What's the incentive for becoming a JW now? July 15th 2013 Watchtower (page 3)

punkofnice

What's the incentive for becoming a JW now? July 15th 2013 Watchtower?

None.

If the WBT$ ever had a way to lose they really have lost it big time now.

a watcher

Raven, I will enter into the kingdom in whatever way Jehovah allows. I don't need to know the details. I just need to trust Jehovah.

wha happened?

So the love is lost between the WT and the UN. Oh well, we knew it couldn't last. Forbiden love can be exciting, but in the end, it just falls apart on itself

tiki

'oh what a tangled web we weave - when first we practice to deceive'

....something is only new light if it was in the dark before, like opening the blinds in a darkened room you couldn't see in to let light stream in filling the void and allowing those in the room or outside the room looking in the now open blind to be able to make out the contents of the room, allowing new exploration of those contents that could not be done with sight previously.

It is not new light if you make stuff up and then realize you were wrong and make more stuff up and then realize you were wrong and then make stuff up, all the while covering up your more obvious blunders (1975, 1986, 1914, etc...). This is so horribly wrong to do to followers of any religion. All the while, they continually tell everyone that no one can predict the time of the end, while predicting it over and over again. If that doesn't raise red flags for anyone with two brain cells to rub together, I don't know what to say.

Sorry, the whole 1914 thing was another major hangup of mine even as a kid. Not being able to predict the 'time or day', but narrowing it down to a life span seemed to be splitting hairs for some reason.

WTWizard

Well, if the washtowel is right, I am going to take a bath on whatever silver I invested in. And I am buying some more, while it's on sale. Shows how much faith I have in the washtowel.

They have been wrong so many times. People took a bath by taking the washtowel's advice in 1969 through 1975. The ones that bought gold and silver in 1969 would have taken a bath had Armageddon come in 1975, but they made quite a bit of money if they held on instead of selling out in 1973 or 1974 to pious-sneer. And now, my silver is a better investment. I would rather risk taking a bath because the washtowel was right than taking one because I sold out, pious-sneered, and got nothing except stagnation.

ruderedhead

So glad I'm out! Can't believe I was ever so gullible. Reading about their constant flip flopping makes me dizzy. It's not new light, it's called covering your butt!

BluesBrother

For many years they have taught that the separating of the sheep and goats in judgement applies to the future, not the present day. They are teaching a final "second coming" in glory which is different to his "invisible prescence since 1914" :

WT 1995 pages 22/23

24 In other words, the parable points to the future when the Son of man will come in his glory. He will sit down to judge people then living. His judgment will be based on what they have manifested themselves to be. At that time “the distinction between a righteous one and a wicked one” will have been clearly established. (Malachi 3:18) The actual pronouncing and executing of judgment will be carried out in a limited time. Jesus will render just decisions based on what has become evident about individuals.—See also 2 Corinthians 5:10.
25 This means, then, that Jesus’ ‘sitting down on his glorious throne’ for judgment, mentioned at Matthew 25:31, applies to the future point when this powerful King will sit down to pronounce and execute judgment on the nations. Yes, the judgment scene that involves Jesus at Matthew 25:31-33, 46 is comparable to the scene in Daniel chapter 7, where the reigning King, the Ancient of Days, sat down to carry out his role as Judge.
26 Understanding the parable of the sheep and the goats in this way indicates that the rendering of judgment on the sheep and the goats is future. It will take place after “the tribulation” mentioned at Matthew 24:29, 30 breaks out and the Son of man ‘arrives in his glory.’ (Compare Mark 13:24-26.) Then, with the entire wicked system at its end, Jesus will hold court and render and execute judgment.

bigmac

its good all this--but i think i'll play safe--and come back in a few hundred years time to see if we are still waiting for all this to happen.

steve2

With this detailed warning about the dramatic stages that must unfold before the climax of the end strikes, there will be absolutely no threat of Christ coming like a thief in the night will there?

Little wonder the quarter-hearted hangers-on who are neither in nor out of the organization bide their sweet time waiting for a more personally convenient time to return to the fold of their local kingdom hall.

Such is the mentality the Watchtower's stupid 'end-stages' message fosters.

What's the incentive for becoming a JW now? July 15th 2013 Watchtower