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Why have the Memorial Partakers gone up again? Is it because there are are loads who partake unworthily.?

There are 2 in my Cong' who I'm sure can't be annointed really, (they each suffer with differing mental problems, tho' I know that would not disbar them, but they are both quite young too)

Shouldn't the figure be decreasing? Are there brothers in your Cong' who you "think" aren't really supposed to share?

Have the society said anything about it? I'm fairly new in the Truth.

Update:

I wasn't being discriminatory, it's a genuine enquiry.

Also I know we cannot "judge" who is and who isn't, but I just wondered if it was a bit of a world-wide problem and what is the proper view on it?

Update 2:

Actually Sasi, I don't veiw it as a "mear" earthly calling, but rather a VERY GRAND PRIVILEDGE to be worthy to be called to such a WONDERFUL HOPE & BLESSING! I don't want to go to Heaven.

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  • 1 decade ago
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    We shouldn't question their claim because we have no definite way of testing its validity.

    Jehovah knows and that is all that's important because being anointed doesn't have any special earthly privileges, that comes after their death. Yes the figures should be decreasing but obviously some in the past and now have been mistaken - its not a problem and its not for us to judge them

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    One of Jesus' famous sayings to put down irrelevant or irreverent points was, "And what is that to you?" If you are not of the anointed class (and you cannot be, given your own comments) you have a problem. You are not in the new covenant Jesus inaugurated with his shed blood; you do not have Jesus as your mediator; you cannot say 'Abba, Father!' because you do not yet belong to Christ. Just read Romans chapter 8, verses 1 to 17 and waken up to your spiritual poverty!

    Then ask yourself, "Why has a tiny group of men in America instructed me not to partake of what they partake, especially as they didn't do that till the mid 1930s? Why are they teaching spiritual apartheid - a more glorious, important calling for them, but a merely earthly calling for the vast majority?" The Bible says there is one faith, one hope and one calling. You don't have that heavenly calling, detailed in Romans. According to Romans 8:9, that means you don't belong to Christ.

    Yes, the numbers partaking should have dropped to almost zero by now, if the 1930s 'new light' was true, biblical light. But by encouraging 99.9% of all JWs not to partake, those men have brought in a practice more similar to paganism, where Satanists have a mock memorial of Jesus' death, passing the cup and the plate around, but nobody partaking. That's their way of insulting Christ. Think well on that, please.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    "There are 2 in my Cong' who I'm sure can't be annointed really, (they each suffer with differing mental problems, tho' I know that would not disbar them, but they are both quite young too) "

    Cool, discriminating against the mentally ill.

    Source(s): That's nice.
  • 1 decade ago

    Getting close to the final sealing of the anointed.

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  • 1 decade ago

    Whatever happened to 'We are all one in Christ Jesus'?

    The official number has already been exceeded years ago.

    Exercise your freedom to move on.

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