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It was great having you on the channel Jason and Falon. I look forward to more videos together😊😊😊

Indeed Eric. This is another man-made and harmful rule that they could easily drop.

Thanks very much for your kind words Hayne. Yes, the reasoning for accepting Christmas bonuses never made any sense to me

@@AnthonyMorrisReturns For JW leaders and the followers, "idolatry", "pagan" "satan" are bad. However, money from those sources are quite acceptable. What a hypocritically shameless and greedy JW organisation!

Oh those are 'Year End Bonuses' don't you know!

@@markweatherill 😄😄😄 I wish the same reasoning applied to birthdays. "Oh, its just my year end celebration"😃😃😃

Hey Hayne. Great points as always. I just found out recently that the new head of the Britain Branch Committee is a qualified lawyer. Utter hypocrites. With regards to 1914, they keep embarrassing themselves each time they bring it up. They could just stop mentioning it and distance themselves from it

@@AnthonyMorrisReturns You are 100%. correct Chaka. Those charlatans still think they are dealing with most followers that are still daft in making deep researches.

@@haynehifanny8006 Definitely. I think it's mainly because the Governing Body are in an echo chamber and have surrounded themselves with yes men in the name of Governing Body helpers. So they have no sense of reality at all.

@@AnthonyMorrisReturnsis he the one they r grooming to add to GB? He only partook of the emblems recently if this is the guy…. 🙄

@@michelejashinsky8409 Oh? Does the head of the Britain Branch committee partake of the emblems now? That guy looks extremely ambitious that I wouldn't be shocked.

Very sad

The jw answer must be that he was evidently hiding some 'secret sin'

@@c.t8958 This is the problem with the JW religion. Their doctrine is not well thought through at all.

Hey Cisco. Well, I really need to watch the chosen.

Thank you for your kind words PearlyTiger🙏🙏🙏

I know Eric. "We really love what we're learning. We didn't realise the Bible was so practical"🤣🤣🤣🤣

@@DavidTaylor-ki2ir Thank you very much for your comment. Yes 100%

Thank you so much for your kind words🙏🙏🙏

@@user-ku6pt1gm4h If you look at their baptism numbers and net growth it becomes very obvious. I went through this in one of my recent videos. From 2019 to 2023 they had 1.2 million baptised. However, their net increase in the same period was only 300,000. Even if you factor in the death rate it means for every 1 person that gets baptised they are losing 2 members; so yeah they are losing more members than they are gaining and if their youth stops getting baptised their numbers will start to reduce.

​@@AnthonyMorrisReturnsthe seventh day adventist church is growing by 1million 6oo thousand per year. And the total membership now stands at 22 million. Young Robert

@@thetruthk5138 Great points. It's funny how JWs can't just not be douchebags without linking it to their being JWs

@@AnthonyMorrisReturns Sadly the is a JW who works in a local supermarket and he tells everyone he is a JW . People who shop there really don't care and are not interested. When I was a active Witness we used to think we were and are the centre of the whole world . But it's just the JWs did a job on us but I am grateful I can see through it all. And many more are waking up everyday.

@@thetruthk5138 Yes, they did a job on us... just like Mark Sanderson thinks people recognise him as the man from JW Broadcasting😬😬😬

Angels Too Busy in supermarkets ignoring JW children praying for help because their parents are abusing them.. 🐂 💩

@@Gabby-er1sr Touchè 😁

It is extremely sad. But the great thing is we identified the lies and got out. Not many people have been able to do that.

@@titiawaterval3112 Hey Titia! Yes, it's the siege mentality that the Jehovah's Witnesses leadership want to implant in their members. They created all these problems for themselves by being a doomsday cult.

@@AnthonyMorrisReturns i know. Been one from 2000 until 2014. All was based and still is on many doomsday's. I wonder how the puppets will react at no more doomsday cause most were in because of fear for one

@@titiawaterval3112 Oh wow! 14 years! How did you get roped into the religion? Most JWs won't even notice any of these subtle changes to the doctrine... which I think is sad.

@@AnthonyMorrisReturns i had a autistic son and had alot of questions. Never trusted the witness but then one day i felt lonely and I was living at a place with almost no neighbours. So one day 3 people came and i tought they were counting the people cause there was a election comming up. So we talked and then when i asked what they came to do they said we wanne talk about the flood. So i said thank you cause a loving god would never let somany stinking corps on earth to rot and stink. And the lady who was a teacher just like me knew how to get my attention and showed me scriptures. So we most talked about god and the hope for my son. They were like a brother and a sister to me and i loved them very much. So it was the hope for my son and the love for these couple that I endend up getting baptised in 2003. And then i began to see things i did not agree on and saw how these people were hard to some of each other. Still i loved those two and god. Than my husband became one to and he turned into a monster that taught i was now a slave of the bible to him. I played the role of the great loving sister for all and my house was a save haven for all withness . But i was a mess inside. I knew in 5 years this can never be gods plan for me. But my kids were small and I wasnt ready to leave. When i left i lost everything also my kids who were baptized. Only the youngest talks to me because she did not get baptized. Her daddy put her out of the house when she turned 18 and i took her in. Its alot more But im out and i will STAY out.

