Posts by reaper

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Feb KM - Jesus' ransom

by Bumble Bee in

reflecting upon what the ransom means for us personally intensifies our heartfelt love for god and his son and motivates us to exert ourselves in doing god's will.gal.

gal 2:20 (nwt).

i am impaled along with christ.

So many scriptures were glossed over when we were in the 'mind numbing' borg. When we read the same scriptures with the Holy Spirit guiding us, we now realise that those verses apply to ALL Born Again believers.

In that latest book you put on the forum, it quoted Philippians 2, and yet they totaly ignored the fact that Paul was saying that EVERY knee would bend or bow to Jesus who has been given a name ABOVE every other name.

They put Jesus down all the time, by that type of writing, instead of praising and honouring the King.

The Mediatorship issue really amazes me, when virtually every JW will say his/her Mediator is Jesus, and yet the Society say he's only the Mediator between the anointed class and Yahweh. So the rank and file do not even know they are being decieved.

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If we forgive everyone who sins against us, does that not free us from sin?

by DavidChristopher in

i mean, is that not like having a free pass to do as you please?

as long as you freely forgive, when people sin against you, then does that mean our father will forgive us 99 times when we sin against him?.

sure wouldn't be hard to convince people to obey that command would it?

reaper

Forgiveness is all about US. If we do not forgive the vilest of crimes against us or someone we love, we will carry it with us all our lives and it will destroy us eventually.

Hate for anyone will eat us up. It is a proven fact that our emotions can destroy our cellular structure, and ALL negative emotions are stored in the lymbic system, which is a part of the thalamus gland. Everything we have ever seen, heard, smelt, touched etc is stored in our lymbic system. Therefore hate, unforgiveness, jealosy etc which can be taught from infancy are stored in the lymbic and can affect our whole life. We have delicate energetic systems within our bodies, which can become unbalanced and have devastating effects on our lives.

So my comments on saying 'only saying sorry' is not enough if we don't mean it. Forgiveness has to be REAL. But what I did say, was forgiving terrible crimes against us is difficult, but not impossible. Jesus said that his food was to do the will of the Father, which was to show LOVE to everyone. So that is what he looks for, in us.

We met a Christian couple who forgave the murderers of their Son. The gang of youth kicked him to death, but they forgave them, and even write to one of them who is still in jail. People have committed terrible things because of the hate they are fed on, but if they are shown love, they often change.

Therefore I leave ALL judging to the only one who knows our hearts, Yeshua the King and Saviour of mankind.

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Creatiolution. This could be the answer.

by Spectrum in

this is a continuation of a discussion i've had with abaddon.

we were at loggerheads in the beginning but i'm coming round to his way of thinking to a certain extent.

i still haven't given up my belief in an intelligent creator but at the same time there is evidence for evolution which cannot be discounted.

reaper

And I was also beginning to believe in the Millions of years stuff as well. But since listening to Ken Ham, I now believe that we were created by an intelligent designer and death only came about since the fall. Try looking at the other possiblitiy from Ken Ham and you will be surprised, thats if you have an open mind.

He can answer all the grabage about Neandrathal Man and all the other Humans that have been found. Try reading his site.

The trouble with being raised a JW, we were taught death and more death. We were taught lies and fabrications about creation.

In November we stayed in a big Stately Home, which is now a Hotel, and we stayed in room 326.

This week we went to the same Hotel and was given room 326, and we never asked for the same room. There are over 900 rooms in that place.

Then on Wednesday we travelled over a 100 miles to another old ancient house that King Henry the 8th stayed in, and what room were we given?

Number 326. That Hotel has over 800 rooms.

Coincidence? I don't think so. God lets us know things if we LISTEN to him. We will be looking out for the 3rd of Februray 06 or 26th March 06.

The mathmatical odds for the same room number is astronomical.

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If we forgive everyone who sins against us, does that not free us from sin?

by DavidChristopher in

i mean, is that not like having a free pass to do as you please?

as long as you freely forgive, when people sin against you, then does that mean our father will forgive us 99 times when we sin against him?.

sure wouldn't be hard to convince people to obey that command would it?

reaper

Rather a trite comment David. Is it really easy to forgive someone who has just killed your son or daughter? Is it easy to forgive the people who just raped your 12 day old baby? Is it easy to forgive the people who have just bombed your whole street and killed your Mum and Niece (exactly what happened to my Mum)?

