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  1. Arauna
    That statement is so ludicrous and over the top it is not even worth a reply....... pagan gods heh? Please specify.....
  2. Arauna
    I do believe that the waters of Truth does not sting or hurt but hailstones of truth weighing a symbolic talent will definitely be devastating. It is a prophecy...... so in my mind's eye - I know it will happen. I believe jehovah's Word.
  3. Arauna
    I do enjoy the entertainment value here ..... sometimes we need crazy comments to lighten things up. Swedish culture is very serious, South African culture (white) suffers from the same malaise. Every culture is different - so if I irritate some here - ascribe it to culture. Of course - there is a time to joke and a time to be serious.
  4. Arauna
    As I have shown on this forum before - jehovah has a timeline for his "project " or administration of his project to restore the earth to his original purpose. Similar to project management, we find perfect time management of prophesied events to help his people to understand where we are in the stream of time. 1914 is only one of these events. Has your church helped you to understand the seven heads of the beast? Have they indicated to you who is the "image of the beast " who will also become the eighth king for a short while? This eighth king will be given rulership willingly by a coalition of nations....... Where do you stand with your understanding of these prophecies which is very important to the culmination of Jehovah's timeline. You can laugh and scoff us when you can understand these prophecies.
  5. Arauna
    True, Jehovah causes to become ..... but he works with imperfect people where there is a spirit of cooperation and obedience. Good question because this is the assignment given to his obedient disciples during the perousia Matt 24:14.
  6. Arauna
    Thank you Dr. for diagnosis. Your diagnoses are always terminal..... so I do not think I have reason to trust your judgment. Wrong assumption and wrong diagnosis. You are a doctor and judge as well. We need the randsom sacrifice as much as everyone else -we do not think we are perfect. However, you expect every witness to be perfect 100% of the time in an imperfect world. We try to please jehovah and have faith in the randsom sacrifice... Blanket statement referring to ALL JWs. While we acknowledge that there are some renegades (people who become bad just like king Saul (jehovah himself chose Saul to be king and he disappointed jehovah) and Judas.......a small minority of JWs become like Judas'. When we plod on under difficult circumstances and even persecution, when outsiders expect us to be perfect, the word for it is endurance...... one does need tested faith for this .... our faith is tested by much opposition and malice. If they were serving any human being they all would have left the faith ling ago. Jehovah happens to be their God and they are his people - dedicated to jehovah through the randsom of his son.
  7. Arauna
    Most religions do not even understand that the purpose of Jehovah is to restore the earth by means of the kingdom government under christ. They do not study both the old and new testaments to see the continuity of the purpose and its administration thrroghout the millenia. Eph 1:9
  8. Arauna
    This is not a forum for the truth. One can come on here to find the latest negatives against JWs. It does prepare one to think about them..... but that is about it.
  9. Arauna
    We do not start the subjects - often it is opposers.
  10. Arauna
    I wake up at night and write on my pad. .... or early in morning in bed while husband is blessed with long sleep. I am separated by 8 hours from you guys. (Republic of Georgia). I will try to do a better job. I also struggle to copy scriptures... that is why my quotation if scripture is mostly from memory. Funny how small handicaps make life harder when you get older.
  11. Arauna
    No.
  12. Arauna
    Does that sound like righteous justice? This is collectivist justice - which commies like and people who do not respect individual rights of people. They define groups of people and give them a label and then get rid of them! Anti-LGBT will soon be such a group. Jesus- lovers may soon be such a group, jehovah- lovers may soon be such a group etc.
  13. Arauna
    I wish I could ..... I have arthritis in my hands and I am battling to highlight sentences on the pad. I have to move the wrist to copy and these movements are too large. Most of my time goes into trying to copy..... it is frustrating. This is why I now just write quickly how I speak - just correct the barest necessity. Apologies...... I must be frustrating the lot of you. Soon I will disappear again for a while. I do only come on here intermittendly.
  14. Arauna
    We are all in this world and there are fleshly people/individuals who follow human desires and spiritual people who follow god's desires / purpose for us. When people become fleshly after knowing God - they follow their own human desires.......a most common phenomena everywhere on earth and this thinking overcomes JW individuals too! This is where any comparison with the Catholic church ends. Our teachings differ like night and day. I will not repeat all the babylonian dogmas in the churches. You critisize us for shunning those who commit gross sins in one breath and then go on to say we are similar to churches who openly allow LGBTQ? Please disect your own responses.... True, clergy are worshipped. Rabbis and Imams have such a hold over their people. In Islam they fear each other as well as their leaders because killing of a "hypocrite" is accepted practice.
