The WAY OUT of the Kingdom Hall is the ENTRANCE!

by Terry 12 Replies latest jw friends

  • Terry
    Terry

    The door you use to ENTER Jehovah's Witnesses' religion can be the same door

    ..............you use to EXIT the religion.

    How does this work?

    Read on.

    1.Jehovah's Witnesses point to obvious doctrinal errors that undermine faith in Christendom.

    The dissonance between pure christianity and pagan Christmas, for example. The use of the word "soul" to indicate an immortal quality separate from the physical body. This Platonic idea crept into christianity, they tell you, and poisoned the purity of teaching.

    2. The formation of the Church was corrupted by the pagan emperor Constantine and filled with error by the decisions of the Councils thereafter (starting with Niceaa in 325 C.E.)

    3.The obvious conflicts between Jesus' message of Peace and the contradictory behaviors of the Church in crusades, politics and internal cover-ups of depravity---these are banner wedge issues JW's employ to wrest people from loyalty to mainstream associations.

    4.There was damage done to pure teaching by the errors which crept in to bible translations over time motivated by doctrinal battles and deliberate distortions due to disputation. The New World Translation restores "Jehovah's name" to the Greek scriptures and upholds his Soverignty in print.

    5.Early Christians went door to door. To be like them, modern Christians must do the same.

    This is a frontal assault on the foundationl ideas of mainstream Christian orthodoxy.

    But, this is a game plan and strategy for pulling Jehovah's Witnesses back out of the trap they are in.

    Here is how it works.

    Read on.

    1. Errors in Christian Doctrine are present in Christendom. Pointing them out reveals a principle which provides an excellent tool of thought.

    Namely: ERROR IN DOCTRINE must be guarded against no matter how secure your belief system. Search out the source of error!

    What is the source of error in orthodox doctrine? The non-existence of uncorrupt original autograph manuscripts!

    If God himself did not see fit to PRESERVE intact the stories about Jesus and the views of his followers--WHY should we think it is important for us to FORCE interpretations of the uncorroborated copies on others and call it Truth?

    In other words: there is no impeccable source in writing for us to VERIFY doctrine by. Without it--orthodoxy is always a whim.

    2. The Organization is like the Catholic Church. There is a heirarchy which claims a divine basis of authority, a claim to genuineness and a sole responsibility for pronouncements which must be viewed as inviolable.

    a. The views of this hierarchy have been self-contradictory. Contradiction means error.

    b.The policies, prophecies and structure of this Organization have morphed, evolved, devolved and suffered constant change. The men who helmed this organization do not---over time--even agree with each other! God is not the author of confusion. Just as the Catholic Church became corrupt, the JW Organization is not immune to corruption.

    3.The Watchtower Society is quick to point out the egregious failures of the Catholic Church in hiding pedophilia. Yet, it now comes to light, their private policies are no different. Hypocrites are the very ones decried by Jesus in his ministry. Jesus denounced this behavior and marked it as indicative of false religion. Further, self-contamination by the Society with the United Nations (as a shill NGO) further illustrates the hypocritcal two-faced denunciation of this entity while supporting its very policies in the pages of JW publications.

    4.Reputable bible scholars, Greek experts and authors of cited books and passages named by the Watchtower Translation Committee have refuted the New World Translation's corruptions of text. There is no college, seminary, educational entity or institute which finds this translation to be honest and free of doctrinal manipulations.

    5. Early Christians held their meetings, gatherings and meal times in private homes in one house and then, another. JW's distort this into a compulsory view of ministerial obligations. Further, the quality of the printed materials, articles, doctrines and claims about the state of the world and the urgency of predicted events has proved this door to door ministry to be worthless on merit! What good is a faithful door to door "feeding" of households with "food at the proper time" which is stale with error, contradiction and false-prophecy content??

    The way each of us entered the Kingdom Hall though the DOOR OF ENTRANCE we also left it.

    Disinformation is revealed which breaks the bond of trust with Jehovah's Witnesess as truth-tellers.

    Distortions of doctrine are revealed by careful study of source materials for veracity and historical verifications.

    Organizational mismanagement, false claims and feckless stewardship reveals corruptions at the top.

    The Purpose and Policy of the ministry itself is proved to be illusory and feckless.

    The house of cards collapses in betrayed trust and a whirlwind of lies and misrepresentations.

    This is the best path to the door of EXIT.

    Simply reverse the procedure that took you inside in the first place!

  • Meeting Junkie No More
    Meeting Junkie No More

    Very true. But for us more-or-less born ins, we've had to exit through a door we unwittingly entered as gullible children...

    In my own case, it was after reading much religious history that I began to see the many things you point out above, eventually leading to my exit. The JW religion thrives on its pseudo-"educational" propaganda tracts/books/booklets to beguile the unwary. Too bad I wasn't older when one of my parents (immigrant to North America) began studying the JW propaganda disguised as a 'Bible study'. Thus it was that I came to spend 40+ years in the JW 'mindset'; however 42 years later, I eventually did exit through the entrance door to FREEDOM and TRUTH!!!

  • Terry
    Terry

    I can't imagine the anguish connected to being "born in" to the Jehovah's Witness religion!

    I've seen many families torn to shreds.

  • cyberjesus
    cyberjesus

    I was almost born inside the KH. But I got out trying to get in. I was Dfd at 25 but never never ever questioned anything nor authority nor doctrine. When I decided to return I wanted to be honest with myself and before I got reinstated decided to research the many questions I had. The elders suggested a bible study after I got reinstated. I replied no, because If I research after I get reinstated then I will get Dfd again :-)

    So the entrance door got closed before I was able to get it. But the family is all inside and angry at me for stepping back on my return.

  • moshe
    moshe

    JW families can be so stubborn like that, Cyberjesus. I have a feeling that more JW's originally leave over personal issues than doctrinal ones- whatever works.

  • thetrueone
    thetrueone

    So true Terry, the supposed truth culled you in to them and the truth should open the door for everyone to exit.

    The WTS. is a fine example how a little cancer can spread into big cancer.

    C T Russell was a card carrying charlatan who thought he had the goods to sell to the people.

    Unfortunately when he died he left a stack of money and a building full of printing presses that was

    just too temping for someone to grab and get this money making machine up and running again,

    we all know who that is of course. As it is the strongest information that displays the corruption

    of this publishing company, is its own published literature itself.

    The realization of what this publishing company has done to the public, in the name of preaching the gospel

    is a travesty of epic proportions, people are starting to awake slowly but surely.

  • OnTheWayOut
    OnTheWayOut

    Thanks for posting this. You do realize that I have copyright on the terms, "on the way" or "the way out" on this forum, don't you?

    I will let it slide this time.

  • Terry
    Terry

    Thanks for posting this. You do realize that I have copyright on the terms, "on the way" or "the way out" on this forum, don't you?

    I will let it slide this time.

    Can't I pay a "use"fee?

  • A.Fenderson
    A.Fenderson

    Coherent, pointed, sensical--excellent!

    Now, Terry, do the research & interviews so that you can really put yourself in the place of a born-in and come up with an equally excellent summation of why and how to get the hell out. :-)

  • Quentin
    Quentin

    I don't think it is any harder for a "born in" to get out, than it is for a convert. The method of informing yourself about the wt is the same for both types of jw. I was three when my parents converted, by the time I was 26 I was out and gone.

    The hardest thing for any jw is to escape the "family" trap. Having family that are jws holds more jws in bondage than anynthing else the wt does, even to the point of causing some to return ( remember Gumby?) just to have the privalge of full contact with their family.

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