The Reasoning Book is Inspired

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  • Mary
    Mary
    After all, this book (pointing to Reasoning from the Scriptures) is not inspired is it?"

    Both ladies responded it was.

    Oh dear god in heaven.....Don't these women even know what the religion teaches? I've never seen anywhere where the Borg says that their 'bible aids' are "inspired". Of course, the average Witness is supposed to treat them like they were inspired, but as far as I know, they've never actually put this to print.

    LDH said: I had some last week and I kinda did them the same way. The 27 year old (I asked) says, "Well we'd better get going." I said, " NO , it's rude to call and tell people you want to TALK to them when the truth is you want to talk AT them. I have some perspectives about what you are saying, too." She and the 17 year old stayed for almost an hour.

    LMAO! I love it! Hey, if they come back, you can count them as 2 Return Visits!

  • DoomVoyager
    DoomVoyager

    Near-fatal anti-witnessing. Good work!

  • blondie
    blondie

    Mary, I think there "reasoning" is that that book contains a lot of quoted scriptures compared to their other publications. I have known jws to have the reasoning book bookbound with the NWT to give the impression that it is part of their bible. Most jws reach for a publication to prove their beliefs, not the bible. Imagine not being prepared to prove 1914, a basic doctrine!

    The information is in the bible topics in the back of the NWT as well in said reasoning book.

    *** td 6-6A Bible Topics for Discussion ***

    6.

    Chronology

    A.

    1914 (C.E.) endsGentileTimes

    Line of kingdom rulers interrupted, 607 B.C.E. Eze 21:25-27

    "Seven times" to pass until rule restored. Da 4:32, 16, 17

    Seven = 2 × 3 1 /2 times, or 2 × 1,260 days. Re 12:6, 14; 11:2, 3

    A day for a year. [Makes 2,520 years] Eze 4:6; Nu 14:34

    To run until Kingdom’s establishment. Lu 21:24; Da 7:13, 14

  • lovelylil
    lovelylil

    This reminds me of when I was out in service one day with a lady who was a jdub for about 3 decades. It was her turn to go up to a door and when the householder came out she interupted the lady's pre rehearsed presentation by stating "well you people do not believe in Jesus".

    With that, the lady stops speaking and starts to fumble in her bag. I am wondering why she is not talking and whether or not I should jump in and take over when this lady pulls out a reasoning book. She goes to open it up to look for what to say and I tell her "Close the book, I'll handle this".

    So I go on and give a nice little spiel about yes we do believe in Christ and that is why we are out preaching like he did, yadda, yadda.

    Well anyway, it turned out to be a pretty good call and the lady was not interested but did say she was glad we did believe in Christ. Of course we didn't believe in the same Christ as she did, which I found out later.

    But.........I turned to the lady after leaving the door and said to her "Don't you believe in Christ?" to which she responds "yes". Then I asked her, then why do you need the reasoning book to tell someone that!

    She just looked at me like I was a two headed monster and didn't speak to me the rest of the morning for making her "look stupid". For which I thought, well.......... if you actually are stupid, its not hard to make you look that way is it?

    Anyway, she never worked with me again in service.

    Lilly

  • insearchoftruth
    insearchoftruth

    Also, if some one points to the reasoning book as inspired, the topic on end times still has not been revised to reflect the 'new light' on generation change.....

  • Pubsinger
    Pubsinger

    ooh that's great!

    If they come back ask them to explain from the Reasoning Book the generation stuff - hilarious . . .

    I can't BELIEVE they haven't printed a new edition with that removed - shows how hard up they must be

  • insearchoftruth
    insearchoftruth

    In the hard cover english version, page 239 first paragraph!

  • sacolton
    sacolton

    99.9% of JWs really don't know the current approved beliefs by their Governing Body. They claim that the organization makes the bible easy to understand, but most can't explain how they arrive at 1914.

  • insearchoftruth
    insearchoftruth

    From Reasoning:

    To what do all these events of the "last days" point?

    Luke 21:31, 32: "When you see these things occurring, know that the kingdom of God is near [that is, the time when it will destroy the present wicked world and itself take full charge of earth's affairs]. Truly I say to you, This generation will by no means pass away until all things occur." (The generation that was alive at the beginning of fulfillment in 1914 is now well along in years. The time remaining must be very short. World conditions give every indication this must be the case.)

  • keyser soze
    keyser soze
    Older lady "Well, we should be getting along we have people waiting for us."

    Translation: "You said something we can't refute, now we have to leave before you say something to make us doubt our faith". WT programming at its best.

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