  15. Arauna
    Have you offered anything encouraging? I have only seen mocking from you.... No prob of course .... you have a right to your opinions ... all of us will be held accountable for what we do with our freedom in the end.
  16. Arauna
    Very true! I like to learn new things...... from JW and non-JW.
  17. Arauna
    We do not worry about people who are not brothers and sin. But the bible indicates (quoted scripture before) that we must stop mixing with "brothers" who become wicked. Unfortunately, people immediately blame JW.org when individuals do bad things in secret and they do not act fast enough...... but they do not act without sufficient evidence - which also is criticized. This is a problem which social workers and therapists also face. This is the realities of the real world. Prisons lock them up for 2 years or more and then they are out back on the street..... So what would your solution be? Shoot them all? Castrate them? Or what..... Social workers used to put children back into the home of the perpetrator..... until that did not work out in all cases. However there may be cases where people may change..... would you like to judge and decide which ones will be rehabilitated? Which ones should receive mercy? How does one know? An anointed could be an elder but not all were. Today not all anointed are elders. So they are not the same thing.
  18. Arauna
    I REST the case.....
  19. Arauna
    If if people of other religions assist me I do not treat them suspiciously - that was the point. Exactly! They will be priests in heaven! Not on earth! The flesh was the barrier Revelation 20: 1-3 7,8 speaks of those people who come through the great tribulation here on EARTH. "Devil and Satan, and bound him for 1,000 years. 3 And he hurled him into the abyss and shut it and sealed it over him, so that he would not mislead the nations anymore until the 1,000 years were ended. After this he must be released for a little while. .......Now as soon as the 1,000 years have ended, Satan will be released from his prison, 8 and he will go out to mislead those nations in the four corners of the earth, Gog and Maʹgog, to gather them together for the war. The number of these is as the sand of the sea. These people on earth are NOT priests who already have received immortality and incorruptability....... because they will be tested as perfect people at end of 1000 years. They will have the same tests as Adam did as perfect person.
  20. Arauna
    I believe this request of yours refutes the argument..... and is unreasonable. Do you understand why? A miracle is always something which is unexplained and often seems like serendipity or coincidence. .... And often, jehovah's interventions seems like unexpected miracles. That is what a miracle is. Unexplained beneficial change of circumstance or unbelievable event. I think my example met that criteria. .... You think not. So I think you want more than a miracle..... which will be hard to find unless God spoke from heaven himself and said he caused it to happen. If you study the bible you will find that most miracles/interventions from jehovah fulfilled a purpose. Never ever was his miracles not part if his purpose. A good example was the 10 plagues. Soon the world will see that Jehovah exists. Usually his worshippers are quick to see his interventions and as in case of Pharoah , unbelievers take longer, or remain blind. At Armageddon, the globe will "know he is Jehovah" because the coincidences will be irrefutable!
  21. Arauna
    I have had such a case in our family. At first the person was not shunned but later the behaviour and attitude did become so bad and wicked that no-one wanted to mix with them. Of course it is never the person's own fault - it is always the witnesses who are at fault, who think they are holy.... We also go out and preach to tax collectors and sinners and I have eaten with them and had coffee with them. But if you had read the scriptures quoted above properly , you will see it refers to "brothers" who do sinful things. The scripture says to "stop' associating with them. So if you had previously been a brother and your lifestyle becomes wicked then we would also stop associating with you.
  22. Arauna
    Not all anointed were elders in first century. So your argument backfires.
  23. Arauna
    I am not ashamed of that my dear. I have learnt nothing from you which has given me reason to doubt the JWs.
  24. Arauna
    Only cases which are proven. If one adheres to Jehovahs laws one cannot judge without evidence. Even in secular courts one is not found guilty if there is insufficient evidence. That is justice.
  25. Arauna
    I am not a weakling, I stand on my own two feet. However, I appreciate it when someone shows me a kindness and gives help. I am not suspicious of kind acts just because people are JW or not of my faith.
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