Can you not use discernment?
How ironic....
If you are wondering what I mean by that, then I guess you will have to use your dicernment to figure it out!
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Gozz,
I am not an ex-witness but I know alot about you from them.
You are in a situation where you think that you have it all and look down apon others for not coming to the conclusions that you and your leaders claim orignate from the Bible.
There is one thing that started me on my long journey that brought me to this board.
It all started when someone (a witness) told me some awful things about people that were once witnesses but decided to leave the organisation.
She used the phrase 'we do not entertain apostate literature.' (I dont need an explaination I already know why and the reason is silly to me. Oh and jesus dident say that you shouldent either.)
***{By now any witness reading this post would have lost intrest and singled out some remark on a biblical doctrine to correct me on. Sorry you wont find any I dont discuss doctrines.}***
Anyway to e that raised a red flag. Why would someone calling themselves a christian say such vile things about a person and put them in one class. So I decided to here the other side of the story.
Well as you know apostates know every thin about your organisation (especially things that they want to be kept secret) while you only know what the GB wants you to know.
Information controll is a very dangerous tool to have at your disposal.
***{If any of the active witnesses on the board read this far they would have probally managed to block out any of the important issues that I have raised and wont even bother to reply.]***
If it werent for apostates I would have never found out the FACTS about the WT that I now know until it was to late. I would probally be preparing for meeting later tonight.
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Why do you only chose to anwser the unimportant and easy questions while neglecting the more relevant and thought provking issues.
Frakel made execlent points in his post about IMPORTANT issues regarding false teachings of the WTBS. And you chose only to comment on his disrespect for the supreme head of your church.
***{By now the jws must be really bored, i really doubt that I would get a responce to this post.]***
Mabe he went a little too far but he did raise very important issues that you dident think were relevant enough.
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From what I have gathered thus far the JW life is one full of hyprocrisy, I say that because you are centered around works to gain your salvation and another part is centred on hiding the sins that you have commited from the congregation inorder to maintain the appearence of good standing. That is because you know that once you break one of their rules and they find out about it, all the love they show you will be gone in an instant.
If works play such an important role in your salvation then why are you posting on this board? If you were a good jw you wouldent be here, you would be preparing for the Battle of the Great day of God Alimighty Armageddon. Is this how you prepare yourself when the time is so short? You should pe sperading the word to people that never heard it and that are biblically ignorant.
Is associating with apostates a good work? What would your elders do if they knew what you were doing?
You at this point could probally tell them that you were spreading the good news to those who left the fold like a true christian would but you know that it wouldent make a difference. You do not care about apostates infact you are supposed to "hate them with the gratest hate" because they deserve no love.
Since I know that you do not have their well being at heart (that is if you have a heart) then you must be hear for your own purposes.
***{If a witness respondes to these 3 points that I am about to make, bethel will probally ferrze over (That was not a false prediction I did not say it in the name of Jehovah I mearly suggested that betHELL freeze over on my ownmaccord ) }***
I think that you are here for one of 3 reasons:
1) To improve your skills in refuting arguments about your doctrines. If you know all the possible arguements that opposers have to your teachings then you could easily find the anwsers from your books and memorize them. This will give you respect in your congo and possibly grant you more privlages.
You may also want to say that you are to strengthen you faith but that isnt the real reason, for if that were the case you would read your bible without the literature that is supposed to help you better understand it. The bible strengthens your faith not WT literature.
2) You are trying to convince yourself that the WTBS is not the truth because you have doubts. Your doubts may be subconscious but they are still there. I commend you for taking the time and the risk to think for yourself.
I realized that noone can convince you that this organisation is not the and is evil, you have to convince yourself of it.
This is because nothing that anyone can say to you will have any effect if you do not listen and act apon it. Yes you may hear it but it wont make a difference unless you embrace it with an open mind.
3) You are curious.
Plain and simple you want to know why people can turn their back on God and his organisation. Why turn your back on paridise?
You want to know if there is any truth to their claims that the organisation is not from God Almighty.
You want to know if your minds are really being controlled by a group of heartless old men who want you and everyone else to believe that their intrepatation of the Bible organisation.
You want to know how the minds of the apostates tick. How does satan manage to decieve somany people, how does he get them to leave the truth?
Thats all..
jerome
The Bible is a two edged sword wield it for evil and it you may get hurt.
