jehovahs witness

[reaganaut]

“My kid has more honor than your kid” - Klingon bumpersticker

[Godzilla]

Sounds very Klingon...

QISmaS botIvjaj 'ej DIS chu' botIvjaj

[ejonesie22]

[ejonesie22]

Be merry or I will kill you where you stand!

[ejonesie22]

Sadly, this is that child in the Obama economy...

[DJ MacWoW]

OMG it’s Linda. I always thought she dyed her hair!

[NoGrayZone]

"Jesus himself equated himself with the Father when he said “If you have seen me, you have seen the Father”, “I and the Father are One...”

You left out a big chunk of it. You can't cherry pic 1 or 2 sentences from entire versus' just to make your point.

Actually, you can, but you shouldn't. It's misleading.

I've looked at Bibles online and at my own for these versus' and they have different wordings, but the same meaning.

If anyone cares to, please read John 14:6-19 and come to your own conclusion.

It would be great to hear some responses!! I am certainly NO Bible scholar but I do enjoy hearing others speak of their Bible studies. I am always open to learn more about my Bible and Gods teachings. =)

[NoGrayZone]

"Neither Yahweh or Jehovah is the correct pronunciation of God’s name but both can be derived from the Tetragrammaton and are familiar to most readers so we come as close as we can with the information we have."

The way it was explained to me by the witness's during my Bible studies was this....

Think of a child when he first learns to speak and says your name for the first time (or forty, depending on your name). The child almost never gets it right and it usually comes out very cute. Are you overcome with joy that the child knows who you are and knows your name or do you scold the child for getting it wrong.

We are His children and I'm sure He gets the same joys from us that we get from ours.

[NoGrayZone]

"I’ve had 3 in my family."

Perhaps it was just those 3 in your family. I have known witness's and have studied the Bible with them and I will say, from personal experience, they are very very wary of "converts".

You just don't "convert" like you can in the Catholic, Lutheran and other denominations.

[oldfart]

Not guilty!! I didn’t give ‘em any kids.

[DJ MacWoW]

Perhaps it was just those 3 in your family.

In 3 different Kingdom Halls? No.

[NoGrayZone]

"In 3 different Kingdom Halls? No."

Perhaps 3 different Kingdom Halls, BUT the same family.

[DJ MacWoW]

Guess again. 2 of those people never met one another. And it was 2 different states.

[count-your-change]

Sounds like a pretty good explanation.

[NoGrayZone]

3 “in the family” and 2 never met one another? Okay.

[DJ MacWoW]

My S-i-L never met my D-i-L. Good grief kid! Anymore family relationships that you’d like to question?!

[FreedomOfExpression]

They get “brownie points” for bringing in converts. It’s the earn your salvation plan.

You must have misunderstood them. Ephesians 2:8-10 makes it perfectly clear that we cannot earn salvation, it is a free gift of God.
However, as pointed out in James 2:18-24 "...one will say: 'You have faith, and I have works. Show me your faith apart from the works, and I shall show you my faith by my works.'"
Faith is SHOWN by the works, the works themselves get you nowhere. Every Jehovah's Witness I know believes this.

The Witnesses are encouraged to share their faith and conduct Bible studies, if that's what you mean by brownie points.

[DJ MacWoW]

I misunderstood nothing. And I know a cult when I see one.

[NoGrayZone]

"My S-i-L never met my D-i-L. Good grief kid! Anymore family relationships that you’d like to question?!"

Nope, none at all. Please, continue.

[annieup]

the witnesses do believe that jesus is gods son, and i believe that way also. we do not believe that jesus and god are the same person.