What J.W teaching did you find the hardest to accept?? (page 2)

This was back in the late 50's. Every Witchtower had something bad to say about the Pope andthe catholic church. When I found out many "stories" were actual lies, I began to ask about other claims. Not the thing to do for a ten year old! carmel

Dagney

The scriptural hop, skip and a jump to the calculation of 1914, and the supposed inception of God's Kingdom at that time.

Taught it, gave talks on it, but almost choked everytime with how ridiculous it sounded hearing the words out of my own mouth.

They are all screwy, demanding gigantic leaps of "faith," but this is the big daddy of them all to me. **sigh**

yknot

Why asking why after years of asking why (1976-1980) was not permitted any longer?

Yknot

breakingfree

That animals would continue to die in the Paradise. I couldn't understand why God would create something with the intention that it should die. I still held onto the belief that if I was good enough Jehovah would let my pets live forever, if I was extra good, I prayed for them every night...I always felt guilty cause I thought if I wasn't good enough they would die too . Don't laugh...

Mrs Smith

Welcome MMae!

For me it was the whole paradise thing. I could not imagine living with those people for all eternity. To me that would have been more like hell! I once asked an elder if he thought that the paradise was maybe just a spiritual state of mind and not a real place! LOL was i in trouble for that one and I was about 16 at the time.

lisavegas420

When I think back when I was a little girl. I could never understand why Eve didn't go running off when a snake started talking to her. Did snakes talk all the time? At the very least, why didn't she yell over at her husband.."OMG....Get over here A, you've got to see this."

lisa

kwr

That the JW's were the only true believers in God and the Armegeddon theology. That is why I stopped studying with them.

The Last Nephilim

I always had doubts which I eventually obediently pushed out of my mind, but they would pop back up from time to time. The one that I think got the ball rolling for me (and led me to check out other sources like JWD)as far as doctrine was the one mention in the entire Bible in a parable of the all- important "FDS", while "Babylon the Great" and the "Dragon", "Serpent", etc is mentioned many more times. I just couldn't get past why, if loyalty to the bORG and the FDS was sooooooooo vital for our salvation, did Jesus only mention it so casually, in a parable, in the form of a question, ONE TIME!!?? Hence I came to the conclusion that the 1st century Christians were organized, but NOT an "organization". These thoughts were happening right around the time I got my Sept Kingdom Ministry, and the question box was the straw that broke the camel's back! When I compared that KM question box with a June 22, 2000 Awake article "Do Not Be a Victim of Propaganda", that was it. I clearly knew then that I was in a cult...

MissingLink

That the animals in the future would return to their "original" purpose and not devour each other. That all of their kill-or-escape features had previous vegerian aspects that the animals just forgot about (probably because of mans evil example). Despite the fact that dinosours are found with other dinosours in their bellies. Or did Satan arange the bones that way to confuse us?

What J.W teaching did you find the hardest to accept??

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Carmel