No, but then that doesn't mean they weren't out there, it just means I didn't encounter any. I wasn't just good at regurgitating WTBTS interpretations, I tried to know something of what my neighbors believed. To that end I was familiar with material published by folks other than the WTBTS.
Forscher
Ever meet someone in the field service who knew their bible better than you
by JH 23 Replies latest jw friends
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Forscher
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kristyann
I wouldn't normally be particularly surprised if a priest didn't know the Bible very well... very few do. Catholics in general still don't place much emphasis on actually reading the Bible. That's obviously not meant to offend anyone, but does anyone know why this is, exactly? I live in a very Catholic area, and my friend's dad, who is Catholic, told me that some guy at his work started talking to him about the Bible (trying to witness to him... I think he was probably an evangelical Christian of some sort)... and my friend's Catholic dad told me that he said to him "Hey, don't talk to me about the Bible. I don't know anything about the Bible, I'm Catholic!" Isn't that kind of weird? He seemed very happy about this.
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LittleToe
Nope.
The main reason being that I was raised in an area that is reknowned for being full of bible-loving Scottish Presbyterians. From school age onwards I had to defend my beliefs against other schoolkids and teachers. The first couple of times I was "fortunate" that I knew the answers off the toip of my head. Thereafter I studied up so that I could always be one step ahead of the game.
The irony is that I clearly recall at least four conversations where the householder was right and I was wrong, but adamant. I''ve since been back to apologise to all of them...
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lucifer
One time my jdub friend and I did a science fair project on "evolution vs. creation" (we alwasy had to preach right??) in grade 7, and one of the judges asked me a question about how long the earth was around if it was created, now I'll admit I wasn't the smartest kid in the kh lol, we just figured we could bring the in the creation book and preach, well I wasn't prepared to answer that question and said something dumb like "oh thousands of years"... the look the judge gave me lol. I told mom and she got mad at me
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Legolas
One time my jdub friend and I did a science fair project on "evolution vs. creation" (we alwasy had to preach right??) in grade 7, and one of the judges asked me a question about how long the earth was around if it was created, now I'll admit I wasn't the smartest kid in the kh lol, we just figured we could bring the in the creation book and preach, well I wasn't prepared to answer that question and said something dumb like "oh thousands of years"... the look the judge gave me lol. I told mom and she got mad at me
Hey now I don't remember that!
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lucifer
I remember it perfectly, it was with Leah, and I told you and you said "Desiree that's not right blah blah blah now what will they think about JW's" haha
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LittleToe
The bible I thought I knew well. Science was a close second, as I just loved the subject. But the memory haunts me of taking in the Evolution book to school!
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Lilycurly
Yes, once, but all we could say to each other when we walked away were idiotic things likes "Oooh, this guy really knows his Bible." "Oh yes, it's a shame, he would make an excellent JW...."
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FairMind
I've lost and won scriptural arguments with knowledgeable people. IMO some of the arguments I won were because I was right and the other person wrong. Conversely sometimes when I lost it was because I (as a JW) was wrong.
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daniel-p
Sadly, no... because I don't consider my knowlege of the Bible to be great or anything.... Now I understand why not many people did have a good understanding of the Bible - they were living their life and not paying so much attention to the world's greatest amalgam of paranoid prophecy.