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Matthew9969 got a reaction from Dmitar in They're better as a group, than they are individually - (observations from the outside)
How can Jehovah use your organization when you admit you are not inspired by the holy spirit?
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Matthew9969 got a reaction from Kick_Faceinator in They're better as a group, than they are individually - (observations from the outside)
How can Jehovah use your organization when you admit you are not inspired by the holy spirit?
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Matthew9969 reacted to xero in They're better as a group, than they are individually - (observations from the outside)
Let's cut to the chase. Opposers can go pound sand. Opposers wouldn't know squat about the Bible if there wasn't an organization to superintend its preservation and transmission to the present. Opposers wouldn't have known enough to bother with learning about the Bible were it not for organizations existing to push doctrine. Opposers can't exist without an organization to oppose. So nothing is useful about opposers. These exist as parasites feeding off the real or imagined deficiencies of organizations.
For them to become useful is to become yet ANOTHER organization from whom will rise yet more opposers.
But opposers are ultimately cowards and lazy as it's easy to complain and point out real or imagined deficiencies, but these either can't or won't do anything to do better.
We used to play a game called "smear the queer" (in the UK it's called British Bulldog) at lunch and only the cowardly kids would refuse to play by taking the ball and running w/it. Opposers are like that.
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Matthew9969 reacted to Patiently waiting for Truth in They're better as a group, than they are individually - (observations from the outside)
The Devil works in very clever ways. He does not always make people behave outwardly 'unruly / badly'.
The Devil can, as we have proof, pretend to be an angel of light.
But, you know, I know of Car enthusiasts that can work together as a group and organise huge meetings for all types of vehicles, and it all runs so smoothly. So what you are saying about JWs actually means nothing.
This is one of the things that is so funny about JWs. All the talk about everyone outside that 'mighty' Org being wicked or behaving badly. It's all such stupid talk by JWs. And you have given an excellent example in your last sentance.
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Matthew9969 got a reaction from Arauna in Odd things you learn (if these are true) when you read other things
How ocd of you.
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Matthew9969 got a reaction from Dmitar in A. MORRIS AND MONEY
I don't remember Noah demanding financial donations to build the ark and legal assistance for his sons.
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Matthew9969 got a reaction from Kick_Faceinator in Odd things you learn (if these are true) when you read other things
How ocd of you.
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Matthew9969 got a reaction from Witness in Adam and Eve, what they didn't know...
So not agreeing with the governing body is a sin worthy of death?
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Matthew9969 got a reaction from Patiently waiting for Truth in Adam and Eve, what they didn't know...
So not agreeing with the governing body is a sin worthy of death?
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Matthew9969 got a reaction from Patiently waiting for Truth in A. MORRIS AND MONEY
I don't remember Noah demanding financial donations to build the ark and legal assistance for his sons.
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Matthew9969 got a reaction from Witness in A. MORRIS AND MONEY
I don't remember Noah demanding financial donations to build the ark and legal assistance for his sons.
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Matthew9969 got a reaction from Kick_Faceinator in A. MORRIS AND MONEY
I don't remember Noah demanding financial donations to build the ark and legal assistance for his sons.
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Matthew9969 got a reaction from Kick_Faceinator in Adam and Eve, what they didn't know...
So not agreeing with the governing body is a sin worthy of death?
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Matthew9969 got a reaction from Srecko Sostar in Adam and Eve, what they didn't know...
So not agreeing with the governing body is a sin worthy of death?
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Matthew9969 reacted to Pudgy in Vaccine time
That’s what happens when you worship at the Church of Covid.
It’s blasphemy to disparage the holy vaccine, or it’s Prophets.
I can visualize a pro-abortion person chastising me for refusing “the shot”, with my reply being “My body,my choice!”, and see ifit short circuits their mind.
…….. Probably just get an oblivious blank stare.
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Matthew9969 reacted to Witness in Christ Divinity Explained in John 1:1c
The Father is the God of Truth (Isa 65:16)
Truth is the Word of God (Ps 119:160)
Jesus said, “I am the way, the truth, and the life”. John 14:6
“Sanctify them in the truth; your word is truth.” John 17:17
Jesus is the Word of God – the “Logos”. He represented God, speaking the Word of God to the nation of Israel. When God’s word reached the prophets and the kings, it was Jesus representing God as the Word/Logos.
