jehovah's witnesses insist that jephthah did not sacrifice his daughter to jehovah.
this is important to them because, rarther than jephthah just being a random bad person, jehovah was very much in on the deal.
after all, he made the promise to jehovah that he would "offer up as a burnt offering" on his return the first thing to come out of his house if jehovah would give the ammonites into his hands in battle, and since they were this makes jehovah complicit.. the isrealites had been getting a good thrashing of late, and the gilead elders (oh boy) had come out to ask jephthah, the rejected son of a prostitute (wouldn't you know it) and renown soldier, if he would lead the isrealites into battle for them.. this is when jephthah makes the deal with jehobo, and it all centres on the word for "burnt offering", which is given as "olah".
Thanks eyeuse2badub. This is one verse to meditate and throw up
Judges chap 19 vs 29: When he reached his house, he took the slaughtering knife and took hold of his concubine and cut her up limb by limb into 12 pieces and sent one piece into each territory of Israel
And JWs proudly say that they don't watch R rated movies and hate violence.
I believe with all certainty that Jephthah's daughter was burnt alive or at least this is what the Bible means .
to the majority of people who investigate the activities of the wts from its beginning history there were obvious false proclamations and doctrines propagated by the wts.. a matter of fact the wts produced a long list of literature that posted proclamations on the front cover and went into detail of things that were suppose to happen, from jesus returning changing the world in which we live and so on.. wonderful things one might say but not factual or either theologically correct .
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Watchtower Corporation is a commercialized false prophet
As a first argument, there is nothing such as a "Prophet", because nobody can predict the future other than the Weatherman maybe , who in turn relies on science.
the life saving message of death and gloom brought to a town centre near to you!.
What a fine way to imitate Jesus.
Man Jesus, no body insults you like the JWs.
If we would ever show this picture to a JW, they would say its an apostate trick and neither of them are JWs
no early warnings or anything, just gone!
anyone else notice or are members there?
any info would be nice.
May be they returned to Jehovah. And all the angels including the little J rejoiced with a thundering applause, which I heard last week on a rainy day
Big J is speeding up his Chariot for sure.
had a couple of witnesses stop by yesterday to say the usual "we miss you, missed you at the meeting, just checking in on you, etc.
" i've always liked this guy so we spoke for a few minutes.
my wife said that they could count their time since i am inactive.
I am sure they count time for inactive ones by R&F. When I faded there were multiple brothers and sisters who tried to rekindle my spirit to serve the cult
Also a funny and silly thing. When I was in, I was advised to start my FS time by presenting a tract to anyone in my apartment parking lot before I get into the car for FS , so that the FS counter gets running all my way driving to the KH, for around 15 minutes
Jah has some pretty innovative and effective policies and standards.
seen in the 03/2018 watchtower study :.
"during the 2017 service year, more than 284,000 “rightly disposed” individuals symbolized their dedication to jehovah by water baptism.".
https://www.jw.org/en/publications/magazines/watchtower-study-march-2018/baptism-requirement-for-christians/.
Most of the numbers would be children (Of JWs), emotionally unstable or insecure or totally ignorant(who are not used to research on Internet)
Anyway, Let it grow. Religions would always grow as long as mankind is there. Happy that we all are no more wasting our life in it.
we want people to learn ttatt.
we have numerous resources online to draw jws in so that they will wake up.
however, i've noted some radical methods that have been used by fellow exjws, and quite frankly, this must stop.
Carla,
Exactly... You nailed it
the term jehovah’s witnesses sounded weird to me even when i was in that cult.
why does god need witnesses to prove his existence?
there is no need for anyone to create a movement called “suns witnesses” or “moons witnesses” – in order to prove its existence and glorify it, because the sun and moon are evident to every species on earth.
To be more precise, Jehovah (Originally YHWH) is not the correct pronunciation nor the spelling. An Almighty God couldn't even present his correct name down to generations.
And above all, this Almighty remained silent when his name was removed by his Enemies from his Holy book, until the WT could restore it.
Oh what a cock and Bull story.
we want people to learn ttatt.
we have numerous resources online to draw jws in so that they will wake up.
however, i've noted some radical methods that have been used by fellow exjws, and quite frankly, this must stop.
Stop harassing jws
My wife is still a JW,. I take every opportunity to make her think to get out of the cult. When any JW bump on to me with their nonsense, I eagerly participate to sow the seeds of truth in them, respectfully.
Just think about the number of children who were blindly sacrificed for the CULTS no blood doctrine. I personally know a JW who let his 10 month daughter die, refusing a plasma transfusion.
Now revisit your title.
the meeting this week is mind-blowing in the way it fuels the crippling "persecution complex" of witnesses!.
paragraph 1 set the theme with this gem:.
does it shock you that you can expect to face many tribulations before you gain the prize of everlasting life?
I was the Front seat witness for an elder preaching from the Podium like this
"If your life is going smooth, that means something is wrong and you are not doing enough for Jehovah"
What a sickening, twisted , insane mind thought.
