Grandma Jones,
Thank you for the apology. No offense has been taken, just so you know. In posting what I posted, I knew that there would be ‘ridiculers with their ridicule.’ It’s to be expected, is it not?
To Others:
I was born and raised in a Roman Catholic family. I have always believed in Almighty God and his Son. I remember once asking my Catholic mother if she would teach me the Bible. The expression on her face when I asked her that question, I still can see. It was a look of disappointment because she could not teach me the Bible as she did not know it. When the witnesses came around, she fell hook, line, and sinker for it. She got all us children into the Organization. We were in it for years. However, at the time of my studying and learning about the Bible from the witnesses, I remember that my studying was a searching. It was a searching for God and Christ—a searching for wanting to come to know them. I studied and learned about ‘life everlasting in the freedom of the sons of god.’ When I studied and became baptized, I knew even then that I was a son of God. At some point, however, the witnesses took away my “sonship” with their teachings. Sad to say, I let them. For years I struggled with their teaching of me not being a son of God.
Anyway, to make a long story short, all the years that I was a witness, all those years were still a “searching for God and Christ.” And because of that continuing search, I have left the Organization, because of continuing that search.
I no longer need to “search” for them. Why? Because they—Jah and Jaheshua—have found me.
I have posted on this board about my anointing experience back on February of 2001. I no longer doubt who and what I am or what my hope is. I know because I have come to be known by Jah and his Christ.
When I speak of “my Lord” I am referring to Jaheshua the Son of God/Jah. When I speak of “Jah” I am referring to the Almighty Sovereign or as Shelby often writes, the Most Holy One of Israel.
My questions to your ridiculers are these: Why were YOU ever a witness? Seriously. Why? Were you in just because your parents were? While you were in were you REALLY in search of God and Christ? Seriously. Why did you claim to be Christians if you did not really care to be one? Did not being witnesses teach you something of the goodness of God? How we should behave and act toward others? Why are many of you so hateful? Why do you behave with such scorn and derision of others? If you did search for God and Christ, what stopped you from searching further? What stopped you from continuing your search? Was your being a witness merely a pretense for a pretext? Because the Society fooled you (us, for it fooled me too for a time), why have you turned away from God and his Christ? Was your seeming search for God a sham?
Seriously.
--Inkie
