Speaking against Jehovah's organization on this forum.
As has been pointed out, you yourself are opposing "Jehovah's organization" by your presence on this forum. Be sure to mention in your letter applying for reinstatement that you post here regularly.
Before you do that, however, perhaps you could demonstrate clearly from the scriptures that God does indeed work through a single, monolithic organization in Christian times.
After you've done that, you'll next need to prove scripturally that JW's are that organization, despite their lies, hypocrisy, and their fitting perfectly the Bible's description of a false prophet.
And, since you wish to teach us about the 'scripturalness' of disfellowshipping as carried out by the Watchtower, perhaps you can answer the several questions with which I challenged You Know months ago on this forum. In asking them, I assumed for the purpose of discussion that the Bible authorizes elders only, as opposed to the congregation at large, to try cases of wrongdoing, even though that is not a scriptural teaching. I'm still waiting for an answer from You Know; perhaps you can do better:
We still need scripture to prove:
(1) that the elders handling such cases of sin should do so in secret,
(2) that in no case and at no time should the congregation ever be informed as to what the sin was, only as to the outcome of the hearing, which they must accept without question,
(3) that witnesses would not be permitted at such hearings, except within very specific guidelines, and then, that these witnesses could provide testimony only and then be dismissed, not allowed to observe other parts of the hearing,
(4) that the person 'on trial' would not be permitted to make any record of the proceeding, even taking notes,
(5) that there would be no appeal from the decision of the committee except to another identical 'star-chamber' hearing.
All of the above are actual practices of the Watchtower as carried outr through its judicial committees today and as detailed in the elders' manual and Body of Elder letters. Please provide the scriptural directives for those five points.
Tom
