Posted on 07/17/2011 1:47:49 AM PDT by Cronos
God wants to see my grandchildren.
You went away and left long time ago
Now your knocking on my door
I hear you knocking
But you can’t come in
I hear you knocking
Go back where you been
I begged you not to go but you said goodbye
Now your telling me all your lies
I hear you knocking
But you can’t come in
I hear you knocking
Go back where you been
You better get back to your used to be
‘Cause your kind of love ain’t good for me
I hear you knocking
But you can’t come in
I hear you knocking
Go back where you been
I told you way back in ‘52
That I would never go with you
I hear you knocking
But you can’t come in
I hear you knocking
Go back where you been
Well, I’m glad THAT’s settled!
They’re just a bunch of brainwashed, exclusionary bigots who have left a wake of psychologically damaged current and former members. There are 6 very active ex member forums which talk about the emotional, verbal and sometimes even physical and sexual abuse in that church in great detail.
Anybody joining that church in the era of the internet deserves what they get.
For those who don’t know, Jehovah’s Witnesses don’t believe that the saved go to Heaven when they die. They believe that your souls of the believers sleep until the Lord returns, and then they will be resurrected to live in the New World.
Most Baptists believe, “to be absent from the body is to be present with the Lord” 2nd Corinthians 5:8.
One morning, a pair of JW appeared at the doorstep of a good ole boy Baptist friend of mine. They went around and around on a couple Bible verses, when my friend stopped all the talk and said, “Wait, wait. Let me ask you somethin’. If you was to die today, do you know for sure that you’d go go Heaven?”
Well, the JW’s answered immediately in the negative, because that’s what their dogma teaches.
At that, my buddy replied, “Well that’s the first thing you’ve said that I can agree with.”
I remember the song so well I can hear Fats singing it but I am so tired of seeing people write your when they mean you’re. Your is possessive, you’re is a contraction of you are. Is English not taught any more?
‘zackly.
They used to come to my house all the time. Then I was trying on my Whermacht Uniform for a reenactment one sunday morning when they came knocking. They were a little dismayed to see a WW2 German Solider at the door and havent been back since.
LOL!
In spite of its many failed prophecies, the Jehovah’s Witness organization teaches that it is the only true religion, and that only its members are true Christians. It claims that no one can learn spiritual truth apart from them. It also teaches that there is salvation only in joining their organization and everyone but Jehovah’s Witnesses will be destroyed at Armageddon.
The Jehovah’s Witnesses organization demands that its members obey and accept, unquestioningly, every command and biblical interpretation given by the organization. The leaders use fear and intimidation to keep members obedient to the organization. The leaders of the Jehovah’s Witnesses have also used their predictions of the end of the world to put fear into the hearts of their followers.
Your post triggered two vignettes:
1) Sitting on my porch in Florida when two young girls are dropped off by a car and come up and start their JW spiel. I ask them if they are witnessing and they say "Yes". I listen for a few minutes and then start my spiel about how I believe in the Twelfth Planet. :-) After a minute or so, with eyes as big as saucers (He's going to change form!") they said "We have to go now." and fled back to the car. Never was bothered again.
Years later in Nevada a knock at the door revealed some guy offering financial advice. I wondered why his eyes got big as he kept stammering and looking at my T-shirt. I looked down and got embarrassed as it was one from the Jews For Firearms Ownership:
(nobody ever read the words, just thought I was pro-Nazi, which is why I never wore it in public.) It was a short interview.
When JWs come to my door, I ask them one question.
Their little “Truth” book admits that the verse in Acts refers to Jesus when it says “there is no other name under Heaven by which man must be saved”. Yet their denomination is based on the verse that says, “whoever shall call upon the name of Jehovah shall be saved.”
So the question is: Either there are two names that can save us, or Jesus and Jehovah are one and the same. Which is it?
I have a sister who converted to JW when she married her second husband. She has alienated her two sons and our brother, sisters and mother.
Because being omniscient sub specie aeternitatis, He already knows it’s a bad idea to light the match in order to retrieve the gerbil.
Everybody wants to go to Heaven, but nobody wants to die.”
Not exactly a news flash. Ain’t nothin’ ever changes. Y’all be chillin’ now, y’heah? Here’s Albert King:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lb-EJEWRxlM&feature=related
Yeah, one thing i like to talk about when mentioning Jehovah’s Witless folks is the whole “Only 440,000 allowed into heaven spiel”. Especially how much it would suck to be the 440,000th person in heaven having to live an eternity knowing that maybe the 440,001th person accidentally stepped on a bug and now has to be in hell for an eternity.
Living with survivors guilt for an eternity sounds like Hell to me.
They haven’t been back since I answered the door half naked with two Dobes and a handgun in the 90s.
Sissies.
Indeed, and their false teaching and predictions are well documented. http://peacebyjesus.witnesstoday.org/TheBIBLEandSoCalledJEHOVAHS-WITNESSES.html
I asked a JW who was serving them for 19 year year what Rm. 8:9 meant, seeing as only 144k are said to have the Holy Spirit in them, and she said she did not know.
But the WTS is not the only ones who made false predictions:
http://www.ravenswoodbaptist.com/articals/dangerofdatesetting.htm
http://www.catholicplanet.com/future/index.htm
http://www.catholicplanet.net/forum/showthread.php?t=3822
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