Secretive "Judicial" Hearings Are Tel...

by Marvin Shilmer 13 Replies latest watchtower beliefs

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  hillary_step

  Marvin,

  An excellent summation of the miserable WTS Judicial Committee machinery, and how it stands hands on hip, and whip in hand above its victims.

  I am very much of the philosophy that *nothing* the WTS teaches and preaches is unique to them and on this basis I searched some while ago for a historical context for the 'three elder and one sinner' in a closed meeting scenario.

  It actually bears a remarkable resemblance to the disciplinary procedures, now long since abandoned, adopted in the late C17th and early C18th by the Quaker's and the Methodists. These procedures came complete with disfellowshipping and remarkably enough, 'religious restrictions'.

  The way disciplinary cases were to be handled was contained in their books of 'Disciplinary Procedures'. The Methodist books at least were publicly published, originally the 'Society Of Friends' procedures only fell into the hands of their elders ( sounds familiar). They were later available for public use.

  The WTS is quite happy to snatch lonely doctrines from the theological bottom drawer of other religions and cleverly blend them together to bake a cake with a very strange taste indeed. It seems however, that more and more people are suffering from 'Theocratic' indigestion these days!

  Best regards Marvin - HS
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  jst2laws

  Marvin,

  Excellent research and reasoning.
  

  Conclusion

  Falsely accused persons among Jehovah's Witnesses are not afforded the time and God honored privilege of public hearings. When innocent ones request or demand a public hearing and are denied we can only wonder why the dissimilarity within the Jehovah's Witness paradigm? In light of God's honoring of public hearings throughout the biblical record, what scriptural backing supports this refusal? "

  Not only was the evidence presented publicly but the accused and the public knew the identity of the accuser. Then if a conviction resulted the accuser had to throw the first stone in serious cases.

  Recently the accuser of several friends has hidden behind a veil of secrecy. Who really is behind the charges brought against those who speak up for molested children? The accusers are not only trying to remain anonymous but the accusers are ultimately the JUDGES in the matter, directing by either mandate or implication the outcome they expect from the hearings. They even send the executioners back with new charges when local boys fail to get the job done, as in the Barbara Anderson hearings. Then the accusers try to play the only source of reporting, the media for loyal JW's.

  So the WT, unlike the "Jewish model", are the accusers, the judges and the information Regulators so the facts cannot be known publicly. This is not only far short of the Jewish model but even farther short of the Christian model, where serious problems are taken to the entire congregation. (Mat 18)

  Thanks, Marvin.

  Jst2
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  SYN

  Notice how none of the Watchtower Apologists are touching this thread with the proverbial ten foot pole held in the mouth of a starving tiger wandering around in a field packed with fat sheep with steak stapled to their faces!

  "Vaccination has never saved a human life. It does not prevent smallpox." The Golden Age, Feb 4 1931 p. 293-4 - The Sacredness of Human Blood (Reasons why vaccination is unscriptural)
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  Balaamsass