GB 2025 Update #4

[Ivar]

On 7/13/2025 at 2:41 AM, LeolaRootStew said:

The "beliefs clarified" page doesn't include these kinds of updates (like beards or slacks); is there anywhere we can look for a full list of these smaller updates?

 

https://wol.jw.org/en/wol/d/r1/lp-e/1200277174

On the website itself there is no such list.


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[Tortuga]

1 hour ago, Ivar said:

Maybe because it is a very practical issue that influences daily life.

People toast every day?

[ijsvogel]

39 minutes ago, Tortuga said:

People toast every day?

I would love to toast every day. Preferably with melting cheese or an awful lot of strawberry jam 🤭

[Tortuga]

3 minutes ago, ijsvogel said:

I would love to toast every day. Preferably with melting cheese or an awful lot of strawberry jam 🤭

I like a nice sourdough with peanut butter and my wife's home made apple butter...

[Dark King]

2 hours ago, Shawnster said:

Question(s) to those who are speculating whether the principles in this or a future update apply to birthdays and holidays such as Thanksgiving. 

 

Why? 

 

Why do you suppose or speculate we will have an adjustment on these holidays? 

 

Could you please explain and do do simply, as if talking to a 5 year old? 

I kinda wonder if a lot of the friends didn't have a good Bible teacher to go over these subjects. And reach their heart 💜.And for that reason the friends haven't made their peace 🕊️ with the subjects. It's best to pray 🙏🏾 to Jehovah and ask him from your heart 💜 want do he wants.

 

The word holiday means Holy Day or a Sacred day. The only sacred day Jehovah has given us Christian is the memorial of Jesus Christ Death. Other than that Paul told Christian to stop doing any another Sacred day or time period.

 

I believe Jehovah will give us more Sacred Day's and time periods in the New system of things. Probably I'm guessing Armageddon will be a annual event celebrated during the 1000 years.

 

Apostle Paul addresses the issue of observing certain days, months, seasons, and years in the book of Galatians. In Galatians 4:10-11, Paul expresses concern that some believers are "observing special days and months and seasons and years!" and worries that his work among them may have been in vain. 

 

(Galatians 4:10) 10 You are scrupulously observing days and months and seasons and years.

https://www.jw.org/finder?wtlocale=E&pub=nwtsty&srctype=wol&bible=48004010&srcid=share

 

(Galatians 4:11) 11 I fear for you, that somehow I have wasted my efforts on you.

https://www.jw.org/finder?wtlocale=E&pub=nwtsty&srctype=wol&bible=48004011&srcid=share

 

 

Hopefully this helps to the conversation.

 

[Tortuga]

2 hours ago, Shawnster said:

Why do you suppose or speculate we will have an adjustment on these holidays? 

Sometimes it takes time to wrap our heads around a new way of thinking as we mature. 

[LeolaRootStew]

I think debating the principles of this adjustment is good, and asking if it also applies to holidays is a good question, but...some comments seem to be phrasing things as if the GB has given us explicit permission to decide which holidays/celebrations we are allowed to participate in and that's where I think it goes too far. Perhaps they will address it in the future, but as of this moment we have not gotten any new direction on holidays or birthdays.

[ijsvogel]

12 minutes ago, Dark King said:

The word holiday means Holy Day or a Sacred day. The only sacred day Jehovah has given us Christian is the memorial of Jesus Christ Death. Other than that Paul told Christian to stop doing any another Sacred day or time period.

 

 

Your reasoning makes sense in English (thank you for that; I like your reasoning about the memorial of Jesus Christ’s death). But it made me smile for Dutch. I wouldn’t use this in Dutch to explain it to a Bible student. The word holiday translates as ‘feestdag’, which means literally ‘Party Day’. I can already hear them saying ‘what’s wrong with a party?’ 🙈

[blanchard]

Tomorrow wille be another day and if the time is came we wille see others ajustments in 2025. I believe it's a good year ...

[Ivar]

4 hours ago, Tortuga said:

People toast every day?

Perhaps haha. I think every day there is the possibility that we have to deal with certain customs and symbols that used to be seen as "candy from the gutter".