@@titiawaterval3112 Oh wow! What a story. I'm really sorry to hear everything you've been through, I really am. Would you be open to coming on the channel and sharing your story

@@rickwilkerson3865 I know hahaha. People were even raising their hands. In the next episode I'm sure they'll have Jesus underlining his Watchtower

@@UnassignedTerritory 💯 I love your username. So jealous 😊😊😊

@@AnthonyMorrisReturns Haha

Exactly! I don't think the Governing Body can bring themselves to admit that Jesus' generation prophecy failed to come true... Or at least state that it only applied to Jerusalem

@@AnthonyMorrisReturns thanks for reply. The meaning of the prophecy escapes them. Jesus is recorded as saying some of them would not taste death before seeing him coming in judgement. Matthew 16:27,28. The context of Matthew 24 is destruction of Jerusalem, and that it would come within a generation. Matthew 24,25; Mark 13 and Luke 21 discuss the events leading up to Jerusalem's destruction. John records the events in Revelation.

@@wantingtolearn2732 The reason they can't see any other meaning is because they always want to see an application in themselves. I personally think Jesus thought the end would come in his lifetime as he was an apocalyptic prophet like John the Baptist

@@AnthonyMorrisReturns the end did come in the first century, but it was always about the end of the old covenant. Peter said they were in the last days. Acts 2:17. Paul said Jesus appeared in the end times. Hebrews 1:1,2. The problem they have is they think there will be a paradise earth with people living forever on it. But Jesus was the last Adam, there will never again be a perfect man on earth. 1 Corinthians 15:45. We have been in the new covenant since the fall of the Temple.

@@wantingtolearn2732 I think Jesus was very definite about the end he met. He was an apocalyptic preacher who expected the "son of man" to come and destroy that system and replace it with the kingdom of God in which he and his apostles would be the rulersm

@@charlottehernandez3760 Thank you for tuning in and for your comment. Where does it say in the Bible that you can't celebrate Christmas?

Where in the Bible does it say we should? Why would we want to be part of paganism in the world. It does say Satan is the ruler of the world. So why would we want to be part of it. It's that simple..

@@charlottehernandez3760 do you know wearing of bridal veil is from paganism but Jehovah’s witnesses pick and choose which pagan custom they should practice so come back again with your point .

@@JwRetroverdad Hahaha! Wow! I'll definitely check that out. I'm shocked the Holy Spirit failed to prevent that travesty

yes, please check it. Matias was also baptized with a t-shirt that refers to the devil, from an Argentine rock band. thanks for answering. you have a great attitude. greetings.

@@JwRetroverdad I just had a look. He's very brave hahaha. Interesting how they let him through. Thank you for your kind words and greetings to you too.

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I have heard of this theory but I think it's a minority view among scholars.

@AnthonyMorrisReturns the reason I say this is because ● 1) The timing his execution took place. It was the night of the passover and no criminal was to remain on their torture impliment over night, so timing was crucial. ●2) The 2 criminals beside Jesus were alive and talking to each other. Their legs were broken to speed up their deaths. This is so they're no longer able to lift themselves up to breathe normally. It was common for men to remain alive for 3-4 days when being crucified....A slow painful torturous death. ●3) To the guards it appeared Jesus was already dead, so his legs were not broken. He never felt the spear plunge into his side. Why? Because when he drank the wine that was handed to him, what that was, it was an anesthetic which literally knocked him out unconscious. It was already prearranged among his faithful followers that Jesus would survive his crucifixion. ● 4) When Jesus cried out "My God, My God, why have you forsaken me?" At that point, he felt so weak he literally thought he was going to die. This was not meant to happen. ● 5) When one of the disciples asked for Pontius Pilate's permission to take Jesus down, he was granted that. Again, his fake death was pre-arranged. ● 6) Nicodemus and Mary Maggdolene were already waiting for Jesus at the burial tomb with myrrh and aloes. These herbs have amazing healing properties which they used to revive Jesus and begin the process of healing his wounds. ● 7) Jesus reappeared to his disciples 40 days later showing off his wounds to prove it was him, alive though unrecognizable, because he'd have been killed for a certainty if anyone knew it was really him. ● 8) Jesus later went on to travel Asia, and was later believed to have died in Kashmir India at the age of 80 yrs. His tomb is located there. You can research this fact. If christendom were to acknowledge these facts as truth, this would destroy the whole concept of religion and Christianity in particular. Because the death and resurrection of Jesus and him dying for our sins is what christendom bases its whole theology on. Without it, christendom becomes a lie. As we know, Jesus was initially put to death for blasphemy, claiming to be God's son, sin had nothing to do with the reason he was being crucified. This concept was later added in the scriptures by the apostle Paul who after his conversion to Christianity, still held onto his strong Hebrew heritage and doctrines of blood sacrificial deaths of firstborn animals and humans to his God Yahweh. Exodus 13:1,2; Exodus 34:19, 20

@@morningglory9288 I guess what you're saying in points 1-7 would be valid if we were to assume that what the Gospel writers recorded is accurate history, which I'm just not on board with

@AnthonyMorrisReturns I agree, much of the Bible has been manipulated to promote a certain narrative men wanted to portray, mainly that Jesus died for our sins. But in doing so, they deliberately excluded other gospels that should've been included, ie: gospel of Mary, Judas, Philip, Thomas, gospel of truth, gospel of Peter, Enoch, among many others. These books went against the narrative they wanted to portray, so were deliberately excluded. So having said that, what it all boils down to is that none of us are sinners, and Jesus did not die for our sins. Gospel of Mary QUOTE: "Peter said to him, "Since you've explained everything to us, tell us one more thing. What's the sin of the world?" The Savior said, "Sin doesn't exist..."

@@morningglory9288 Absolutely fascinating! You're right, they couldn't have anything in there that didn't fit the narrative. It's interesting that historical scholars use the non-canonical Gospels when they are trying to form a picture about Jesus.

Hey. That's a great idea. I've actually been planning to do a video on the 144K teaching so you can definitely look forward to seeing that in the next few weeks.