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Jon Preston

So my wife is slowly waking up! But cognitive dissonance is thick indeed! My wife knows the GB are false in many ways but she still holds to the "theyre more right than others!"

I told her that we dont know because we havent really seen what others preach...she agreed. She is scared of apostate material...she wants to move and be free but her callused and doctrinated mind still sees truth insome of this.

so i told her that of course thered be some truths....if it was all false then all would leave! Anyways i herd your wise counsl again!

Since we are inforeign territory lets learn together! What shall i present my wife with? Ive expressd views of ray franz, "real apostates", criticism to the org--and she still holds on to some things...saying franzs book is only a perspective...of courseni told her to read it...

But should i firs give her cult examples to notice? Should i be more critical to the FDS/GB? She already knows and agrees they are false...

Or should i go scriptural?

Jon Preston

Cmon lurkers! Comment!

ABibleStudent

Hi Jon Preston, Have you thought about asking your wife what three things would make her distrust the WTBTS? Then, show her how to do her own research to critically think for herself.

IMHO www.jwfacts.com would be a great starting point for WTBTS specific topics. Another would be watching one of Steve Hassan's videos on his website www.freedomofmind.com. You could start off gently by showing your wife How Big is the Phenomenon of Undue Influence? (2:01) or show her the video Strategic Interactive Approach explained 2003 (1:23:23) where Steve Hassan says that JWs are a dangerous cult.

Best of wishes helping your wife to critically think for herself.

Peace be with you and everyone, who you love,

Robert

Jon Preston

A bib stud--my wife read the openin page of jwfacts! Yes i think your questions will generate the expected answers....thanks mate!!!

happy@last

It depends on her personality. Appeal to it. If she is open to read crisis of conscience why not jwfacts.com? If you do meeting prep together I'm sure every week you'll find something disturbing. I used to find meetings excruciating as every week something would be said that jarred. Ask her how she feels about the subject being discussed, can she explain it?

Oubliette

she still holds to the "theyre more right than others!"

"more right" is still NOT RIGHT!

Go slowly and carefully.

jwfacts.com is a great place to start.

YOU should get a copy of Steven Hassan's Releasing the Bonds and read it!

RTB

Crazyguy

Maybe just have her read the book of Romans or Galations or 1Corthians in a nkj bible. Or just show her the information from their own library showing 607 as false.

wizzstick

My wife knows the GB are false in many ways but she still holds to the "theyre more right than others!"

A good line to reason with her on is Christendom versus other faiths, like Islam/Hindus etc.

Lets assume that Christianity is 'right'. So compared to Islam/Hindu/Buddhism the churches must be fine, because they are more right than the other faiths. The answer is no for a JW, because of what they get wrong.

On the doors you'd would say 'The Bible says we must worship in spirit and truth' and 'A little leaven ferments the whole lump'. If a faith (Christendom) has false teachings it doesn't matter how 'right' they are, it matters where they are wrong (trinity/hellfire etc.).

Same logic can be applied to JW's. Doens't matter where they are right (trinity/hellfire etc), what matters is were they are wrong (607/Great Crowd in heave/Blood/Mediator etc.).

That reasoning might work. Then highlight that 607 being wrong means that a key part of the Kingdom preaching work has been wrong for decades. Would God work like that? That people have to make a life or death decision to accept the Kingdom message when it has a false teaching at its heart?

mynameislame

Start by researching the references from the literature. Going to the library and reading the books referenced in the creation book is what woke me up. I felt that if it was ok for the FDS to read those books it must be ok for me to as well.

objectivetruth

When my wife and I were in a similar situation as you are, we listened to Edward Dunlap's Testimony together.

Brother Dunlap- DO > Gillead Registrar > Writing Commitee > Apostate

If you have the Aid Book in your home, bring up,the fact that Franz,Dunlap and one other Brother all left the org after engaging in intense bible study for several years..

When are you morning to FL btw? We live in FL

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