WITNESSES AND 'FALSE RELIGION'

Mary

I thought of something after reading Pioneer Spirit's thread about the UN debacle and their Dub father's justification of it and he brought up a point I hadn't thought of before. He said that Jesus "...went into the temple and synagogues even tho he knew they were false religion...."

Yes, Jesus condemned the Pharisees and what their religion had become, but as PS's father pointed out, Jesus still went into the temples and synagogues.

So then my question is: Why aren't Witnesses allowed to go into other churches, even thought they "know" they're false religion? Are they like The Beatles and think they're bigger than Jesus? Why are Witnesses disfellowshipped for attending another church? Has anyone ever asked a Dub this before? What do you think their reaction would be???

serendipity

As far as I knew, Jesus was a practicing Jew....

gumby

Yes, Jesus condemned the Pharisees and what their religion had become, but as PS's father pointed out, Jesus still went into the temples and synagogues.

Yes....jesus was a jew.....and so was Paul yet a Roman citizen. Paul went to Ephesus and to the Greek temple. He went inside and commented about the statues he saw. He made comparisons to Artemus and to his god with real eyes, ears, and a mouth who could speak. In doing this he turned the Greek and Roman world upside down because he preached to the Pagans who Christianised.......yet dubs will not do the same.

Gumpreacher-of-rightousness

Undecided

I attended a church for several months and someone told a JW that I had joined the church. I got a visit from the elders. I told them I hadn't joined any church but did attend for a while to just see what they were like. They didn't DF me, just told me to send in a DA letter if I decided to join any church.

Why are Witnesses disfellowshipped for attending another church? Has anyone ever asked a Dub this before? What do you think their reaction would be???

Ken P.

greendawn

Strictly speaking the Jews of Jesus's days did not follow a false religion despite certain misconceptions and additions, if not anything else they were over eager about keeping the Mosaic law. Clearly God did not reject them as a nation despite even gross misbehaviour in earlier times.

Likewise ideologically the Catholics/Orthodox are not a false religion despite what the JWs and many other Protestant groups claim, though the Catholics are guilty of gross misdeeds in the past. They have added some extra things but they haven't changed the essence of the faith.

All the bad fish will be taken and thrown out in the last days by God's angels.

jaguarbass

Why aren't Witnesses allowed to go into other churches

They can go to other churches they just cant tell their fellow witnesses they went.

DanTheMan

One of the myriad little things that bugged me about JWism was how incredibly naive many raised-in-da-troof JW's were, even adults in their 40's and 50's. I had one friend who was a 40-something ministerial servant, a nice enough guy, but to hear him tell it, you'd think that JWism was the only morally conservative Christian denomination left in the entire world.

I think the WTS likes JW's to think that way. If they went to a church (especially here in the midwest or down south) they'd learn in a hurry that JW's are far from being the only Christians who hate fags and liberals and who eagerly await the day when Jesus and the angels unleash a global 9/11 on non-Christians.