one major teaching that never sat right with me was---the 7000 year creative day.
err--what -?----you may well ask if you are comparatively new to the cult.
What Watchtower Belief/View Never Sat Right With You?
by minimus 79 Replies latest watchtower beliefs
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undercover
Never dying. I never could wrap my brain around that one. Everyone in history had died. How is it that I happened to be of the very smallest of groups to not have to die? The older I got, the more I doubted it.
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AlphaMan
What never sat right with me? These morons claiming they have "the truth", then changing their beliefs anytime they feel like it, then using some obscure proverb to claim "the light gets brighter" to justify it. What god whould use these people to warn the world of the end, and have them to tell people they have to believe their version of "the truth" to not be destroyed, then keep changing the beliefs? That makes no sense! All the wacky beliefs and dysfunction in this religion makes no sense! I still cannot believe that at one point I was an elder in this crazy cult!
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eyeuse2badub
All most all of the beliefs that went contrary to common sense and/or common customs. Pretty much all of them!
just saying!
eyeuse2badub
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keyser soze
The idea that people's salvation depended on how they responded to awkwardly delivered presentations of WT publications at their doorstep.
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Apognophos
Primarily that (as many of you have mentioned) all non-JWs would die at Armageddon. I simply refused to believe this. I can't remember even wondering for a minute as a child if my classmates would die, because it was clear to me that this didn't make sense if the unrighteous who died before Armageddon were going to be resurrected.
And you know what, my personal disconnect over this teaching never really came up in any way in my life as a JW. It was never discussed in my presence and so I never had to articulate my thoughts on the subject. It was just my private little belief that this was something that the Society would be adjusted on some day, or at Armageddon itself, when a lot of unrighteous people were preserved, to the surprise of some JWs.
Secondary to that -- as I got older, I really started to wonder how the number 144,000 could possibly be taken literally when it was ensconced in a clearly symbolic context.
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AlphaMan
The idea that people's salvation depended on how they responded to awkwardly delivered presentations of WT publications at their doorstep.
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Very well put. It is just all so ridiculous.
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minimus
As was mentioned, not being able to celebrate a child's birth but it's ok to celebrate a marriage, year afrer year.
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Aurelius
That Jesus words at John 3:1-7 .... 'You must be born again to enter the Kingdom' only apply to the 144,000 and that the Kingdom here mentioned is the heavenly Government whereas mostly all other mentions of the Kingdom include Paradise earth!
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Aurelius
Also that Jesus died on an upright pole as opposed to a cross despite all the historical artifacts ( old church buildings, monestries, gravestones, paintings, etc, etc, etc) which clearly shows that across was used.