I cannot speak for the woman in question but I can certainly speak from my experience and the results seen by the witnesses who were 'studying' with me. I viewed them as a harmless denomination of Christianity for years and could not understand why my wife would not see me as yet another Christian, just like her. I even tried to convince her that we were the same save for some minor doctrinal differences by sharing with her where the WTS and I actually agreed.
I was a 'fairly' open minded guy, or so I had thought. Even though I was hearing from pastors and others within the churches I attended that the witnesses were a false religion, I figured I'd give them a chance and it did seem that they really know their Bible. Plus, in many ways, they did seem to live closer to the 'truth' than other Christian religions. When I would do the occasionaly search on the Internet, usually hate sites showed up and they would always get some details wrong concerning the religion. It's the details that they got wrong that made me simply think these sites weren't legit and just looking to attack the religion without offering a balanced view. I also find that the people in the churches who also criticized the witnesses did not offer much concrete evidence to validate their claims. Not to mention the fact that a lot of their statements seemed false compared with what I was witnessing while I was studying their literature.
Yet, in spite of all of this, she did not seem convinced that my beliefs could be equally valid and when I did not accept her beliefs as total gospel (just interpretations), it must have gotten her thinking. Truth is that in spite of her wanting to be a part of the religion for some strange reason, that at the time I did not understand, she was beginning to become agnostic or even atheist. Eventually, she decided that she had to make a choice and (in her words) since she was so scared of dying and felt like this was the ticket, she decided to work towards becoming a baptized Jehovah's Witness.
That began my search because I could not understand why she felt like all other churches were totally false, even when they preached some of the same doctrines as they? This really bothered me and I had to find out for myself if this was the TRUTH for if it was then I had a lot of adjustments that I needed to make. At the time, I felt like my everlasting life truly depended on it and indeed it is a big question for any individual who, like me, was confronted with the reality that the beliefs that I held were perhaps incorrect. I HAD TO KNOW.
Well, my eyes were opened that's for sure. I did like the WTWizard suggested, researched doctrines, cross-referenced with what other interpretations were and why they differed. I began to find inconsistencies in their translation of the Bible and downright faulty practices and beliefs that even the witnesses are not aware of. Such as Jesus not being the mediator for the great crowd and the baptismal questions that effectively baptize a person to the organization. I was shocked and rather shaken about the whole thing.
Needless to say, I stopped going to the meetings with her cold turkey. The 'friends' at the hall who were use to seeing me regularly wondered why I just all of a sudden stopped coming. My daughter, who found the meetings rather boring, must have saw the opportunity to get out of them because my wife would tell me that when she'd ask her if she wanted to go my daughter would ask, "Is daddy going?" When my wife said no, my daughter followed suit. It must have devastated my wife (much in the way her rejecting any of my beliefs devastated me). Were it not for some of these wacky doctrines and their false prophecy, I think things would be rather different with me now. Who knows, I may have become a might have became a ministerial servant working with one of our dear friends, an 80+ year old elder who took time to study and got to know us for all these years.
