Avoid Misunderstandings

by Sayswho 6 Replies latest jw friends

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  Sayswho

  • This clears up a lot of things for me...as this is a direct statement to have us deceive where our understandings really comes from. (Because it really is what "the society teaches" (GB) not the bible.)

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  W98 3/15 p.19 par.4

  4. In order to avoid misunderstandings, Jehovah’s Witnesses try to be careful about how they express themselves. Instead of saying, “the Society teaches,” many Witnesses prefer to use such expressions as, “the Bible says” or, “I understand the Bible to teach.” In this way they emphasize the personal decision that each Witness has made in accepting Bible teachings and also avoid giving the false impression that Witnesses are somehow bound to the dictates of some religious sect

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  Sw
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  GrandmaJones

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  Ding

  "Instead of saying, “the Society teaches,” many Witnesses prefer to use such expressions as, “the Bible says” or, “I understand the Bible to teach.” In this way they emphasize the personal decision that each Witness has made in accepting Bible teachings and also avoid giving the false impression that Witnesses are somehow bound to the dictates of some religious sect."

  How do Jehovah's Witnesses look themselves in the mirror after reading a paragraph like this?

  The fact is that they ARE bound to the dictates of their religious sect if they want to remain Jehovah's Witnesses.

  Why aren't they PROUD of the fact that they are bound to the dictates of their religious sect?

  Isn't their religious sect "God's theocratic organization," his "sole channel of communication on earth today"?
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  thetrueone

  Trying to impose the idea that the WTS. Biblical teachings are directly inline with the true understanding of the bible is like putting a certificate of approval

  on themselves as being the only true interpreters of the bible, so it would be in a person's best interest to join this organization.

  Nothing anymore than self marketing propaganda, WTS style.
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  Finally-Free

  In this way they emphasize the personal decision that each Witness has made in accepting Bible teachings and also avoid giving the false impression that Witnesses are somehow bound to the dictates of some religious sect

  A "personal decision" is not a personal decision when it's made under a threat.

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  thetrueone

  Everything about the WTS is about the circulation of their literature, so making these self-supporting proclamations is going to be their driving motivation.

  What the GB members really are, are marketing executives and editors for this particular religious publishing house.

  The proliferation of their literature is the gospel preaching work derived directly from the bible, only don't examine the writings too closely
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  Sayswho

  It's amazing how the whole house of cards starts comming down...knowledge or the refinement of it makes it easier to see how it really is.The 'real truth' or at least something that is closer to it.

  For me it still becoming clearer and clearer that something is very wrong with the org. It just does not seem possible that they would be making so many mistakes and teaching so many non-truths and be the group he is using to teach mankind what his plan is.

  Sw