I posted this on another thread but felt it was something Mr. Schibat would like to contemplate.
The Jewish hierarchy & the roman magistrates humiliated Jesus. In their eyes (the farassies) Jesus was a threat, he was being ex-communicated in the ultimate way. How dare he come and question their teachings, laws, their money making ways. How dare he stand up and say that "I and the Father are one" They knew he wasn't stating that "they think alike" but was indeed in need of a good stoning for blasphemy.
He was taking away their control.
Thomas said to Him, Lord, we do not know where You are going, how do we know the way?6 Jesus said to him, "I am the way and the truth, and the life; no one comes to the Father but through Me."John 14:5-6
So next time the WT tries to tell you that "they" are the "truth" & you need their faithful & discreet slave labor camp to be under the umbrella (without even the chance of getting to the Father anyway because they say you are not included in the sons of God analogy) Choose the cross as Jesus did (figuratively)
This is what the early christians did.
The WT will put you out literally on the torture stake just as Jesus was put out and mother will be against daughter, husband against wife.....
Mr. Bowen, the Pandelos, Ms Anderson et al are bearing their cross right now. And who is trying to humiliate them?
The WT has already taken up a position in a holy place in the minds of Jehovah's witnesses Just as the pharasies had in the old days.
The head office produces deception, false date setting, claims to exclusivity, bad policies on: blood, child molesters, rape, independent thinking, disfellowshiping, theocratic warfare, UN affiliation, manipulation of the bible,....and these disgusting things have become inseparable.