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BOLDNESS ON MEMORIAL NIGHT

Tolerance is the virtue of a people who stand for nothing. ~G.K. Chesterton

I never thought I'd do something like this, but I guess it was time to stand up.

Prior to the Memorial of Jehovah’s Witnesses this year, I had made some fliers and put them on cars in the parking lot at my old Kingdom Hall and mailed out a few also. I still had about 20 of them left.

My husband and I were driving to our monthly clown club meeting (in our jeans, not our clown clothes) when I asked him if he'd mind stopping at my old Kingdom Hall parking lot. This was about 6:30 p.m. on April 5th, Memorial night. There were about 10 people in the parking lot. We pulled right into the center and a young man I didn't recognize approached the car as I got out. I said,

"Good evening, I'm just out sharing an encouraging message with my neighbors tonight. Are you familiar with the March 1, 2012 Watchtower on page 17 where it says who may take the wine and bread at the Memorial? You see, the Watchtower says that you're not in the new covenant..."

John 1:1 and the Sahidic Coptic version.

I was recently shown a YouTube clip which apparently proves the legitimacy of the New World Translations rendering of John 1:1 “a god”.

CAN THE WATCHTOWER PROVE THEIR CORE “TRUTHS” TO BE “TRUE”?

The rank and file of the Watchtower holds certain core beliefs as basic “truths”; as being “absolute truths.” If you are truly one of Jehovah’s Witnesses, these “truths” are to be believed without question.

All over the world, devout members of the Watchtower are united in their absolute certainty that they not only “have the truth,” but that they are “in the truth,” because they believe that the Watchtower Organization is “the truth”; as if their religion is an absolute “truth,” even though their organization’s teachings and “understandings” have been altered, changed, or completely discarded many times over the course of their more than one-hundred-and-twenty-year history; their discarded “truths” often to be brought back later as “recycled truth” and presented to the current rank and file as “New Light.” But are these "truths"?

A JEHOVAH'S WITNESS SON ANSWERS HIS EX-JEHOVAH'S WITNESS MOTHER:

To: JW Son
Subject: Did you get the condolence card??

Hey, Son!!

I hope that you are doing okay!! I have been thinking about you having to deal with so much. I hope you get a nice "happy" break real soon!!

Did you ever get the condolence card I sent after your dad died? I just wondered.

I love you very much!!
Mom

Reply: From JW Son
Subject: RE: Did you get the condolence card??

Hey Mom, I didn’t get a card from you. Thank you for the thought.

Just so we’re clear on something: We are not friends. I am your son and I love you, but that’s it.

You choose to spend your waking moments finding ways to tarnish the name of the earthly organization that Jehovah uses to instruct his people.

You call the organization “the Watchtower” as if it were some strong arm used to brain wash and control the minds of some helpless 7.5 million members and their families. Are you kidding?

Do you actually believe that Jehovah, the all-powerful, is incapable of establishing an earthly presence to lead His people as Jesus said He would?

AN EX-JEHOVAH'S WITNESS COMES TO JESUS

Greetings from Dan and Kaci,

Blessed be the Name of the Lord. What a powerful month. The phone ministry has been great this month. I continue to be amazed at the wonders of God. I had a phone call this month from a Jehovah's Witness who has left the organization. She has been out for six years. However, just recently God has been working on her heart. She stated that she has not been involved in church and I am not sure how much she is reading her bible, but I asked her the question that Jesus posed to his disciples when he said, “Who do men say that I am (Luke 9:18)?” I asked her who she thought Jesus was and she replied,

“In the beginning God said let us make man in our image so Jesus must have been there since the beginning.”

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