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Post by huh on Sept 25, 2007 20:29:32 GMT -5
Would the term apostate refer to the workers who have left the fellowship? That is according to current workers or professing friends.
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Post by scholargal on Sept 25, 2007 20:34:51 GMT -5
I am a member of the fellowship. I've never heard anyone called an apostate worker.
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Post by Ken Coolidge on Sept 26, 2007 7:47:16 GMT -5
I either read or heard William Irvine was called that.
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Post by juliette on Sept 26, 2007 10:43:20 GMT -5
I've only heard the term from a Jehovah's Witness standpoint. They call people who have left "the way" and try to get others to leave apostates. They have two different categories for people who leave; those who leave and keep their mouths shut, and those who leave and make waves.
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Post by Gene Nelson on Sept 26, 2007 11:58:28 GMT -5
I'm pretty certain I would be considered apostate, though no one has expressed that to me directly.
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Post by Ken Coolidge on Sept 26, 2007 15:57:50 GMT -5
Gene For what reason?? ken
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Post by Gene Nelson on Sept 26, 2007 23:48:33 GMT -5
I left the work, left meetings, and have lived openly with a same-sex partner now for 10 years.
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Post by Ken Coolidge on Sept 27, 2007 9:34:44 GMT -5
Gene My opinion is that only if you have left Christianity could you be called Apostate. The words from wikipedia kinda condensed my thoughts. "The difference between apostasy and heresy is that the latter refers to rejection or corruption of certain doctrines, not to the complete abandonment of one's religion. Heretics claim to still be following a religion (or to be the "true followers"), whereas apostates reject it."
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Post by Gene Nelson on Sept 27, 2007 15:12:39 GMT -5
Ken, that distinction makes sense to me.
So from from an F&W pov, for whom the only true Christian is an F&W adherent, I suppose leaving the F&W church amounts to leaving Christianity in general; ergo Apostacy.
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