by minimus 28 Replies latest jw friends
I always wondered what the hell I'd do or say if they DID actually ask for my address and come to my door.
That was the one that made me wonder, too. One day a Christian man asked for my address. Summoning all the self-righteousness indoctrinated into me by the Demon Watchtower god, I answered, "I found you now you find me." I still get sick at my stomach when I realise what a Butt I was to that man. He was only trying to help me escape the cult.
How did the Society know who or what groups would get a ressurection or not? Sodomites would- then wouldn't- then would- and wouldn't. The jews of Jesus' day were kaput as was Judas. The Russellites are automatically evil slave so they're never gonna come back.......
The teaching that the ELDERS were the PRINCES spoken of in the Bible. I used to almost laugh out loud in the meetings over that one! What a joke! It was even more amazing that they could get up there and say it with a straight face!!!
Swalker
Gods, I don't even think I can list all the things that made me think twice about the JWs.
Not sure if this is specifically a JW belief or not, but the concept of the number 7 representing perfection (I've never heard anyone say "That was a perfect 7!")
The supposed nonexistence of a a zero year - maybe it's because I'm a creative person, but I don't see what's so illogical about it
That a person must be a faithful JW in order to be saved (very elitist IMO); actually, the whole concept of salvation while other human beings get destroyed doesn't sit well with me
How a person "knows" that they're one of the 144,000 (never got a satisfactory answer to this)
Women being viewed as "the weaker vessel"
Homosexuality being a "perversion"
Having to "do more" when one's plate is already full of endless meetings, hours of field service, study, etc.
Not being able to let your hair down on vacations (it's not a vacation unless you can do that!)
And I especially love Finally-Free's observation that "Thousands of years of suffering in the world takes place because Adam and Eve ate some lousy fruit that didn't belong to them." LOL
The FDS is God's mouthpiece, his prphet but if they're wrong about prophecy, scriptural applications, history, health matters, marriage and divorce----oh well.
The story of Job didn't sound right to me with God accepting Satan's challenge to atrociously test one of His loyal worshippers to see if his love was really unselfish. It defeats the object because man doesn't have to love a god that harms him especially after having been loyal to him.
***Was there anything that you were taught that made you think twice regarding the Watchtower's interpetation??***
ya, Gen. 1:1
TS
There were so many, we often talk about them, but of course I can't think of many at this moment.
There was the case of the copper serpent and Moses (Numbers 21) Jehovah told Moses to make a fiery snake and put it on a pole, so that if anyone has been bitten he could look up at the serpent and he would keep alive. .... It didn't seem that long ago when Aaron and the people made a golden calf and that didn't go down too well with Jehovah at that time. All seems a bit contradictory !
Twink
"Fear not those who kill the body, but cannot destroy the soul."
OH NO...I feel a song coming on...
(As far as I could see, they just couldn't make that scripture fit their beliefs.)
~Merry
144,000 not being figurative. All of Revelation is symbolic. But only one number isn't! That's queer.
