Posted by Mary [Joshua] on April 02, 1999 at 14:07:51 {ppHCdFLRUMSpdplHcja6Ihs.EqJaAw}:
In Reply to: Partakers posted by ANDY on April 01, 1999 at 17:11:00:
Not that I know of. As far as I know, we're the only religion that teaches a 'two-class' system where the chance of you getting into heaven depended not on what sort of a person you are, but if you were baptized before 1935.
Come to think of it, I think we're also the only ones who teach that Christ is the mediator between God and the "Remnant" (just ignore the scripture that says he's the mediator between God and MEN), that the New Testement is primarily for only the Little Flock, and that the "Other Sheep" that Jesus talked about is the "great crowd", instead of Gentiles.
I think we're also alone in teaching that modern day Isreal has no place whatsoever in bible prophecy, and that all good prophecies in the bible about Isreal, is talking about us,(pat,pat) whereas all the bad prophecies about Isreal is talking about every other religion on planet earth(yea shall go to the firey Gehenna!)
On a lighter note, there was one old brother there last night who tried drinking the wine when it was passed to him. Unfortunately, the poor soul is suffering from either dementia or Alzheimers for the past few years, and he's yelled out a few rude (but hilarious) comments during the WT Study.
Anyway, when the attendent tried stopping him from drinking the wine last night, the old brother slapped his hand away and said "..I'll tan yer backside if ya try that again sonny!!" and took a big gulp. Naturally we were sitting right behind him, and I was trying not to kill myself laughing at the expression on the attendents face!! I'm sure there was probably a huge elders meeting after the Memorial last night to see if this old brother is "fit to stand trial" on charges of being "presumpuous".