Saying sory to someone is NOT forgiving that person. The two Guys who raped and murdered the young girl in Thailand said sorry and were laughing about it, until they were sentenced to death.

The whole object of Jesus Ministry was to teach a better vway, and that way was love and forgiveness. In fact I find it very hard to forgive the evil people of this world even though I am a Christian. I find it difficult to forgive the WT Society for lying to my Mum & Dad over 50 years ago and telling them that they will never die. But if I am to be different to their Satanic Organisation I must forgive up to 490 times, not 99. 70 X 7 = 490.

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Do JW's consider Jesus to be their saviour?

by Bumble Bee in

this coming from a person raised "in the truth".. recently i shared a scripture with my sister - she is ill and will have to have some pretty serious surgery.

i shared isa 53:4,5 with her.

(this is the niv version for those that don't have a bible handy.).

reaper

In order to answer who God is, we need to go right back to Eden before the fall. The God who created everything was and is the Word or Logos, as John 1:1 clearly tells us. The creator God actually walked with Adam in the garden, and conversed directly with him. When Adam rejected Gods love and protection he was thrown out of the garden and the ground was cursed.

However God is not just one person as is clearly taught in Genesis, when God said 'let us make man in our image' (Elohim plural). So it is obvious that the Father God is the one who designs everything and causes everything to come about. The 'Word' was the person of the Godhead who went out and completed all that the Father had commanded or SPOKE (The Word).

The Holy Spirit is also God, and is the other person of God who accomplishes things, by acting on behalf of the Father through the Word who became flesh and we know as Yeshua (Jesus).

Yeshua when on this Earth as a human, said that He is the Way the Truth and the Life, meaning that he was the WAY God created ALL things, that he always speaks the TRUTH and he is the Only LIFE. Since he came to Earth and allowed himself to be slain by mere men, he paved the WAY to the Father in order to achieve reconcilliation with him.

I believe that Yeshua was also YHWH of the OT and the reason I believe that is because the Father cannot deal with sinful mankind directly.

That is why the WT Society, Islam, Judiasim and any other faith who do not admit that Yeshua is the only way, cannot approach the Father directly, or at all.

In the case of many JWs, I believe that they really think that Yeshua is their Mediator and Ransom saviour, but because the CULT keeps them away from Yeshua they are always depressed or frustrated. Most JWs do not even realise that the WT deny that Yeshua is the Mediator for ALL MANKIND and teach that he is only the Mediator for the 144,000. That is why I always felt EMPTY when I went to Memorials, because I wanted to partake of the bread and wine.

So the WT actually keep their SUBJECTS away from the Lord Yeshua.

HE THAT KNOWS YESHUA KNOWS THE FATHER ALSO. WITHOUT YESHUA, THERE IS NO POINT TO ANYTHING. YESHUA IS GODS LOVE MADE MANIFEST TO SINFUL MANKIND

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5 minute guide to knowing if Jehovah's Witnesses have the truth

by jwfacts in

i have just posted a new article at http://www.jwfacts.com/index_files/5min.htm that is copied below.

can you please check it and make any suggestions?

a few bits may not make total sense as they are links to other pages in the website.

reaper

Yes in modern Watchtowers, they have sometimes slyly inserted MAY instead of WILL. They are so crafty, they think people don't notice. But some of us did, and realised what deceivers they are.

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5 minute guide to knowing if Jehovah's Witnesses have the truth

by jwfacts in

i have just posted a new article at http://www.jwfacts.com/index_files/5min.htm that is copied below.

can you please check it and make any suggestions?

a few bits may not make total sense as they are links to other pages in the website.

reaper

I think Rutherfraud wrote Millions Now Living Will Never Die around 1918/19, and that is when he started of on his weird ideas of the Faithful Men of Old being brought back to California. Why on Earth would God resurrect them back to the US instead of their homeland?

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Can a divorcee remarry scripturally?

by rootofallevil in

i have been visiting this board for the last six months and it has opened my eyes!.

i feel like i was tricked into this religion - since 1975.

i would like to say thanks to all who post on this forum.

reaper

The Society still do not allow a Divorce except on the grounds of Pornei, which is interpreted by them as ANY SEXUAL ACT with ANY other person of either sex.

