After leaving the JW cult, I did search for any truth I may be missing and found that:
what do you sincerely think?
do you nurture any hope?.
I was raised up as a Protestant. Had muddled up thinking's about heaven and hell and eternal life.
Became a JW and was in for 11 years. Things seemed to get clarified but I always had doubts about God, heaven, eternal life and so on....
Quit JW. Researched a lot about Bible and other religions and found everything to be Bunk.
Evolution is the only thing that makes sense to me now. Living things are born and they die.
Closely watching nature would nail the fact that once a creature dies, that is the end of it, for it. Gone for eternity.
it's almost 2018, almost 100 years since 'judge' rutherford confidently prophesied that 'millions now living will never die!'..
so how many of those millions are left?
well, since it was 100 years ago, all we need to do is find out how many people of age 100 and above are currently living.
Rutherford was talking about the heavenly creatures. Wont be surprised if WT spins it like this.
i have friends who are called "worldly people" by jws.
these people are actively involved in feeding the homeless over christmas.
managing thrift shops so they can send financial aid overseas to poorer children.
When I was in, this was one sickening advise I received from elders and fellow JWs.
"Instead of helping the poor and needy, give it to the WT which would provide a permanent solution for the problem"
I couldn't swallow it even then.
...if carol singers are arrested under anti-conversion laws?.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-india-42363561.
These are very isolated incidents that come up occasionally. I had been a Protestant and a JW in India and never came across any "Persecutions" like these.
However there are some areas where we need to be careful while preaching. Kingdom halls are not as spacious and comfortable as in the developed world.
JW FS is very tough in India. You need to talk a lot, unlike in USA.
People hear what you say and most of them even invite you inside their homes as a sign of hospitality. Baptism is very hard though.
the life saving message of death and gloom brought to a town centre near to you!.
Cool FS. Seems getting eternal life is so easy now. Thinking of joining again with a re-baptism.
inspired by this weeks clam article which again "reminds" the brothers pdf their obligation/privilege to donate "voluntarily" i have complied a list of articles or videos in the last 5 years where donations are indeed solicited or encouraged.
the society may argue that these are not actual solicitations because no plate was passed around.
but a donation box is just a more discrete and subtle version of the plate.
During my Protestant Church membership, the sextant would come home to collect the membership fee for my family. We cannot avoid that. In addition there would be a passing of plate in every service, for money.
In that manner the WT is far better.
many people of all denominations are beginning to believe that hell does not exist - but the bible supports the claim that it does.
examine this verse, one under nkjv and the other nwt:.
nkjv - matthew 25:46, "and these will go away into everlasting punishment, but the righteous into eternal life.".
Great Point. Next time I should ask a JW, the meaning of kolasin and its context in Matthew.
The Bible for sure talks about Hell but the WT tries hard to cover it up.
“for behold, i create new heavens and a new earth, and the former things shall not be remembered or come into mind.. i need some help with this please guys and gals.
what is this implying?
god will wipe those past memories, the past system of things from our minds?
_Morpheus , My statement above was Sarcastic. Religions are nothing but funny. Anyway thanks for the validation.
“for behold, i create new heavens and a new earth, and the former things shall not be remembered or come into mind.. i need some help with this please guys and gals.
what is this implying?
god will wipe those past memories, the past system of things from our minds?
I am terrified that my still-in wife's memory about me would be wiped off.
