DF'd for not believing WT or Bible?!!

by ISP 2 Replies latest jw friends

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  ISP

  Follows hot on the heels of Jokoyama's...(Joke)latest offering.

  Does the WTS place the WT above the Bible? Although the Bible is accepted as inspired...you get DF'd for not following the WT not the Bible necessarily.

  Gods word has been the same on the following issues...
  1. Neutrality
  2. transplants
  3. Blood
  4. err....oral sex

  Want to add to the list?

  The WTS has flip-flopped many times on the same issues. But the WTS can DF you because of not accepting their current teachings...i.e. teachings of men. Wow..what gives them the power to do that!?

  The WT has overtaken the scriptures as an authority. How many brothers when giving a talk would always look up the WT when discussing a scripture..i.e...the oral tradition of the WTS. Only then would he say...the WT of this year said this about this scripture...Without that he would have no authority! Remind you of the pharisees?

  *** Rbi8 Matthew 7:28-29 ***
  28 Now when Jesus finished these sayings, the effect was that the crowds were astounded at his way of teaching; 29 for he was teaching them as a person having authority, and not as their scribes.

  ISP
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  Francois

  ISP:

  You asked: "Wow..what gives them the power to do that!?"

  Their followers do, that's who.

  You can't be walked on unless you lie down first. If every one of the rank and file told the GB to go piss up a rope, they'd have no power whatsoever.

  And this is true of every one of us who walked out on the utterly worthless bastards. You, me, Kent, Mulan, everyone of us here who got enough and told them to go fuck off withdrew the permission we had given the GB and their local henchmen to blow up our shit.

  Now we're blowing up theirs. Delicious irony, what?

  Francois
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  cynicus

  Umm, the WTBS and its publications come before the bible to be exact.
  Verbatim quotes from the Douglash Walsh trial, where Fred Franz, who was vice-president of the society at that time (November 1954), is questioned before the court and testified the following:

  Q. In addition to these regular publications do you prepare and issue a number of theological pamphlets and books from time to time?

  A. Yes.

  Q. Can you tell me this; are these theological publications and the
  semi-monthly periodicals used for discussion of statements of doctrine?

  A. Yes.

  Q. Are these statements of doctrine held to be authoritative within the Society?

  A. Yes.

  Q. Is their acceptance a matter of choice, or is it obligatory on all those who wish to be and remain members of the Society?

  A. It is obligatory.

  Q. Did you imply that the individual member has the right of reading the books and the Bible and forming his own view as to the proper interpretation of Holy Writ?

  A. He comes – – –

  Q. Would you say yes or no, and then qualify?

  A. No. Do you want me to qualify now?

  Q. Yes, if you wish?

  A. The Scripture is there given in support of the statement, and therefore the individual when he looks up the Scripture and thereby verifies the statement, then he comes to the Scriptural view of the matter, Scriptural understanding as it is written in Acts, the seventeenth chapter and the eleventh verse, that the Bereans were more noble than those of Thessalonica in that they received the Word with all readiness, and they searched the Scripture to see whether those things were so, and we instruct to follow that noble course of the Bereans in searching the Scripture to see whether these things were so.

  Q. A Witness has no alternative, has he, to accept as authoritative and to be obeyed instructions issued in the "Watchtower" or the "Informant" or "Awake"?

  A. He must accept those.

  
  'Nuff said...

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  Every absurdity has a champion to defend it.