No Deeje - he asked a question about me - about why I am not a practicing JW any more and linked that question to JW standards of "immorality". You can twist it all you like, but he - and now you - should be thoroughly ashamed of your conduct (if not you presence) on this forum - if not, you are, frankly, no more Jehovah's Witnesses than I am - the only difference being I don't pretend to be any more.
I guess you have not pretended to be one for a very long time. You read my brother's reply and interpreted it through your own lens....I did not see it being accusatory, but he too asked a question. Perhaps he phrased it badly or you just took it the wrong way?
There you go again - what on earth does this comment have to do with anything if it is not a completely unfounded assumption about my reasons for not being a practicing JW any more? I did not leave anything in a huff - in fact I openly expressed my doubts to the elders - privately in my own home where they were - and are - still welcome (they know that very well). They were unable to answer my questions (they know that very well). However, they are civil and polite when we do happen to meet - and they kindly invite me to attend meetings again - and if I ever were to do so I know they would be welcoming and supportive. I did not leave in a huff and I have no reason to return with my tail between my legs either. The Watchtower and I do not see things eye to eye and I have explained that clearly to the elders and they were not able to help.
Where the questions really unanswerable? Or is it that you did not accept the answers? Not seeing eye to eye with Jehovah's representatives is nothing new. The Bible is full of people like that. What was the outcome for them? Tell me where else there is to go? Where are the ones that Jesus said would be preaching about God's Kingdom in all the inhabited earth, right up to the end of the present system? Who are they siti? Please tell us so that we can all join them.....
In the meantime, however, it has become apparent to me that even the WT today does not see eye to eye with the WT in the past years anyway.
We are not stuck in the past. As the light gets brighter, we see things with more clarity. "Food at the proper time" means that we get what we need, when we need it. Don't like the food? Try a different restaurant....have you found one?
This is what you would call the "light getting brighter" - but many people my age have abandoned educational and career opportunities (I didn't mind you), declined to have families (I did have a family), spent years in jail for refusing alternatives to military service (I was not required to make that choice) ...etc. etc...
What would educational or career opportunities have given them that God's service didn't? Money? Success? Would it buy them happiness? Many still opt for a simple life of service in preference to chasing after material things and being slaves to the corporate world. Who said you had to have a career and money to be successful?
Those who chose not to have children in order to devote more time to their ministry are showing full faith in the promises God has given us for the future. If it was a grudging sacrifice, then they wasted their time and their life according to you.
Those who spent time in jail for refusing military service would do it all again, just like our brothers in South Korea have for the last 60 years. Just recently the South Korean government has amended that law and allowed our brothers to opt for civilian service instead of going to jail for years. I assure you that their time in prison was not wasted. They too would do it all again.
If people are looking for excuses not to serve Jehovah, then he will let them find as many as they wish.
Did you ever think that it might be God screening people out rather than them deciding not to stay in the congregation?
And that is precisely why I am asking
@Hockeycowboy for the scriptural basis of his belief that people who died thousands of years ago will be resurrected with their memories restored.
I think that was answered adequately. What would be the point of resurrecting anyone who was not 'themselves'?....who had no memory of who they were, or who their family members were?
I'm sorry, but it was a dumb question IMO. We answered it anyway. Just Job's word are enough. At the
"O that in Sheol you would conceal me, that you would keep me secret until your anger turns back, that you would set a time limit for me and remember me!" (Job 14:13) Who was he asking God to remember? A stranger who was wearing Job's body?
There is no such indication in scripture, just as there is no indication in scripture that people who were alive and cognizant of the events happening in 1914 would see the end of this system - but the WT taught that - I was taught that by an elder in my home bible study - I taught that from the platform in the congregation - how wrong I was!
Does it really matter? In the big scheme of things, it matters only to the anointed. It alters nothing for me. There have been a couple of clarifications on this issue, but I can't say that it matters to me at all because I was never one who was terribly interested in dates anyway. God will do whatever his will dictates and in the time he chooses. All I have to do is be ready for the big event....whenever that happens to be. What about you?
Neither of you have answered the question at all - between you, you have not yet cited one verse of scripture that supports the unfounded assumption that people will be resurrected with their memories restored.
I think we did. If you think we didn't, then I can see why you left and never came back. Who can reach you? It seems as if you have your mind made up and no one can change it. So be it.
I am not opposing anything - I am admitting how wrong I was to believe it in the first place.
You are not opposing anything?
I have not seen you post very much in the way of positive things, so I guess it has to be the word according to siti then, is that it?
) could not bring themselves to stop exploring their sexuality. A few "saw the error of their ways" and sheepishly resumed their places in the congregation - most were either disfellowshipped or disassociated themselves (officially or unofficially).