Posted on 07/22/2008 9:17:32 AM PDT by TightyRighty
"Before I converted to Christianity, I was a Jehovah's Witness. In 1993, my mother was dying from diabetic complications. My sister was heavy into drugs, and we would have to go and get her from crack houses. I was in a very physically abusive relationship. I was sleeping with a lot of guys and had more abortions than I would like to count. I had very low self-esteem and just wanted to die. I felt if someone killed me, it wouldn't even make a difference. But God showed me that it would make a difference," she told the glossy.
(Excerpt) Read more at blackvoices.com ...
oh goodie another crackpot joins the view. oh boy. i know she got saved “from” something....but what did she get “saved” to....
God forgives. Thank Heaven for Salvation. Glad to hear she came around. Abortion damages more than just the fetus.
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Why would someone sleep with that porkbeast?
Actually I think the JWs oppose abortion. They may make an “allowance” if the mother’s life is at risk, however.
No, they don’t think abortion is OK. On the other hand, like a lot of other religious folks, they don’t always follow the path.
Would make a better read if it said "Before I converted to Christianity, I was a Jew/Buddhist/etc."
JW are Christians.
THe headline is very misleading. THis has nothing to do with the TV show the view.
It is an article on the website for Black Voices. Black Voices has an interview section called Candid View.
The article is not about her support for abortion but about her conversion to Christianity.
The title you choose does not give that impression at all.
And to God be the Glory for changing and enlightening this woman’s heart and life.
I stand corrected. She is on the View. But I still think it is more about her conversion than her being on the TV show. Though why any Christian would want to participate in that dreck is beyond me.
I put “The View” in the title because I don’t think many people know who Sherri Shepherd is.
No on the abortion question as has always been their position.
You sir are not well informed
Yeah, that birth control thingy is just sooooo hard. Whine, whine.
Apparently keeping her pants on was too difficult for her to master also.
Yeah, that birth control thingy is just sooooo hard. Whine, whine.
Apparently keeping her pants on was too difficult for her to master also.
Whoopi Goldberg has had more abortions than she can remember (no joke, she says it was 6 or 7 and that she lost count).
Would make a better read if it said “Before I converted to Christianity, I was a Jew/Buddhist/etc.”
JW are Christians.
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Now you’ve gone and done it.
Yet we hear over and over from the pro abort crowd that abortion is not being used as a form of birth control.
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jehovah's Witnesses
Jehovah's Witnesses are members of a restorationist[1][2] Christian denomination of the same name.
Maybe not -
Identification of the religion as Christian is disputed due to rejection of the Trinity, which most Christian religions regard as a fundamental doctrine.
I think I will leave it to a higher authority to make the call.
Oh, more than just a few, it would seem: "I was sleeping with a lot of guys and had more abortions than I would like to count."
Apparently her panties have been on more floors than Johnson's Mop and Glo.
“JW are Christians.”
Christians follow Christ. Which means you must believe what he said about Himself. He claimed to be God. “I and the Father are one.” “Before Abraham was, I AM.” The Pharisees repeatedly wanted to stone Him for such claims. They knew what He was claiming.
In John chapter one, He is called “The Word”. “The Word was with God, and the word was God.” In Revelation chapter 19, it says that the returning Jesus is “The Word of God”. So there is no mistake about who this is.
If you do not follow Christ, you are NOT a Christian. JWs do not believe that Jesus is God.
They predicted that Jesus would return and usher in His kingdom in 1914. (Incidentally, the Bible says when Christ returns, His feet will touch a mountain in the Mideast and it will shatter so loudly the whole world will hear it.) When nothing happened in 1914, they declared that Christ had returned “secretly”. They have upped the date of His return several times since 1914, and missed it several times. Since the Bible says that if a prophet makes any error in interpreting prophecy, he is not speaking for God, you can draw your own conclusions.
Seriously, if anyone is visted by a nice set of helpful clean-cut people, the above is the first thing you should ask, because you won't find out about these things in the normal flow of a visit. Kind of like someone handing you counterfit money that looks real good, and then you point out, "hey, this is printed in orange ink and two inches too large." It will save time.
You beat me!
I’m with you. My answer is always the same — of course I didn’t see what happened on “The View” today. Even the ‘poor Elisabeth Hasselbeck’ posts kind of mystify me. She shouldn’t be wasting her time, either, but at least she gets paid.
Sleeping around (indeed, premarital or extramarital sex of any type), abortions and drugs are most definitely not allowed to JWs. Unlike most denominations, those who break the rules unrepentantly are kicked out, so if you meet a JW they aren’t doing such things, at least not openly.
The JW position on the Trinity is essentially identical to that of the Arians, an early Christian sect that lost out to the Trinitarians when the Roman political authorities backed them. Those who think that a good case from the Bible for Arian theology can’t be made just haven’t studied the subject except from their own point of view. I’m not saying they are right, merely that there are passages that support Arian theology as well as those that support “traditional” Christian doctrine.
I will say that the Bible is remarkably oblique in its passages supporting the Trinity. One would think God could have easily just flat out defined the Godhead instead of requiring one to “read between the lines” to such a great extent.
Interestingly, Isaac Newton was a secret Arian.
There are several other Christian denominations that teach Arian or sorta-Arian doctrins.
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