by DATA-DOG 4 Replies latest watchtower beliefs
As a current of past Elder or MS, did you actually read the Bible? Were you ever troubled by the lack of knowledge from others who were serving? As an example, I spoke to an Elder who recently finished the Elder's school. He regailed me with tales of an appendix in the NWT. Apparently he was unfamiliar with this feature. I just wondered what any of you have experienced in this regard.
DD
I was never an elder, but it's amazing what people will gloss over. For example, while I was reading the Bible, I came to see that Luke's account contradicts the other accounts on whether Judas was at the last meal or not. Every JW who I have talked to about it, hadn't seen that.
One JW I talked to, when I asked him if he had read that part in Luke, looked at me with shock and said, I just read the whole NT 4 times and I didn't see this!
They have rose-colored glasses with the Bible and with their literature...
Matt 5:17 was recently shown to two elders. Then, they were asked has heaven and earth passed away yet and they said why no. They couldn't stop staring at that verse and other scriptures that backed it up for the rest of the evening
Jw are told to scrutenize the scriptures with the GOAL to make the truth (wt doctrine) palatble to people, to others, who have even less bible understanding then they.
In other words "how do I dumb down this even more."
No Beorean attitude : let us see "whether THIS is REALLY so" instead
"so-so" is good enough, safely.
I never accepted priviledges, and they were offered. My thing was deep personal study — and that's how I realized how pompous these a-holes are, and then became an atheist. Reason won.