“In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God”
Throwing the letter “a” in this scripture removes the entire spiritual meaning of the union, the oneness of truth, in God and His Son.
“I will remain in the world no longer, but they are still in the world, and I am coming to you. Holy Father, protect them by the power of[a] your name, the name you gave me, so that they may be one as we are one.” John 17:11
“I have given them the glory that you gave me, that they may be one as we are one” John 17:22
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Matthew9969 got a reaction from Patiently waiting for Truth in Can we talk sensibly about Disfellowshipping and shunning.
I changed my mind on Brussel Sprouts, hated them as a kid, now I love them!
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Matthew9969 got a reaction from Dmitar in Inside the brutal world of the Jehovah’s Witnesses
They will say it's persecution by Satan.
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Matthew9969 got a reaction from Patiently waiting for Truth in Inside the brutal world of the Jehovah’s Witnesses
They will say it's persecution by Satan.
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Matthew9969 got a reaction from Kick_Faceinator in Inside the brutal world of the Jehovah’s Witnesses
They will say it's persecution by Satan.
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Matthew9969 got a reaction from Witness in Inside the brutal world of the Jehovah’s Witnesses
They will say it's persecution by Satan.
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Matthew9969 got a reaction from ApostaBabe Linda James in Jehovah's Witnesses 'failed to act' over sex abuse claims
Just make sure you drain the body of blood first, that is very biblically important.
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Matthew9969 got a reaction from Dmitar in The 144k and the GB...gnostics?
“Nor is there salvation in any other, for there is no other name under heaven given among men by which we must be saved.” (Acts 4:12) “For there is one God and one Mediator between God and men, the Man Christ Jesus, who gave Himself a ransom for all …” (1 Timothy 2:5) “There is one body and one Spirit … one Lord, one faith, one baptism, one God and Father of all, who is above all, and through all, and in you all.” (Ephesians 4:4) Jesus said to him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me.” (John 14:6) “I am the door. If anyone enters by Me, he will be saved, and will go in and find pasture … I have come that they may have life, and that they may have it more abundantly.” (John 10:9) My church, Calvary Church this is what we believe and go by. It's not Calvary church that we turn to for salvation, it's not the building. We go straight to and through Jesus for our salvation. Which is a stark contrast to this bold statement:
"Come to Jehovah's organization for salvation" Watchtower 1981 Nov 15 p.212
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Matthew9969 got a reaction from Patiently waiting for Truth in The 144k and the GB...gnostics?
“Nor is there salvation in any other, for there is no other name under heaven given among men by which we must be saved.” (Acts 4:12) “For there is one God and one Mediator between God and men, the Man Christ Jesus, who gave Himself a ransom for all …” (1 Timothy 2:5) “There is one body and one Spirit … one Lord, one faith, one baptism, one God and Father of all, who is above all, and through all, and in you all.” (Ephesians 4:4) Jesus said to him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me.” (John 14:6) “I am the door. If anyone enters by Me, he will be saved, and will go in and find pasture … I have come that they may have life, and that they may have it more abundantly.” (John 10:9) My church, Calvary Church this is what we believe and go by. It's not Calvary church that we turn to for salvation, it's not the building. We go straight to and through Jesus for our salvation. Which is a stark contrast to this bold statement:
"Come to Jehovah's organization for salvation" Watchtower 1981 Nov 15 p.212
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Matthew9969 got a reaction from Srecko Sostar in The 144k and the GB...gnostics?
“Nor is there salvation in any other, for there is no other name under heaven given among men by which we must be saved.” (Acts 4:12) “For there is one God and one Mediator between God and men, the Man Christ Jesus, who gave Himself a ransom for all …” (1 Timothy 2:5) “There is one body and one Spirit … one Lord, one faith, one baptism, one God and Father of all, who is above all, and through all, and in you all.” (Ephesians 4:4) Jesus said to him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me.” (John 14:6) “I am the door. If anyone enters by Me, he will be saved, and will go in and find pasture … I have come that they may have life, and that they may have it more abundantly.” (John 10:9) My church, Calvary Church this is what we believe and go by. It's not Calvary church that we turn to for salvation, it's not the building. We go straight to and through Jesus for our salvation. Which is a stark contrast to this bold statement:
"Come to Jehovah's organization for salvation" Watchtower 1981 Nov 15 p.212