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!!
If they’re going door to door anyway why don’t they also
deliver the mail and save the gubmint millions of $$$$?
Just an idea in these fiscally disasterous times.
Your caps-lock key is stuck and your spell check is broken.
Oh, and you’re in a cult too.
No more of that for us. We build a 7 foot fence down the front of the property with an iron gate system. Not one solicitor or JW or Mormon since we installed it. A big dog works too.
Gee, Saundra.
Do ya think it’s really a good idea to insert your Mormon sympathies in this JW zot thread?
I’m here to tell ya... Most folks see no difference between these two cults. So if you want to open your religion to ridicule also, why not turn that cap lock key on and post your own thread?
While I disagree with your doctrine and specifically the shunning, I will say that the Witnesses that I have known and worked with have been some of the finest, most honest people I have ever known, and I will pray on our ThuRsday prayer list that they and you will be led to find Christ’s grace.
May I venture a guess that you're a big fan of Don Martin (as I am)?
I remember a panel with two guys walking down a city street where they find that Joe Fonebone had been run over by a steam roller. They pick him up and fold him and then meet a guy rounding the corner with a sweatshirt labeled "Near-Sighted Strong Men's Club" who pictures the folded-up Joe as a telephone book to rip apart...which he does.
To me, that was one of the all-time funniest Don Martin cartoons.
PLEASE STOP STOP
YOU HAVEN’T STOPPED YET STOP
STOP STOP FOR THE LOVE OF JEHOVAH STOP STOP
STOP END MESSAGE
Oh, no... THere are many religions nuttier: Scientology, Mormonism, and whatever that stuff Iscool is always preaching about as if it were Christianity.
They pop up every once in a while when a child dies because their JW parents refused a blood transfusion. Plus, Michael Jackson went through a brief JW phase, and that was worth a mention or two in the press.
I shared a house back in college with a guy that had a dog. We lived out in the country down a long driveway. Friends would come over, knock on the door and the dog wouldn’t bark (even if they just kocked and walked in). For strangers, the dog would bark once or twice as they were coming down the driveway to let you know someone was coming.
Except for the Jehovah’s Witness folks. They would come down the drive and that dog would start barking non-stop. By the time they kocked on the door she would be barking, growling, snarling right at the door - had to hold her by the collar to keep her from going through the screen. That happened 3 or 4 times in the two years I was there. REALLY weird!
Even the Mormons just got the 2 bark response!
The Johovah’s Witnesses deny the DEITY of The Lord Jesus Christ, the Second Person of The Trinity, and the only Lord and Saviour of the world.
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.
Joh 3:16 For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.
Joh 3:17 For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved.
Joh 3:18 He that believeth on him is not condemned: but he that believeth not is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God.
I don’t know about you, but that pretty well clinches it for me!
I think he meant "Babdiss."
Any religion that says that works will get you to heaven is a cult.
I have nothing against the JW group. Heck, I even led a couple of them astray in my younger days. Most of them though, are good, decent people. They believe differently than I do but so do Methodists and I’m married to one of those. Occasionally a couple of them come by to try to talk me into going to their meetings and I just smile, thank them for their concern and tell them no.
Sometimes I wonder what ever happened to those two girls....
IBTZ, For the first time ever!
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