Hi TTE and welcome!
I've been lurking in the shadows of this forum for about 6 months or so. I'll try to be brief here, but I apologize in advance if this is not "brief enough" for you.
Hey, no stress, you've been saving it up for 6 months!
Moses soley spoke for the Israelites, and when Aaron and Miriam questioned that authority Jehovah was upppset, am I wrong for thinking the Governing Body doesnt represent God for me???
No, of course not. The curtain has been torn in two. The is one Mediator between man and God who is on the other side of the curtain and that is Jesus, no one else.
Jehovah has always had a certain group of people whether large or small that were his people, could it be that Jehovah's Witnesses are those chosen people?
Yes, in one sense. But all are invited now Revelation 22:17, see how it says "whoever".
Jehovah's Witnesses follow the 1st century congregations when the apostles were alive, great right?
False. They preach and teach a different gospel as were also appeared then 1 Corinthians 15:2 2 Corinthians 11:4 Galatians 1
What if Armageddon comes, and the Witnesses were right, boy would I be an idiot right??
Yes, but you have seen how wrong they are already, can you really place any substance in what they have to say?
What if Jesus comes and He is God, not "a god"?
As it is, death is the thing to concern ourselves with Hebrews 9:27 and meeting Jesus who is the judge 2 Timothy 4:1 not the WT version of Armageddon.
Add that to the reasons I already mentioned and you see why I kind of want to stay, but here's what's making me wanna get out fast
1914- I've researched this thoroughly pure crap if you ask me
All the false prophecies in the past, 1914, 1925, 1975, etc.
Raymond Franz leaving the Governing Body (but then again see my Satan example for staying)
607 BCE- FALSE
They say "EXERCISING faith in Christ's ransom" is doing alot for the WTS, that pisses me off, so bad that I get up 4 or 5 times a meeting to get some air, cause I feel like I'm gonna puke
This is the core of the falsehood. Did you ever hear "Jesus is Lord" or just "jehovah"? Romans 10:9 1 Corinthians 12:3
You need to trust you instinct and get out fast. Do not looks back like Lot's wife to see the destruction that the WT love to preach.
"Faith without works is dead like the sea" so step your selling of Watchtowers game up
Conversely, works without faith is dead also.
James 2:18 (New International Version)
18 But someone will say, "You have faith; I have deeds."
Show me your faith without deeds, and I will show you my faith by what I do.
Works cannot save, only faith in Jesus Ephesians 2 and JWs do not have that faith :(
I'll stop there, but as you guys can see, I'm very conflicted here, I've been apart of this cult for 27 years!! It's all I know, from sitting outside of birthday parties as a kid to dont slow dance with that girl at a witness gathering, to you need to reach out as a married man, I'm up to my head in confusion with my feelings, but my thoughts are clear, I want out, I wanna fade out of this destructive cult, but I dont know where to start. I love my wife, I love my parents, but maybe....just maybe....as bad as its going to hurt, I'm going to have to start over in life without them.
You have seen enough. You might displease you parents of your wife and even loose them. However, what is your sanity worth? Or your soul?
Matthew 16:26 (New International Version)
26 What good will it be for a man if he gains the whole world, yet forfeits his soul? Or what can a man give in exchange for his soul?
Isaiah 55:1-6 (New International Version)
Invitation to the Thirsty
1 "Come, all you who are thirsty,come to the waters;
and you who have no money,
come, buy and eat!
Come, buy wine and milk
without money and without cost.
2 Why spend money on what is not bread,
and your labor on what does not satisfy?
Listen, listen to me, and eat what is good,
and your soul will delight in the richest of fare.
3 Give ear and come to me;
hear me, that your soul may live.
I will make an everlasting covenant with you,
my faithful love promised to David.
4 See, I have made him a witness to the peoples,
a leader and commander of the peoples.
5 Surely you will summon nations you know not,
and nations that do not know you will hasten to you,
because of the LORD your God,
the Holy One of Israel,
for he has endowed you with splendor."
6 Seek the LORD while he may be found;
call on him while he is near.
His name is Jesus John 6:35 John 4:14 Revelation 22:17
All the best,
Stephen