty years and asked him what he was praying for and he replied "that all mankind should love and be in peace with one another including Jews and Arabs and we could all live together in harmony."
And the reporter said : And what do you think ?
The Elderly devout Jewish man said, " Sometimes I think I`m just talking to a brick wall "
hello,.
long time since i have been on here.. i wanted to check in to see if we are doing the christmas card list this year.. is blondie still in this group?
she normally does this.. thanks.
I have committed myself to send Xmas cards this year to those addresses I have from a previous couple of years ago.
Nobody needs to feel obligated to send one back if they don`t want too.
I have misplaced a couple of cards but still have the envelopes they came in ,but with no indication who sent them.
One was from Berlin Germany and the other was from Milwaukee USA.
If anybody else wants to chime in your very welcome.
,Just pm me with your user name and address.
smiddy3
PS , They will be cheap cards ,it is the thought that counts right ?
hello,.
long time since i have been on here.. i wanted to check in to see if we are doing the christmas card list this year.. is blondie still in this group?
she normally does this.. thanks.
Hi Garyneal,
Maybe your having a seniors moment my friend LOL ,I have a Xmas , no sorry Happy Holidays card from you in 2019.and I think I sent you a pm on the 11/12/19 according to the card I have in front of me.
Take care mate ,
Blondie told me then she is taking a hiatus,and I`m thinking of sending a Xmas card to all that responded to me back then.
smiddy3
i thought this needed to be said here.. ok ,i watched this movie today and really enjoyed it .it focuses on richard and venus rise to fame mainly and is not backward in showing richard as a bit of an egotistical asshole who pushes and drives his kids to what they became.many times you got the feeling it was all about richard doing it for himself.
the girls played a good part and will smith does a fine job as richard.. i think that only jw`s and ex-jw`s would pick up from the movie that they were jehovah`s witnesses as it was really only alluded too in a couple of scenes.. one where richard gives a mealtime prayer and mentions the name jehovah ( the only time it is mentioned in the movie ) and when a coach is berating him for taking the girls away from practice to go to" church" as he called it and mentioned the" hall" which would go over most peoples head.. if only 50% of this movie was fact it is well worth watching,i recommend it..
I thought this needed to be said here.
OK ,I watched this movie today and really enjoyed it .It focuses on Richard and Venus rise to fame mainly and is not backward in showing Richard as a bit of an egotistical asshole who pushes and drives his kids to what they became.Many times you got the feeling it was all about Richard doing it for himself. The girls played a good part and Will Smith does a fine job as Richard.
I think that only JW`s and ex-JW`s would pick up from the movie that they were Jehovah`s Witnesses as it was really only alluded too in a couple of scenes.
One where Richard gives a mealtime prayer and mentions the name Jehovah ( the only time it is mentioned in the movie ) and when a coach is berating him for taking the girls away from practice to go to" church" as he called it and mentioned the" Hall" which would go over most peoples head.
If only 50% of this movie was fact it is well worth watching,I recommend it.
there is this new movie out called "king richard" staring will smith playing serena and venus williams father.
i don't know much about this, but i heard that they were raised by jw parents.
how does that factor into the movie and their growing up aspiring tennis stars?.
OK ,I watched this movie today and really enjoyed it .It focuses on Richard and Venus rise to fame mainly and is not backward in showing Richard as a bit of an egotistical asshole who pushes and drives his kids to what they became.Many times you got the feeling it was all about Richard doing it for himself. The girls played a good part and Will Smith does a fine job as Richard.
I think that only JW`s and ex-JW`s would pick up from the movie that they were Jehovah`s Witnesses as it was really only alluded too in a couple of scenes.
One where Richard gives a mealtime prayer and mentions the name Jehovah ( the only time it is mentioned in the movie ) and when a coach is berating him for taking the girls away from practice to go to" church" as he called it and mentioned the" Hall" which would go over most peoples head.
If only 50% of this movie was fact it is well worth watching,I recommend it.
key scripture 2 timothy 3:16 should have been translated as “every scripture inspired of god is also profitable for teaching” like many other serious translations (such as american standard version ; douay-rheims bible etc) as it is what the greek text says.. this is in harmony with the contents of bible and also with the writer paul himself who knew after his departure ‘even from his own number men will arise and distort the truth.’ (acts 20:29-30) for example, verses such as romans 7:19 is such distortion.
such verses cannot originate from real paul who was “holy, righteous and blameless.” (1 thessalonians 2:10) hence paul had the freeness of speech to tell others to be “blameless” like him (1 thessalonians 5:19-23; ephesians 5:24) there are many things in the scriptures which are not inspired such as words of satan, words of job’s wife and his false friends, words of judas, lot’s daughters …etc.
apostle peter never disowned jesus because if he had done so, his contemporaries would have interrupted him when he rebuked jews, saying: “you disowned the holy and righteous one and asked that a murderer be released to you.“ (acts 3:14) his listeners would have asked him “what right do you have to reprove us for ‘disowning jesus” when you yourself have done it first?” all such verses or accounts were later adoptions.
Welcome Abraham1
,What I have experienced in the Christian religious faith is that people tend to cherry pick what scriptures they want to believe as inspired by God and reject other scriptures they don`t agree with as not being inspired by God.
You seem to belong to one of those people , am I right ?
How have you determined what scriptures are inspired of God in the Bible and those that are not ?
Do you not believe the whole "Bible" regardless of how many books are in it , is the word of God ?
Aren`t you in fact translating what you believe is the Bible , by cherry picking scriptures what is Gods word and what is not ?
catholic church killed off alot of christian books from the "offical" bible collection.
so why let thru the weird book of revelation?
have you read the watchtowers explanation it's a joke rutherford's conventions play a huge part..
What gets me is why do the JW`s religion accept what basically is a Catholic Bible in the first place,or even did what the CJCLDS did and add their own book?
Or maybe that was too much for them to do.
rutherford said:.
a few words like the above pronounced at the beginning of the study would be far more beneficial than to occupy the same time in singing songs, which often express much that is out of harmony with the truth of and concerning god's kingdom.watchtower/1938/may/1st/pg.139 .
back then, they had what was called: order of study, and this is what every overseer was instructed to say to the audience.. .
You learn something everyday on this forum thank you Atlantis.
here is an interesting skit of what would happen if a witness was transparent at your door.. https://youtu.be/b0koiba2kyq.
They can`t ever come out and proclaim that message ,because there would be no coming back from it.
They would be proclaiming their own doom ,and there is no way are they going to do that .
It`s a event like Armageddon that is never going to happen.
It`s on the never ever going to happen plan .Another carrot to keep the R&F in expectation of what`s to come.
the major topic of conversation was that almost all do not want to go back to the meetings and field service!
and we are talking very zealous and active witnesses!
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Ding ,and everybody else.who has a hearing ear including myself.
Sadly, soon most of them will have forgotten just as surely as they have forgotten 1975
Just as they did with 6000 years of human existence on earth in the late 1800`s ?
1914 Armageddon
Then 1918-19
1925 the faithful such as Abraham being resurrected to live in Beth Sarim ?
The second world war 1939-45 that was to usher in the new world
1975 was a re-adjusted date for the end of 6000 years of humans on earth when it would be an appropriate time for Jesus Christ to begin his 1000 year reign ?
The new system would be here by the end of the 20th Century ?
And here we are in 2021 with all of those false expectations not coming to pass what fools are we to believe anything that comes out of the mouths of any of the GB members of Jehovah`s Witnesses.
