Posted on 12/21/2009 12:08:37 PM PST by annieup
FIRST OF ALL THE WITNESSES ARE NOT A CULT. THAT OPINION WAS FORMED BY SOMEONE THAT OBVIOUSLY FEELS THREATNED BY THE TRUTH.IT AMAZES ME THAT WHENEVER A WITNESS DOES SOMETHING WRONG IT MAKES THE FRONT PAGE OF THE NEWS! IF A BABTIST OR PROTESTANT DOES SOMETHING WRONG IT HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH THEIR RELIGION. AND THIS BIG COVER UP GARBAGE IS A JOKE. ADMITTEDLY THEY ARE NOT PERFECT NOR CLAIM TO BE. MATT 24:9 SAYS THAT WE WOULD BE OBJECTS OF HATRED ON ACCOUNT OF HIS NAME. WHAT OTHER RELIGION IS HATED ON ACCOUNT OF HIS NAME? ONLY 1 THAT I CAN THINK OF THE WITNESSES PROUDLY GLORIFY JEHOVAHS NAME. ALSO WE ARE NOT PROGRAMMED. WE HAVE FREE WILL,GOD DOES NOT WANT ROBOTS, THAT IS WHY HE GAVE ADAM AND EVE FREE WILL. AND WE DO BELIEVE IN JESUS. HE IS GODS SON AND HE DID GIVE HIS LIFE FOR OUR SINS. I ALSO GET A KICK OUT OF THOSE WHO TELL US WHAT WE BELIEVE, ESPECIALLY IF IT ISN'T TRUE. PEOPLE JUST MAKE UP WHAT THEY WANT ABOUT THE WITNESSES AND THE NAIVE ONES BELIEVE IT. IF IT IS TRUE THEN LOOK INTO WHY WE BELIEVE WHAT WE DO. DONT JUST ASSUME TO KNOW EVERYTHING THAT THEY TEACH OR BELLIEVE BASED ON SOMEONE ELSE'S OPINION. TALK ABOUT HAVING A MIND OF YOUR OWN!!
Oh fun! Cheer very loudly for me. I’ve gotten confused with the swapping and sponsorship of these bowls, though. Is the “Outback Bowl” the former “Gator Bowl”?
Since JW’s are pacifists and tend to be apolitical, I strongly suspect that “annieup” is either a second account for a freeper or just someone trying to divert RF members from the usual topics.
Pronounce that last name again for me...
Now THAT makes a lot of sense.
Auditioning for the Nairobi Trio.
Wow. Second Nairobi Trio reference I’ve run into in as many weeks. One more and I’m gonna be very nervous....
I have “Cult Watch” by John Ankerberg and John Weldon. It covers New Age, Spirit Guides, Astrology, Mormonism, the Occult, Jehovah’s Witnesses, Masonry, and False teaching of the church.
GOOD POINT. I NEVER DO EITHER.
V-O-N-F-R-A-N-K-E-N-S-T-E-I-N...
He has a weird laugh, but otherwise pleasant bedside manner.
Oh NOW you did it! She’ll have to contact the high muckie muck so he can tell her how to refute all that.
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Sadly, too often people in “high control groups” (cults), do not bother to research the questions posed to them, they just go “well it makes me feel good, so it MUST be true”. Add to that the fear of punishment that comes with questioning authority in those situations.
Act 4:12 Neither is there salvation in any other: for there is none other name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved.
They have their own bible just as the Mormons have their own and just as the Catholics have their unbiblical 'tradition'...
So quoting scripture means nothing to them...
Bout all that can be done is to pray for them and try to help others from falling into the same trap...
May I join you? I can do a great Sgt. Schultz!
Other posts have been funny bit yours made me LOL.
Other posts have been funny but yours made me LOL.
LOL!
He’s getting old. 15 or 20 years ago, he would have talked you INTO it.
Pleased to see that you are ecumenical ;)
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I am no bigot. I oppose ALL cults. :)
Uh oh.
Yep.
Wikipedia claims that Russell had never claimed to know Greek, but in two different books I read on Jehovah’s Witnesses quoted from the court transcript of a libel trial in Canada where he claimed on the stand that he could read Greek, then recanted when the attorney handed him some Greek text and asked him to read it out loud. He was a con man.
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