So oral sex, homosexualality, bestiality or any other sexual act is grounds for a Divorce. I know this is the case, as I was an Elder for many years, and had to learn all of this stuff at Elders Schools.

They were more interested in Legalities than the Grace of God.

I know a Guy who married and they were both JWs, after a few weeks she left him and moved back home. He could not get a Divorce and stayed with the Cult because he was too proud to let her have her own way.

Thankfully after we left, we managed to get him to see he was wasting his life, and eventually he left the cult and is now at Univesity studying Medicince.

He is also going ahead with a Divorce and now has a Bulgarian Girlfriend.

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Babilonian captivity VS Jerusalem destruction

by Shazard in

read ezekiel 40:1 in the twenty-fifth year of our exile, at the beginning of the year, on the tenth of the month, in the fourteenth year after the fall of the cityon that very day the hand of the lord was upon me and he took me there.

--- one verse showing that babilonian captivity is not the same as jerusalem destruction.

ofcourse if we start to count the 70 years from babilonian invasion into whole region (jeremia is talking about whole region not only jersualem and even not only judea)

reaper

There is nothing like an Ostrich who sticks his head in the sand when the game is up. Scholar (what a joke) Scholar of what? All he does is parrots WT false calculatations, pretty much like a GUY polishing the brass plaque on the Titanic.

He makes stupid statements such as 1914 was the most significant year in world events. The most important dates in world events, were the birth of Jesus Christ and his death and resurrection in 33AD, something the WT hardly ever talks about.

The WT are far more interested in dates than Jesus BIRTH, DEATH & RESURRECTION. They NEVER talk about the Grace of God, or the precious BLOOD of Jesus. Its all THE KINGDOM, or NEW WORLD ORDER (Illuminatii talk) or a new world of a 1000 years, very similar to Hitlers boast.

How on earth can the WT PROVE that the Heavens were cleansed on Satan & His Demons in 1914?

They obviously CANNOT prove it Biblically, because Satan had control of the Earth from mankinds fall. Once Adam rejected Gods authority, he gave permission to satan to control this Earth. That is why Satan IS the ruler of this world as the Bible tells us.

So nothing the WT state about end times starting in 1914 has any relevance to Gods plan of salvation. Again Jesus said, that if we believe that Jesus is the Christ, we are SPIRIT BEGOTTEN. But the WT totally miss that out, and prefer to keep their subjects in darkness.

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I'm new here and have lots of questions

by jaada in

hello, i am new to this board, i am not a jehovahs witness however i studied with them for years, i went out into service a couple of times, but i havent done anything in 4 years.

i am so confused.

i always have been scared of the last days thing, but i could never accept the fact that while i was in the meetings, my husband and parents were all at home and the witnesses would tell me that unless they changed and started coming to the meetings that they would be killed!

reaper

As we were with the JWs for 50 years, my wife was always terrified of Armageddon, and never thought she would go through (She had been sexually abused when she was only 8 by her JW brother in law), even though she is one of the most spiritual persons I know, but she had all of the guilt and trauma in her brain. She also has those kind of powers you were talking about, and when we left the JWs she had a few Mediums try to get her involved with their type of work. We were running a Complementary Medicine Clinic until around 18 months ago, so she was treating all sorts of people. We had started to get involved with the New Age type of thing, crystals etc. Then I started listening to tapes by Dr Wayne Dyer, and realised that the JWs had been a ROCK on our backs. My wife described it like 2 concrete blocks one on each shoulder.

What I realised from listening to Wayne and others, was that Jesus Christ was the most important person to ever live on this Earth, So after being out of the WT for around 2 years, we started to meet some Born Again Christians who showed us 'unconditional love' and that is when our life turned around.

We have been BA Christians for just over 3 years now, and we love being in love with Jesus. My wife no longer has ANY fear of END TIMES, which we still believe is near. But as Christians we now know that we are NOT saved by what we do, only by accepting Jesus as our saviour. She now has lots of prayer by our Christian Brothers & Sisters for all of the baggage she had as a JW, and we are also on the prayer team ourselves, and pray for others.

So as you can see we have been through similar situations, and wasted most of our lives in the WT, OR DID WE?

Maybe God will use our experiences to help others?