by JH 17 Replies latest jw friends
Once a person is baptized, you can't ask the questions you may have asked prior to your baptism.
But probably after your baptism, there were things you'd have like to tell or ask the elders, but this could have meant that you had doubts.
What would you have said to an elder or asked him if it wasn't for the fear of getting reproved or DF'd?
Watchtower October 15, 1963 p.629
This Resolution stressed that Jehovah’s witnesses recognize that the one true God is Jehovah, that the Bible is his written Word, that Jehovah God is the Sovereign of the Universe,
that men and nations have set up the United Nations rather than surrender to the sovereignty of God’s Messianic Kingdom, and that though nations have given idolatrous worship to that political image, this Jehovah’s witnesses refuse to do. The Resolution showed that radical governments have been formed, but that "We, as witnesses of God, the Source of life, will maintain our Christian steadfastness and have no part in such radical movements , but will hold fast to our Christian neutrality toward all radical and other types of human government over earth."
Did the WTS maintain their Christian steadfastness and have no part in such radical movements when they were a member of the UN for 10 years.
How can this resurrection thing possibly work?
Why is your son the father of the disfellowshipped sister's illegitimate child still giving talks?
Why is Jehovah so big on killing infants?
How can you say that my dad's going to die just because he's not baptised?
Why are your kids in medical school giving me guilt trips about the science degree?
What's with all the Mercedes in the car park?
I really believe that Matthew 24:45-47 is about individual people who profess to be Christians and is not about an elite class of 144,000.
Actually, I never asked elders any questions before or after my baptism. I did what the WTS says to do in print, I looked it up in the WT publications. Anything that was said in a publication was more official than anything an elder said. The elders were not supposed to give their personal opinion but to direct you to the publications. I would occasionally research a question, find the WTS official answer, and then ask an elder to see if he gave the WT answer. Usually it was after a comment he had made at a meeting that I knew did not line up with WT policy/doctrine.
*** w93 5/15 p. 20 par. 12 Shepherd the Flock of God Willingly ***
A Christian undershepherd willingly manifests respect for the theocratic arrangement. He does so when he directs those seeking advice to God's Word, the Bible. Though experience will help an elder to build a storehouse of Bible-based counsel, this does not mean that he will have the Scriptural solution to every problem at his fingertips. Even when he knows the answer to a question, he may find it wise along with the inquirer to consult the Watch Tower Publications Index or similar indexes. He thus teaches in two ways: He demonstrates how to find helpful information and humbly shows respect for Jehovah by directing attention to what God's organization has published.
But how unwise it would be for an elder to offer a mere personal opinion as though it were sound Scriptural advice!
** w75 12/15 p. 766 Where Can You Turn with Confidence? ***
Or he may be able to spend some time showing you how questions or matters of this sort can be researched using aids such as Watch Tower Publications Index. That assistance will be doubly beneficial to you. First, you may right then locate a Bible-based discussion of the matter that you can study carefully. Second, in the process you may learn how you can in the future look up information.
Blondie
How can you live like this? What satisfaction can you possibly have in life?
Live like what? Most of here have escaped the WT influence or are in the process.
So XU, what's your connection with the WTS or Jehovah's witnesses?
Blondie
I would ask: Since we can accept blood fractions and still be "abstaining from blood", are single persons now able to engage in oral copulation and still be "abstaining" form sex?
Can we hang a Christmas wreath but not have a tree, and not be celebrating Christmas?
Where does it end, how did Jehovah communicate to them that a little tinsy tiny fraction of blood was not blood?
Where is the scriptural proof?
And bottom line: if we can have fractions, why not the whole kit and caboodle? What difference does it make? How do you not see this is silly?
Why can't publishers read the minutes of the WT corp meetings?-- all of our contributions pay for everything, so shouldn't we be able to get a copy of the financial reports?
Would you like a draw on my joint?
