EverApostate

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  Please explain the Watchtower's "Ransom" for me

  by Doug Mason in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  according to the watchtower:.

  who received the ransom payment?.

  why did the ransomer need to be paid?.

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  EverApostate

  Also: How come people kept dying even after the ransom was paid?

  May be BigJ is living several million light years away and the ransom has not reached there yet.
  
  
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  Do you talk differently now to non-Witnesses?

  by compound complex in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  you, a jw:.

  "how're you doing, mary?

  " joe witness asks the grocery clerk.. "not so good, joe.

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  EverApostate

  I don't sneak in my conversation with "We are living in the last days". Very open minded and practical conversations now.
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  Work Christmas functions: Being a Bible Student (unbaptized)

  by rulehayl in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  hi all,i have been studying with the witnesses for more than 6 months and regularly attend both midweek & weekend meetings, and i am nearly at the end of the "bible teach" book.

  my boss is adamant i attend team christmas functions.

  she knows about my studying and potential baptism next year, and has suggested that i attend and just not participate in activities like kris kringle.

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  EverApostate

  Research about the WT and Bible. The truth will set you free, else you would end up serving a cult, professing to worship a god - which is an ancient imagination.

  Bitter truth is, this is the only life. Live it freely and happily.
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  "not doing well spiritually"

  by Introvert 2 in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  working late tonight i just thought this up : whenever we used to hear someone say " so and so is not doing well spiritually™ " or "not doing well in the truth™ " what it really means is they aren't doing well climbing the wtbts's corporate ladder or doing their beck and call following the herd cult thingy.

  been brought up before but had to share..feel free to add..

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  EverApostate

  Spiritually weak in JW terms = not doing much in FS, poor meeting attendance, Not blabbering like Oh Jah did this, Jah did that, isn't Jah wonderful…..

  Reality is, the spiritually weak is sensing that all or something is fake in this religion.

  When I was wakening, elders used to come and advise that I should be less materialistic and be more spiritual. I am the least materialistic but they had to blame it on me.
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  Please explain the Watchtower's "Ransom" for me

  by Doug Mason in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  according to the watchtower:.

  who received the ransom payment?.

  why did the ransomer need to be paid?.

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  EverApostate

  Disclaimer - I am not defending this idea as either rational or moral.

  I like that.
  
  
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  1975... the year that keeps on giving.

  by silentbuddha in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  so i recently moved back to my really really really small hometown in the south.

  it was the place that my parents moved to from a major city up north in the early 1970's.

  when we lived here times were very tough financially and i was always told that the reason we did not attend meetings was due to the fact that we had no car / no gas for the car / could not afford repairs for the years we were there.

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  EverApostate

  I was growing up as a high school boy in 1975 in a major city in India but never heard of this "Armageddon" or JW at all.

  So much of this "Good news would be preached in all the inhabited earth" thing.
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  Please explain the Watchtower's "Ransom" for me

  by Doug Mason in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  according to the watchtower:.

  who received the ransom payment?.

  why did the ransomer need to be paid?.

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  EverApostate

  No matter how hard I try to understand this "Jesus died for our sins", I couldn’t comprehend that. Sorry.

  
  
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  Please explain the Watchtower's "Ransom" for me

  by Doug Mason in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  according to the watchtower:.

  who received the ransom payment?.

  why did the ransomer need to be paid?.

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  EverApostate

  Ask any christian about why Jesus had to die and they will talk about how Jesus suffered the punishment for their sins

  So what was the outcome of Jesus death. Tangible things please.
  
  
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  Please explain the Watchtower's "Ransom" for me

  by Doug Mason in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  according to the watchtower:.

  who received the ransom payment?.

  why did the ransomer need to be paid?.

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  EverApostate

  A father had 2 sons. Eldest was wicked and youngest innocent. In order to Forgive the Eldest, he commands him to kill his younger brother in a gruesome manner. What a Dad.

  Despite the killing, the eldest son is not forgiven yet.

  That's Christianity.
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  So, is it the publicity, or act itself that "brings reproach on Jehovah's name"?

  by stuckinarut2 in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  as we all sadly know, a common expression used by the society and elders in cases of abuse, or scandals, is "if you talk about this, you will bring reproach on jehovah's name!".

  this is uttered in order to deter making something known.. but really, if it is a case of abuse, is not the act itself the thing that brings "reproach on jehovah"?.

  making it known is not the problem.. rather hiding it, or not disclosing it to authorities is the thing that brings reproach!.

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  EverApostate

  Famous car Company cover ups on failures are good Examples. They cover up until the body count rises and someone files a suit.