by ann in Texas 5 Replies latest watchtower beliefs
At the last assembly, the circuit overseer made the comment, "People should not look for justice within the congregation. Instead, people should do what is necessary to keep the peace within the congregation."
What is that suppose to mean? So, say someone tells the elders that so-and-so did something wrong or bad. Is the person accused suppose to say, "yes I did it", just to keep the peace of the congregation? What do you think?
Here is an article that states that exact foolish point. It shows how the WTS can stretch a scripture to mean something it never did.
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w02 11/1 p. 6 Apologizing—A Key to Making Peace ***The issue is, not so much who is right and who is wrong, but who will take the initiative to make peace. When the apostle Paul noticed that the Christians in Corinth were taking fellow servants of God to secular courts over such personal differences as financial disagreements, he corrected them: "Why do you not rather let yourselves be wronged? Why do you not rather let yourselves be defrauded?" (1 Corinthians 6:7) Although Paul said this to discourage fellow Christians from airing their personal differences in secular courts, the principle is clear: Peace among fellow believers is more important than proving who is right and who is wrong. Keeping this principle in mind makes it easier to apologize for a wrong that someone thinks we have committed against him or her.
A further question:
What if the supposed wrong has nothing to do with offending an individual?
My wife worked in a mental health agency for twenty years and she used to remind me when dealing with crazy people you can't try to make what they say have any rationality. If you do, you'll become as crazy as they are. Don't try to make sense out of the pronuncements of the JW rag mags. You will become as crazy as they!
carm
What if the supposed wrong has nothing to do with offending an individual?
It's a matter of Dub reasoning. They have forever refused to involve police in criminal matters such as child sexual abuse because of Biblical injunctions against "taking ones brother to court". And yet in Paul's time, as there is now, there was a vast difference between dragging people before court over private monetary and business concerns (the underlying principle being that Christians should be honest and open to correction enough that there be no need to involve outsiders) and dobbing a thief or a murderer into the authorities. The Dubs don't get the distinction between torts, which are "sins" against individuals, and crimes, which are sins against the Crown/People/nation.
"People should not look for justice within the congregation
It means, don't waste your time. There is no justice in Jehovah's "ecclesiatical" court.
