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

by karter 46 Replies latest jw experiences

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  hotchocolate

  OHHH This is a good thread... haha...

  Amazing how many I actually have to choose from when I start thinking about it. Okay, here's a couple:

  Russell was chosen out of every person on earth although he was measuring pyramids and making incorrect predictions.

  If the paradise earth is the future of nearly all mankind, why didn't Jesus mention it in a clear way at least once?

  Every day about 155,000 people die. If you die on Tuesday, and Armageddon comes on Wednesday, you get a bonus 1000 years! Die on Wednesday though, and you are up the creek.

  Oh I got SO many more...
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  ferret

  #1 ..that only JW's would be saved, I knew some really decent people that lived more holy then I and many of my witness friends. Why would a loving god kill people that loved him.

  #2 disfellowshipping

  Woody
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  dawg

  We go to a "special" puck fest meeting on Thursday, where they're going to announce a big time feeding from God's table. They get up and point blank lie about why they'll no longer ask for a sepcific amount for the shitazines... I know they were lying, and told my Dad so on the way home... he almost wrecked the car and after we almost came to fistacuffs because I wouldn't back down... I said the GB are just men, and he wouldn't relent-they were "God mouthpiece"... I brought up many thngs I had known they had done wrong... it didn't matter... he threatend to remove me from the home if I didn't relent.

  I asked him "what about all that personal relationship with God you keep on talking about"? I knew if I stayed a JW I would not have a personal relationship with GOD... that stated me questioning.... My fade began.

  They were liars after all, so many people knew this change wasn't becasue the end was coming, it was just a change in the tax laws, that they got up maybe two weeks later and gave some bull crap explaination as to why they lied weeks earlier... lying bastatrds!
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  lrkr

  The teaching that most of the books of Isaiah and Revelation were actually prophecies about 9 guys going to prison in 1917 for about 16 months. Seemed like an awful waste of prophetic power. I remember saying (while I was an elder)- "Its a good thing those guys went to prison- otherwise we wouldn't understand the whole book of Isaiah"

  The genocide thing got to me too.

  And one of the final straws- How exactly do you make the world a paradise after killing 99% of the humans??
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  Maddie

  Quite a few but the one about everyone being destroyed except JW's was very hard to stomach.

  Maddie
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  dinah

  For me it was everything mentioned in this thread. But the biggest thing was the teaching that Christ wasn't my mediator. That teaching clearly conytradicts the bible, imho.

  Also, the elders being appointed by Holy Spirit. The evidence proved otherwise to me. When an elder was removed because of wrongdoing we were told that was Holy Spirit at work. Where was the Holy Spirit when he was appointed? It made no sense at all.

  The whole population of the world being wiped out, was traumatizing for me as a child.
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  Pallbearer

  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...

  I also find it unreasonable to think that animals were originally created to live for a little while and then die, or serve as food for man or other animals. I think that when paradise is restored to the earth, death will be no more for both man AND the animals. Then when the earth is comfortably full of man and animals God would see to it that there would be no more births, at least here on earth.
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  maxwell

  The hardest teaching/rule for me to accept was that apostate literature was off limits. Truth is not threatened by fallacious arguments, so if apostates are so wrong, why is it such a sin to see their arguments?
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  lesterd

  Them sticking their nose im the bedroom
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  And He Ran

  "Disfellowshipping is a loving act" was the title of a talk I am sure I heard in the late 1990s. It is a perversity and indeed travesty of the English language to believe that lie as being the truth.